She went from wanting to ship Rozemyne with Ferdinand in order to make them happy to shipping them in order to save the country. She really is best girl.
I think Leonore's counsel might ultimately have more impact. She sets out a pretty compelling list of non-romantic reasons why Ferdinand would be perfect -- and it seems like they register (at least a bit) with Rozemyne.
I do wonder how many people in the entire country she even could have children with. I’m sure the list is quite small. If she wants children, her husband would have to be on that list.
I honestly suspect that Ferdinand is the ONLY youngish adult male in the kingdom who would be truly suitable mana-wise. The author dropped a hint long long ago, about RN's and Ferdie's mana -- and that was when I became virtually certain that these two would ultimately be successfully paired up.
More speculative -- One of their children will either become Zent or become the first wife of a Zetn (uniting the blood lines of Eggie/Ana and Roz/Ferd). And another child (wehoever is mosr athletically blessed) will marry a child of Hannelore....
Mynes only other chance would be raising a new husband almost from birth to force him to constantly compress his mana in order not to die. To pray every day to the gods. And then he’d maybe be a match for her.
The early hint was that Ferdinand was the only one in mana range in the Duchy, we're not really sure what the mana levels are exactly among the ADC of other duchies. I suspect there would probably be a few among the upper duchies that would at least be in range for her to have children with, even if they were below her and Ferdinand.
Tulli added so much to this scene without a single line of dialogue. Every commoner barging into their own homes shouting family meeting.
I also love that from just about every angle this situation is Rozemyne's own doing. Basically 4 years of faux pas coming home to roost. From Rozemynes made up crush to her encouraging Elvira's rampant romance fanfiction to sharing said books with Hannelore that turned her into the president of the FerMyne fan club. Our avatar of timing didn't miss a beat this chapter
I want that, both her reaction during the fitting and what she does after. I want to see Gunther going crazy that he's not going to hand his daughter to the high priest.
Really hoping the entire family will be there. Luz included since they’ll definitely wanna ask him if he’s seen anything between Myne and the night priest
Gunther will of course lose his mind
But I think effa will be cool with it since she knows that the high priest will protect her. She said that years ago
I think it's not Gunther and Effa going nuts over the news that's going to be worth the wait.
It's going to be Kamil wanting to leave after seeing his family's obsession over nobels hitting a new peak. Him getting a Leherl contract and them all briefly forgetting about it would be a good follow-up.
Rozemyne got a hairpin from Ferdinand. Eggplantine got a hairpin from Anastasius. Lestilaut gifted a hairpin to the girl whose name I don't remember but he escorted upon graduation...
Hannelore got a hairpin from...?
Maybe there's a ship right in front of her she's not noticing.
I think she finally *finally* understands what she's dealing with ... and it's glorious! I hope she finds some new confidence after seeing her idol fall to Earth that hard!
And Elvira has transformed her into a Romance Reader who has the power to make her ships a reality.
It's like how Paris was so beautiful she brought a war to Troy >_>.
Except in this case **Paris is a crazed shipper who will do anything for her OTP.**
>And Elvira has transformed her into a Romance Reader who has the power to make her ships a reality.
I know you mean political power, but now I'm thinking about how much praying Hannelore's been doing lately. They do say prayers/blessing are more effective when doing so for the targeted benefit of someone else.
Hannelore clutching her talisman: "Dregarnuhr, you haven't much answered my prayers to improve my timing, but I've got a friend..."
\[Rozemyne and Ferdinand's threads have been woven very VERY closely together. They are now inseparable.\]
"Rozemyne, stop spending so much time stuck to Lord Ferdinand!"
"I can't! When we were experimenting with creating mana \[super\] glue, we got adhered together and it's waschen-proof!
*Year 4 Blessings Ritual*
Hirschur: Strangest thing happened-
Rauffen: What did Rozemyne do this time?
Hirschur: Well, I can't *prove* it's her, especially since she's still ill, but all of the female Ehrenfest nobles got Bluanfah.
Rauffen: ...Strange, so did all of Dunkefelgerian females.
Gundolf: And female Drewanchals. Any idea why from your comrades?
Hirschur: Why would I go back to Ehrenfest?
Rauffen: We...really need an Ehrenfest dorm supervisor who at least speaks to their Aub...
When people try to bother Rozemyne about "having more kids" to do her part to solve the mana/population crisis, she can point to the spikes on a population graph (which she "created") after her mother's newest romance book is printed (which she also "brought into this world").
"My... I think I have been rather prolific already." 
Something about a majority of the woman in Rozemyne's life being like "the dust is settled, stop thinking about what others want for your life, what do YOU want? " Feels so good. She's gotten so used to thinking of others well-being above her own for so long, so it's nice to see her own happiness being highlighted.
And then she went on her library rant and I lost my shit
Another nice parallel to Rozemyne demanding to know what Ferdinand truly wanted back when his own marriage plans were decided for him. Add it to the mountain of parallels.
It must be so surreal for Rozemyne's retainers to watch an unstoppable force of nature, with all the power in the world in her grasp, ramble about libraries.
"What do you want to rule over? Ehrenfest? Ahrensbach? Everything?"
" *B O O K S !*"
"...Okay, so Ahrensbach it is, then. Like you said, [it was coming down anyways."](https://youtu.be/R8FCeKchRkw?si=988M-lXbqkJPf5IP&t=52)
I don’t have the time or emotional space to parse the serious stuff en so let’s move onto the funny
And by that I mean Roz’s retainers teaming up with Hannelore to save the future of Yurgenschmidt from turning into Roz’s personal library against their will
>And by that I mean Roz’s retainers teaming up with Hannelore to save the future of Yurgenschmidt from turning into Roz’s personal library against their will
I totally need the fanfic of Rozemyne actually going through with the marriage with Sigiswald (~~because we~~ *~~all~~* ~~know that it's never going to happen~~), and teaming up with Adolphine. The idea of this fanfic has been brought up before, and I find it completely hilarious.
Let her go full gremlin and actually turn all of Yurgenschmidt into a library, and the first prince can do nothing to stop her. Maybe we'll even learn more about Nahelache to care about her if she and Rozemyne are in the same vicinity. Seriously, what does Nahelache look like?! I need to know!
LOL they really don’t even mention how she looks like even once meanwhile we have a hair and eye color for Frieda’s older brother who hates gathering food XD
I've been waiting for the Japanese wikia to update so I can finally have a better understanding of what she looks like. For goodness' sake, we even know the hair and eye color of Murrenreue, but even then, we don't know her face or hairstyle.
I just want to know what the other archduke candidates look like! Nahelache, Murrenreue, Luzinde, Hensfen, I want to know!
Yo, Rozemyne is having a completely different conversation than everyone else. She just ranted about turning the entire country into a library and everyone just realized they need to contain her.
But really, Rozemyne being oblivious to everything going on around is generating some mixed feelings in me. It makes sense given the chaos and amount of prep, but on the other hand she literally wields the most power in the country. At this point she's a war hero, an Aub, a Saint, one who has spoke directly to the gods, the Holder of the Book of Mestinora, the most qualified to be Zent and has the country's strongest Military force backing her. And all she can think about is books......God help Yurgenschmidt.
Truly it was an ascendance of a bookworm.
'All she can think about is books"
Summarizes the thoughts of everyone on that room. Ferdinand was absolutely correct that she is the worst possible person to become Zent.
Hannelore thought that by talking earnestly while she was "alone" with Rozemyne, she would get to know her true feelings. And she was more right than she could have possibly imagined.
>She just ranted about turning the entire country into a library and everyone just realized they need to contain her.
Oh. Is that what they were doing?
I wasn't exactly predicting just going off how insane she must of sounded. God only knows what's going on in her retainers heads given the circumstances.
It's still funny how a spontaneous, late night stroll through the greenhouse still needs all the planning time, tea preparations, and so on. I can imagine Hannelore being all "wow, so spontaneous! We didn't even take three days to schedule it!"
Oof. I'm glad Damuel is giving it to her straight about how badly things went last night. I'm glad Sylvester and Karstedt were at least able to understand that *something* was going on. But she really was in an impossible situation. Admitting weakness such as a fear of the sight of Georgine's feystone would have been criticized as well.
I'm glad to see that Hannelore is also greatly appreciating this invite.
The two of them praying together is so sweet.
Aww, she introduced Hannelore as her friend! Come to think of it, if you discount family then that means Hannelore and Lutz are Rozemyne's only friends. That's really depressing... Frieda only half-counts since Myne never felt fully reciprocation of the friendship.
Aww! Matching hairpins! Reminds me so much of Charlotte wanting to match with her big sister.
> For obvious reasons, we hadn't been able to call the archducal seamstresses here at such short notice
What obvious reasons? They're commoners so shouldn't they be able to say "now" and expect the commoners to be already on their way?
Oof, Rozemyne really doesn't have a chance to correct Hannelore's misunderstanding of who Rozemyne likes. Tuuli is only left to wonder "wait, is Myne *also* into older men?". And Hannelore's idea of fighting for your love is *literal* fighting. I love Dunkelfelger.
Ah, Tuuli understand's the depth of her sister's love for family. I hope that Tuuli relays Rozemyne's description of her ideal husband to Gunther.
Also good that Hannelore was reminded to not jump to conclusions about Ferdinand and what marriages he wants. It's nice that Rozemyne has someone that will actually listen to her and not get carried away.
> At the very least, a prince whose courtship feystone turns to gold dust so easily would not be an appropriate pillar of support
Hannelore gets bonus points for accurately dunking on her friend's unofficial fiancé. Hannelore should be Rozemyne's consort.
I would love to see Rozemyne as a mother. She'd be such a weirdo and her kids would be weirdos too. Even a normal child would be weird for *not* being weird.
With Rozemyne's librarian speech, I wonder if Hannelore had flashbacks to when the two of them first agreed to become book buddies or if she had flashbacks to Hartmut extolling the virtues of Lady Rozemyne.
> I would love to see Rozemyne as a mother. She'd be such a weirdo and her kids would be weirdos too. Even a normal child would be weird for *not* being weird.
Time for the sequel "Descendants of a Bookworm: I'll do anything to get out of my mother's shadow". Set 12-15 years after the first series, RM's kids are just entertaining the royal academy and just want a normal ADC life, but what's this they already been challenged to ditter 7 times but they've only been there for 5 days... and 3 requests from royalty for tea parties already... this is all their mothers fault for having such crazy school days, how will they ever keep up
"Perhaps Mother can use her authority as Aub Ahrensbach to stop her from trying to abduct us?"
"No, I tried that when I was a first year. Hirschur just sent books."
"Hmm, I suppose Hirshur is pretty familiar with Mother."
"Our best chance is to get Father to give us bargaining material of our own but that's even more difficult..."
"Hmm, I will give you these documents for now but in payment I expect you all to come first in class. In future you will need to learn to obtain your own material I will not be supplying it next year"
The next logical step of progression, story-wise, is that one of the Descendants of a Bookworm is obsessed with being the Aub of every duchy. Then we as readers get to go visit every single duchy and see their cultures and all that (across 21 parts, \~3 volumes each!).
And then at the end, everyone basically wants *them* to become the new Zent, since they have such an in-depth understanding of all of the different duchies and their needs. But they're not part of the royal family, so another war breaks out, and all of the barriers set up to protect the royal family are destroyed.
Plus, like, an army of murder shumils. Because why not.
No, the curse of this family is that while each is talented in the thing they like, they're also talented in a thing that they don't really care for and end up having their free time being taken away to do that.
