Ascendance of a Bookworm

I went back to the basement library. Apparently Anastasius and Eglantine will be back for lunch and an afternoon meeting once they send me to the underground library.

"We must report that the tour of the temple is over and discuss it with your fathers."

"... I mean, is this about possibly Prince Anastasius' arbitrariness?

"I'm not entirely arbitrary, but I have a sense of being a little ahead of me"

... a little? Really a little soggy level?

I leaned my neck because I didn't think so little. Although Anastasius' face looks faceless, it also looks like there's a rush in its grey eyes. Even a faceless expression to hide similar emotions is easy to understand compared to Ferdinand.

... Did something happen to the royalty?

Return to the library and head down the stairs to the underground library. Beyond the transparent wall, Hildebrandt wrote the letters, Magdalena was translating them into modern language, and Schwartz was seen standing. Is it during the break that Hannelore cannot be seen?

At the bottom of the stairs, looking into the break space in front of the library, I saw Hannelore drinking tea. The neighbors seemed to be preparing for lunch, but they noticed us and stopped.

"I'm back now. When I speak to Master Magdalena, I return to the outhouse. I could have told my father and brother right away. Keep me posted."

"Yes, sir."

Before he finishes down the stairs, Anastasius hastily begins a conversation with his neighbors. The proximity of Anastasius and Eglantine moves around to fly the Ordnants or prepare to withdraw, and the proximity of Magdalena sends signals toward the library to call the Lord.

"Welcome back, Master Rosemaine. Has all the temple cleansing ended?

I leave the cup and go to Hannelore, who smiled, and I turn. Nicole laughed and greeted him as he was soothed by a smile of almost atmosphere.

"I'm back now, Master Hannelore. It's all over."

"Himesama, out of the way"

As me and Hannelore were talking, Weiss approached me with a chicken. Until now, I've stood still in front of a transparent wall while the library was open, but I can't hide my surprise at the sudden move. Hannelore also seemed surprised, watching Weiss with red eyes smeared.

"I was wondering what happened because Weiss suddenly moved, but to welcome you all?

Not responding to Hannelore's words, Weiss walked straight to me and took my right hand.

"Himesa, that's what I'm talking about"

"Huh? Um, Weiss?

I asked him where he was going. There is only one place where I will be guided after all my prayers at the temple. I have to contend to get the book of Mestionora, it's decided on the next place.

And it came to pass, when I breathed with Cochri, that Hildebrandt came out of the library, that he might be cast out by Schwartz.

"Schwartz suddenly told me to go outside, but what the hell... Rosemaine?"

Everyone looks at Schwartz and Weiss, who behave differently than before, and Me, who is drawn to the library by Weiss.

... Is it okay to keep going?

As I looked back, Anastasius made his face tense as he was nervous and nodded once. Make sure Anastasius' permission is out, and I will go into the library with Weiss. At the same time as I went inside, Schwartz took my left hand.

"Himesama, Shigeru"

You don't have to ask what. What lies ahead is the Gluthris Height.

And Schwartz and the others led me into the wall of the library, and let the hand that was drawn touch the wall. My magic flows down the white wall. A magic formation emerged, like when the basement library key was unlocked, poking holes in the wall.

... There's a way out.

When I looked back, concerned about the reaction of everyone across the wall, the wall, which was transparent, had somehow turned white. I can't see the princes or the neighbors who are supposed to be over there.

"Himesama, over here"

Hands pulled by Schwartz and Weiss, I thrill myself into a hole made of walls. It's a white passage. If you think there is a book of goddesses behind this, your feet tremble with tension, your heart rattles, and even if you don't like it, your excitement grows.

... I wonder what it is, the Book of Goddesses.

After a short walk, he discovered a door where a complex magic formation was floating. Tensions grow over how they can be seen to be tightly controlled.

"Himesama, here"

Reach out to the Schwartz and the others and I will touch the magic formation. At that moment, it sounded patchy and bounced along with a static feeling. It's like when a subscriber or an unauthorized person touches Schwartz and the others.

"Hih!?

Schwartz and Weiss looked up at me as I pulled my hand in haste at the unexpected feeling.

"Himesama, thank you very much"

"I can't do this."

I do not want to understand the words of Pishari and the Schwartz and the others who cast me aside, and I inquire, half-hearted.

"... and what is it?

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa."

I'm so bloody distracted by the concise reply.

