Ascendance of a Bookworm

Dunkelferger's Ritual Prequel

After reading the materials until closing, I returned the library keys to the storage box in the office. After reading a lot of material and learning a lot about new things, my head is kind of fluffy with satisfaction.

"We can put it in the library if there's a keeper of the keys even if there's no royalty, and if there's no royalty, we don't need to eliminate any other students. So instead of your busy royal family, I..."

I tried to suggest that I read more and more material, but Richarda and Anastasius immediately rejected it.

"I won't. There are a lot of priorities for princesses, such as joint research with the Great Territories, and you can't force a princess to go to a library like that when there's no one to pull her off."

"The other side is right. I won't listen to this story at all when I start reading it. I won't let Rosemaine in alone."

Everyone else agrees with the two words. No one will side with me if I look around.

... what do you mean!? I don't have a single ally!

You'll have the most power in this. Turn your gaze to Gigisvalt. Gigisvalt looked at Altancia and Hannelore with a gentle smile.

"Libraries are forbidden until we have a call later. Neither Altancia nor Hannelore must unlock Rosemaine if they so request."

"Yes, sir."

I was forbidden to enter even though I discovered an interesting library, and I went back to my dorm with a bumblebee.

When I returned to the dorm, I was extensively scolded by Richarda for responding raw to Gigisvalt without taking my eyes off the dossier, for having the dossier taken up and picked out of the library by Anastasius in an attempt to stick to the end, and Vilfried was told, "What was it that you said you would not be as involved as possible with Rosemaine, her side, and the royal family?" I was frightened.

... Brother Wilfried, I don't think it's my fault there.

A few days after entering the library library, Ordnants arrived from Rufen. "I'll take it if it's a collaborative study," he returns to Ordonanz, who repeated three times, "Do you want to play ditter in the cavalry building?" Immediately Hannelore said, "I'm sorry. It's a mistake to say the collaborative study," so I happily agreed with Hannelore.

"Rosemaine might do something again in a collaborative study. I'll accompany you to the cavalry."

"Your brother doesn't just care about Ditter?

To Charlotte's point, Wilfried was stuck in words. Ditter fever is rising among the boys who read Rhoderich's Ditter story. I know you care about the rituals before and after, but I guess the best is still Ditter.

Charlotte exhaled lightly when she saw a vilfried stuck in words.

"... I will accompany your brother because he is about to feel at ease, and I am interested in research that will increase your protection from the gods. May I, Sister?

Charlotte said so and looked at me. There is no way I can do this, such as dismiss Charlotte's request for a hard-working man who wants to gather some information by the ritual of obtaining protection next year. It is my sister's duty to fulfill my lovely sister's request.

"Of course you're welcome, Charlotte. Because of this, Brother Wilfried and Charlotte will accompany you. Let me help you with your two civilian apprenticeships, too."

I gather the civilian apprentices of Vilfleet and Charlotte into a multi-purpose hall, hand out the paper and start teaching them how to take surveys.

Exactly because there is no printing press in the dorm, it is difficult to prepare the same questionnaire form. For this reason, I prepared a question sheet at the top to take the form of a street corner questionnaire where the civilians would ask questions and write down answers. This way, the question form is a copy written by the civilian apprentices, and the format is easy to aggregate as long as the answer is written thoroughly.

"Dear Wilfried..."

"Give it up, Ignaerts. If Rosemaine devised a new way to do it, I can only remember. I'm going to use it again and again, even if I don't want to."

We taught the civilian apprentices how to take the survey, and only prepared the interview perfectly, and we headed to the cavalry. He says Rufen is gathering the knight apprentices, so he's supposed to head to the larger lecture room. The cavalry building, where large and small training grounds are consolidated, is so large that it is imperative to travel by horseman.

A group of Aerenfest leads Leonore to the Knight Building. All cavalier apprenticeships over the third grade are a bunch for Ditter, and the three Lordship candidates are on their way, so when the proximity accompanies them, they become a pretty large number.

"Is this the Knight Building?"

"That's your first time."

As Charlotte and I looked around where we got off, Richarda laughed at the couscous, "Haven't the princesses ever visited us in a territorial rivalry, too?" That's true, but it's the first time you've ever been in a part of the room where you just head directly to the training ground to give a lecture.

