Ascendance of a Bookworm

As we finish breakfast and practice fesh peel, the proximity comes from the castle. There will be a replacement escort knight, and today's appointment will be confirmed.

"I want to use the hidden room because I want to make sure my discussions with Benno scheduled for this afternoon don't leak too far outside. Ask Darmuel to escort us."

"Dear Rosemayne, what will you do with the civilian accompaniment?

When Hartmoot asked me with a smile, I caged my mouth for a moment. The only way to protect your own secrets is to choose from a group of famous devotees who can absolutely keep orders. And if you look at Haltmut, who is full of motivation, and everyone else who is off his face just saying, "Choose Haltmut," I had only one choice.

"Ugh, to Haltmoot, please"

"Yes, sir."

Ask Monica and Fran to prepare the stash room in the morning and take over with the clerk in the clergy's office. We talked about the future orphanage because there were also Merhior and his neighbors. Since I was also the orphan dean, when I told him that I also wanted the orphan dean to be appointed from the side of Melchior, Melchior turned out to be a very troubled face.

"Are you the orphan dean...... The position of chief cleric is similar to that of a civilian, so it is easy to appoint him from near my side. But the orphan dean takes care of civilian children, right? It may be closer to serving as a job content than a civilian, but I don't think it's too different from my previous job to be able to take over in a year. I'm still less proximate... and I think women are better suited."

There are so many men in the vicinity of Merhior that it seems that the management of orphanages with young children is just someone who considers them out of jurisdiction. Given the eyes of the surrounding nobles, there also seems to be resistance on the part of the proximity to include women in the temple's side service. I know the outside world is important, but I'm in trouble. My side of the service was meant to come with Merhior, but Monica and the others will not be able to take it away, no matter what they think.

... because it's hard to change your impression right away. What am I gonna do?

"Although the orphanage is mostly devoid of magic, there are now children of the old Veronicans, and there is my workshop. So unlike before, I think we need to manage the Lords clan..."

Given how the children of the old Veronicans grow up and how they deal with it when there are those in the printing industry who wish to buy those who are deeply constructed, I think it would be better to entrust the orphan dean to those who are easy to report to Aub whether they are a clan of lords or their proximity.

"Then would you like to be on Sister Charlotte or near Brunhilde's side? However, Charlotte, my sister is busy until the end of her mother's birth, and Brunhilde hasn't finished her marriage, so it's hard to take over....... Rosemaine I'm leaving. Are there no other sides besides Brunhilde?

Pong and his hand at Merhior's suggestion, I turned my gaze to Filine, who was in the same room in the stewardship. It is a great person to take over easily near me.

"... Philine, will you be the orphan dean?

"Is it me!?

"You'll be watching Konrat for three years until you grow up, won't you? Then I think Dean Orphan is a good job. You've seen the job description on my side, and the orphan dean will get a job allowance. You'll need a steady income more than I'm gone, won't you?

In addition to the apprenticeship's salary, I have provided financial assistance to Filine with help fees in the temple, copies of books, etc., but my income will fall dramatically when I am gone. I don't have a problem with food and living because my mother lets me live in the house, but I would have trouble if I didn't have the income to cover the expenses I needed otherwise.

"Be the orphan director for three years in the form of a relay and take over for anyone who thinks Filine can be entrusted with the orphanage. I'll talk to the foster fathers."

If you've been to the orphanage many times and Konrat is in the orphanage, Philine, you're not supposed to do anything intact to the orphanage. The next orphan dean will also choose carefully.

"But me, I can't prepare your room or anything"

"I'll lower the orphan dean's office by piece of furniture, and let's keep Monica and Nicola on the side, plus either Fran or Zahm. I will increase Philine's work at my mercy, so I will have the cost of maintaining the orphan dean's office for three years."

It is difficult to accommodate money solely to Filine without any reason. Aid is also easy if there is a reason to entrust the orphan dean with it.

"Okay. I'll take it."

