Ascendance of a Bookworm

Though I flew out of Charlotte's room with momentum, I was unable to keep up with the speed of Wilfried. Ride the beast for the main building.

"It's late, Rosemaine"

Saying so, I see Vilfleet walking fast through the lead. That? I tilted my neck unexpectedly. I noticed a change in the position of the neighbors surrounding Vilfleet. Brother Lamprecht, who was always nearest, is far away. The position of the famous Bartolt is much closer. Will there be a different sense of trust when you can give your name?

With that in mind, I headed to the reception room obtained from Haltmoot's information. Ask the adoptive mother's escort knight guarding the door to see if a Risegang nobleman is here so he can get inside. In a situation where the Lordship Candidates were in full force and asked to be "inside," the escort knight asked those inside with a very troubled face.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what are you up to?

It was Hartmoot's father, Labelecht, who came out of the room softly. He's a civilian of his adoptive mother, so he was present. Wilfried stepped forward.

"Is there a Risegang aristocrat coming? I want us inside. You can't let one mother negotiate."

"Please, Labelecht. Is this about me?

And Labelecht showed us his face, which was tannic, and drew him into the room once. After you get confirmation from your adoptive mother, you'll let us in. Inside there was the adoptive mother and her side, and the ancients of Risegang, who had seen their faces at the feast face to face but had no particular interaction, sat there.

"Oh, Master Rosemaine!

"What the hell are you all doing?

"This is an important story about the future of Aerenfest. Lady Rosemayne is the hope of Risegang. Isn't that a hell of a thing, such as making you head of the temple in the central temple? What the hell is Aub Aerenfest thinking?

That's what the old men said with such grandeur that I don't think they've pushed it without a promise. My adoptive mother exhales small.

"As I said earlier, this is an important story about the future of Aerenfest, so don't hesitate to talk about it when Aub Aerenfest returns"

To the words of her adoptive mother, the old men of Risegang shook their heads beside each other.

"This one must also be well understood by Master Florencia and persuaded by Aub. That only the First Lady can rescue Aub blindfolded by Fairbergen.... I can't believe Fairbergen has captured my son because of his cuteness until Florencia."

My child's eyes are clouded by cuteness, the old men say, "Aub looks a lot like Veronica to that point," he sighs. The ancients' claim that they would missee the future of the territory if they did not correct the attitude of Aub, whose body was past, was, in the end, to make me the next Aub so that I would not be made head of the temple of the central temple.

When my adoptive mother smiled, "There seems to be no Fairbergen around me," the old men nodded with a smile.

"Then Florencia will understand that we cannot let Lady Rosemaine out of Aerenfest. If you need a Lords Candidate who can be divine in the Central Temple by royal decree...... Aren't there other Lords Candidates in Aerenfest who are just right to enter the Temple? We'll figure it out depending on the negotiations."

That's what the old men say and laugh at each other as they glimpse Vilfleet. Raised by Veronica, a criminal, Wilfried, who also sinned himself, is better suited to enter the temple. Wearing a blue cleric costume for the prayer ceremony, he would come to Risegang, so he should also be able to go to the central temple, to which Wilfried, said in his aristocratic far-flung words, drew his lips with regret.

... I guess they even said these disgusts when I went to Risegang.

Seeing this kind of thing makes me depressed to be reminded that truly the mistake of childhood is a world that draws forever, and I can't hide my sigh if I can poke my impressions of the temples of the elderly.

"Please leave the room, adoptive mother. It's not good for a baby in the stomach to put these words in your ear and break your heart"

"Mother, let's go"

Charlotte tried to take the adoptive mother's hand, but the adoptive mother smiled calmly and refused to do so with clarity.

"No. I'll just have that heart, Rosemaine, Charlotte. I can't leave my children here."

As I protect my smiling adoptive mother, I stand before my adoptive mother with Wilfried and turn to the ancients of Risegang.

"Me, I'm confused about what you're all saying. I don't have any plans to go to the Central Temple. Who the hell would say something like that?

"Everyone who was at the Lords' Conference says so. We have our own information network, Master Rosemaine."

The aristocracy attending the Lords' Conference is limited. The number will be narrowed even further than it has not been leaked to become the king's adopted daughter. However, I was concerned that entering the central temple was spoken as if it were a matter of decision.

"No matter how much Zent's orders, we are not worried about Aub, who doesn't know what is important to Aerenfest, and Master Wilfried leading Aerenfest, who can't just execute the promises of his mouth. It's Lady Rosemayne who wants me to lead Aerenfest."

