Ascendance of a Bookworm

Dirk held his fist to Hultmoot, who asks quietly.

"I want to be a nobleman, a temple chief, a clergyman, an orphan dean"

"Ho?

I stare at Dilk so that Haltmoot is a little funny. But those eyes remain sharp.

"The orphanage was in terrible condition until Rosemayne arrived, but Rosemayne made it better, so we could get a meal and spend the winter without freezing."

"You seem to know better than anything."

Haltmoot prompts ahead, nodding with a face that sees a well-made student.

"Besides, Rosemaine is the only aristocrat who can help when there is a danger to the gray clergy, and the underage Rosemaine can be the head of the temple because the clergyman is well supported"

Hartmoot seems very satisfied with Dirk's words. I don't argue with you because I have a sense of support, but there are parts of you that are just a little, just a little bit unintelligible. I don't feel like Dilk is being brainwashed by Hultmoot.

"The gray clerics and the gray witches were in great trouble last spring when they heard about the chief cleric changing. If the chief priest changes, he doesn't know how the temple or orphanage will change."

I made various reforms as the orphan dean because I had permission from Ferdinand, the clergyman. If you watch as the orphan dean asks the clergyman to do anything, you'll know for yourself which position is up there. If the new chief cleric is the one who gives no to my plan, it is no surprise that the orphanage is back to normal. The adult gray clerics who knew the previous orphanage were very anxious, he said.

"Master Rosemayne has made Master Haltmoot his clergyman. We were all delighted because he was a cleric chief who was gentle and not mean to Master Rosemaine. But I only knew the orphanage where Master Rosemaine was, so I wasn't really sure why the adults would be so happy at that time."

Dirk, who never got out of the orphanage before baptism, and the nobles who come to the orphanage are all near me and I don't remember being in an unpleasant nobleman, apparently couldn't sympathize with adult anxiety and relief.

That was the same when Konrat came to the orphanage, because he was a noble child, and although the adults were nervous, Dilk said the kids of the same age just couldn't help but be happy.

"The Konrat was just like ourselves. Until then, I was the only one to use the black stone that Fran would bring me, and I just started using the Konrat with me."

Two of the eating dilks and a contort from the nobility sometimes pulled out their magic with black demon stones to avoid overflowing with magic. It seems that the fact that the two of us started doing the magic drain that only we were doing strengthened our fellowship with Konrat, but Dilk never felt the difference between the aristocratic child and the orphan.

"But when so many aristocratic children arrive in winter, every child seems great, and it's hard to listen to adults, saying why the aristocratic child has to do such a thing or patience until he returns to the aristocracy"

He was equally aware that he was spending time in an orphanage but not an orphanage person, and even though he didn't like the fact that we were being seen downstairs, including the adults, he figured out. That seemed to be Dirk's first encounter in an orphanage that presupposed equality, a difference in status in an unpleasant sense.

"What do you think would happen to us if these aristocrats became orphan deans and clergy chiefs? And Conrad told me, and I finally figured it out."

After spending one season and seeing that the consciousness of the children left unchanged without being taken away by their parents, Dilk apparently felt on his skin that the normal aristocratic child would never have consciousness as an orphan.

And the other day. I came back to the orphanage with Vilma disturbed and told him that in another year, me and Haltmut would be gone from the temple, that Melhior would succeed me, and that Vilma would be bought out. The temple chief, the clergyman, the orphan director, the orphanage administrator, everything changes. They say the orphanage panicked. Dirk seemed very scared of the confusion the adults usually had not disturbed.

"I thought about what to do to keep the orphanage out of trouble, but I didn't know. I hope there are good nobles who think about orphanages properly, but aren't there many good nobles? It's hard to go back to the old orphanage.... because Delia can't get out of the orphanage"

Looking back at Delia as Dirk says so. How Delia, who can't get out of the orphanage for the rest of her life, lives depends to a great extent on the way the orphanage is. Temple chiefs and clergy must be good aristocrats in order for Delia, who took too much care of Dirk and sinned and could no longer leave the orphanage, to live without anxiety.

