Ascendance of a Bookworm

"That's brilliant."

Brunhilde sighed with admiration when she saw the hair decorations she received from Aerenfest.

In the crate are pure white flowers that enhance the wine red hair that depicts the waves of Adolphine. It is a large round rosy flower made of lace, surrounded by green leaves in soft shades reminiscent of spring.

Is it because Touri anticipated and was preparing designs and yarns? The yarn shaping the flowers looked really superior and glossy on the petals. That's not all. Glassy, beaded objects were sewn on, and that was glistening as if it were morning dew.

... Touri, wow.

"This hair ornament deserves to be given to Adolphine by Prince Gigisvalt, right?

When I looked up at Brunhilde, Brunhilde nodded, seeping a lucid colour into his candy eyes.

"Yeah, I think it's very beautiful. Lady Rosemayne has raised her arms again."

I would be very happy to be praised by Brunhilde, who has a strict standard of judgment, who has an eye for good and bad things among his closest friends. As I loosen my cheeks for Thuri's arm being praised, I give instructions so that I can get Drevanhel to contact me after scheduling with Charlotte's side service.

"Yes, sir."

"I'm just planning on having a tea party, so I want you to join me there," Aerenfest told Drevanhell when she had a tea party meeting. I agree with Charlotte because I feel easier just to attend than to hold a tea party, and I didn't have any plans in particular.

Seeing the invitation officially sent, I held my head with Charlotte.

"Are you going to take part in this"

"I've already been interviewed, and we can't both be non-participating, can we?

... I don't have to prepare to participate, so it's easy, don't even think about hosting properly!

But it's too late to regret it. Once I've sent out an acceptance reply, and if I get an invitation from the top territories officially like this, I'm gonna have to go.... Yes, for a tea party where only the top territories gather.

It looks like a tea party where Adolphine of Drevanhel, whose marriage to the First Prince has been decided, spoke out for the upper realm that will be central to supporting the future Jurgenschmitt. Participants were senior nobles of Classenburg, Hannelore of Dunkelferger, half-sister of Adolphine at Drevanhell, first-year lord candidate of Gillesenmeier, fourth-grade lord candidate of Haufretze, and Dietrinde of Earlensbach.

While the top territories from first place to sixth place are lined up in a shifty fashion, and no more than seventh place is invited, the tenth place Aerenfest, whose rank flies with Pong, is added.

... Clearly, out of place! So out of place! I want to lose consciousness at a time like this, but unlike excitement, it leaves a strangely calm part, so there's no sign of falling down at all!

It's nothing but reality. Of course, I know I can't throw one Charlotte into a tea party like this. I just have to get ready to go.

"Maybe you get it depending on what you think"

"Gain, is it?

I nodded toward Charlotte tilting my neck, and I nodded, "Yep." It's a tea party I have to go to anyway, so I want to go a little positive.

"If it's a tea party that faces only Drevanhell, no, but deep stories and hard demands may arise, because if a large number of people attend a tea party, nature and conversation will be unusual"

If you spend time on an unusual topic and give your hair decorations, you can complete the most important mission. I thought a little, and I looked up.

"We will be putting new treats into the tea party to provide topic from Aerenfest"

"What will you bring?

It's a milk crepe.

This cake is layered with cream between thinly cooked crepes. This time, the fat upper territory of the tongue is the opponent, so make it a crepe of just flour, not garrets that mix buckwheat flour. Although laborious, it is beautiful to see multiple layers of dough and cream when cut into pieces, or you can add or subtract sweetness depending on your personal preferences.

Just like the cattle curls, they also decided to have the gritty and crushed sugar prepared, in addition to jams, honey, raw cream and rumtopph to add sweetness from the top. It's a bit large when it comes to powdered sugar, but when it's browned and shaken from the top, it looks like it snowed and it's beautiful.

And that day. Ella tried her best to make me a milk crepe. I ask Ella to make it when she teaches me, and I practice the recipe a few times to make it my own, so I have spoken quite a few times. But Charlotte just seems to have eaten a few times. Although the crepes themselves sometimes come out at castle tea parties, they rarely come out because of the hassle involved in preparing the numbers.