Since it is a specialized building where knight apprentices spend time in and out of training, they were prepared to smell like sweat smelling like men in women's dressing rooms and club buildings where deodorant spray immediately after physical education flies away and makes them feel sick, just like in Reino era, but there is no such smell.

"I thought you smelled more sweaty."

"I basically do Vashen, so it doesn't smell as unique as a civilian building"

When Matthias said that, Theodore laughed small, apparently remembering the smell of herbs in the civilian wing.

... Vashen is great.

Moving on with that in mind, Lestillaut and Hannelore, lord candidates for Rufen and Dunkelferger, welcomed me.

When we exchange greetings, Rufen says, "Okay, Ditter quickly…" and he is lowered from Hannelore to "Dr. Rufen".

"I would like to explain and demonstrate the rituals to be performed before and after…"

Even if I fix it, I feel like it only says "Ditter" on its face. I can't help but want to play ditter. I can't let Rufen flush me.

...... Research priority over Ditter.

Me and Hannelore gazed and nodded small at each other.

"I want to talk to the knight apprentices before Ditter. Did you collect the knight apprentices from the other realms?

"As Lady Rosemaine said, we need to listen to you first. I've already promised Aerenfest, so I can ditter."

"Right. Finish listening first and don't worry about doing the ditter"

Rufen walks fast about how much Ditter wants to and is exasperated.

In a large lecture room where many knight apprenticeships were gathered, I let the ten civilian apprentices of Aerenfest sit side-by-side at the desk at the back of the line, preparing questions and answers paper, then ink.

"We appreciate your cooperation. I'm going to ask each and every one of you to answer the questions of the civilian apprentices at Aerenfest. The aggregate results will be presented in a research presentation of the territorial rivalry, so you can leave the room today from those who have finished asking questions."

The House of Lords is very easy to do because it is ordered in terms of territorial ranking for everything. You can ask them to answer the questions in order from the upper realm to the civilian apprentices slotted in the back.

"If you're in Classenburg, please line up here. And if you're done answering, please leave the room here"

Even in the dorm it is finely divided from the senior intermediate lower ranks, then the school year, so when I speak, nature and order are determined and lined up softly.

Ten people start asking questions at a time and write down more and more answers. I had him practice a few times so there wasn't so much confusion and the interview is progressing.

"It's over. Next, please come here"

Seeing Philine raise her hand, I direct the knightly apprenticeship that was lined up there in turn. When there is some reduction in the number of Knight apprenticeships in Classenburg, have them line up in solidarity with the next territory.

My most important task in this interview is induction, but it seems to be going quite smoothly. Satisfied with his work, Brunhilde brought in a few sidekicks.

"Dear Rosemaine, I learned how to do it. Instead, Dr. Rufen wants to talk to you about Ditter after this."

... I'd rather organize traffic than talk about Ditter.

I, the head of this joint study, cannot escape from the story. Together with Richarda, I headed to a corner where the Lordship candidate was solidifying.

"That's a rare way to ask a question."

"It's convenient to ask the same question while talking one-on-one. You seem to have collected more than third-year knight apprenticeships here, but since when can you teach me about prayer? Even the freshman year at Aerenfest seems to already know..."

That's what I said as I looked at Theodore. This year we are going to do a joint study, so Joyful and courageous Rufen taught us, I am listening from Theodore.

"Even freshmen go into and out of the cavalry building from the beginning to use the training ground. So I think even freshmen know songs and dancing. I just didn't take it too seriously because I'm not familiar with it, except for the Knight Apprentice in Dunkelferger. This year, we may get protection from the gods, so more people are taking it seriously even as knight apprentices in other realms."

They didn't take Aerenfest's knight apprenticeship very seriously either. When I spoke to the knight apprentices in the dorm, I said, "Because I didn't know what I could let them do it for. I would have taken it more seriously if I had recognized that this was what I needed to get your protection from the gods," Leonore said.

I guess the knight apprentices in other territories felt the same way.

"So, Dear Rosemaine, what are the rules for Ditter today?

I leaned my neck with Coteri in the words of Rufen, who sparkled my eyes with excitement.

"The rules belong to the usual training."

"Normal training is a ditter competing for speed..."

"Yep. So if we compete with that, we won't need to set rules, right?

Roufen opened his eyes to my words and solidified for about three seconds.