"Nothing. Neither the temple chief nor the clergyman needs to be noble, Dirk."

Originally chosen by the Blue Cleric. You don't need to be a nobleman. As Hultmoot quietly pointed out, Dilk shook his head to the side.

"I heard it was before, but now it's different because the Lords clan is the temple chief and a lot of nobles are starting to get into and out of the temple. The nobles are the only ones who can restrain them. Different?

"It must be. Surely nobility cannot be stopped by a blue cleric who is not noble"

He heard from the former side-services who returned to the orphanage after Solemn Qing that there is an insurmountable wall between us, who are also blue clerics and nobles. There are so many aristocratic children living in the temple as blue apprentices because their parents sinned. I can't fathom anything with just a blue cleric.

"I want to protect the way Master Rosemayne taught me to do it, so that everyone in the orphanage and Delia can stay without feeling sad. I want to be chief temple chief or clergyman of nobility for that."

No matter how much you want it, it's not something you get, like aristocratic status. Dirk had given up. But the opportunity has come for magical orphans to be sorted by magic power and given magic equipment. If we do not receive the Baptism Ceremony as nobility, we will not be recognized as nobility.

"... if you miss now, there won't be any more."

"There will be plenty of aristocratic children in the orphanage, and only this time will the magic equipment be handed out as a remedy"

That Solemn Qing happened, that the children were able to avoid the syndicate, that the number of nobles needed to be significantly reduced and increased as soon as possible, that they were able to obtain magic equipment from the royal family, that Dirk was before baptism. It's the only time in every sense.

"But Dirk's important family seems to disagree, doesn't it?

Haltmoot fingers Delia, who is waving her head in tears. Dirk looked at Delia with a very troubled face.

"Dilk, please. Rethink. Once I'm baptized as a nobleman, I'll never see Dirk again. I can't call myself a family anymore, and I have to change my language and attitude. I'll put up with you no matter how bad the situation is, so don't go away."

Every single word of Delia stabs me in the chest. I don't want to leave my family, I seem to see myself in the past screaming. I know how hard it is to have to leave my family and not be able to call me family from now on.

... Dirk, don't go to him. Stay on your side. Delia really cared about you. It's the support of my heart that counts more than anything else as I live!

That's what I shouted in my heart, but I kept my mouth shut. If I say, the orphan dean, it becomes an order. Plus, Haltmoot's in the interview right now. Don't imitate me pinching my mouth saying I respect each choice.

Dirk says no to Hultmoot and heads to Delia. I stroke my deep red hair to comfort Delia hugging Dilk like she didn't want me to go.

"Didn't Delia tell you? What did Master Rosemayne bring to us and how did the orphanage change? And how you protected us from the nobles and the nobles of the realm."

When Delia was a sidekick, she wasn't very close, wary that she was a spy for the temple chief. Even though it was such a relationship, Delia seemed to tell Dirk about me very well. The scorched tea eyes, close to Dilk's black, are burning with heat that speaks of a hero for him.

"Just like Delia, Master Haltmoot always tells me when he comes to the orphanage. How amazing Master Rosemaine is. Are you working hard?"

... Hey, Haltmoot!? What are you doing in the orphanage!?

When I look at Hartmoot in a stunned mood, Hartmoot nods with the perfect expression of "pleasure".

"Master Rosemayne also became the adopted daughter of a lord to protect his precious things," said Hartmoot. I also want to be a nobleman to protect the fellow who grew up with this orphanage, like Master Rosemaine. Understand, sister. "

Delia cried out. I don't want to leave my family. But I can't even hold the dilk back any longer. The shaking in that narrow space loosened Delia's hand, which was clinging to the dilk.

Dilk gets out of Delia's arm, which is slightly loose, and comes back in front of Hultmoot without looking back at Delia's hand, which was stretched out again towards him.

