Ascendance of a Bookworm

Prestige is the sole oath of allegiance to the Lord. It is primarily entrusted with the right to the deprivation of life and is an indication that you are an absolute subordinate. You can't change the Lord because the current has changed.

"Aub Aerenfest, I... I know I want to express my gratitude and loyalty to Aub for showing me the way to save my clan"

After Yeremias' determination, Viscount Dardolph, who had been silent for a while, grips his fist in a good way. Viscount Dardolph, with his tight eyes closed, drooped his neck as he knelt.

"... Aub Aerenfest, I can't"

"Father!?

Jeremias opens his eyes wide to the words of Viscount Dardolph. Neither did I think that Geebe would turn himself down the path of saving his clan. Viscount Dardolph groaned bitterly before us watching in surprise.

"I don't have a name to give anymore."

Apparently Viscount Dardolph had already given his name to someone. I heard from the chief clergyman and his proximity that he rarely gave his name, but wasn't he? I look down upon Viscount Dardolph in a strange mood.

"If you don't have a name to offer, Dardolph..."

"But! We will show you as much sincerity as possible for the sake of the clan. We will find the Scriptures and prove to you that we have no hostility or malice."

So I beg you not to block the way to dodge the syndicate. His adoptive father narrowed his eyes to stare at Viscount Dardolph.

"... Who did you give your name to? I can't trust you by that."

"Dear Veronica,"

Although he had been married from Arlensbach, Gabriele, who was unfamiliar with Aerenfest, said he had forced his loyalists and their sons to dedicate their names. He needed a subordinate who would not betray him in order to raise and protect his own children.

"Compared to Aerenfest in Arlensbach, fame dedication is frequent. I grew up telling my mother, who came from Arlensbach with Gabriele, that she could not be trusted with a minister whose name was not given."

When Viscount Dardolph was old enough to be named, it was Veronica and Georgine who were named by their mothers as subjects to be named. He still talks about his adoptive father before he was born.

Viscount Dardolph said Veronica, who had already become the First Lady of the Lords, was the subject of a name dedication.

"So you're saying that whoever brings you to Arlensbach's blood, just like them, is offering his name? To my mother and sister."

"Yes, to counter the Risegang, we had to set up Veronica, who draws the blood of Arlensbach, to consolidate the bond."

I felt indescribable knowing why the intermediate nobles at the heart of the old Veronicans would not be saddled with factions. Apparently, there is also a big difference in name dedication between Arlensbach and Aerenfest.

"You didn't give my child a name, did you?

"I didn't feel particularly necessary because Master Veronica was so powerful that I could contain Risegang and the faction was so big that I didn't have to consolidate my ties.... Aub Aerenfest, I will do whatever I can. Have mercy on my clan..."

My adoptive father waved lightly as he quietly looked down at the begging Viscount Darldorf.

"Retrieve the stolen Scriptures. It all starts with that. Let me see how they work."

"I'm afraid so."

The search for the Scriptures began, once shelved as far as the synagogue was concerned. Viscount Dardolph immediately flew Ordnants one after the other to the nobles around him: "I don't know where my wife was supposed to have headed to the aristocratic city first, but if you know anything, I want you to tell me. Then bring the demon stone of the Viscount Dardolph to make sure the body belongs to him. Then he opened the Viscount Dardolph's den as the clergyman demanded, and asked him to look inside as he wished, he said.

"Dear Rosemaine, what is the Bible like? I'm also going to order the servants to search, but I've never seen them very close. Perhaps the servants don't know."

I give an account of the Bible as to what kind of fitting and what size it is. The lead service gave instructions to the servants, and a massive search of the building began.

Since Viscount Dardolph began to deal with the Ordnants returning one after the other, I spoke to Jeremiah about the actions of Viscount Dardolph as far as we know.

Yeremias has asked various questions in search of the Scriptures, even as he has revealed his anger, "What do you really mean..."

"What does the Bible use it for? It may change where it was concealed for the purpose of use"

"The scriptures are used during rituals. I remember the eulogy, so I can do the ritual without it. But it's one scripture in the territory, so it's hard to be lost. It will also be necessary for the next temple chief to remember the eulogy, won't it? According to Egmont's memories and the paper he wrote, he stole it to embarrass us."

"Is there any particular use besides using it in rituals?

... a use I don't need at all, but it sounds like a guide book to becoming a king.

"There's nothing else to use in particular"

Where Jeremiah gave a difficult face to my answer, the head servants and clergymen who were heading for the search in the hall returned. She looked for the Bible but couldn't find it with the momentum to flip around the hall.