Only those of the king's blood muscles can enter the library where Gluthrithheit is kept. Ferdinand should have said that. I've heard before that you can't be king because you can't let me in from civilian origin.

But I was optimistic that I would still be able to get in after this because I was able to get into the temple and get the stone slabs for each attribute. I didn't think they'd play it. It would have been natural for there to be sorting magic at the door into a place where important things like Gluthrithheit are stored.

... What shall we do?

There is no way that I, who am not royal, can get Gluthris Height within a year to help Ferdinand. It darkens in front of me that the surest way has disappeared.

... three years from now you can register royalty...?

Lordship candidates are not allowed to move to the center outside of marriage so that the center does not unilaterally take good Lordship candidates. It is not until I have grown up that I can be the Third Lady of Gigisvalt. It'll take three more years, even the earliest. Ferdinand's star knot ritual is a year from now, so he won't make it at all in three years.

"Open it..."

When I knocked on the door, I was bounced back. The power to refuse is stronger than just now, and your fingertips are paralyzed with gin. I look alternately at my fingertips and the magic formations in front of me, knocking on the door again.

"Open."

The hand bounced hurt more.

Various emotions mix in themselves, such as the remorse that is right there but cannot be put in and the despair that no longer helps Ferdinand and his anger at the magic formations that play him.

Holding my paralyzing hand, I made my fist, leaving it to my emotions to knock on the door full of strength.

"Let me in!

I want to break the magic formation. My magic and the magic that guards the door collide, scattering bees and sparks. I could play one wrist amulet. I can play the other one right away. I hurriedly withdrew my hand when I saw the amulet that had been given me to protect myself broken to keep standing in a counterattack from the magic formation that guarded the door.

"Himesama, Kin"

"Himesama, yes."

The demonic stone on the foreheads of Schwartz and the others, who judged me a dangerous man for attacking the magic formations, brings light.

I can't do any more stupid things and reduce the amulet Ferdinand gets me. I shrugged, "I'm going back now," and when I drop my shoulders and start turning back the way I came, the Schwartz and the others walk behind me to guard against my movements.

I went back to the library and still remained white and couldn't see the other side. Stand down in front of the entrance, which is becoming a white wall, and I see my hand with the heat of ginseng. The part where I slapped the magic formation with my fist was red and black swollen like I had burns. Even Ferdinand's amulet didn't seem to be able to protect it.

"Ouch..."

As I look down upon my wounds, Schwartz and Weiss close the aisle and walk in with a chick and stand before the wall. The moment Weiss walked through, the walls became transparent and I could see the faces of everyone who seemed to be waiting in solitary spit over there.

"Rosemaine!"

Anastasius controls Hildebrandt from rushing over, "Don't let anyone else in," and comes into the library alone.

"Rosemaine, who..."

"I couldn't. Without the royal registration, the back door won't open."

"... right"

Anastasius, who groaned unfortunately, looked at my hand and changed his complexion.

"What, these hands..."

"... Played by the Magic Formation"

"I didn't expect this to happen...... Get out of the library right away and heal."

I shook my neck to the side, grasping the hand of Anastasius, who tried to get me out of the library.

"What more will happen to Master Ferdinand than that? You can't let me get Gluthris Height within a year. What can I do..."

"Rosemaine, calm down. The magic..."

There's no easy way to calm down when you tell me to calm down. I accidentally glanced at Anastasius.

"If we don't get the Gluthris Height within a year, Master Ferdinand will be disposed of in a cohort of Deathlinde, won't he? Can Prince Anastasius remain calm when he is told that Prince Gigisvalt or King Traokvar or Master Eglantine will be disposed of in the company of Lady Dietrinde?

Anastasius, who once chewed his back teeth with a spicy look, looks at me inexplicably.

"... they and Ferdinand are not family, they are not a couple or fiancée"

"It's just like family. For me, Master Ferdinand is above all a family to protect, so as much as it worries me, isn't it natural? If you refused once and let your royal life go to Deathlinde's son-in-law and support Arlensbach in his drugged unhealthy life, what is the ultimate execution in Deathlinde's company? Do you think you can stay mad at me for being treated like that!?

The moment I became emotional, the amulet I was wearing lit up. The amulet that is worn all over your body begins to glow full of magic.

... Not good. Intimidation of the royal family as it is...

My head was so cold that my magic was about to leak. I slowly take a deep breath and compress and put away my swollen magic. There still seems to be no doubt that Starp is growing, it is easy to do magic compression, and the light of the amulet settled without the magic leaking outside.

