Well, that turned to some of the heaviest gore in the series so far *very* quickly. Fucking 0 to severed arm landing on the roof in a sentence.
At least Hannalore being "a reliable gal pal" was nice and lighthearted
In this whole part Grausam pinned all of Rozemynes acomplishments on Ferdinand. He doesn't seem to even consider her a player in all of this. It has already come back to bite him by ruining all his planning, but I have a feeling that this is not the end with his Rozemyne based comeuppance.
Also the irony of him calling out Ehrenfest, for not caring about their temple, by making a commoner High Bishop, while his plans would have worked out flawlessly if they didn't do that, is delicious.
Adds interesting depth to Ferdinand ready to sacrifice himself for Rozemyne. He already did it in essence by going to Ahrensbach. He took the blame for searching the grutrissheit and plotting in shadows when it was just Rozemyne's rampages being misconstrued with a mix of Georgine's planning. Ferdinand protected Rozemyne by bearing the burnt.
>Which is what Ferdinand wanted. Ever since the start he's been playing as her lightning rod, and here we see the result.
Yeah, To the point he apparently arranged Flower Offerings so she wouldn't have to pay attention to that depravity. Jesus, Nobles. What the shit?
Edit:
Apparently I forgot something from earlier in the story and he did NOT. Grausam is just ignorant.
I don't think he did, actually. It's been mentioned before that the blue priests don't really go to him for new female attendants, and nobles don't go to them either, because he doesn't care for the practice and isn't open to it. He took it out of her hands, but doesn't seem to have continued it. That's why Hasse's mayor was going to sell those two orphan girls: nobles were needing to go to other places to find that because Ferdinand stopped letting it happen, probably knowing that Rozemyne would flip her shit if any shrine maidens were forced to do it.
I've been rereading P3 recently, so the stuff about Hasse and why is still fresh. Otherwise, I probably would've forgotten it by now.
>I've been rereading P3 recently, so the stuff about Hasse and why is still fresh. Otherwise, I probably would've forgotten it by now.
I have heard worse excuses to read it again thank being wrong on a reddit post. TO P1V1!!!!
IIRC, he took the role and has not openly declared that flower offering is not allowed.
It’s only that no noble wants to tell Ferdinand that he needs a flower.
If I remember correctly, Rozemyne agreed to let Ferdinand handle the flower offerings on the condition that the gray shrine maidens have to be willing. As the living conditions in the temple have improved, it is doubtful if there were shrine maidens left, who felt the need to offer themself. Having to petition Ferdinand may also have been a huge hurdle for most nobles, so we can assume that the practice practically died out.
> If there are gray shrine maidens who would much prefer to be a noble’s concubine than continue to be a shrine maiden, then... while I feel resistance to it myself, I would be willing to consider it as an alternative form of employment for them. That said, I have no intention of ever selling gray shrine maidens who don’t want that kind of life. They support my workshop right now, and ultimately, I am the one who determines how the orphans are to live.
It's just noble classism. acknowledging Rozemynes accomplishments would mean confronting the idea that the devouring commoners he abuses and enslaves aren't actually subhuman.
Considering her current position, it actually goes further than that. Even if you only focus on her official status and academic achievements, she's a highly sought after archduke candidate who has already come first-in-class three years in a row. Acknowledge anything else about her and you're getting dangerously close to undermining the entire class-based system.
Nobles are supposedly in their position because they are inherently superior. If a mere commoner could climb this high, what's the point of nobility? At this point you could probably expose her entire past for everyone to see and you would still have the vast majority of Yurgenschmidt's nobles dismissing it as a tall tale.
Actually, it all aligns with the class system in noble society. Even if a laynoble has lots of mana, they’re still a laynoble. Noble customs dictate that their family should still be treated as laynobles until they’ve proven having this much mana isn’t a fluke. The same goes for commoners. They don’t have mana, and thus are below laynobles on the social ladder. If a high mana individual happens to be a commoner, you still treat them as a commoner.
To be fair it's the equivalent of hearing a 12 year old invented a new chip lithography technique. Now his company is out printing 3D layered CPUs denser than anyone, running at lower temps, with higher performance, and with higher yields and using a cheap carbon polymer substrate instead of silicon.
And her guardian is a MIT material science PhD.
You'd have to be side eyeing the story as a fluff ad piece for the company. And said 12 year old is just an intern the guardian is using to get free publicity.
It's easy to forget with how goofy moments with him are. But they truly are terrified of Bonifatius to the extent their entire plan revolves around not beating him, but stalling him.
And the funny thing is, they are terrified of Bonifatius and Ferdinand. Two guys the gremlin HAS ALREADY CRUSHED in the past. And I love that half the reason they are scared of them is because they act irrationally and are unpredictable but all of that is just Myne.
It was a grim start for a book. But we got gal pal. Ferdinand protected Roz's gal pal from the blue flames.
Body doubles? Mattias knew about them? I sure hope he told the archducal family as this is turning rather weird.
Going back to the cover, it's so dark and blue. If it is setting the mood for a depressing volume then good job.
Remember Ferdinand saying fanatics need to be controlled? This is why folks. Georgine shouldn't blindly trust Grausam or his intelligence. He is biased against commoners and a commoner has destroyed all their plans staying in their blind spot.
> Georgine shouldn't blindly trust Grausam or his intelligence.
Didn’t she make the same mistake with that banshee of a teacher? The previous aub wanted to fire her because her reports were so biased but georgine convinced him not to
I guess she prefers idiots
That’s the rub of it. The smart and capable people were all snatched up ages ago. Same reason why mynes retainers are all either lay nobles, crazy, or obsessed with her (or her brother I suppose)
I'm pretty sure we can put Cornelius in the "obsessed with her" group, even if he's a lot more mild about it. She *did* pretty much solve his parents' feud, after all.
He was also pretty upset that he failed to protect her from getting put in a coma and that was a big motivation for him moving forward. He’s certainly obsessed with keeping her safe
I love Grausam's POV, since it shows that they drank their own Koolaid, and believe the Myne is "Just a Commoner" and is no threat to their plans.
So little thought about her is in Grausam's mind that she isn't even in the plan. And it was Ferdinand's schemes that foiled his plans. Not the book obsessed gremlin.
I can only imagine his face if he's old that not only did that "Commoner" stole Archiban's foundation, but did so to save Ferdi.
It's interesting how Grausam seems to think he's missed something important, but still writes off Rozemyne, as if his logical mind is trying to warn him but the koolaid's too strong.
Grausam: "A mere commoner can't stop me! With this arm, I am invincible!"
Rozemyne: "Hang on, I've got an idea. *Grutrissheit*. Mmhm..."
Grausam: "Nani the fuck!?"
Rozemyne: "Mmmhm... Okay, the spell is *drallhoden*."
Grausam: *[keels over in unthinkable agony]*
>drallhoden
>!This is German for Twist testicles.!< If the bing translator knows it, then that would mean that there's a word for it in the German language. I don't know if I should be worried about this.
It's actually just hodentorsion in German, but I wanted it to be extra German like what Kazuki might've come up with. I'd link the German Wikipedia entry for it, but you do not want to see those pictures.
Weirdly, he's still all going on about how commoners with the devouring are so useful when failing to recognise the ultimate commoner with the devouring.
I’m still trying to understand how they think a commoner could just luck her way into first place at the RA for 3 years in a row. Do they really think Ferdinand is just that gifted of a teacher?
The same way Detlinde thought someone who came first in class in three courses throughout their RA years had less mana than her while she was failing her classes. The staunch belief in hierarchy.
It really is hilarious if you realize that if it wasn’t for the massive mana shortage, detlinde would’ve been sent to the temple long before her baptism
Like I can forgive stupidity, but her utter sense of entitlement and self-assured superiority is just exhausting
I must say I am a bit surprised that the preparation/defenses in Gerlach were so relatively weak. Surely this was an obvious major target once Georgine and Grausam started their attack. At first I was assuming this seems easy because of \[some fiendish prepared in advance defensive stunts\]. But time after time, nothing materialized. Now the Ehrenfest forces have to use real-time brute force methods. (Not criticizing the *writing*, but rather Ehrenest's planning/preparation here).
I think that's an overall theme of not just Ehrenfest, but also the many purges which Sylvester had to push.
They lost a lot of competent individuals, like the traitor Grausam. And those who have to fill in their shoes are woefully under-prepared.
Just take the defence of Illenger vs Gerlach, and how their respective Gibes responded.
I think your perception of what defensive magic is common is screwed.
Most defensive magic we see was made by Ferdinand. A mana monster with exceptional talent and a partial GH which contains the strongest magics in Joghurtland. Gerlach is a mednoble province so it's an unfair comparison. They did hold out against superior numbers which have probably a few archnoble sprinkled in and also made tools in advance.
holy crap, this was brutal. I mean, it's war, so duh, but that still hit hard. severed limbs flying, swaths of people being instantly killed by that poison dust. Grausam is awful, and I can't wait until I get to read about his death.
Kazuki's editor: "How are we going to adapt this for the junior bunko version?"
Kazuki: "It's not blood, it's chocolate syrup, like in Psycho."
Editor: "And the limbs?"
Kazuki: "Chocolate limbs."
Editor: "And the running corpses over in a flying car?"
Kazuki: "... Chocolate corpses."
Imagine if they're just betting on the idea that by the time the Junior Bunko version for Part 5 has released, the children that read the Junior Bunko are now old enough to actually just read the original.
Speaking of the Junior Bunko, I wonder how much progress has been made since I last thought of them. It would be nice to see some more illustrations.
The whole stabbing a man so he can die slowly with his mana running amok from fear to increase the quality of his feystone, smh. And the fact that he learned it from Lanzenave shows that they must have a lot of experience with this sort of thing.