If I didn't feel uncomfortable, it should have been long before the Bible was discovered that it had been replaced, so I thought it might still be on hand, but it seems the Bible was nowhere in the hall.

"You have a better chance of moving it somewhere. Does the Viscount Dardolph have a transfer team?

"No, she doesn't have it herself, and she hasn't given permission for what she manages at home"

As a result of alerting people to assassinations, raids, etc., transfer groups that move people cannot be set up unless they are lords. And the transfer range of the transfer formations that the Lords can set up at their discretion is limited within the territory. A transfer formation that crosses territory like a transfer formation to come and go with the House of Lords requires the permission of the King.

And neither can the transfer formation for moving objects cross between territories solely within the territory. There's nothing I can't do precisely if both lords are convinced to install it, but I don't hear much talk about setting up a transfer formation. They say there's a good chance that trouble will happen when things change depending on the replacement and the times.

And as the chief clergyman used, the transfer formations available to individuals are paired with formations for sending and receiving, which is basically one-way. Besides, there are various constraints on either sending or receiving it without the magic of the creator, or sending it without the permission of the recipient. Apparently it turned out to be the result of an alert situation in which dangerous goods were suddenly sent.

In other words, even if we were getting a transfer formation in some way, the destinations to be sent are limited within Aerenfest.

"Geebe Dardolph, who seems likely to need the Scriptures in Mrs. 's friendship, who has enough interaction to keep such dangerous objects?

There's no way the clergyman who was looking into the old Veronicans didn't know about the Viscount Dardolph's friendship. I guess purposefully asking Viscount Dardolph if he's really willing to cooperate.

"I know it's Geebe Gerlach. He and his wife both gave their names to Master Georgine. So, if this is how you hide from your clan and get the Bible, maybe it's for Master Georgine. Geebe Gerlach is a civilian Geebe, so it would also be possible to create a transfer formation on an individual basis."

"Hmm."

The clergyman nodded satisfactorily to Viscount Dardolph's answer. There seems to be no difference between the information the Chief Cleric has.

"But there was no transfer formation in the room she normally used, in the hidden room, or in the rooms of the side servants. Without the transfer formation, we can't transfer. Other than Geebe Gerlach, can't you imagine that I gave it to someone?

"... Your wife hasn't been out long enough to say at all since she returned to this hall. I haven't seen anyone."

That's what the head servant said. They don't even have a balcony in the Viscount's room, so they can't sneak in and out on horseback.

In addition to such leading testimony, the information gathered in Ordnants to Viscount Dardolph was that she was not out. The clergyman put the knight on surveillance when he captured Egmont and took him to the castle, so I'm pretty sure he hasn't been out since around the closing of the day.

The time spent leaving the temple in Egmont's memory and returning to the noble town hall, where I remember the lead service, was much the same. I hardly have time to go anywhere else, and I think it's too dangerous to wander around holding the Bible.

... I can't believe we don't have a transfer team and we're not going anywhere... Looks like he was moving so vigorously before he entered the aristocratic city.

Though I think he's one of my own, he should have been collecting information and buying cloths at Italian restaurants and the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce. What the hell did that mean? Having thought a lot about the actions of the Viscount Dardolph, I looked back on the lead.

"Speaking of which, when did the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce cloth arrive?

Ask questions remembering that you have to check them out besides the scriptures. It would also be better to gather information about cloths that could involve a lower town relationship.

"Is it a Gilberta Chamber of Commerce cloth?

"Yep. I am purchasing a dyed cloth from the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce, a new epidemic in Aerenfest that seems to be the use of the Viscount Dardolph. On the same day I get the Bible, I thought it might have something to do with it because I buy cloths from merchants I don't normally use..."

When I explained what cloth I had purchased for the head side service, I said, oh, did I ever think of it?

"The cloth arrived before your wife could return. There was a merchant who came around lunch to deliver an order from his wife. I was a strange merchant, but the letter in your wife's handwriting was with me, so I paid to receive the product. The cloth is brought out in the afternoon."

"Huh?"

Doesn't afternoon mean time after the Viscount Dardolph returns? If the side service had been wrapped in the cloth of the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce to bring out the Bible, the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce would surely be involved in the biblical troubles.

"Where the hell did that aspect go? Is it not possible that the Bible was brought up wrapped in that cloth?

Everyone turns their gaze on my words to lead the way. Looks like it was the lead who arranged the carriage. The answer will be back soon.

"I remember the carriage with the side service headed for the castle."

