Ascendance of a Bookworm

The Beginning of the Winter Social World (Sophomore)

A few days after the Schwartz and the others' costumes were completed, a letter was received from the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce. My winter hair decorations and armbands are given in the temple or in the castle. I ask Johan to keep the safety pins, so that they can be brought together and brought to the temple.

... I haven't seen Touri in a long time.

When I told Fran that my meeting with the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce had entered, Filine, who was listening to it, said, "... why don't we let him take us to the castle with his costume?," he leaned his neck wonderfully.

Filine's right, that's the least effort, but if you take it to the castle with your winter costume, you won't be able to see Touri.

"The artisans who make my hair ornaments still can't go up to the castle. So, just like before, you'll receive it here and order your spring hair decorations."

I want to order my own hair decorations, so Philine nodded as she was convinced.

In fact, now that my proximity has entered and exited the temple, it has become more necessary than ever to hide my relationship with Thuri. It seems that Gil and Vilma, at the request of the Chief Cleric, are making a story about Lutz and Thuri's involvement with me to have a common perception in the Temple so that they can be read by more than apprentices.

During this time, some of the legends of the Virgin that Vilma put together for Hartmoot were also about her involvement with Lutz and Touri. "I'm going to give this to Master Haltmoot, would you mind?" Vilma asked me, "but I realized there was a hidden phrase," Grasp it first, "and I used to look through my eyes, sighing gently.

When I tried to choose my side of the service, which was only the side service determined by the guardian, I realized the existence of the orphanage and sneaked up on the orphanage. So he realizes the tragedy of an orphanage with fewer blue clerics and witches and struggles to somehow save the pathetic orphans. He commanded the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce, which was his merchant, to build a rosemaine workshop.

By the way, it was Lutz and Touri who were sent by the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce at the time of the establishment of the workshop, and I am grateful for their dedication to saving the orphans, and it seems that Lutz was to be taught how to make a printing press and Touri how to knit hair decorations.

And Benno of the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce was given a new name by me who wanted to make new paper and shop for books, and was to be independent as the Plantan Chamber of Commerce.

... I'm not totally wrong though. I feel so subtle.

According to Vilma, the achievements of teaching orphans to eat and work and not just to wait for grace to be given, but to be able to bribe their lives on their own, and to listen to the words of the gods in their dreams and create something strange like never before, I am nothing but a Virgin.

... the subjective part is very much served.

I felt that the expression around here distorted the facts, so I wanted it to be rewritten a bit, and when I pointed out the subjective part where it was served, it came back even more excited for some reason. "The result of expressing the facts as they are," he said.

Burma said Haltmut was thrilled to read the "understatement" material, but I don't want to think about what added to Haltmut's research.

Touri is coming, the meeting with the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce takes place in the Office of the Orphan Dean. I just buy hair decorations, so the civilians don't have to come about anything else, but Haltmut really wants to follow me. The temple seems to have a lot of fun because the legend of the Virgin is gobbled up.

Speaking of which, I sometimes go to the Cleric Chief's room from time to time, in the afternoon, to see when I am issuing a request to see him. Seems like he's being pushed to do a ton of work in exchange for listening to some stories, but I leave him alone saying it would be otherwise good because he seems satisfied.

"Okay, Touri. May I see your hair decorations?

Otto, Theo and Touri came from the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce. Upon finishing my greeting, I asked Thuri to show me her hair decorations.

"It's this way. We have made it according to the winter costumes ordered by Lord Rosemaine"

Just like the cloth my mother dyed, the flowers are deeper red closer to the flower core, beautiful flowers with petals drawing gradients toward the color closer to the pearl color, in the shape that the flowers dyed by the cloth were pulled out intact. I can see at a glance that I made it to match my winter costume.

... I guess this is going to be a collaboration between the two of us because it must be my mother who dyed the yarn.

Just looking at the hair decorations, feeling the love from both of us, nature and cheeks loosen.

