Ascendance of a Bookworm

"I'm sorry, but I didn't hear you very well," Gigisvalt said, smiling at Nicole after a moment of truth. I offer to buy time with magic again.

"... magic for a year, a respite for a year? It is originally a magic power for seven royalty members. No matter how much Rosemaine's magic is, it's not enough to cover it alone."

I smile nicely at Gigisvalt, who says what he understands with a gentle smile as he tells a child who does not understand the logic of things. I don't think I can bribe that much magic on my own.

"I have not said a word, such as bribing myself. Isn't there a lot of people here with magic right now?"

Gigisvalt smiles after another moment of truth. Now I'm just smiling a little bit, and as if I'm trying to figure it out, "... are there a lot of you?" and repeated my words small. Apparently pausing and then smiling is how Gigisvalt reacts when surprised.

... I guess it's like Dear Ferdinand's processing dropped.

To make it look like I can afford Gigisvalt, who seems to be stunned under a smile, I turn my head desperately as I deepen my grin and think of my victory conditions.

The supreme victory is imprinted that you will have a service ceremony for the royal family, not for me, and you will have it held in a royal subject, throwing the preparation for the service round the center, to take over a year. Next, ask them to help Aerenfest, who is poorly publicized, sell favors to each territory. After being in an advantage that way, I swallow Aerenfest's say as much as possible as a condition for becoming an adopted daughter.

I want to start by attacking you from buying more than a year as an outpost. Instead of talking about nobles listening to royal stories and orders with promises, drag them into my mound and take the lead.

I stare at Gigisvalt completely by switching on Merchant Mode. He's in the front. He's not a royal, he's a negotiator. As you can see from the adoptive father and adoptive mother, the ordinary royal family leaves the negotiations to the civilian and is in a position to simply approve or reject them. If you're in this underground library where the sides can't come in, the odds are better than going outside.

… the lowest line is to spend more than a year using any means and to obtain royal assurances about Ferdinand's improved treatment. I'll do it! Help me, Mr. Benno!

"Let's have a service ceremony at the Lords' Conference"

"Are you going to get magic from Aub, who's gathered for a meeting? Such things are unprecedented..."

Gigisvalt made me smile a little on my suggestion. However, the royalty already has a proven track record of gathering magic from students in the House of Lords. It won't make a big difference whether you're a student or an Aub. If I may add, I am not going to take magic from Aub alone. I'm going to ask the neighbors who are following the meeting to participate in the ceremony as well.

... when you can take it, from where you can take it, as much as you can, what you keep.... right, Mr. Benno?

"Oh, how could you be surprised that way? Isn't the service necessary to fulfill Prince Gigisvalt's wishes?"

Gigisvalt became a slightly puzzled face, seemingly unconnected with the service ceremony and his wishes. Rugged and luxurious gold forehead shakes.

"What do I want...? So are you going to be the king's adopted daughter, get the Gluthrithheit, and marry me when you grow up?

"No. Prince Gigisvalt's desire, which I have heard from Aub and from the civil servants present at the meeting, is to make me head of the temple of the central temple, to send me to all parts of the world to do the divine work, and to increase the yield and protection of all parts of the world. Is the bottom-up of the aristocracy something that has to be done as a top priority throughout Jürgenschmidt?

Where Gigisvalt argued, "It's..." he said, "Prince Gigisvalt wanted Aub Aerenfest that much, didn't he?" and tatami. That's what he said just a few days ago, a request that got the Aerenfest nobles in trouble. I'm not going to let you get away with it now.

"So I will perform the service as the prince desires. Aub and aristocrats everywhere will understand the importance of temples and divinity by participating in divinity, and will naturally cooperate because they will be able to increase yields and protections, and the central temple wanted divinity by those with a lot of magic..."

Neither the noblemen of each territory who claim that the Virgin of Aerenfest should be sent to various places as the Temple Head of the Central Temple and that her knowledge of divinity should be expanded are at all willing to refuse to participate in the service ceremony to the Central Temple, which said she wants a magical temple head because she has no magic and cannot reproduce divinity. Do whatever you want and squeeze your magic.