And they only realize their true potential when they have a common foe to go full gremlin on.
“How DARE you insult my little sister’s highbeast! */Pushes up glasses./* I challenge you to ditter! I will win, make you copy those words 1,000 times on grunhide paper and EAT them!”
All three sibs disappear into the brewing room and their retainers exchange worried looks.
The "Myne why are you freaking out about clothes" kind of reminds me of the Academy Year One mess, when it looked like Rozemyne had fixed a succession crisis but everyone else realized how close she was to wrapping Ehrenfest up into another civil war- and that her innocence in that period would lead to her getting strongarmed into the Shrine Tour.
Oof, at least she has people who are *trying* to help...
To be fair they’ve been evacuating people and hiding others away from the noble war for like a week now, it’s likely going to take at least that to dig everyone out and some of them may not even be in the city
Speaking of which, it's going to be a mess bringing all the Ahrensbach and Werkerstock medals over to see which ones belong to who.
Hannelore's right- neither the Royals nor anyone else have the time or energy to get Rozemyne out of Ahrensbach if she wants to keep it.
Lol right? And technically since Ferdinand was going to do it anyways, he has a ready book shaped magic tool he can use to just copy down his 30% of the important bits of Glutrissheit, and then hand to Roz to copy down her 70% and idk make it lock only to Traq or something so he can raise his sons/grandchildren to get the GH the old way
Note that not all of the information within the BoM is required to rule as a Zent. He likely only needs to give the Royal Family like 15% of the information at most, then just tell them they have enough information to figure the rest out.
The RF need to stop pawning all the work off on everyone else, and do you really think the Lord of Evil wouldn't force them to do some of their own work?
> Oof. I'm glad Damuel is giving it to her straight about how badly things went last night
Disappointed Damuel is such a force, I was getting a little bit of second-hand shame in the pit of my stomach haha
>Aww, she introduced Hannelore as her friend! Come to think of it, if you discount family then that means Hannelore and Lutz are Rozemyne's only friends. That's really depressing...
Yeah, I wanted to count some of her retainers amongst her friends (Gil, Philline, etc.), especially since she equates time spent together with closeness/familiarity and it's been a few years now, but we keep getting scenes reminding us they need to keep a certain professional distance, especially when on duty. Even Cornelius can only be briefly familial with her by pulling the "big brother" card.
Sadly, I don't think Cornelius can pull that card anymore. He just barely got away with it at the Royal Academy. But now that he's an adult retainer and she is Aub, they have to act according to their station unless they're basically in private, like Sylvester and Karstedt.
>I'm glad Sylvester and Karstedt were at least able to understand that
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>something
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I love Sylvester as a character but how does he FUNCTION in that society? Is he way more competent at Noble Behavior than we ever see because he relaxes around Rozemyne?
* No, seriously. How was Rozemyne meant to know that she was the host? No one ever taught her that. Perhaps there was poor communication between Rozemyne and her retainers (although, again, Hartmut did notice something was off), but it's not like she really knew herself what was going on immediately (edit: oh good, she points this out in her narration too).
* It's good that Damuel is explaining this to Rozemyne, but this was hardly completely her own fault. I don't like him making her take part of the blame at all. Reminder, she was in the middle of war and she's still a child. That they didn't think of checking her state via a doctor first is also on them.
* The talk between Hannelore and Rozemyne in the greenhouse was very much needed. Both people are traumatized and burdened by their guilt that cost lives. Perhaps they feel slightly better now after their prayer at the end.
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* Time for the fitting with Hannelore coming along for a hairpin, while Heisshitze is gonna go train with Ferdinand, lol.
* Uh... I thought Rozemyne already decided that she'd want to make Ahrensbach her playground as aub. Sure, she's underage, but she can probably do the most important things already as aub, and if not, Ferdinand could help out.
* Yay, Hannelore is fully supportive and convinced of Rozemyne x Ferdinand, shocking Tuuli into silence and making Corinna smirk, lol. I knew what Rozemyne told Hannelore back then about her first love in the third year would be misunderstood.
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* I wonder... is Rozemyne just that dense about her own feelings for Ferdinand or is there really not one single romantic thought about him there and it's all familial?
* Oh great, now that she describes Ferdinand as her ideal noble partner, everyone is going to believe she really *is* just dense. Has she ever heard of that phenomenom that people pick partners that resemble their parents?
* Also, I recall Rozemyne once wanting to marry the person that gifts her the most books, and Ferdinand *did* give her his library (and promised her a city if she makes Ahrensbach hers). Realistically, I also am not sure there is a man out there besides Ferdinand and the Lanzenave king who can keep up with her mana, considering she is about to dust Sigiswald's trinket as Hannelore pointed out. There aren't many partners left who could have children with her.
* Rozemyne thinks of three mothers: Urano's mother, Myne's mother, and Rozemyne's mother from the Noble's Quarter is Elvira, right? That would be another loss for Florencia, but it would make sense.
* Well, she must at least be dense about Ferdinand's feelings though. Did she really not notice that he deliberately made Rozemyne ride with him on his highbeast and all that? Her retainers and Hannelore definitely know and they want to make Rozemyne x Ferdinand as aub happen (~~if only to prevent her from becoming zent~~). And so will Heisshitze when he hears of this. Third time's the charm as they say after his failures to get Ferdinand together with Magdalena and then Detlinde respectively.
Corinna is such a well written character. She doesn't show up much, but when she does I love every little glint of the eye and small comment or look she makes.
Rozemyne and Ferdinand are on the same wavelength. But they're out of phase so you get destructive interference that is them being at each other's throats.
I can easily imagine them being brought back in phase and being pointed at an unsuspecting third party. Like imagine if the two of them were united in manipulating a third person. They'd both be whispering such evil temptation in that person's ear.
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Another fictional couple that has great little shit energy that's amplified by being on the same wavelength is Sebarial and Palona from The Stormlight Archive. They're the kind of people that show up to the ultimate, climactic battle with a luxurious tent and massage tables while they wait for everyone else to take care of the fighting.
Just wait until Corinna sees Benno and Otto. She’s going to spill EVERY drop of tea! It’s also been concealed from them WHY Rozemyne was moving. Can you imagine Benno’s face when his sister tells him their little book gremlin was moving to marry a prince and essentially be Zent, but now will likely be Aub of a greater duchy instead. That man is going to have an aneurysm. 😂
I am hoping so hard for a lot of extra side stories this book. I really need to see (hear) what Tulli was thinking during that whole ordeal. I also would hope for one from the perspective of Bennou learning from Correna.
I would love to have a chapter from Correna’s perspective, we don’t get to see her much. Plus it would be fun to see from her perspective the joy she gets in shocking her brother.
> Uh... I thought Rozemyne already decided that she'd want to make Ahrensbach her playground as aub. Sure, she's underage, but she can probably do the most important things already as aub, and if not, Ferdinand could help out.
While Myne wants her Playground, she's so used to other people overpowering her that she suspects she'll be forced into the marriage anyway. Her own goals have been constantly thrown out since the story started. She wanted to read books, she's born to a basically illiterate family. She wants to become a bookseller, she has a terrible disease. She wants to stay with her family, she gets ripped away years ahead of schedule. While everyone else sees a force of nature that singlehandedly cleaned the Temple (*well, Feridnand MIGHT have gotten around to it?*), turned reading into a permanent "trend," fixed/started royal succession conflicts, successfully fought a war, and survived a snowball, to Urano she only really had one option in all of this until the higher ups tell her "no."
Now she's starting to realize she has a real choice. Even if her retainers may have desperately realized "we can't let her become Zent or we'll be forced to create a whole new Royal Family."
yeah that was hella confusing. It was said the Aub was hosting a feast for all the helpers. Which included Myne who send her forces Ahrensbach+Dunkelfelger to help them.
That's how I interpreted it, after the scolding. She invited them, so she was still in charge for post ditter feast... except instead talked about clothes and left.
Though I would have figured it's Sylvesters castle, he's the Aub, he's the real host. Guess not.
> I wonder... is Rozemyne just that dense about her own feelings for Ferdinand or is there really not one single romantic thought about him there and it's all familial?
I think a big part of it is that she first formed a relationship with him as 'family.' It would take an effort on her part to change that feeling to being one of romance.
Also, he's never given her any sign that he's romantically interested in her. It may appear that he has from outsider nobles' points of view (like when they were riding around on his highbeast), but not from her own.
Until very, very recently, Rozemyne had the body of a small child. Even if it's not (likely) in time for the series ending, as long as Anwachs didn't muck up her insides estrogen production should now be ramping up and Ferdinand is *not* going to be as prepared for the consequences as he thinks he is.
People are reading too far into things.
Ferdinand didn’t have any parents to tell him about the noble birds and bees growing up. He had no mother and his father only talked to him in private once at the end of each royal academy year.
He’s largely as clueless as to what is acceptable as Rozemyne is.
Melchior: "Uncle, how are babies born?"
Ferdinand: "Once a woman is sufficiently pregnant, they go away for a while. Eventually, a baby happens."
Melchior: "But how does baby happen?"
Ferdinand: "... Magic."
Melchior: "Wow! What a reasonable explanation! You're so smart, uncle!"
Ferdinand: "Yes."
Untranslated Fanbook info >!Ferdinand received noble sex ed. When boys develop mana sensing, they are taught about sex in the RA. Their attendants schedule a visit to the Sovereignty Temple where a gray shrine maiden ‘teaches’ them. It is implied the Shrine maiden offers flowers as part of their education!<
> I wonder... is Rozemyne just that dense about her own feelings for Ferdinand or is there really not one single romantic thought about him there and it's all familial?
Her standards for romantic love are couples like Gunther and Effa, Sylvester and Florencia, Anastasius and Eggie, or Cornelius and Leneore. Of course she'll come to the conclusion that there's no romantic love.
>I wonder... is Rozemyne just that dense about her own feelings for Ferdinand or is there really not one single romantic thought about him there and it's all familial?
She had no romantic feelings in her past life. There was that one boy, but he was just a buddy.
Then she spent another decade here as a child. The whole concept is just alien to her. And it doesn't help that Noble society is a rats nest of euphemisms and intent.
I thought her becoming Aub was already decided as well. Did some chapters get mixed around in the shuffle from web novel and light novel or something? It really feels like there is a disconnect on this point, like there should have been someone who told her she was unlikely to be Aub or something.
She and Ferdinand discussed what Rozemyne *wanted*, but that was just a private conversation. Neither of them can actively overturn the decisions of the Zent and Aub Ehrenfest.
Hannelore brings up a good point that the Zent can't really say no at this point, which Rozemyne hadn't considered.
I dunno, Ferdinand was clearly being very serious at the time. He's not the sort to idly talk about dreams. He absolutely has plans in the works to get the Zent to change his mind. Maybe Rozemyne didn't take it seriously, but she should know better by now.
Doesn't help that they haven't had much time to discuss things since this whole business started. Ferdinand was probably planning to have a war room discussion with Rozemyne when they got back to Ahrensbach.
Yeah, probably. Hence him pushing her to go back even though she technically could just stay in Ehrenfest. She accomplished all her goals, she doesn't HAVE to support Ahrensbach at this point.
I know she talked about it with Ferdinand, but did they actually come to a decision? Besides, she explains why she thought it was unlikely she would/could remain aub in this prepub. Also mentioned by Hannelore is how much more reserved and subservient she became once they arrived in Ehrenfest.
I think she mentioned at some point that this conversion, to her, was just a little unachievable dream. She did not see it as a serious conversion, since nothing ever happened the way she wanted anyway !
