Ascendance of a Bookworm

After an embarrassing public confession, the discussion is over because it is time for Angelica, Lieselator and Leonore to go home. I dropped them off at my doorstep as Brother Cornelius and my uncle handed them off.

"Mother, I'm going back to my room."

"Wait a minute. Let's have a little talk in your room."

That's what your mother says and goes to my chambers. I am honestly glad that although the period of time I use my own room in this house was really short, it is ready for me to use at any time.

"Rosemaine wouldn't have registered for a hidden room here, would she? Come here. In Rosemaine's year, hidden rooms are not for use with parents, but for once or so, use them together. You'll have to know how to register with your own child."

... I've registered the Temple's hidden room with Master Ferdinand, so it's okay, you shouldn't say. There's going to be a notebook coming out of somewhere.

It was so easy for me to think of how my mother would make her eyes shine, I would just say thank you and register the hidden room without saying anything extra. Mother narrowed her eyes nostalgically as she lay her hands on the demonic stone of the door behind her bedside and let the magic flow with her.

"The truth is, before the christening ceremony... I was going to prepare you as my mother when you brought me to your new home to become mentally unstable. But thanks to Lord Ferdinand coming every two or three days to see how things were going, you wouldn't have shown any particular instability when you came to a stranger's house and called him a family, would you? It seemed more reassuring to be with Master Ferdinand than to use the hidden room with me, who had just become my mother, and so I was distracted."

Mother's hands on her own hands are warm. Somehow the magic line runs in the face, staring at how a hidden room is being created. I thought again that even when I first came to this house, my mother was truly willing to accept me as a daughter.

Ask them to put two chairs and a table aside in the freshly prepared, landscaped stash room to prepare their tea. It's a tea party just for the two of us in the stash room.

"What shall we talk from? … well, let's start with a conversation about Darmuel and Filine that we didn't talk about earlier"

"Is it Dermuel and Filine?

Mother smiled when she tilted her neck, not knowing why she didn't dare speak on that occasion.

"When I spoke on that occasion, I thought it would be a decision. Because it's the Lord's job to decide what's close. I merely convey my request, so judge for yourself."

When she said that in a slightly shattered tone, her mother said, "Would Darmuel and Philine please leave me at Aerenfest? I said."

"There are several reasons, but the reason we have in common is that there are few lower nobles in the center, so the lack of a place for ourselves becomes more than Aerenfest"

According to her mother, although some of the side services taken by senior and intermediate nobles are lower nobles, she does not listen to the lower nobles who went to the center as knights and civilian. Well, they say none of them are close to the royal side.

He also thinks it's better to move the Gutenbergs after he sees the central situation, so it's also better to move the two lower nobles after he sees how things are going.

"Then I want you to leave someone in touch with Lower Town successfully, someone who is learning how to do it your way for a little while longer. There is a great concern that the lack of rosemary will restore aristocracy to the old days."

There are still not many aristocrats who have made good contact with Lower Town and understand my ways. It seems to your mother that although she thinks it will be difficult to quickly switch the consciousness of the nobles in the past year, and that Brunhilde, who will be Aub's second lady, is tough to keep in frequent contact with the lower town.

"The same thing about the takeover of the temple. It would be very different if Darmuel and Filine, who have been helping Lord Ferdinand with his work for the longest time in your closest proximity, do not remain extra. As it is now, there is too much strain on Master Merhior and his side."

So that there is no burden, I intend to leave my side servants to Melchior, and Kanfel and Fritak and the Blue Clerics are well entrusted with their work. Though I find it hard to do the divine Merhior, I think the clerk can handle it. Mother shook her head with a bitter grin at my claim.

"Rosemaine may not care much because she grew up in the temple, but it's a little difficult for the proximity of the Lords' clan to ask the Blue Cleric to teach her, given the nobility. Lords, albeit aristocrats, won't be so resistant to begging for teaching near the side of the same clan of lords..."

I, who was originally a civilian, have no awareness that it is so subtle that it is difficult for a blue cleric to ask me to teach. He points out that he lacks consciousness as a nobleman and is told that if he wants to take over smoothly, he must take care of the Merhior side, which must be taken over.