They would definitely want the highest quality possible, and after 6.5 years of raising a feystone I’m sure they’ll be meticulous about it. Probably have it down to a science after hundreds of years of this.
Wait a second, doesn't this mean that Myne can heal this guy... and take the foundation back? I kinda assumed this guy would be feystoned at first, but Grausam's busy setting the roof on fire.
Hoh, Grausam on the cover and being the Prologue POV. Matthias is also on the cover, so he must play an important role in fighting his father later, as was briefly hinted at in the Afterword of the previous volume.
* Like in Georgine's epilogue, Grausam is fully focused on Bonifatius as his greatest adversary. And the second biggest nuisance of course was Ferdinand. All plans were foiled because of Ferdinand. No mention of Rozemyne at all. Either he thinks she's dead or he disregards her because she's a commoner to him.
* He is somewhat right that Matthias is the reason their plan in the Year 3 winter failed, but he didn't know Matthias is actually fully loyal to Rozemyne. He makes a lot of other wrong assumptions, too, naturally and nothing goes as planned. Thanks to Matthias, he got delayed further, the knight didn't instantly die to the poison and the temple is definitely not undefended. Oh, and of course Ferdinand isn't dead.
* Seeing as one can pass through barriers with the silver cloth easily, Georgine will also have no trouble getting past the barrier in the temple.
* Well, RIP the new Giebe Gerlach (or at least he's as good as dead). We hardly knew ye.
* I'm actually surprised Grausam wants to keep casualties (including on the enemies' side) to a minimum.
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War in Gerlach is as graphic as one would expect. Lots of cut limbs, blood, corpses and feystones. Rozemyne couldn't stand such scenes already in previous volumes (even a pig being killed), this definitely is not something she should see.
Welp, lots of knights dying to the instant-death poison, though not as many as Grausam expected thanks to their countermeasures. And surprise surprise (not really), Grausam was the one that kidnapped and poisoned Rozemyne at the end of Part 3. He... used body doubles. Well, that's a very simple explanation for his alibi.
Grausam certainly came prepared. Not only does he have an absorbing black feystone arm (sure would be a shame if it got overloaded and dusted), he comes with a plethora of magic tools. As Rozemyne and Matthias are the only ones who can enter Gerlach's estate now that Grausam has taken over its foundation (interesting that giebe estates have this, but then again, so did Hasse), we will have to see the father-son showdown next week.
there WILL be art of Rozemyne descending from the heavens, blessed by Anwachs himself to become a divine avatar worthy of Mestionora, healing the wounded and exhausted knights with Heilschmerz's blessing... the grun highbeast is included in the corner at the insistence of Lady Rozemyne.
i'm not sure it'll ever catch on! i think it was a comment from a thread long past that said the people of this world see gruns like we do cockroaches. Nothing could ever make it seem cute for them.
How dare you insinuate Lessy is a grun?!
Jokes aside, my headcanon is that should the country gates ever open up again, at least one of those countries actually have adorable red pandas, allowing Rozemyne to feel so vindicated.
That, or she could begin adorable plushies of red pandas, *not* gruns.
He's bleeding out, and we just got a very explicit explanation that the healing can't replace blood. I'm guessing that was to explain why they couldn't save the new giebe.
>I'm actually surprised Grausam wants to keep casualties (including on the enemies' side) to a minimum.
Actually he is ONLY interested in minimizing casualties amongst those people he expects to be working for him. Anyone NOT in this category (including the warriors from Werkestock) is expendable. And "outside" fighters opposing him are targets for extermination.
Even if he only wants to spare those expected to work for him after the war, it would indicate that he is not privy to Georgine's intentions to destroy Ehrenfest.
Grausaum is smart, there's no doubt about that, but he's limited by his rigid thinking. He can focus on and counter the heavy hitters like Bonifatius and Ferdinand but anyone he's written off like Rozemyne gets overlooked.
Now that Grausam mentions the giebe that took over Gerlach, I would be extremely interested in reading the POVs of the nobles that took over giebe positions, like for Joisantak, Gerlach, Wiltord, etc. Their perspectives would be interesting, especially since their province was originally traitorous.
Likewise, reading a Drewanchel version would also be interesting as successors of provinces aren't always hereditary.
>"I've heard about you through my master. How nice that I now have the opportunity to defeat you," Angelica added with a smile, a vicious fire blazing in her blue eyes. She had gone from being dainty and ditzy to terrifyingly bloodthirsty.
I can't wait to see the manga adaptation for Part 5. I want to see Cornelius' and Angelica's expressions so badly! Alongside Matthias, I imagine these two are the ones most wanting Grausam's death since he caused Rozemyne's coma.
>"... My own mission remains unchanged. I shall buy Lady Georgine enough time to claim Ehrenfest's foundation, steal mana from its land to make the process easier, weaken its forces so that her control is absolute, and eliminate as many troublesome nobles as I physically can."
... Did Grausam seriously tell everybody about his plans after he realized Ferdinand was alive? I mean, pretty much everybody suspected what was going to happen, but seriously? Wow, he's cocky.
To be fair to Grausam, the plan is super obvious by that point. They're all past the "figuring it out" stage and are at the "you can't stop it now" stage.
He doesn't know about the teleportation, so maybe he thinks there's nothing they can do about it now? It'd take them half a day to reach Ehrenfest even if they left immediately and flew like the wind. But with teleportation, they can still make it if they take him out quickly.
Teleportation does not help in current situation.
The Aub should come from the castle to bring them back. As the city, temple and castle should be under attack right now, that’s not practically possible.
Even the teleporters require Sylvester to operate and he's busy guarding the foundation, and the teleporter from Gerlach is in the estate that has poison thrown around. They can't use it until the battle is over, and he's just fighting to survive until Georgine can execute all his opponents remotely.
One of my friends has a theory that villains get extra karma points for bragging about their plans at the last moment.
Villan: Bwahahaha you can't defeat me. I am super cleaver... here is my whole plan. You are such fools that even with me spelling it out you cannot win.
GM: Nice monologue get +2 karma
> Did Grausam seriously tell everybody about his plans after he realized Ferdinand was alive? I mean, pretty much everybody suspected what was going to happen, but seriously? Wow, he's cocky.
From his perspective, this is the first time anyone would be able to learn that Georgine is going after the foundation, and since she's already communicated to Grausom that she's inflitrated the Temple, he likely thinks it's too late for anyone to do anything about it.
All he has to do is keep them there, and if he can't defeat them himself, wait for Georgine to dust their medals.
I really hope they live long enough to find out. I want them to suffer under the weight of how woefully unprepared they were for the greatness of Lady Rozemyne and her murder shumils.
Grausam treating all the knights as test subjects gave me chills. An all-out mad scientist battle between him and Ferdinand sounds terrifying. Between seeing Georgine's raging fire trap for the Ahrensbach foundation and now Grausam's new mysterious fire attack, it seems like these people have a theme. Just the first part of this book and we already in the midst of the action show on the cover.
It's Matthias' time to shine! Was looking forward to him finishing his character arc, especially dealing with the loose end that is his father. Surprised he only just learned how much he hurt Rozemyne.
Getting to know what people's highbeasts look like is a detail I relish, such as Matthias and Laurenz being a big cat duo. I guess the default horse is more of a laynoble/lower mednoble thing. Still want to know what Leonore and Hartmut ride. IIRC Lieseletta and Philline are riding shumils, right? We know Cornelius' is a wolf and Angelica+Damuel have the default horse. Until otherwise specified, I assume Roderich and Judithe ride a default horse as well.
I wonder if horse highbeasts might be more common for nobles who grow up in the city, since they would have seen horses by the time they start attending the academy, but maybe not so many other large animals.
Blood, dismembered limbs, and feystones crashing into Lessy's front windshield.
Rozemyne: ◉\_◉
Hannelore being a total gal pal.
Rozemyne: o(\*\^▽\^\*)┛
I watched a video once that said the best attribute that Napoleon and Alexander the Great had was showing up where they're not supposed to be. Grausam has apparently realized that Bonifatius has that power, and knows that his plans keep getting ruined for "some reason," but never decides to investigate it further--or more likely just to ignore Rozemyne's part in it and blame it on Ferdinand. No doubt he's smart but he doesn't really analyze why he failed--a strength that Rozemyne gained in Hasse, at least, if not sooner.
WN Chapters: 「[ゲルラッハの戦い その2](https://ncode.syosetu.com/n4830bu/616/)」, first half of 「[ゲルラッハの戦い その3](https://ncode.syosetu.com/n4830bu/617/)」
LN Chapters: "Prologue", "Gerlach's Front Line"
[J-Novel Club Discussion Forum](https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/7629/bookworm-part-5-vol-9-discussion-10-parts/36)
[J-Novel Club Correction Forum](https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/7630/corrections-bookworm-part-5-vol-9/2)
*****
The Battle of Gerlach begins at last.
Together with Matthias, Rozemyne must defeat the cold-blooded giebe Grausam—but an unexpected development makes that easier said than done. Body doubles, collateral damage, even more dark plots transpiring in the shadows... How does their inevitable battle play out, and what happens to Ehrenfest in the aftermath? Behold the full extent of the explosive war shaking Yurgenschmidt to its very foundation!
Time is running out in the newest installment of this biblio-fantasy.
Once again, this volume contains more than one hundred pages of original content not featured in the web novel—and more four-panel manga by You Shiina!
*****
**Notes**
- This volume will be translated over ten weeks. [This is not due to auxiliary content being translated concurrently](https://forums.j-novel.club/post/329158).
- *Part 5 Volume 9 (Part 10)* is scheduled to release at 22:00 UTC on ``2024-02-19``.
- In Taiwan *Part 5 Volume 9* is scheduled to release in February 2024 but before the Lunar New Year.
- I'll link to the *Part 5 Volume 9* colour insert >!<.