"If the proximity on sister Rosemaine is the orphan dean, you can rest assured. Philine, I'm glad you helped me when you came to the temple.... just because I'm anxious to take over all of it in a year"

With Melchior relying on Filine to say so, Filine grins and nods happily. I smiled at Nicole too.

"Melchior, there's a fee for helping Filine. Please do not pay properly because I will prepare a table on how much I will pay for the job description and restraint time. They do more work than they should, so you should pay your side."

I am paying nearby, and when I stretched my chest, I turned my gaze to Merhior with a face slightly expected by Merhior's side.

Then, after lunch, he moved to the Orphan Dean's Office with Hartmut, Darmuel, Angelica and the Temple's side services, which are floating for the first time being allowed to accompany him in the Orphan Dean's Office's hidden room. As Nicola drinks the treat she prepared for me and the tea Fran prepared for me, Benno and Marc arrive, so we exchange greetings and enter the stash room. So far, as usual.

What is not always the case is that Haltmut has entered a hidden room where only about Fran, Gill and Dermuel have ever been allowed in. Benno, sitting in the front, looked a little surprised and turned his gaze once to Haltmut, who stood behind me, "Are you sure?" Ask me. I exhaled softly as I watched Benno, who was incalculable in measuring how far I could tell a smashed story.

"... I got his name, so I'm fine. I can't violate the Lord's orders, so if you order me not to divulge what's here, I won't divulge it outside."

"I am delighted to know that Master Rosemaine has received his name. I've always wanted to be here since I heard that the important story was that it was a hidden room."

I watch Benno smile slightly drawn to him as Haltmoot says as he was thrilled. On the inside, you must think you want to go home right now, or you've often been named after him like this.

... I wouldn't have taken it if I hadn't been pushed to give my name away.

"Don't hesitate to tell us anything, Master Rosemaine. I know that you are a civilian, that you are Gunter's daughter, and that you have been close to Benno since then."

"Huh!?

I inadvertently stopped moving to a word I had not assumed at all. Keep your eyes open and stare at Haltmoot, I can't move.

"It's possible to get to some right answer if you listen in an orphanage or workshop and crush the contradictions one by one. The final correct answer was given to Master Ferdinand. So don't worry, talk to me."

"I care! What is it, it!? I haven't heard a word from you before!? Did Darmuel know!?

Looking back at Dermuel standing next to Hartmoot, who knew that Hartmoot was looking into it, Dermuel also had a surprised look on his face and shook his head hastily.

"I don't know. I've never known it before."

"Because I thought Rosemayne would be sick if I said this information without giving her a name."

Haltmoot said so with a refreshing smile. He kept his mouth shut until I gave him my name so he wouldn't worry about what to do to stop him, what would happen to the lower town, what to do if it spread to the nobles.

"Haltmoot, does that mean you leaked it to someone else...?

"I won't imitate you like that. You're right to go in and out of the orphanage and the workshop again and again to relieve everyone of their tension and vigilance, gather information quite carefully from the gray clerics who say nothing but plausible things, carefully crush small contradictions and guess, and then get in the sight of the Ferdinands who wonder if they will be disposed of on the spot. Why should you teach anyone who hasn't had any difficulty?

Hartmoot told me with a face that I didn't know why, and I felt like I didn't know why. I don't understand Haltmut's criteria that I can get that far just because I wanted to know why Dermuel would be heavily used. I don't know the mental structure that I can hold and satisfy in my chest by doing that and getting the right answers.

"... Ugh, I'm kind of tired already"

I'm so tired before I get to the point because of Haltmoot. When I dropped my shoulder force, it caught my eye to correct my posture as Benno in the front regained his mind.

"So, what the hell are we talking about this time? We only understand that something terrible has happened because merchants from other realms bother to call us at times that are not strange whenever they come. Was it also a big deal at the Lords' Conference?

I'm busy, so let's get to the point, and I get stuck in the reddish brown eyes that I just said, and I correct my posture once too.