"Haltmoot asked Master Ferdinand to teach, didn't he? Likewise, I thought that I could leave a haltmoot in the priesthood and easy for the nobles to admire, but the senior clerk needed it for Rosemaine, and I just finished my famous dedication by the end of the morning, so I can't ask for it anymore."

... I didn't know Haltmoot was one better than her mother...

"Even if that's all there is to it, if Rosemayne wants to put the two of you on her side, how about it because she's going to fit your adults and send Darmuel and Filine to the center with the Gutenbergs?

"Huh?"

"We can't move the Gutenbergs right away, so in the meantime, in terms of protecting your true family, it's not very different than not having one person in Aerenfest who knows what you think?

And the word came forth, and I breathed heavily. Seeing my reaction like that, Mother laughs with her eyes round.

"What do you look like? From the time I took you in, I knew you were a civilian daughter. I couldn't give you as much detail as anybody's daughter, but if you look at the civilians you care about more, you can somehow find out."

"Huh? Huh?

Nobody said anything about explaining it to your mother. I was desperate to behave like a nobleman, but I'm surprised they knew I was a civilian.

"You're going to move them with the Gutenbergs, aren't you? So until then, I think it's a good idea to let Dermuel protect you."

"... how come you're even an adult?

Although Mother is right about the central situation, I want to move the printing business to the centre as soon as possible. There are still about three years to adulthood. Even considering a year of succession, it's too long to wait for the remaining two years.

"How dare you... Ha, Rosemaine. I tend to be forgotten because of your previous way of life and the generosity of Aub Aerenfest, but normally I don't entrust minors with a big cause. You shouldn't think you can do business in the center the way you wanted in Aerenfest."

Although my adoptive father made me like it because it was a business that I had originally started, it is not a job that I would be entrusted to minors because it is something that I would do as a territorial business.

"Besides, so far, Master Kalsted has told me that you are the next Zent candidate closest to Gluthrithheit. So there's a lot you have to do before you can move the printing industry to the center, right?

"Ah!"

It was a blind spot. If I could just give it to Gigisvalt once I got the Gluthris Height and save Ferdinand, I would certainly have to be educated as a royalty, although I was going to do what I wanted to do.

"Is it really okay for Rosemaine to be the king's adopted daughter?

"Ugh..."

I drop my shoulder with my mother's suspicious eyes on me. I don't think I'm okay with it, but I'm just moving on. I can't help it.

"Even adults, for other reasons. Your adults are the same as Philinese adults, so if you travel after adulthood, Philinee can travel to the center without making a name for herself, right? I don't think fame is about going to the center, and honestly, I don't think you're going to carry anyone else's life any more."

Looking at the response to the orphanage orphans and named proximities I carried in them, they were taking too much care of them and worrying about them.

"But I was the one who served Filine nearby, and I was the one who got her out of my parents' house. I can't tell you to go back to your parents' house."

I can't think of the choice of putting Filine back in the house where her father, her late wife and their children are.

"Philine's father was originally a son-in-law, so Philine was originally the one who picked it up. I don't think you can put it back, but if you can't, you can protect me just like Muriella. However, if you want me to go to the center, you'll need a fiancée to protect Filine.... What does Rosemaine think about getting Darmuel and Filine engaged?

"Yeah!?

I had an over-expected, barbaric voice. Looking at me with my eyes blackened and white, my mother said that if I went to the center, there would be no lower nobles around me, so that we would only have each other at any rate.

"As many nobles want to get close to Rosemaine's side, so Philine doesn't have to worry yet, but I don't think Darmuel's bridesmaid candidate is going to be here at all."

"Huh? Um... Is it impossible for Darmuel to enter his son-in-law into an intermediate aristocracy? I hear it magically went from under intermediate aristocracy to medium, so I think we can figure it out..."

I asked my mother, thinking that if I could raise her rank if I could, she looked at me blinking.

