Ascendance of a Bookworm

"This is great. You will learn very much. Arms that do not use expensive materials as much as possible, but reduce the consumption of magic and improve quality still seem to vary greatly in experience"

Seeing Ferdinand's improved recipe, which I wrote from your letter, Haltmut sighed with admiration. By using materials and procedures that were not noticed by Haltmut or Clarissa, they have greatly reduced the magic and expense required to formulate the highest quality Demon Paper.

"For that matter, there are more procedures for conditioning, and there are more types of materials you need"

The Ferdinand Improved Recipe is a little tricky. When I appealed to him that my recipe could be faster, Haltmut grinned bitterly.

"Unlike Lady Rosemaine, rich in magic, Ferdinand's recipe can definitely be made faster if it is to be made by me or Clarissa"

My recipe takes too long to mass-produce absolutely the gold powder I need, and I can't move on to that next process without the restorative drugs. They say my recipe is very unworkable for others because it will require more than just gold powder, but also ingredients and formulations of restorative drugs.

"I can't even aid much with Rosemayne's recipe, but with Ferdinand's recipe, which carefully combines ingredients to compensate for quality, we can help a little too"

It seems that the improved version of Ferdinand will finally be a blend of a level of magic power that senior civilians can get their hands on, by the way. I knew exactly how my recipe consumed magic and how troublesome Ferdinand had asked for it.

"According to this recipe, Ferdinand seems to do the final synthesis."

That's what Clarissa said when she peeked into the recipe. If you look closely, what Ferdinand is looking for seems to be one step ahead of the last synthesis. They want us to prepare demon paper to make it, not 300 pieces of the highest quality demon paper.

"You decided that it would be more efficient to do the last synthesis with your own hands, both in terms of magic and material. Didn't you change it because you got the workshop with Master Rosemaine's mouthfeel?

I nod at the words of Haltmoot. Doing the last synthesis yourself will make a difference in the amount of non-combustible paper you need. I got my workshop in Arlensbach, so the important process is that Ferdinand can do it with his own hands. As a result, there appears to have been a change in instructions.

"Because non-combustible paper is expensive and scarce, we want to use it as little as possible to reduce costs."

While Clarissa says so, she turns her gaze to the non-combustible paper stored in the workshop. If you want to make the amount Ferdinand has specified, it's not enough for one minute now.

"Lady Rosemaine bought all the non-combustible paper at the Plantan Chamber of Commerce, didn't she? What do you do for what's missing?

Clarissa shrugs when she buys and fishes everything she can only buy at the Plantan Chamber of Commerce, wondering how to get it. I saw Clarissa once and for all.

"I don't care what you do... if you don't, why don't you make it"

"They say the material is rare, but what do you do?

Clarissa asked with a surprised face, but I smiled and shook my neck beside Nicole. I'm not going to answer everything here.

"It's still a secret now, and I'm only going to teach it to those who can keep it a secret. Let's get rid of it faster than that. If you don't have all the ingredients, you can't formulate them."

Together with Greater Tier I sort out the gifts given by Retizia, looking at the letters and the recipes of the dishes, with a little taste of the seasonings and spices. Haltmoot and the others cleaned up the material as they thought about placing it so it was easy to understand the next time they formulated it.

"Dear Rosemaine, I have finished cleaning up this material. What will you do after this?

"I'm going back to the temple. We need to prepare for the star knot ritual, and even though we have to hurry to take over, the Merhiors will be in trouble if me and Haltmoot don't return to the temple forever, right?

We can't leave the temple for too long. I will ask Eudit to deliver the reply to the letter I wrote up in the hidden room to the castle, and the condiments, spices, and Ahrensbach recipes will be brought to the temple's kitchen.

"Can you think of another new dish with this seasoning?

"Yep. I just tasted it a little bit, but it looks like it could taste new."

I think if I mix the spices, I can make something that looks like a curry that's not enough. It's going to haunt my head with what makes up for the missing flavor, but I'm also a little excited.

... I wish I had time to worry about it carefully.

When I returned to the temple, I asked Fritz to be able to pick up the fruit of Tau before it was picked up at the star festival. After the star festival, it becomes difficult to pick up tau fruit in the woods.

"We need fifty more. Pick up Tau's actually at your leisure. Then, when you go to collect Tau's fruit, except for the children with magic equipment. Because if something happens in the woods, I'm in trouble."

