Ascendance of a Bookworm

"Well back, Rosemaine!

Father, that's it.

"Stop, master"

Next to my uncle greeting me with a smile, I found Angelica and her father staring at me. I remember being thrown by an excited uncle last year and about to crash into the ceiling, and I get up for a moment too.

"Retreat, others, etc.! What's the use of complimenting my granddaughter for two years in a row!?

"If your father doesn't, Rosemayne will die."

He is told around, and his uncle squirms. I'm glad you're doing everything you can to compliment me, but my own safety is important.

"Uncle, open your hands like this. Don't ever grip me."

I ask my uncle to par my hand and hold my index finger and middle finger. I really wanted to hold hands, but I couldn't because my uncle's hands were too big.

"Now we're going to your room. Let's go together until we're far north."

"Ugh, um"

"Master, never put your hand into it"

"Once Master Bonifatius holds it, it's easy to break Master Rosemaine's finger."

As the escort knights watched with harrassment, I accomplished the feat of walking hand in hand with my uncle.

"Well, I'll talk to you at dinner."

When he breaks up with his uncle in front of the crossing and returns to his room, he introduces his neighbors to Rhoderich, the newly-entered side.

"I am Roderich, a civilian apprentice to whom I have been named. You're going to live in a knight's dorm. Darmuel, show him to the knight's dorm later. I've been talking to my foster father, so he should be ready for the room."

"Yes, sir."

"Roderich, ask Haltmoot and Filine about the work of a civilian."

Everyone's back from the dorm. I'm busy unpacking each of them today, so I'm actually starting work tomorrow.

"Dear Rosemaine, Tea is ready, may I ask you to move to the Tea Party room?

Apparently Otilier was preparing me along with the side service of Vilfleet and Charlotte. I know it's to kill time while the neighbors unpack, so I quietly head to the main building's tea party room with Angelica and Otilier.

There were Wilfried and Charlotte, who were just as likely to kill time.

Melchior's room was ready.

The northern detachment has the same structure as the dormitories of women on the top and men and the House of Lords on the bottom. He was happy to have Merhior in, as there was me and Charlotte up there but Vilfleet alone down there.

"Speaking of which, I hear there will be a baptism ceremony during a feast that will last spring. I bless you as head of the temple."

The atmosphere is similar to that of an adoptive mother, although I've only seen Merhior brought to bed after dinner to greet her. Since the hair color is similar to that of my adoptive father and is a strong blue purple, even though there is no wonder he looks more like my adoptive father than Vilfleet, at least, I don't think of him at all as the "mini-jill" I thought when I first saw Vilfleet.

Since I am an adopted daughter and not my half-sister, I cannot enter the main building room where Melchior lives. Though we had little interaction, I wish we could get along.

Dinner on the day we returned to Aerenfest has become the norm for uncles and clergymen to join us. I'm next to my uncle for dinner. Speak to your uncle, who left a message as Lord's deputy, about the territorial rivalry, the Ditter battle between Heishitze and the clergyman, the assault at the awards ceremony, and the sword dance of Brother Cornelius. In retrospect, a lot has happened in just a few days.

"... Wouldn't it be better if I left Ferdinand a message next year and went to a territorial match?

That's what my uncle said with a serious face when he heard about a knight apprentice who wished me blessings even though black weapons were forbidden. Regardless of what Ditter does, I still don't feel like a knight! and outraged.

And next year the clergyman, told to leave a message, gently clapped his shoulder and laughed furiously at his uncle.

"Hopefully, I'd really appreciate it. It's not a case for me."

... Sheriff's Lie Spit! Rough stuff, you're so good at it!?

Regardless of such a scratch of heart, I really want the Cleric Chief to come again next year because there was a lot of trouble without him, including my detours, in this year's territorial rivalry and graduation ceremony.

"All right, I'll be there next year. Whatever happens, don't worry, Rosemaine."

"Wait, Master Bonifatius. Without your uncle, who would see Rosemaine's health?

