Ascendance of a Bookworm

Eventually I arrived in my adoptive father's office, lifted up like a young child by my uncle. In front of the door stands your father and the Deputy Commander of the Knights, blinking at my figure held up by my uncle.

... Well, at this size, you didn't expect me to appear hugged, did you?

Your father saw Brother Cornelius for a moment, so I think he worried about me. However, when he loosened his expression and smiled as if he had no choice but for a moment to his satisfied uncle, his father immediately opened the door again to his expression.

"Dear Rosemayne, Aub Aerenfest is waiting for you"

"Yes.... Dear Uncle, I know you've come this far"

I ask my uncle to unload me and walk carefully to my adoptive father, who is waiting alone in the office. Shortly afterwards, my legs snapped and fell flashly because I looked back at the sound of the door closing.

"Buha! What are you doing when I'm nervously waiting for something important?

"Ugh, I'm not used to my grown body yet. Can I ride the beast around the castle for a while?

Apparently, he accidentally blew it out. My adoptive father approached me laughing and lending me a hand. I rose up aided by my adoptive father, and now I proceeded more carefully with my feet.

"I fell with my legs in the middle of dressing this morning, and my knees were cool and hard to walk with my uncle."

"When it comes to the horseman, is that it?... do you use that even when it looks like it is now?

"My Lesser is adorable. Doesn't it look similar to Grune?"

My adoptive father made me look disgusted, and I mumble. My Lesser Bus is adorable and very convenient. I'm not going to turn it into another horseman.

"You don't just ride beasts, your words and actions don't fit the look at all. If it's just the way you look, you're really the Virgin now, aren't you?

"Brother Wilfried told me, and I saw the mirror, so I'm aware of it for once. But if it's enough to fix it, it's not as easy to change the contents, is it?

Even my foster father hasn't changed much, has he? And smiling with meaning, my adoptive father nodded bitterly, "... well, you can't say it strongly from me".

Sitting properly in a chair facing each other, I exhale slowly. My adoptive father tightened his expression as well.

"So, about my sister... what do you mean you figured out how to take the foundation?

Being deprived of the foundation is the worst thing that can happen as Aub. They don't just take the land, they take the lives. Naturally. Because the previous Aub knows where the foundation is, he is killed as soon as he takes the foundation by the new Aub, who is wary of being taken back.

Wife is likewise likely to take her life. I may leave about one child behind and marry the child of the new Aub so that it is easy to obey the native nobility. However, in the case of Georgine, the person is from Aerenfest, so there is little reason why I should leave my adoptive father's child behind. You will live like a dead man who never goes out to the public to lock you in a white tower and take away your magic.

"It's not like there's any certainty. But when I think of the biblical theft commotion, I'm pretty sure"

"You think it's a biblical theft? Not some sort of loophole or some new magic trick info?

My adoptive father stares at me with a seemingly puzzling face. Regardless of whether there is any other way out, given the role of the temple and the scriptures that poured in when we got the book of Mestionora, I don't think it's coming off a lot.

"In conclusion, right? The foundations of each territory lie directly beneath the temple's chapel."

"... is!?

My adoptive father's movements stopped for a few seconds. And I shook my head when I blabbed, and I said again, "What? I said." He's a lot upset.

"Of course it's a room surrounded by white walls, and it's a magically delimited space, so it's not the kind of place anyone in the temple would let in"

"That would be so...... It's not a castle, it's a temple..."

"It is the magic equipment that is the key to the transfer from Aub to the next Aub, and there is a door to the foundation in Aub's room. I don't think it's surprising that everyone assumes it's in the castle. So this has been a blind spot for those who have been wandering the castle in search of a foundation in their past history."

My adoptive father became a very bitter face in my words.

If Aub dies without taking over the magic equipment that will be the key to the foundation, the next Aub begins where he searches for the magic equipment he needs to get to the foundation. In general, Aub wears it or leaves it in Aub's hidden room, but he doesn't know the shape or anything about it, so he struggles.

"But even if the key to connecting the foundation to Aub's room, which is given by Aub, was lost, there was a key that was given to the next Aub in advance so that it could serve as an important Aub. So that you can slowly look for another key while fulfilling your role…"

There should have been no need to desperately look for a place on the ground while instilling magic in the foundations from between supplies.

"Rosemaine, I don't know or have been given a spare key that will be given to the next Aub. My father gave it to my sister..."

"No, sir."

To my faint adoptive father I shook my neck left and right and denied it.

"Does your adoptive father remember the myth of founding a nation?

"Well, somewhat..."

What the hell are you talking about, my adoptive father looks at me like he's bewildered by a sudden conversion of topics. But I don't mean to change the subject abruptly.

"So you know the first king was the head of the temple, right? It was only natural for the First King to lay the foundations in a temple offering prayers to God."

Not only do we pray ourselves, but the foundations are created with the temple to flush all the prayers we pray in the temple, and to make it easier for us to communicate our prayers to the gods. If I may add, the sacraments and scriptures placed in the temple are also created by Zent when laying the foundations. This is written on Zent's job, so I don't think it would be something I would know if I hadn't had Gluthris Height in my hand.

"Then, for a while, the next Aub of each territory was the head of the temple. As my current adoptive father would understand, it was an important role for me to do the divine work, increase my protection and increase my magic."

"I see."

When the times descend, another Lordship candidate who can enter and leave both the castle and the temple will be able to bind the aristocracy in the territory to gain a say while the next Aub is performing his divinity as Temple Chief at the temple. Even when the next Aub, who was the temple chief, became Aub, he became treated as a decoration just to serve his magic and perform divinity. Divinity and politics moved away a little bit, and lord candidates began to emerge who refused to enter the temple. Thus, the system created by the First King gradually forgot its original purpose.