If you go to the woods for the purpose of picking up tau fruit and you get injured and even blood runs, it could be a big deal. Whatever it is within the temple of sight, it would be hard if something happened in the woods.

"Now let's separate those who make paper in the workshop from those who go to the woods."

"Yeah, thank you. Do not let the aristocratic child out even when hunting for a little tree in. I'm not going to tell you a little bit about trees."

"Yes, sir."

… I wonder if I will be accompanied by those who have already given their names.

Fritz is excellent, so three days after I asked, the tau fruit was ready. I took Matthias and Laurenz, the famous escort knights, and then Hartmoot, who insisted that I should accompany him, to the back of the orphanage for a long time. There's a gate that leads to Lower Town. When I come to the back, I want to go straight out to Lower Town. After staring at the gate for a while, I headed to where the grey clerics were preparing to hunt trombes.

The sight of tau fruits and gray clerics stuck in cages centering on them and holding blades like (nah) seems to me to be a rare situation for Matthias and Laurenz that gray clerics have weapons, although not something else unusual.

"Dear Rosemaine, what is this? What do you do?

"This is a little nutty for it, it's an ingredient for non-combustible paper. We're going to hunt for materials... but never take the sights we're going to see, the information we get here out of mouth. This is an order."

And when I commanded the famous group to keep secret, all moved pickly for a moment. Maybe there was something magical tied up. I approached the gray clerics after confirming that the three of them snorted cocklessly with their strange faces.

"Fritz, are you ready?

"Yes, Master Rosemaine. The kids are working in an orphanage, so they won't be coming here."

In the words of Fritz I nodded, "Helpful," and looked up to Matthias and Laurenz, wary of the surroundings, where there were only those with blades.

"Now, Matthias and Laurenz, as soon as I have cast this fruit, hold me back. Haltmoot is waiting in the rear, at least on white cobblestones."

Asked two of the escort knights to take turns holding me and retreating, and I stood with Laurenz at the border where white cobblestones and soil were being stripped out. If you throw it from here, Tau's fruit will definitely fall into the dirt. Unless you throw it behind you, you won't fail.

There are some seriously eyed gray clerics with blades around them, making Laurenz look rather nervous as an escort as he looks around. But their gaze is just a little toward the tree to appear.

And I reached out to the cage which was ready, and held the fruit of Tau one by one in both hands. I can see the magic getting sucked. Is it because my magic power has increased that I feel less flowing than I used to?

It was a bump. It was really spilling and seeding, and it was getting harder. As soon as I felt the slightest fever on the verge of germination, I said, "Go!" and throw the fruit of Tau full of strength.

"Go, little tree on!

"Become!? Trombe!?"

The trombe hunt, which surprised the three of us who accompanied them, came to a light end. It is not that much burden on me to germinate my strength and my magic, but I have obtained the necessary branches.

"It can't be so easy for a trombe to hunt"

"They say knights can't hunt unless they're black weapons..."

Matthias and Laurenz are shocked that the civilians gently defeated Trombe, but only cut the branches that began to grow. It's not that shocking.

"The only thing the knights hunt is a trombe out of the hands of the civilians, and when they grow up, they can't take it down unless it's a black weapon, so it's not like holding their heads."

"Nevertheless, why does Master Rosemaine keep this a secret?

I'm not sure why I have to keep it a secret, Laurenz tilts his neck. Tell the Knights that Tau's fruit will be a trombe, and suggest that they crush Tau's fruit before there is any danger.

"There is no great inconvenience even as it is now, as there is a festival where the citizens of the lower town pick up and throw the fruit of the tau in total. It's more difficult for the knights to go around the Lower Town Forest roughly to crush all the fruits of Tau, or to lose the festivities everyone in Lower Town is looking forward to."

Assuming the knight decides to crush it and the circumstances can't be picked up by the knight after the star festival throw is gone, the forest could also be full of trombes. You don't have to do anything extra because you're turning around as well as you are now. The fruit of the Tau in the Lower Town Forest will be recovered by the Lower Town people, so you just have to leave it to them.

"I don't think it's a problem because the Knights only crusade what the civilians missed and grew up with without being crushed by the beasts in the woods"

"But with a lot of magic eating, is there a risk of havoc?

I shook my head and denied Haltmoot's concerns.

"You'll need a lot of magic to germinate tau fruit. Right. An adult of lower nobility who learned magic compression in the House of Lords would be allowed to germinate. But few people have that much magic, and they don't germinate on this white cobblestone."

