Ascendance of a Bookworm

"Vilma, Lady Haltmut is here for you"

"Thanks for taking the time, Monica. I'll be right there."

The temple saw the replacement of the chief clergyman, and Lady Rosemayne headed to the castle. Between then and the beginning of winter social circles, Angelica and Darmuel, the escort knights of Lord Rosemaine, were packed in turns to protect the Temple Chief's office to monitor the entry of noble officials. When the winter social world begins, the nobles gather at the castle and the escort knights head to the castle because they become busy socializing.

However, Hartmoot, newly appointed chief cleric, said he would occasionally take a trip to the temple even after the start of winter social circles, giving instructions to the blue clerics, and calling on Lord Rosemaine's side to make him report. This is the first service ceremony for Master Haltmoot, and since Master Rosemayne will not be returning for the service ceremony this year, you said that you would like to write to Master Rosemayne with some temple information. Master Haltmoot's care is greatly appreciated.

"Dear Haltmoot, it's Vilma."

"Suddenly, new children will be brought in soon. What's the situation in orphanages?

"The room itself is ready. But there is not enough food, firewood, futon, etc., as we were also reporting to Lady Rosemaine. I think Fran or Thurm is putting together what's missing."

Master Rosemayne said that if we only prepare the room, we will bring it later. Master Hultmoot will write down my report on the wood tag at hand.

"Okay....... all of a sudden all these kids are losing their families and becoming unstable. It will be hard to take care of you, thank you."

Master Haltmoot laughed and said so with a nickel. Near Master Rosemaine, a senior nobleman, but no place of arrogance, very kind to everyone in the orphanage.

At the beginning, Master Haltmoot was with Master Justkus on a trip to the orphanage. Master Justkus was a nobleman who managed workshops and orphanages on behalf of the clergyman when Master Rosemaine was in a long sleep, very talkative, less arrogant characteristic of the nobility, admired in both orphanages and workshops.

But perhaps Master Haltmoot is preferred by the children. Master Haltmoot asks the children to talk about Master Rosemaine when he is always in the Lord's Castle and House of Lords. The kids like it. Talk over and over again. Master Haltmoot hasn't offended me, so much so that I'm more worried, but he smiles and tells me the same story over and over without one disgusting face.

When the Chief Cleric took turns, everyone in the orphanage rejoiced when he asked that Master Haltmoot would be inaugurated as the new Chief Cleric. Normally we choose among blue clerics, so there was also the possibility that a clergyman who treated gray clerics and witches badly would take office.

I am grateful to Lord Rosemaine, who has applied for your side, and to the Lord and Cleric Chief, who has allowed me to assume the post of Cleric Chief even if I am not a blue cleric.

"Then, Vilma. Did you get an example?

"It's nearing completion. I thought if we were going to accept a lot of kids, we'd better finish it before then, but we've been really busy this time of year, and we were going to finish it instead of handiwork in the winter."

I have received an order from Master Haltmoot for Rosemayne's figure painting. It's a picture of both the Blue Witch era stuff and what it's been like since I became Temple Chief now. Lady Rosemaine, the blue witch, is what she looks like when she plays fesh peel, and Lady Rosemaine, the temple chief, is what she looks like with the wand of the water goddess Fruitraine. Master Haltmoot received a lot of thoughtful and detailed instructions about what he looked like, but he is finishing up with a picture to his own satisfaction.

"... Surely more kids will be busier. I'm also busy with this one for a while, so I'll pick it up at the service ceremony, which will calm down a bit. Are you sure the reward is a new paint?

"I'm afraid so."

I ask for what I want for the reward of my painting because I can't use it in an orphanage even if I give you money. I received an order from Master Haltmut for two Rosemayne figure paintings, and one Elvira for playing the fesh peel of former clergyman Ferdinand. These were fun but really tough days from spring to fall.

"The children going into this winter are originally aristocratic children, just like the Konrats. Master Rosemayne seems to want to educate and the good would like to return to the aristocratic society, but is there a problem with education in orphanages?

"Lady Rosemaine said she has no particular problems with reading, writing, calculating, or standing behavior. It's just a little hard to get a musical upbringing. Because orphanages don't have the key instruments."

I was helping Rosina teach the orphanage kids, and I can do enough to teach the pre-christening kids because I have some heart, but I can't help it without the key instruments.

