Ascendance of a Bookworm

Lights full of black and gold magic intersect. I closed my eyes unexpectedly, feeling lightly dizzy and disgusting in front of me.

"Welcome to the House of Lords Aerenfest dormitory, Master Rosemaine"

I found myself in the dorm by being spoken to, and when I slowly opened my eyes, it was the room of the transfer regiment protected by the two knights. We have to vacate the spot quickly for the next Vilfleet we're transferring.

When Richarda prompted me to leave the room of transition where the magic formation was, my proximity was waiting for me. Only Filine is in the same grade, so I can't see if she's getting the room ready with side service now.

"I've been waiting for you, Master Rosemaine"

"Okay, princess. Please relax for a while in the multi-purpose hall. I'll come and get your room ready."

That's what Richarda says as she watches the men downstairs carry their luggage, and she turns to the proximity. Soon Richarda moved out to unpack, and when I let out the horseman and boarded, I moved to the multipurpose hall with my proximity.

"It's been a long time since the House of Lords dormitory, but you don't feel very nostalgic"

"It will be because of the similarities between the castle and the atmosphere and interior. I don't really feel like I've moved either. That's why freshmen don't really get used to dorms."

That's what Eudit said as he laughed at Nicole.

Since his parents are knights serving Geebe Kilnberga, Eudit apparently held a baptismal ceremony in Kilnberga and entered the castle for the first time at a winter unveiling.

"At first I was nervous about a big, big castle, not the same size as the Summer Hall in Geebe Kilnberga. Because there are many strange aristocrats. But you get used to the castle step by step by going to the children's room every day during the winter social world"

Three years, after such a winter, they started putting it into the castle without any particular tension, as it would be an annual routine event.

"The move to the House of Lords also meant that a new life would begin, and I was still nervous. But it's similar in construction and interior to a castle, and more than half of it is a facial rash I've spent time with in a children's room, so I could relieve myself."

Although the upper classmates only face each other for a few days traveling to the House of Lords, they still don't mean strangers at all, so they have different degrees of tension.

I was admiring Eudit for his role in the children's room, which was not just to make him familiar and get him used to the aristocratic society.

"The children's room unexpectedly had a big role to play," he said.

"Since Rosemayne and Vilfleet entered the children's room, we've had a lot of fun, including cartas, cards, and prize treats, and we've been studying hard, so the role of the children's room is much bigger."

I walked into a multi-purpose hall talking about that. The most noticeable multi-purpose hall with little people was the brand new bookshelf. With not a single book in it yet, it is placed in full presence at the corner of the multi-purpose hall.

Heavy bookshelves worthy of being placed in the dormitories of the House of Lords owned by the Lord, with fine sculptures. If you look closely, you will see my face in the lustrous wood, painted and polished with a varnish to gloss out.

Ho, and exhale with admiration, and I look up at the large bookshelf. The mood spreads with excitement. A brand new bookshelf, prepared for the multi-purpose hall where everyone gathers, has yet to be placed any books. We're going to bury this place with books.

"I'd like to put in a book soon,"

"Well, I'll help Richarda pack and carry the book."

That's what the Lieselator, who was preparing the tea with Brunhilde, says, leaving the multi-purpose hall softly and quietly.

"I can see the bookshelf even from here," she called Brunhilde as she looked at it in the mood to rub her cheek against the bookshelf.

Having a cup of tea I looked around the multipurpose hall around the bookshelf. Last year, to welcome freshmen, there were all the upper classmen, who were busy, but very few were in the multi-purpose hall this year, very quiet.

"What is everyone doing?

"It's preparation for the lecture. Unlike freshmen, upper classes have a lot to prepare for. Rosemayne will be ready to collect when Vilfleet arrives."

"Huh?"

"We have to collect the materials we use in the practice of conditioning. … although it will be over soon"

Leonore told me that there are many high quality materials around the House of Lords, and that we must keep the medicines and demonic stones necessary for the practice of conditioning.

Some materials were collected at Aerenfest, but they say that's something to put aside for when we formulate them outside of lectures. It seems that collecting in the House of Lords is recommended because it is easier to give lectures because of the quality and variety.

"Previously, an upper class knight apprentice had picked it all together and sold it to everyone else, but this year we're all going to go collect it to practice fighting while protecting it. In my final year, I collect day after day."

Brother Cornelius said so and clasped his shoulders. Third graders were going to collect yesterday, and they say it's sophomore's turn today. The freshman year doesn't have any practical skills in conditioning, so they don't need to collect either, so the collection of days in a row seems to be over today.