"There is no strange intermediate nobleman who would like to take a wounded junior knight to his son-in-law, whose reputation and abilities from you are high but low in external reputation, and who doesn't know when he will be detached by you. Brigitte's parents miraculously took advantage of the fact that she herself had the wound of being disengaged and in and out of the temple, that she had the opportunity to get to know Darmuel well as a colleague, that Geebe Ilkner was eager to connect with you, that there was no other hall near Brigitte's due age, and that she was eager to add more families."

I think about the combination of Darmuel and Filine when I am told not to think about Darmuel's marriage based on my relationship with Brigitte. I'm pretty sure Filine remembers Darmuel intimately, maybe to the point of falling in love, but I wonder if she has slightly pale thoughts.

... but there's no derm el...

"Because Dermuel used to say that Filine was Rhoderich the person to think of... isn't it a little difficult? Obviously I treat Filine as a child and I don't think I see her as a very fiancée"

"Really? I think it's also nice to be a knight who separates herself from her parents' home, engaged to protect a lonely girl who wants to go after the Lord, and who keeps the Lord's thoughts together while supporting her until she grows up..."

"Mother, is that the idea of the next one?

You make my side too much of a story, and when you swell your cheeks, your mother starts to take out the bookboard and write it down, "It's important to write it down before you forget what you came up with," she said, glowing her pitch-black eyes. Mother said as she wrote.

"Rosemaine, please tell Dermuel that I had such a meeting. All I did was introduce the bridesmaid candidate, and I just expressed my personal hopes about the treatment of the two of them. I'm not the one who decides what to do in the end. Take responsibility for each one."

I think in your mother's words. It seems that Filine can also be picked up by her mother. But there was no word when it came to protecting Darmuel.

"Mother, wouldn't my absence destabilize Darmuel's position? Will your mother protect you, just like Filine?

When I ask, your mother lifts her face as she says, "If you are Philine's fiancée, I will protect you..."

"It's best to ask your lords about you, Rosemaine. How about depositing it with Master Bonifatius in order to maintain the position of proximity of the Lords' clan? If you go to the center, you'll need more drilling, and if you train and go back and forth to the temple as before, you'll rarely be able to throw a heartless word at the nobles."

"I see. I get it. Depending on Darmuel's response, I'll ask your uncle."

I am a little relieved that you were also thinking about Dermuel for once, my mother makes her black eyes sparkle and looks at me with a smile that looks just like Brother Cornelius, who was making fun of me earlier.

"Please be as adorable as I asked the reseller to be earlier, and Lady Bonifatius will accept it immediately."

"Mother!"

I mock my mother, who laughed like a tease. However, her mother laughed and flushed the couscous, dropping her gaze on the bookboard.

Having finished her note quickly on the bookboard, her mother sipped tea with a satisfied smile and exhaled slowly.

"... I didn't think I'd be able to have a tranquil day immersed in my hobby this way. I am truly grateful to you."

"Huh?"

"I had the hardest time before you came. Hey, Rosemaine. Could you hang out with me for a little while?

Mother starts talking slowly. Tell the story of your mother herself, who has heard it before, but has never heard it very carefully.

Starting with the political marriage to protect against Veronica's harassment, the couple relationship that puts duties and roles first with each other, the dispute between the Second and Third Ladies, dedicated to the name of Brother Eckhardt, the entry into the Temple of Ferdinand, the marriage of Brother Eckhardt and the death of his wife who had just been found pregnant, the fact that Brother Eckhardt, who had lost both the Lord, his wife and his son, seemed half dead, the defense connected to the vicinity of Vilfleet brought in at that time, Veronica's birth and the attempt to make him a legacy of Calstead...

"Cornelius, who grew up seeing his two brothers swung by the Lord, did not want to prescribe the Lord or anything else, and was a child who could study and get everything done on schedule. As a mother, I was angry that I could do it but didn't really try to work on it."

... Speaking of which, Brother Cornelius wasn't anything but brilliant in the beginning, was he?

Until I did form the "Angelica's Grade Up Team," I remember it was a stance that that would be good if I had achieved a degree of shamelessness as a senior nobleman.

