Ascendance of a Bookworm

"Thank you. I know. May I open it?

"Ah."

I gently open the elongated crate with excitement. I peered inside and gazed at the surprise.

The crate contained a piece of jar. It's not a flower hair ornament knitted with the kind of yarn that Thuri always uses. Five small rainbow demon stones decorated around them with thin metal, connected by thin chains with a slight change in length at the tip of the shaft. I chose the biggest rainbow demon stone in my hand, but the chief cleric seems to have chosen from smaller objects, all demon stones of about 2 cm. If I inserted it in my hair and walked, the drop-shaped rainbow demon stone would rock and be very cute.

...... but rainbow demon stone. Rainbow Demon Stone means......

I grabbed the beard softly. Through a little magic, the five rainbow demon stones are engraved with a magic formation of amulets just like I did.

"Chief Cleric, this rainbow demon stone is an amulet, isn't it?

"You said you wanted to make ornaments out of this, didn't you? I didn't have the magic stone to make it just a decoration, so I set it aside."

I did want to make it an ornament, I said. But I think they complained about not using precious materials for decoration. I wasn't expecting the clergyman who was complaining to make an amulet that would be a decoration. Surprise is so much bigger than happiness.

"I was stuck trying to surprise the Chief Cleric, but I felt surprised the other way around."

I made you an amulet with a rainbow demon stone, and right after I strained my chest, I returned five times the same thing. Can you not be surprised? Moreover, even though I gave it to you in bare stone, the amulet given to me by the Chief Cleric is neatly arranged as an ornament.

... It's a great sense of defeat.

"Not that I wasn't surprised. I didn't think you'd be able to make all this amulet."

The chief priest laughed lightly as he saw the rainbow demon stone I had given him. The face doesn't look surprised at all. Instead, you look a little happy.

As far as I'm concerned, there's plenty of defeat, but if you were happy to surprise the Cleric Chief at all, that would be best.

"Hmm, I would have grown up, too, wouldn't I?

"... although most of it seems to be Haltmoot's feat"

"Please praise me honestly here!

My proximity laughed at my claim, and the clergyman laughed with his hun and nose. Since it did not begin now to say that the chief clergyman was not cute, I only ended up pointing my lips and expressing my dissatisfaction, staring at him with a shovel.

Rainbow Demon Stone is similar to Opal. If you shake it a little, the demon stone will appear to change color complexly depending on where the light hits. Thin metal surrounds the perimeter as it decorated to protect the rainbow demon stone, but that was what made the simple decoration look a little extravagant.

"It's simple, but it's a pretty design. After all, isn't the Chief Cleric able to see the ornament?"

"You'll have trouble seeing that hair ornament from Dietrinde as my standpoint. I had a sense of crisis when I had to prepare material for objections."

If Dietrinde told her fiancée she had given her hair decorations, it would normally appear that the clergyman had stood out. Apparently the Chief Cleric really wants to avoid that. They say it's a big deal about their aesthetics.

"Besides, you won't be able to use the same flower decorations every day, but I thought it would be less noticeable if you just attached them next door. When was it, I would have said I would insert two hair decorations? Insert as much as you can every day like that."

Apparently, I made it a simple shape that I could insert next to the flower decoration so that I wouldn't have any problems using it every day. I think that's an awesome attention. Brunhilde and Lieselator are nodding as impressed.

"Dear Rosemaine, why don't you insert the plug you gave me?

Brunhilde rises up and comes to me. When I handed him the tweezer, Brunhilde gently inserted it next to the hair decoration after carefully comparing the tweezer to my hairstyle.

When I shook my head a little, it sounded sharp and I felt a rainbow demon stone hitting my hair. I'm very happy with the new decorations. And he laughed, and I looked up to the chief priest.

"Does it look good on you?

"Not bad"

"Chief Cleric, what do you mean it's not bad? It just sounds like you're forcing me to compliment you on not looking good."

I think strongly at times like this. The clergyman praises women very poorly, no, even if they are not female opponents. This must be the kind of result they say it won't last long with women.

"I praise you for being cute, even if you don't look good in a time like this."