"Dear Rosemayne, is it the fruit of my special training, Master Bonifatius? It's so much easier to get Demon Stones with an increased hit rate."

Eudit has grown stronger, he reports happily. "The stretch of Eudit striving to beat Dermuel is wonderful," Leonore looks at me after laughing at Couscous.

"I'd like to make use of the maneuvers I've been studying for Ditter, but it's difficult. How to bury Angelica's loss of attack is a challenge this year."

... Although I was pulling my leg in the classroom, it was the main skill in practice.

While we were talking about that, Wilfried also arrived. I point my finger at a brand-new bookshelf to Wilfried, who is drinking tea prepared by his closest friends.

"Look, Brother Wilfried. This is the new bookshelf my adoptive father prepared for me. What books do you arrange? If you wish, we'll ask."

And when he looked at me, and looked around at the nearby men, Wilfried glanced over his shoulder. And exhale gently.

"No one is more thoughtful on the bookshelf than they are. Wouldn't it be better if I liked it better?

The joy of arranging books on an empty bookshelf and the happiness of categorizing them as your favorite spreads, and the bookshelf looks radiant. The effect made it look shiny together as far as Wilfried. It feels like the back light is shining.

"Brother Wilfried......!

Never before has Wilfried looked cooler. I'm glad Wilfried is my fiancée to leave the book to me like this.

When I am grateful to Wilfried, my surroundings breathe and Haltmut softly holds my shoulders.

"Master Rosemaine, please calm down. I'm so excited."

"... sorry. 'Cause I was so happy."

After a brief talk about how the books were arranged, talking about today's collection, one sophomore dressed in riding beast clothes and wearing cold gear came together in a multi-purpose hall with another so that they could be collected.

At the same time, the side service comes to inform me that the room is ready.

"Okay, Rosemaine. Get dressed. Let's go."

"Yes, Brother Wilfried"

When I got dressed and returned to the multi-purpose hall, all the sophomores and all the cavalier apprenticeships were there. Everyone is wearing cold gear, and the Knight Apprenticeships are wearing a cape with their magic stone armor.

... Speaking of which, can a knight's armor also prevent the cold?

"Sophomores should focus on collecting. We alert the Warcraft."

Brother Cornelius has apparently initiated this collection to train the collaboration of knight apprenticeships.

In keeping with Brother Cornelius' decree, the knight apprentice moves, so that he pinches the sophomore between them, and leaves the room. I travel on a solo wreather bus as usual.

... Is that it?

Leaving the multi-purpose hall, he crosses the entrance hall where there is a door to the central building and moves slightly back. Apparently, there are other entrances and exits, and they use another door. I've never used a conference room around here, but it's the first time I've gone further back.

Through a painting with a meeting room, turning around the corner, another entrance hall emerged. The knight apprentice opens the door to Kannon opening for two.

It was a door that I could normally get out of the dorm. Beyond the wide open door was snow, and I could see the trees as lush as the woods. Every tree is covered in snow makeup and the surroundings are covered in white.

The cold air that stabbed my skin hit my cheeks, and I accidentally clapped my shoulders.

"Let me out the horseman in turn. Move."

When the leading knight apprentices send out the horseman to ride, they travel into the air. The sophomore also put out the horseman in turn. Filine is a junior aristocrat, but she's always traveling back and forth between the temple and the castle, so she's used to putting out horsebacks and moving. Much smoother than Rhoderich, who isn't used to riding beasts.

... It's important to get used to it.

Running up high in the sky with a horseman, there was only one spot in the immediate vicinity of the dorm, a circular, treeless part. Too far away, it's going to be confused with the snow, but at its current height, I can see the pale yellow glowing cylindrically.

"That's where Aerenfest was collected."

I pointed to the place where Leonore, running next to me, was glowing yellow. As we drove down the horseman, the scenery changed in an instant, as if we had pushed through the line of magic mirrors. In the pale yellow part, for some reason, the grass is blue and lush. In the circumferential part there are also tall trees with some kind of fruit. Obviously only that part of the season is strange.

"... what is it, this place?

I look at the sophomore who rounds his eyes and Brother Cornelius tells me with a mild laugh.

"Brother Eckhardt tells me it was originally a circle to keep the treasure when it was a treasure stealing ditter. Ditter, they're never going to have snow here so they don't interfere with the battle."

Because of this, it is found on the side of every dorm, and good herbs can be picked in this part of the house where there is no snow. And then, after the herbs and nuts here, the Warcraft comes. Hunt this, get the Demon Stone. They're also the hunting grounds for that dorm.