"In addition to being able to bottom up each territory that the royal family considers to be of the highest priority, we will have a massive amount of magic, and a year's respite until I am adopted. Wouldn't that be a great idea that wouldn't hurt anyone?

I slowly smiled, blinking as Gigisvalt, who was listening to my words in his true face, hacked.

"... I do think it's a great idea, but when the hell are you going to do it?

Lords' meetings sometimes take more than two weeks. We still have more than a week, so even thinking about when we held the service ceremony in the House of Lords has a good preparation period. Preparations will be made in parallel with the Lords' Conference, so it will be a bit of a tight schedule, but the central aristocracy is much larger than Aerenfest, so no problem.

"Aren't you sure it's the last day of the Lords' Conference? With that much time, I think it's possible to prepare."

"It's just too steep, Rosemaine. A lot of people move, so you can't be unplanned."

I guess it's often enough time for a civilian or side-service to make plans and live along them. Being royal, Gigisvalt must have no experience of being unquestionably involved in other people's circumstances and being forced to reschedule. I showed a sense of refusal to be able to make extra appointments.

Besides, as a nobleman against royalty, I can see how I can give it back to me throwing all the change spheres, and I have no one to talk to. But I am not going to loosen my hand to hunt down Gigisvalt.

... I'll do everything I can to make it easier for my adoptive father by negotiating with the royal family ahead!

I make a look of surprise and say, "I never thought I would be reluctant to give a service ceremony to Prince Gigisvalt," I hold my cheek, moisturizing my eyes slightly and staring at Gigisvalt.

"Isn't it Prince Gigisvalt, like no other, who told you that teaching other realms how to do divinity and bottom up Jürgenschmidt is a top priority?... Could it be that you tried to get Aerenfest's Lordship candidate into the Central Temple, even though you weren't in such a hurry just to shut up Aub in the other realms?

When my adoptive father shook his eyelashes and lowered his eyes as sadly as he could imitate Angelica, even though he was in great difficulty with the request from the royal family to turn me to the head of the central temple, Gigisvalt shook his head sideways in haste, as if he had forgotten to smile.

"Wait, Rosemaine. It is a misunderstanding. There is no doubt that we need to bottom-up the nobles of Jürgenschmidt any sooner.... Isn't such a massive divinity something to discuss more with the central temple and the civilians and prepare them for their appointments? I was surprised because it was so abrupt where I had no such plans or time."

...... hmmm. Oh, yeah. Is that what you're saying?

To Gigisvalt, who makes excuses. Now I am more truthful. "Did you understand?," I smiled coldly, staring at Gigisvalt, smiling.

"Prince Gigisvalt, I, I have a question... May I?

"What is it?

"I understand the royalty needs a gluthris height a little faster. But there was no king's adopted daughter in my life's plans. Being the king's adopted daughter doesn't mean that we need a period of time to discuss and schedule and prepare ourselves so that we can be convinced of each other between Zent and Aub?

I overlap my words even more, staring still at Gigisvalt's silent solidification with a smile.

"Which would be abrupt and daunting to order the Lordship Candidate to be the king's adopted daughter without sufficient time for discussion or preparation for a service ceremony that still has time before the final day of the Lordship Council?... Is it easier for royalty to adopt with me than a service ceremony? Aerenfest and I seem to be looking a lot lighter."

When I denounced the royal word and deed toward my face, Gigisvalt looked at me with many blinks in his true face. Perhaps you thought you were a lady who would listen to me say anything quiet? Or has anyone ever been frankly condemned for saying things in far-flung aristocratic terms before?

"Because your adoption is really urgent and imminent. I never take you lightly."

