Ascendance of a Bookworm

"I'm back now"

"Welcome back, Master Rosemaine. I'm glad to see you again, Master Ferdinand."

"They are more than anything else because of their breath."

Ferdinand loosened his expression slightly when he was greeted by the flanks of the temples of Fran and Zahms. I can see that it is a place where I miss the temple and feel calm for Ferdinand.

"I'm here to see how the temple and orphanage are and make sure everyone's okay. Let us talk in your room."

"Sister Rosemayne, as already reported to Aub, do you need a report on the backdrop of the Temple's raid? Father said he saw the memory of Master Georgine. I was called in this morning on the way out of the trap to receive a report."

"... please"

You're here to hear the report, but you can't tell me you don't want to hear it. Merhior says he will visit the temple chief's office when he changes into cleric clothes, and heads to his room. I can't get into the Temple Chief's office while I'm dressed, so it seems Ferdinand will be visiting the long time Cleric Office with guidance from Haltmoot. The ex-side servants will be delighted with Ferdinand's visit.

"Nothing happened to the Temple Chief's office? I hear someone has guided Master Georgine..."

"We're fine."

"Really? That's good. I will see how everyone in the temple and orphanage is doing, and when I hear the report, I will head down to the city. We have many customers, so Monica and Nicola should do their best to prepare their tea"

Monica and Nicola looked at each other and laughed couscous when I told her politely that it was okay to change clothes to some extent.

"Fran and Zahm, who were told of Lord Ferdinand's visit, were straining, so there's not much for us to do."

"After Rosemayne is dressed, I will go and inform everyone."

As Monica left the temple chief's office and Nicolas headed to the kitchen, Fran and Zahm pushed a tea ready wagon in with a slightly nervous face. Seems like we're both trying not to put much on our faces, but it's kinda cute to find ourselves without a heart or a twitch.

... You really like the ex-side servants, don't you, Ferdinand?

Monica's news brings us all together in the Temple Chief's office. I recommended to Melchior and Ferdinand the seats lined up in my front. Fran immediately begins to make tea. When I took a sip and recommended, Ferdinand and Merhior reached for tea.

"... it tastes nostalgic"

I turned my gaze to Melchior so as not to disturb Ferdinand's careful taste of his long-time Fran tea. I didn't see it well because my seat was away at lunch, but from the front, I can see you look tired.

"Melchior, Fran's tea is delicious, isn't it? Can you even get a little tired?

"Yes, Sister Rosemaine. Delicious.... Um, I'm keeping it from my father to give rewards to the soldiers who fought valiantly at the West Gate, could you accompany me to the West Gate? Well, my sister knows the soldiers better, so my father told me that we should go together."

Whatever it takes, the medals are ready too soon. There was a raid yesterday. Does this mean that my adoptive father has set the scene for me so that I can meet my father face-to-face, who goes to see the lower town even in the absence of time?

"Of course it is. Let's go together. Merhior will also have more opportunities to meet soldiers face to face in the small temple of Hasse, so it's better to be familiar at all."

Although I have mentioned it before, it would be better to do so more often. I turned my face to Darmuel and Matthias.

"Dermuel, Matthias. Go around every gate in Lower Town to gather information and keep the soldiers who fought at the West Gate assembled. I give you a compliment from Aub."

"Ha!"

It's only been a day since the raid, so it's likely that the meritorious are home resting. If you don't let them know and assemble early, a hard-working soldier will be compromised getting a compliment. Darmuel, who fought with us at the West Gate, would also remember the faces of the soldiers.

"Laurenz, take a look at the children of the Blue Cleric Apprentice, starting with Beltram. Could Angelica have a look at the blue witch apprenticeship?

"Ha!"

Angelica can't say much about it, but Eudit, Rhoderich, and Filine were running in defense of the temple. You'll want to hear about Merhior with me.

"Merhior, let me ask you something about the raid on the temple. You can skip what I heard at the feast. Who gave you the guide? The fact that the children of the old Veronicans were involved…"

"No. I'm Krapech, the blue cleric. But he didn't seem to have guided either."

I accidentally leaned my neck to the name of the unfamiliar blue cleric. Krapech is not so competent in clerical terms that he never faced each other in the clergy's office, nor has he ever faced each other in a service ceremony because he has less magic than Kanfel and Fritak.

"Krapech was certainly from an intermediate nobleman near Risegang, so he should have been treated lightly by the former temple chief. I don't see any connection to Georgine."

Ask Melchior for a detailed explanation of the situation as Ferdinand taps his temples lightly. I saw Ferdinand as Melchior freaked out.

... Oh well. Melchior was taking over from Haltmoot, wasn't he? I don't know the Chief Cleric Ferdinand.