"I'm not worried. Instruments are also necessary for education. Bring us what's in their house."

Lady Haltmoot laughed nicely and said so, prompting her to leave the room. I return to the orphanage with the side service rotal of the Clerical Office. Master Hartmoot ordered us to keep the blue priests away.

"Vilma trusts Master Haltmoot."

"Yep. Because it's near Master Rosemaine's side, and it's very sweet. I trust everyone in the orphanage. I'm glad you're better off being the new chief cleric."

The shock of having all four gray clerics taken away, who were gatekeepers, was enormous among orphanages, rescued by Master Rosemaine's struggle, but it's not strange to be left alone if it should be. With that in mind, you will know how wonderful Hartmoot behaves to be vigilant, drawing the will of Master Rosemaine, who will consider protecting the orphanage.

"What does Rotal think of Master Haltmoot?

"Master Rosemaine is the top priority on everything, and you work for Master Rosemaine, not for the temple. I have no particular problem right now because Master Rosemayne is the one who moves for the temple, but he thinks and acts a lot differently than former Chief Cleric Ferdinand."

Rotal seems to have a little difficulty understanding the new way of thinking of the Lord and moving to be able to act optimally. It is common for the Lord to change greatly the way he has done until then, so it will be very difficult now for the lay servants of the Cleric Office.

"... Until now, Master Ferdinand had adjusted to ensure that the usual way and Master Rosemayne's new way meshed well. But Master Haltmoot pushes the way Rosemayne thought he would, so we think the temple will change dramatically more than ever."

In the years when Master Rosemayne became an orphan dean and dean of the temple, the way the temple was found has changed dramatically. I can't imagine what it's like to be a bigger change than ever.

"No matter how you change it, Master Rosemayne will not make a bad change in the temple or orphanage. That's all I can believe."

"... Vilma also believes in Master Rosemaine"

"Yep. Lady Rosemaine is the Virgin of Aerenfest."

Rothal laughed in my words. Master Haltmoot said the same thing.

"Delia, Lily. They're going to have new kids coming soon. He said he was originally a nobleman."

Delia and Lily are the ones who take care of the little ones exclusively. Delia has been taking care of Dirk since she was a dairy drinker, and Lily is the only gray witch who gave birth in an orphanage, so the young children will have a really long time dealing with these two.

"What the hell happened to so many aristocratic children coming to the orphanage at once?

"It would be better if we didn't know."

They say Lord Egmont has drawn noble women into the temple and has been on strict alert since Master Rosemayne was targeted. I have heard from Fran that he seems very attentive to the trends of the blue clergy when talking about accepting children and talking about winter plans, and he says he keeps the side service of the blue clergy away from the orphanage.

"Gray clerics and witches can't refuse if the blue clerics command them. If so, I think it's often better not to know from the beginning. Because if you don't know what's going on and the kids you can bring in, you can take care of them without any prejudice."

Aristocratic children have accepted the Konrat. That kid was badly treated, so I was really familiar with the orphanage, but will the kids who suddenly lost their family successfully get familiar with the orphanage? I'm a little worried.

"Now, I'm going to finish Rosemayne's painting, which Hartmoot asks me to do before the kids get busy with more. Don't let the kids come in."

"Okay. Still, Master Haltmoot really loves Master Rosemayne, doesn't he?

That's what Delia said, like she was scared. Master Haltmoot is only spoken of about Master Rosemayne no matter who he talks to in the orphanage, so it is natural to assume so.

... but Delia also loves Master Rosemaine.

I know Dirk's magic hasn't accumulated too much, or he's laughing happily to try to rebut Master Rosemaine's words later, who cares. I just smile because I say twinkled things when I point it out, but Lily doesn't. I stare at Delia like a prank with my hands covering my couscous and mouth and laughing.

"Alas, even with that said, isn't it Delia who told Lady Haltmoot so many times about when Lady Rosemaine used her wind shield to save Dilk"

"Oh, that, the... Wouldn't that be good? There's no way you can say no to the Gray Witch Apprentice if you tell Master Haltmoot that you want to hear about when he thinks Rosemaine is the most divinely beautiful! I don't know about Rosemaine these days because she told me to be in an orphanage, and it was then that Rosemaine was the most beautiful thing I knew!

Delia turned her face bright red and started complaining about Lily.