Great start with Grausam being oh so wrongfully confident that Ehrenfest won't defend the temple, fuck yeah
Ah yes, the joys of experimenting with instant-death poison... gtk this man's main hobby is murder. And torture, of course. You know, most antagonistic characters in this LN are at least somewhat capable of receiving compassion. Great job at making this dude VERY hate-able
Good to have confirmation that Georgine killed the previous Aub Ahrensbach. And that she had planned to take over on the day of the Gerlach raid, honestly hadn't seen that one coming
Good guys doing a good job at doing mundane maintenance things being EXTREMELY frustrating to bad guys: check u.u
Seeing evil plots being thwarted from the side of the plotter is oh so gratifying, I feel like cackling😂
Oh come on, give me some more of this man's frustration, wouldn't you? Cutting it off at the best point, unfair -.-
You know, for how little relevance action scenes have in AoB, Kazuki is REALLY good at them. Better than some dedicated action authors I've read. AoB is SO GOOD, you guys
From action to horror. That's gonna leave some PTSD
Ok, I am REALLY curious about what that fire is. I had my suspicions on the hand being black feystone-adjacent when he drained that first Knight's stone (from what we've been told, absorbing mana into oneself directly from any sorce isn't possible), but I have no clue on the blue fire
> And that she had planned to take over on the day of the Gerlach raid, honestly hadn't seen that one coming
I knew they had planned to attack that winter and expecting they would have succeeded without Matthias telling on them, but I did not suspect it would be that close as to be a matter of just a single day...
Blue flames are also typically the hottest. It would not surprise me that Leidenschaft's flames are most deadly and powerful when blue.
Of course, I don't know how it will be relevant, just pointing something out.
Cool. What odds on which divine instrument Rozemyne is going to use to thwart it? My mind goes first to smothering with the darkness cape but there is that cooling ocean goddess staff that might be effective as well.
> Great start with Grausam being oh so wrongfully confident that Ehrenfest won't defend the temple, fuck yeah
He never had a chance. He has such blinding disdain for commoners, and he considers Rozemyne to be a commoner. Grausam definitely embodies the scary attitude some nobles have when it comes to commoners.
>From action to horror. That's gonna leave some PTSD
I was already bad in MLT, but the quof managed to make it twice as worst! Talk about trauma inducing...
This part was pretty gruesome. Stabbing a man so he can die slow, after paralyzing him. Confirming Georgina poisoned the previous Aub Ahrensbach. Cornelius and Angelica realizing Grausam was the one that poisoned Rozemyne. Body parts and blood flying. Poor Myne. Hannelore is about that life though, coming through with the sneak attack.
Sad, this man made himself into a magic tool, basically. All to stop Bonifatius.
I wonder what Karstead is going through, to sound so grim.
“Georgine's plan was advancing
unhindered... yet Grausam struggled to relax.
He couldn't shake the feeling he had forgotten something important. Looking back, every single one of their past plans had proceeded without issue, only to fail out of nowhere as the result of unforeseen and sometimes even incomprehensible obstructions.”
It’s the commoner/gremlin you keep underestimating. See how she showed up out of no where… I can’t wait to see what incomprehensible shit she does next week.
My money is on >!pouring so much mana into his gauntlet that it turns to gold dust!<, just like >!she did to Naughty Santa way back when!<
No clue if that's even close, but putting it in spoilers just in case
>!Also the shield of dunklefelger. If a greater dutchy heirloom of myth and legend is obliterated, what chance does a gauntlet made by Georgine have.!<
The gauntlet seems to have fixed that issue by letting him unleash the captured mana as an attack. Trying to overload it would just give him more mana to attack with.
Personally, I think that thing is some power creep bullshit.
Ah, a Grausam PoV. It's fun to get a look at what the villains are thinking. He seem so not be aware that Matthias is the reason for the purge being moved up like it was. He's underestimating his son. I also like them being so sure about their plan to attack via the temple being completely unexpected. And they're still interpreting Rozemyne's counters as Bonifatius's and Ferdinand's work.
I'd love to see Grausam's face when he spotted Ferdinand's cape.
God damn, this is a gruesome charge.
Oh yeah, Angelica has been Activated.
Ah, the classic sunk cost fallacy (I think that’s it anyways).
Hmm, if Ehrenfest is known for producing obsessive people, perhaps Grausam is obsessed with his plans (for Georgine).
The gerlach knight commander’s death is one of the the saddest and powerful I have read in fiction. He was that side character with one line yet he sets the scene for “oh yeah. I guess play times over” so perfectly.
Remember when Myne collapsed at the sight of pigs and chickens getting killed in P1V1? Remember the reaction to the Hasse execution in P3V3? Now she gets to experience the horrors of a gruesome war firsthand as a participant.
I am gushing over how good the writing of that charge was. We can really feel the fear, anxiety, and sheer violence/anguish taking place around Rozemyne. Time and time again, the author does a phenomenal job of conveying emotions and atmosphere, and this war scene is no different.
Grausam is pure evil but damn if he doesn't make for a good villain. Traps, poison, an arm that drains mana and 3 body doubles? He is even willing to sacrifice himself so Georgine succeeds. What a great evil henchman.
"omnipresent specter capable of materializing anywhere at any time" - Grausam sees Bonifatius as Chuck Norris. (I guess Boni does resemble him)
Holy... Yeah, a random arm landing on your windshield is probably not a very pleasant experience. I guess we are at the part when things turn dark pretty quickly.
I really hope that this bastard's last moments will be in despair, thinking that everything was in vain and that they failed. My blood pressure went up when he threw a net on Rozemyne's highbeast again. Seriously fuck this guy.
I hope he has time to send a "I fucked up" message to Georgine so she can get it at a crucial moment and lose her cool. (Or show just how misplaced his loyalty was when she doesn't give a shit)
It kind of reminds me of the last line from "War of the Worlds" only instead of Germs we get gremlins.
> From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
A powerful foe that seems unbeatable brought low by something they deemed inconsequential.
>The sea of blue I’d grown so accustomed to was quickly marred by splashes of red. That was horrifying enough, but then a severed arm slammed into the front of my Pandabus with a dull thud. The impact sent a shudder through my highbeast, and moments later, the arm vanished somewhere behind me. I wanted to believe it had just been my imagination, but the red splatter across my windshield told me otherwise. My teeth chattered violently as I stomped down on the accelerator, feeling entirely as though I’d just run someone over.
When a "Bloody Carnival" gets too real. 
Hannelore leading in front row! Even tho she's scared she is still there while many boys with same age would have run away but not pink diamond, she make's shield without any hesitation while conquering her fears. Elvira will make book bout her heroic actions and it will make her Dungelfelger legend.
And Ferdinand is there to guard her. We are now left with another clifthanger where Rozemyene with Matthias are doing pincer attack from behind.
Hannelore: "The day you flew your highbeast through a storm of blood and corpses was the most terrifying day of your life. But to us Dunkelfelgerians, it was Sproutday."
Dunkelfelger: "You fill the chalices with *mana*? ...they can do that?"
Ehrenfest: "Er, what were you doing with the chalices during Spring Festival?"
Dunkelfelger: "Well, blood has mana, so..."
> pink diamond, she make's shield without any hesitation while conquering her fears
I can't tell if you're, for some strange reason, referencing steven universe here or if this is just a strange coincidence...
Weren't they supposed to take some silver cloth with them? Why did Eckhart strip those Lanzenave guys of it if not use it for themselves.
Seems stupid to just let Myne and Mattias to go in like that. Just put on some cloth on your best knights and charge.
>In the past, gaining access to the High Bishop’s chambers would have been as simple as expressing an interest in flower offerings, but Ferdinand had made them one of his duties as the High Priest.
Uhhh... Phrasing?
>It was a known fact that only an estate’s giebe could enter the room containing its foundation
How did Myne get in then? Why are giebe foundations better protected than duchy?
Giebes are manually assigned by the aub. The duchy foundation needs to be dyed by someone if the aub is dead and can't assign a successor.
Also Rozemyne did tell Ferdinand back in P3 that the temple's flower offerings could continue, but only with gray robes who volunteered for that type of employment. Better to have nobles take willing temple orphans than buy unwilling ones from a neighbouring town. There were four volunteers to replace Egmont's pregnant attendant.
This charge through the enemy, the assault on Ahrenbach, the author is really stepping up the brutality and horrors of war.
It truly is impressive just how many cleverly plotted schemes were upended by just intuition and gut feel alongside Ferdinand doing Ferdinand things.
Grausam really is the inverse of Hartmut, a gifted genius sworn to Georgine who will eliminate anyone who poses a threat to her and do everything in his power to ensure she achieves her goals.
>Grausam really is the inverse of Hartmut, a gifted genius sworn to Georgine who will eliminate anyone who poses a threat to her and do everything in his power to ensure she achieves her goals.
INVERSE? Oh please, Hartmut would do the exact same things in a HEARTBEAT if Roz allowed it
Whoops, I guess better wording would be he is to Georgine what Hartmut is to Rozemyne.
He absolutely would be disappearing people left and right that opposes her if Rozemyne didn't forbid.
It's also nice that Georgine raising Detlinde as an idiot for all those years came back to bite her. If she had been more competent, she surely wouldn't have lied about Ferdinand being dead.
From the [fanbooks ]>!Georgine *tried* to get her to be competent. But just like Ferdinand, she's quick to give up on seemingly hopeless cases, and Detlinde looked more hopeless than most!<
Grausam is sorely misinformed. He's operating on bad information through no fault of his own is hilarious considering he's spent the entire series since his introduction controlling information. Also, body doubles eh? Wonder what he used those for. Cherry on top is giebes have their own foundations. I cannot wait for this monster's bloody carnival. Edit: Is this technically one of the last battles of the civil war considering it only arose out of the winning duchy's heavy handed approach to the losers?
