Ascendance of a Bookworm

Having completed the examination of the civilian course, I quickly sent Brunhilde to Dunkelferger. "I'd like to schedule a tea party, how about that?".

I asked Brunhilde to tell me of course how the Lestillaut and Hannelore lectures were progressing, as there were various elements such as Clarissa's progress, and the response from Aub Dunkelferger on joint research, so I would not be in such a hurry to reply.

"I can't seem to get back to you right away. Because I don't seem to have received a response from Aub Dunkelferger yet. As soon as we receive your response, you will be notified of your available day."

After dinner that day, Brunhilde came home with a response from Dunkelferger. I turn my gaze to the leaselator, knowing that it will not soon be a tea party.

"Lieselator, from tomorrow I will go to Dr. Hirschühl's lab. Can I ask you to get ready?

"I'll take care of it. Be especially mindful of preparing your cleaning tools. Because we have to make sure that Master Rosemaine gets into Dr. Hillsur's lab."

My arm rings, and the leaselator started sorting the cleaning tools. Soon Leonore left the room to ask about the escort knight's plans. Truly reliable proximity.

Feeling the moves of the sidekicks starting tomorrow's preparations, I shall write to Ferdinand so that he can give them to me.

"I'll write to you, so I'll cage you in the stash room."

There is too much content to write with disappearing ink to write where there are very side servants. After I entered my private stash room, I wrote surprisingly in several pieces with ink deposited from Ferdinand.

I wrote down what I did and the consultation in chronological order, but if I read it back, it seems a little unintelligible.

"I went up to the height of the presence of the Supreme God in the ritual of obtaining your blessing. There's too much protection for you to exceed the Starp tolerance, and a little something overflowing with blessings makes blessings terrorism hard. We try to use magic compression as modestly as possible as a solution, but is there any other good way?... is it going to pass on? If you were Master Ferdinand, you would understand!

It's okay, I tell myself, and I start spreading letters on my desk to dry.

And to experiment with how much difference would be made by the time we arrived by letter via Lymund and via Flaurelm, and whether it would reach Ferdinand in the first place, etc., I also used a little ink that disappeared in the letter via Flaurelm. "This is a letter from Dr. Flaurelm. Did you get it right?".

If you let it dry overnight, the ink letters should be gone. I have to write the unmistakable content from above.

… unusual content? What kind of unusual content? That's hard.

"Okay, Charlotte. I'm going to the lab."

The next day I spoke to Charlotte, who was in the multi-purpose hall, because Vilfried had not already gone to lecture. Charlotte doesn't seem to have any lectures today, although not all practical skills have yet been completed, and she is talking to Marianne about her study of Demon Tree paper.

"... I don't think you're very ready to go to the lab, sister"

Charlotte looked at the ready luggage of the leaselator and blinked. There's a lot of stuff in the wagon, like when you go to a business tea party in the library. I laugh bitterly at my baggage, which is too much for me to go to the lab.

"It's a cleaning tool and a plug from me."

Those in that lab over there don't have a busy life. As I spoke to Charlotte about the tragedy of Hirschühl's lab, "It's not what the princess said when she immersed herself in reading she would be made to despise her life," she sighed at Richarda.

Laughing and deluding, I leave the dorm. It was time for the lecture to start already, so the hallway showed few signs of people, and it was a sin. Today's companions are Lieselator and Richarda of Side Service, Lauderich of the Civilian Apprentice, and the Guardian Knights are Matthias and Theodore.

"This is the first time I've been in a civilian building."

Two of the escort knights look up at the civilian specialty building as they say so. "That's a lot of private rooms, unlike a knight's specialty building," Matthias muttered as he went inside. Civilian specialty buildings also have many rooms like warehouses where materials are managed, and many doors because the laboratories are located in each. The Knight's Specialty Building, a gathering of training facilities, is the largest, largest and most despicable of all specialty buildings. Most of the large facilities do not seem to have many private rooms other than the teachers' rooms.

"... Ugh, doesn't it smell weird?

Theodore said so as he looked around. He looks like he held his nose down, although he refrains from picking his nose as an escort knight.