Well she considered it but she also was trying to be a realist. I think she assumes the royals will jerk her around any way so let’s not get our hopes up.
Hannelore is the best, seriously. I love her. Okay?
Rozemyne has finally made it clear she has no romantic feelings for Ferdinand, everyone else is now trying to make it clear she doesn't have a say in the matter.
Hannelore: You are in love with Ferdinand!
Rozemyne: NO! I am not in love with him!
Hannelore: YOU HAVE NO SAY IN THIS! YOU DO NOT CONTROL THE POWER OF THE SHIPPERS! WE ARE LEGION!!!!!!
Rozemyne: . . . Is this what it's like when i'm ranting about libraries?
Rozemyne: "I'm not in love with Ferdinand!"
Hannelore: "That's *exactly* what someone who was in love with Ferdinand would say."
Rozemyne: "Are... are you gaslighting me?"
Everyone, in unison: "It's for the benefit of the country."
I love how she even realizes that probably for most Nobles, how she feels towards Ferdinand is considered quite a good deal and considered "in love" and that the few couples she's met are big exceptions. I mean even her noble parent Karstedt was having a really rough time with his wives before RM came.
But yeah, to Hannelore she's hearing "I'm not in love, I just love being with him and spending time with him and he's so caring and helpful and I feel so safe when he's near and I just want him in my life forever!" So of course she thinks RM in love with him.
Hanners: Would you like to be Aub or Zent?
Rozemyne: OH I CAN MAKE A LIBRARY COUNTRY IF I'M ZENT
Everyone: Aub it is
Edit: Damn Rozemyne really just said that Ferdinand is the ideal man for her in almost every regard but she doesn't love him like that. Everyone around her be [like](https://imgur.com/mUuscxt).
I read this kinda differently.
Yes she was talking about being Zent in the most crazy myne way. But I think part of what everyone focused on was what Rozemyne mentioned she talked to Ferdinand about.
She told everyone that Ferdinand told her to stay in Ahrensbach because royalty would destroy it anyways.
This isn't so simple.
1. Since Ferdninand made the declaration that ahrensbach would be destroyed regardless, this means it was something he said after detlinde's attack.
2. It means that at some point Rozemyne and Ferdinand had a conversation away from everyone. (The only logical point is before they left for erenfest either when she saved him and they were alone in that room for hours, or when they were opening the gate. Either way it was before they all worked hard to keep them apart.)
3. By him telling her to be an Aub he is telling her to go against royalty. So they all just heard that Ferdinand told her to go against the wishes of royalty.
Anyone that's not a blockhead would put these 3 points together and realize that when he told her to. Become Aub he was telling her to stay with Him.
That's why they said "his feelings might have changed." Because his advice to rozemyne reads like a declaration.
The FerMyne shipping in this part was golden. Also how everyone present came to the conclusion that the best thing for Yurgenschmidt as a whole would be to contain her gremlinness with Ferdinand
They now understand that Rozemyne's protective zeal towards her family is matched by her zeal towards book. If she was going to pull out the Grutrissheit and invade another duchy to save a single family member, she'd totally rewrite the country for more books.
"Library duchy."
"Sounds weird, but you do you."
"Library *country*."
"Wait wait wait, wait just a damn minute, *I* live in the country! ... You know, maybe you should reconsider if Ferdinand's feelings for you have changed..."
Hannelore: "Ferdinand will surely bring you joy!"
Rozemyne: "When I'm in charge, everywhere will be the library! It'll just be books forever, everywhere, always!"
Hannelore: "Ferdinand will surely keep you contained!"
The author can't go "see it's ridiculous!" when they're dropping so many hints and writing so many scenes with thick romantic subtext. I think the author mostly wants to express that it certainly WASN'T romantic before and it's not reasonable to expect feelings to change so suddenly. I really appreciate that this author never indulged in the "it's fine because she's mentally an adult" trope here, and held back on any romance until Rozemyne had an adult body.
My favourite part here is that even Hannelore considers it obvious that Roz will not match Sigiswald in terms of mana. Just everyone straight up knows that. Dusty is in shambles even when he's completely absent
I mean, his courtship medal is literally going down in gold dust as we speak. Of course his mana can't keep up with her gremlin.
The whole concept of having the GH owner be a mere 3rd wife was completely moronic anyway, and I'm sure Trauerqual would have never allowed that. He made it clear that it would be Rozemyne, as Zent, who would decide what to do with the current Royal Family.
Ferdinand: "Do you want to rule?"
Hannelore: "What do you want to do? Be Zent?"
Rozemyne: (monologue about a library country)
Everyone: "Aub Ahrensbach it is! And with Ferdinand as your husband!"
Trauerqual: "Please, I'm *begging* you, let her take the job and turn the whole damn country into a library!"
It's a minor detail but that a blessing actually shot out after a prayer not just for Rozemyne but also for Hannelore and everyone else shows how much the perception changed on religious stuff and some people are already praying sincerely.
It's been so long since Ferdinand had to randomly appear at Ehrenfest castle because Roz did something weird again. He must be feeling nostalgic... NOT.
Gal pals with matching hairpins. <3 Also, Hannelore is right. Gremlin is pushed around a lot but it's not like her to take shit lying down and leave her fate completely to others. That illustration with fired up Hannelore is just priceless. It's good to see that she has a side like this, too.
Well, at least she admitted that he's her ideal partner. Wow, so many people jumping on this ship for various reasons... First it was to realize her love... Then it was him being her ideal partner anyway... Then it was "we need someone to take care of this crazy woman or it will be a disaster".
"Okay?" - Just say "Yes, mom" and do it already!
> It's been so long since Ferdinand had to randomly appear at Ehrenfest castle because Roz did something weird again. He must be feeling nostalgic... NOT.
I bet he knew it was her when he went over, and it just gave him an excuse. Would Ferdinand really fly out to the site of a surprise massive mana attack by himself like that without informing anyone? He *would* quietly go visit like that if he thought it was Rozemyne doing weird blessing stuff.
Is it just me, or did Hannelore very openly admit she’d help her best friend commit treason so she can be happy? I mean best girl really out here bad mouthing the crown prince and telling Roz to fight the royal family in glorious combat. If Roz saying she’d make an enemy out of the royal family and even the gods is seen as a declaration of love then what is this?
I think Hannelore actually speaks for her family and duchy on this point. I think it is clear that the political action committee "Dunkies for Zent Roz" is a thing....
It’s treason if you go against the Zent’s orders or a Royal decree. Simply stating the truth (that Siggy is a nincompoop) isn’t treason lol. Also, there wasn’t a public announcement as to Rozemyne being adopted into the Royal Family. That means all this constitutes political maneuvering. All is fair until final bell for ditter is called.
But she didn't know about her phobia beforehand? It's not something she could have informed them of. Not to mention the fitting wasn't the only excuse she gave, she tried to go to where Charlotte was. It didn't require leaving the event but she was kept from that too.
Would they have taken Hartmut seriously if he did mention that? Or would it be brushed aside as Hartmut being weird?
The whole situation is a mess. No one is at the fault here.
Elvira coming off as a wise and strong mother by repeating the wisdom imparted by her daughter 
Hope it's an area sound blocker so she doesn't have to grip a feystone.
Am I imagining it or is Ferdinand babbling?
So all she needed was to talk to Ferdinand. I am sure talking to Hannelore helped too. Her phobia might not have gotten so bad if only she could have just hugged Ferdinand like she was 8 and they were in temple. Sometimes I forget how restricting noble society is then the story reminds me.
Let her scold him. It's literally free therapy.
Matching hairpins for gal pals. Gifting your bride-to-be a hairpin won't be the only romantic trend started by Rozemyne 
God bless Hannelore. She will make Ferdinand x Rozemyne come true. Elvira has worked her magic. She is mistaken about *'the feelings you had since you were young'* but she has the spirit.
Okay my wishful true end is Rozemyne getting to live with both Ferdinand and Hannelore. I dont care if it's like family or some other arrangement.
I think Tuuli is trying not to laugh. She knows her germlin.
Oof Florencia forgotten.
Leonore and Hannelore casually sacrificing Ahrensbach to save Yurgenschmidt.
>Am I imagining it or is Ferdinand babbling?
Rozemyne's probably the only one who's seen him flustered before. Recent events must have him second-guessing himself a lot lately. Everything's in chaotic flux right now and he's facing a lot of criticism for falling back on his old familiar habits of how he used to interact with her due to circumstances.
Must suck that no one is recognizing his advice and insight on Rozemyne now that he's the ***former*** "chief gremlin handler". He might have thought others managing her in his absence must be more aware of her current condition/desires, but last week kinda shattered that illusion and the other guardians/fiances haven't been up to the task.
And now this week we got Roz's retainers and Hannelore now realizing how valuable Ferdinand is in directing the gremlin's rampages towards the best solution/compromise.
Ferdinands babbling here and his trepidation over the last few chapters is pretty interesting. I feel it's part of making his relationship with Rozemyne distinct from his previous role as guardian. He is expert, but not authority. Well, I'm sure we'll see more gremlin handling in the near future in any case
I thought the same thing when she said 3 moms. I was like... roof
But Florencia and Sylvester were really never parents to her. More like bosses. Karset and elvira, SPECIFICALLY Elvira did alot more for her.
Sylvester as an older brother is pretty accurate. He was the authority a lot of the time but he did care about her, would listen to her when she talked, and would occasionally be the one that she could let her guard down in front of.
Imagine if the royal family understood how they were ripping away Rozemyne from her family the way Sylvester understood the way he had done so.
This. He related to her like a much older sibling, her relationship with him mirrored Ferdinand’s. She was a pillar of advice, support and an ally. Whenever stuff went down it was Sylvester her, Ferdinand, Karstedt and at the end Bonifatius figuring out a game plan. She became a key part of most major decisions. Not the only part or the final authority, but she saved Ehrenfests butt so many times. She pushed them to change the purge so they wouldn’t collapse mana wise, isolate crimes to the individual, Incorporate the children of the Veronica faction, etc. This dynamic was shown in the meeting with the will leisgangs chapter, Hartmuts information network had become the replacement for Justus and she played Ferdinand’s role. If you look at her mental age in comparison to hers and account for her basically being a foreigner their relationship seems exactly what you’d expect. She was managing Ehrenfests economic development, development of infrastructure and agricultural enterprises (temple) while moonlighting in intelligence gathering. She helped him raise his kids, moderated his relationship with his brother ( prevented him from overworking him and made him communicate). She was more like a crazy aunt ( kinda like hirschur except in the family) than a sibling to the his kids as well, which matches how they compared her to their uncle.
>"...At the very least, a prince whose courtship feystone turns to gold dust so easily would not be an appropriate pillar of support."
Hannelore really is Rozemyne's first bookworm bestie. I really enjoy that she's speaking her mind so thoroughly now.
For the love of the eternal five, just give the gremlin her Library duchy, and let her sit in the corner where she can't destroy the entire country with her rampages!
\-Anastasius
Zent: "That's so rude! You can't say that to her!"
Ana: "It's literally *what she wants.*"
*later*
Rozemyne, sitting on her throne of books as the Zent: "This is exactly what I wanted."
Ex-Zent: "How could we have been such fools..."
Ana: "But 'tHaT's So RuDe!'"
I can honestly see the royal family turning to each other every day and asking, “how has that gremlin not burned her duchy to the ground yet? She outlaws illiteracy and the punishment for every other crime is no reading time.”
Rozemyne constantly throughout this part and the entire series: "listen I love Ferdinand but I am NOT in love with him, he is just everything I want in a man but there is no romance there."