"What's urgent and imminent is the lack of magic in the royal family, isn't it? If you can't even wait for my adults, and it's so urgent that you need to adopt Aerenfest even if you're in a mess, why don't you order me to prepare for a service ceremony to the Central Temple and to Aub everywhere, just like ordering this one to be impotent? Even though royalty is good at swinging their own conveniences without asking their plans or opinions."

"Do they think royalty is only shaking its own convenience...?

I still intend to adjust my interests as much as possible, and I find myself unexpectedly disgusted by Gigisvalt speaking with an unexpected face.

"This is how you're trying to get my opinion, so I just know you're willing to adjust. But you've listened to this situation just by claiming royal convenience, and you haven't been able to offer any benefit here, have you? In the first place, we need magic, we need gluthrithheit, we want to be royal adoptive daughters, we want to teach Aub everywhere about divinity. None of this is what Aerenfest or I want. Do you understand there?

I really want to read Gluthris Height when I get it, but I don't bother to say that on this occasion. I will be gunning down Gigisvalt so that I can have a royally led service ceremony.

"It was for the royalty that I proposed a troublesome service. Such as divinity, it is for Aub to examine the temple of his own territory and do something about it himself. Prince Anastasius said he could do something about his own territory."

Gigisvalt, listening still to my words, tilted his neck only slightly.

"Is it not the royals who need time and not Rosemayne and Aerenfest who do the service ceremony to buy more than a year in magic?

"I also need it for Aerenfest, but I believe it's the royalty that really needs time"

I'm sure the royalty couldn't find it no matter how much they looked for it. I'm guessing they haven't seen their surroundings with Gluthris Height hanging in front of them. To Gigisvalt, whose face I do not understand very well, I stick to reality.

"It's only a few days since I turned out to be the closest to Gluthris Height, but are you already ready to accept the royal side that you easily said when you adopt me? Surely the royalty after the christening ceremony should be given a detachment, right?

It may be easy if you just sign an adoption contract, but if you are going to live as the king's adopted daughter, you will need quite a lot of preparation just immediately to come up with, such as preparing for the separation of the palace, bringing in furniture and tools of life, electing a candidate for proximity from the central nobility, preparing the living environment on the side to be taken from Aerenfest, and aligning the central cloak and brooch.

"I don't think I can be adopted without any preparation, but is it possible that the royal family doesn't need to be separated from the temple until I grow up and throw it into the central temple as a temple chief? Or is it just a few days before you're ready for the outhouse? Oh, if that's all you have good central nobility, it won't take you a day to prepare for the service ceremony or anything. Reliable Things"

Gigisvalt let his deep green eyes wander slightly with a smile and turned his gaze to the space of the nearby people outside the underground library. Magdalena and Hildebrandt are there, too, but I'm not going to come in while I'm worried about how this one is going to get out of the way of the discussion.

"... Oh, no. That's...... My adoptive mother or my fiancée is going to have my room ready..."

To Gigisvalt, who twisted the answer in agony, I purposefully surprised him, and said, "Alas, is it royal custom to give my real son a house away and my adoptive daughter a room?" and smile.

"Such practices, I've never known them before. When I adopted with my adoptive father, who is badly rumored to be discriminating between my parents and my adopted children, I had a room just like my parents, but is it someone else's out-of-home room that the king gives me? You're not underestimating me or Aerenfest with that treatment, are you?

Gigisvalt turned into a face poked at the pain. I can see you desperately looking for words. Because the royal fixed grin is completely gone, I look to Gigisvalt, convinced that I have definitely prevailed.

"If I poke at the imperfections of the royal family in this way, it is not impossible for me to get a year without a service ceremony"

Pointing out deficiencies in response to offers from the royal family and insisting that they "will not dissolve the adoption" while complaining is a good last resort not to take if you think about the hearts and minds from the royal family and what lies ahead. But you can't be the king's adopted daughter unless you rescind Aerenfest's adoption, so if you want to run away for a year, it's not like there's no way at all.