"I know that a rainbow demon stone that changes color complexly in the light shakes over a hair like the night sky, as if the stars were glittering, and all the divine favors are invisible, and looks great on the Virgin, Lady Rosemaine"

It was Haltmoot, not the chief cleric, who praised me, and I'm not sure what he's talking about because of the line of excessive praise.

"Chief Cleric, about 10% of Haltmoot is enough, so please praise me"

"I don't feel the need to praise you on purpose. I made it for you, but it can't be right."

... you're proud of that, aren't you? That's not a compliment, is it?

Let's give up getting praises from the confident and great clergyman already. I looked back and looked up at Brunhilde.

"Brunhilde, is this ornament going to work every day?

"Yes, as Master Ferdinand said, I don't think it would be a problem to use this as a flower decoration. If Master Rosemaine has your hair decoration, it will be fine with any of it. However, if I may say just one word, it is very noticeable at a time when I am using as many as five rainbow demon stones for the decorations that can be attached next door."

... Oh, yeah. Cleric chiefs are off sometimes, aren't they?

When Brunhilde said that with a bitter smile on his fingertips, the chief clergyman clapped his shoulder.

"I have no choice. I can't even protect Rosemaine from this."

"Master Ferdinand is a lot overprotective against Rosemaine. There are amazingly many amulets and I always prepare medicines with plenty of precious materials..."

When Brother Cornelius said that as he looked at my wax, Haltmut laughed furiously, not the chief cleric.

"Isn't it natural to do everything in your power to protect Master Rosemaine? They were targeted by Arlensbach nobles and were poisoned to sleep for two years. And if you go to the House of Lords out of sight, you'll be in contact with royalty and superior nobility from next to next, so you're anxious to have both amulets and medicines."

Speaking of which, it wasn't until I woke up that I got a ton of amulets. Though the number of amulets has increased each year since I began to go to the House of Lords, it seems that this was in proportion to what I did.

"As much as I would like to increase Master Rosemaine's amulet one after another, too. I'm not a guardian or a family member, so there are only a few things I can give."

So Haltmoot sighed with utmost regret, staring at Brother Cornelius.

"Instead, Cornelius is my brother and my family, why don't you give Lady Rosemayne an amulet? Aren't you worried about Master Rosemaine?

"I'm worried about you. However, I wear a lot more quality and useful amulets than the amulets I can give, so I'm inferior to whatever you think, and I don't think they'll help."

Brother Cornelius, who is not a civilian, shrugged his shoulders that he could not give because he could not make a high performance amulet like the chief cleric. Besides, even though my brothers and sisters are adopted by my lord, I am not an easy giver. I feel a little lonely as they seem to have opened the distance when they say it clarity.

"In the House of Lords you could have had sibling-like interactions, but when Brother Cornelius graduates, you won't have a place to have interactions as brothers and sisters either. I miss you a little bit."

"I feel lonely, too."

Brother Cornelius laughs bitterly at my words. When I was sober, Haltmoot purposely sighed and slashed the air.

"Ha, I know. Graduation is hard and I have never felt so desperate to be unable to join you in the House of Lords. Why did I graduate? At least if I had attended the House of Lords, I would have been more helpful to Lord Rosemayne."

"It wouldn't be a mistake to be useful, but Haltmoot just wants to see what Lord Rosemayne does in the House of Lords, would he? I was very excited when I crusaded Turnis Befalen and when I regenerated the gathering place."

When Leonore said that in a frightened voice, Haltmoot said in his true face, "Don't you think there's no way you can stay excited? I said."

"Down to the gathering place where the black sludge remains, you start the magic formation with the wand of the divine artifact in your hands and regenerate the land as you see it is exactly..."

"Haltmoot, I'm tired of hearing that story"

Leonore spazzily truncated Haltmut's words with a nicely smiled smile. If you see Eudit or Filine snorting, you can see Haltmoot saying the same thing again and again among the proximities.

More than that, I'd like to ask Lady Ferdinand something.

Leonore, who accidentally became a serious face, turned to the clergyman. A clergyman with a slightly raised eyebrow urges Leonore ahead.