"Brilliant. You've lifted your arms again, Touri."

"I'm afraid so."

Touri laughed happily. I ask Thuri to replace the hair decorations, as usual, and to show Philine the new hair decorations.

"What do you think, Philine?

"It suits you very well. You really know it's made for Master Rosemaine."

Philine praised me, so I decided to order spring hair decorations as this is good for me in the winter.

"Green is a precious color in spring, so make it a hair decoration reminiscent of adorable young leaves"

"You haven't decided on a cloth for your costume yet, have you?

"Yeah, I'll leave it to Touri regarding colors and fine drawings. Because I've never missed my expectations before."

If I said, "Touri, you'll be fine, right? Laughing as he thought," Tulli smiled and said, "Because we're going to put pressure on you again!" He turns his gaze.

Still, what I said was, "We will make a sincere effort to meet Rosemaine's expectations".

When he finished his hair decorative interaction and Tulli turned his gaze to Otto, Otto opened his mouth slightly harder to say next.

"Dear Rosemaine, So you ordered over 30 hair decorations over Rosemaine's side service, are you sure?

"Yep. This year in the House of Lords, all the women decided to add hair decorations, so I asked them to serve to order according to the color and atmosphere of each hair. It's my order."

While I was on my way to the harvest festival, Brunhilde seemed to remember to order. Towards Otto, saying for sure, Otto pulls out his shoulder strength as if relieved.

"Really? Now, along with the winter costume, we deliver it to the castle. And this is the armband you were ordering. Are you sure about this one too?

Otto's gaze, "Do you really want something like this," gave me an armband of different colors. Me and Hannelore, and an armband for Schwartz and Weiss, embroidered in kanji with "Librarian".

Next to it, a small crate containing the safety pins that Johann had kept for me was placed with Cottori. I had heard that the safety pin would be made by Danilo, Johann's disciple, but I was going through Johann's confirmation, so I had the stuff as ordered.

"As ordered. Perfect."

When I wrap my armband around my arm with joy, I instruct Filine to fasten it with a safety pin. I'm getting happy that I have a "librarian" letter on my left arm.

... Like, Like. I'm a librarian!

Bending or stretching his arms around the nose song, as Haltmut hacked,

"Master Rosemaine, please calm down. The ring held on to my shoulder as I said…"

I rush to contain my magic, realizing that the ring glows slightly and that my blessings are about to pop out even now.

"Gilberta Chamber of Commerce, today's meeting is over"

"Haltmoot, it's okay."

"No, you shouldn't be alarmed"

With my magic about to overflow, Hartmoot gave instructions, and the interview ended early, and Touri went home with a worrying look back.

When Fran commands Monica to go to the prayer room to pick up the sacred objects, he lifts me up and hurries back to the temple chief's office.

I am still fine because I can be properly suppressed, but while I thought, I exhaled lightly, giving my magic to the artifact that Monica brought me.

"Nevertheless, you've noticed Haltmoot well"

"I have been taught a lot about Rosemayne by Ferdinand and Justkus. Seems to have helped quickly and I'm glad"

... Wait a minute. What are you teaching me?

"Because it is necessary to contain Master Rosemaine in the House of Lords."

Asked in detail by Haltmoot about what he had asked the chiefs, I became the feather of omitting my actions, even if I did not like it.

... Why teach so much detail? Chief Cleric and Yustox idiot!

After receiving the hair decorations and armbands from Touri, he moves his residence to the castle. Because the winter social world is close. I had no problem preparing winter support for the temple or orphanage, and I was in a state where I would be fine if I left the preparation of the service ceremony to Kanfel and Fritak.

"I will return to the service ceremony. Until then, I'll leave this to everyone."

"Yes, I did. We look forward to your return soon."

I take a wreather bus to the castle with many of the ritual clothes and decorations I use at the Baptist ceremony. The next return to the Temple is a service ceremony. It is a short farewell to the Frans.