"Sudden service ceremonies are unexpected and abrupt and cumbersome, so saying goodwill may not convince the royal family. But I was going to make a suggestion to get a year's worth of time while everyone profits. Should I cooperate in the service ceremony? Or should we get a year's time in a way other than a dedication ceremony?

I stare at Gigisvalt and inquire. Gigisvalt also looks at me still. It's like exploring where sincerity is.

After a while of staring at each other, Gigisvalt exhaled furiously.

"... I appreciate your consideration. Speak to Zent to have a service ceremony. Ready..."

From Gigisvalt, who seems to have bracketed his belly, to Aerenfest so that the preparation of divinity does not come around, I lay ahead and make it hard to think about preparation.

"It's difficult at Aerenfest to get permission to use altars and sacred objects, so please get ready for the service ceremony in the center. If you can use the auditorium extensively without putting the stage out, you will be able to participate in the ritual in the vicinity of other than Aub."

Gigisvalt smiled nicely once hardened in his true face.

"Rosemaine, are you going to let Aub join you up to the side? How far are you going to take this magic?

"I was taught to grow up when I could, from where I could, from what I could, from what I could, from what I could, from what I could take."

"Is this what Anastasius was saying, growing up in the temple and having different common sense," Gigisvalt murmured with an indescribable face of confusion as I showcased my teachings from Benno with a good face.

... Too bad! I didn't grow up in a temple, I grew up in a civilian!

"If you add, it would be good if you could continually take profits. In this case, does it feel that the ceremony of service to the bait will be routinely carried out at the annual Lords' Meeting for the participating territories? The rite of protection takes time, so there are about two territories you can do in one Lords' meeting. But if we were to be able to retry the ritual of obtaining protection at a rate of about once every ten years, everyone would take divinity seriously."

If we really want to bottom up, we must also provide adults with a place to perform rituals. And if adults start praying seriously, kids are something they can stick with.

"Besides, there was a consultation from Aub Klassenburg about whether we could make the House of Lords' service ceremony a regular event as a collaborative study, so if we do it right, we'll have a lot of magic at the end of spring and in the winter."

"Rosemaine, magic isn't that easy to interact with"

"Royalty is such an emergency that you can't have chosen the means, right? Shouldn't we think of different ways to collect magic?

Gigisvalt kept his eyes open in my remarks, completely solidified. Apparently, he made a proposal too unexpected for the royalty.

"I've made a few remarks, but where and how you pull magic from, whether or not you make the service ceremony your annual routine, etc. is completely irrelevant to me right now. May I now proceed with my conversation about preparing for the service ceremony?

"... yes, go ahead"

For the sake of Gigisvalt, whose head does not seem to be moving very much, I explain as I write down on the paper at hand the instructions for preparing the service ceremony.

"Using Ordnants and invitations to inform each territory about the date and time and what to bring is not that much effort. I do not think it would be as burdensome for the progression of the Lords' Council if we had the remaining nobles in the House prepare the empty demonic stones and order the Central Temple to prepare the Divine. Yes, there are holy grails in two places: the House of Lords and the Central Temple, and now that the prayer ceremony is over, the Little Grail can also be used to accumulate magic, so let the Central Temple prepare you"

So I stopped the pen once, and lifted up my face. The moment you see my smile, Gigisvalt pulls your cheek. Did I have a bad feeling about it? That's right.

"And please don't advertise firmly from the royal family that it is a service ceremony achieved through the cooperation of Aerenfest. Aerenfest, which has always been a lower realm, just waits to pull it off, because there's something about it that's badly advertised."

"Wait. Is the royalty going to advertise Aerenfest?

I nodded with a natural face at Gigisvalt, who said, "How can that be?"

"It's a travel expense for me and my clergyman, Hartmoot, the escort knight who will put together the blue clergyman's costume. As Aerenfest, we can't cooperate in any way in return. You said the royal family would consider this benefit, right?

Once his lips were drawn and tied, Gigisvalt smiled calmly after sighing with a difficult face. And he promises to cooperate in selling favors everywhere. It would sell favors to other territories more effectively than leave them to Aerenfest nobles who don't stand around well. This must please my adoptive father.

