Ascendance of a Bookworm

Next to what I call Hillsur, my adoptive father opens his magic apparatus with a bitter smile. At the next moment, Hirschühl made sure he jumped and retrieved the material. And then I glance at the material in a good mood.

"What research material is it?

"That's research material on magic equipment in the library. Seems you can reduce the difficulty of creating magic tools by separating them by their use, such as for organizing or searching materials. Still difficult enough and we need quality materials..."

...... magic equipment for organizing library materials or searching!? That doesn't mean I can put the simplified Schwartz and the others in my library!?

Schwartz and Weiss also seem to have a role in guiding the royalty to Gluthrithheit, but I don't need that feature for use in my library.

"Dr. Hillsur, if it's magic equipment from the library, show it to me too! You wouldn't need library magic equipment for Dr. Hillsur who doesn't organize materials, would you?

I tried to jump to see Ferdinand's material, but Hirschle wouldn't show me the material with his hands up high.

"I am first, Master Rosemaine. Aren't these magic tools more necessary to me than Rosemayne, who can organize his own materials and leave them in the lab?"

... Ha, sure.

I drew my hand in remembrance of the likeness of Hirschühl's lab. If making magic equipment makes Hirschühl's lab clean and tidy, I think magic equipment makes a lot of sense.

"By the time the House of Lords begins, I will have finished studying the parts I need, so if you're so interested, you can come to the lab."

"Do you wait until winter...... I'd like to read it sooner."

"Master Rosemayne is supposed to be in Aerenfest and not here. Don't wait until you're here."

Now is not a good time for me to roam the House of Lords in the midst of the Lords' Council. Since you are staying to help the royal family, you should not enter the Civilian Building or sit in Hirschühl's lab in your own hobby.

... Uggu, the magic equipment in the library.

I wish I had Schwartz and the others in my library. It's magic equipment that I couldn't help but want. I was moving my head wondering if I could see a way to create even a little bit, and Hirshur looked down at me and laughed small.

"Write down the materials you need to create and deliver them to this dorm by the end of the Lords' Meeting. Shouldn't you be ready to cage in the lab and create it in the winter?

"Ha!"

Yikes! And as I hold my fist, my adoptive father slaps my head with a letter with Pessipesi. Looks like there was an envelope in it for my adoptive father and for me.

Rosemaine, this is for you.

My adoptive father offered me some of the letters delivered by Ferdinand, and I pulled my hand in for a moment, stretching out to receive them. I thought if it was written in glowing ink. But nothing must have changed in glowing ink because nothing had changed at the time he was slapped in the head.

... So, you're okay, right? Master Ferdinand wouldn't do anything far-fetched like putting a letter written in glowing ink in the same envelope, would he?

I offered my hand a little freaked out. My adoptive father gives me a letter looking surprised at me like that.

"What's up, Rosemaine?

"... er, you know, adoptive father. May I write you back? Well, shouldn't you worry about Master Ferdinand or write to him?

Asking, making sure the letter didn't glow, my adoptive father just looked a little troubled.

"... I don't mind for responding. Discussions with them are postponed until tomorrow. You should read the letter from Ferdinand first. I'm going to have to read this and think about it."

When I let a civilian hold a letter addressed to me, my adoptive father said, "Thank you, Hirshur. I'll make dinner ready, so eat it," invites Hirschühl to dinner. Hirshur, however, looked dissatisfied with the material.

"I appreciate the invitation, but I know I want to get back to the lab as soon as possible."

"Right. I'm not saying I can't."

The adoptive father releases Hirsuru and returns to his chambers with a flickering wave. I also returned to my room with a letter from Ferdinand.

After I finish my dinner and bath, I go into the den. Paper and ink are also ready to write back. I just didn't plan on writing to Ferdinand here, so I haven't brought vanishing ink.

"You can only write about things that are not obvious.... my adoptive father will tell me what I really need to tell him."

There seems to be a secret exchange between my adoptive father and Ferdinand, so I just have to leave it to you. I can't write about silver cloths, worries about the constellations, although there are many things I want to write about, given censorship.

In a sigh of sigh I opened the letter. First: "This letter was written by everyone in their absence time for the meeting and had Eckhardt put it in the box. As I consider censorship to be in the reply," there was a caveat. It seems that Ferdinand was an environment where he could write freely, but not freely.