As soon as you return to the castle, you will also receive winter costumes and hair decorations from the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce, and the winter social community, as well as being more and more prepared to head to the House of Lords.

In the meantime, my mother told me that she had a question from Aurelia about what to do with the fish. Speaking of which, Aurelia should have said that it consumes a lot of magic and is hard to maintain.

"Dear Ferdinand, my fish may be thrown away as it is! Precious fish! Even if I can't cook, at least I want to keep it and manage it."

I cried in Ordonanz to the clergyman who banned fish dishes and tried to manage the fish myself, and he replied, "You can't keep it".

"I can think of a number of things that could come into contact with Aurelia, try to cook secretly, involve Zilvester, and possibly develop into trouble. Get in touch with Elvira, and I'll take care of it, so you don't have to."

My fish has been deposited with the clergyman who wants to avoid trouble.

He said that it was not good for Aurelia to make a gift, in direct contact with the clergyman, and that he gave it to his aunt, Mother, from Aurelia, and gave the clergyman a reason to manage it, taking the form that Mother had hemmed it as a rare thing.

Noble interactions are troublesome, but this won't throw the fish away for the first time, and my mother is happy to hear from the clergyman, so, well, fine.

When I heard that the fish had arrived properly from my mother to the chief cleric, by the time I was reassured, the nobles had returned to the aristocratic city, and it was time for the winter social world.

The winter social community begins with a baptism ceremony and a revelation, which will be lunch at a brooch and cape awarding ceremony for the new freshman year heading to the House of Lords.

Since I will not attend the baptism ceremony or the awarding ceremony this year, I am to perform the ritual, as head of the temple. The Great Hall will be admitted with the Cleric Chief, so there will be no contact with the nobles. It is only in the afternoon that we will start talking to the nobles.

... It's Geebe Ilkner and Brigitte over there, isn't it? Oh, Geebe Haldenzel and Geebe Grechel are talking. We can also see Geebe Risegang, so it's a Risegang gathering.

To perform the baptismal ceremony, if you look around the Great Hall from the top, you will see that there are more faces of aristocracy known for their papermaking, printing relationships.

... I've worked pretty hard in a year.

By the way, what you don't have to know about your face at a glance is Aurelia, who is in front of you as a senior nobleman. He's still hiding his face in a newly made Aerenfest dye veil.

But the faction can tell at a glance because it's a veil made of dye cloth, just like the adoptive mothers on the stage and the wives of the senior Florentines, including Charlotte, and because they're with a group in dye costumes. I'm not trying to tame Aerenfest, I wouldn't say.

Although I feel that hiding my face is drawing extra attention from my surroundings, I don't think there is any more to advertise for new dyes.

Brother Lamprecht acts as an escort knight for Wilfried, so Aurelia looks like she's acting with her mother. I'm basically forbidden to make contact with Aurelia, but if I were your mother, would I be able to say hello?

... You want to apologize for the fish dish going so far. You'll miss the taste of home...... Speaking of which, how's the other bride doing?

I looked around the great hall and looked for another bride who came from Ahrensbach. But he didn't seem to be wearing a vale, and even though he looked around, he didn't know where he was.

The christening ceremony and the revelation ended well. The award ceremony is then held. I really wanted to see Charlotte receive the cape, but I have to get dressed for lunch. After disclosing himself to the chief clergyman, he immediately exited and dressed.

As the escort knights Darmuel, Angelica and Richarda rushed down the hallway with horsemen to their early walks, and rushed to the room, Otilier was preparing his costume and waiting. Ritual clothes are stripped off one after the other by Richarda and Otilier, and costumes are dressed for the winter social world.

It's a cloth my mother dyed for me, a costume based on Thuri's design.

The chest is peachy and the cloth is used to stain red deep enough to head down. The long sleeves are also darker red enough to face down and the colorfully dyed flowers are so cute.