I try to stop my uncle like Wilfried panicked. My adoptive father nodded deeply, too. I feel the same way. No one is more familiar with my physical condition than the Chief Cleric, and no one can take care of me who doesn't know what to make of me because of my deviant common sense in keeping everyone busy: territorial rivalry. Although I don't think my uncle can do it, I don't feel I can stop my uncle who's already willing to go.

"If Rosemayne gives up going into a territorial rivalry, we might be able to keep him locked up in a dorm with Master Bonifatius"

"Isn't it the one who said it's pathetic to make you give up your territorial rivalry, Ferdinand"

"I think it's pathetic, but sometimes I have to stop"

I talked to the central Knights chief at the library, and then the clergyman's looking a little strange. Unlike before, there is a strong sense of being shunned from the House of Lords. The current conversation, too, would mean, on the contrary, that the clergyman does not want to go to the House of Lords.

... I wonder what they really said?

I doubt it, but I just have to see how it goes because I don't think it's a good problem with me sticking my neck in it than the chief priest is tingling.

"Wouldn't next year be a good one? Think about the prayer ceremony approaching first. I may be able to grow up next year and manage my health without Master Ferdinand."

"I don't think so."

... Chief Cleric, don't ruin my concern!

Ugh! And I tell the story of the prayer ceremony in case I wanted to scream. Prayer ceremonies must be prepared for long journeys, so we will need meetings with Vilfleet and Charlotte as well. It's very convenient now that we have all the chief clergymen. Asked his adoptive father where the land to start the printing business was, and after considering the Gutenberg move, he decided who was going where.

"Father, if the Lord's Son were to perform a prayer ceremony, what would Melchior do?

"Even after the baptismal ceremony, Merhior has never dealt with magic yet. Why don't we just remember how to treat magic during the Lords' Conference and put him in charge starting next year?

Because I fell asleep, Merhior has no period of practice, unlike Charlotte, who remembered the treatment of magic during the winter social world and headed to the prayer ceremony. The participation in the prayer ceremony was settled from the following year.

"Speaking of which, did you find a statement about how to create the stage needed for the ritual of prayer?

"Unfortunately, I couldn't find it. I'll keep looking, but I think it's hard."

Haldenzel is supposed to be accompanied by a number of civilians, starting with the clergyman, to study the magic formations and the ceremonial stage.

"I must return to the temple once, because I will perform the baptismal ceremony of Melchior. I also need costumes and accessories."

"If you just bring the goods, you can leave them to the side service. What are you granting access to the temple to the other side for?

That's what my adoptive father told me, and I struck my hand with Pong. I didn't think of that at all. There was no idea to leave matters concerning divinity to the service of the castle.

"I'll have Yustox pick it up, too, so I'll match it up and let Fran know to get your share ready."

"Best regards"

When I think about what happened at the temple, at the same time, the downtown thing comes to mind.

"Dear adoptive father, when shall we sell the Plantan Chamber of Commerce books? I have to get in touch again..."

"Keep in touch with the side service and Mauritz attached to the children's room and make up your mind. I hope you'll get in touch with me later."

"Okay. When shall we lecture on magic compression? Charlotte will be joining us this year, as will Rhoderich, who is new to my side. Are the students determined?

Apparently, nobles who can teach rosemaine-style magic compression are already listed and invitations have been sent. I ask you to add Rhoderich and Philine there. Filine has to change her contract from territorial to national.

"Then when are you going to sell the information collected in the House of Lords to the Departments? I'm thinking as soon as they're ready..."

"I want to wrap it up with the Civilians once, so I'm happy after two days"

"Okay. Get in touch with each department and make up your mind here."

Me and my adoptive father, we're going to make some rough plans about what Papa and the nobles have to do while we're here. Exchanging this in a document will take too long to make it to the spring feast.

"Rosemaine"

When the Cleric Chief calls me by his name and looks back, the Clerical Chief looks at me with a light tap of a ton and temples.

"Do the House of Lords information-gathering work by adding Vilfreet and Charlotte."

"Why?