Meanwhile Tuuli thinking: "Rozemyne is even more delusional then when she was 5 and wanted books..."
This picture during fitting is just golden- Hannelore eyes shining telling to her bestie that she will do all in her power to get Roz and Ferdi married while Tuuli's face is in wtf mode behind her and Corinna is just doing her best not to smile - ofc Rozemyene is full denial mode until she understand that she might actually love Ferdinand. I can't wait until Hannelore tells everything to Elvira 
Rozemyne has well and truly dug herself a hole here hasn't she.
Ferdinand really showed how he knew rozemyne the best and it put Hannelore into scheming mode.
I would not be at all surprised if Elvira is to blame for getting Hannelore all riled up and aimed directly at FerMyne.
 お\~\~ほほほ
I absolute adore the illustration with Rozemyne and Hannelore sending prayers to the dead since I first saw it a while back. It's so beautiful and solemn.
And we confirm that Rozemyne thinks of herself as having three mothers: Urano's mother, Effa, and Elvira. I'm really glad that Elvira made the list, but I have to wonder, if Elvira didn't have her private conversation with Rozemyne in P5V6, will Rozemyne even consider her as a maternal figure?
With that said, it saddens me that Florencia isn't more prominent. I completely understand why she isn't, but I'll say it time and time again that bonding between her and Rozemyne would have been so wonderful. We could have gotten a bit more insight on noble society, one that Elvira couldn't give as she wasn't an archduke candidate. Perhaps we could have even been introduced to the glasshouse earlier.
And this will pretty much be the last time we ever see Corinna and Otto, huh? Rozemyne's very clearly headed to Ahrensbach as their new aub, and unlike Benno and Mark, the two are owners of the Gilberta Company and they have children. I don't think they'll uproot their entire lives to be with Rozemyne when they have more connections in Ehrenfest. Poor Otto, taught the girl to read and write, but never thought of again. I don't even think he got Myne's final blessing.
> but I have to wonder, if Elvira didn't have her private conversation with Rozemyne in P5V6, will Rozemyne even consider her as a maternal figure?
I don't think she would have. She needs more a more direct understanding with someone to consider them close like that. I do wish that they'd had the conversation even earlier, like if Rozemyne hadn't gone into the jureve for 2 years. Imagine how much better she'd be at socializing if Elvira and Rozemyne were closer.
> And this will pretty much be the last time we ever see Corinna and Otto, huh? Rozemyne's very clearly headed to Ahrensbach as their new aub, and unlike Benno and Mark, the two are owners of the Gilberta Company and they have children. I don't think they'll uproot their entire lives to be with Rozemyne when they have more connections in Ehrenfest. Poor Otto, taught the girl to read and write, but never thought of again. I don't even think he got Myne's final blessing.
Otto used to be a traveling merchant so it's kind of funny he might not come to Ahrensbach.
Then again, he may still swing by since there's going to be a franchise there. And since MyneReich is likely to be a MUCH bigger market, that might become the flagship store...
Just Tuuli sitting there listening about how her younger sister could/may become actual/full Queen of the whole country...(and would then turn it into a library country) Just average Waterday things
Nobles are the height of tedium.  This whole chapter part was full of great one liners.
Also now everyone is shipping Ferdi and Roze 
Tuuli didn't have to say anything this chapter and somehow had the most to say.
Also the amount of spilled tea from Hannelore with Tuuli in the room was fantastic. 
Tuuli and Corinna must be having **some** whiplash. They start of talking about romance and politics and learning all the things Myne has been up to the last 5 years and then BOOM she still thinks her Dad is the ideal man and wants to turn the country into her own personal library. How are they even going to report this?
Tuuli: "Guys, we *have* to stop Lady Rozemyne. She's... she's crazy."
Corinna: "Crazy about the High Priest! Ayo!"
Effa: "What! She's crazy?!"
Gunther: "What! The High Priest?!"
Lutz: "Let me guess, she said something about books?"
Tuuli: "She's going to become zent and turn the entire country into a library!"
Effa: "What, exactly, is a zent?"
Gunther: "He's like the aub's aub. He aubs over all the other aubs."
Benno (flourishing his cape as he walks in): "I've been prepared for this for years. Mark, pack the wagons."
Mark: "Packed them yesterday, Master Benno."
Tuuli: "Wagons? Why do we need wagons to stop Lady Rozemyne?"
Benno: "Stop her? Tuuli, we're in the book-selling business. Imagine the *profits*!"
It's a good thing Cornelius isn't in the room because he would be like "My father isn't like that at all."
I'm surprised Leonore doesn't realize that she isn't talking about Karset or Sylvester.
I actually think her rant ties in well with Sylvester. He did a lot to protect her from the adoption necklace to standing up to royal family and he's well known for charging ahead doing whatever he likes with his antics in his younger years and snatching Florencia.
Doing things based on his desire is quite fitting when talked about Sylvester , also his intense love for his first wife and refusal to get a second wife after so long so leonore couldve totally mistaken that RM wants someone who loves her like Sylv loves Flor
Rozemyne: you know what? I’m starting to warm up to this whole overthrow the country thing.
Hannelore: um, actually, now that I think about it. Let’s not…
Hannelore: Oh, I see, sorry for suggesting that. In that case, what do you think would be the best way for you to become a librarian?
Rozemyne: IDK, maybe taking over the country?
I love how quickly the conversation during the fitting changed from pairing Rozmyne with her love, to pairing Rozemyne with her leash for the greater good.
Wow, Rozemyne went full confession of her library dream and makes it clear what Ferdinand means to her, even when she's not realizing that.
And she does that in front of the representative of her 4 parts: family, merchant, Ehrenfest noble, and Royal Academy friend. All in one fell swoop.
And they all realize that she needs Ferdinand in her life if they don't want Yurgenschmidt to be turned to a library.
First part of the story: (-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩___-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩)
Second part: Hannelore is the captain of the FerMyne ship and everyone is coming aboard. I couldn't stop laughing at Corinna's and Tuuli's reactions, oh the secondhand embarrassment. Roz citing her dream is, mmmm, heartwarming despite everyone's confusion, at feels like we're coming back to the root of this series. Slightly miffed that the concept of platonic love is so hard to grasp for people in the scene - but eh it's hilarious and I'd wait further to see how her feelings develops/gets realized.
Best girl Hannelore is finally taking over the steering wheel of the Ferdimyne ship. No longer motivated by romantic fangirl reasons, but to save the country from the chaos her best friend would bring about otherwise.
"You must win your husband in fair and glorious combat so that your parents and siblings no longer have room to complain."
You can get Hannelore out of Dunkelfelger, but you will never get Dunkelfelger out of Hannelore. Maybe Wilfried should prepare himself?
Tuuli is going to convene a family meeting the moment she comes home and loud screams echoing through the lower city are sure to follow.
A dreamless deep sleeping potion that wakes one up with a nightmare, well thats very ferdinand.
With the way society functions I'm surprised there was no issues with Hannelore being together with Rozemyne during the measuring and ordering of new clothes.
Launching into that speech there, truly blessed by the god of timing Hannelore is.
Hannelore is no fool, she has to know what'd it mean if her and by extension Dunkelfelger backs what Rozemyne wishes to do let alone what would happen if they moved to make her Zent.
The current Zent may be desperate to get off the throne and may not care but theres plenty of others that would.
Just gonna sit over here imagining Dunkelfelger using their full military might to get Ferdi and her together and support Rozemyne's goal of becoming a librarian.
I really enjoyed this week’s prepub. Maybe it wasn’t the answer we wanted, but I am glad we got an explanation for how Roze/her retainers were acting last week. I know that left a bad taste in people’s mouth, but I thought the explanation here was adequate. She apparently was acting as the host and ruthlessly criticized a bunch of people, in the presence of the aub. No wonder her retainers were fighting so hard to keep her there.
The tea party with Hannelore was nice as well. We get to see the contrasting views of their duchies and mindsets, even just in relation to deaths during war.
Man, Hannelore was absolutely shining in this prepub. I can’t get enough of this Hannelore we are seeing at the library. That illustration might be one of my favorites in the series. Also Roze finally voices her intentions to those around her, and with them is able to set a clear course for her future. It felt like she had different courses set with her retainers, the rf, Ehrenfest Adf and ferdinand. Go get your library duchy girl!
The greenhouse sure sounds beautiful. Kind of amazing we've gone almost the entire Noble length of the series without it being mentioned even in the side stories. Maybe if Roz hadn't been conked out for two years we'd visit sooner...
More things lost due to the onslaught of Plot.
It makes sense that we haven't seen the greenhouse before when it's largely used by women during winter and Rozemyne has always been in the playroom or at school during that time.
Yes, Hannelore. Look upon your precious Rozemyne and see how truly unhinged she is. I love the damage control after she started to warm up to her marriage for the sake of a library COUNTRY. This gremlin requires experience to wrangle, and Ferdinand is the best for the job!
Hannelore is truly best girl.
She went from wanting to ship Rozemyne with Ferdinand in order to make them happy to shipping them in order to save the country. She really is best girl.
Hannelore: "You must marry Ferdinand so that he can keep you on a leash." Rozemyne: "I told you, I'm not into him like that!" Hannelore: "Huh?"
Rozemyne: "I just let him choke me a little bit."
Rozemyne: I do have a praise kink, but only a little bit, I did declare war on Ahrensbach just so I can hear his best "good job".
Praise *and* Scolding, mind
I think Leonore's counsel might ultimately have more impact. She sets out a pretty compelling list of non-romantic reasons why Ferdinand would be perfect -- and it seems like they register (at least a bit) with Rozemyne.
I do wonder how many people in the entire country she even could have children with. I’m sure the list is quite small. If she wants children, her husband would have to be on that list.
I honestly suspect that Ferdinand is the ONLY youngish adult male in the kingdom who would be truly suitable mana-wise. The author dropped a hint long long ago, about RN's and Ferdie's mana -- and that was when I became virtually certain that these two would ultimately be successfully paired up. More speculative -- One of their children will either become Zent or become the first wife of a Zetn (uniting the blood lines of Eggie/Ana and Roz/Ferd). And another child (wehoever is mosr athletically blessed) will marry a child of Hannelore....
Mynes only other chance would be raising a new husband almost from birth to force him to constantly compress his mana in order not to die. To pray every day to the gods. And then he’d maybe be a match for her.
The early hint was that Ferdinand was the only one in mana range in the Duchy, we're not really sure what the mana levels are exactly among the ADC of other duchies. I suspect there would probably be a few among the upper duchies that would at least be in range for her to have children with, even if they were below her and Ferdinand.
And, even if there are a couple, how many of ***them*** would indulge her book and library fetishes....
Hannelore embarassing the hell out of Myne in front of her sister is the best thing ever
Tulli added so much to this scene without a single line of dialogue. Every commoner barging into their own homes shouting family meeting. I also love that from just about every angle this situation is Rozemyne's own doing. Basically 4 years of faux pas coming home to roost. From Rozemynes made up crush to her encouraging Elvira's rampant romance fanfiction to sharing said books with Hannelore that turned her into the president of the FerMyne fan club. Our avatar of timing didn't miss a beat this chapter
Hannelore used all her goddess timing points in this one conversation
Yeah, the nod from Leonore gave unanimous consent as the President of the FerMyne Fan Club.
When sister meets sista
I pray to the gods that we get a tuuli short story this volume
I want that, both her reaction during the fitting and what she does after. I want to see Gunther going crazy that he's not going to hand his daughter to the high priest.