"I want to make sure that the orphanage that Master Rosemayne has made better for me is not undone. Please, Master Haltmoot. Make me a nobleman."

Hultmoot looks quietly into Dilk's straight eyes.

"It's also hard to use a lot of recovery pills to build up magic, but right now, if you get a baptism ceremony from an orphanage, you'll be seen from around you as a criminal child. The public's eyes and wind will be strong."

When Dirk is to be baptized, he will take his adoptive father as his guardian with the children of the old Veronicans. It is also likely that the other nobles will put you together with the children of the criminals, and the children who will be baptized together will tell you that they are really civilian.

"Nonetheless, Lady Rosemaine, who has protected you, will be gone. I'm not ready to be a nobleman."

"... ready to be half-baked, I can't tell you that an orphan wants to be a nobleman"

Scorched tea eyes intersect orange eyes.

After a few seconds, Hultmoot softened his expression.

"Fine. Ask Aub for your magic equipment."

"I'm afraid so."

Dilk pulled out of his body as he was horrified. After kneeling once with his arms crossed, he rises and heads to Delia.

"Um, Delia"

Even if Dirk speaks, Delia doesn't respond by just staring at him with a watery eye full of tears. I just get stunned, and the dilk, which had a good prestige until earlier, starts to smell a little.

"Delia, are you mad?

"... I won't reply if you don't call me sister, not Delia"

"Yeah!?

When Dirk raises his surprise at the unexpected words, Delia deflects his face as he raises his tung and jaw.

"Until Dirk became a nobleman, until I got out of here, I decided not to respond unless you called me sister. It's a punishment for not telling me, my family, that I decided to do such a big thing. Because Dilk imitates Rosemayne all the trouble!

"It's not the trouble, it's the cool part!

"I'm about to make a big deal out of it with my thoughts, so I'm not wrong in the trouble! Ya! Master Rosemayne has always been!

... Yea!? It's my fault!?

I know it's Delia's illuminating reaction, but it's just about. The escort knights standing behind me laugh small at Dilk's smiling sister-brother quarrel that says "But it was such a profit" with Delia lining up my old career.

"Has it always been thoughtful and varied?"

"You haven't changed."

"No, Master Rosemaine has changed"

I tend my chest like Haltmoot is good at it.

"The influence is much broader than it used to be, and it's growing,"

... because it's not a follow-up or anything!

Philine has spoken softly where I am humiliated as a story of a sister-brother fight.

"Dear Rosemaine, may I speak with Konrat?

When I give my permission, Filine walks to the Konrat with her magic equipment.

"Konrat, can I talk to you for a second?

"Yes, sister"

Nodding at Konrat's answer, Filine offered him the magic equipment he had.

"You have the magic equipment your mother left you. You said that Rosemaine would give you the recovery medicine that I couldn't prepare. You can return to your nobility. Would you like to be baptized as my brother?

Konrat tilted his neck with a decent face to Filine's words.

"How can I be a nobleman when I don't have the money to have recovery pills? Vilma said that the lord will see to anyone who gets magic equipment from the lord, but it won't happen to me, will it?

The children to be baptized from the orphanage are to be guardians of Aub, and the money and tools received from the solemn nobility are to be used for their education. If he is to be baptized as Philine's brother, less than the amount of magic the lord has designated, the conqueror will not have a lord's guardian.

"Didn't your sister always say it's hard to get everything you need for the House of Lords when you come to the orphanage? I don't think it's possible to prepare until my minute. Because we need dozens or hundreds of sheets of paper."

It's hard for underage Filine, who has to leave the house and support her life herself, to carry her all the way to Konrat. That seems to be better understood by Konrat.

"... If Konrat returns to the aristocracy, I intend to return to my house. If you still have what your mother left you, you can make it to the House of Lords."

There's some material I've bought so far, and if there's anything left in the house, you two can go to the House of Lords, or you can put forward what's near me and ask your father to give you money, Filine says.