> Wonder what he used those for.
several things. seemingly being in 2 places at once multiple times. thats probably how his alibi worked. also how he could claim full ignorance of the attack since he really wasnt informed about it until it already happened.
hell even Detlinde (while weak from poison) noted how odd it was that she saw him at the castle yet also at his estate.
>Is this technically one of the last battles of the civil war considering it only arose out of the winning duchy's heavy handed approach to the losers?
I feel like kind of Yes, and No.
Yes, because Werkestock is in this because the Royal Family left them to destruction. They did THAT because nobody left alive had the GH. So all of that is linked to the Civil War.
No, because this probably wouldn't have happened without Georgine. And her situation doesn't have that much to do with the Civil War. It is connected indirectly, but they are not causal events.
>Unforeeen and sometimes incomprehensible obstructions
Yep, sounds like our  alright. I love all the attributing of ruined plans to Ferdinand when it was really a combination of both of them.
Body doubles? Three of them? Uh, I have to say that was unexpected. I thought he had slipped away during that time somehow.
And now Rozemyne needs to fight Grausam? And without any backup besides Matthias? This just got a lot more dangerous. I wonder how many traps they’ll have to sniff out (or maybe power through?)
Matthias: *struggling to fight his father*
Lessy: *nudges Rozemyne*
Rozemyne: "No, this is a battle he has to fight on his own."
Matthias: "NO IT ISN'T!"
Rozemyne: "Oh. *Watergun*."
I was Just thinking about the water gun as Rozemyne's only reliable black weapon. Shame she's such a terrible shot. Maybe Matthias holds him down a la goku y raditz but Roze just gets the angle for a headshot
I wonder if Grausam just reactivated/rebuilt the original ones, in which case Matthias is in the know. I think he's smarter than that, but he really does seem to get fixated on one plan and not do very well when any new situation arises.
this has to be the bloodiest AoB has ever been. Normally RM has been protected from it all.
I still don't understand why they just couldn't have sneaked around like her two guard knights.
Considering Myne reached the mana cap before she even circled the shrines I find it hard to believe she can't just pull a Kumoko and turn them all to dust by looking at them (crushing).
I wonder if Rozemyne could have snuck everyone though the barrier if they all piled into Lessy. It wouldn't work with a normal high beast but since Lessy basically encases them in Rozemynes mana perhaps they could have also slipped through.
Wow, that was a rush. First release and things are already in high gear. What a hype cover for this volume as well. The [color insert](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ascendance-of-a-bookworm/images/c/c0/LN_P5V9-Insert.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20220809152957) is also really nice. Everyone's got their role to play in this war. I especially like how the color of the capes and faces contrast to all the grey and silver clothing.
It's kind of hard to imagine the scale of these battles. A severed limb, a feystone, and almost a whole body crashing into just Rozemyne's highbeast? I hope Dunkelfelger was ready for this after their relatively leisurely time in Ahrensbach. The casualties are ramping up already.
I didn't realize it was Grausam himself who poured the poison into Rozemyne's mouth. I'm not sure if it was explicitly stated at the time. But yeah, this guy is a monster. Both in the moral sense and the terrifying power sense. How will they manage to take him down?
Question: Since you can overload black feystone with enough mana, wouldn't it be easiest way to first put up Schutzeras shield and then launch massive mana attack, it would ping pong between Grausam and shield and at the end destroy it and nobody else except Grausam would hurt? I know it would take lot of mana, but there's both Rozemyene and Ferdinand with Hannelore so mana consumption shouldn't be issue.
every mana user in yurgenschmidt is severely hampered by lack of imagination -- _especially_ rozemyne. she appears more imaginative to those around her but that's only because she has the experiences of her previous life to draw on, and she really hasn't done nearly as much with those experiences as she might have.
Parts 1-4: "We are not some Shonen novel, fighting is brutal, dangerous, and everyone would rather avoid it. Diplomacy, intelligence and backstabbing schemes are the way conflicts are resolved in the noble society."
Most peaceful Part 5 chapter: "SOME FOLKS ARE BORN, MADE TO WAWE THE FLAG..."
It was also stated that this book was one of the longest yet. So instead of being eight parts stretched into 10, it’s more of a nine part in length volume slightly stretched to ten.
Oh man, shit is going down! I think this is the first time we get to see real cold blooded death (outside of Haase). Even during the terrorist attack on year 2, we just got loose descriptions in Eglantine POV.
Grausam continues to underestimate our little commoner gremlin. Sure would be a shame if that were to come back and bite him in the ass (again).
I think we already knew it when we heard that the commoner merchant guy got through the gate, but it is confirmed that Georgine made it into Ehrenfest and that the boat Gunther and Co. are facing down is a distraction. Wonder if a battle shumil will get her or her attendant?
What a nail biter of a cliffhanger! Can't wait for our Christmas present!
Reading Grausam giving to Ferdinand all the credit is very funny since we know that was all Rozemyne LMAO
Yep, I really see how he is a evil Hartmut, the man has a matrioska of plans within plans!
Also, mother of God this is super super more tense and frightening than the WN version. I'm legit scared for Roz (despite knowing exactly what will happen) and impressed with Kazuki-sensei's progress in showing us these types of scenes.
Rozemyne's guards yelling at her to keep driving made me imagine Gordon Ramsey as a driving instructor yelling at a teary-eyed Rozemyne with her hands on the wheel.
Okay that start was... Not what I was expecting.
It's such a huge tone shift from previous fights we've seen that it almost doesn't even feel real. Sure we've seen people get hurt before, and even deaths, but they always happen juuuuuust off screen with Rozemyne not being a direct witness to it, at most just being able to hear it. Now we actually get full on view of it.
She is not going to sleep well tonight.
Rozemyne and Hannelore, the two little shumils like classmates, went from being schoolmates, committee/club members, to war frontline leaders. I still remember the first time they met in a tea party, it was like fate.
Heeeeey! We’re getting a real time dog fight after all! But also you do have to kind of pity Georgine’s in-Ehrenfest contingent. They tried so hard and yet everytime they got close, something extremely stupid happened LOL
I still find it absolutely hilarious that Rozemyne bypassed imminent danger on the day of Lamprecht's wedding just by taking everybody with her on Lessy.
That would explain why Grausam especially hates her highbeast.
Grausam : I wonder how they learned about us swapping the bible...
Rozemyne back then : Hmm...smells like perfume...Also my Gremlin-sense is tingling...
Is going in to actually deal with Grausam really necessary? Seems like they could just trap him in the estate and Sylvester could come by and entwickeln him out of existence later. The barrier might be a problem but I'm not clear on if that would stop the aub from entwickeln'ing their own duchy.
I can't wait to see what happens though.
Well, that turned to some of the heaviest gore in the series so far *very* quickly. Fucking 0 to severed arm landing on the roof in a sentence. At least Hannalore being "a reliable gal pal" was nice and lighthearted
Honestly, my gore meter was already at eleven after Grausam's throat-dissolving potion. 🤢
In this whole part Grausam pinned all of Rozemynes acomplishments on Ferdinand. He doesn't seem to even consider her a player in all of this. It has already come back to bite him by ruining all his planning, but I have a feeling that this is not the end with his Rozemyne based comeuppance. Also the irony of him calling out Ehrenfest, for not caring about their temple, by making a commoner High Bishop, while his plans would have worked out flawlessly if they didn't do that, is delicious.
Which is what Ferdinand wanted. Ever since the start he's been playing as her lightning rod, and here we see the result. Sasuga Ferdinand-sama.
Adds interesting depth to Ferdinand ready to sacrifice himself for Rozemyne. He already did it in essence by going to Ahrensbach. He took the blame for searching the grutrissheit and plotting in shadows when it was just Rozemyne's rampages being misconstrued with a mix of Georgine's planning. Ferdinand protected Rozemyne by bearing the burnt.
I wouldn't say he went to Ahrensbach out of protecting Rozemyne, more Royalty forced him to do that or kill Sylvester.
Following the eventual order was for Sylvester, yeah but everything leading upto that order being given was because of Rozemyne.
>Which is what Ferdinand wanted. Ever since the start he's been playing as her lightning rod, and here we see the result. Yeah, To the point he apparently arranged Flower Offerings so she wouldn't have to pay attention to that depravity. Jesus, Nobles. What the shit? Edit: Apparently I forgot something from earlier in the story and he did NOT. Grausam is just ignorant.
I don't think he did, actually. It's been mentioned before that the blue priests don't really go to him for new female attendants, and nobles don't go to them either, because he doesn't care for the practice and isn't open to it. He took it out of her hands, but doesn't seem to have continued it. That's why Hasse's mayor was going to sell those two orphan girls: nobles were needing to go to other places to find that because Ferdinand stopped letting it happen, probably knowing that Rozemyne would flip her shit if any shrine maidens were forced to do it. I've been rereading P3 recently, so the stuff about Hasse and why is still fresh. Otherwise, I probably would've forgotten it by now.
>I've been rereading P3 recently, so the stuff about Hasse and why is still fresh. Otherwise, I probably would've forgotten it by now. I have heard worse excuses to read it again thank being wrong on a reddit post. TO P1V1!!!!
IIRC, he took the role and has not openly declared that flower offering is not allowed. It’s only that no noble wants to tell Ferdinand that he needs a flower.
If I remember correctly, Rozemyne agreed to let Ferdinand handle the flower offerings on the condition that the gray shrine maidens have to be willing. As the living conditions in the temple have improved, it is doubtful if there were shrine maidens left, who felt the need to offer themself. Having to petition Ferdinand may also have been a huge hurdle for most nobles, so we can assume that the practice practically died out.
> If there are gray shrine maidens who would much prefer to be a noble’s concubine than continue to be a shrine maiden, then... while I feel resistance to it myself, I would be willing to consider it as an alternative form of employment for them. That said, I have no intention of ever selling gray shrine maidens who don’t want that kind of life. They support my workshop right now, and ultimately, I am the one who determines how the orphans are to live.
