Ascendance of a Bookworm

The consultation from Eglantine was not a story that could be done in the library, so I was invited to a tea party in the outhouse. Apparently it's quite an emergency, and tomorrow morning is good if possible. I have no plans other than an underground library, and I don't mind any time, because it's an invitation from Eglantine.

"What the hell are you talking to Rosemaine about?

"It is...... We will speak to Anastasius when we have finished our conversation with Rosemaine."

"Eglantine, what do you mean? Then it sounds like you're refusing to take my place."

Although Anastasius inquired in an angry, caged, low voice, Eglantine stared at Anastasius as if she was completely unwilling to turn her opinion around.

"I want to talk to Master Rosemaine. Tomorrow's Tea Party, please don't let Master Anastasius"

"Reject. Wouldn't it be outrageous most of the time if Rosemaine was involved? It is imperative that you keep track of the situation. Hence, do not give in."

Eglantine and Anastasius have been attacking since earlier. I don't care if Anastasius is present. It's just a hassle to be stared at by Anastasius, so that's fine if you two decide to convince me.

... I'm more concerned that Master Eglantine doesn't look well.

Because my dear wife has a blue face, Prince Anastasius seems to be more worried about her health than this kind of statement, but she can't give way to being present at a tea party. It must be prolonged when I speak poorly, so I decide to face the literature in the library until it is settled.

... Prince Anastasius is jealous on a troublesome level.

"Dear Rosemaine, what will happen to your plans for tomorrow? The royal invitation is not scheduled during the Lords' Meeting, so we need to report to Aub and prepare for it."

"I can't go out with crazy talk fights," I just cut out, but O'Tillier, unfamiliar with the royal response, didn't seem to be able to switch so easily, and I asked worryingly.

If we are to visit the royal family, we need to prepare for a variety of things, including costumes and handicrafts. I don't know what tomorrow's plans are going to be due to the outcome of the two attacks, but I can't do the side job. Especially since this Lords' Council told me I had to stay out of sight, I didn't plan on accepting the royal invitation. Otilier's head would be in havoc.

"What will happen? I don't know all this unless you two agree."

As I looked at the two of them and laid my hands on their cheeks, troubled, Magdalena, who was drinking tea, stood up with her cup down. And then he advances in front of the two of them and sighs in a big sigh.

"Prince Anastasius, Dear Eglantine. You're both a little ugly."

"Dear Magdalena..."

I had sincere respect for Magdalena, who could say all about Bassari to Anastasius and Eglantine. It is something that neither I nor Hannelore will ever be able to do while taking a little distance from the two of us to see how things are going.

"Don't you know why Prince Anastasius thought that Gedurleich would save his surroundings and take a distance from Aveliebe? Isn't it better to go back to your students and study mythology again?

Anastasius was freaked out by the reprimand of Magdalena, a frightened voice. I'm sure the god of life rejected by the goddess of earth must have had this look on his face.

"There are some things that women want to talk to each other about. There is usually just a reason why the tolerant Lady Eglantine, who accepts the opinion of Prince Anastasius, is rejected. Don't you think it's necessary as a husband to understand and give you that kind of mood?

If you tie him up too much like Avery Be, threatening to shut Anastasius up, Magdalena pointed her red eyes at Eglantine.

"If Lady Eglantine also wants to line up Prince Anastasius to talk, isn't that something you know will run wild? You should finish your discussion before speaking to Rosemayne. Otherwise, Prince Anastasius' grievances will be directed at Lady Rosemaine."

Eglantine with a hazy expression makes a troubled face to compare Anastasius to me. Magdalena continued with her eyes slightly softened staring at Master Eglantine.

"It is not just those who receive the invitation that the meeting with the royalty suddenly enters the next day's schedule, it is something that is burdensome for those around it. I know it's because you're not feeling well, but you're not paying enough attention."

"... Me, you seem too disturbed. I'm sorry I didn't think of that."

Eglantine apologizes to Magdalena and me.

"As far as I'm concerned, I'd like to speak to Master Rosemayne urgently, but it seems I have to speak to Master Anastasius first. Dear Rosemayne, I apologize, but please do not discuss this with us later."