... As much as censorship goes in, so do I.

Not just Arlensbach, but my adoptive father should probably check my letter. Read greetings written in nostalgic handwriting, not hiding sighs in what is a troublesome situation. The first sentence in the body that started was a small novel.

"Now, while I tell you to write me a letter to confirm your cheapness, what's with all the interruptions from you?

... Ugh, sorry.

I have not written to Ferdinand since my adoptive father told me to not worry or to refrain from exchanging letters. I don't think they can help complaining.

"I have a lot to write about, too."

Much more pointy with his lips, he writes hard about what his adoptive father told him. To sum it up briefly, it fits into a phrase that says, "I can't because I'm starting to look old," but I'm sorry I ended up with that one.

Finally, he told me to worry more about Wilfried, so I'll also write down what he hated if I worried him the same way Ferdinand did.

"I might have been a little refreshed if I wrote everything I was doing anymore"

I couldn't tell anyone how stupid I was, so I was pretty refreshed just to get the action of writing on paper this way.

"... well, I'm rewriting my reply. You can't show this to someone in Arlensbach."

I folded a piece of paper that complained about stupidity and I could retreat to the side, adding, in a brief summary, "I have grown very much." That's it.

And as I continued reading, it said that I had also made the Arlensbach nobles divine at the prayer ceremony, that I had been collecting materials. "We don't need that much quality yet," Retizia said, refusing the kind medicine she was given through Zergius.

Unlike me, who is physically weak and unable to move quickly, Retizia says that magic restoration pills are enough. It says that although it will be lacking in magic, Retizia never seemed to fall during the prayer ceremony, and was once again surprised by my frailty in comparison to a normal healthy child.

"Even I have become very tough compared to when Ferdinand knew me. There were only three times I slept on the road at this prayer ceremony, and after the prayer ceremony, I took two days off and almost recovered."

What do you think, although I just snorted and wrote about my situation, I was a little depressed compared to Retizia. I still feel like I'm a long way from normal.

... you just have to work on it one by one.

"Explore inside Arlensbach at a prayer ceremony and send the Veurinour flowers you get. Suitable material for making amulets. I can't build it because I don't have a workshop, but would I be able to build it myself already?

If you thought it was a big box to include your letters and research materials, Ferdinand seemed to have a material hem. The amulet is just broken, so it's just fine.

... Perfect timing. That's Master Ferdinand.

I will read what amulet the Verinur flowers are suitable for.

"… Instead, I want something ready by next year's Lords' Conference. I want as much Demon Paper of the highest quality as possible and at least 300 sheets. Would have announced how to improve quality in the study of Drevanhell and Demon Paper? so as to improve the quality as much as possible. Then, the Gestefeldt leather in the workshop, the Zonenschlak demon stone, the Raigish demon stone...... Everything with the highest quality."

... Wait a minute. Not too much demand for Verinur flowers!?

I don't know what the hell the material collection is for, but I think there is too much demand for material for amulets. Except for the Devil's Paper. If you look inside the workshop Ferdinand gave you, it will come out, but still, it is a considerable amount.

… the highest quality Demon Paper.

When they say at least 300 sheets, I don't think trombe paper is enough. I have aristocratic children in the orphanage this year, so much so that I'm a little hesitant to mass produce them.

... Shall I ask Brigitte of Ilkner when I get home?

It was by studying the use of new demonic paper made of Irkner that it led to joint research with Drevanhel. There may be some new paper in Irkner again. If there's nothing in Ilkner, he'll mow the trombes with the orphanage kids while hiding from the sidekicks.

It's a hassle to ask, but for one thing, write back, "I'll try my best to prepare". Shortly after that, "Then there's Aub Ahrensbach's funeral in the summer, so ask for extra luggage and food at that time," it said, "and I've been feeling like I'm being used very conveniently by Ferdinand.

...... Humph! I'm busy, too.

"I'm sorry I just asked, so I'm going to prepare the fish as a souvenir from here. Accept if you wish."

"Hiccup! Whether it's top quality Demon Paper or cooking, we'll be happy to prepare you! Pray to God!

I will write down that I am to ask my adoptive father to prepare my luggage, and write a fish request that I want to eat as I sing my nose song "Odd, Odd ~".