"Sister, I came here to live because Master Yonasara took my magic equipment away and I cannot live as a nobleman, and because my father is unwilling to help me. I don't just want to go back to that house."

It was Filine who suggested going back to her parents' house to bring Konrat back to the aristocracy, but Konrat refused "I absolutely don't like it".

"Hey, Konrat. Only now can you return to your nobility. Only now that the orphans have been given magic equipment and Master Rosemaine has given them recovery pills...... Living as a gray cleric would be completely different from being a nobleman, wouldn't it?

In Philine's repeated words, Konrat shook his neck sideways, "Keep that magic equipment for your sister's child. Filine, who was turned down, frowned sadly, then closed her eyes once and exhaled softly to calm herself down.

"If Konrat chooses a path that does not make him aristocratic, I am no longer left with a path to live as a sister and brother. The only way to spend time with Konrat is to buy you out."

"... are you buying me away? It won't do anything."

"I want to spend time with my brother."

Philine stood four fingers smiling.

"... I have four paths. A path that leaves the Konrat in an orphanage and follows Master Rosemaine in his name. Way to spend all the time in Aerenfest to adulthood and leave Konrat in an orphanage to chase Master Rosemaine. The road back to my parents' house to make Konrat a nobleman. Way to stay in Aerenfest to spend time with you who won't be a nobleman"

Konrat stares quietly at Filine stating her path in a slow tone.

"Tell me how Konrat thinks about his future so that I can choose my future"

"... I..."

That's where Konrat said it. Watching as he opens and closes his mouth to worry about whether or not I can tell Filine. Filine laughed like she was in trouble, watching as she did so.

"If Konrat doesn't tell me, you're going to put me through this, right?

"... I want to live for the orphanage. I want to live with everyone in the orphanage who helped me when it was hardest, not with my sister."

"Really..."

"Thanks for letting me know," Philine whines after dropping her shoulder like she was discouraged.

"How are you going to live in an orphanage?

"I want to be a blue cleric like Master Fritak."

A blue cleric with a thick trust of temple chiefs and clergy chiefs who can take them back even if they are taken in Solemn Qing. A blue cleric like the one who is entrusted with the temple when the temple chief or clergyman is away. A blue cleric who can earn his own money and cover his own life. They say that's the ideal of a contort.

... I've never known Fritak to be a contort hero.

"Lutz of the Plantan Chamber of Commerce said. He wants a blue cleric familiar with the workshop. I want to be a blue cleric entering the workshop. Besides, I promised Dirk. If Dirk can get his magic gear and become a nobleman, I will support Dirk for a blue cleric who can live on his own," he said.

The two of us are going to protect the orphanage, and the yellow-green eyes of Konrat, very similar to Filine, sparkled.

"As my sister said to me, if I may also say to you, stay in Aerenfest until you are an adult. And I'm glad you're just helping me out a little bit so I can be a blue cleric after the baptism ceremony"

It costs money to be a blue cleric apprentice, even if it's not enough to be a nobleman.

Since Konrat is a junior aristocrat and has little magic power, it is almost useless with a magic supply shortly after baptism. There is a difference in the subsidies given from the territory depending on the amount of magic supplied, so I want you to help me grow a little and become more magical and self-reliant, Konrat said.

"It should be much more useful to help Lord Dilk and Merhior as blue clerics than to make me noble enough to be abandoned by my father"

Looks like Konrat found a non-aristocratic way of life in the orphanage. He wants to be a self-sustaining blue cleric, not a gray one that gets bought off easily.

"Okay. I, until the adults, will be watching Konrat at Aerenfest while we protect the orphanage together."

That's what Filine said when she laughed at Nicole. I seem to have chosen my own convincing path, and I am also horrified. And if Philine could choose the way, I, the Lord, should support it.

As well as rooting for your mother so that you can support Filine's life, you must ask the Lords' clan, the supreme power of Aerenfest, to help ensure that the temple is not vandalized even when the nobility has more opportunities to enter and leave.