It is also hard for Eglantine not to be able to have a tea party without doing something about her husband's emotions first. I tell Eglantine, "Never mind," and go into the library thanking Magdalena for putting this place away. The tea party's appointment was postponed, and Otilier's appeasement was shown at the edge of his sight.

I'll do a modern translation until my adoptive father picks me up, and we'll go back to the dorm together. When I told him that I was going to receive an invitation from Eglantine on that road, my adoptive father made me attract a grand face.

"Why are minors more invited to royal detachment? Shouldn't we be talking in the library?

"Master Eglantine told me I wanted to talk to you.... I haven't asked you anything yet, so I guess I just imagine you have some divinely related questions. I've been asked questions about the temple before."

He looked down at me with such a look that my adoptive father was so unconvinced by my words.

"Talk to them... Well, it would be easier to ask about divinity than not having a good relationship between the central temple and the royal family... but only anxiously"

"You said Prince Anastasius wanted to be present for the same reasons as his adoptive father. Master Eglantine refused, so I haven't set a date yet. I'll let you know when I have the details."

"Uhm."

In the end, it seemed that Anastasius, noted by Magdalena, had broken "than Eglantine hates…", and Eglantine's consultation came two days later. Until then, I translated into modern language, had lunch, and went back to my adoptive father to take me back to my dorm. Now that the day has passed, I am in no condition to be able to go out looking for a temple.

... It's important to make time to act, but you also need to look down.

If we want to go around the shrine quickly, we'll have trouble if we don't know where it is.

"Angelica, Darmuel. How are you two spending your day?

When I asked the two of them who were watching outside the library after dinner, Angelica replied, "I am watching the corridor leading to the library".

"Maybe Master Dietrinde will be here again, so be careful, Cornelius and Leonore have told me"

"Really...... So, can either one of you look for a temple based on this map? I don't think it's that hard because it's roughly equally spaced, mainly in the central building. You can take turns."

As I showed them the map, they explained that there should be a shrine similar to the one that was south of the library, and they took it on with pleasure. They seem tired of being in similar places all the time, alternating between watching and finding temples in the morning and afternoon.

"What will Master Rosemayne do when he finds the temple?

Clarissa, who is supposed to be acting with the civilians preparing for the next day, inadvertently entered the conversation. I laugh nicely, and say, Clean.

"You can't just leave a place where God is, can you? I cleaned the shrine the other day, but Clarissa's research on the magic of wide-area magic was very helpful."

"I'm glad to be of service to Master Rosemaine... but how did you use that magic formation?

Tell the strange Clarissa the story of Darmuel washing the temple round. I wanted to be there, and I decided to keep my mouth shut to Clarissa, who was sad.

"Lady Hannelore was with us, so I think the current story is something that is grasped even in Dunkelferger, but it's happening in the context of royal help, so please don't say anything else. Hartmoot, who is sneaking up on his ears, has nothing to say."

"Yes, sir."

While we were talking like that, Otilier and Rieserata seemed busy getting ready to meet the royal family. Interaction with the upper territories and royalty relied on a lot of Brunhilde. Prepare costumes, handicrafts, etc. by requesting support from Richarda, who is also coming to the dorm as a side service for his adoptive father.

"When you go to the House of Lords with Lord Rosemayne, this is what happens every day. So the Greater Tier, who just walked into the sidelines, is working out better than expected."

Even though he heard the story, Otilier was bitterly smiling when he said that he had never actually dealt with royalty in the House of Lords.

"Thank you for coming. I know, Master Rosemaine."

At the end of the greeting, Eglantine tastes and recommends tea and sweets one bite at a time. It really feels strange that there is no Anastasius and it's just Eglantine and the two of us.

"You look a little better, Master Eglantine. When he came back from the temple, he was blue, so I was worried."

"You've been worried. I just used too much magic, so it's okay now."

"Did Master Eglantine also vachen the temple?

Without coming up with any other use for massive magic at the temple. When I ask him that, Eglantine circles her bright orange eyes and laughs couscous.

"Lady Rosemaine was cleaning the temple, so there was no need to clean it."

Since they are husband and wife, Eglantine's outhouse is the same as Anastasius. I hear Anastasius is going to the basement library by himself today. With Eglantine paying, we were alone. Still, Eglantine offers you an anti-bugging magic device just in case.