"Let's hear it."

"We're giving this much amulet to Lady Rosemayne, so Lady Ferdinand thinks that's all at stake in the House of Lords this year, right? I want you to tell me what kind of danger you can think of. Because vaguely escorting is not as efficient as keeping vigilant targets clear."

There was a battle with Turnisbefalen last year when he was increasing his amulet, he was caught in a ditter battle in a territorial rivalry, and there were assaults. Leonore asks the clergyman what dangers are being considered this year. The Chief Cleric questioned turned out to be a very troubled face.

"Leonore, I did not give Rosemaine amulet assuming that such sudden and unpredictable dangers would occur one after another. I was just concerned last year that I might not be able to cut the exit from Arlensbach or Dunkelferger's ditter battle. But this year..."

The chief cleric cut the words there and shut his mouth once. Slowly exhale after lightly tapping your temples to think about whether you should say it or not.

"We are not going to recall Rosemaine at the service ceremony this year"

"Huh?"

"That's what your guardian decided to discuss the other day. I won't let you go back to Aerenfest this year, I'll let you live in the House of Lords"

The clergyman counts the sudden loss of consciousness because the solidification of magic was solved in Yurevé in order to dispel the fact that the adoptive father is said to be a terrible lord who changes his treatment with his real son and adopted daughter.

"And since the temple has Haltmoot, I have me, and there are so many demonic stones when you were immersed in Jurevé, it was up to me to have enough magic. It's just that I'm probably the only one who can do that this year. I hope you will only enjoy the life of the House of Lords this year, just like the others."

You don't have to bother to call me back. Magic is enough. Then, for once or so, I want to let him live a normal life in the House of Lords, the Chief Cleric said. The unspeakable joy comes in when you find yourself thinking of things for me. I stared at the Chief Cleric as I felt the back of my eyes get hot.

"Chief Cleric..."

"The proximity you have to hang out with Rosemaine, who has been in the House of Lords for a long time, will be tough. So I gave Rosemaine this amulet. To reduce the burden on others at all."

... Yes?

In an instant, emotion and tears pulled in. How can the Chief Cleric honestly not impress me when he has done so much good?

"Chief Cleric, without one last word, I would have cried with gratitude and emotion."

When I glanced at the chief priest, the chief priest nodded with a face of nothing.

"There's no hidden room here, and there's less time to comfort, so why don't you just do it?"

"Wouldn't it be inappropriate to say that even though there aren't enough compliments, there are no extra words to dispel the emotion"

"I don't care how you rate me. We're talking about how difficult it is for the proximities to live together in the House of Lords for a longer period of time than before."

Talks go on between the clergyman and his proximity, as if it were a premise that things would be difficult in the House of Lords.

"I prepare more drugs and amulets, but I am jealous from a territory where Aerenfest chased me through with rapid growth, starting with Inmeldink. I don't know how that works. My relationship with Arlensbach would also change because I was due as my son-in-law. But you shouldn't be alarmed. Be on your guard with a smile that delights your engagement."

When you're listening to the chief cleric, all the territory you have to be aware of goes up. I can't tell you how much enemies I'm making.

"Me, you don't have to worry so much, this year I'll finish my life in the House of Lords without a thing."

"Whatever you think, you can't."

To the clergyman's immediate response, he nodded with all the surrounding proximities. I knew it, but I have no credibility at all.

"In the meantime, keep in mind that you will take the best, and be careful not to conflict with the center of any other territory yet"

"I've never been in conflict with the center before."

"It's not your subjectivity, it's their subjectivity that matters."

The clergyman gently slaps his temples as he says so.

"They'll probably come in contact from over there this year. There are a lot of items that just make me headache to think about. Can you really be quiet when you're being poked about me and about the Royal Palace Library?

I cannot dispute the word of the chief priest, and I look into my own hands. Perhaps now, if I am threatened with something about the Cleric Chief, I will easily enter a state of intimidation, with a body often surrounded by magic. Besides, I can't tell you that if you look back on yourself so far, you can weigh yourself down by relating to the book.