"Be careful not to ever enter the collection location of other territories. It would be a remnant of the treasure theft ditter era, but this is how it is attacked without question"

Brother Cornelius says so, deforming the Starp into a sword in an instant, cutting off one warcraft that has approached us. It broke its shape so that the warcraft could unravel, and fell into a sparkling demonic stone.

"I need this leaf for my recovery pills. And pick up this yellow fruit, too."

A junior knight apprentice in the third grade will alert you to your surroundings while teaching you the materials you need to formulate your sophomore year. We called Starp "Messer" and deformed it into a knife, and collected it.

"Eudit, hunt Zanze on that tree over there. Traugot, there are two on the right. Be careful."

Leonore, who has succeeded in strengthening his vision with physical enhancement, is looking around, calling for vigilance and giving instructions as to who will defeat which warcraft.

The warcraft that comes by will be hunted by Cavalier Apprentices one after the other, so we could safely collect them.

Then, back in the dorm, the knight apprentices hunt earlier and each buys away as much Demon Stone as they need to lecture from the Warcraft. This seems to be a valuable income for a knight apprentice.

"... until last year, we also earned money for the materials we collected."

"That's true, because this is part of the training"

Brother Cornelius is a senior aristocrat and has no trouble with money, so that may be good, but it should have been a valuable source of income for lower aristocrats.

The experience that civilian and side-service apprenticeships collect with their own hands is important, and it's important to be able to train them to fight while protecting them, but once they're done as part of the training, the suggestion won't last long because of it.

"So how about paying the cavalier apprentices for the material they collect, Rosemaine? It's an effort to improve everyone's performance, and can we get it out of the increased budget?

"That's good, Brother Wilfried. Let's do a little calculation."

He came up with a proposal that Wilfried would pay for the escort before I could put it in my mouth. The expressions of lower and intermediate knights get puckered and brighter. I guess it was still a valuable source of income.

As soon as the collection is complete, it will be dinner time. We must change from our riding clothes for collection. Go back to your room and let Richarda and the others get dressed.

And at the dinner table, we discussed the welcome of freshmen. Prepare the treats and welcome them with entertainment. The role of me and Wilfried was best determined in the context of determining the division of roles.

"Lady Wilfried and Lady Rosemayne are not seated"

"If the Lordship Candidate brings you sweets and tea, you get nervous, and you're very nowhere to taste it. All you have to do is talk about your dorm plans and how you spent the last year."

... a dormitory decision? Maybe you should make up your mind about how to use the bookshelves.

Here books are valuable enough to be chained to a bookshelf. A lot of books are made in print at Aerenfest, and although they could have lowered the price a little, they are still expensive. I have trouble being brought up on my own and sold on my own.

"Hey, Haltmoot. Should I make precautions and instructions for handling the bookshelves and the books there?

"You'll need it. Almost everything on the bookshelf is Rosemayne's personal property, so it's important to be aware of how to handle it."

It's basic, like not taking it out of the multi-purpose hall, or always putting the books you read back on the bookshelf, but it can be made known to everyone by being explicitly cultured. I nodded loudly, OK.

The next day, the new freshman comes in a transfer formation with each side service. Greeting and recommending a seat, the upper classmates carried on. In it, I get explanations on the time of my dorm meal and how to use my room.

The last came Charlotte, a Lordship candidate. Surrounded by my neighbors, I quickly started talking to Charlotte about how to use the bookshelf and precautions to drink tea.

After Charlotte says "sister," put the cup down and shake her head gently.

"Sister, when we build people, let's start with public discourse. Suddenly, you'll have trouble explaining how to use books and bookshelves."

You've been talking to Aurelia about the library stock, haven't you? said Charlotte. Public stories at dye competitions start with stories about dyes and costume fashion, and this time it seems common to start with talking about House of Lords lectures and dormitories.

"... the use of bookshelves is about dormitories, and the number of books and new book topics are similar to greetings, right?

"No, sir."

Charlotte immediately denied me, but to me, "What have you read lately?" "Interesting book, was there?" "There's a book in the library that I wanted to read." "Good morning." "How are you?" "is classified as a kind of greeting that follows.

"I've never heard you say that. When the hell are you gonna use it against who?

"I use it when I have a friend who likes books."

"Not common at all."

That is what they say to Wilfried, and I will pointy my lips. Because there are few books here, my greetings are not recognized as common.

... One day, I'll say hello!

"Yeah, well, I almost forgot. Brother Wilfried, Charlotte. Me, I'm going to gather the children of the old Veronicans and put in words of labor, will you be present?