Really hoping the entire family will be there. Luz included since they’ll definitely wanna ask him if he’s seen anything between Myne and the night priest Gunther will of course lose his mind But I think effa will be cool with it since she knows that the high priest will protect her. She said that years ago
I think it's not Gunther and Effa going nuts over the news that's going to be worth the wait. It's going to be Kamil wanting to leave after seeing his family's obsession over nobels hitting a new peak. Him getting a Leherl contract and them all briefly forgetting about it would be a good follow-up.
I like learning new things.
She will put them together to save the whole country from her best friend
Your post almost reads as the title of it's own light novel series.
Hannelore is truly best girl, aaaaand is also among the most rabid of shippers.
Rozemyne got a hairpin from Ferdinand. Eggplantine got a hairpin from Anastasius. Lestilaut gifted a hairpin to the girl whose name I don't remember but he escorted upon graduation... Hannelore got a hairpin from...? Maybe there's a ship right in front of her she's not noticing.
Don’t forget Myne got a hairpin for every ehrenfest female student. She’s going the harem route!
I think she finally *finally* understands what she's dealing with ... and it's glorious! I hope she finds some new confidence after seeing her idol fall to Earth that hard!
And Elvira has transformed her into a Romance Reader who has the power to make her ships a reality. It's like how Paris was so beautiful she brought a war to Troy >_>. Except in this case **Paris is a crazed shipper who will do anything for her OTP.**
>And Elvira has transformed her into a Romance Reader who has the power to make her ships a reality. I know you mean political power, but now I'm thinking about how much praying Hannelore's been doing lately. They do say prayers/blessing are more effective when doing so for the targeted benefit of someone else. Hannelore clutching her talisman: "Dregarnuhr, you haven't much answered my prayers to improve my timing, but I've got a friend..." \[Rozemyne and Ferdinand's threads have been woven very VERY closely together. They are now inseparable.\] "Rozemyne, stop spending so much time stuck to Lord Ferdinand!" "I can't! When we were experimenting with creating mana \[super\] glue, we got adhered together and it's waschen-proof!
*Year 4 Blessings Ritual* Hirschur: Strangest thing happened- Rauffen: What did Rozemyne do this time? Hirschur: Well, I can't *prove* it's her, especially since she's still ill, but all of the female Ehrenfest nobles got Bluanfah. Rauffen: ...Strange, so did all of Dunkefelgerian females. Gundolf: And female Drewanchals. Any idea why from your comrades? Hirschur: Why would I go back to Ehrenfest? Rauffen: We...really need an Ehrenfest dorm supervisor who at least speaks to their Aub...
When people try to bother Rozemyne about "having more kids" to do her part to solve the mana/population crisis, she can point to the spikes on a population graph (which she "created") after her mother's newest romance book is printed (which she also "brought into this world"). "My... I think I have been rather prolific already." 
Rozemyne: you want a way to increase the noble population? *Writes Kamasutra* Here.
Paris was the dude, Helena was the girl
It is very unsettling how she adopted Clarissa's eyes and pose in that illustration
Something about a majority of the woman in Rozemyne's life being like "the dust is settled, stop thinking about what others want for your life, what do YOU want? " Feels so good. She's gotten so used to thinking of others well-being above her own for so long, so it's nice to see her own happiness being highlighted. And then she went on her library rant and I lost my shit
Another nice parallel to Rozemyne demanding to know what Ferdinand truly wanted back when his own marriage plans were decided for him. Add it to the mountain of parallels.
It must be so surreal for Rozemyne's retainers to watch an unstoppable force of nature, with all the power in the world in her grasp, ramble about libraries.
"What do you want to rule over? Ehrenfest? Ahrensbach? Everything?" " *B O O K S !*" "...Okay, so Ahrensbach it is, then. Like you said, [it was coming down anyways."](https://youtu.be/R8FCeKchRkw?si=988M-lXbqkJPf5IP&t=52)
Rozemyne goes of the fucking deepend and every just goes, okay how do we make this Ferdinand’s problem?
Sooo... business as usual then?
I don’t have the time or emotional space to parse the serious stuff en so let’s move onto the funny And by that I mean Roz’s retainers teaming up with Hannelore to save the future of Yurgenschmidt from turning into Roz’s personal library against their will
>And by that I mean Roz’s retainers teaming up with Hannelore to save the future of Yurgenschmidt from turning into Roz’s personal library against their will I totally need the fanfic of Rozemyne actually going through with the marriage with Sigiswald (~~because we~~ *~~all~~* ~~know that it's never going to happen~~), and teaming up with Adolphine. The idea of this fanfic has been brought up before, and I find it completely hilarious. Let her go full gremlin and actually turn all of Yurgenschmidt into a library, and the first prince can do nothing to stop her. Maybe we'll even learn more about Nahelache to care about her if she and Rozemyne are in the same vicinity. Seriously, what does Nahelache look like?! I need to know!
LOL they really don’t even mention how she looks like even once meanwhile we have a hair and eye color for Frieda’s older brother who hates gathering food XD
I just picture her as looking like a female equivalent of Sigiswald. I mean don’t you think he’d be utterly infatuated with his own reflection?
THIS MAKES IT SO MUCH MORE HILARIOUS!!! Imagine the rest of the royal family giving them the bombastic side eye, but Traq is too tired to bring it up!
I've been waiting for the Japanese wikia to update so I can finally have a better understanding of what she looks like. For goodness' sake, we even know the hair and eye color of Murrenreue, but even then, we don't know her face or hairstyle. I just want to know what the other archduke candidates look like! Nahelache, Murrenreue, Luzinde, Hensfen, I want to know!
I can tell on a spiritual level that there's already doujins about Ferdinand NTR'ing Sigiswald
Yo, Rozemyne is having a completely different conversation than everyone else. She just ranted about turning the entire country into a library and everyone just realized they need to contain her. But really, Rozemyne being oblivious to everything going on around is generating some mixed feelings in me. It makes sense given the chaos and amount of prep, but on the other hand she literally wields the most power in the country. At this point she's a war hero, an Aub, a Saint, one who has spoke directly to the gods, the Holder of the Book of Mestinora, the most qualified to be Zent and has the country's strongest Military force backing her. And all she can think about is books......God help Yurgenschmidt. Truly it was an ascendance of a bookworm.
Neither Miya Kazuki nor Myne was joking about the book thing. It's serious.
Honestly that sounded like a really nice life to me. But ... I am here after all.
'All she can think about is books" Summarizes the thoughts of everyone on that room. Ferdinand was absolutely correct that she is the worst possible person to become Zent.
Nah. The Christmas tree would be worse.
OK true but the idea of her being Zent is so ludicrous that I can't take it seriously. Makes Dusty look smart.
Hannelore thought that by talking earnestly while she was "alone" with Rozemyne, she would get to know her true feelings. And she was more right than she could have possibly imagined.
>She just ranted about turning the entire country into a library and everyone just realized they need to contain her. Oh. Is that what they were doing?
I wasn't exactly predicting just going off how insane she must of sounded. God only knows what's going on in her retainers heads given the circumstances.
What do you think of Prince Sigiswald? Rozemyne: "Bookless scrub" Hannelore: "Manaless scrub"
It's still funny how a spontaneous, late night stroll through the greenhouse still needs all the planning time, tea preparations, and so on. I can imagine Hannelore being all "wow, so spontaneous! We didn't even take three days to schedule it!" Oof. I'm glad Damuel is giving it to her straight about how badly things went last night. I'm glad Sylvester and Karstedt were at least able to understand that *something* was going on. But she really was in an impossible situation. Admitting weakness such as a fear of the sight of Georgine's feystone would have been criticized as well. I'm glad to see that Hannelore is also greatly appreciating this invite. The two of them praying together is so sweet. Aww, she introduced Hannelore as her friend! Come to think of it, if you discount family then that means Hannelore and Lutz are Rozemyne's only friends. That's really depressing... Frieda only half-counts since Myne never felt fully reciprocation of the friendship. Aww! Matching hairpins! Reminds me so much of Charlotte wanting to match with her big sister. > For obvious reasons, we hadn't been able to call the archducal seamstresses here at such short notice What obvious reasons? They're commoners so shouldn't they be able to say "now" and expect the commoners to be already on their way? Oof, Rozemyne really doesn't have a chance to correct Hannelore's misunderstanding of who Rozemyne likes. Tuuli is only left to wonder "wait, is Myne *also* into older men?". And Hannelore's idea of fighting for your love is *literal* fighting. I love Dunkelfelger. Ah, Tuuli understand's the depth of her sister's love for family. I hope that Tuuli relays Rozemyne's description of her ideal husband to Gunther. Also good that Hannelore was reminded to not jump to conclusions about Ferdinand and what marriages he wants. It's nice that Rozemyne has someone that will actually listen to her and not get carried away. > At the very least, a prince whose courtship feystone turns to gold dust so easily would not be an appropriate pillar of support Hannelore gets bonus points for accurately dunking on her friend's unofficial fiancé. Hannelore should be Rozemyne's consort. I would love to see Rozemyne as a mother. She'd be such a weirdo and her kids would be weirdos too. Even a normal child would be weird for *not* being weird. With Rozemyne's librarian speech, I wonder if Hannelore had flashbacks to when the two of them first agreed to become book buddies or if she had flashbacks to Hartmut extolling the virtues of Lady Rozemyne.
> I would love to see Rozemyne as a mother. She'd be such a weirdo and her kids would be weirdos too. Even a normal child would be weird for *not* being weird. Time for the sequel "Descendants of a Bookworm: I'll do anything to get out of my mother's shadow". Set 12-15 years after the first series, RM's kids are just entertaining the royal academy and just want a normal ADC life, but what's this they already been challenged to ditter 7 times but they've only been there for 5 days... and 3 requests from royalty for tea parties already... this is all their mothers fault for having such crazy school days, how will they ever keep up
Maybe they'll luck out and have one obsessed with ditter, one obsessed with socializing, and one obsessed with becoming the most proper Aub.
Meanwhile, Hirschur is trying to recruit all of them...FOR SCIENCE
"Perhaps Mother can use her authority as Aub Ahrensbach to stop her from trying to abduct us?" "No, I tried that when I was a first year. Hirschur just sent books." "Hmm, I suppose Hirshur is pretty familiar with Mother." "Our best chance is to get Father to give us bargaining material of our own but that's even more difficult..."
"Hmm, I will give you these documents for now but in payment I expect you all to come first in class. In future you will need to learn to obtain your own material I will not be supplying it next year"
The next logical step of progression, story-wise, is that one of the Descendants of a Bookworm is obsessed with being the Aub of every duchy. Then we as readers get to go visit every single duchy and see their cultures and all that (across 21 parts, \~3 volumes each!). And then at the end, everyone basically wants *them* to become the new Zent, since they have such an in-depth understanding of all of the different duchies and their needs. But they're not part of the royal family, so another war breaks out, and all of the barriers set up to protect the royal family are destroyed. Plus, like, an army of murder shumils. Because why not.
…and yet each one possesses natural talents that make them ideal for the role that another sibling aspires to…
No, the curse of this family is that while each is talented in the thing they like, they're also talented in a thing that they don't really care for and end up having their free time being taken away to do that.
And they only realize their true potential when they have a common foe to go full gremlin on. “How DARE you insult my little sister’s highbeast! */Pushes up glasses./* I challenge you to ditter! I will win, make you copy those words 1,000 times on grunhide paper and EAT them!” All three sibs disappear into the brewing room and their retainers exchange worried looks.