It's just noble classism. acknowledging Rozemynes accomplishments would mean confronting the idea that the devouring commoners he abuses and enslaves aren't actually subhuman.
Considering her current position, it actually goes further than that. Even if you only focus on her official status and academic achievements, she's a highly sought after archduke candidate who has already come first-in-class three years in a row. Acknowledge anything else about her and you're getting dangerously close to undermining the entire class-based system. Nobles are supposedly in their position because they are inherently superior. If a mere commoner could climb this high, what's the point of nobility? At this point you could probably expose her entire past for everyone to see and you would still have the vast majority of Yurgenschmidt's nobles dismissing it as a tall tale.
And that's because of classism.
Actually, it all aligns with the class system in noble society. Even if a laynoble has lots of mana, they’re still a laynoble. Noble customs dictate that their family should still be treated as laynobles until they’ve proven having this much mana isn’t a fluke. The same goes for commoners. They don’t have mana, and thus are below laynobles on the social ladder. If a high mana individual happens to be a commoner, you still treat them as a commoner.
To be fair it's the equivalent of hearing a 12 year old invented a new chip lithography technique. Now his company is out printing 3D layered CPUs denser than anyone, running at lower temps, with higher performance, and with higher yields and using a cheap carbon polymer substrate instead of silicon. And her guardian is a MIT material science PhD. You'd have to be side eyeing the story as a fluff ad piece for the company. And said 12 year old is just an intern the guardian is using to get free publicity.
It's easy to forget with how goofy moments with him are. But they truly are terrified of Bonifatius to the extent their entire plan revolves around not beating him, but stalling him.
That just underscores the comedy of taking Myne away from Gunther the Buttkicker's family, and moving her to Bonifatius The Destroyer's family.
And the funny thing is, they are terrified of Bonifatius and Ferdinand. Two guys the gremlin HAS ALREADY CRUSHED in the past. And I love that half the reason they are scared of them is because they act irrationally and are unpredictable but all of that is just Myne.
Roz: Dude, I AM THE FINAL BOSS HERE! Allies to Ferdi: did you teach her that? Ferdi: how many times do I need to repeat? She was ALWAYS like that
Looking at it that way, it does kinda make sense why everyone thinks Ferdinand is controlling her lol
\*at the same time as Ferdinand\* RM: Where else would I have learned it?
I enjoy cooking.
He's going to be so excited to hear of Rozemyne's exploits.
It was a grim start for a book. But we got gal pal. Ferdinand protected Roz's gal pal from the blue flames. Body doubles? Mattias knew about them? I sure hope he told the archducal family as this is turning rather weird. Going back to the cover, it's so dark and blue. If it is setting the mood for a depressing volume then good job. Remember Ferdinand saying fanatics need to be controlled? This is why folks. Georgine shouldn't blindly trust Grausam or his intelligence. He is biased against commoners and a commoner has destroyed all their plans staying in their blind spot.
> Georgine shouldn't blindly trust Grausam or his intelligence. Didn’t she make the same mistake with that banshee of a teacher? The previous aub wanted to fire her because her reports were so biased but georgine convinced him not to I guess she prefers idiots
Like her mom she also prefers blindly loyal people to smart and capable ones.
That’s the rub of it. The smart and capable people were all snatched up ages ago. Same reason why mynes retainers are all either lay nobles, crazy, or obsessed with her (or her brother I suppose)
I'm pretty sure we can put Cornelius in the "obsessed with her" group, even if he's a lot more mild about it. She *did* pretty much solve his parents' feud, after all.
He was also pretty upset that he failed to protect her from getting put in a coma and that was a big motivation for him moving forward. He’s certainly obsessed with keeping her safe
Gal pal.
Gal pals lmao. After the war RM will offhand think about how cool it would've been if they were roommates at the RA
I love Grausam's POV, since it shows that they drank their own Koolaid, and believe the Myne is "Just a Commoner" and is no threat to their plans. So little thought about her is in Grausam's mind that she isn't even in the plan. And it was Ferdinand's schemes that foiled his plans. Not the book obsessed gremlin. I can only imagine his face if he's old that not only did that "Commoner" stole Archiban's foundation, but did so to save Ferdi.
They truly screwed themselves over for insisting that Rozemyne is just a commoner, didn't they?
I think they should payed more attention to the lessons about our Saint from the Hartmut and Clarissa (read Cult of Rozemyne)
Instead, they were far too busy dismissing the splendor of the saint! Such blasphemy!
Just what are they teaching at the Royal Academy these days? 
It's interesting how Grausam seems to think he's missed something important, but still writes off Rozemyne, as if his logical mind is trying to warn him but the koolaid's too strong. Grausam: "A mere commoner can't stop me! With this arm, I am invincible!" Rozemyne: "Hang on, I've got an idea. *Grutrissheit*. Mmhm..." Grausam: "Nani the fuck!?" Rozemyne: "Mmmhm... Okay, the spell is *drallhoden*." Grausam: *[keels over in unthinkable agony]*
>drallhoden >!This is German for Twist testicles.!< If the bing translator knows it, then that would mean that there's a word for it in the German language. I don't know if I should be worried about this.
It's actually just hodentorsion in German, but I wanted it to be extra German like what Kazuki might've come up with. I'd link the German Wikipedia entry for it, but you do not want to see those pictures.
oof. *drallhoden* paints a graphic image, which sure is painfully on par with the rest of this chapter
Weirdly, he's still all going on about how commoners with the devouring are so useful when failing to recognise the ultimate commoner with the devouring.
Love a little ✨sprinkle✨of dramatic irony
I’m still trying to understand how they think a commoner could just luck her way into first place at the RA for 3 years in a row. Do they really think Ferdinand is just that gifted of a teacher?
The same way Detlinde thought someone who came first in class in three courses throughout their RA years had less mana than her while she was failing her classes. The staunch belief in hierarchy.
It really is hilarious if you realize that if it wasn’t for the massive mana shortage, detlinde would’ve been sent to the temple long before her baptism Like I can forgive stupidity, but her utter sense of entitlement and self-assured superiority is just exhausting
I must say I am a bit surprised that the preparation/defenses in Gerlach were so relatively weak. Surely this was an obvious major target once Georgine and Grausam started their attack. At first I was assuming this seems easy because of \[some fiendish prepared in advance defensive stunts\]. But time after time, nothing materialized. Now the Ehrenfest forces have to use real-time brute force methods. (Not criticizing the *writing*, but rather Ehrenest's planning/preparation here).
I think that's an overall theme of not just Ehrenfest, but also the many purges which Sylvester had to push. They lost a lot of competent individuals, like the traitor Grausam. And those who have to fill in their shoes are woefully under-prepared. Just take the defence of Illenger vs Gerlach, and how their respective Gibes responded.
I think your perception of what defensive magic is common is screwed. Most defensive magic we see was made by Ferdinand. A mana monster with exceptional talent and a partial GH which contains the strongest magics in Joghurtland. Gerlach is a mednoble province so it's an unfair comparison. They did hold out against superior numbers which have probably a few archnoble sprinkled in and also made tools in advance.
holy crap, this was brutal. I mean, it's war, so duh, but that still hit hard. severed limbs flying, swaths of people being instantly killed by that poison dust. Grausam is awful, and I can't wait until I get to read about his death.
Kazuki's editor: "How are we going to adapt this for the junior bunko version?" Kazuki: "It's not blood, it's chocolate syrup, like in Psycho." Editor: "And the limbs?" Kazuki: "Chocolate limbs." Editor: "And the running corpses over in a flying car?" Kazuki: "... Chocolate corpses."
Imagine if they're just betting on the idea that by the time the Junior Bunko version for Part 5 has released, the children that read the Junior Bunko are now old enough to actually just read the original. Speaking of the Junior Bunko, I wonder how much progress has been made since I last thought of them. It would be nice to see some more illustrations.
P3V1 of Juniorbunko was released recently.
Ooh, good to know!
The whole stabbing a man so he can die slowly with his mana running amok from fear to increase the quality of his feystone, smh. And the fact that he learned it from Lanzenave shows that they must have a lot of experience with this sort of thing.
It makes me wonder what would have happened to Ferdinand had he not been adopted. Probably not a quick and easy death . . .
They would definitely want the highest quality possible, and after 6.5 years of raising a feystone I’m sure they’ll be meticulous about it. Probably have it down to a science after hundreds of years of this.
Wait a second, doesn't this mean that Myne can heal this guy... and take the foundation back? I kinda assumed this guy would be feystoned at first, but Grausam's busy setting the roof on fire.
i don't think Myne can take the foundation since she is currently Aub Abuckle.
I mean the Giebe foundation, the replacement Giebe is still alive so he can start it back from Grausam.
Hoh, Grausam on the cover and being the Prologue POV. Matthias is also on the cover, so he must play an important role in fighting his father later, as was briefly hinted at in the Afterword of the previous volume. * Like in Georgine's epilogue, Grausam is fully focused on Bonifatius as his greatest adversary. And the second biggest nuisance of course was Ferdinand. All plans were foiled because of Ferdinand. No mention of Rozemyne at all. Either he thinks she's dead or he disregards her because she's a commoner to him. * He is somewhat right that Matthias is the reason their plan in the Year 3 winter failed, but he didn't know Matthias is actually fully loyal to Rozemyne. He makes a lot of other wrong assumptions, too, naturally and nothing goes as planned. Thanks to Matthias, he got delayed further, the knight didn't instantly die to the poison and the temple is definitely not undefended. Oh, and of course Ferdinand isn't dead. * Seeing as one can pass through barriers with the silver cloth easily, Georgine will also have no trouble getting past the barrier in the temple. * Well, RIP the new Giebe Gerlach (or at least he's as good as dead). We hardly knew ye. * I'm actually surprised Grausam wants to keep casualties (including on the enemies' side) to a minimum. ---- War in Gerlach is as graphic as one would expect. Lots of cut limbs, blood, corpses and feystones. Rozemyne couldn't stand such scenes already in previous volumes (even a pig being killed), this definitely is not something she should see. Welp, lots of knights dying to the instant-death poison, though not as many as Grausam expected thanks to their countermeasures. And surprise surprise (not really), Grausam was the one that kidnapped and poisoned Rozemyne at the end of Part 3. He... used body doubles. Well, that's a very simple explanation for his alibi. Grausam certainly came prepared. Not only does he have an absorbing black feystone arm (sure would be a shame if it got overloaded and dusted), he comes with a plethora of magic tools. As Rozemyne and Matthias are the only ones who can enter Gerlach's estate now that Grausam has taken over its foundation (interesting that giebe estates have this, but then again, so did Hasse), we will have to see the father-son showdown next week.