"I write to you in this letter to tell the guild chief. I want to talk to Benno about secrets he can't divulge."

"I understand."

Benno, who received the letter, gave it to Marc and turned this way.

"I can't tell you the details, but I'm leaving Aerenfest a year later."

"... a year later? In the fall there will be Grechelle's reform, and when the Plantan Chamber of Commerce's No. 2 store opens, are you saying come about another territory in the spring?

I'm desperate to keep it down, but I'm like, "Are you going to kill me!?" It says firmly on Benno's face. I shook my head to the side in a hurry.

"No. My adoptive father gave me permission at Aerenfest so I can get involved in the business as well. But they don't leave the business to minors in other territories. So there will be no movement to the printers until three years after I become an adult. We must also check the situation there and prepare shops and workshops…"

As I explained, Benno raised his hand a little and took control, and put his arms together and grinned like a shudder.

"I mean, you should be able to move in a year, right?

"Huh? No. In three years..."

"The business plans put out by Master Rosemayne are always brought forward. If you're ready in three years, you'll never make it."

"Ha!? Mr. Benno, that's terrible!

You're telling me you can't move until you're an adult! And when I glanced at Benno, Huh Benno laughed.

"It's based on experience and facts, so it's not terrible. Is the move for all the Gutenbergs? If the Lords move to another realm, they'll take it exclusively, won't they?

"I'd like you to come if you can, but I'm not saying it's impossible for the Gutenbergs. It's a long way from here, and there's going to be some backlash with the locals, because it's not always as convenient at close range as it is now, and if you take them all, Aerenfest's printing industry will recede."

I can't do anything to pull through all the Gutenbergs at a time when my successor is finally growing up.

"... I just want a printing workshop, so when I'm ready, I'm going to ask the Gutenbergs to do just the usual business trips. Then some take them without waiting three years. From the Guilberta Chamber of Commerce to Touri and a few others, the renaissance dedicated to dyeing is definitely going to take. Tell them what you intend, because they are willing to accept them as a family if they wish."

"Yes, sir."

"Then, Hugo and Ella will also be taken as dedicated cooks. Can I ask you to root for me confidentially because I'm going to accept you as well as my family? Ella is on leave to give birth."

As for the cook apprentices who are coming to the temple to practice from Lower Town, Philine will use the orphan dean's office, so tell them that they will practice there.

"I think it's okay because there's Nicolas in the kitchen in the orphan dean's office. I'll put my budget in the orphan dean's office for the next three years until Philine grows up, so I think we can do the same."

"I see.... what happens to the head of the Rosemaine workshop? Unlike before, the printing industry has become a lord-led business, so you can't even buy it out here, can you?

It is a Lord-led business and is difficult for the Plantan Chamber of Commerce to buy and operate in a location called the Orphanage of the Temple.

"It's not really where I can get my hands on it, but I think I can run it the way I've been for three years if I put Gill on it and leave it to Philine."

"... in three years?

"I think the mother who binds the printing industry will be in charge, either close to the Lords clan who will be the orphan dean. We can only hope that in three years the civilian population has grown to some extent. Then first, Dirk and Konrat are going for nobles and blue clerics who can protect orphanages and workshops, so I suggest you teach them a lot from now on."

When Konrat tells him that he wants to be a merchant cleric, Benno raises the edge of his lips funny.

"If you think about moving to other territories as Gutenberg, what would you do with Gil and a few other gray clerics?

"Three years later, on the move, I will buy it as a new printing workshop craftsman and move it with Filine. Nicolas is going to buy it with us then."

He who leaves behind, he who takes with him, he who comes after him in three years. I want to talk to my adoptive father about each of them and make sure they don't get bought off. If we negotiate those who suddenly leave the business unbroken or their interests on the bill, we will figure it out.

