Ascendance of a Bookworm

On a silver ship wrapped in ice, you can see Retizia and her flanking female figure for four. Ferdinand's horseman descended towards it.

"Dear Retizia, you're safe and above all. Are you hurt?

I asked Ferdinand to unload me from the mounted beast, and I tried to approach Retizia. Angelica and Leonore, who stepped down as my escort, put out a little hand and stop my movement all the time telling me not to come any closer.

"... Is it Master Rosemaine?

Retizia looked at me blinking her eyes. Apparently I didn't know because I grew up.

"I heard from the Dunkelferger who rescued me. Lady Rosemayne is taking the foundations of Arlensbach and sweeping Lanzenave to save Lady Ferdinand, …. Me, what can I say? Speaking of the former, I..."

"Dear Retizia,"

Ferdinand calls to block the words of Retizia. Retizia looked like she saw Ferdinand and saw incredible things. There seemed to be some deep relief in that consternation, and I can see the tension coming out of Retizia's body.

"You're safe, Master Ferdinand. I, Lady Dietrinde, have told me that Lady Ferdinand is dead..."

"Thanks to Lady Retizia for delivering to the Justkus and the others."

Ferdinand smiles blocking Retizia's words. That smile has a tremendous effect, enough to show that even when I watch it on the side, they say "shut up" out of the question. I guess I went through Retizia as well. Retizia holding her mouth shuts up.

"Having gained ground and become Aub Ahrensbach, Rosemaine said she wanted to save them after learning everything"

He looked at my face as if Retizia had been surprised. The closest ones look the same. You would not have thought that I would save Retizia, the perpetrator, who came to save Ferdinand, nor would you have thought that those who took their foundations by force would save the previous clan of lords.

"But Master Ferdinand. I..."

"Don't say anything extra until we have a place to listen, and don't let it break your attitude that nothing happened. Now you can listen to my words, right?

Retizia looked up at Ferdinand with a blue face, gripping her own chest all the time and nodding cocklessly.

"... Yes, I did. Thank you very much to Rosemayne and Ferdinand for their warmth."

"We will close the gates so that no more Lanzenave ships will come in. Master Retizia will be accompanied by the knights of Dunkelferger before returning to the castle to prepare the Great Hall and prepare the guest rooms for rest by the knights of Dunkelferger."

Surprised by Ferdinand, who had just begun to give instructions to Retizia, who had just been rescued, I stopped by accident.

"Dear Ferdinand, you need to rest a little faster for the Lettizia you've been captured. Such instructions…"

"Master Retizia, who stood still in the boat, would have more strength and magic than I, who was poisoned by Dietrinde, or you, who came from Aerenfest and discharged Lanzenave over dyed the foundations"

"That may be true, but please also consider the spiritual aspect"

When I complained small to Ferdinand, who was only thinking about efficiency, Ferdinand began to explain as he looked down at Retizia, sniffing his nose at Hun.

It seems to be of great significance that it can be stated from the mouth of Letitzia, the nobility of Arlensbach, in the present situation where the nobles are in confusion, that he was saved by Dunkelferger and me, who became the new Aub, and that the danger of Lanzenave has left.

... It would certainly be easier to hear than from people in Dunkelferger or Aerenfest.

Besides, it is easy to collect sympathy votes around you if young Retizia works well in the midst of knowing that whoever sees it is mentally difficult, and helping to save Retizia herself. At the same time, it makes it easier for us to hope that if the Lords' clan Retizia is to be saved, we will also be saved. It was stated that if we do not move ourselves because young Retizia is working hard, we can arouse the victimized adult nobles.

"Besides, if you don't have the idea of how easy and energetic the weather is, isn't it sometimes spiritually harder to stay on track without any punishment or help in this emergency?

Retizia stepped forward and knelt before me in Ferdinand's words.

"Dear Rosemayne, Ferdinand is right. I want to do whatever I can now. … I can't stay very still"

"Okay. We will now leave it to Master Retizia. Make sure everyone has a place to rest."

"Yes, I did. Rosvita......"