"Pfft...... Delia gets too stabbed with a picture star and gets confused, which disrupts her language. Right, Vilma?

"I'm not disturbed!

When I saw Delia, who had tears in her eyes, and exhaled lightly, "The more the better," I turned to Lily's room for a little while.

I am beside Rosemayne, so I am given a room for one. My room is full of two Rosemayne-like paintings and painting tools. When dressed in dirty but good clothes and wearing an apron, I wrote a brush.

Take a slow, deep breath once and face the painting quietly. This is the most important time for me to paint.

Ask yourself how you will add color, and carefully overlay it so that at least a little bit of Rosemaine's beauty can be conveyed. It's a lot of fun to think about how to make Master Rosemaine's night-colored hair look glossy and how to color her golden eyes, on the other hand, it's also the most distracting part. Especially when my eyes were a blue witch apprentice who used to reflect emotions, and now that I've been good at suppressing emotions, they look a lot different, so I think it's important to know if I'm able to express them.

... Is it well drawn?

I put the cotti and brush down, lined up the two paintings, and looked from a little distance away. Innocence where I was a blue witch apprentice lurked the ringing, and now I can see it's a lot more like a noble lady's look and behavior. To protect your family, to protect the orphans, and now to protect Aerenfest, Master Rosemayne has grown a lot.

Dear Rosemayne, your body has been in a long sleep, and it doesn't look so different, but according to Monica, who serves near the side, you can see a little growth from the end of summer. He said his ritual costume felt a little shorter when he wore it at the fall mitzvah. It's still the glorious summer of the growing Ryden shaft that kids grow up to be big, so they think they're going to take measurements and go out and fix their ritual costumes next spring.

... I know you're going to grow, but I'm looking forward to seeing how beautiful you will grow.

Perhaps Hartmoot will be ordering another figure painting, so I must also look closely at Rosemayne's changes.

Then a few days later, not ten days after the start of winter social circles, Hartmoot's side service began to bring the children to the orphanage. Master Hartmoot has registered the child the knights brought.

Being brought in can range from young children as young as walking to children as dilk or contort. Every kid wears tailored clothes, but he looked frightened, and some of them were crying and alert and staring at this one in the open. About 80% of kids hold beautiful magic equipment.

Vilma, there are seventeen of us all.

Master Haltmoot came with the last child to complete his registration. Rotar, Gill, Fritz and Monica are together. When I saw Master Haltmoot, I could see that the children who stood solidified trembled as if they were frightened. Looking around at them like that, Master Haltmoot smiles the way he always does.

"This will be everyone's home from today on. I'm no longer noble than I've come to the orphanage. It will be a completely different life than it has ever been. Spend your time thanking Lord Rosemayne for his merciful heart, which he hoped would save us all."

He introduced us to taking care of the orphanage and called Dirk and Konrat. And give in a little so you can gaze at them. It's also a good thing about Haltmoot that he tries to gaze at orphans in this way.

"All the children here have lost their families. Dirk and Konrat tell everyone how to live in an orphanage. Lady Rosemayne has decided to save these children, so please help us as much as possible."

Dirk and Konrat nodded loudly at the words.

"We have been saved by Lady Rosemayne, and I want them saved."

"You're both good kids"

Master Haltmoot strokes the heads of both of them and smiles gently.

"Now you will be anxious, so please tell us how merciful and kind Master Rosemaine is and how we have been saved"

"Yes!"

"Everyone, Konrat was originally noble. I'm just like you guys in that sense. You will know best the difference between life in the aristocratic city and life here. If you don't know something, you can ask. By the time of the service, I'll be here to see how it goes."

Afterwards, the gray cleric at the orphanage was instructed to help carry the baggage. They say the children's living supplies are brought by the knights. Gil and Fritz left with the gray clerics who were used to working hard in the workshop.

"It's hard to have to use a bunch of carriages even if it ends at once if you have a beast to ride Master Rosemaine. Really, he's going to come up with one great thing after another."

Master Haltmoot left the orphanage with Rothal after describing the beast's splendour all the way through.

Soon the luggage will be brought in by Gill and the others. We have to get the room ready while we hand open that with the gray witches and the kids. Me and Lily began to hold and comfort our weeping little children in search of their families.

"Look, we're going to get where we're going to sleep. I don't have time to be crying. Let's fix it ourselves."