"After the death of his predecessors, Veronica sifted through more and more power, while the situation in his parents' Haldenzel became tougher and Risegang lost more and more influence. All I could predict was that I and my sons would be crushed by Veronica, and that I would feel at ease every day....... Lady Veronica suddenly lost her legs at that time. This man must have chosen Veronica's puppet, and Gilvester, who was almost blind, moved."

If he thinks he has announced arrangements regarding the nobility of other territories, he said that it was frequent to make him appear for days and that the aristocratic district became noisy about what had happened to Aub. I suppose so, he suddenly returned during the Lords' Council to change the temple chief, who had always been sheltered by Veronica, to rebuff Veronica's injustice and to close it in the white tower.

"Master Calstead, who was supposed to be at the Lords' Conference, suddenly came back in the middle of the Lords' Conference and started running to deal with criminals at Aerenfest. When I listened, I didn't immediately understand."

... If you ask me this way, I seriously don't know if it's from the aristocratic side. What the hell is Aub doing in the middle of the Lords' Conference? I think so.

"In such a state of confusion, Master Veronica told me that he would baptize the civilian blue witch apprentice who caused his leg loss as his own daughter. You said you wouldn't be so burdened with me because I would adopt with Aub right away."

"Yeah!? No matter how soon you give it to your adoptive daughter, you take it as a real parent, so there's no way it's not your mother's burden, is there?

"Really. This is why I'm in trouble."

However, it caused Veronica to drain, and the mother decided to take on the fact that Aerenfest, now lacking in magic, had the necessary magic, that Ferdinand was the child to shelter, and that Ferdinand himself had also asked her to do so.

"You've made a good decision. I can't believe you made civilians your own daughters..."

"I was worried, too. But Master Calstead said Master Ferdinand would also be vulgar, and he was looking forward to Eckhardt's return to Master Ferdinand's side. I haven't seen Eckhardt smile in a long time. Because of Master Ferdinand and Eckhardt, I thought that was enough reason to take you away. But you gave me more than that."

As expected, Brother Eckhardt regained his vitality and joyfully began to serve Ferdinand as he entered and left the temple. Brother Lamprecht, the escort knight, was also saved by saving Wilfried from obsolescence. The creation of one epidemic after another allowed the women's faction to kick the Veronicans in just a moment. Brother Cornelius improved his grades at once by watching Angelica study.

"I have been able to immerse myself in my hobby by printing, and it has brought great fruit to my parents Haldenzel. Really, everything has suddenly turned out well since you were adopted. … the couple also started talking about the treatment of Rosemaine, and we finally had an uncompulsory exchange of minds."

Until I heard from my mother today, she thought I was a couple that was doing somewhat well in a political marriage, but she wasn't.

Calstead also spends longer hours at home from Ferdinand visiting the hall every few days. And even if one can properly ignore it if one's own child, one cannot easily ignore the words of a young child who has decided to leave it from Ferdinand to become the adoptive daughter of a lord. He said that your father had more time to talk to his mother in order to answer questions about common sense of nobility that were too obvious for us.

"I am grateful to you, and I was going to support you as my mother. But you seemed more comfortable with the Temple and Master Ferdinand, so you didn't even think you had to squeeze it out. There are also Florence, adoptive mothers in the castle."

Apparently, your mother was watching me with as much of a feeling as my final safety net. With Ferdinand, you didn't have to worry. Yet Ferdinand was to head to Arlensbach with his royal life.

"I was worried about you after the departure of Master Ferdinand, the support of my heart, and at the same time it was difficult to tell how far I could reach you at your age. If Master Ferdinand could say goodbye successfully to the period of preparation for departure, that would have been good..."

As soon as Ferdinand left, he was in the House of Lords, so he had to figure out if he could get back on his own while the kids were alone, if his fiancée, Wilfried, could support him instead of Ferdinand, and if he should get his hands on him as a mother.

"But my departure for Arlensbach was foregone, and I was entrusted with the rooting against the Risegang at Solemnity, which Master Ferdinand was rooting for. When the winter social world started, and we started making contact with Risegang, there was information from the House of Lords, and Solemn Qing was unexpectedly brought forward, right? Solemn Qing has begun without the end of its roots to contain Risegang, and Risegang has risen."