Retizia stood up and looked back and called as she looked up at her side, "Ah......" and stretched her face. Apprentice-like girl who hasn't raised her hair yet gently touches Letitia's shoulder.

"I call upon my servants, Lady Retizia."

"Fairzele......"

From the sinking expression and its exchange, it was possible to guess what had happened to Letitia's side service called Rosvita.

"Leonore, ask the knights of Dunkelferger to escort the Lettiezias to the castle with courtesy"

Leonore immediately goes to talk to the knight of Dunkelferger. In the meantime, a girl called Fairzele called to Ferdinand.

"Um, Master Ferdinand. May I ask you just one question?

"I don't mind."

"... could your father have protected the Arlensbach nobles?

My hand, squeezed in front of me, is shaking small. Her father, who tries to protect the city and the aristocracy, overlaps with his father, who defends the city of Aerenfest, and I also looked up to Ferdinand unexpectedly.

"To the extent I listened lightly, let's just say Strahl minimized the damage. We're rescuing the others near the border gates now."

"I'm afraid," he moistened his eyes like relieved, "Fairzele knelt down once and was called by the knight of Dunkelferger, who had put out the horseman, to go over there with the Lettiezias.

I was dropping off the Lettiezias, but Ferdinand goes to the knights of Dunkelferger, who are carrying demonic stones and magic equipment out of the ship.

"Heishitze, let the knights of Dunkelferger strip off the silver costumes worn by Lanzenave soldiers. It's likely used in the battle of Aerenfest and the battle in the center we're going to"

"Ha!"

"Eckhardt, this way too. Don't forget to collect the Demon Stone."

With that said, Ferdinand handed Brother Eckhardt an anti-bugging magic device. I don't know what you said. But I think I ordered something. Brother Eckhardt nodded with a hard look.

When he gave a single instruction to the knights of Dunkelferger and exchanged the Ordnants with the knights, who were working on the hauling near the boundary gate, Ferdinand sent out the horseman to call me.

Rosemaine, we're closing through the border gates.

"But closing the border gates..."

"You're the only one who came to Arlensbach using the border gates. Yustox told me while I was dressing."

... You don't let anyone else know about the book of Mestionora that Master Ferdinand has. Copy that.

It would certainly take my presence to keep Ferdinand from showing me where to close the border gates. I will be carried by Ferdinand's horseman to the border gate. The ships attacked by Lydenshaft spears only leave some ice behind, but there are chunks of broken ice floating in the surrounding ocean. Is the temperature of the ocean high, it's going to melt relatively fast.

Lanzenave's soldiers are on their way to the border gate.

"Leave it to me. Those who do not have enough magic to transfer on their own where they have reached the transfer formation, or do not have the demon stone of a permit, cannot transfer. Either you get played in a silver costume or you stick it in the white earth across the border."

I didn't see it at all because it was midnight when I arrived and I turned my back on the border gate and ran into the city, but the morning sun rose and the view became good because I was riding the beast to the border gate. Beyond the strange border gates that shine in rainbow, the same white desert continues as the view beyond the border gates of Aerenfest. It is as if the sea had been cut off in a transferring formation at the border gate, beyond which the white world continues. I feel like I'm being shown even in a painting.

"Rosemaine, did you come here with the border gates open?

"... something I couldn't afford to close"

The roof portion of the border gate remains wide open so that the Lesser Bus can pass through. But I was nervous when I arrived, and I was wary of what kind of attack was coming from the Knights of Arlensbach, so I didn't think of the option of closing it long after I popped out.

"Well, fine. Less time to open it. Rosemaine, raise your right hand up and put out the Bible so that it can be seen from all around you. We're going in like this."

"Yes."

When I replied, Ferdinand's right hand came before my belly. From the surroundings it would seem as if you were holding me down as if it were a safety bar.

"Gluthris Height!"

To my voice, Ferdinand said "Gluthrithheit" in a whispering voice. Before my stomach the book of Mestionora of Ferdinand appears in a position unseen from the others.

... Master Ferdinand's book of Mestionora is pretty big. Can I read it, too?