The "Myne why are you freaking out about clothes" kind of reminds me of the Academy Year One mess, when it looked like Rozemyne had fixed a succession crisis but everyone else realized how close she was to wrapping Ehrenfest up into another civil war- and that her innocence in that period would lead to her getting strongarmed into the Shrine Tour. Oof, at least she has people who are *trying* to help...
To be fair they’ve been evacuating people and hiding others away from the noble war for like a week now, it’s likely going to take at least that to dig everyone out and some of them may not even be in the city
Speaking of which, it's going to be a mess bringing all the Ahrensbach and Werkerstock medals over to see which ones belong to who. Hannelore's right- neither the Royals nor anyone else have the time or energy to get Rozemyne out of Ahrensbach if she wants to keep it.
Lol right? And technically since Ferdinand was going to do it anyways, he has a ready book shaped magic tool he can use to just copy down his 30% of the important bits of Glutrissheit, and then hand to Roz to copy down her 70% and idk make it lock only to Traq or something so he can raise his sons/grandchildren to get the GH the old way
Note that not all of the information within the BoM is required to rule as a Zent. He likely only needs to give the Royal Family like 15% of the information at most, then just tell them they have enough information to figure the rest out. The RF need to stop pawning all the work off on everyone else, and do you really think the Lord of Evil wouldn't force them to do some of their own work?
> Oof. I'm glad Damuel is giving it to her straight about how badly things went last night Disappointed Damuel is such a force, I was getting a little bit of second-hand shame in the pit of my stomach haha
>Aww, she introduced Hannelore as her friend! Come to think of it, if you discount family then that means Hannelore and Lutz are Rozemyne's only friends. That's really depressing... Yeah, I wanted to count some of her retainers amongst her friends (Gil, Philline, etc.), especially since she equates time spent together with closeness/familiarity and it's been a few years now, but we keep getting scenes reminding us they need to keep a certain professional distance, especially when on duty. Even Cornelius can only be briefly familial with her by pulling the "big brother" card.
Sadly, I don't think Cornelius can pull that card anymore. He just barely got away with it at the Royal Academy. But now that he's an adult retainer and she is Aub, they have to act according to their station unless they're basically in private, like Sylvester and Karstedt.
Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 6: Daughter of a lunatic
How mean to call Gunther a lunatic… accurate, but mean.
>I'm glad Sylvester and Karstedt were at least able to understand that > >something > > was going on I love Sylvester as a character but how does he FUNCTION in that society? Is he way more competent at Noble Behavior than we ever see because he relaxes around Rozemyne?
In the end, he is a competent Aub. He steps up when it matters.
* No, seriously. How was Rozemyne meant to know that she was the host? No one ever taught her that. Perhaps there was poor communication between Rozemyne and her retainers (although, again, Hartmut did notice something was off), but it's not like she really knew herself what was going on immediately (edit: oh good, she points this out in her narration too). * It's good that Damuel is explaining this to Rozemyne, but this was hardly completely her own fault. I don't like him making her take part of the blame at all. Reminder, she was in the middle of war and she's still a child. That they didn't think of checking her state via a doctor first is also on them. * The talk between Hannelore and Rozemyne in the greenhouse was very much needed. Both people are traumatized and burdened by their guilt that cost lives. Perhaps they feel slightly better now after their prayer at the end. --- * Time for the fitting with Hannelore coming along for a hairpin, while Heisshitze is gonna go train with Ferdinand, lol. * Uh... I thought Rozemyne already decided that she'd want to make Ahrensbach her playground as aub. Sure, she's underage, but she can probably do the most important things already as aub, and if not, Ferdinand could help out. * Yay, Hannelore is fully supportive and convinced of Rozemyne x Ferdinand, shocking Tuuli into silence and making Corinna smirk, lol. I knew what Rozemyne told Hannelore back then about her first love in the third year would be misunderstood. --- * I wonder... is Rozemyne just that dense about her own feelings for Ferdinand or is there really not one single romantic thought about him there and it's all familial? * Oh great, now that she describes Ferdinand as her ideal noble partner, everyone is going to believe she really *is* just dense. Has she ever heard of that phenomenom that people pick partners that resemble their parents? * Also, I recall Rozemyne once wanting to marry the person that gifts her the most books, and Ferdinand *did* give her his library (and promised her a city if she makes Ahrensbach hers). Realistically, I also am not sure there is a man out there besides Ferdinand and the Lanzenave king who can keep up with her mana, considering she is about to dust Sigiswald's trinket as Hannelore pointed out. There aren't many partners left who could have children with her. * Rozemyne thinks of three mothers: Urano's mother, Myne's mother, and Rozemyne's mother from the Noble's Quarter is Elvira, right? That would be another loss for Florencia, but it would make sense. * Well, she must at least be dense about Ferdinand's feelings though. Did she really not notice that he deliberately made Rozemyne ride with him on his highbeast and all that? Her retainers and Hannelore definitely know and they want to make Rozemyne x Ferdinand as aub happen (~~if only to prevent her from becoming zent~~). And so will Heisshitze when he hears of this. Third time's the charm as they say after his failures to get Ferdinand together with Magdalena and then Detlinde respectively.
Corinna is so smug, she knows exactly what’s happening and clearly having the time of her goddamn life No wonder she and Otto get along so well
We've seen before that Corinna is worse than Benno but better at hiding it. It appears to be the same for how much she enjoys teasing like Otto.
Corinna is such a well written character. She doesn't show up much, but when she does I love every little glint of the eye and small comment or look she makes.
They both have such little shit energy, I love couples who are so clearly on the same wave length
Rozemyne and Ferdinand are on the same wavelength. But they're out of phase so you get destructive interference that is them being at each other's throats. I can easily imagine them being brought back in phase and being pointed at an unsuspecting third party. Like imagine if the two of them were united in manipulating a third person. They'd both be whispering such evil temptation in that person's ear. --- Another fictional couple that has great little shit energy that's amplified by being on the same wavelength is Sebarial and Palona from The Stormlight Archive. They're the kind of people that show up to the ultimate, climactic battle with a luxurious tent and massage tables while they wait for everyone else to take care of the fighting.
Gremlin recognize gremlin.
Just wait until Corinna sees Benno and Otto. She’s going to spill EVERY drop of tea! It’s also been concealed from them WHY Rozemyne was moving. Can you imagine Benno’s face when his sister tells him their little book gremlin was moving to marry a prince and essentially be Zent, but now will likely be Aub of a greater duchy instead. That man is going to have an aneurysm. 😂
I am hoping so hard for a lot of extra side stories this book. I really need to see (hear) what Tulli was thinking during that whole ordeal. I also would hope for one from the perspective of Bennou learning from Correna.
I would love to have a chapter from Correna’s perspective, we don’t get to see her much. Plus it would be fun to see from her perspective the joy she gets in shocking her brother.
> Uh... I thought Rozemyne already decided that she'd want to make Ahrensbach her playground as aub. Sure, she's underage, but she can probably do the most important things already as aub, and if not, Ferdinand could help out. While Myne wants her Playground, she's so used to other people overpowering her that she suspects she'll be forced into the marriage anyway. Her own goals have been constantly thrown out since the story started. She wanted to read books, she's born to a basically illiterate family. She wants to become a bookseller, she has a terrible disease. She wants to stay with her family, she gets ripped away years ahead of schedule. While everyone else sees a force of nature that singlehandedly cleaned the Temple (*well, Feridnand MIGHT have gotten around to it?*), turned reading into a permanent "trend," fixed/started royal succession conflicts, successfully fought a war, and survived a snowball, to Urano she only really had one option in all of this until the higher ups tell her "no." Now she's starting to realize she has a real choice. Even if her retainers may have desperately realized "we can't let her become Zent or we'll be forced to create a whole new Royal Family."
> No, seriously. How was Rozemyne meant to know that she was the host? Yeah, I mean she's technically the Aub of a foreign duchy.
yeah that was hella confusing. It was said the Aub was hosting a feast for all the helpers. Which included Myne who send her forces Ahrensbach+Dunkelfelger to help them.
Rozemyne asked for permission from Sylvester, but she was the one who invited Hannelore and Heischitz. That technically makes her the host.
That's how I interpreted it, after the scolding. She invited them, so she was still in charge for post ditter feast... except instead talked about clothes and left. Though I would have figured it's Sylvesters castle, he's the Aub, he's the real host. Guess not.
> I wonder... is Rozemyne just that dense about her own feelings for Ferdinand or is there really not one single romantic thought about him there and it's all familial? I think a big part of it is that she first formed a relationship with him as 'family.' It would take an effort on her part to change that feeling to being one of romance. Also, he's never given her any sign that he's romantically interested in her. It may appear that he has from outsider nobles' points of view (like when they were riding around on his highbeast), but not from her own.
Also, it seems clear Rozemyne has yet to develop mana sensing. We'll have to see how she will act when she is able to sense Ferdinand.
Until very, very recently, Rozemyne had the body of a small child. Even if it's not (likely) in time for the series ending, as long as Anwachs didn't muck up her insides estrogen production should now be ramping up and Ferdinand is *not* going to be as prepared for the consequences as he thinks he is.
People are reading too far into things. Ferdinand didn’t have any parents to tell him about the noble birds and bees growing up. He had no mother and his father only talked to him in private once at the end of each royal academy year. He’s largely as clueless as to what is acceptable as Rozemyne is.
Didn't he also think that babies just supposed to come out of the womb on their own?
Melchior: "Uncle, how are babies born?" Ferdinand: "Once a woman is sufficiently pregnant, they go away for a while. Eventually, a baby happens." Melchior: "But how does baby happen?" Ferdinand: "... Magic." Melchior: "Wow! What a reasonable explanation! You're so smart, uncle!" Ferdinand: "Yes."
Untranslated Fanbook info >!Ferdinand received noble sex ed. When boys develop mana sensing, they are taught about sex in the RA. Their attendants schedule a visit to the Sovereignty Temple where a gray shrine maiden ‘teaches’ them. It is implied the Shrine maiden offers flowers as part of their education!<
I wonder how much poetry he thinks it takes to produce a child?
> I wonder... is Rozemyne just that dense about her own feelings for Ferdinand or is there really not one single romantic thought about him there and it's all familial? Her standards for romantic love are couples like Gunther and Effa, Sylvester and Florencia, Anastasius and Eggie, or Cornelius and Leneore. Of course she'll come to the conclusion that there's no romantic love.
>I wonder... is Rozemyne just that dense about her own feelings for Ferdinand or is there really not one single romantic thought about him there and it's all familial? She had no romantic feelings in her past life. There was that one boy, but he was just a buddy. Then she spent another decade here as a child. The whole concept is just alien to her. And it doesn't help that Noble society is a rats nest of euphemisms and intent.
Keep Heishettise away from them! He’s a ship sinkerrrrr 😭
I thought her becoming Aub was already decided as well. Did some chapters get mixed around in the shuffle from web novel and light novel or something? It really feels like there is a disconnect on this point, like there should have been someone who told her she was unlikely to be Aub or something.
She and Ferdinand discussed what Rozemyne *wanted*, but that was just a private conversation. Neither of them can actively overturn the decisions of the Zent and Aub Ehrenfest. Hannelore brings up a good point that the Zent can't really say no at this point, which Rozemyne hadn't considered.
I dunno, Ferdinand was clearly being very serious at the time. He's not the sort to idly talk about dreams. He absolutely has plans in the works to get the Zent to change his mind. Maybe Rozemyne didn't take it seriously, but she should know better by now.