My uncle jumped in as I stared at the old men who said spoken out, "You don't need to go to the central temple, let me go to Vilfleet if you need me.

"Rosemaine, are you all right!?

"Oh, Master Bonifatius! Just in time..."

The old men of Risegang found their uncle and let his face shine. My uncle looks down at them with a very troubled face who desires me to be retained by Aerenfest. I'd like to hold back with you as a feeling, but I guess it's because you can't be the uncle who knows you're going to be the king's adopted daughter.

... Looks like it wasn't your uncle who set them on fire.

My uncle leans his neck strangely at the old men who have spoken out that I should not be allowed to go to the central temple because I deserve the next Aub better than Wilfried.

"I've never heard of Rosemaine going to the Central Temple, but who the hell told you that?

"That's what all the nobles who went to the Lords' Conference have said. Didn't you know?

"I don't."

When my uncle says he's clear, the old men start to look at each other like they're a little upset. I looked around at the ancients with a slightly frightened face of Vilfleet standing next to me.

"Rosemaine has no plans to go to the Central Temple or anything else. Isn't someone fooling you?

You're getting cocky at what they point out to the person you least want to be pointed out to, or your face gets a little steep. And he began to loathe Wilfried with his aristocratic rhetoric.

... Oh, even at prayer ceremonies like this, Brother Wilfried was wasting his time stimulating and irritating and exciting the other guy.

Nothing offensive about Wilfried, but I haven't read the air at all. If it were my uncle or me pointing it out, the old Risegang wouldn't have been so excited either. I saw the ancients blaming Vilfleet while lining up to the evils Veronica had done in the past and Vilfleet, who was enduring disgust, and I almost got a sigh of sigh.

... Brother Wilfried, I don't think you're better suited to socialize than I am.

"I know exactly what you're saying. Risegang has been bitter for a long time, and it's true that Brother Wilfried has done something far-fetched."

The ancients shine their faces, "Do you understand, Master Rosemayne," and Wilfried sees me with a wounded face.

"... but you said that to Brother Wilfried, who visited Risegang at a prayer ceremony, at Aerenfest, and as Toyoshi was promised at Risegang, didn't you?

"Dear Rosemaine...?

"I told Brother Wilfried earlier that I didn't have a prospect ahead of me, but I think you have a sweet prospect ahead of you."

When I said that with a smile with Nicole, my eyes blinked as if the ancients and Vilfleet were all amazed.

"Am I supposed to go to the central temple among you? Then you can't imagine at all who will do Aerenfest's divinity after I've gone, can you?

And it came to pass, as I looked at Vilfleet, that Vilfleet laughed niggardly, and looked around at the ancients.

"Now after Rosemayne's adulthood, he takes the form of taking over the Temple Chief from Melhior, but if Rosemayne is going to go to the center, as they say, I will lose my back shield in disengagement and become the furthest Lordship candidate from the next Aub. Who among the Lords' candidates said it would be most appropriate to enter the temple..."

"Yep. You're visiting for a prayer ceremony, but you say to the wicked, does that mean that future divinity doesn't need to be Risegang? Prayer ceremonies are the most important divine thing for Risegang to serve as a food bank..."

I smile and threaten that in the future there may be no more divinity in Risegang.

"But Aerenfest won't stand without Risegang's harvest. It's Aerenfest that's troubling when Risegang's harvest drops."

Risegang can be flimsy because Risegang occupies an unwavering position within Aerenfest as a food bank. If no divinity is done, its status falls at once. I smiled at Nicole.

"Certainly until now Aerenfest would not have stood without Risegang's harvest. But, gentlemen. Aerenfest has grown in business with other territories. Unlike before, it's no longer difficult to get food from other territories."

Until now, Aerenfest has not interacted much with other territories, but from now on, we can also import food instead of paper and hair decorations. It's easy to cut the influence of Risegang by incorporating food from other territories. That is to be determined by Aub's one voice. The ancients, who only know the times when Aerenfest is not to be looked upon from any territory in one country, blued in an instant.

"Dear Rosemaine, what do you mean by you, the princess who draws Risegang's blood!? Are you going to betray Risegang, the backshield!?