"Is it a castle!?

An unexpected place came out, and I rounded my eyes. Will you take the Bible to the castle? I wonder what I will do with the cloth before then.

He raised his face as Jeremiah hacked before me leaning his neck.

"... it's Master Ferdinand's wedding celebration"

"Huh?"

"If we deliver the cloth to the castle as a wedding gift for Master Ferdinand, we can carry the load to Arlensbach without passing through Geebe Gerlach and without being suspected by anyone else. If you want to deliver the Bible to Master Georgine, isn't that the least suspicious way to do it?"

It's the marriage of the Lordship Candidate. I also take many gifts from Aerensbach, although I get many from Aerensbach. Gifts from Geebe and many nobles everywhere have already arrived here and there before the winter social world, and they have rooms that keep piling up.

"A new Aerenfest dyed cloth would seem worthy as a wedding gift. If it were a cloth for women, it would definitely reach Dear Dietrinde and Georgine, not Aub Ahrensbach or Ferdinand"

Unlike hair decorations, which have already been decided to take to the House of Lords as a gift of a phosphor or graduation who has sold the method, it is a new fashion, and a box the size of which the Bible will enter can be prepared. And unlike sweets and such, it won't rot or hurt to leave it in the castle until it's time to leave in the spring.

No one will doubt it, Jeremiah said, as it is common for a bride to be given a new cloth from the groom.

... Speaking of which, when I tried to give Aurelia a cloth, Brunhilde told me that it was really a gift from Brother Lamprecht.

On the clue that I had finally found, I stood up softly.

"I'm going to the castle."

The Viscounts of Darldorf were to be guarded by knights and asked to look for any other clues. The clergyman flies Ordnants "to the castle to confirm the wedding celebration" to the castle clerk. I accompany the Chief Cleric in the search for the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce cloth in a room loaded with gifts.

As soon as we arrive at the castle, we head to the office used by the clergyman. There was a civilian waiting for me who received the Ordnants. He seems to be a civilian who always helps with his errands at the castle. They're not coming to the temple. They say it's a flank.

"I've kept the key because it means they confirm the wedding gift. Even if Master Ferdinand didn't bother to check, if you ordered me to, I would have checked here..."

The clerk said a little dissapointed that he was busy but didn't have to do more of what he had to do himself. He seems to be a civilian who is trying to reduce the work of the clergyman.

"I was contacted by Aub Aerenfest that we were getting a lot of wedding celebrations from everyone. It does seem troublesome, but I have to thank each of them in the winter social world, and I'm going to need a payback. You can't thank me without knowing what I got? There's no temple ritual. We have to make sure it's within the moment."

The chief clergyman builds up one job after another as he takes away the keys to the room where the gifts are placed with a glittering creation laugh from the civilian.

"I will accompany Justkus and Rosemaine to confirm the gift, so you should encourage them to do this job"

"Dear Ferdinand, are you not allowed to accompany Master Rosemayne?

I look at the clergyman resentfully when he tells me to stay and do my job.

"It's my endurance. I wanted to make a gift for Dear Dietrinde and Retizia, but you must have already received a gift from Geebe everywhere, right? I couldn't give you the same thing, so I wanted to see what kind of gift you had. I'm sorry we didn't have much time to make it to the House of Lords and it's sudden."

When I apologize to the clergyman, the chief clergyman said, "That's the thing. We don't have time for this either," he says.

Looking back, the clerk was lonely and dropping his shoulder to take the paperwork.

"... that's kind of pathetic. I can't believe there's only one man left on the job."

"I don't have a choice. Assuming you had something to look for, how are you gonna explain it?

"That's true..."

I walked next to the Chief Cleric in the Lesser Bus and reached the room where the gifts were kept. When Justkus opened the door with the key he had deposited from the chief cleric, he found that many gifts had already been piled up.

"You have a lot of crates"

"If you remove the item, it could get dirty when transporting it to the carriage."

They say it's best to keep it in a crate even when you think about stacking it up.

"Find it now. You're the one who knows what kind of cloth."

I know the cloth sold at the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce. I'm the confirmer. Ask your neighbors to bring a crate and peek inside. At that time, the chief clergyman was also to make sure who he got him what.

"Please load the box here when you're done confirming. Be careful not to interact with unconfirmed boxes."

The escort knights bring me crates like flow work. The Chief Cleric confirms it one by one, and Justkus writes it down. I only check carefully when a new dyed cloth comes out.

Even if it looks similar, it doesn't have the same dye of cloth.

"Dear Ferdinand, this is it! Cloth sold by the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce!