Anyway, starting next year, the two of them weren't involved at all, so I don't think they know if they suddenly joined. The chief cleric exhaled slowly at me tilting his neck.

"You said we were supposed to gather stories from all over the place in Rosemaine's hobby when we started, right? Other information gathered, rather, should have been miscalculation. However, various types of information are being treasured in various departments and are waiting for them. When it comes to selling information to departments, it's not about removing the next Lordship Vilfleet."

It was Wilfried who raised his face as hazy as the word of the chief cleric. I am the only one in the room where the upper echelons of each department gather each year to indulge in information, and I will be the one to impress among the Lordship candidates.

"Furthermore, it has become Aerenfest's business to gather stories from around the world and make them into books, beyond the fact that the contract was changed to make the printing industry Aub-driven. It's not just about Rosemaine's budget."

I still feel like the printing business is a business that I do in my own hobby, but this is more than just changing my contract, which I do on Aerenfest's budget.

"Later, it is better to reduce the number of jobs in charge of Rosemaine and also assign jobs to the sides of Vilfleet and Charlotte. I spread my hands too wide on anything. I'm glad the proximity to follow you is gaining momentum, but the difference with the other proximities is becoming more pronounced."

You're not a lord, you're going to be a lord's lady, so don't protrude too much, the chief cleric murmured. I hear you're asking me to put up a vilfried.

"Collecting stories and printing, I'm just doing what I want, so it's hard to tell my brother Wilfried and Charlotte, who aren't my men, to split it up."

"Even if it's difficult, printing isn't just your job anymore. Be careful there."

"Yes."

The next day, Vilfleet and Charlotte's clerks were also to share the information gathered in the House of Lords together. We have to teach Rhoderich, so together we will teach others how to do it and sort it so that it can be sold to each department. At the same time, ask Filine to summarize the use of paper and ink and calculate the amount as well.

"Charlotte, please calculate this one. Brother Wilfried, please summarize this on the table."

When I divide the work between the two of them, they do the work with their own civilian. If Haltmoot saw the situation where the three of them were sticking their heads together in a job that would be finished alone, the difference between the two sides was clear.

... My proximity was raised by the clergyman, and the next thing you know, I'm going to give the two proximities a challenge and educate them? I don't think that's my job.

When I asked the Chief Cleric a question, he said, "How many times do I know not to bring in extra work?," he was seen with a very cold eye. Apparently, we should leave the education of the two sides to the two of us.

And Wilfried and Charlotte were also allowed to attend discussions with the upper echelons of each department. We will safely take the money and gather and distribute the information gatherers. "Were they doing this last year of sickness as well," Wilfried sighed.

"I also know your uncle wants to take your job from your sister. Your sister can count on us a little more."

"Thank you, Charlotte"

When I thanked Charlotte, Wilfried nodded deeply.

"I'm their fiancée, but I'm not informed of anything at all. Speak up when you talk to your father about your work."

"Okay, Brother Wilfried. Now I will."

At the end of the magic compression course, you will see Rhoderich desperately compress his magic while feeling sick with his magic sickness. By that time it was becoming known in the social world that Rhoderich, who would not come home, had become my sidekick, and Rhoderich's father had asked me to see him. However, the request for an interview was rejected, and the adoptive father was to talk to Lauderich's father.

"I'm coming to the children's room today. We have to promote the Plantain Chamber of Commerce, and junior classmates have told us to find a candidate."

"... If you are looking for a nearby candidate, may I introduce you to my sister? Of course, it's up to Master Rosemaine to take it away, but I don't think it's a bad idea to consider it as a candidate for an advanced side service apprenticeship after I graduate."

Brunhilde said so, and looked at me. He really wanted to introduce me as of last year, but he dropped me off because I'm not even familiar with my side. One senior nobleman will be absolutely necessary for my side-service apprenticeship, since in the House of Lords he will start royalty and only interact with the Great Territories.

"Do not hesitate to introduce"

"Dear Rosemayne, may I introduce my brother, too?