Eating so magical is dead before you're old enough to go out to the festival, and there's nothing more dangerous about throwing at each other in the city.

"There are many aristocratic children in orphanages today, so it could also germinate into some kind of applause. It's dangerous, so I'm not going to let you hunt a little tree in the orphanage after you're gone. I'm just going to keep it known through the soldiers so that soldiers and those in the lower towns can sell the young branches they got in the woods to the Plantan Chamber of Commerce."

It is good to be able to hunt in an orphanage because it is an expensive product, but safety comes first. The danger is going to be eliminated as much as possible. Besides, a child who has magic equipment and aspires to be a nobleman must use healing pills to build magic into the magic equipment. Not if you're using magic to hunt trombes.

Besides, it cannot be germinated with the magic of a child who cannot aspire to nobility. That's also evident from the fact that Dilk was playing with everyone until last year on Star Knot Ritual Day and didn't germinate. Nor can they germinate trombes in orphanage children who can't teach them how to compress magic. To the extent that as an adult you may be able to germinate one or so.

Although Dilk, who studied in the House of Lords and returned to the Temple as a nobleman, may be able to do so, this should not be a situation where he can use his magic for trombe hunting.

Once upon a time, Benno told me when I was trying to replace the magic equipment for eating trombes to live. This is also on my mind. But it was not in my mouth that I looked back at the fritz.

"Okay, Fritz. A little tree hunting for the orphanage ends today. From now on, you either happen to hunt when you encounter them in the woods, or you happen to buy them from the people who hunted them. I want a lot because it's a big source of income, but safety is the best thing. … I will buy it through the Plantan Chamber of Commerce when I have paper with this, so please deliver it to my room."

"Yes, Master Rosemaine."

It will be a star knot ritual shortly after the trombe hunt in the Temple is over. It will be a busy day because it will take place in the temple in the morning and we have to go to the castle in the afternoon.

From that morning I will change into the ritual garment of the temple chief, and perform the ritual. When I walked into the prayer room and went up on the stage, I saw Zach. Looks like he was born in autumn, to be seen from the fact that he's wearing loess sunny clothes. A child in the precious color of spring next door would be the bride. The hair decoration incorporates my precious color and Zach's precious color.

According to information I was hearing from the Lutz and the others, she seems to be three years younger than Zach. He said he was a modest but firm one, and he was the one who had always supported Zach as he praised his ingenuity immersed in new things and things that interest him. Going to another town, he said it was Zach's pleasure to think about what he was taking home to her.

She was worried that Zach would go to another town between spring and fall, and her parents pressed her to choose whether to marry a good addition or just break up and marry another person. I'm not even willing to break up with her. Zach immediately decided to marry her, and she said it became today's ritual.

... May happiness fall on Zach and the others.

I cautioned against being modest, modest, but a little more blessings flew away than usual. This is the extent to which you can be respectful. As I looked up at the black and gold light I could play near the ceiling, I was dripping cold sweat thinking about the next ritual.

... It's the next ritual, the Thuri mitzvah, right? Are you all right?

In the afternoon it is a ritual of star knot by travelling to the aristocratic city. After the star knot ritual there is also a feast for unmarried adults looking for someone to marry. Brother Cornelius and Haltmut already have fiancées, so I will attend both with my fiancée. And they introduce a friend of the opposite sex to a friend who doesn't have an opponent, or irresponsibly support someone who has someone in their mind.

Darmuel, who boards as an escort for the Lesser Bus when travelling to the castle, is dropped in the passenger seat. Because Darmuel is the only one near my adult side with no opponent. Every year, I was in the mood for "This is the year..." but they don't even feel like it this year.

"I can't marry anymore, Master Rosemayne"

I haven't been able to find it in Aerenfest for years now, and if I go out to the center, I'm desperate for marriage because they hardly have any lower nobility, Dermuel mutters.

"Isn't it good to be single? With a book, you can live."

"Master Rosemaine may be satisfied with a book, but I want a normal marriage. I envy all those around me who are happily married."

They say the closest proximity is Love Love Love, and all their friends the same age are married. It seems that in a few years now, the child of a good friend of mine will have a baptismal ceremony. By the way, when you divulge something like that amongst the neighbors, they say, with a smile that doesn't seem offensive at all, "Darmuel seems to be single even when my child celebrates his baptism".

... Haltmoot!