You tried to inform me, so I was going to work alone, but if you were going to take this opportunity to take in the children of the old Veronicans at all, it would be better to have all the Lordship candidates.

"Of course I will be present"

"Oh, so am I."

I entrust Richarda with the preparation of the conference room, and I look out for the corner where the children of the old Veronicans are gathered. It's pretty good compared to last year, but once I got back to Aerenfest, it really looked like I could do a faction wall.

"Princess, you're ready."

"Thank you, Richarda"

When I stood up softly, Hartmoot raised his voice.

"Matthias, Rhoderich. Come to the conference room with the kids involved in the case."

Matthias and Rhoderich run a slight glance around with their nervous faces. I guess I soon found out about the "example thing," the other kids snorted. The three Lordship candidates and their proximity move, and all the children of the old Veronicans move about later. Everyone who did not know the circumstances had dropped it off with a pocan face.

When I recommend a seat in the conference room, everyone starts to sit down with a strong face. There are more than ten children of the old Veronicans alone, so it's quite a large number.

Among the children of the old Veronicans lined up, I can see Rhoderich looking at this one whenever he said something with a good fist in his hand.

"Thanks to your courage to teach us, the raid was still prevented and we were able to finish the star knot ritual between Arlensbach and Aerenfest unharmed. I appreciate it. … I was going to work in the House of Lords because when I summoned him to work at Aerenfest and put in the words of labor, it would not be good for my relationship with my family"

When I speak the words of labor, I am probably the central figure, and Matthias answers, on behalf of everyone, "It is a speech that is not in the body". Dark purple hair swayed slightly.

Matthias is the youngest son of Viscount Gerlach, who is also at the centre of the Veronicans. I remember being an intermediate knight apprentice, lamenting that magic stretching was not good by not knowing how to compress magic, just like Traugot, and regretting that I could not choose my own faction until I had grown up.

"I heard from Aub Aerenfest that Lady Rosemaine offered to teach magic compression as a reward."

"I also hear that there are difficult conditions attached."

The condition of giving a name to someone in the Lords' clan is very strict. I have heard that very few loyal men give their names. There's something wrong with the clergyman who's given his name by Brother Eckhardt and Justkus.

"I am sorry for my lack of strength"

"No, time has it, Aub Aerenfest has told us that if things change, we can ease conditions more. We can also say that in some circumstances we cannot be taught all the time......"

If you want to teach me how to compress magic immediately during this period of growth, you just have to give your name.

That said, when Matthias smiled like trouble, Rhoderich stood up gutted. A tightly gripped fist is trembling. Your face is red and you are looking at me. Everyone on the spot realized what Rhoderich would say.

"... I know you would like to dedicate my name to Master Rosemaine!

"Think about it, Rhoderich. It's not a good thing to make up your mind."

Getting a way to compress magic would be important to the nobility. But I don't think it's worth it enough to keep my life. Rather, it is not worthy of me to give my name to Rhoderich.

"As Lady Rosemaine said, it's not a good thing to make a decision with momentum. Think a little harder."

"Matthias. I..."

"At the time we give our names, we shall set ourselves apart from our parents. Previously on Veronica. Sometimes even if you side in with your name, you can be seen around you like a traitor, and you don't know how things will change"

Matthias frowned and gave a bitter look.

"There was a man somewhere. He gave his name to his heart to those who had decided to become his next lord, and even after he became his lord, he would continue to serve as a loyal minister for a long time. But suddenly things changed. He was suddenly taken down by the next lord."

Gokuri and those who were there breathed.

That is not an unlikely situation.

Even though Veronica had been in power for decades, it suddenly turned upside down. It's only been a few years since then. You can't say there's no chance of turning it over again.

"Lady Rosemayne attended the House of Lords last year, and in just a few months she had many connections with royal and superior territory lord candidates. Its influence is astonishing, and given the many graces it has brought to Aerenfest, I also believe it is worthy of devoting its name"

Matthias cut the word there once.

"But that's why I don't know how that magnitude of influence works. If the person Lauderich gave his name to, Mr. and Mrs. Aub Aerenfest, I wouldn't have stopped him either. But Lady Rosemayne, Lady Wilfried and Lady Charlotte are minors and have no idea how they will change. It's not safe for us to decide with momentum, Rhoderich, when we don't even have a back shield."

Lauderich loses his complexion to Matthias' words and moves his gaze to compare me to Matthias.

"Think carefully..."

Matthias' voice, full of bitterness, did not precipitate, but was as if it had always been the word I had told myself.