"I was surprised because I didn't think Master Eglantine was going to row Prince Anastasius hard"

When I said that over a cup of tea, Eglantine smiled, "I think we can talk to Master Anastasius if we talk to Master Rosemaine..."

"What can I do for you? I wish I could help..."

"On the day I offered to talk to you, you headed to confirm the temple, right?

Eglantine began to speak, staring at me. He went to the shrine with the guidance of Hildebrandt, and as soon as he touched the door, he felt like he'd been taken away from him and drawn in, and when he realized he was in the shrine.

... you're almost with me.

I didn't feel like I'd been deprived of magic, but according to Eglantine, I felt like I'd been pulled out of a stamp, though not so much.

... Maybe you didn't notice how little it was pulled out?

Always wearing a demon stone amulet all over my body, I am always in a state of being sucked by some demon stone. For this reason, I don't feel uncomfortable with the usual things even if they pull me out a little bit. I can say that I am slightly blunt about my magic spill.

"The temple was a sacred place for the god of fire and his family. Looking up at the statue of Ryden Shaft, I felt I had to pray unexpectedly… I danced the service dance"

… I prayed that I might grow into a crowd.

There just seems to be a slight personal difference in the behavior that precedes God. In my case, the service dance did not come to mind. I guess the act of praying to God is a service dance for Eglantine.

"It was like when I was dancing with a demon stone on the stage in the auditorium, and the magic was drawn out on my own, but I was dancing it without wonder. That's how when I was serving my magic, gradually a blue demon stone began to form in the hands of Ryden Shaft."

... hmm? My time has been blue stone slabs in the hands of Ryden Shaft since I came in, hasn't it?

Lydenshaft, which I saw, had a blue tablet in his hand from the beginning. I should have thought it was a blue tablet rather than a blue demon stone because I could see it glowing and lettering engraved.

... Could it be the difference in magic you've been serving, is it?

I'm probably sure because the feeling when I got the blue tablet was that the magic of prayer I had ever offered and the "will of God" were mixed together.

"I almost lost my magic at the service dance, so I used a healing pill that I've been lowering to my hips from time to time. It doesn't have the effect of the restorative medicine Rosemaine handed out, but it's a very healing medicine."

Apparently Eglantine used the healing pills used in the royal family to restore her magic. Then she felt like she had to pray again.

"Huh? Did you pray again when you recovered?

"Yep. I felt like I had to."

In the end, Eglantine apparently gave her magic service until she ran out of all the restorative drugs she had on her hips.

"By the time it was over, the blue demon stone was much bigger. But there was still not enough prayer."

...... how much magic are you willing to squeeze out, Master Ryden Shaft!?

And it seems that Eglantine, when her magic ran out, was outside as if she had been expelled from the temple.

"I spent a lot of time in the temple, but when I went outside, the time hasn't changed at all, and the others didn't seem to be able to enter the temple."

"The lock is really closed," Anastasius said as he pushed the door, deciding he couldn't get inside, he said. They didn't make any difference to Magdalena or Hildebrandt either.

"Hey, Master Rosemaine. Isn't that temple where the next Zent candidate will pray? Some of the tablets in the basement library would have been engraved with the phrase" turning again and again to pray, "right? What the hell happens when there's enough prayer and that blue demon stone is done?

In the words of Eglantine, I said, "What will happen?" and lean his neck. If the next Zent candidate has come out of the royal family, it is better not to speak of me. "I've already got the blue tablet," he should be selling fights to royalty over self-proclaimed next Zent candidate Dietrinde.

"... but Master Rosemayne would have been inside, too, wouldn't he?

"What makes you think that?

"I pray in the temple, and I think if Lord Rosemayne had increased his protection, he would have entered that temple. And there was no surprise in my story."

I was definitely not surprised because I was thinking about the difference between Eglantine and myself. Failure. I should have been more shocked.

"Oh, I'm so surprised. So much so that I don't have a voice.... What surprised me the most was the part where I danced with a demonic stone on the auditorium stage. Did the royalty challenge you to glow the magic formation?

I'm off topic. Eglantine smiled and answered me.