"Besides, you can't go to the center unless you're married."

"... if you want to get married so badly, you'll have to wait for Filine to grow up"

"Dear Rosemaine, Philine tells me you're not going to marry me, face to face. Stop the pathetic imitation that you command."

A crisp face, but that's what Darmuel said in a depressed voice with only a heart. I tell myself to think of it as something different to nostalgia and future companionship to seniors in the same position.

"Is that when you mentioned marriage as one of the means to take over the contort?

"... yes"

After all, Dermuel had interpreted it as shaken. When I heard from Filine, I thought Darmuel was cool enough to make various adjustments in the back, but seeing what she looks like now makes me a little worried if Filine's eyes are okay.

"Filine said she doesn't want to be in a position like her sister sheltered by Dermuel, she wants to be a one-person woman who can walk next door. Then Philine said she wanted to propose to Darmuel."

"What!? Are you proposing to me from Filine!?... No, you won't be fooled. Exactly."

Darmuel becomes a look of anticipation for a moment and begins to be vigilant shortly afterwards. I'm so worried that I've ever been fooled in so many marriage-related ways.

"I didn't say anything wrong. But I would refer to Clarissa, who proposed to Haltmoot, Filine said. In the future, Darmuel could get a foot payment and get threatened with a messenger."

"Tell me that's a lie!

"Me, I didn't lie"

Dermuel groaning with his head like that, but I think he's feeling a lot better than he did when he was puffing me that he was hopeless.

"Look at the time, though I think you can propose from Dermuel before they ask you to marry me."

If you're afraid of threatening to propose marriage, you just have to move from Darmuel first. When I said that with a small laugh, Darmuel opened her mouth as she gazed at how I was doing.

"Master Rosemaine... what would you like me to do?

"What do you mean? You don't mind if I ask you to marry Philine or you propose to Philine, do you?

"No. It's about my move. You asked the reseller to come to the center, didn't you?

Dermel asks as he puts the reseller out to pick up.

"I'm having trouble deciding if I'm useful or not detrimental to Master Rosemayne, a junior knight where I went to the center. What does Master Rosemaine want me to do?

Even the Guardian Knight of the Lord's adopted daughter Darmuel has been slapped in the pussy scattered. I was told by my surroundings that it would be difficult to let go of those I have known for a long time because I am young, but by the time I go to the center, my appearance belongs to a girl of my age. He said that my bringing a single junior knight from his hometown for heavy use could lead to strange rumors.

"It would have been different if I had been married, but now it seems to me that it would have a bad outcome for Master Rosemaine. Is there anything I can do to help you by joining us in the center?

That's what Darmuel said and dropped his shoulder.

"My proximity brings things together better with Dermuel. I also buy arms that explore the faint magic, and I think it's a beauty to be a knight but good at paperwork.... Plus, it's the longest relationship I've had in the vicinity, so I'm comfortable with you together"

"Oh yeah...... I'm afraid so."

Darmuel scratches her cheeks like a little light. I want you to stop because this one will be lit up, and I will keep going.

"But Filine will remain in Aerenfest until she grows up, and I'm not worried about a temple relationship with a short takeover period. I am also anxious that the printing relationship will work well with the people in the lower town even after my absence. So I want you to stay in Dermuel."

Given that he has the longest education of Ferdinand in the Temple, that he can advise on keeping printing relations on track while helping Henrik, that he protects Filine from danger as an orphan dean, and that he protects the Gutenbergs in the lower town until acceptance is decided in the center, Dermuel is a qualified actor.

"I intend to defend myself as much as I can, but whether I go to the center or stay in Aerenfest, Darmuel will never be easy. So you left the choice to Dermuel. Whether Darmuel chooses, I'm glad to hear it."

Darmuel, who had been thinking about it for a while, looked up just before he reached the castle. Gray eyes see the color of a clear decision.

"Dear Rosemayne, I will remain in Aerenfest"

If Filine ever really proposes, she travels to the center with the adult Filine. If you can't get married, they'll stay in Aerenfest with my honor as a priority.

"I'm glad you made your decision.... but darmuel. You mean you're more manly than waiting to propose and do enough to take Filine's heart out of you, right?

Darmuel was cool trying to catch up, doing magic compression for Brigitte no matter what. Ultimately though sad love, it was cool enough to be a book.

"I'm sure that would be more pleasing to Philine and your mother"

"It's enough to be Elvira's book for once!