"… or cannot be confirmed"

"What else? But you are the next Lady of Lords and have become known in the House of Lords as the Virgin of Aerenfest. The future of Aerenfest depends on what you say and do, which is noted by everyone... No, my ease and freedom in Aerensbach changes"

I suppose you know that it is better for me to chain up the clergyman himself as a family than the future of the vague Aerenfest. "I want it gone for me," the chief clergyman said, touching the swinging violin with a sharp sound.

"Only protection is in place. Don't show aggressiveness like intimidation from here. All right?"

"Yes."

Even as I nod, the chief cleric remains anxious looking.

"You don't have to look so anxious, you'll do your best, right?

The chief clergyman turned a grim eye and once looked around at my sides.

"Rosemaine, is your proximity enough for trust?

"I think I'm enough."

"Can you keep information in your chest that you shouldn't talk about?

"... is that what nobility can do?

When I looked around my side, everyone nodded in unison.

"Then swear. Until I go to the House of Lords, I will never speak of anything else."

Until I went to the House of Lords, blinking at the fact that they had expired, I said, "Dear Ferdinand, are you sure?," Yustox asked to confirm.

"If you'll protect Rosemaine after you know it, you've never crossed it"

The chief clergyman opened his mouth heavily when he swore to Sturp that his closest men would not speak otherwise.

"The most alarming children in the House of Lords this year are the children of the old Veronicans"

"Although we have good relations with them in the House of Lords?

Eudit tilts his neck like a decent one. In contrast, Rhoderich closed his tight eyes once and exhaled slowly.

"You do it while we're in the House of Lords, don't you?

"Yes."

Rhoderich didn't say anything about what he would do, and the clergyman just affirmed it. Still, I can see what will be done with the look on their faces and the severity of the atmosphere.

... the elimination of the old Veronicans.

"Have you found any evidence?

"... ah. Darmuel found injustice and a few others."

The chief cleric clouded his words and returned them to Rhoderich so. Maybe a little weak to make it complete evidence. Still, I suppose we're going to push things forward and get rid of them. There's not that much room for the Chief Cleric to leave Aerenfest.

"If we eliminate the old Veronicans, we have a number of children to be questioned by the syndicate. Let him decide whether or not to give his name while he is in the House of Lords. Because we know the good relations in the House of Lords, it was decided that Aub would be responsible for protecting those who gave their names to the Lords' clan, not the Union"

In the House of Lords, the adoptive father saw children who could work together beyond factions. I heard voices saying I wanted to get away from my parents' faction, I wanted to grow up fast. The children of the old Veronicans came with important information when Brother Lamprecht was married.

"I think it's better to keep the dangerous buds picked, but Aub thought that punishing them in a syndicate might lead to crushing Aerenfest's future. However, even though we have been in a coalition so far, doing something that will change only this time will be the source of rebellion. They need to give their names so they don't complain."

"Aerenfest doesn't need disturbing seeds," the clergyman said, staring straight at Rhoderich.

"I expect Rhoderich to take in a little more children from the old Veronicans"

He nodded slowly after Rhoderich glanced lightly at him.

"Rosemaine, I don't care what hand you use. Make sure you have the best people you want. Only now can I make the old Veronicans my side."

I snorted.

"Damn, why have I graduated? I would also like to accompany you to the House of Lords, truthfully. If I had chosen a side course, I would have gone to the House of Lords as a side service to Rhodelich."

"I have no place to be sidelined by a senior nobleman, Hartmoot, etc."

Filine and Eudit laugh couscous at Roderich's screaming voice.

"It's helpful that Haltmoot hasn't chosen a side course. Rhoderich."

"Absolutely."

"... no one understands my distress"

Seeing as Haltmoot takes his head seriously, the clergyman smiles disgustingly.

"Hartmoot, there are some jobs you can't do without adulthood. If it helps Rosemaine anywhere but the House of Lords. Prepare a job for them."

"What is the right job for Haltmoot?

As I tilted my neck, the chief cleric laughed furiously after a few thoughts.

"For the peace of your heart, it's better not to know."

... I'm up to something. Someone's looking bad right now!