"Why!? I can't believe I don't play Treasure Stealing Ditter while writing all those great stories about passion for Treasure Stealing Ditter......!

"I didn't write the Ditter story, and isn't the Treasure Stealing Ditter time consuming? I just want to watch the ritual for research. I think we deserve a ditter competing for speed this time."

Such, and around the shocked Rufen, the knight apprentices of Dunkelferger open their mouths and eyes and gaze at me. Apparently, Dunkelferger was planning to play a treasure theft ditter entirely.

"But Dear Rosemaine..."

"It's not like you can't perform a ritual unless you're a treasure stealing ditter, is it? Or can't Dunkelferger be serious with a ditter competing for speed?

Ditter was not even specified to that type, even if it was mandatory for research purposes. Hannelore nodded with a smile at my words.

"As Lady Rosemaine said, ditters are ditters, whether they compete for speed or treasure theft. The ritual can take place, and there's nothing about Dunkelferger not taking Ditter seriously. I think it's a good idea to have a ditter competing for speed because it's for your protection."

"Dear Hannelore, that is so..."

It is the word of an unsurpassed Dunkelferger lord candidate. It's hard for Rufen and the knight apprentices to overturn this. Hannelore's smile set him on Ditter competing for speed.

"But I'm glad you enjoyed the Ditter story so much that Dr. Rufen thought so"

"Because it's a pandemic in Dunkelferger's dorm right now. Didn't that operation have Master Ferdinand's advice?

I remember being set up, and I exhaled gently into Rufen, who began to talk about the time.

"... I lent the author the Ditter's manoeuvres I received from Lord Ferdinand. Mr. Ferdinand didn't think about it, he didn't work with us."

"I look forward to continuing that. So, when does it go on?

Rufen seems to have had a solid "illness I can't wait to read more about". as calculated.

"Continue...... right. Master Restylaut will paint the illustration, so it will follow. I'm going to re-spell it with a roll of illustrations."

I'm just spelling it with yarn, so it takes a lot of work but it's not that hard to plug in a picture. I think that two volumes will be given as a sample to have the illustration drawn and the illustration inserted later.

I was going to call the painter to Aerenfest after graduation, so I don't know what to do with buying illustrations from other territories, and I can't make up my mind.

... It's unexpected to use a graduating Lordship candidate as a painter!

"I painted the illustration. I haven't brought it with me today, but I'll show it again.... right, even when they show you their rituals"

"Looking forward to it"

...... I would have to decide on the buyout price, how to deliver it, etc. before they could show me the illustration.

While I was listening to Ditter Story's thoughts from Dunkelferger's sidekicks with that in mind, the survey seemed to be over.

"We'll tally our findings when we get back to the dorm. We'll let Dunkelferger know how it turns out before the territorial rivalry."

"Dear Rosemaine, let me at least help you a little. It's all in the name of collaborative research, and I didn't do anything."

Clarissa's words also gave a big nod to Dunkelferger's civilian apprentices, who were supposed to do collaborative research. I was going to ask you to do a comparison of my ritual with Dunkelferger's ritual, etc., but certainly, nothing has been done by Dunkelferger's side in today's interview. It would be better to assign some work than I said collaborative research.

"… So let's do the tally in the Tea Party Room at Aerenfest. I want to rush to a result, so I'll start tallying tomorrow morning at the time the lecture begins. Please come if you have finished your lecture and are free."

"Yes, I did. Absolutely, no matter what."

Clarissa grinned her fist and laughed happily, "Are you sure, Master Rosemaine? Should I accompany you?" Hannelore asks looking anxiously at Clarissa.

... that you're so anxious?

Anxiously, I decided to ask Hannelore to come as a guide from Dunkelferger as well. When I was asking Hannelore, Lestillau looked up in a quench.

"Well, I'm also in charge..."

"Your brother has a lecture, doesn't he? I will report to your mother that you neglected to lecture because you were obsessed with painting the Ditter story."

...... Dear Hannelore, reliable!

Where I made my breasts cum, Charlotte laughed small.

"Master Restilauto and Mr. Hannelore are like Richarda, who stops looking for Jianmae to read a book."

"Sure. But as far as I'm concerned, I don't want Richarda scolding me, but I don't mind if she scolds me as cute as Lady Hannelore."

"Wilfried boy, what does that mean?