Delia waves one job after another to the crying children, taking the initiative to let Dilk set an example.

"I'll carry the futon. Somebody, hold this one."

"You should leave your important magic equipment in line here. You can't even eat when you're holding it."

Konrat, who knows his life as a nobleman, tells him to line up the magic equipment his children hold in one place. But no one tries to move just to carry their magic equipment anxiously. I exhaled slowly after the Konrat turned into a troubled face.

"As Master Haltmoot said, we are no longer nobles. We live here, so follow the way we do here."

I open my eyes greatly to the words of a contort that is no longer aristocratic. I noticed one girl staring at the conqueror with a remorseful face, and when I stood up I knelt and gazed at the children, trying to shelter the conqueror on my back.

"I know the nobility doesn't often think of the temple, and it's natural to feel anxious about living here. But if we're going to live in an orphanage, we're going to have to get familiar with the way we do it here. We can only help you."

She sees me as a young girl who still feels like an aristocrat. I distorted my expression and opened my mouth like I found a spear of anger.

"Help you? Are you telling me that you will allow me to return to the aristocratic community!? Things you can't..."

"Yeah, of course. Because that's what I do."

"... Huh?

A girl circled her eyes like she was poked in the void.

"Oh, haven't you heard? Reading, writing, calculating, standing and behaving, fesh peel...... Master Rosemaine thinks so that you can acquire an upbringing of intermediate aristocracy. And I ask that whoever is recognized as brilliant and worthy of the aristocracy can be baptized as a nobleman by Aub as his guardian."

Probably near baptism. The older children glanced at me like I had ambitions. It would be better to have a goal than to cry and creep. Even if that's what you want to leave the orphanage. I laughed nicely.

"You're the ones who work hard. Of course, we will also report to Rosemayne and Haltmoot about the attitude of life here."

One of the children behind her, with her eyes open, raised her face as she had decided to be ready, placing her magic equipment gently where Conrad told her to be.

"... I will return to the aristocratic community wearing as much upbringing as I can here"

And I held it to help Dilk with the futon he was holding. When one moves out, the other kids start moving, as they were stuck. Only really young children are trying to grate without knowing how to move.

"Let's play together when the futon is ready. There's a lot of cartas, cards and picture books here."

Dilk spoke brightly toward the boy who would carry the futon with him, but when he saw Dilk with a vigilant eye, he just pulled his lips together. You can't beat such a stubborn attitude, and Dirk laughs furiously.

"I haven't even beaten Konrat yet. If you can't beat me, you can't go back to your nobility."

"... I was practicing with my brother. You can't beat them."

"Then it's a battle. I'm Dirk. What about you?"

"It's Beltram. recognised as better than anyone else and will soon return to the aristocratic community"

The older children, who decided to spend time with good children to return to the aristocratic society, began their lives in the orphanage imitating Dirk and Konrat. I'm trying to help you for the first time, even if you're surprised, helping you with your hands in an awkward way, and seriously studying. Feshpeel will also take turns, but everyone is practicing. Every child is desperate because they practice to be able to play with revelations assuming they can be at the baptism ceremony.

Dirk and Konrat also seem to be well influenced by how the kids look at their goals. I've started practicing music that I haven't been very interested in before, and I have friends who can do cartas and cards with me, winning and losing repeatedly. I found myself very motivated to have the experience of being able to beat someone, especially the Konrat who remained defeated by Dilk.

According to Delia, who puts together and takes care of the older kids, some kids sometimes at night push their voices to death and cry, but when Delia moves, she seems to pretend to sleep, so she doesn't speak up and just stops watching carefully what she does the next day.

Kids are good when the baptism ceremony is near where they are motivated with a view to their goals, but young kids cry for their families every night. I cuddle and refrain with Lily, comforting her around, but I haven't got enough hands. I'm a little sleepless.

If that's what you think, Master Haltmoot came to the orphanage with six gray witches and five gray clerics. They say their lords, the nobles of the Blue Clergy's parents, were captured for their crimes.

"The Blue Clerics are not involved in actual crime, but they can't live as Blue Clerics without the assistance of their parents. For one thing, we have to take him for a situational hearing. Of course, those who wished to be captured with the Lord were going to accompany them to the castle, but since there were no hopefuls, they decided to return them to the orphanage. I'll arrange for them to be taken out of the blue clerics' quarters at a later date."