I took a bunch of civilian apprentices to Drevanhell's tea party room as I was going to get ready to bring treats, hair decorations and other things and collect love stories.

"Thank you for inviting me, I know."

"Well, Master Rosemaine, Master Charlotte. I'm glad you need me."

Adolphine greets me with a smile.

Drevanhell's room was one with plenty of trees in it. The room is strewn with lumbar walls, and the walls are strewn with a cloth painted with flowers and trees. Whether it was ornamental plants or herbs, trees and grasshoppers were potted and decorated here and there so that they could not be discerned by aggressiveness.

"Drevanhell's tea party room is full of smell of wood, isn't it? It's like you're in the woods. It's very calming."

"Oh. Huh...... If your weak Rosemaine were in this tea party room, she'd feel like she was having a picnic in the woods."

Upon finishing his long noble greeting, he was led to his seat. My seat is next to Charlotte's left. On the front is Hannelore, and next to its right is the Lordship Candidate of Guillessenmaire. The fact that there is a seat for Dietrinde a little further away may take into account what happened at last year's tea party.

"Good day, Master Hannelore"

When I greet Hannelore in the front, Hannelore also smiles and greets back Nicole.

"Good afternoon. I'm surprised Lady Rosemaine is attending this tea party."

"We brought hair decorations from Prince Gigisvalt to Lady Adolphine. I'm sure it will be revealed here."

"Well, I'm looking forward to that. Because Eglantine-sama's hair decoration was brilliant last year."

After a little conversation with Hannelore, Charlotte introduced me to the Lordship candidate sitting next to me.

"Sister, this is Luzinde, a freshman at Guillesenmeier"

Luzinde is a first-year lord candidate, and he seems to be a friend Charlotte is very close to. And he says he's the kid reading the love story of the House of Lords back from Hannelore.

Luzinde's beautiful straight pale green hair shakes saggily.

"This is the first time you've been with me at a tea party like this, Master Rosemaine. I, Charlotte, taught you how to stamp a woman. This must have been Master Rosemaine's idea, too, right? I hear that from Master Charlotte. She said she was a proud sister."

The sound of the word "proud sister" taught me by Luzinde runs around my head. Though I thought it had not been very useful since coming to the House of Lords, Charlotte had told her friends that she was a proud sister of me.

...... what to do, glad! No, calm down. I'm leaving before the tea party starts. Yeah, but my face burns.

"But the truth is, Charlotte is more amazing than I am. She's a sweet, sweet, proud sister."

Where I tried to brag about my sister without losing, Charlotte gently pulled my sleeve and stopped me. "Lady Charlotte and Lady Rosemayne are very close sisters," laughs Luzinde, couscous.

"I, Dear Hannelore, am very happy to read the Aerenfest book that I was introduced to and loaned to Dear Charlotte. Here, it's late, but it's an alternative book."

"I'm afraid so."

Gillesenmeier's civilian apprentice gives me the book he held. Filine and Marianne received that. Just because I was borrowed a book from Luzinde, my tension rises.

... Calm down, calm down. Because the tea party hasn't even started yet.

And the tea party started. When the organizer, Adolphine, sips the sweets and teas, each eats the sweets he brings in.

"This is a treat called Milk Crepe. I haven't had much chance to eat at Aerenfest either, but this is how you invited me to the Tea Party in the upper realm, so I brought it with me. Just like cattle curls, add jams, honey, sugar, etc. to your liking and don't eat"

After my explanation, I ask you to shake the crushed sugar over the milk crepe. White powder came down like snow as the reseller rocked the tea.

Looks like Charlotte was working hard to spread the cattle curls, and I guess she got used to eating treats over something. There is no appearance of bewildered side-servicing, putting it on the milk crepe according to the instructions of each Lord. Again, sweeter seems to receive better for the upper territories, and many people honey.

"Are you layering a lot of thin fabrics? From the side, it's a beautiful hierarchy."