"Family, too, huh?... I was just going to burn to get the gluthris height as soon as possible, but I seem to have said a lot extra"

Soothes me as Anastasius shows his face of regret at the same time as his sigh.

"Previously, in practice, the union is definitive once we are married. But it won't be until Arlensbach stabilizes that some disposition comes down to Dietrinde. Specifically, it will be between the royalty's acquisition of the Gluthris Height or, alternatively, between Retizia's adulthood and performing a star tie with Hildebrandt. Ferdinand himself can stand around in self-defense in the meantime, if he wants to be more helpful."

"Huh?"

Nor was it the atmosphere of being executed immediately in a syndicate, and I leaned my neck. "Looks like I've lost a lot of room," Anastasius mutters as she mocks herself.

"I had moved in aristocratic common sense, but had lost sight of the fact that it often did not go through with those"

"Yes?"

"I said it quite provocatively to burn them, but I think Ferdinand understands the extent of what I've just said, unlike them"

... Does Lady Ferdinand understand that he will be in the company of Lady Dietrinde?

Speaking of which, I also brought the recording magic equipment when Dietrinde collapsed and was summoned by Eglantine, and I feel like I was insisting that I wasn't responsible. Still, I'm not convinced that a consortium is more than married.

"Be more concerned about yourself than about Ferdinand, who is likely to master Arlensbach in less than six months."

"Is it my concern?

Other than about Ferdinand and Aerenfest, would there have been anything I had to worry about?

"… withdraw the third wife of his brother. If you can't get the Gluthris Height unless you're royal, the danger to them will also drop a little. Above all, I can't find a reason to royally protect those who can't get Gluthris Heights"

Ha, and Anastasius looked down at me worried for a moment as he said with a tired face.

"Huh? Protect against danger, is it?

"We should be talking to Aub Aerenfest. Haven't you heard?

"I didn't ask"

"... ask Aub for more"

I didn't think you'd heard anything, Anastasius shook his head to the side. Apparently, there is not enough newspaper liaison between me and my adoptive father.

"If Gluthris Height is readily available and can be used by his or her conceded brother, I had to use whatever means to secure his or her, but if he or she is not eligible for a Zent candidate, it seems necessary to reconsider"

Anastasius escorts me out of the library and turns me over to the nearest ones.

"I'm sorry I let you hang out at the shrine today. … and here's some advice, but you should add a few more escorts."

Leaving that to say, Anastasius and Eglantine leave for lunch. At the same time as they left, I was surrounded by the proximity.

"Dear Rosemaine, what the hell happened?

"... uh... how the hell did you see it in everyone's eyes?

The moment me and Weiss entered the library, the walls seemed to turn white and I couldn't see anything. The closest of them, as well as the royals they had put in the library until then, said they couldn't get in.

"What was Master Rosemaine doing in the white wall?

I do not know what to answer and I turn my gaze to Magdalena. Magdalena smiled and shook her neck sideways just a little. It would mean you shouldn't talk cheaply. I smiled at Nicole.

"I couldn't do anything. Because I wasn't qualified enough."

"Qualified? What qualifications do you need for what?

I recall what Eglantine said in Hildebrandt's question, which looks strange, who said he wanted to avoid creating unwanted conflicts in the upper realm. I smiled and refused, "Do not ask Prince Anastasius for details".

How to answer Hildebrandt's question is a good thing to discuss between royalty. I don't want to get involved in any more royalty by saying extra things. This morning alone, I understood the meaning of my adoptive father and Ferdinand saying, "Don't get involved with royalty or the upper realm" with sour mouths. No matter how close you are, you're in a different position. Priority is different. Any irrationality has to be swallowed up because it is not reciprocal to say it by mouth with friends. If you don't want to be pushed irrationally, you just have to be as powerful as you can reject it or keep it out of sight.

"I was out in the morning, and I was hungry because of everything. I want it for lunch, Otilier."

"... Yes, Master Rosemaine. You must have been hungry because four bells rang earlier. Cornelius, Lord Rosemayne in your seats."

Brother Cornelius reaches out to me, who has peered into my face with a slight frown to care for me. I lay my hands on top and began to walk towards my seat.

"Wait, Rosemaine. I..."

"If you ask questions too deeply, you'll get Master Rosemayne in trouble, Hildebrandt"

To the words of Magdalena, everyone moves out concerned about how I am. The side servants begin to brew tea, and the escort knights stand around the Lord's seat. Hildebrandt was called by his mother to Magdalena, looking back at me many times worried.