"I guess I'm not familiar with freshman Theodore, who hasn't even made the formula yet in lectures, but this is the scent of medicinal herbs and materials. It's a little stinky with multiple mixes, but you'll get used to it."

When I say that with a laugh with Couscous, Theodore asks, "Do you really get used to it?" and looked around in suspicion.

"It's okay. You'll get used to it if you start making your own recovery pills and take them as normal during your training, and you'll be able to take more stinking pills if you need them. It's cute compared to Ferdinand's medicine, like the smell around here."

Theodore's face caught on. What a drink!? And the expression tells the story. It is a medicine that was thought to be harassing to Charlotte even when kindness came in. The stock solution is outrageous.

Upon arrival in front of Hirschühl's lab, the reseller pushes a wagon with cleaning magic equipment one foot ahead and goes inside.

"Lady Rosemaine will not wait a moment to enter the room. We'll see if we can get in."

When I first came to Hirschühl's lab, I remembered that Hirschühl and Lymund were turning right and left in an attempt to activate a magic tool that would force me to suck in what was on the floor.

"... I hope there's nothing like running out of what I need"

"I advise Dr. Hillsur to clean up at Ordnants, so he'll have his important stuff cleaned up."

From the door behind what Richarda says: "Lieselator, please wait a moment!" I heard Hirschühl's hasty voice. Even when recommended, Hirschühl apparently gave priority to research. Richarda sighed and shook her head.

"Thank you for waiting, Master Rosemaine"

The smiling lizerator opened the door and finally I was able to get into the lab. I can see massive amounts of material piling up on my desk for conditioning. Must be the material Hirschühl rescued from the floor in a big hurry.

"Dr. Hillsur, is Rymund absent?

"I haven't finished my lecture yet. Let's talk more about collaborative research after Rymund arrives."

Rymnt has passed the lecture a little too, so he seems to have some free time, and he's starting to show his face from time to time.

"Why don't we have a look at the materials around here by the time Rymund gets here? Materials on collaborative research. If Lady Rosemaine knew, it would be easier to move on."

Blueprints and memorandums, but they seem to be materials about what we're going to make. I turned my face to Hirschühl, comparing the more piled material on my desk to the neat material contained in the lab bookshelf.

"Dr. Hirschühl, I, I'd like to sort this out before I glance at the material, would you mind? Like that bookshelf."

"It's all the material that's already been studied that fits in there, and it's what Master Ferdinand was cleaning up. The first thing I look at is cleaning up, which is that you are really very similar. You can clean up whatever you want on this desk."

"... Huh? Does that mean Master Ferdinand has been cleaning up for about ten years!?

"What are you talking about? Mr. Ferdinand was there this time last year, wasn't he? Pick up your own magic equipment."

They didn't just take magic equipment then, they also took home blueprints and research results and other materials that they decided they couldn't leave behind, and then, they used Justkus and Brother Eckhardt to clean up the materials.

... It's hard for Master Ferdinand to take care of such a master.

I have been putting out some material from the bookshelf so that Ferdinand could sort it out and clean it up as he was doing. Wooden plaques are compiled for each study, chronologically. By the way, it seems Ferdinand's research has parchment clumped together. I can tell right away because the letters haven't changed.

... This is a study of twenty wonders. But there's no second half at all, is there?

The strange stories Yustokus had collected were first in a sloppy line, followed by a brief map.

... This is probably a map of the House of Lords, right? Heh, it's roughly circular.

I don't even know what the grounds of the House of Lords are like because I have few opportunities to fly around on horseback in the cold. When I was a treasure theft ditter, I had heard from Richarda and my uncle that everyone had grasped the terrain.

... I'm sure this is where there were twenty wonders.

Instead of twenty places, there were many more dots and what was verified, ○ or × attached. I wonder if it's because it's a handwritten map from over a decade ago, the old feeling gives it a good flavor and it looks like a treasure map. But the study of twenty wonders was too unnaturally interrupted all the way.

"Dr. Hillsur, this is a Ferdinand-like study, isn't it? I don't have any results..."

"That's a lot of Ferdinand's research. Unless it was an announcement, I didn't leave it as a dossier if I knew the results and I was convinced, or dared not write it because I decided it was better not to."