... adoptive father, Mr. Benno. I did it! Isn't the outpost a complete victory?

"Nevertheless, if you take that much magic, will there not be dissatisfaction from each territory?

When I give the paper I write to Gigisvalt, Gigisvalt speaks of the problems of the service ceremony as I look through the flow of preparation for the service ceremony.

"The magic we collect at the service ceremony is the fee for participation in divinity to gain the protection of the gods, this tuition, if I told you in advance, you wouldn't complain so much later. 'Cause unhappy territories just don't have to participate."

"Aren't we going to have fewer territories to participate in then?

With fewer participants, less magic can be collected. I think when I see Gigisvalt worried that it will go with the effort of preparation. This man really is a prince, he said.

"If you don't participate in the service ceremony, you can see the difference in future harvests and in the patronage of the gods, but if you stir up your fingers and look at them with regret that the surrounding territories will be rich, you will eat them easily"

Krassenburg, who said he was going to have a service ceremony with us next year, would attend if he fed on the service ceremony in the House of Lords, and Drevanhel, who is territorial united in obtaining protection, would participate with interest. Besides, any territory that fails to make it to the House of Lords' service should definitely want to participate.

"The rest will be in great return if we can allow a re-ritual of protection, and there will be many territories to jump on if we smell about the ritual information obtained in the underground library. You just have to make them think they're worth joining, so it doesn't matter if you bring people together."

To my suggestion, Gigisvalt closed his eyes for about five seconds and exhaled slowly, then smiled Nicole. They upset me quite a bit. Maybe it sounded a little nasty to a greenhouse-raised prince.

... Well, my master is Mr. Benno and Master Ferdinand, so you can't help but be a little bit nasty!

"Oh, and since this is a service ceremony to teach a territory that has never experienced divinity, I don't think the royalty who experienced it in the House of Lords in the winter needs to participate"

There is no need for a magic offering from the royal family, said Gigisvalt, who looked visibly horrified.

"Okay. We will prepare for the ritual in the centre with the royal family and encourage each territory to participate. However, are you sure you want to ask Aerenfest to prepare your recovery pills? I want to give priority to the royalty."

"You prepare your own recovery pills, right? I've been lowering it to my waist for a long time, so just be careful not to forget it."

Gigisvalt said, "Weren't Aerenfest prepared at the House of Lords service?" I rounded my eyes, but Aerenfest's position was completely different then and this time.

"The House of Lords service ceremony was for you to cooperate with this study, so I thought I needed it in return and prepared it. But this time I will teach anyone who wants to know about divinity, working with the royal family, devoting my effort and time to it on purpose. I don't feel the need to prepare recovery drugs at all, and how important would it be to go through the literature in the underground library rather than prepare recovery drugs?

... because it should be a year when I get back to Aerenfest where I can't even afford to read with a takeover, etc.

Only during the Lords' Council will I be able to enter this underground library. Reading time is more important than making recovery drugs.

"You may consider selling restorative drugs for a fee...... if you go out and sell what you put out in the House of Lords, something Drevanhell is going to buy up and jump to recipe analysis. I don't mind selling it if it's a highly effective healing pill in my lecture, but I don't think it's in Aerenfest's interest because it's a drug anyone has."

Even if we let the knights gather at the gathering place and mobilize the civilians busy dealing with the Lords' Conference to make the recovery pills, Aerenfest doesn't benefit from the burden alone.

"... I could see how Aerenfest was abundantly rich. And I also feel well understood that nobles in the territory cannot follow a steep ascent of rank"

To Gigisvalt, a smile that made me tired, I smiled with nicole.

"You seem to have developed a mutual understanding. Above all. Now that we're done preparing for the service ceremony, shall we fill in a few more conditions for me to be adopted by the royal family?"

"Do you still have it!?

... Huh? With the outpost just over, the key discussion hasn't even begun, has it?