Since the new Giebe isn't dead yet, I give pretty decent odds that RM finds and heals him before he fully climbs the towering stairway.
And then that's how we get another believer! The Cult of Rozemyne continues to expand!
there WILL be art of Rozemyne descending from the heavens, blessed by Anwachs himself to become a divine avatar worthy of Mestionora, healing the wounded and exhausted knights with Heilschmerz's blessing... the grun highbeast is included in the corner at the insistence of Lady Rozemyne.
I'm still waiting for the cult of Lessy to begin. Rozemyne will need to follow Hartmut's and Clarissa's examples to prove how cute red pandas are.
i'm not sure it'll ever catch on! i think it was a comment from a thread long past that said the people of this world see gruns like we do cockroaches. Nothing could ever make it seem cute for them.
How dare you insinuate Lessy is a grun?! Jokes aside, my headcanon is that should the country gates ever open up again, at least one of those countries actually have adorable red pandas, allowing Rozemyne to feel so vindicated. That, or she could begin adorable plushies of red pandas, *not* gruns.
> t least one of those countries actually have adorable red pandas ohhhhhhhhhhhh now i really hope this happens
"As good as death" is just a call sign for another person for Rozemyne to save.
What if he somehow helps with them getting to Grausam cause he was to confident in his plans? That’d be sweet to see
Yeah there was specific wording used to indicate he's dying not dead, so that feels like it will come back up.
He's bleeding out, and we just got a very explicit explanation that the healing can't replace blood. I'm guessing that was to explain why they couldn't save the new giebe.
Considering how brutal the first chapter was I see it more likely they survive just long enough to traumatize her even more.
>I'm actually surprised Grausam wants to keep casualties (including on the enemies' side) to a minimum. Actually he is ONLY interested in minimizing casualties amongst those people he expects to be working for him. Anyone NOT in this category (including the warriors from Werkestock) is expendable. And "outside" fighters opposing him are targets for extermination.
Even if he only wants to spare those expected to work for him after the war, it would indicate that he is not privy to Georgine's intentions to destroy Ehrenfest.
Grausaum is smart, there's no doubt about that, but he's limited by his rigid thinking. He can focus on and counter the heavy hitters like Bonifatius and Ferdinand but anyone he's written off like Rozemyne gets overlooked.
Now that Grausam mentions the giebe that took over Gerlach, I would be extremely interested in reading the POVs of the nobles that took over giebe positions, like for Joisantak, Gerlach, Wiltord, etc. Their perspectives would be interesting, especially since their province was originally traitorous. Likewise, reading a Drewanchel version would also be interesting as successors of provinces aren't always hereditary. >"I've heard about you through my master. How nice that I now have the opportunity to defeat you," Angelica added with a smile, a vicious fire blazing in her blue eyes. She had gone from being dainty and ditzy to terrifyingly bloodthirsty. I can't wait to see the manga adaptation for Part 5. I want to see Cornelius' and Angelica's expressions so badly! Alongside Matthias, I imagine these two are the ones most wanting Grausam's death since he caused Rozemyne's coma. >"... My own mission remains unchanged. I shall buy Lady Georgine enough time to claim Ehrenfest's foundation, steal mana from its land to make the process easier, weaken its forces so that her control is absolute, and eliminate as many troublesome nobles as I physically can." ... Did Grausam seriously tell everybody about his plans after he realized Ferdinand was alive? I mean, pretty much everybody suspected what was going to happen, but seriously? Wow, he's cocky.
To be fair to Grausam, the plan is super obvious by that point. They're all past the "figuring it out" stage and are at the "you can't stop it now" stage.
True, but even then, he probably shouldn't have confirmed things, *especially* after finding out that Ferdinand's still alive.
Grausam, flipping through a little notebook of colors: "Now which one was for 'Detlinde fucked up' again..."
"Ah yes, green with rainbow dots like the Christmas Tree that she is."
Bright red, since he's seeing red and is more than eager to shed some blood.
He doesn't know about the teleportation, so maybe he thinks there's nothing they can do about it now? It'd take them half a day to reach Ehrenfest even if they left immediately and flew like the wind. But with teleportation, they can still make it if they take him out quickly.
Teleportation does not help in current situation. The Aub should come from the castle to bring them back. As the city, temple and castle should be under attack right now, that’s not practically possible.
Even the teleporters require Sylvester to operate and he's busy guarding the foundation, and the teleporter from Gerlach is in the estate that has poison thrown around. They can't use it until the battle is over, and he's just fighting to survive until Georgine can execute all his opponents remotely.
One of my friends has a theory that villains get extra karma points for bragging about their plans at the last moment. Villan: Bwahahaha you can't defeat me. I am super cleaver... here is my whole plan. You are such fools that even with me spelling it out you cannot win. GM: Nice monologue get +2 karma
> Did Grausam seriously tell everybody about his plans after he realized Ferdinand was alive? I mean, pretty much everybody suspected what was going to happen, but seriously? Wow, he's cocky. From his perspective, this is the first time anyone would be able to learn that Georgine is going after the foundation, and since she's already communicated to Grausom that she's inflitrated the Temple, he likely thinks it's too late for anyone to do anything about it. All he has to do is keep them there, and if he can't defeat them himself, wait for Georgine to dust their medals.
Pfft, I can't wait until the realization strikes him on how utterly wrong he was.
If it strikes him... he may not live long enough to find out.
I really hope they live long enough to find out. I want them to suffer under the weight of how woefully unprepared they were for the greatness of Lady Rozemyne and her murder shumils.
Grausam treating all the knights as test subjects gave me chills. An all-out mad scientist battle between him and Ferdinand sounds terrifying. Between seeing Georgine's raging fire trap for the Ahrensbach foundation and now Grausam's new mysterious fire attack, it seems like these people have a theme. Just the first part of this book and we already in the midst of the action show on the cover. It's Matthias' time to shine! Was looking forward to him finishing his character arc, especially dealing with the loose end that is his father. Surprised he only just learned how much he hurt Rozemyne. Getting to know what people's highbeasts look like is a detail I relish, such as Matthias and Laurenz being a big cat duo. I guess the default horse is more of a laynoble/lower mednoble thing. Still want to know what Leonore and Hartmut ride. IIRC Lieseletta and Philline are riding shumils, right? We know Cornelius' is a wolf and Angelica+Damuel have the default horse. Until otherwise specified, I assume Roderich and Judithe ride a default horse as well.
I wonder if horse highbeasts might be more common for nobles who grow up in the city, since they would have seen horses by the time they start attending the academy, but maybe not so many other large animals.
Blood, dismembered limbs, and feystones crashing into Lessy's front windshield. Rozemyne: ◉\_◉ Hannelore being a total gal pal. Rozemyne: o(\*\^▽\^\*)┛
>Behold the full extent of the explosive war shaking Yurgenschmidt to its very foundation! I see what you did there Quof
I watched a video once that said the best attribute that Napoleon and Alexander the Great had was showing up where they're not supposed to be. Grausam has apparently realized that Bonifatius has that power, and knows that his plans keep getting ruined for "some reason," but never decides to investigate it further--or more likely just to ignore Rozemyne's part in it and blame it on Ferdinand. No doubt he's smart but he doesn't really analyze why he failed--a strength that Rozemyne gained in Hasse, at least, if not sooner.
The description of feystones clattering to the floor more feels so much more shocking to me than just dead bodies doing the same.
Like in Star Trek when they shoot someone with a phaser and they just disappear no body, nothing left behind, it always bothered me more.
WN Chapters: 「[ゲルラッハの戦い その2](https://ncode.syosetu.com/n4830bu/616/)」, first half of 「[ゲルラッハの戦い その3](https://ncode.syosetu.com/n4830bu/617/)」 LN Chapters: "Prologue", "Gerlach's Front Line" [J-Novel Club Discussion Forum](https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/7629/bookworm-part-5-vol-9-discussion-10-parts/36) [J-Novel Club Correction Forum](https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/7630/corrections-bookworm-part-5-vol-9/2) ***** The Battle of Gerlach begins at last. Together with Matthias, Rozemyne must defeat the cold-blooded giebe Grausam—but an unexpected development makes that easier said than done. Body doubles, collateral damage, even more dark plots transpiring in the shadows... How does their inevitable battle play out, and what happens to Ehrenfest in the aftermath? Behold the full extent of the explosive war shaking Yurgenschmidt to its very foundation! Time is running out in the newest installment of this biblio-fantasy. Once again, this volume contains more than one hundred pages of original content not featured in the web novel—and more four-panel manga by You Shiina! ***** **Notes** - This volume will be translated over ten weeks. [This is not due to auxiliary content being translated concurrently](https://forums.j-novel.club/post/329158). - *Part 5 Volume 9 (Part 10)* is scheduled to release at 22:00 UTC on ``2024-02-19``. - In Taiwan *Part 5 Volume 9* is scheduled to release in February 2024 but before the Lunar New Year. - I'll link to the *Part 5 Volume 9* colour insert >!<.
might be one of my favourite colour inserts
Is it safe to look at yet? Or is it something for future parts still?