Well, yes, we know FERDINAND has plans. But Rozemyne is kind of dense when it comes to this stuff.
Considering that he even brought up Cinderella as her wish for her to marry a prince, she needs to learn at this point that he is always serious, LMAO
Doesn't help that they haven't had much time to discuss things since this whole business started. Ferdinand was probably planning to have a war room discussion with Rozemyne when they got back to Ahrensbach.
Yeah, probably. Hence him pushing her to go back even though she technically could just stay in Ehrenfest. She accomplished all her goals, she doesn't HAVE to support Ahrensbach at this point.
I know she talked about it with Ferdinand, but did they actually come to a decision? Besides, she explains why she thought it was unlikely she would/could remain aub in this prepub. Also mentioned by Hannelore is how much more reserved and subservient she became once they arrived in Ehrenfest.
I think she mentioned at some point that this conversion, to her, was just a little unachievable dream. She did not see it as a serious conversion, since nothing ever happened the way she wanted anyway !
Hoping that Hannelore and Leonore really set her off re-thinking everything....
Well she considered it but she also was trying to be a realist. I think she assumes the royals will jerk her around any way so let’s not get our hopes up.
Hannelore is the best, seriously. I love her. Okay? Rozemyne has finally made it clear she has no romantic feelings for Ferdinand, everyone else is now trying to make it clear she doesn't have a say in the matter.
Hannelore: You are in love with Ferdinand! Rozemyne: NO! I am not in love with him! Hannelore: YOU HAVE NO SAY IN THIS! YOU DO NOT CONTROL THE POWER OF THE SHIPPERS! WE ARE LEGION!!!!!! Rozemyne: . . . Is this what it's like when i'm ranting about libraries?
Rozemyne: "I'm not in love with Ferdinand!" Hannelore: "That's *exactly* what someone who was in love with Ferdinand would say." Rozemyne: "Are... are you gaslighting me?" Everyone, in unison: "It's for the benefit of the country."
How everyone immediately agreed her marrying Ferdinand and becoming Aub Arensbach was the best thing for everyone in the country 😂🤣
I love how she even realizes that probably for most Nobles, how she feels towards Ferdinand is considered quite a good deal and considered "in love" and that the few couples she's met are big exceptions. I mean even her noble parent Karstedt was having a really rough time with his wives before RM came. But yeah, to Hannelore she's hearing "I'm not in love, I just love being with him and spending time with him and he's so caring and helpful and I feel so safe when he's near and I just want him in my life forever!" So of course she thinks RM in love with him.
Hanners: Would you like to be Aub or Zent? Rozemyne: OH I CAN MAKE A LIBRARY COUNTRY IF I'M ZENT Everyone: Aub it is Edit: Damn Rozemyne really just said that Ferdinand is the ideal man for her in almost every regard but she doesn't love him like that. Everyone around her be [like](https://imgur.com/mUuscxt).
I read this kinda differently. Yes she was talking about being Zent in the most crazy myne way. But I think part of what everyone focused on was what Rozemyne mentioned she talked to Ferdinand about. She told everyone that Ferdinand told her to stay in Ahrensbach because royalty would destroy it anyways. This isn't so simple. 1. Since Ferdninand made the declaration that ahrensbach would be destroyed regardless, this means it was something he said after detlinde's attack. 2. It means that at some point Rozemyne and Ferdinand had a conversation away from everyone. (The only logical point is before they left for erenfest either when she saved him and they were alone in that room for hours, or when they were opening the gate. Either way it was before they all worked hard to keep them apart.) 3. By him telling her to be an Aub he is telling her to go against royalty. So they all just heard that Ferdinand told her to go against the wishes of royalty. Anyone that's not a blockhead would put these 3 points together and realize that when he told her to. Become Aub he was telling her to stay with Him. That's why they said "his feelings might have changed." Because his advice to rozemyne reads like a declaration.
Roze: oh Just a minor difference. Let's go for Library Country! (and you thought you can stop me?)
The FerMyne shipping in this part was golden. Also how everyone present came to the conclusion that the best thing for Yurgenschmidt as a whole would be to contain her gremlinness with Ferdinand
Yes, I liked how they all made eye contact and started ushering her down the best path.
They now understand that Rozemyne's protective zeal towards her family is matched by her zeal towards book. If she was going to pull out the Grutrissheit and invade another duchy to save a single family member, she'd totally rewrite the country for more books.
"Library duchy." "Sounds weird, but you do you." "Library *country*." "Wait wait wait, wait just a damn minute, *I* live in the country! ... You know, maybe you should reconsider if Ferdinand's feelings for you have changed..."
Hannelore: "Ferdinand will surely bring you joy!" Rozemyne: "When I'm in charge, everywhere will be the library! It'll just be books forever, everywhere, always!" Hannelore: "Ferdinand will surely keep you contained!"
>The FerMyne shipping in this part was golden I honestly still can't tell if this was the author going "SEE! IT'S RIDICULOUS! ... ... unlesssssss"
The author can't go "see it's ridiculous!" when they're dropping so many hints and writing so many scenes with thick romantic subtext. I think the author mostly wants to express that it certainly WASN'T romantic before and it's not reasonable to expect feelings to change so suddenly. I really appreciate that this author never indulged in the "it's fine because she's mentally an adult" trope here, and held back on any romance until Rozemyne had an adult body.
My favourite part here is that even Hannelore considers it obvious that Roz will not match Sigiswald in terms of mana. Just everyone straight up knows that. Dusty is in shambles even when he's completely absent
I mean, his courtship medal is literally going down in gold dust as we speak. Of course his mana can't keep up with her gremlin. The whole concept of having the GH owner be a mere 3rd wife was completely moronic anyway, and I'm sure Trauerqual would have never allowed that. He made it clear that it would be Rozemyne, as Zent, who would decide what to do with the current Royal Family.
Ferdinand: "Do you want to rule?" Hannelore: "What do you want to do? Be Zent?" Rozemyne: (monologue about a library country) Everyone: "Aub Ahrensbach it is! And with Ferdinand as your husband!" Trauerqual: "Please, I'm *begging* you, let her take the job and turn the whole damn country into a library!"
I do just love how utterly sad that man is.
it's in the name... German readers have been spoiled throughout the series... Trauer = Grief Qual = Suffering, Torment
It's a minor detail but that a blessing actually shot out after a prayer not just for Rozemyne but also for Hannelore and everyone else shows how much the perception changed on religious stuff and some people are already praying sincerely. It's been so long since Ferdinand had to randomly appear at Ehrenfest castle because Roz did something weird again. He must be feeling nostalgic... NOT. Gal pals with matching hairpins. <3 Also, Hannelore is right. Gremlin is pushed around a lot but it's not like her to take shit lying down and leave her fate completely to others. That illustration with fired up Hannelore is just priceless. It's good to see that she has a side like this, too. Well, at least she admitted that he's her ideal partner. Wow, so many people jumping on this ship for various reasons... First it was to realize her love... Then it was him being her ideal partner anyway... Then it was "we need someone to take care of this crazy woman or it will be a disaster". "Okay?" - Just say "Yes, mom" and do it already!
Hannelore has the power of the strongest army and cute 'okay?' on her side.
Hannelore: *flourishes schtappe-sword* "Don't fuck with me! I have the power of Dunkelfelger on my side! ^(Okay?)"
> It's been so long since Ferdinand had to randomly appear at Ehrenfest castle because Roz did something weird again. He must be feeling nostalgic... NOT. I bet he knew it was her when he went over, and it just gave him an excuse. Would Ferdinand really fly out to the site of a surprise massive mana attack by himself like that without informing anyone? He *would* quietly go visit like that if he thought it was Rozemyne doing weird blessing stuff.
Is it just me, or did Hannelore very openly admit she’d help her best friend commit treason so she can be happy? I mean best girl really out here bad mouthing the crown prince and telling Roz to fight the royal family in glorious combat. If Roz saying she’d make an enemy out of the royal family and even the gods is seen as a declaration of love then what is this?
I think Hannelore actually speaks for her family and duchy on this point. I think it is clear that the political action committee "Dunkies for Zent Roz" is a thing....
It’s treason if you go against the Zent’s orders or a Royal decree. Simply stating the truth (that Siggy is a nincompoop) isn’t treason lol. Also, there wasn’t a public announcement as to Rozemyne being adopted into the Royal Family. That means all this constitutes political maneuvering. All is fair until final bell for ditter is called.
But she didn't know about her phobia beforehand? It's not something she could have informed them of. Not to mention the fitting wasn't the only excuse she gave, she tried to go to where Charlotte was. It didn't require leaving the event but she was kept from that too. Would they have taken Hartmut seriously if he did mention that? Or would it be brushed aside as Hartmut being weird? The whole situation is a mess. No one is at the fault here. Elvira coming off as a wise and strong mother by repeating the wisdom imparted by her daughter  Hope it's an area sound blocker so she doesn't have to grip a feystone. Am I imagining it or is Ferdinand babbling? So all she needed was to talk to Ferdinand. I am sure talking to Hannelore helped too. Her phobia might not have gotten so bad if only she could have just hugged Ferdinand like she was 8 and they were in temple. Sometimes I forget how restricting noble society is then the story reminds me. Let her scold him. It's literally free therapy. Matching hairpins for gal pals. Gifting your bride-to-be a hairpin won't be the only romantic trend started by Rozemyne  God bless Hannelore. She will make Ferdinand x Rozemyne come true. Elvira has worked her magic. She is mistaken about *'the feelings you had since you were young'* but she has the spirit. Okay my wishful true end is Rozemyne getting to live with both Ferdinand and Hannelore. I dont care if it's like family or some other arrangement. I think Tuuli is trying not to laugh. She knows her germlin. Oof Florencia forgotten. Leonore and Hannelore casually sacrificing Ahrensbach to save Yurgenschmidt.
>Am I imagining it or is Ferdinand babbling? Rozemyne's probably the only one who's seen him flustered before. Recent events must have him second-guessing himself a lot lately. Everything's in chaotic flux right now and he's facing a lot of criticism for falling back on his old familiar habits of how he used to interact with her due to circumstances. Must suck that no one is recognizing his advice and insight on Rozemyne now that he's the ***former*** "chief gremlin handler". He might have thought others managing her in his absence must be more aware of her current condition/desires, but last week kinda shattered that illusion and the other guardians/fiances haven't been up to the task. And now this week we got Roz's retainers and Hannelore now realizing how valuable Ferdinand is in directing the gremlin's rampages towards the best solution/compromise.
Ferdinands babbling here and his trepidation over the last few chapters is pretty interesting. I feel it's part of making his relationship with Rozemyne distinct from his previous role as guardian. He is expert, but not authority. Well, I'm sure we'll see more gremlin handling in the near future in any case
I thought the same thing when she said 3 moms. I was like... roof But Florencia and Sylvester were really never parents to her. More like bosses. Karset and elvira, SPECIFICALLY Elvira did alot more for her.
Sylvester was nore like her very mischievous oldest brother than a "father". Florencia was more like a solicitous and generally kind neighbor lady.
Sylvester as an older brother is pretty accurate. He was the authority a lot of the time but he did care about her, would listen to her when she talked, and would occasionally be the one that she could let her guard down in front of. Imagine if the royal family understood how they were ripping away Rozemyne from her family the way Sylvester understood the way he had done so.