"I don't want poisonous fish like taunadel, but I want lots of spresh dough soup because it was delicious. Hopefully, even a civilian cook will be happy with the fish....... yeah. That's it."

It's been a long time since I've had a fish, and I look back and laugh nimmari. I'm so excited about summer.

But while I let it float with fish, what was written afterwards was a novel and status report that made me feel so depressed.

"What did you think and go, such as the reproduction of old divinity in a star knot ritual?

I am in the underground library, so I have not been informed of the contents of the Lords' Conference. I've only received "busy" reports from Haltmoot and Clarissa as well. But now in the Lords' Council, the central temple wants me as the temple chief, and territories other than Aerenfest are asking the royal family to dissolve my engagement with Wilfried by endorsing the central temple.

Anything, he wants me to be included as the temple chief of the central temple to teach him how to divine things in all the territories, or to perform reproductions of old rituals. Although the temple chief in Aerenfest cannot send them to each territory, the central temple chief makes it possible to send them everywhere for divinity.

And beyond the fact that prayer leads to increased protection has been announced as a result of research, reviving old divinity and spreading the right way of doing divinity will be the bottom line for the whole of Jürgenschmitt.

Above all, reviving the old rituals will enable the correct next Zent election, the central temple is complaining, he said. Joining that central temple, he said, is Arlensbach with the next Zend candidate, Dietrinde.

They say Georgine is spreading the word that Ferdinand "proceeded" with the prayer ceremony and that the nobles were also allowed to participate in divinity, and that this is likely to increase the protection and harvest of the Arlensbach nobility. Finally, they are stirring up the Aub and his wife in other realms saying, "If Master Rosemayne becomes the central temple chief, it will be possible to do the same in all the territories" or "I don't think it's a good knowledge to monopolize just Aerenfest".

In Ferdinand, which cannot attend the Lords' Conference, Georgine's remarks cannot be stopped in a tea party or in a meeting place. He complained to Georgine when he heard the report from the civil servants and sidekicks present, but he ended up being recirculated as "Oh, it's a fact".

"Negotiations with Lanzenave are likely to be cumbersome after returning to Arlensbach because of the refusal to accept the princess of Lanzenave. It's easier than accepting..."

Ferdinand, who has negotiations with Lanzenave after the Lords' Conference, seems to have already accumulated mental fatigue. Still, it seems to have left Justkus in Arlensbach, and it seems Ferdinand's job not to turn Georgine's eyes to Arlensbach during the Lords' Conference.

By the way, Dietrinde, who was outraged that he was badly offended by seeing a rude woman in the library, said he was in a very good mood these days when he was lifted up by those in the territory who wanted to put me in the central temple: "If old rituals were reproduced, Dear Dietrinde might be the next Zent".

The other nobles in Arlensbach seem to have an atmosphere of "trouble in the way of their work even if they wake up hysteria, so you just have to stay with the next Zent for as long as possible until they finish dyeing the foundation," and they have no intention of stopping Dietrinde.

...... Arlensbach, seriously sucks.

While Aerenfest has responded to the offense of other realms on such a Georgine spokesperson by saying, "Don't be ridiculous, such as making Master Rosemaine the central temple chief," or, "If you think about putting other realm lord candidates into the central temple, then let the autonomous lord candidates into the temple as well", "It is forbidden to move the lord candidates to the center," the flag seems rather badly colored because of the lack of magic and the many territories where the harvest is falling.

It is also visible from the examples of Aerenfest and Flaberturk that the magical nobility increases the yield by carrying out divinity. Ferdinand thinks it's difficult next year even if he manages to raise it this year.

"If I can get you into the central temple, the royal family can subdue the central temple too, know how to do the right thing and spread it all over the place. And if we can get Zent by the right means, King Traokvar will be released from that burden."

They're all searching for a way to get me into the central temple because Aerenfest and I are just in trouble and the others are in no trouble at all.

"You are my adopted daughter. If you dismiss your adoption with Zilvester and return to the status of senior aristocrat, you can move him to the center. However, this edge removal will require the consent of Zilvester, Calstead, you, and everyone. It is possible to exert pressure to dissolve the fringe, but it is not something that can be managed by royal life alone"

He says the only thing he can do with his royal life is dissolve his engagement. Since the engagement permit can be revoked, it is possible to revert to the state that whatever the adoptive father insists on is just determined by the inner circle.