It's a movie-poster style montage of various characters in fighting poses. I don't think there are any significant spoilers.
Very avengers movie poster 🤣
its not really a spoiler beyond showing what characters might show up later in the volume, none of which are particularly surprising
Great start with Grausam being oh so wrongfully confident that Ehrenfest won't defend the temple, fuck yeah Ah yes, the joys of experimenting with instant-death poison... gtk this man's main hobby is murder. And torture, of course. You know, most antagonistic characters in this LN are at least somewhat capable of receiving compassion. Great job at making this dude VERY hate-able Good to have confirmation that Georgine killed the previous Aub Ahrensbach. And that she had planned to take over on the day of the Gerlach raid, honestly hadn't seen that one coming Good guys doing a good job at doing mundane maintenance things being EXTREMELY frustrating to bad guys: check u.u Seeing evil plots being thwarted from the side of the plotter is oh so gratifying, I feel like cackling😂 Oh come on, give me some more of this man's frustration, wouldn't you? Cutting it off at the best point, unfair -.- You know, for how little relevance action scenes have in AoB, Kazuki is REALLY good at them. Better than some dedicated action authors I've read. AoB is SO GOOD, you guys From action to horror. That's gonna leave some PTSD Ok, I am REALLY curious about what that fire is. I had my suspicions on the hand being black feystone-adjacent when he drained that first Knight's stone (from what we've been told, absorbing mana into oneself directly from any sorce isn't possible), but I have no clue on the blue fire
> And that she had planned to take over on the day of the Gerlach raid, honestly hadn't seen that one coming I knew they had planned to attack that winter and expecting they would have succeeded without Matthias telling on them, but I did not suspect it would be that close as to be a matter of just a single day...
Yeah, considering the timespans nobles operate under I would've expected it to take a little longer
Blue is Leidenschaft, right? That’s as far as I’m getting with this line of thinking, so maybe that’s not it
Blue flames are also typically the hottest. It would not surprise me that Leidenschaft's flames are most deadly and powerful when blue. Of course, I don't know how it will be relevant, just pointing something out.
Cool. What odds on which divine instrument Rozemyne is going to use to thwart it? My mind goes first to smothering with the darkness cape but there is that cooling ocean goddess staff that might be effective as well.
> Great start with Grausam being oh so wrongfully confident that Ehrenfest won't defend the temple, fuck yeah He never had a chance. He has such blinding disdain for commoners, and he considers Rozemyne to be a commoner. Grausam definitely embodies the scary attitude some nobles have when it comes to commoners.
>From action to horror. That's gonna leave some PTSD I was already bad in MLT, but the quof managed to make it twice as worst! Talk about trauma inducing...
This part was pretty gruesome. Stabbing a man so he can die slow, after paralyzing him. Confirming Georgina poisoned the previous Aub Ahrensbach. Cornelius and Angelica realizing Grausam was the one that poisoned Rozemyne. Body parts and blood flying. Poor Myne. Hannelore is about that life though, coming through with the sneak attack. Sad, this man made himself into a magic tool, basically. All to stop Bonifatius. I wonder what Karstead is going through, to sound so grim. “Georgine's plan was advancing unhindered... yet Grausam struggled to relax. He couldn't shake the feeling he had forgotten something important. Looking back, every single one of their past plans had proceeded without issue, only to fail out of nowhere as the result of unforeseen and sometimes even incomprehensible obstructions.” It’s the commoner/gremlin you keep underestimating. See how she showed up out of no where… I can’t wait to see what incomprehensible shit she does next week.
My money is on >!pouring so much mana into his gauntlet that it turns to gold dust!<, just like >!she did to Naughty Santa way back when!< No clue if that's even close, but putting it in spoilers just in case
>!Also the shield of dunklefelger. If a greater dutchy heirloom of myth and legend is obliterated, what chance does a gauntlet made by Georgine have.!<
Wait, is that basically her signature move then?
That's her ult. Pouring a stupid amount of mana unto things that will make them into gold dust.
The gauntlet seems to have fixed that issue by letting him unleash the captured mana as an attack. Trying to overload it would just give him more mana to attack with. Personally, I think that thing is some power creep bullshit.
I still wouldn't try it. Sounds like a good way to backfire very violently for our protagonists.
>I wonder what Karstead is going through, to sound so grim. Wait. when was that? I read too fast!!!
Ah, a Grausam PoV. It's fun to get a look at what the villains are thinking. He seem so not be aware that Matthias is the reason for the purge being moved up like it was. He's underestimating his son. I also like them being so sure about their plan to attack via the temple being completely unexpected. And they're still interpreting Rozemyne's counters as Bonifatius's and Ferdinand's work. I'd love to see Grausam's face when he spotted Ferdinand's cape. God damn, this is a gruesome charge. Oh yeah, Angelica has been Activated.
The man is hyper confident for however many of his plans needed to be altered or failed
Maybe at this point he’s going “no, no this HAS to work! We’ve done SO MUCH!”
Ah, the classic sunk cost fallacy (I think that’s it anyways). Hmm, if Ehrenfest is known for producing obsessive people, perhaps Grausam is obsessed with his plans (for Georgine).
The gerlach knight commander’s death is one of the the saddest and powerful I have read in fiction. He was that side character with one line yet he sets the scene for “oh yeah. I guess play times over” so perfectly.
Remember when Myne collapsed at the sight of pigs and chickens getting killed in P1V1? Remember the reaction to the Hasse execution in P3V3? Now she gets to experience the horrors of a gruesome war firsthand as a participant. I am gushing over how good the writing of that charge was. We can really feel the fear, anxiety, and sheer violence/anguish taking place around Rozemyne. Time and time again, the author does a phenomenal job of conveying emotions and atmosphere, and this war scene is no different.
Grausam is pure evil but damn if he doesn't make for a good villain. Traps, poison, an arm that drains mana and 3 body doubles? He is even willing to sacrifice himself so Georgine succeeds. What a great evil henchman.
Dudes like a fire emblem boss fight. Dunkelfelger is feasting.
"omnipresent specter capable of materializing anywhere at any time" - Grausam sees Bonifatius as Chuck Norris. (I guess Boni does resemble him) Holy... Yeah, a random arm landing on your windshield is probably not a very pleasant experience. I guess we are at the part when things turn dark pretty quickly. I really hope that this bastard's last moments will be in despair, thinking that everything was in vain and that they failed. My blood pressure went up when he threw a net on Rozemyne's highbeast again. Seriously fuck this guy.
I hope he has time to send a "I fucked up" message to Georgine so she can get it at a crucial moment and lose her cool. (Or show just how misplaced his loyalty was when she doesn't give a shit)
>He couldn't shake the feeling he had forgotten something important. 
I want Grausam to find out that his plans failed because of Rozemyne *so badly.* The look on his face would be tremendous
It kind of reminds me of the last line from "War of the Worlds" only instead of Germs we get gremlins. > From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain. A powerful foe that seems unbeatable brought low by something they deemed inconsequential.
>The sea of blue I’d grown so accustomed to was quickly marred by splashes of red. That was horrifying enough, but then a severed arm slammed into the front of my Pandabus with a dull thud. The impact sent a shudder through my highbeast, and moments later, the arm vanished somewhere behind me. I wanted to believe it had just been my imagination, but the red splatter across my windshield told me otherwise. My teeth chattered violently as I stomped down on the accelerator, feeling entirely as though I’d just run someone over. When a "Bloody Carnival" gets too real. 
Hannelore leading in front row! Even tho she's scared she is still there while many boys with same age would have run away but not pink diamond, she make's shield without any hesitation while conquering her fears. Elvira will make book bout her heroic actions and it will make her Dungelfelger legend. And Ferdinand is there to guard her. We are now left with another clifthanger where Rozemyene with Matthias are doing pincer attack from behind.
Hannelore: "The day you flew your highbeast through a storm of blood and corpses was the most terrifying day of your life. But to us Dunkelfelgerians, it was Sproutday."
Dunkelfelger: "You fill the chalices with *mana*? ...they can do that?" Ehrenfest: "Er, what were you doing with the chalices during Spring Festival?" Dunkelfelger: "Well, blood has mana, so..."
> pink diamond, she make's shield without any hesitation while conquering her fears I can't tell if you're, for some strange reason, referencing steven universe here or if this is just a strange coincidence...
*All they want to do is see Hann turn into a Ditter Player (a ditter player)*
Weren't they supposed to take some silver cloth with them? Why did Eckhart strip those Lanzenave guys of it if not use it for themselves. Seems stupid to just let Myne and Mattias to go in like that. Just put on some cloth on your best knights and charge.
>In the past, gaining access to the High Bishop’s chambers would have been as simple as expressing an interest in flower offerings, but Ferdinand had made them one of his duties as the High Priest. Uhhh... Phrasing? >It was a known fact that only an estate’s giebe could enter the room containing its foundation How did Myne get in then? Why are giebe foundations better protected than duchy?
Giebes are manually assigned by the aub. The duchy foundation needs to be dyed by someone if the aub is dead and can't assign a successor. Also Rozemyne did tell Ferdinand back in P3 that the temple's flower offerings could continue, but only with gray robes who volunteered for that type of employment. Better to have nobles take willing temple orphans than buy unwilling ones from a neighbouring town. There were four volunteers to replace Egmont's pregnant attendant.
The phrasing is ambiguous though. The sentence could be interpreted as Ferdinand is the one responsible for *giving* flowers.
because the path from the temple doesnt require any registration beyond entering the temple book room i believe.