... where do I start?

Staring at Philine's interaction with Konrat, thinking ahead in a slightly brighter mood. Konrat told Filine what he wanted, and she seemed very happy that it was accepted. You look much sweeter to Filine than you've ever been.

"You told me my sister was in a meeting with a merchant and a nobleman before, right? Tell me how nobles and merchants talk and how Rosemayne worked."

"I don't mind that...... does Konrat want to go to a meeting of merchants?

Though I thought the meeting of merchants didn't seem to be the work of the blue clergy...... I can't say it to a pleasant contort. Besides, maybe if Konrat really became a blue cleric entering and leaving the workshop, the Plantan Chamber of Commerce side wouldn't necessarily ask him to attend the meeting to ask for his opinion.

"Lately, people from the Plantan Chamber of Commerce who come to the workshop have also taught us a little bit about business. I want to be a clever blue cleric of negotiation, like Lady Rosemayne."

... Hey, Konrat. I'm not off to anything!?

"Are you a blue cleric who can negotiate like Master Rosemaine...... It's a long way from here."

"I'll do my best"

Philine glanced at me glimpsely, looking down at the tense contort, and Couscous laughed.

"Philine was a lot more calm and confronted with Konrat,"

Though it was quite confusing and emotional when you talked to me, today's interaction in the orphanage seemed calm. Of course, I guess the inside had all sorts of emotions going around, but I didn't show it outside. And when I praised it, Philine dyed her cheeks as they were lit.

"Darmuel scolded me."

"Huh?"

"The absence of Lady Rosemaine in a year compelled me to choose the way, and in worrying about the treatment of Konrat, I was suddenly pleased that Konrat had the possibility of being able to return to the aristocracy, jumping without thinking about the later"

Filine is a shy failure of her own, she says.

"Me, there are no guardians I can rely on other than Master Rosemayne, and until now Richarda and the others have been consulted, but they are gone, and I can't talk to everyone in the castle about Konrat..."

The pre-baptism child can't talk about the treatment of the Konrat even though he's not included in the number, Filine shrugs. It seems to be the basic aristocratic view that I don't need to worry because I'm not Filine's brother more than I went into an orphanage.

"There was no one besides Lady Rosemayne who seemed to get to me personally."

As for Filine, that's all I have left, she thought, but she blamed Darmuel for that.

"Darmuel told me. When you put Konrat in the orphanage, you shouldn't be bothered that the part where Rosemaine is responsible is over."

He pointed out that he wanted too much from me, who was scolded for stepping in too much, even where he got into Filine's house and saved Konrat. He said that it was not for me to think that it would be noble to make Konrat or in any way to take him to the center.

"Master Rosemaine is my Lord, and he will personally be my choice and my future, and if I consult him, he will haunt my head about Konrat, but he must not be sweet about it. Though my lord and protector, because I am neither the protector nor the protector of the contort, I shall seek no more assistance for the orphan."

And he talked to Filine about the path she could choose and the range of assistance she could, and told her to ask Conrad's wishes first.

... whats that, darmuel is cool!

"He even told me that if Konrat really wanted to be a nobleman and I wanted to help him, he could be his fiancée."

"Huh!? Did Darmuel propose?

"It just gave me the option of being able to help if I had to, rather than propose. But I thought sweetening to that Darmuel word was no better than sweetening to the Lord, Lady Rosemaine."

Filine laughs like she was illuminated by saying so.

"Me, I always had Dermuel pull my hand. I graduated from an unreliable girl like my sister who had to be protected, and I wanted to walk next door with my chest up. So I chose a path that would never be sweet to Darmuel."

Indeed, Dermuel never appeared in the choices Filine made against Konrat.

... but if you think about this from the Dermuel side, haven't you been shaken?

I turn my gaze to Dermuel while supporting Filine, who says, "As I asked Clarissa when she became an independent woman, she proposes from me". Darmuel didn't try to turn this way.

... Should I tell you that one day Filine will propose?