"You can rely on the side you can explain, Merhior. You're still young, and your load will beat you."

It is pathetic to entrust Merhior alone with reporting to Ferdinand. I proposed to take turns nearby. Melchior looked back once and opened his own mouth to see how comforting it was to see his side nodding lightly.

"According to his father, who peeked into his memory, Master Georgine was coming to Aerenfest using another ship that arrived earlier than the nobles who attacked the West Gate in the first place"

And they used the waterway to infiltrate the lower town without going through the gate, and once they joined the people who attacked the North Gate for a meeting, they used the waterway to head to the temple again. He seemed surprisingly aggressive. No matter what you think, I can do it.

"How could the waterways made in Entovickern have been known to the other Georginese?

"If you do Entovickern, just like contract magic, the blueprints will disappear. But then Aub will have trouble later, so be sure to copy it. I have heard that the number of people involved in the blueprints was large, and that some disappeared in Solemn Qing.... because at that time Solemn Qing had not yet taken place and it was not clear who was the nobleman who gave his name to Georgine"

I didn't think that aristocratic Georgine would use the waterway, Ferdinand muttered. It doesn't matter, I know very well that I was seriously willing to steal the foundation.

"I should have been left with little or no aristocracy to support myself that remains within Aerenfest anymore. Still, you can work out all these measures and move on to action. If I could use that head and action for something other than more vengeance...... Too bad."

"Right. If you had stepped forward for your library plans, Aerenfest and Arlensbach could already have been library cities."

What an excellent man he was in the unfortunate direction, when I sympathized with Ferdinand, I was seen with the eye that Ferdinand had no desire whatsoever.

"... I see. Seems like some people are sorry to use their heads and behavior for something else. I changed my perception."

"What do you mean?

"That's what I meant"

...... Humph!

When I was thinking about what I was going to say back, Melchior spoke as small as he had trouble comparing me to Ferdinand.

"... Um, may I continue the conversation?

"Please continue"

"I don't mind."

When Georgine arrived at the temple, the raid on the west gate had not yet begun, and although there was no sign of the orphans, the western entrance and exit for the downwork entering from the basement had not been closed, and there were those entering and exiting.

"As can be seen from the absence of the children in the orphanage, orders for evacuation had already been issued. But the sidekicks and the downstairs just stopped going upstairs that we use, and until there was an assault on the West Gate, they came and went to the first floor and the basement, and they did the same work as usual."

Even if you are evacuated, you will need to eat. With more knights around for the lookout, they couldn't stop the meal from being prepared altogether. You have to be prepared so that you can serve it if the Lord tells you to "eat," because you are an exclusive cook and a sidekick.

"Without hesitation, Master Georgine, who found people entering and leaving the west entrance, arrived at the entrance and exit of the working men and took their clothes from the gray witch who had just come out".

"You don't have to tell me how you took it," Ferdinand raised his hand lightly, seeing how I was doing. The fact that you stopped saying "don't say" while watching my reaction probably killed me. I hear the rest, gripping my fist all over my lap.

"Was the gray witch who was stripped of her clothes Krapech's side service?

"... No, she was Kanfel's sidekick"

Georghine, dressed in a grey witch costume from above her silver costume, apparently went from the west entrance and exit to the basement with nothing to eat face, up from the nearest staircase to the ground floor, checking the position of the blowout, and into one room.

"Krapech was broken into the library just because he was a resident of the closest room to the library."

There is a kitchen on the basement of the temple's aristocratic area, with side rooms lined up on the ground floor. And you go in and out on the stairs that lead you to your Lord's room. Georgine entered Krapech's room from the staircase used by the side servants, killing the inhabitants of the room and waiting for disturbances to occur in the temple, he said.

"Master Georgine seemed to have listened to the noise of a raid at the Temple Gate and a disturbance in the library room. Father said Georgine was picking up a voice that seemed to hear my escort knights making a scene about what kind of trap they were in, transferring them."

When the footsteps and voices disappeared, Georgine easily entered the library room, avoiding traps, passing through the transparent walls that only officials of the temple were allowed to enter, in silver costumes and knowing what traps were being set.

There are gloves and shoes off to match the bird mochi, and the silver costume is falling off. He seems to have found that there is a transfer formation, even if he can't see it, and Georgine pulled something like a string, took off his silver costume without taking off the grey witch's clothes, and scaffolded it.

From there, it connects to my adoptive father's report, and Ferdinand says, "Thank you for reporting," Melchior. Melchior, who was talking quietly, dropped and shook his neck to the side.

"No, Krapech and his side service, Kanfel's side service, died because of me. If only we had left a lookout in the library at the time of the report, if only the more downstairs had been properly evacuated, we would have noticed the waterway... I made a terrible mistake."