"Hmm, I know about exclusive travel and takeover. It won't be until Gutenberg and the others come back, but let's talk and root it out....... Don't you need the Plantan Chamber of Commerce to travel exclusively with Master Rosemaine at the same time?

That's what Benno said and looked at me. Remembering Mother's words, "Tell me your hope," I laugh as challengingly as I used to, after calculating that I cannot see my face from Haltmut or Darmuel standing behind me.

"Of course I'd love to have you with me. Acceptance of the Gutenbergs will be considerably easier in three years' time, and I'm just comfortable with you together. But I think you're busy dying...... isn't it by Mr. Benno's arm?

"Ho ho... Is that my arm?"

I offer to order trombe paper to Benno, who laughs when he says he will take it and stand. I need something before I can get ready for anything.

"It's going to be a lot of trouble, so we're going to work with the store. This is a large order. Do not sell non-combustible paper."

"Non-flammable paper? … and again…"

"At the request of Master Ferdinand, I want at least 300 sheets."

If you want to make the highest quality Demon Paper, even Trombe Paper is not good enough. It will require research and formulation to improve quality. If you don't get it as soon as possible, there's a chance you won't make it to the deadline you were told.

"I'm going to make it in the workshop as well, but if it's in stock, all of it. I'm glad you're in as much a hurry as you can."

"Everything in stock...... Is payment also possible on the spot?

"I have the money Master Ferdinand left me, so it's perfectly fine"

Money ceded to me, but I have some of my own earnings, so there's nothing wrong with where I spent it for Ferdinand.

"As soon as we get back to the store, let's check the inventory and have it delivered to Marc"

The amount is the amount, so they say Marc will deliver it. Looking up at Marc standing behind Benno and saying, "Thank you," Marc returned me with a calm smile he was accustomed to seeing.

Upon conclusion of the discussion with Benno, I pushed Hartmoot, who lamented "I am counting on them to rely comfortably on Master Rosemayne, so I ask you to take over from me to Merhior," to the Clerical Office, and I return to the Temple Chief's Office.

I entrusted Hartmoot with the education of Melchior and his side, and I told everyone clearly that my successor, the orphan dean, would be Philine, and that I would make Monica and the others his side with Philine as they were. With the new orphan dean being a familiar nobleman, the temple's flanking servants give a relief look.

"Let Lily manage the orphanage after Vilma is gone, as Monica will be served side by side with Filine. Okay, Philine. I only have one year. Given the period of time we go to the House of Lords, it is no exaggeration to say that the rest is six months. Start taking over quickly."

Ask Monica to put out the orphanage dossier and pile it up in front of Filine.

"Filine is a year-long flow of money for the orphanage in this material. Know how much money you will need in which season. Now that there are more children of the old Veronicans and more aid from their adoptive fathers, it is an unusual flow of money. Be careful there and explain it to Filine, Monica"

"Yes, Master Rosemaine."

Filine regained her mind and took the wooden plaque, showing her face pulled for a moment on the stacked wooden plaque material. Monica and I look at the wood tag, and we start talking.

"Fran, please prepare your tea, as well as your money, because Marc will be here later"

"Yes, sir."

Ordnants flew in as I opened the stash room so I could put in the trombe paper that Marc would bring to me. A white bird gently descends on my arm and opens his mouth.

"Long time no see, Master Rosemaine. I'm Brigitte from Ilkner. The Devil's Paper is ready. We're sending you to the castle with a transfer team, so please let us know what's convenient for you."

They want me to send back a magic stone caged with enough magic to charge and transfer, and I will shine my eyes on the good timing.

"Dear Rosemaine, wouldn't it be better to use the castle workshop if you were to make the highest quality demon paper?

"... why?

That's what Rhoderich told me, and I leaned my neck.

"I can't get Clarissa into the workshop here, so I think we're gonna make a fuss. Besides, if we're going to formulate the highest quality Demon Paper, I think it's better to have two senior civilian assistants than me or Filine."