After seeing some, I discovered a familiar cloth. It contains a cloth with a floral pattern that is very similar to the cloth my mother dyes. It is a cloth made of summer precious colors just in time to be delivered and tailored in the spring.

"The poison has been lightly tested, but check it before you touch your hand. It's not like there's any chance that the poison from replacing the scriptures is attached."

To the word of the Chief Cleric, my escort knights began a toxicology test according to Haltmoot's instructions. "You remember exactly what I taught you," shrugs Yustokus, who watched it.

I tried to remove the cloth, especially since it was confirmed that the poison was not attached.

"Oh, heavy..."

The cloth wrapped around the core is large and heavy, and I cannot even take it out of the box. I ask Leonore and Angelica to take it out, and then, when they grunt, they peel the cloth off.

"... oh?

I thought if I stripped the cloth, the Bible would come out, but it was the crate that came out.

"Another box, huh?"

"It's very heavy to use as a core, this box. I'm pretty sure there's something in there."

That's what they say, they open the box that's used for the core part that wraps the cloth. There was my scripture in a crate filled with cloth so that it would not move.

"There was! My scripture!

"Please let me test the poison before I touch it, Master Rosemaine"

"Did you forget that the exact same looking thing was poisoned?

scolded by the two of them, and I wait, whispering again, that the poison test would be finished.

"You can touch it now, Master Rosemaine."

Haltmut, who took out the scripture inside the crate, offered it for ease of holding. I hold the scriptures put forth before my eyes tight to my chest. I looked closely at the cover and fitting and smelled the smell to confirm it.

"Dear Ferdinand, it's called appearance, it's called smell, it's called weight, this is definitely my Bible"

When I looked up and laughed with certainty at the Chief Cleric, the Chief Cleric looked down at me with eyes that looked at the creepy things.

"I can be sure of that. You're disgusting"

... what is it!?

"With love for books, you can do this much."

"Right. But I don't care."

That's what the chief clergyman said, waving his hand gently, exhaling slowly.

"Still, it's something you've done a lot of hands-on this time"

"If this had been found in Arlensbach, the chief clergyman might have thought he'd stolen the Ehrenfest scripture."

In my words the chief cleric shakes his head slowly.

"No, they were just about to accuse Aerenfest of plotting to put thief stigma on Arlensbach."

"Neither is much different. The odd plan was crushed."

I found the Bible. It was not a loss, and there was no such thing as this one, and the possibility that the chief cleric could be fitted was crushed.

"There's no evidence of a connection to Master Georgine in this case, is there?

"So far, all of this has been done by the Viscount Dardolph personally. I'm in Arlensbach. There's absolutely no evidence that leads to Georgine. Without Egmont's ring, it wouldn't even have led to Geebe Gerlach."

I'm pretty sure Georgine is behind this, but he's a very troublesome opponent, either cautious or disgusting.

"But the Bible found it. Me and you didn't have to make a mistake, and poisoning prevented it. Sometimes the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce can get involved if you keep this cloth recovered. Wasn't the next Geebe Dardolph supposed to pledge allegiance to Aub, and the result was good?

"Because I was the first to notice the discomfort. You can praise me a lot."

I don't think it was very helpful along the way, so I'll highlight where I was handy.

"When they say that, I don't want to admit it, but, well, I can't even say that"

"That's not complimentary, is it?

"I just stood around to make sure you weren't my fault. It's not a compliment again."

Although the clergyman could not praise me, the cloth of the Bible and the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce could be recovered safely.

Afterwards he confirmed all his gifts while still being used by the clergyman.

Now that we have done what we do, we have returned to the temple. By using the keys to open the Bible, we have to see if the keys are real. The Biblical keys that remained in the locker of the keys seemed real, and when I registered my magic, I was able to open them without any problems.

There are still magic formations and letters floating around where I opened the cover. The Cleric Chief was also able to confirm that the Bible was authentic, so he immediately reported it to his adoptive father and Viscount Dardolph.

"I got it back safely. And then, when things go wrong, we have to recover the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce cloth."

It is not for me to stick my neck in, because this is the work of my adoptive father. He sees me working hard to find the Scriptures, and he got a lot of information about Arlensbach aristocracy, so he probably doesn't think it's a bad result when it comes to the Dardolph clan.

"I'm glad the Bible is back. I wondered what would happen for a while."

I gladly break my face when I see the scripture of Fran returning, who waited for me as I roamed in the temple. I nodded loudly, holding the Scriptures together again.

"Welcome back, my Bible"