Since Brunhilde decided to become the Second Lady, he said it was good to have decided to work together and keep Risegang under control. Now the old man of Risegang is just excited and upbeat just after Solemn Qing, and should have settled down to some extent if time had.

But in the meantime, Wilfried said he was headed to Risegang to attach cooperation.

"As soon as I heard the story, I cautioned Lamprecht to stop Master Wilfried from heading to Risegang, who had no roots at all, but in the end he would have imposed it unstoppably, wouldn't he?

They're back with oil on the fire. "The old folks are annoyingly excited," Geebe Risegang contacted, saying her mother turned bright blue.

When I started talking to Brunhilde about how to contain Risegang, the Lords' Council had begun, and when it was over, it had been decided that I would be the king's adopted daughter.

"Things are really changing before I know what's going on anymore. Mr. Ferdinand was often able to deal with it."

Normally, there was still too much holes in the absence of Ferdinand, who had taken on the coordinator in one hand, during a period of confusion that had to end after the great thing of Solemn Qing had been done.

"If Ferdinand and you were engaged, not Lord Wilfried, we would have avoided going to Arlensbach many times."

Mother smiles sadly, though there is nothing she can do about it now. I drink tea with cockroaches and laugh small.

"I didn't think much of myself getting engaged to Master Ferdinand. I was just thinking about how to save Master Ferdinand when something happened in Arlensbach."

"Is that the result of avoiding collusion? I think you did well."

Mother stretched her arms as she said so and touched my cheek. I cheek from myself at my fingertips, which I reluctantly touch gently.

"I've been praised for avoiding coalition... for the first time"

I bowed my eyes softly to the warmth that was coming through. Tears fall at will.

"On the face of it, no one will compliment you greatly, because it will be an imposition on those in other realms, and I think there are very few that I think need it. So this will be the only place I praise....... but I'm really glad. By avoiding Ferdinand's alliance, there are three lives you can save."

Mother names Ferdinand, Justkus and Eckhardt. I nod again and again, thinking in my heart that there is also Razapham.

"I was able to help them because you acted. Be proud."

"Mother..."

"It's only natural to worry if you're told it's a risk to your life far away. Except for putting it on the table or not, I was worried about Mr. Eckhardt and Ferdinand. Richarda will be worried about Justkus."

There are people in Aerenfest who felt like nobody was worried about the three of them heading to Aerensbach, but they were worried about me properly. My body lost its strength when I found that out.

"They told me not to worry about Master Ferdinand and the others, and nobody worried about me with them. Me, it was sad that it seemed as though Master Ferdinand and the others were not worth worrying about. If no one was worried about you, if I wasn't the only one worried about you, I'd even feel like I was stuck."

Mother leaned down, moisturizing her eyes as she stared at me.

"Hey, Rosemaine. When I leave this room, I will be a royal daughter, a mother who boasts a son promoted near the royal side. Only at this moment in the hidden room will you allow your son or daughter to grieve for going far away"

"Mother..."

I've never seen a nobleman's way of showing his emotions only in a hidden room. My mother, who also had an aristocratic smile when she spoke of her memories, distorts her face.

"They're worried about Ahrensbach, but I'm also worried about you with the future of Jürgenschmidt on your little shoulders."

It conveys your mother's worrying feelings from her burning, falling tears in pain.

The royalty was discussing whether we could get Gluthris Height and what we would do after we got it. A clan of lords who were discussing how to lead Aerenfest after I fell out. How many of you would have worried about myself getting gluthris heights.

"Mother..."

I reached out to my mother. It was said that nobility was not sweet as such, so he extended his hand, which until now he thought was useless to stretch, like when he was sweet to his mother.

My hand was shaken back properly.

As you can see, there are people here who accept your thoughts, and your mother gripped me back tightly.

"Rosemaine, from now on, I cannot bear the burden on your shoulders with you. So, at least, I'll help you get there without worrying about Aerenfest. Proceed without losing your virtue. Win what you want, not be swept away by great power, when you get the Gluthris Height. You can do it. She's my daughter."