It is the civilian's job to make preparations or assist in preparations in my place, so it seems that Clarissa will have a hard time making preparations in the temple and being out of company. Marianne and Ignaerts, who are familiar with the results of last year's joint research, are also in the castle, so it is recommended that it be there......

"But the castle is very busy for everyone, isn't it? When I'm making preparations for Master Ferdinand, I think there's a lot more to say. I don't feel comfortable making arrangements at the castle."

"... Isn't there another workshop for Master Rosemayne? Why don't you do the mixing in the library workshop?

I pounded my hand at Darmuel's suggestion. Sure, if it's a library workshop, Clarissa can get in, and there's no loud people. Just right for looking for materials other than Demon Paper.

Ordonanz was sent to Brigitte, "Send me to the three bells of tomorrow", and Ordonanz to the castle reseller, "Prepare the personnel to carry the paper from Ilkner tomorrow, so charge, demon stone and horseman", and Rutherfam of the library, to inform him of his plans for tomorrow and beyond.

Looks like he really hurried to collect the remaining stock of trombe paper in the store, and Marc came holding the crate at a time like the six bells were nearing. Fran also checks the numbers together to see if they are wrong and pays for it. Although my neighbors are surprised that five large gold coins will be paid, I don't care.

I will ask Fran and Zahm to transport the paper to the stash room, and then I will ask them to check the workshop to see if there is any demon paper in stock and buy it. I need a little more demon paper now.

"Roderich, when you get back to the castle, ask Charlotte and Brother Wilfried if they have any demonic paper left that they used in their joint research with Drevanhell. I'll buy it tomorrow."

The next day I scratched the demon paper in the temple and put it on the horseman, I went to the castle as planned. The reseller was receiving Irkner's paper, so I'll have it put on the horseman even more. Then he took Clarissa, Hartmoot and the escort knights, who assisted him in the formulation, to the library.

"Good morning, Razapham"

"I've been looking forward to your return, Master Rosemayne. I'm ready for tea."

Caught by a smiling lasafam, he was to have tea while the lower workers brought the demon paper from the horseman to the workshop. He was offered an anti-wiretap magic device and asked to explain more about Ferdinand's condition and avoidance of collusion.

Leaving Clarissa and Haltmut to prepare for the preparations, I told Rutherfam the story of Ferdinand as I had tea. I will not only explain the avoidance of the syndicate, but also talk about the demonic paper and materials we are collecting now.

"We can have Master Ferdinand's stash room in Arlensbach, so we're going to send him the tools and materials he needs to prepare at his summer funeral."

"That would be a great pleasure. Master Ferdinand spent the longest time in this house because it was the workshop."

Between Haltmoot and Clarissa coming to call, Razapham also used to tell me stories.

Apparently part of Ferdinand's collection in this library was in the possession of Heidemarie. In the same situation as Filine, Heidemarie, whose house was taken over by the Veronicans' late wife, said she took her spare book out of the library room of her house and housed it in the Ferdinand hall.

... that he gave to his Lord, Ferdinand, that he would not give away the precious knowledge that would be passed on to this House.

Brother Eckhardt remembers Heidemarie, so he didn't want to be too close to the library in this building.

"Eckhardt must have healed a little too. I went into the library last year and stared at the library like I missed it."

"Really..."

Clarissa spoke up where the story separated her. They're ready to mix.

"I am delighted to be able to do the civilian work of Master Rosemayne. Last night, I reviewed the results of a study to improve the quality of demonic paper."

Razapham looks somewhat nostalgic to see me rise prompted by a willing Clarissa.

"How long will Master Rosemaine be caged in the workshop?

"... right. I'm going to make a sample of the highest quality Demon Paper by the funeral to see if Master Ferdinand has any problems, so I think he'll be caged in the workshop for a few days"

For a few days, I hastily added to Razapham, who looked worried.

"But unlike Master Ferdinand, don't worry, I'll be out of the workshop when I eat"

"I did," Rutherfam nodded, grinning bitterly.