"Really..."

They always need to report what they get paid to research from the territory, but with their own money, they often leave no material about the research that was their hobby.

... This research looks interesting and you wanted to see it to the end.

With my lips pointed, I closed the dossier by checking the classification method and the spelling.

"Now that we know how to piece Ferdinand together, we also know that we want to get rid of this material soon."

It would be best to clean up the same. There should be no confusion and it should be easy for Hillsur and Lymund to find materials. And I broke one decorative string, which was tied to my hips, and laid up viscid.

"Princess, what are you going to do?

"... 'Tagging'. Clean it out of the sleeve."

"Tasukike, are you?

As Richarda was surprised and concerned, I quickly sat down and cleaned out my undisturbed sleeves. Perfect, when he was pleased, Richarda quickly unbuckled as he sighed, "Princess, it's impossible to expose your arms like this," he said.

"The princess just needs to sit here and give instructions. Me and the reseller will clean it up as instructed."

When the chair was ready, I was to classify the paper and wooden plaques stacked on the mixing desk. Through the eyes, divide by whose kind of research. Richarda and Lieselator split that up and packed it in a box or spelled it out and started cleaning it up on the bookshelf.

"Isn't this material what Dr. Hillsur is doing now?

"Yep. I haven't seen him in a while, and I've been looking for him."

"Can I put Rymund's material on this bookshelf? Why don't you take it back to Arlensbach's dorm?

"He will decide what to do when he graduates."

There are many materials that you won't need if you have time, Hirschühl said.

If we clean up one after the other, the materials will start to line up neatly for each study, and the top of the desk for conditioning will become cleaner.

"Dear Rosemaine, there was material left here as well. Please clean this up as well."

"I'll take care of it"

Receive materials from Hillsur and clean them up where they should be stored.

... I feel like a dedicated secretary at Hillsur Laboratories?

No matter who doesn't recognize me, I'm only in the mood being a laboratory secretary. Since the librarian could only supply magic, I feel, in a way, that he has done the most clerical work since coming to the House of Lords. I can't stop my nose.

... What shall I do? Me, now, so much fun!

Four bells came ringing as I was cleaning up the material in a mood of groaning. Then, a little while later, Lymund comes in fluttered as he says, "Dr. Hillsur, something terrible..."

Shortly afterwards, I rounded my eyes and said, "I'm sorry. Wrong room!" and left in a hurry.

"... you're not wrong, are you?

Hirshur laughed couscous as me and Lieselator looked at each other.

"The room is so beautiful, you thought you made a mistake. We'll be back in time, so let's get ready for dinner. There's a plug in there, right?

Hirshur happily raised the edge of his lips, pointing to the wagon. It is just time to be hungry. Cleaned up on a neatly cleaned preparation desk and Lieselator and Richarda started preparing meals.

Lymund knocked when he was properly prepared and opened the dreaded door to peek into his face. As usual, I don't care who I am and my brunette is blurred. Immediately afterwards, he bellies at the smell of the plug brought in by the leatherette and looks badly out of sight.

"Reimnt, you can have yourself in Vashen before you come in. Don't stand in front of Lady Rosemaine like that."

Lymnt, smiled away by the riserator, closed the door again. I use Vashen outside the room and then I come back.

"I'm very sorry for your loss."

It is lunch because Lymund has finally come in. Over lunch, Hirschühl began talking about collaborative research. Lymnt drops his shoulder as he eats a meal lowered from Hillsur.

"It wasn't a mistake, after all"

He was summoned by Dietrinde last night to say, "We're going to be in good contact with Master Ferdinand to study it so he's not ashamed to represent Arlensbach".

"I was very surprised because I had no contact at all in the House of Lords so far, but I thought you were curious because you were my own fiancée's apprentice."

"I will do my best in good faith," Reimnt replied, thinking it was about presenting a study of territorial rivalries. Then, today, after breakfast and trying to get to the lecture, Fraurelm, the dorm warden, called me to "report back when I've decided on an overview of the joint research," and he said, black-and-white his eyes.

I don't know, not to mention Rymund came to this lab at the same time as the morning lecture ended.