No matter how much you're fixing it, you can see it up close. The colour of fatigue and insomnia is also intense in Merhior. I guess you had a sleepless night just like me and Hannelore.

"There could have been a sweet part of the response. But it's not Merhior's fault they died. It was Master Georgine who killed him. Don't get too sick of the fundamentals."

"But, sister..."

"Do you also mourn the dead and pray for your condolences? Me and Lady Hannelore went to the dawn. I prayed for all those who died at Aerenfest, so the prayers must have reached Krapech and the others..."

With that said, I rose up. And kneel toward the altar in your own room.

"Let us pray for Krapech and those who died with us, Merhior"

Melchior, fluttered up, received the demon stone from the vicinity, kneeling next to me as he clenched it with his hands. Both Melchior's proximity and Philine, Eudit and Lauderich lined up behind him. The flanking of the Temple of Frans also lined up behind the Philinees. Those who saw the battle in the temple.

... If this is going to be such a large number, you might as well have moved to the chapel.

The altar in my room is small, so it's a little narrow. But it would be best to pray with honesty right now. I put out a stamp. Whoever has a stamp puts it out the same way.

"The Supreme God, who presides over the high pavilion sky, is a husband and wife of darkness and light, who hears our prayers, gives blessings to those who have gone far toward the heights, and dedicates himself to the song of mourning, the supreme blessing to the returning guests."

If we prayed to all those who died in the temple, the light of gold and black swirled through the ceiling. Magic flashes can also be felt from the demonic stones and rings held by Merhior.

"... Sister Rosemaine, it seems easier just for the amount of magic you've devoted"

Melchior pulled out of his body as if he were horrified.

"If you like, I'll come with you to the orphanage, Merhior. It's important to look directly at those you've lost, but don't look at those you've protected yourself."

I rise and ask Monica to touch the orphanage. Laurenz and Angelica jumped into the temple chief's office at the same time as Monica opened the door.

"What the hell is going on!? All of a sudden there was a light of blessing flying in the temple!?

"Is it a raid!?

I can see the speed of it around Angelica, who should have been on the third floor where the women's room is located, coming back at the same time. Temple Chief I laughed small when Angelica, looking around to be vigilant in the room, saw him wearing it with Ferdinand's figure this morning.

"I was just mourning and praying for those who died in the temple. It's not a raid, Angelica."

I found Ferdinand to look a little nasty at the edge of my sight.

"Are you going to the orphanage? If we don't hurry up, we're running out of time for the West Gate."

"Yes."

Walking down the corridor to the orphanage, the gray witches and younger children, who were just in the dining room, were greeted on their knees, leading Vilma.

"Dear Rosemaine, Dear Merhior. Welcome aboard."

"Everyone seems safe."

"Yes, the fact that Lady Filine and Lady Lauderich informed us allowed us to evacuate early. The gatekeepers were soon replaced by Melchior and Rosemayne's escort knights, and the orphanages didn't even know how the battle was going."

He was evacuated for one bell, so he was just hungry for a little cramped and late for lunch and nobody ended up feeling scared. Vilma reports that with a gentle smile.

"Yes, that would be nice."

"Dear Rosemaine, Dear Merhior. And the people nearby and at the side. Thank you so much. I know. We owe it to you that we can continue our daily routine and work in the workshop as the aristocracy continues."

Melchior and his proximity, who worked the hardest to thank Vilma, broke his face a little. The Philinees are also smiling proudly.

"Philine, Rhoderich and Eudit often defended the temple. Thanks to your hard work, Frans, everyone in the orphanage was safe. Thank you. I know."

"Sister Rosemaine, I was glad to know that not everything was wrong. I'm glad I protected everyone in the orphanage."

"Shall we go to the West Gate? And let's work with the soldiers who protected the city."

"Yes!"

Melchior, who nodded forcefully, commands his side to bring praises. Looks a little better than that.

"You've been praying all this since last night?

"... just not. Only twice."

Ferdinand exhaled like he was frightened.

"What is it? Not a very pleasant sigh though......"

"Good later. Looks like Melchior's ready too. We're going downtown."

Then they took my hand, and when they noticed, they were putting me on board the Ferdinand horseman. No one says anything, and now that the white lion has just begun to run towards the West Gate, I look back a little without being able to ramble and make a scene.

"... Um, Master Ferdinand. Are you sure you want to go outside?

"Didn't I tell you it was a hassle and threw it away?

"I told you..."

... I threw it away, but what about everyone?

I arrived at the West Gate while I was leaning my neck in a puzzling mood. Darmuel and Matthias on the roof of the gatepost, and then, the soldiers are waiting. I saw my father among the soldiers kneeling.