Ho ho, I nodded once as I saw Virfried pulling his face at Richarda, who laughed.

... I just know how Brother Wilfried feels.

Then, after completing the interview, he is a ditter who travels to the training ground to compete for speed. My purpose is the ritual of devoting my magic to old battle songs and battle gods that I do before Ditter's game. I haven't seen many other rituals, so I'm very excited.

Aerenfest and Dunkelferger all head to the training ground. Because it's a joint study, no one else in the realm is allowed to watch it.

From where we can see, we look down like territorial rivalries. Unlike territorial rivalries, it stands by because there are no chairs, but the training grounds are in the same shape.

Somehow divided between Aerenfest and Dunkelferger on the left and right, but whether it's a land pattern prone to fanaticism about ditters or just the large number of cavalier apprentices, Dunkelferger has a huge number of people.

"Rosemaine, can I call you back in junior year when you wanted to see Ditter? We're losing out on backup."

To the words of Wilfried I nodded when I saw Dunkelferger, who had many more than knight apprenticeships.

"Because of this, let's all support you"

Charlotte soon flew the Ordnants, and Aerenfest was set to gather almost everyone at the training ground, but still no match for the number or enthusiasm of Dunkelferger.

"Okay, let's get started. To show Aerenfest the song, the knight apprenticeship going to the game is down there!

When Rufen's voice sounds, the knight apprentices of Dunkelferger send out the horseman and descend to the arena below. The students said, "Wow!" He raised his voice. Ditters competing for speed can be so enthusiastic that they didn't have to be treasure stealing ditters at all.

"What do we do, Hannelore?

"I'll leave you to your brother"

A nodded restylaut gathered a simple armor with a demonic stone and went down to the arena with a horseman, erasing the horseman.

Standing down in the center where the knight apprentices of Dunkelferger draw the wheel, Lestiraut put out a stamp and said, "Give us strength to come to battle!" He raised his voice.

"Randze!"

Take that as a signal, all knight apprentices turn Starp into a spear.

"I am the one who created and paid the world and prayed and thanked the gods."

Once the spear strikes Don and the earth with the words of prayer he is accustomed to hearing.

"Gain strength to hold victory in our hands. The unbeatable power of Angleaf. Gain speed to hold victory in our hands. Faster than anyone, Steiferises."

Sing a song similar to the ritual of Haldenzel, with verses attached to the prayer words of the Bible, and pray to the gods involved in the battle.

While singing, the surrounding knight apprentices began to move their spears in motions similar to sword dancing. I thought I'd spin the guru and hit the pattern to the ground. If I held the spear back, the armored part made of demonic stone and the metallic sound of the bump sounded like a clap.

Restylaut, who stands in the center, swings his spear in the same way, and dances in the same way as the knight apprentices. You can dance with this much stability with a long spear. I am a good dancer.

"Can Master Hannelore dance with a spear like this too?

Asking looking at Restilauto, Hannelore laughed a little embarrassed.

"Of course I'm allowed to arch, but I'm not very good at it. It's not like I can show you."

... Of course, what. It's amazing how quiet Master Hannelore can do this, too, Dunkelferger.

A spear made of starp said, "Fight! When it was raised high with the voice of Lestiraut, the surrounding knight apprentices said," Oh!, "he lifted high at the same time as he raised his ambitious voice and poked at heaven.

The Dunkelferger students who were in the audience also cheered, and the mood exalts this one watching. It seemed to me that the feelings of the knight apprentices who were on the spot and were dancing together would be one for the battle.

"... that's amazing. It's completely different than when I was taught in training."

Eudit shrugged so, and the surrounding knight apprentices nodded cocklessly.

"Are you going to fight them?"

The voice of Matthias, who shrugged so, looked completely swallowed by their atmosphere. As it is, my feelings have been lost before I fought. Not like this.

"Laurenz, Dr. Rufen taught me, so can the Knight Apprentices of Aerenfest sing and dance too?

"Yes, I can do it once. Um, Master Rosemaine. No way......"

In reply to Laurenz I smiled nicely.

"Yeah, let's do this against each other."

"But even if Aerenfest goes after that, what excites everyone so much..."

"It's my specialty if you just pray."

Ugh, laughing, Leonore laughed nicely, knowing what it meant.

"Now, please sing to Master Rosemayne in the center to cite Aerenfest's morale"