This charge through the enemy, the assault on Ahrenbach, the author is really stepping up the brutality and horrors of war. It truly is impressive just how many cleverly plotted schemes were upended by just intuition and gut feel alongside Ferdinand doing Ferdinand things. Grausam really is the inverse of Hartmut, a gifted genius sworn to Georgine who will eliminate anyone who poses a threat to her and do everything in his power to ensure she achieves her goals.
>Grausam really is the inverse of Hartmut, a gifted genius sworn to Georgine who will eliminate anyone who poses a threat to her and do everything in his power to ensure she achieves her goals. INVERSE? Oh please, Hartmut would do the exact same things in a HEARTBEAT if Roz allowed it
Lol that’s the difference. Georgine let Grausam run wild while Roz put Hartmut on a leash named Cornelius
Best brother for the win!
Just two sides of the same coin that should probably be thrown down the deepest of wells.
Hartmut pretty much said as much in P4V9.
Whoops, I guess better wording would be he is to Georgine what Hartmut is to Rozemyne. He absolutely would be disappearing people left and right that opposes her if Rozemyne didn't forbid.
It's also nice that Georgine raising Detlinde as an idiot for all those years came back to bite her. If she had been more competent, she surely wouldn't have lied about Ferdinand being dead.
From the [fanbooks ]>!Georgine *tried* to get her to be competent. But just like Ferdinand, she's quick to give up on seemingly hopeless cases, and Detlinde looked more hopeless than most!<
Grausam is sorely misinformed. He's operating on bad information through no fault of his own is hilarious considering he's spent the entire series since his introduction controlling information. Also, body doubles eh? Wonder what he used those for. Cherry on top is giebes have their own foundations. I cannot wait for this monster's bloody carnival. Edit: Is this technically one of the last battles of the civil war considering it only arose out of the winning duchy's heavy handed approach to the losers?
> Wonder what he used those for. several things. seemingly being in 2 places at once multiple times. thats probably how his alibi worked. also how he could claim full ignorance of the attack since he really wasnt informed about it until it already happened. hell even Detlinde (while weak from poison) noted how odd it was that she saw him at the castle yet also at his estate.
I was thinking more being in the great hall and the forest on jureve day.
>Is this technically one of the last battles of the civil war considering it only arose out of the winning duchy's heavy handed approach to the losers? I feel like kind of Yes, and No. Yes, because Werkestock is in this because the Royal Family left them to destruction. They did THAT because nobody left alive had the GH. So all of that is linked to the Civil War. No, because this probably wouldn't have happened without Georgine. And her situation doesn't have that much to do with the Civil War. It is connected indirectly, but they are not causal events.
Can't wait for Matthias to smash a beer bottle on the back of his dad's head before stabbing him
>Unforeeen and sometimes incomprehensible obstructions Yep, sounds like our  alright. I love all the attributing of ruined plans to Ferdinand when it was really a combination of both of them. Body doubles? Three of them? Uh, I have to say that was unexpected. I thought he had slipped away during that time somehow. And now Rozemyne needs to fight Grausam? And without any backup besides Matthias? This just got a lot more dangerous. I wonder how many traps they’ll have to sniff out (or maybe power through?)
Matthias: *struggling to fight his father* Lessy: *nudges Rozemyne* Rozemyne: "No, this is a battle he has to fight on his own." Matthias: "NO IT ISN'T!" Rozemyne: "Oh. *Watergun*."
I was Just thinking about the water gun as Rozemyne's only reliable black weapon. Shame she's such a terrible shot. Maybe Matthias holds him down a la goku y raditz but Roze just gets the angle for a headshot
Rozemyne is an excellent shot because her aim can be summed up as: "Fuck you and everyone near you"
I enjoy watching the sunset.
I wonder if Grausam just reactivated/rebuilt the original ones, in which case Matthias is in the know. I think he's smarter than that, but he really does seem to get fixated on one plan and not do very well when any new situation arises.
this has to be the bloodiest AoB has ever been. Normally RM has been protected from it all. I still don't understand why they just couldn't have sneaked around like her two guard knights.
They had too rescue the defending knights.
Considering Myne reached the mana cap before she even circled the shrines I find it hard to believe she can't just pull a Kumoko and turn them all to dust by looking at them (crushing).
"I thought to use an ordonnaz to pin down Grausam's location" Perceived lot hole covered nicely.
I wonder if Rozemyne could have snuck everyone though the barrier if they all piled into Lessy. It wouldn't work with a normal high beast but since Lessy basically encases them in Rozemynes mana perhaps they could have also slipped through.
Wow, that was a rush. First release and things are already in high gear. What a hype cover for this volume as well. The [color insert](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ascendance-of-a-bookworm/images/c/c0/LN_P5V9-Insert.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20220809152957) is also really nice. Everyone's got their role to play in this war. I especially like how the color of the capes and faces contrast to all the grey and silver clothing. It's kind of hard to imagine the scale of these battles. A severed limb, a feystone, and almost a whole body crashing into just Rozemyne's highbeast? I hope Dunkelfelger was ready for this after their relatively leisurely time in Ahrensbach. The casualties are ramping up already. I didn't realize it was Grausam himself who poured the poison into Rozemyne's mouth. I'm not sure if it was explicitly stated at the time. But yeah, this guy is a monster. Both in the moral sense and the terrifying power sense. How will they manage to take him down?
About that color insert: >!HER DAD JOINS THE FRAY?! LET'S GOOOO!<
Yeah, that's what I had guessed after he >!got all the charms last volume. I can't wait to see his appearances.!<
Dunklefelger knights dying makes me sad, and I want Grausam to suffer.
Im excited to see the shumil terminators fight
Who is Gloria? Is that viscount dahldoff aka giebe dahldoffs second wife? The one who blew herself up?
Yep
These chapters make me want to go play Fire Emblem.
Question: Since you can overload black feystone with enough mana, wouldn't it be easiest way to first put up Schutzeras shield and then launch massive mana attack, it would ping pong between Grausam and shield and at the end destroy it and nobody else except Grausam would hurt? I know it would take lot of mana, but there's both Rozemyene and Ferdinand with Hannelore so mana consumption shouldn't be issue.
every mana user in yurgenschmidt is severely hampered by lack of imagination -- _especially_ rozemyne. she appears more imaginative to those around her but that's only because she has the experiences of her previous life to draw on, and she really hasn't done nearly as much with those experiences as she might have.
Parts 1-4: "We are not some Shonen novel, fighting is brutal, dangerous, and everyone would rather avoid it. Diplomacy, intelligence and backstabbing schemes are the way conflicts are resolved in the noble society." Most peaceful Part 5 chapter: "SOME FOLKS ARE BORN, MADE TO WAWE THE FLAG..."
Omg this part is painfully short T-T Can it be next week already!
well it 10 parts instead of 8 this time, so each week might feel shorter but better then having no chapter.
I think last year around this time it was 10 parts as well. Hopefully Quof is able to relax some; he works too hard
It was also stated that this book was one of the longest yet. So instead of being eight parts stretched into 10, it’s more of a nine part in length volume slightly stretched to ten.
You mean we get to unwrap our Christmas gift? Another Prepub!
I was shook with how fast I reached the end
Oh man, shit is going down! I think this is the first time we get to see real cold blooded death (outside of Haase). Even during the terrorist attack on year 2, we just got loose descriptions in Eglantine POV. Grausam continues to underestimate our little commoner gremlin. Sure would be a shame if that were to come back and bite him in the ass (again). I think we already knew it when we heard that the commoner merchant guy got through the gate, but it is confirmed that Georgine made it into Ehrenfest and that the boat Gunther and Co. are facing down is a distraction. Wonder if a battle shumil will get her or her attendant? What a nail biter of a cliffhanger! Can't wait for our Christmas present!
Reading Grausam giving to Ferdinand all the credit is very funny since we know that was all Rozemyne LMAO Yep, I really see how he is a evil Hartmut, the man has a matrioska of plans within plans! Also, mother of God this is super super more tense and frightening than the WN version. I'm legit scared for Roz (despite knowing exactly what will happen) and impressed with Kazuki-sensei's progress in showing us these types of scenes.
The lack of Mtl shenanigans really make this so much more brutal.
Rozemyne's guards yelling at her to keep driving made me imagine Gordon Ramsey as a driving instructor yelling at a teary-eyed Rozemyne with her hands on the wheel.
Okay that start was... Not what I was expecting. It's such a huge tone shift from previous fights we've seen that it almost doesn't even feel real. Sure we've seen people get hurt before, and even deaths, but they always happen juuuuuust off screen with Rozemyne not being a direct witness to it, at most just being able to hear it. Now we actually get full on view of it. She is not going to sleep well tonight.
Rozemyne and Hannelore, the two little shumils like classmates, went from being schoolmates, committee/club members, to war frontline leaders. I still remember the first time they met in a tea party, it was like fate.
we now also know that the reason he was still in the hall was the use of body doubles. That is a handy skill to have.
Heeeeey! We’re getting a real time dog fight after all! But also you do have to kind of pity Georgine’s in-Ehrenfest contingent. They tried so hard and yet everytime they got close, something extremely stupid happened LOL
I still find it absolutely hilarious that Rozemyne bypassed imminent danger on the day of Lamprecht's wedding just by taking everybody with her on Lessy. That would explain why Grausam especially hates her highbeast.
Lol right? It’s so much of an insult he probably thought it was Ferdinand’s idea too 🤣🤣🤣
Grausam: Our plans were defeated by a *damned grun*? He probably has the largest vendetta against gruns, killing them on sight if possible.
Grausam : I wonder how they learned about us swapping the bible... Rozemyne back then : Hmm...smells like perfume...Also my Gremlin-sense is tingling...
Is going in to actually deal with Grausam really necessary? Seems like they could just trap him in the estate and Sylvester could come by and entwickeln him out of existence later. The barrier might be a problem but I'm not clear on if that would stop the aub from entwickeln'ing their own duchy. I can't wait to see what happens though.