That's what Eudit says and makes his eyes shine. Speaking of which, Eudit would have said if he hadn't worked hard for his siblings at the top. I laughed and nodded.

When they arrive in the children's room, the two call their own siblings. "Sister," she said, smiling and approaching, very cute.

"Dear Rosemaine, let me introduce you. My sister, Bertilde."

Bertilde was a girl with a very similar atmosphere to Brunhilde. You should be getting greetings from all the kids in the children's room, but it's hard to remember everyone with less contact.

"I've heard a lot about Master Rosemaine from your sister. It's nice to talk to you like this."

He's been a talker about the Brunhilde epidemic since he was a little girl, and he envied Brunhilde standing alive and on the epidemic's outgoing side since he came to serve me.

"I also want to be able to serve Lord Rosemaine by the time I enter the House of Lords."

"Bertilde can't serve Lady Rosemaine unless she gets Elvira's pass soon."

It was two years after Bertilde entered the House of Lords, and she is now in training to serve her mother, who is still a relative woman. Serving your mother would definitely be considered during my education to make sure it was my side.

... Bertilde, okay, I remember.

"Dear Rosemayne, this is my brother Theodore. We're going into the House of Lords next year."

"Sister, let go of me. I'll say hello myself."

What Eudit pulled was a boy who looked like Eudit but felt solid. Somehow I feel like I've always borne the role of holding down Shaggy Eudit.

... the atmosphere is different because of their different genders, but it feels like Angelica and Lieselator?

"My name is Theodore. Best regards,"

"I think you may consider adding to the vicinity," said Brother Cornelius, who was watching Theodore. Nod as Angelica agrees next to it.

"I've seen Theodore train, too, but he was pretty good."

"Oh, thank you. It's an honor to have you both say that."

I look up to Brother Cornelius and Angelica with tinted eyes very similar to Eudit's, blushing as Theodore lit up. The two are well known as his uncle's beloved apprentices, so they seem to be admirable to children who aspire to a knight apprenticeship.

"Theodore, is that a lot different from your attitude toward me?

That's what Eudit said dissatisfied. If you want to be Charlotte's lovely sister, but think someone stole that seat, you somehow know what that feels like to have your siblings stolen.

"If you're going into the House of Lords next year, would you also consider sidestepping Theodore?"

When I said that, Theodore turned into a very troubled face. Compare me with Brother Grate and Cornelius and Angelica, and eventually bow down.

"Ah... you know, I... can't be near Master Rosemayne"

"Theodore, what are you talking about? Are you turning down Master Rosemaine's offer?

I didn't know you said that, and it was Eudit who rounded his eyes. When I gently raise my hand and hold down Eudit, I laugh nicely.

"Maybe you've already promised Melchior. You mustn't twitch, Eudit. Because it's the person who decides who to serve."

"No, you don't. Not Lady Merhior, but I want to serve Geebe, just like my father in the future. So you can't be an escort knight for a clan of lords"

You think it's absurd to say no to the Guardian Knights of the Lords. That's what Theodore said when he turned his body down looking sorry. But Theodore's future dream of "becoming a knight like his father and wanting to serve Geebe with his father" pierced my heart with Zukun, promising to "protect everyone in this city just like my father". My fondness for Theodore grows steadily.

"What a lovely dream. I support Theodore. So why don't you take my side in the House of Lords?

"... Yes?

Theodore wasn't the only one who got the hang of my offer. And all my neighbors round about me.

"Theodore serves me only for the duration of the House of Lords. How would you like to be my escort knight while in the House of Lords as a study and training to serve Geebe in the future?

Instead of being fully employed, soliciting him as a part-time escort knight turned out to shake Theodore's heart. I will overlap words, controlling Richarda to stop, "Lady Rosemaine, please wait a moment".

"I have enough escort knights while I'm at Aerenfest. All you really need is an escort knight while you're in the House of Lords, so why don't you serve me, just for the duration of the House of Lords?

"... I'll think about it"

Theodore said that and laughed small.