"History is good enough. After all, what is it?

"In other words, the key to the Bible, which the next Aub, the Temple Chief, will always inherit, is the key to opening the door from the temple to the foundation."

So back in the day, I didn't have that much trouble with Aub dying first.

"Master Georgine had an intimate exchange of letters with the former temple chief, so I think it might be information flowing from there. Because he was the only one involved in Georgine and the owner of the Bible."

Ordinary nobles stay away from the temple. So knowledge of the temple is only learned in the lectures of the House of Lords. I don't go in and out, and basically I don't try to find out in depth because it's a place to scorn.

I don't know if Georgine himself has ever approached the temple, but the former temple chief seemed to have been to the castle and the aristocratic district on numerous occasions, and I can tell from the letters he had left that he adored Georgine.

"But if I had known such information, my sister would have tried to take the foundations sooner. Before I daughter-in-law to Arlensbach, before I became Aub, when I visited Aerenfest..."

"I think it depends on when Master Georgine found out about the foundations. If I had been informed since I became head of the temple, it would have been harder to get the keys to the Bible..."

"... oh well. I have given my permission and my sister has brought home my uncle's letter as a sign. Most of the letters were sent by my sister, but there were also a few letters my uncle had missed. There would have been that information in one of those letters."

My adoptive father held his head with a severely tired face. She confirmed that the contents of the letter were nothing wrong with giving them to me, and then gave them to me. He thought that the former temple chief, who was not a nobleman, could not have a witchcraft or something like that, but it is possible to pass it on to the opponent if he did not have to use a witchcraft.

"Now you have the key to the Bible better being the temple chief, don't you?

"It's kept in the temple. But it is of the utmost importance that you have the means to get the foundation without having to come to the castle or ask your adoptive father where it is. Even considering that there was a theft of the Bible by the Viscount Dardolph, who was offering his name to Master Georgine, I wonder if Master Georgine is targeting the entrance on the temple side"

My adoptive father exhaled deeply into my speculation.

"It doesn't seem to be a mistake. The foundations of the castle are vigilant, and concealed passages and other measures were put in place with Bonifatius. But I never thought I could take the foundations away from the temple."

It's only a matter of time before they take the foundations if they raid the temple. Essentially managed by the less magical blue clerics, it would be easy for Georgine to take the keys.

"There are also escort knights when I or Melchior are in the temple. But the temple will be very thin if we are absent. Period of the winter social community except for the service ceremony. Then the Spring Prayer Ceremony and the Fall Harvest Festival. We leave the keys of the Bible in the temple, and we leave the temple empty."

Gokuri and his adoptive father rang their throats. Thinking this way, the temple is too defenseless. While there are escorts to protect the staying Lordship candidates, safeguarding the foundation is one key.

"The adoptive father often wonders what to do with the transfer of the keys of the foundations and the Bible. I'll leave it up to you to figure out how to hide that the temple has a foundation and how far you'll go in public to defend it. If you suddenly begin to strengthen the protection of the Temple, your surroundings will wonder. But that doesn't mean we can't take any measures at all, does it? It's Aub's job to figure out how to plan our defense."

At least not my exit curtain leaving Aerenfest after the Spring Prayer Ceremony. I want you to think from around whether it is okay to give away the keys of the Bible that will allow you to be involved in the foundations to the next Aub and not to the Melchior.

"Let's also take the temple into account when it comes to defending the foundations. It's the most suspicious time of spring prayer ceremony for my sister to move to execution..."

"Why? It could be autumn, not spring, or winter. Maybe next year, maybe next year again, huh?

Suspicious, I point my lips at the words of my adoptive father as I am asserting. Even if you assume that, you might get your feet shrugged. However, his adoptive father gave his deep green eyes a glimmer of certainty.

"All territories know that they sleep longer. Some teachers were dismissed for fussing that they might have risen to much higher heights. And their return is not yet known to the other realms. It would be judging the temple's guardianship to be diminished. Most importantly, I think Ferdinand will put up a battle before he gets his room in the main building. It's only possible to keep that one away from me until the Lords' Council, which does the star knot."

... Speaking of which, you wrote in Ferdinand's letter that it was harder to get information.

"Thank you for your valuable information, Rosemaine. It's the first time I've been able to get to the top of my sister."

"If prayer ceremonies are being targeted, I don't think it's surprising that they've come so close already. With that silver cloth, it's easy to cross the border."

My adoptive father closes his eyes once tight.

"The Lanzenave messenger kept a silver cloth together. I don't know if it's the same thing or if the color is just silver. But if you can buy a ton of cloth from Lanzenave, you may consider your sister ready for battle."

No silver cloth appears in Mestionora's knowledge. I also had no knowledge of Troke. Is it too recent that it was created, or does foreign knowledge not come in? Or does Ferdinand have it?

"By the way, Rosemaine. Where the hell did they get that knowledge?

My adoptive father asks me, standing up after the conversation. I said, "... where do you think?" and smile back at Nicole with a question.

My adoptive father, who had been watching me for a while, became indescribable.

"... No way, did you really get it?

I didn't say what. I don't bother to ask, either. Still know enough.

"Less than 70% of the time, and it's pretty out of place at the heart, and it's pretty user-friendly."

With that said, I walk carefully towards the exit. I looked back on the verge of leaving the office.

"I'll be right back in the temple. First, I want to check the keys. The scriptures were being replaced, so the keys could also be rigged with something other than poison. I, the Bible, the book, can tell if it's real by smell, appearance, or weight, but I'm not at all sure about the key."

And when I said so with my breasts stretched, my adoptive father moaned with his head.

"Check it carefully. If there's a strange trick to the keys that will keep you safe for the rest of your life, you won't even be able to see it."

"Huh. Now if you'll excuse me."