"Alas, betrayal or nothing... I am the head of the temple of Aerenfest and the adoptive daughter of the lord, am I not? I have trouble telling you to back off by a Risegang nobleman who demeans God, scorns my brothers, and has no respect for Aub"

I have had trouble complaining over and over that I am not going to be Aub Aerenfest, and I put my hand on my cheek and sigh at this sight. The meaning "dissatisfied as a back shield" seems to have made sense. The ancients look at me with the face of incredibility.

Comparing me to the ancients of Risegang, my uncle says, "Rosemaine, that is a little too much…"

"But, my uncle. As a general rule of Risegang, you asked your adoptive father to lower your rank more? I worked hard to improve Aerenfest's ranking with everyone in the House of Lords, and I was so saddened that they denied it."

When I moaned with Angelica's grieving face, "It was a thought betrayed by my back shield," my uncle, who was more than the general thrust of Risegang at that meeting, was stuck in words, "Ugh."

"That's why you don't do divinity in Risegang..."

"Don't worry, Master Bonifatius"

Wilfried slammed the air and opened his mouth with a smile. And look around the ancients of Risegang.

"You should just let them into the temple. If we do our own divine deeds, we can reap the same harvest we have. That's what the important princess of Risegang is doing for Aerenfest. All they have to do is help Rosemaine."

Wilfried smiles to say that even if he is retiring from practice, he has magic, so let's not have a problem.

... I still can't read the air, but I'm not wrong, am I?

"Brother Wilfried and Charlotte started divinity to fill holes in my absence, and they still help me. If it's my back shield, you might want to ask me to fill in the divine hole."

If you think it's pathetic that only one person has to go back for a service ceremony, you just need the old people who retire and understate their socialization to help. To my words, the ancients, abhorrent to the temple and divinity, drew their faces, but "then you will feel safe when I enter the House of Lords," Melchior raised his voice of joy.

"The Risegang people who swallowed the rumors were very inconvenient."

Geebe Risegang apologizes by saying so at the same time as he arrives. As a result of explaining how I was unwilling to be the next Aub, and how I was made to feel disgusted by Risegang, the old Risegang men were completely quiet with their shoulders dropped when Geebe Risegang arrived.

"I imitated it very badly, but all their words came out of my heart to guide Master Rosemayne. Please forgive me with generosity."

Geebe Risegang pales about how Veronica has behaved so far and how he has improved the position of the Risegang aristocracy since I was adopted. Improving yields, reproducing rituals calling for spring, printing workshops in paper mills, increasing protection in magic compression methods, what I do not quite recognize, were also spoken of as what I did.

"If you hear that the princess of the clan who has brought all this benefit to Risegang can't be the next Aub just because she's adopted, and will be pushed into the central temple like a disturber, you can't stand the old men who have lived a hard life"

It seems that being sent to the central temple by royal decree is the same thing that the princess of Risegang is treated badly again for the ancients.

"Master Rosemayne can put his heart to Master Wilfried, who did the divine work and was hit with a terrible word, so I'm glad to know that Veronica has abused me and I'm also a little closer to Risegang's fear that the same thing will be repeated to Master Rosemayne"

The way it was done is radical, and although I'm only in the mood of being annoyed, I guess it's true that the old Risegang worried about me. "Right," I nodded to Geebe Risegang, who politely explained it.

"Rosemayne is a sweet child, so I don't have any promises, and I think you could have leaned closer to Risegang's feelings if you hadn't been here all of a sudden in Aub's absence. He was just worried about me, and he was having a tea party."

That's what my adoptive mother says and laughs nicely at Geebe Risegang as she shelters me.

"Nor does Rosemaine seriously think that Risegang will only do divinity. Hey, Rosemaine?

"Yes."

The fact that he was told to downgrade his rank as a general thrust of Risegang, or that he was scorned for his adoptive father after the solemnity of the old Veronicans, is making him ill attested.

"I don't think my heart against Risegang would have been the same if you'd leaned on my adoptive father who tried to putrefy Aerenfest even by cutting off his faction"

In the meantime, in discussions with Geebe Risegang, he promises to do the divine work as always, and instead, Risegang asks his adoptive father to cooperate more.

"If you listen to Rosemaine's request and Geebe Risegang leans in on Master Zilvester, let's not ask about this one. Fortunately, there is no Master Zilvester, so only those here know they didn't have an appointment."

"I'm afraid, Master Florencia"

The sudden visit of the adoptive mother seemed to bring the ancients together well. It was after they asked me extensively that even I had done my own worries, so I was horrified that the ancients had no terrible punishment. Are we done talking? Where I thought so, Geebe Risegang stared at Wilfried.