"Don't basically say no to offers from royalty. Bad testimony against Aerenfest in other areas. I'm jealous of being treated as a winner out of loser territory. More cooperation will be required from the winning territory. Perhaps, as I was summoned to ask my personal opinion, you could be summoned to say that you wouldn't know unless you also asked your personal opinion. Buy time, not say no. At least a year, as long as possible."

It says, "If you are working with the royal family to merit it, but you are dropped by a senior nobleman by the Lordship Candidate to sue why you are willing to cooperate, or if you really don't want to dissolve your engagement because you deeply love Vilfried, sue your loved readers of Elvira's love story.

... I appreciate the advice and response, but in the first half anyway, in the second half, hey. Can you act like you love Wilfried to me? Mmm......

I slept thinking about that, but it must be because of too many things in one day today, I went to bed the next morning with a fever.

"You were out all morning yesterday to clean the temple. It's Saturday off, so rest easy without worrying about your surroundings. You said it was good to talk to Aub when he recovered."

Otilier prepared the medicine for me, saying so. I'm worried about me sleeping, and I can see the leatherette saying, "It's always the same thing."

"Hey, Clarissa. Am I going to go to the central temple?

"You can't lose Master Rosemayne from Aerenfest. Don't worry, I will protect you and Haltmoot."

Though Clarissa is comfortable slapping me in the chest and saying so, Ferdinand said Aerenfest's flag color is not good. Then there must already be a lot of pressure on the adoptive father. My adoptive father, who wants to cool down and hide in weird places, probably isn't going to tell me about the pressure he's under. I think what Anastasius was saying is probably about this.

"Clarissa can think of something else, can't she? What do you think Aerenfest should do? What would Clarissa do if I wasn't the person required by the Central Temple here?

Clarissa squeezes her expression softly. And looked at me with a serious face.

"... I think this is the biggest opportunity to sell gratitude to the royalty and the rest of the realm. It will be published as a winning territory and the contribution it deserves to be treated as such will be shown in a visible way for other territories. Negotiations are needed to make him promise to treat him as a Lordship Candidate, set deadlines, reflect Aerenfest's will on the order in which he teaches and goes around divinity, but with just one Lordship Candidate, he won't have a chance to sell that much grace."

After Clarissa said so, she smiled as troubled: "If you return the back, you will buy resentment and jealousy for all the territories by monopolizing Master Rosemaine".

"Because I know the inside of Aerenfest, I know I can't let Master Rosemayne out right now. But when I was in Dunkelferger, I would have thought that I would have spared Master Rosemayne exclusively. Because there must be plenty of people who want to see the divine divinity of Lord Rosemaine, the Virgin of Aerenfest, with this eye!

Though the atmosphere of a civilian who can do so is the last and ruined, I understand the idea of the surrounding territory. My adoptive father seemed pretty tough while I encouraged him to translate into modern language in my underground library and became the next Zent candidate or was informed that he was not qualified.

In the evening the fever went down, so I went into the dorm conference room to talk to my adoptive father. My adoptive mother is with me today, and "The fever seems to have dropped, Rosemaine," she greets me with a gentle smile.

"Master Ferdinand's letter reveals the status of the Lords' Conference"

I showed my adoptive father Ferdinand's letter and the reply I would send here. When the adoptive father glances at both, he deposits his reply with the civilian, and the letter passes to me.

"... but if I don't intend to dissolve my engagement with Wilfried, I won't be willing to take him to the Central Temple."

Zilvester laughs at Nicole and says so, and her adoptive mother looks worried at me and my adoptive father.

"How does the royalty say it?

"We can contain the central temple and fulfill the demands of other realms. I had an offer to accept it because I could learn more about divinity and it would be the bottom line for the whole of Jürgenschmidt. But I'm saying no."

"What do you say in your still strong temple contempt," the adoptive father contested the royal family, he said. What does it mean to say to enter the central temple, even though it was a one-time promise to give permission to the ritual of star knots, to bless Prince Gigisvalt and foil him as the next Zent? Rosemaine's magic is powerful, so he briefly says he wants the royal family to help him, but then he'll know how much he supports Aerenfest. You can't be deprived of Ferdinand, who can support Arlensbach, followed by Rosemayne. He politely stated that he should not be able to move the Lordship Candidate to the center...