"You have all sorts of rare treats besides cattle curls in Aerenfest. I prefer this milk crepe to Katorkar."

Milk crepe seems to have an excellent reputation. As I thank you for your praise, I will spread the word about the specialties of other realms. I would like some good ingredients.

"Sugar confectionery is fashionable in the centre, but don't you have treats and fruits specific to each territory? I want to know what kind of treats you have."

After various conversations about what kind of fruit there is and how to eat it, it was surprisingly found that there is food specific to the territory. Serving at the Tea Party in the House of Lords serves something popular in the center, but they have their favorite treats when they return to their respective territories.

"Me, I'd like to try some sweets from each territory. There's going to be new discoveries."

"The new discovery is nice. Is that how Lady Rosemaine discovered new flavors and new papers?

That is what Adolphine told me, and I nodded with a smile.

"Dear Hannelore has taught me how to lowley, so I think I'll have a new flavor of cattle curls"

"It's a new cattle curl? At that rate, you're going to be able to have a new phosphor. I want to be able to do business with Aerenfest this year. At Drevanhell, I was able to analyze the phosphors I got last year and make similar things, but they don't fall dirt the same way as the phosphors at Aerenfest."

Adolphine sighed unfortunately. The gloss of the hair appears, but the refreshing addition and subtraction of the head seems to be different. When I heard the story, I immediately realized what the cause was.

... Oh, could it be a failure in the scrubbing relationship?

Knowing that Drevanhel had not been able to reproduce it completely, I exhaled softly in relief. Maybe I was a little too alert.

"There are so many strange things about Aerenfest. If you analyze it, it looked easy. The phosphors didn't finish up with the exact same thing, and the paper to identify the merchants was a special thing. I don't want to know what else there is. My brother Oltveen lamented that, after all, he was unable to explore the secrets of Aerenfest's performance improvement."

... Well, I did everything I could for a sweet recipe, which is hard for Brother Wilfried to say either.

Adolphine said he was very concerned when it was hidden, and he was put into a subtle exploration of how much trading framework he could increase at this year's Lords' Conference.

"As you know, Aerenfest has always been a lower territory, so there is no soil to accept so many merchants. I believe that the expansion of the trading framework will be slow. It depends on what Aub thinks, so I can't say anything from my mouth."

"Don't expect too much," he said farther away, laughing at Nicole, while I decided to deliver the hair decorations because they were the course of the deal.

"I don't know now what will happen to my deal with Drevanhell. But isn't Adolphine in a position to get Aerenfest products anymore? I have a gift for you from Prince Gigisvalt."

When I say that and look at Brunhilde, Brunhilde, who nodded lightly, hands him a wooden box with hair decorations to serve Adolphine's side.

"We have received an order from Prince Gigisvalt to celebrate Lord Adolphine's adulthood"

In my words, the women of the Tea Party leaked a sigh of envy. After all, being given a gift by a man seems to mean something special. Especially the twinkle in the eyes of Hannelore and Luzinde reading the love story of the House of Lords is amazing.

"How lovely......"

Adolphine sighed with admiration as she peered into the crate where the side service opened. It's in the box, so I can't see it from everyone who's in their seats.

"Why don't you decorate your hair? You'll want to see it, and you should learn how to flank it."

When Adolphine accepts my recommendation, Brunhilde asks Adolphine to tie her hair in the same way she did at the bar mitzvah and teaches her how to decorate her hair. As I had imagined, pure white flowers often appeared in Adolphine's wine red hair. He shows Adolphine to a truly beautiful man with a sensational and gorgeous atmosphere.

Adolphine gently touched the hair decoration with her fingertips to check her position.

"... what do you think?

"It looks great on you, it's beautiful"

"Prince Gigisvalt is a lovely person to be given hair decorations that go with pittance like this"

Praised by the surroundings, Adolphine breaks his expression a little like he was relieved.

"I hope I'm not too inferior to you because Master Eglantine was so great last year..."