"Yep. Lady Rosemayne and Mr. Ferdinand will tell you that this is a magic team to elect your next Zent candidate. After the graduation ceremony, we did the ritual of reacquisition of protection, and the royal family challenged us to see if we could glow the magic formation."

Dietrinde was able to make it glow, so the royal family also danced wearing demonic stones and releasing magic. Then they said the four men - Traokvar, Gigisvalt, Anastasius and Eglantine - could shine their magic formations of election.

"I am the only one who entered that temple, even though Zent, Prince Gigisvalt and Lady Anastasius, who became all attributes by performing the rite of protection, were also able to glow the magic formation. What difference does it make between you and me, Anastasius?

"It's Sturp."

"Huh?"

Blinking his eyes, he asked Eglantine, "Hasn't it been reported by Master Magdalena?" and I leaned my neck.

"At the end of yesterday, it was on a tablet that I was translating into modern language. How to use a small shrine..."

The little shrine is the object where the family god is worshipped, and when he prays, he can do the demonic stones just like the story of Eglantine earlier. They say getting it enhances their attributes. It seems that obtaining the demonic stone of all the kinsmen God will enable them to obtain the protection of the Great God, and there was a royal word of desperate prayer as a student.

"You can only get a stamp once in your life, right? So he seemed desperate to get the protection of the Great God by the time he got his pre-graduation stamp. They say candidate Zent Starp has to get it in the beginning garden. Did Master Eglantine get it there?

"... I've never known the name garden of beginnings, but I got it in a place not surprising to be called that way"

After saying so with a dazed face, Eglantine dropped her shoulder as dismayed.

"Doesn't that mean, then, that Prince Gigisvalt, who did not have enough attributes when he got the Starp, cannot enter the temple of God of Fire and become the next Zent candidate..."

"Prince Gigisvalt may not be able to do this, but Prince Hildebrandt could be. I think if we could return the time of the Starp acquisition before graduation, pray in the small temple and add more attributes, and get your protection from all the great gods in the rite of protection, we could be the next Zent candidate."

I think Hildebrandt can handle it because he has the guts to work hard on magic compression that year. If you don't like Eglantine standing on the table, you can ask Hildebrandt to do his best. I figured out how to get the protection of the Great God, so I can figure it out. The question is whether Hildebrandt will have the current Zent until the time he grows up.

"... Dear Rosemayne, the next Zent has been announced as Prince Gigisvalt. If I or Prince Hildebrandt become the next Zent candidate, Jürgenschmidt will be rough again."

Gigisvalt was able to shine his magic formation, and he was given an unprecedented blessing in a star knot ritual. It seems that the center is coming together to serve Gigisvalt as the next king. They say there's no way Eglantine or Hildebrandt can cause discord there.

"I know very well how Master Eglantine feels about wanting to avoid being a source of disturbance, but the lack of gluthris heights is in itself a cause of Jürgenschmidt's roughness, isn't it? The opening and closing of border gates, territorial boundaries and other major problems will be solved with Gluthris Heights. Aren't we going to need Gluthris Heights as soon as possible?

"That's true..."

Still, there seems to be resistance to Eglantine getting her own Gluthris Height. I think some trauma has killed my own parents and brothers.

... Hmm, should we get the Gluthris Height as soon as possible so that we can give way to Prince Gigisvalt in exchange for returning Master Ferdinand to Aerenfest?

I thought so when I saw Eglantine in her contemplation without being able to consult Anastasius, who could not enter the temple.

But I don't talk about it.

Maybe I'm closest to Gluthris Height. At the time of entering the temple, the blue tablet had been completed, so other temples would be able to obtain the tablet without so much difficulty.

... but before, Master Ferdinand said there was a gluthris height in the "only open library that royalty could enter," right?

No matter how many tablets you collect, you may not be able to meet the requirements. It is better not to let the odd expectation that Gigisvalt might give way to Gluthris Heights.

"If you look at the tablet, you may have the information Prince Gigisvalt needs to get the Gluthris Height."

When I stated the beauty in my ear and smiled like an aristocrat, Eglantine looked down softly after seeing me as she had said something.

"Thank you for your help. I know, Master Rosemaine."

Leaving the outhouse of Eglantine, I return to the dormitory. We received reports from Angelica and Darmuel that they had finished checking the location of the shrine.