"It was Aerenfest who decided to do a joint study with Dunkelferger and Drevanhell. Both were high-profile studies, and Fraurelm wanted to collaborate with Arlensbach, who was deeply involved through Ferdinand. You want credit for the center."

... Didn't Dr. Hillsur burn you?

Though I thought so, I won't say anything extra because you turned your hand around to finish the civilian course exam. It would be easier for Rymund to accept what he thinks his dorm warden has mentioned than to be pushed from here too.

"Both are Ferdinand's disciples, and if Rymund takes charge of the design part, and Rosemayne takes charge of the part where the prototype is to be made, it will still be enough co-research as it is today"

"... does Master Rosemaine do the prototyping?

"It's too much awe to let a Lordship candidate prototype," Lymnt looked wide open at his blue eyes and saw Hillsur. Unlike Lymnt, who shudders when he shudders, Hirschühl flatly says, "It's the right material."

"Master Rosemayne has also achieved excellent results in the practice of formulation, and because he is planted by Master Ferdinand, he is accustomed to practical formulation and can formulate using a magical formation that reduces time. I'm a Lordship Candidate and have a lot of magic, so I don't care how much I combine. It will greatly reduce the time it takes to do research."

Designers don't have that much taste, they said. Even if you can do enough of what you do in lectures, they don't have the right application, or design sense like Rymund or Ferdinand.

"It would also be good for Ferdinand if this joint study were successful and both were known to be Ferdinand's disciples"

They would increase Ferdinand's importance in Arlensbach if they took it the way that it was also Ferdinand's feat that the joint study was successful. If you say, "It's to improve Mr. Ferdinand's treatment," I'll have to stick it out.

"It will also be to establish the position of Master Ferdinand, and it will be for Lymund, an intermediate aristocrat, to be recognized as a close proximity to Master Ferdinand, as well as to make my library magic equipment. Let's work together."

"My surroundings are completely motivated and I can't say no now..."

Flaurelm would have a hell of a hysteria if he refused, Reimnt admitted to collaborative research after saying with a fed up face.

"Then we'll make a prototype as soon as we finish lunch. blueprints and descriptions please"

"Okay. Best regards,"

I was glad to be praised for my clerical work by Reimund, who was impressed by the material that was neatly put together, and after dropping off Reimund heading off for an afternoon lecture, I spent some mixed-up time in Hillsur's lab. Looking at the blueprints that Rymund left behind, he creates one magic tool after another, and if Hillsur calls him, he pours his magic into the magic equipment. The missing arm strength is compensated by physical strengthening, and the missing strength is compensated by medicines that only restore health.

... Yeah, this lab is no good. I'm drugged even if I'm going to spend it normally.

And I showed the prototype with my chest up to Rymund, who had returned from the lecture.

"What do you say? Is it done as ordered? I did my best."

I want a little praise, and I stick around, and I line up the prototype before Rymund. I was excited to see Lymnt react, but Lymnt dropped his shoulder and dropped the item.

"... Um, are you so disappointed you can't do it?

"No. Well done. I was just a little distracted by the difference in magic that I could use."

Less magic, Rymund seems to need a healing pill to formulate the prototype as well. Still, it seems that you can make one a day or not. He said he deplored the world's inequity in the four juxtaposed sorceries.

"Now I ask Master Ferdinand to decide whether or not to accept"

"Then send it tomorrow. I want you to send my letter with me. There is also a letter to be delivered to Master Ferdinand via Dr. Fraurelm…"

Since reporting is negligible in the face of this lab, when I told him that I was obliged to report, Reimund loosened his expression as if he were a ho.

"That's very helpful. Since Dr. Fraurelm has already told me to report..."

The next day I entrusted Rymund with both a letter to be delivered to Ferdinand with the submission of my magic equipment and a letter to be delivered via Flaurelm.

...... May Mr Ferdinand reply you.

As I prayed to Old Schnelli, the goddess of flying, Brunhilde brought you a letter.

"Dear Rosemaine, This is an invitation from Dr. Eglantine. They're hosting a book lover's tea party under the royal auspices."

... Is that it? I haven't contacted Dr. Eglantine yet, have I?