I laughed bitterly at me and Lily as Master Haltmoot said so.

"This is all I have more children. Now you need someone who can help you at all, right?

... Exactly.

Master Haltmoot's kindness soothes me. After expressing my gratitude, I went to my room to pick up Rosemayne's figure and painting.

"Dear Haltmoot, this is the picture you ordered. How about that?

As I spread the two paintings onto the dining room table, Master Haltmut let his orange eyes shine and peek in carefully, exhaling "ho". Apparently, you were satisfied. I stroked my chest down, not in Haltmoot-like glasses, which I would judge with the toughest eyes.

"It's great. I know exactly how godliness is increasing compared to when I was a blue witch apprentice."

"Dear Haltmoot, let me see. Mr. Rosemayne, right? Vilma paints in her room, so I haven't seen it."

If you do so as Konrat was excited, after a little thought, Master Haltmoot said, "You should see it from a little further away without ever touching your hand". The other kids must have been intrigued because Dirk and Konrat, who saw the figure painting, praised it so well. Peek into the painting from a short distance away.

"The newly-arrived children will not have seen Lady Rosemayne yet. It's a good opportunity. This is Rosemaine, the Virgin of Aerenfest, who has the cleanliness of the water goddess Fruitraine and is spoiled by Mestionora, the goddess of wisdom. Like the goddess of darkness. The color hair of the night sky is so glossy that you can see the glittering stars, and the golden eyes that shine like the goddess of the goddess of light is trapped..."

The new children are pokernels in Rosemaine's explanation, which began abruptly. It may be a little difficult for young children, as more and more poetic words are being spoken.

"Dear Rosemaine, the beauty of your appearance is not the only thing. The merciful reflection of that heart is above all the qualities of the venerable and elusive Virgin. But the other day, something had happened that I had to rethink. The right word to describe Master Rosemaine is not the Virgin, but the Goddess," he said.

Dirk and Konrat, accustomed to Master Haltmoot's story, say, "Are you a goddess of mercy?" "They help the gray clerics, so that's true," he hammers, "but the other kids seem to be completely left behind. But Master Haltmoot keeps talking about whether the mood has come on board or what's going on around him.

"That was the day Master Ferdinand traveled to Arlensbach. Master Rosemaine sent rainbow blessings to the three traveling people. Do you understand? How special it is to pray to all God and obtain all blessings"

"... I'm not sure"

"Great. Now let me explain."

Master Haltmoot began to say something about witchcraft with pleasure. It was a long explanation, but to sum it up briefly, AVILLIBE is not close to any other gods besides Gedurleich, so it was very difficult to bless them together. Master Rosemaine said he did it without difficulty.

"When I wondered if Master Rosemayne's eyes glowed in the kind of mysterious rainbow that trapped all the gods, Master Rosemayne began to paint a magic formation in the sky with a stamp in her hand and no one had ever seen. When the magic formation is complete with zero light with the movement of the Starp, now the words of prayer are spun from its poor lips. It was a beautiful and awe-inspiring sight that every time I called the names of the gods, the magic formation would shine in the precious colors of each god, so that all the gods would feel gathered there. A rainbow blessing popped up when I wondered if from the edge of every loose magic formation it glowed like light of various colors. Lady Rosemayne smiled quietly as everyone stared at her surprise without a voice. How modest and humble. So divine. That's when I wanted to pray to Master Rosemaine."

For a minute, Haltmoot, who talked about Master Rosemayne's splendor, exhaled satisfactorily and looked around at everyone in the orphanage.

"Okay, everybody. Let us pray and thank the Goddess of the Five Columns, the Goddess of Water, the Goddess of Fruitrene, the Goddess of Fire, Rydenshaft-style, the Goddess of Szeri Earth, the Goddess of Gedurleich, the Goddess of Life, Aveliebe, and the Virgin Rosemaine of Aerenfest, who presides over the high pavilion sky."

As everyone prays in unison with their bah, hands and left leg up, the newly entered children tremble on their shoulders and look around. Speaking of which, I didn't practice prayer with all my hands on studying and teaching hand work.

... You have to teach me about prayer before you study.

I would also like to try as much as I can to make sure that the newly entered children are familiar with the life of the temple.