"Dear Wilfried, have you ever thought about what Veronica has done to them and why they are so resented by Risegang, including you?

Instead of being told his disgust from the front, quietly questioned, Wilfried narrows his eyes a little and stares at Geebe Risegang.

"It looks like you don't understand even if you heard and knew from Aub and the neighbors. You grew up benefiting more than anyone from the faction created by Lord Veronica. Look back at what Veronica has done and think carefully about the eyes of third parties on you."

Pointing out that inadvertently stimulating Risegang is because Vilfleet lacks understanding, Geebe Risegang takes the ancients back. Wilfried stared at his feet as if to think of something.

And a few days later I returned to the temple. Haltmoot tells me he wants to talk confidentially, and I decide to talk using an anti-bugging magic device.

"I see who stirred up the old Risegang. Apparently there were more than one, and I had a hard time finding out."

Haltmoot looks a little tired.

"First of all, Bartolt, who gave his name to Master Wilfried."

"Huh?"

"It seemed that he was using his name to give to Master Wilfried and his inability to go against orders to breathe sweet words, to set up somewhat of a fellowship near Master Wilfried's side, to push the challenge as a Risegang challenge, to keep his hands from exchanging information among the Lordship candidates"

I let Haltmoot's report catch my face. Does that mean that you may be betrayed by those who have given your name?

"You can't go against orders, but sometimes what you're doing for the Lord will turn out to be a betrayal. It's a tough place around here."

That's what Haltmoot says and flaunts his shoulders. He says it's up to the Lord to treat those who have given their names.

"While Bartolto was raised by Master Veronica, he seemed to have strong objections to Aub and Master Wilfried, who betrayed the faction"

"So...?

"It was Master Florencia who noticed the sudden changes in and around Mr. Wilfried and that Bartolt was acting suspiciously. He said Aub was planning to put together a restraint on Bartolt and a shredding of Risegang's forces in his absence."

"My adoptive mother!?

An unexpected name came up, and I opened my eyes wide open.

"You seem to have instigated Bartolt, hinted that there was a medical examination of the central temple, and used several routes to incite the ancients of Risegang. The plan seemed to be to send them to the castle absent from Aub, to let the Knights capture them, depending on the rumblings of the ancients, and to keep the influence of Risegang shredded in the meantime."

They went for a day when we were having a tea party and they wouldn't get out of the north. It seemed out of the math that Haltmoot noticed.

"Looks like my father planned it. I had a vested sense of sight for an unpleasant feeling M.O...."

Ha, and Haltmut made a tired voice, "It's like he was a parent and a child." He had a pretty hard time gathering evidence and testimony and questioning Labelecht to get the truth out.

"They were originally planning to seal in the tighter Risegang. My father said that thanks to Lady Rosemaine, it fitted in a lot of peace."

"... I'm glad to hear that, but your adoptive mother will have such a plan, too. I'm surprised there."

The shock was too great because all I knew was that he was smiling a little.

"It was easy to move the ancients with the excitement that became the largest faction after the Solemnity, and you wanted to sharpen the power of Risegang to some extent before Brunhilde became the Second Lady. I can't help you with Elvira."

I find myself unexpectedly distant in the exchange of nobles. I look like an idiot when my adoptive father jumped out of a tea party worrying about his adoptive mother, who welcomes the old Risegang's by herself with a big belly in her absence.

"... what happened to Bartolt?

"It's up to Master Wilfried," Haltmoot said, curious to ask where he was going, as he was about to fall into Wilfried while giving his name.

"We are going to let Master Wilfried, who received his name, judge us. Looks like Florencia is going to keep an eye on Bartolt and give Mr. Wilfried a little clue so he can see for himself."

Haltmut has been told to be tough on Labelecht, saying don't get your hands on it because it's part of his education as a nobleman.

"And this time I, too, was reprimanded by my father for inadvertently putting the Lord in danger"

Often someone is pulling threads behind them when they see strange movements. He scolded me that if I didn't identify well, I would only risk the Lord.

"I still don't seem to be studying enough either"

Hartmoot is going to interrupt the tea party with his Ordnants, and he seems to care that I'm going to face the old Risegang, and besides, it was the Aub and his wife who profited from it and ended up with nothing here. I invite Haltmut to tea, who is depressed that he is "incompetent as a proximity".

"Without Haltmoot, the relationship would have ended with no idea. Haltmoot did a good job. Drink some tea and eat some delicious treats."