The precious color of winter means that the flower decorations used by the red costume are white, and from below the skirt, ballooned at a length above the knee, the white monochromatic fabric runs up to the tibia, edged with delicate lace.

The hair decorations that go with such a new costume are also Touri's work. Perfect.

"What do you think?

"It suits you very well, Princess"

Richarda laughed satisfactorily and praised me. I am also very satisfied.

At the end of lunch, it's really time for socializing. This year I was also to head to the Great Hall with Wilfried and Charlotte, and the topic on the road continued to be lunch, which was about the House of Lords.

"This year I can go to the House of Lords with my brother and sister. I'm looking forward to it. Only one person was left in the castle last year, and I missed him."

Charlotte laughs joyfully, using the cloth chosen in the dyeing competition and the ballooned skirt aligns with me. Even if I use dyes and the skirt feels similar in shape, my taste is different and I just use red like rose to look good on Charlotte, and the atmosphere looks a lot different.

"In the days before we left for the House of Lords, freshmen study in the children's room using the reference books your sister made last year, right?

As I nod at Charlotte's words, Wilfried opens his mouth with a laughing, teasing face.

"Rosemaine, who, will we be doing the activities of the Performance Improvement Committee again this year? Sophomores will tell you that giving a first-year reference is an act of enmity."

"Alas, sophomore year and above, finishing the lecture early last year afforded everyone a preview for the next year. First year students need time to do a preview, right? Isn't the game funny if you don't play it fairly"

The range of seating in freshman year is not so wide, and the studies I've done so far in the children's room are sufficient, except for geography and history. I think if you spend a few days studying geography and history in the children's room and head to class, it will be some good battle.

"It's bad for Lady Rosemaine and Lady Wilfried, but the Knight Apprentice will win this year. Angelica graduated. I'm pretty confident in seating because I was teaching with all the knight apprentices trying to make Angelica understand"

Brother Cornelius laughed furiously and said so. If you work in "Angelica's Grade Up Team," Angelica, anyway, can improve her grades even if she doesn't like it. How do I explain it to Angelica, because I use my head to think seriously.

"I see. I thought you were just annoying me, but I was in everyone's service, too"

"This year's Knight Apprentice is strong," says Angelica, who has already graduated so there is nothing to be afraid of. Indeed, the knight's course would be getting stronger, he thought, and Haltmut gently clapped his shoulders.

"Grades are antagonistic everywhere because usually there were no good references or paper to write down, botanical paper was handed out to lower nobles who had difficulty getting grades, and there were teachings by senior nobles who wanted to win"

Unlike last year, when I was completely unprepared and only had a good reference book for the knight course, I was also confident that the civilian representative Hartmoot, and Brunhilde snorted at such Hartmoot's words.

"Yeah, I am. We also shared information in the House of Lords last year and made reference books in each academic year. The sideline apprentice will win this year."

"If we want to follow Rosemayne as soon as possible to finish the lecture and head to the library, we must finish the lecture as soon as possible…"

"Your prowess as a proximity will be tested," said Rezelator, laughing at Couscous, "so I will keep my chest up just like Angelica.

"I see. My library attendance is also helping my neighbors improve their grades."

"Dear Rosemaine, please don't imitate your sister"

Scolded by the reseller, I stray from the subject and gaze as I flaunt my shoulders.

"Speaking of which, there will be no lord's child, but what will we do with the children's room this year? Did your foster father tell you anything about Charlotte?

"Dr. Mauritz is supposed to teach us how to study, and Feshpeel's teachers are supposed to leave your brother's musicians behind"

"Unlike others, I don't throw tea parties that require musicians."

If you borrow a Charlotte musician or my Rosina when you need to do your archery or socialize in the House of Lords, Wilfried says you can handle it.

It seems obvious to everyone that studying in the children's room is a big part of Aerenfest's children's grades, so staffing seems conceived so that they can remain in this state. Mauritz has already been involved in running the children's room for four years, so it would be okay to leave it to him.