Finishing an indescribably giddy atmospheric lunch, I encourage contemporary translations in the afternoon as well. While translating the contents of the tablet into modern language, I remembered when I was translating the history books of Fuji Dunkelferger.

... Sometimes a king has stood from Dunkelferger, why?

It was an old description, so there was no detail on how he became king. But if you can't get the Gluthrithheit unless you're royally registered, there's no way the king can stand from Dunkelferger. Is there any other way? Or did someone who wanted to prevent the king from standing from other realms create a sorting magic formation after generations to come?

... I can't believe you didn't get the surest means.

Prince Anastasius said that even though Master Ferdinand would be in a coalition, it was still a story ahead of him, and he said he was taking measures in self-defence, but he doesn't know how far it's true.

... I'd like to contact you and make sure you're safe.

Don't worry too much, he's been stabbed in the nail.

"Um, Master Rosemaine"

After Hannelore looked around like it was so hard to say, she lurked her voice and whispered, "My cuffs..." They had cuts somewhere, not just burns when they were hit back by the magic formation. There are signs of blood flying on the cuffs. Anastasius gave me healing, so the wound is completely healed, but I didn't even notice the blood stains.

"Worry, thank you, Master Hannelore. Prince Anastasius is healing you, because there are no scratches."

"Huh? Has Lady Rosemayne healed Prince Anastasius?

I nod at the words of Hannelore. I was controlling him not to go into the others, and he was talking in the library, so only Anastasius should be able to give him healing. I don't know what you're talking about. To me, Hannelore looks a little dicey.

"There is usually no such thing as being healed by royalty," he told me.

They don't do things like royalty healing for individuals who have to use magic for their country. Apparently, it's an apology to be Anastasius, a royalty who can't and shouldn't apologize easily.

... because it's hard to understand, and even if they apologize, it's not something Ferdinand can forgive to be in a coalition.

"I'm here to pick you up, Rosemaine."

Apparently in the last few days he realized it was useless to speak up. My adoptive father is starting to take up the tablet from the beginning. I clean up my writing equipment and give Magdalena today's achievements and leave the library.

"My adoptive father, am I in danger? Prince Anastasius said to ask his adoptive father for more information."

"We'll talk about that later."

After an unpleasant look for a moment, my adoptive father deepens his grin and looks at me.

"... I mean, something happened that would have had such a conversation with the royal family, right?

"We'll talk about that later."

They stared at each other and exhaled a deep sigh at the same time. My adoptive father seems to be in a lot of trouble, too.

"My adoptive father, I understand why I've been told not to engage with royalty in one day."

In my words my adoptive father looks down upon me with a very soft-hearted face.

"Ha. Not now. You're too late. It's too late for that."

... what is too late!?

Let's talk slowly after dinner, and when I went back to the dorm with my plans set aside, the leaselator rushed over.

"Oh, Lieselator. Is something wrong?

"Dr. Hillsur is waiting for Aub and Lady Rosemaine in the multi-purpose hall."

"Dr. Hillsur?

After seeing our foster father face to face, we entered the multi-purpose hall. Hillsur is very floating as he loosely reads Aerenfest's book in front of the bookshelf as the adults go out after today's meeting and seem busy preparing for tomorrow.

"Hirshur!? Why are you here...?

"You're finally back, Aub Aerenfest, Dear Rosemayne"

As he closed the book patterned and placed it on the bookshelf, Hirshur looked up and looked at this one.

"Master Ferdinand sent me a letter."

"Huh? Has Master Ferdinand come to the House of Lords, even though the ritual of star knot has been postponed?

"I'm from Aerenfest because you haven't finished the star knot ritual yet, so you won't be attending the meeting, but aren't you coming to the dorm? It was Ferdinand who brought this to us."

Speaking of which, even when he was at Aerenfest, Ferdinand, who left a message, had been called to the House of Lords if anything happened. I guess they do the same thing over there.

"Please open it quickly, Aub Aerenfest"

It was the box of sorcery that Hirschühl pointed to. It's a big box to put your letter in. This seems to be a box I can't open unless it's Aub Aerenfest.

"You said you put research material in this so I could deliver it to the Aerenfest dormitory for sure. Master Ferdinand is a really mean thing."

"Because you know Dr. Hillsur. If you didn't have the research materials you wanted to read, it would be good in winter, right?

"Isn't that natural?"

... don't strain your chest there!