"That's a good point," Zent said, backing off. Apparently it was more than just a request from almost all the territories, an atmosphere where they just asked questions without being able to ignore. But Prince Gigisvalt said that "now is the only time we can sell grace to all territories" and that "doing divinity, gaining protection and making magic a little easier to handle is something that must be done as a top priority throughout Jürgenschmidt".

... Is that it? Neither Zent nor Prince Gigisvalt know that I have become the next Zent candidate?

We're just talking about whether or not to make him head of the temple in the central temple. Unlike Anastasius, I have no perspective whatsoever on securing the next Zent candidate. The temple tour is yesterday's story, so the Zenths probably don't know, but they should have heard enough about the possibility of getting into the temple from Anastasius and Eglantine.

... or haven't you even gotten that information yet?

Anastasius should not have been sure he was the next Zent candidate until he accompanied him around the temple. Anastasius said it was a solo walk, and if Eglantine hadn't talked about the use of the temple to avoid confusing the surroundings, Magdalena wouldn't have known.

... I would have just noticed it was an underground library anomaly, but because that's yesterday's story, maybe as much information has finally gone to Zent?

Worried about how long information-sharing was taking place between royalties, the adoptive father gently flaunted his shoulders.

"I am going to wait for the Lords' Conference to end this morning as the invitation arrives and two days later I am being called to royalty again, but Zent is still going to listen and pull this one off. Whoever says anything, the Lordship Candidate can't move to the center outside of marriage"

Target time runs out, my adoptive father says, but if the royal family purchases information on the next Zent candidate and invites him to it, things will change completely.

"Um, adoptive father. From now on, it may be harder to say no."

"What?"

My adoptive father and adoptive mother blink. And I said unto Otilier, I have prepared an antibugging sorcery. Give that to your adoptive father, who is escorting your adoptive father. My adoptive mother, who was not given to me, looks at me with great anxiety.

"The shock must not be too strong and the adoptive mother's stomach must not be impaired, so please decide whether to tell the adoptive mother the contents from the adoptive father"

"Is that so outrageous content?

"Hopefully, I want people to pay for it."

To my words, my adoptive father waved lightly. My closest friends leave me, my adoptive father, my father and my adoptive mother, and they leave. After I lost sight of the proximity, I grabbed the antibugging magic device and opened my mouth.

"I am the next Zent candidate."

"Huh!?

My adoptive father and father, who raised his bare voice, "I don't know why," he opens his eyes. I don't know why. When I was praying, I became a candidate, Anastasius took me around all the temples, and eventually he said, "I'm not qualified because I don't have a royal registration."

"I won't save it because I don't know if I can talk about how to be a candidate here, but I'm probably closest to the next Zent so far. However, you can't be the next Zent because you don't have a royal registration. If there's any pressure from the royal family, I think it's coming."

"I didn't ask you!

"It was yesterday."

I was going to come back and talk to him, but I made Ferdinand's letter a priority and he fell down with fever. Recover, now.

"Either way, we can't get married until we're adults, but I'm not sure they're going to offer to dissolve our engagement. It would be nice if someone in the royal family could get a Gluthris Height within three years, but you'd want to keep me secure for when you couldn't."

Anastasius rescinded that he would become the Third Lady of Gigisvalt, but he thinks that's to royally look for other options. Zent, whose request to be the temple chief of the central temple can flow with "If you don't like Aerenfest, you can't help it", will also not be able to talk about "what to do to get the next Zent with Gluthris Height at the fastest possible speed without confusing the surroundings".

"Master Ferdinand's letter says about the means that the royal family is likely to take to move me to the center, although it is to make me head of the temple of the central temple. It also says advice. We have to figure out what Aerenfest will do when the king's life comes down."

My adoptive father looked at me with regret. Unlike the central temple, the problem is too great. Obtaining the next ZENT or GLUTRISHEIGHT is not an issue that can be dismissed with the coexistence of Aub.

"Maybe you should call Brother Wilfried, too. … because it involves a lifetime"