"You don't always have a lord's child in your children's room, so it's a good opportunity to think about what to do when you're not there"

Upon entering the Great Hall, there were already many nobles. I, of course, have many aristocrats who greet me because Vilfleet and Charlotte are also involved in the papermaking and printing industries.

The first person to come to greet me was Mr. and Mrs. Geebe Grechel. Brunhilde's parents, who started the papermaking and printing industries in Grechelle, have many difficulties and are just struggling to get them on track.

"Geebe Grechel, what about those in the paper and printing industries?

"Printing this winter is supposed to be done by buying both paper and metal typescripts. Craftsmen seem to think that if you can't really make white paper in the paper industry, you can't make colored paper from the beginning. I can't or am just considering asking Aub Aerenfest for Entvikkern for Grechel"

The magic equipment to clean the water is as much as the clergyman said, "You're going to need magic as much as a fool. It is difficult to introduce it immediately. At the very least, he seemed to wonder if cleaning Grechelle's Lower Town the same way as Aerenfest's Lower Town would reduce water stains at all.

"If you're going to ask your adoptive father, I suggest you attack him not only in terms of the paper industry, but also in that he needs to be beautiful in order to welcome merchants from other realms. Acceptance of merchants from other territories is a problem for Aerenfest as a whole."

I hear that Entvikkern, who went at Aerenfest, ended up putting sewer pipes through the basement, using no more magic than planned. Then I think we should use extra magic where we need it.

... If you do it well, you think you can put Geebe Grechell on your adoptive father's side.

By pleading guilty to his own mother and distancing himself from the old Veronicans, adoptive fathers with few aristocrats on their side need senior aristocratic allies. It would be nice if the offer from Geebe Grechel could be the thread to take in senior aristocrats. It would be a lot easier from now on if we could have a successful Risegang senior aristocrat on our side.

Of course, it's up to my adoptive father to decide whether or not to use magic for Grechelle, and I don't know if I can be an ally or not. But it should be a show of social skill for Geebe Grechelle and his adoptive father on how to ask for it, how to keep him on his side, and how to benefit himself.

"With Rosemaine's mouthfeel, it would be comforting."

To Brunhilde's smile I also grinned and nodded nicely.

Upon conclusion of the conversation with Geebe Grechel, the next person who came to say hello was Mr. and Mrs. Geebe Haldenzel. After finishing his long greeting, I asked him how Haldenzel had become, when spring had come early.

"With the snow melting fast and the favourable climate, the harvest has increased more this year. It's amazing how much you can reap in Haldenzel."

Harvesting was commonplace in Haldenzel, where the snow melted slowly and the summer period was short. This year, however, spring came overnight at the prayer ceremony, so they said the warm period was long and the harvest nearly doubled as much as usual.

"But it wasn't all good, was it? Wasn't there someone in the summer who was too hot to break your body?

"I also feared how hot the summer would be because of the snow melting too fast, but it didn't get that hot. I felt the spring climate lasted a long time. No one in Haldenzel is weak enough to break his body where the warm day lasted. Because you can't live in the environment you've been living in."

... I will break it. Because you're so vulnerable to climate change.

"However, because of the dramatic change in climate, there was also a change in when we started acting demonic, and the hunters seemed to have had a hard time"

It seemed like a lot of times Demon Tree showed strange growth, different times Warcraft came out, and a lot of hard times.

"But such hardship is trivial. It is because Lord Rosemayne became the temple chief and taught us the ancient description of the Bible that this winter the people of Haldenzel can live without any worries"

Geebe Haldenzel said so and knelt before me. And take my hand. This is the best way to show gratitude.

Geebe Haldenzel gently pressed his forehead against the back of my hand as large numbers of nobles rounded their eyes and noted.

"On behalf of all the people of Haldenzel, I thank the Virgin of Aerenfest"