Adolphine said with a lingering grin and gave it back with a grin that the surroundings were "okay". It conveys that Adolphine is really anxious behind her smile that she can be compared to Eglantine as the prince's wife.

"The beauty of Master Adolphine and Master Eglantine is different, just as the healing of Fruitraine and Lungshmer is different. Each personality is not comparable or inferior."

The type is too different to compare in Adolphine, a crisp beauty who looks good with a fluffy, laid-back atmosphere Eglantine and a feisty grin.

When I said so, Adolphine gave a couscous and a crushed smile after rounding her amber eyes.

"Master Rosemayne told me that you would give me the words I wanted, but you're right."

Adolphine, out of her shoulder strength, smiled beautifully.

... It's hard to compare to Master Eglantine, but if it makes Adolphine any easier, good.

As me and Adolphine smiled at each other, Dietrinde, in a slightly distant seat, sighed with a ho.

"At next year's graduation ceremony, I want to wear this kind of hair decoration, too. What kind of flowers would look good on you?

Touch your own luxurious blonde hair and see me and Charlotte as Dietrinde says so. Even if they say that, I can't sell my hair decorations to Dietrinde. It's superior to Aerenfest, so if they push you because you're a blood family, they'll try to push the other superior territories the same way.

"If a deal has been initiated with Arlensbach, we will be happy to take your request. You can't just break an agreement and sneak up on Arlensbach. It's not a request from Drevanhell, it's a request from the royal family."

"Oh? We're cousins..."

"There is nothing to do with an agreement between lords involved in business that we are cousins. You need something other than blood to move Aub's heart."

I smile with Nicoli, telling him, "Bring me a story that will make a lot of profit and negotiate with Aub." Still, Dietrinde doesn't back down.

"Can we do something about it? We're so close..."

Is this persistence the hallmark of Arlensbach? Feeling the persistence that led to Fraurelm, when I breathed, Adolphine, with her hair embellished, came here laughing. And stand to shelter me and Charlotte.

"Oh, you don't have to try to force Master Rosemayne to go through with you like that, but just like me, Master Dietrinde can go through with you."

In the words of Adolphine, I found Zhu scattered in an instant on Dietrinde's cheek to draw his lips with regret.

... Kitsu! I hear you haven't decided on an escort yet, Dear Dietrinde. That word is tough, Master Adolphine! It's like you're provoking me to catch a man in the center or in Crassenburg.

Charlotte smiled and proceeded to take Dietrinde's hand softly as I interposed how to follow Dietrinde.

"Dear Dietrinde, graduation is still next year. Things may be changing next year. I'm not dealing with Arlensbach right now, but the Lords' Conference to decide who to deal with is also in the spring."

"Right. Ask Aub to increase the number of business partners"

That soothed the atmosphere and the tea party resumed again.

... Charlotte is amazing.

After that the story of twitching and spreading Aerenfest books became topical. Apparently Adolphine is just reading the new love story of Hardenzel lent by Charlotte.

"I enjoy reading, but Oltveen says it's hard to read because of all the love stories. Do you have a book for your lord in Aerenfest?

"We have a knight's story. I'll lend it to you again through Brother Wilfried."

And Adolphine lent me Drevanhell's book instead. There are two new books to go with the one Luzinde lent me. Bad. Very happy.

... suppress, suppress.

"What stories do Aerenfest books have in them?

Hannelore and Luzinde began to speak enthusiastically to such questions. Adolphine also tells me a few things about her newly read love story. When God also makes them say one romantic scene after another, they know that the scene comes to their attention and the mood is in their hands.

...... ahhh! No. I really don't sympathize. How can you be impressed when the Spring Goddesses come out and sing in a scene where lovers stare at each other!?

"The story I know…"

Tell me a love story that other lord candidates know, and as the civilian apprentices ran their pens desperately, I faced a situation in which only one person could not empathize with the love story and had a head.

Although there was the topic of the book, because I couldn't sympathize with their emotion and excitement, I was able to finish the tea party this time without losing consciousness, unlike the tea party with Hannelore, although the colour of the demonic stone changed slightly.