As my surrounding gaze gathers in the book of Mestionora, which I list, the horseman with me and Ferdinand jumps into the border gate. Only those with scripture can enter the border gates from above. The rushed voice of Leonore, played without being able to follow me, sounded.

"Dear Rosemaine, Dear Ferdinand! Please return once!

When Ferdinand entered the border gate, he erased the book of Mestionora and the horseman once just saying he was ready for it.

"Rosemaine, shut the roof of the border gate. Keep the border gates closed."

That is what they say as they look up at Leonore and Angelica flying over, and I draw my book of Mestionora to the border gate to close the roof.

"I want to hear it because it's just the right opportunity. What do you want to do after this?

"I want to take a break and then go to Aerenfest..."

"After that."

Asked looking up at the roof that was closing, I was stuck in an answer.

"You dyed the foundations of Arlensbach tonight and quenched the Lanzenave threat. By showing everyone the Scriptures and closing the border gates, the choice was created by not coming any more Lanzenave ships and by making them known that they were qualified to become Zento."

Ferdinand shows his choice as he slowly stands one finger at a time.

One, give the foundations of Arlensbach to the others, and live by the unpleasant swallowing of his daughter-in-law to the royal family as he had ever planned.

Two, after conceding the foundations of Ahrensbach to the others and becoming the adopted daughter of the royal family, I reign in Jürgenschmidt as Zent.

Three, after giving the royal family the Gluthrithheit, he spends his time in the land as Aub Ahrensbach.

Four, give the royal family the gluthris height and give up the foundations of Ahrensbach to the others to return to Aerenfest.

"There are four main parts. Tell me which one you want to pick by the end of closing the border gates. That changes how it works."

Ferdinand smiled poisonously as he looked down at me, confirming that the roof was completely closed while saying so.

"You were the one who said you wouldn't forgive me if I hadn't been happy on my way to Arlensbach, right?

"Yes, sir"

"Then you will not choose a future where you will have a nightmarish marriage that will bring down your standard of living despite other options. Right?

I would only have one reply if I was stabbed with a gong and a big nail with my own words before and my eyes were forced to answer with a smile that wasn't laughing.

"Master Ferdinand is right."

"Great. So what about the second one? To complete the book of Mestionora, you need to let me die, or you need to register royally to get the Gluthris Height in the underground library.... but if it's emotional and for your loved ones, it makes it easier to be prepared to cut off the country. You have absolutely no qualities to be Zent. I don't know about making you Zent. [M] If you choose the path to be Zent, I will do everything in my power to resist. Choose in exchange for my life."

"There's no way I can choose such a scary option!

"What else?"

Now that I've helped Ferdinand, it's important that Jürgenschmidt is safe, but I have no idea what it's like to be a Zent. But we definitely need Zent with the book of Mestionora or Gluthris Height in Jürgenschmidt.

"Ugh...... Doesn't Master Ferdinand have the option of becoming a Zent? I'm not the only one with the book of Mestionora, am I?

"You want me to kill you?

Stared at Giroli, I shook my head in haste. My life is in danger if Ferdinand decides to. Ferdinand would be possible enough to kill me without making me look hostile at all.

"I don't think so, but I think I can be adopted royally and give Gluthris Height to Master Ferdinand..."

"It may be possible, but do you want me to be Zent?

Asked, staring, I consider that Ferdinand will be Zent. I thought you said you didn't want to be Ferdinand, although it's not like he doesn't look good on you.

"No. Master Ferdinand wants you to just hide away and relax peacefully for the rest of your life at Aerenfest."

"Don't treat me like an old man"

"Come on, hey!

When I suggested a happy life of research trivia, I was quite seriously cheeked up. Seriously, it hurts.

I looked up at Ferdinand, holding my cheeks in tears.

"Um, Master Ferdinand. I told you I can't go back to Aerenfest more than I can be Aub Aerenfest, right? If you do, aren't the options one from the beginning?

Ferdinand put out the book of Mestionora, saying, "Well..."

"I don't mind choosing another option. But the rest isn't a bad choice, is it? Arlensbach is a land that I originally thought could be destroyed. Just right for your playground."

... Playground!?