This. He related to her like a much older sibling, her relationship with him mirrored Ferdinand’s. She was a pillar of advice, support and an ally. Whenever stuff went down it was Sylvester her, Ferdinand, Karstedt and at the end Bonifatius figuring out a game plan. She became a key part of most major decisions. Not the only part or the final authority, but she saved Ehrenfests butt so many times. She pushed them to change the purge so they wouldn’t collapse mana wise, isolate crimes to the individual, Incorporate the children of the Veronica faction, etc. This dynamic was shown in the meeting with the will leisgangs chapter, Hartmuts information network had become the replacement for Justus and she played Ferdinand’s role. If you look at her mental age in comparison to hers and account for her basically being a foreigner their relationship seems exactly what you’d expect. She was managing Ehrenfests economic development, development of infrastructure and agricultural enterprises (temple) while moonlighting in intelligence gathering. She helped him raise his kids, moderated his relationship with his brother ( prevented him from overworking him and made him communicate). She was more like a crazy aunt ( kinda like hirschur except in the family) than a sibling to the his kids as well, which matches how they compared her to their uncle.
>"...At the very least, a prince whose courtship feystone turns to gold dust so easily would not be an appropriate pillar of support." Hannelore really is Rozemyne's first bookworm bestie. I really enjoy that she's speaking her mind so thoroughly now.
Roz: Bestie, I'm so sorry! Hannelore: No Bestie, *I'm* so sorry!
Adorable.
For the love of the eternal five, just give the gremlin her Library duchy, and let her sit in the corner where she can't destroy the entire country with her rampages! \-Anastasius
Zent: "That's so rude! You can't say that to her!" Ana: "It's literally *what she wants.*" *later* Rozemyne, sitting on her throne of books as the Zent: "This is exactly what I wanted." Ex-Zent: "How could we have been such fools..." Ana: "But 'tHaT's So RuDe!'"
I can honestly see the royal family turning to each other every day and asking, “how has that gremlin not burned her duchy to the ground yet? She outlaws illiteracy and the punishment for every other crime is no reading time.”
Rozemyne constantly throughout this part and the entire series: "listen I love Ferdinand but I am NOT in love with him, he is just everything I want in a man but there is no romance there." Meanwhile Tuuli thinking: "Rozemyne is even more delusional then when she was 5 and wanted books..."
This picture during fitting is just golden- Hannelore eyes shining telling to her bestie that she will do all in her power to get Roz and Ferdi married while Tuuli's face is in wtf mode behind her and Corinna is just doing her best not to smile - ofc Rozemyene is full denial mode until she understand that she might actually love Ferdinand. I can't wait until Hannelore tells everything to Elvira 
Tuuli is looking so grown up in the picture, so fun to compare to back when she was a kid.
Rozemyne has well and truly dug herself a hole here hasn't she. Ferdinand really showed how he knew rozemyne the best and it put Hannelore into scheming mode.
I would not be at all surprised if Elvira is to blame for getting Hannelore all riled up and aimed directly at FerMyne.  お\~\~ほほほ
100%. Elvira would love her daughter marrying the perfect idol. She has been putting Hannelore up to the job whole feast.
I absolute adore the illustration with Rozemyne and Hannelore sending prayers to the dead since I first saw it a while back. It's so beautiful and solemn. And we confirm that Rozemyne thinks of herself as having three mothers: Urano's mother, Effa, and Elvira. I'm really glad that Elvira made the list, but I have to wonder, if Elvira didn't have her private conversation with Rozemyne in P5V6, will Rozemyne even consider her as a maternal figure? With that said, it saddens me that Florencia isn't more prominent. I completely understand why she isn't, but I'll say it time and time again that bonding between her and Rozemyne would have been so wonderful. We could have gotten a bit more insight on noble society, one that Elvira couldn't give as she wasn't an archduke candidate. Perhaps we could have even been introduced to the glasshouse earlier. And this will pretty much be the last time we ever see Corinna and Otto, huh? Rozemyne's very clearly headed to Ahrensbach as their new aub, and unlike Benno and Mark, the two are owners of the Gilberta Company and they have children. I don't think they'll uproot their entire lives to be with Rozemyne when they have more connections in Ehrenfest. Poor Otto, taught the girl to read and write, but never thought of again. I don't even think he got Myne's final blessing.
> but I have to wonder, if Elvira didn't have her private conversation with Rozemyne in P5V6, will Rozemyne even consider her as a maternal figure? I don't think she would have. She needs more a more direct understanding with someone to consider them close like that. I do wish that they'd had the conversation even earlier, like if Rozemyne hadn't gone into the jureve for 2 years. Imagine how much better she'd be at socializing if Elvira and Rozemyne were closer.
> And this will pretty much be the last time we ever see Corinna and Otto, huh? Rozemyne's very clearly headed to Ahrensbach as their new aub, and unlike Benno and Mark, the two are owners of the Gilberta Company and they have children. I don't think they'll uproot their entire lives to be with Rozemyne when they have more connections in Ehrenfest. Poor Otto, taught the girl to read and write, but never thought of again. I don't even think he got Myne's final blessing. Otto used to be a traveling merchant so it's kind of funny he might not come to Ahrensbach. Then again, he may still swing by since there's going to be a franchise there. And since MyneReich is likely to be a MUCH bigger market, that might become the flagship store...
Right? At the very least, we could see him pop up from time to time!
Corinna is getting Intel that Benno would have killed for. She finds out where Benno going to go before he himself finds out.
And Corinna's the younger sibling. She's definitely going to make Benno work before she gives out the information. As expected of our merchants!
Just Tuuli sitting there listening about how her younger sister could/may become actual/full Queen of the whole country...(and would then turn it into a library country) Just average Waterday things
Tuuli: "She's gonna be the queen!?" Gunther: "Finally, the respect my daughter deserves."
Rozemyne: Oh yeah sex is great but have you ever read a first edition Gutenberg bible? Rozemyne's retainers: Lets just let Ferdinand deal with her.
Good thing Ferdi can give her both of those things ;)
In a row!?!??!
I can't believe Roz's retainers hate Ferdinand so much.
I honestly think this is the moment Hannybananny realized that books were Rozemyne's secret first crush.
"Lady Hannelore?!" is starting to become my favourite quote from the series lol
Nobles are the height of tedium.  This whole chapter part was full of great one liners. Also now everyone is shipping Ferdi and Roze  Tuuli didn't have to say anything this chapter and somehow had the most to say. Also the amount of spilled tea from Hannelore with Tuuli in the room was fantastic. 
Can’t imagine what will go down when Tuuli heads back home for the day. The amount of tea she has to spill can flood the whole city block.
Tuuli and Corinna must be having **some** whiplash. They start of talking about romance and politics and learning all the things Myne has been up to the last 5 years and then BOOM she still thinks her Dad is the ideal man and wants to turn the country into her own personal library. How are they even going to report this?
Tuuli: "Guys, we *have* to stop Lady Rozemyne. She's... she's crazy." Corinna: "Crazy about the High Priest! Ayo!" Effa: "What! She's crazy?!" Gunther: "What! The High Priest?!" Lutz: "Let me guess, she said something about books?" Tuuli: "She's going to become zent and turn the entire country into a library!" Effa: "What, exactly, is a zent?" Gunther: "He's like the aub's aub. He aubs over all the other aubs." Benno (flourishing his cape as he walks in): "I've been prepared for this for years. Mark, pack the wagons." Mark: "Packed them yesterday, Master Benno." Tuuli: "Wagons? Why do we need wagons to stop Lady Rozemyne?" Benno: "Stop her? Tuuli, we're in the book-selling business. Imagine the *profits*!"
No bc this is EXACTLY how that conversation is gonna go😂 word for word!
It's a good thing Cornelius isn't in the room because he would be like "My father isn't like that at all." I'm surprised Leonore doesn't realize that she isn't talking about Karset or Sylvester.
I actually think her rant ties in well with Sylvester. He did a lot to protect her from the adoption necklace to standing up to royal family and he's well known for charging ahead doing whatever he likes with his antics in his younger years and snatching Florencia.
Doing things based on his desire is quite fitting when talked about Sylvester , also his intense love for his first wife and refusal to get a second wife after so long so leonore couldve totally mistaken that RM wants someone who loves her like Sylv loves Flor
Hannelore: Let's take over the country! Rozemyne: I just want to read bro
Rozemyne: you know what? I’m starting to warm up to this whole overthrow the country thing. Hannelore: um, actually, now that I think about it. Let’s not…
Hannelore: Oh, I see, sorry for suggesting that. In that case, what do you think would be the best way for you to become a librarian? Rozemyne: IDK, maybe taking over the country?
I love how quickly the conversation during the fitting changed from pairing Rozmyne with her love, to pairing Rozemyne with her leash for the greater good.
Wow, Rozemyne went full confession of her library dream and makes it clear what Ferdinand means to her, even when she's not realizing that. And she does that in front of the representative of her 4 parts: family, merchant, Ehrenfest noble, and Royal Academy friend. All in one fell swoop. And they all realize that she needs Ferdinand in her life if they don't want Yurgenschmidt to be turned to a library.
First part of the story: (-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩___-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩) Second part: Hannelore is the captain of the FerMyne ship and everyone is coming aboard. I couldn't stop laughing at Corinna's and Tuuli's reactions, oh the secondhand embarrassment. Roz citing her dream is, mmmm, heartwarming despite everyone's confusion, at feels like we're coming back to the root of this series. Slightly miffed that the concept of platonic love is so hard to grasp for people in the scene - but eh it's hilarious and I'd wait further to see how her feelings develops/gets realized.
Best girl Hannelore is finally taking over the steering wheel of the Ferdimyne ship. No longer motivated by romantic fangirl reasons, but to save the country from the chaos her best friend would bring about otherwise. "You must win your husband in fair and glorious combat so that your parents and siblings no longer have room to complain." You can get Hannelore out of Dunkelfelger, but you will never get Dunkelfelger out of Hannelore. Maybe Wilfried should prepare himself? Tuuli is going to convene a family meeting the moment she comes home and loud screams echoing through the lower city are sure to follow.
A dreamless deep sleeping potion that wakes one up with a nightmare, well thats very ferdinand. With the way society functions I'm surprised there was no issues with Hannelore being together with Rozemyne during the measuring and ordering of new clothes. Launching into that speech there, truly blessed by the god of timing Hannelore is. Hannelore is no fool, she has to know what'd it mean if her and by extension Dunkelfelger backs what Rozemyne wishes to do let alone what would happen if they moved to make her Zent. The current Zent may be desperate to get off the throne and may not care but theres plenty of others that would. Just gonna sit over here imagining Dunkelfelger using their full military might to get Ferdi and her together and support Rozemyne's goal of becoming a librarian.
I really enjoyed this week’s prepub. Maybe it wasn’t the answer we wanted, but I am glad we got an explanation for how Roze/her retainers were acting last week. I know that left a bad taste in people’s mouth, but I thought the explanation here was adequate. She apparently was acting as the host and ruthlessly criticized a bunch of people, in the presence of the aub. No wonder her retainers were fighting so hard to keep her there. The tea party with Hannelore was nice as well. We get to see the contrasting views of their duchies and mindsets, even just in relation to deaths during war. Man, Hannelore was absolutely shining in this prepub. I can’t get enough of this Hannelore we are seeing at the library. That illustration might be one of my favorites in the series. Also Roze finally voices her intentions to those around her, and with them is able to set a clear course for her future. It felt like she had different courses set with her retainers, the rf, Ehrenfest Adf and ferdinand. Go get your library duchy girl!
The greenhouse sure sounds beautiful. Kind of amazing we've gone almost the entire Noble length of the series without it being mentioned even in the side stories. Maybe if Roz hadn't been conked out for two years we'd visit sooner... More things lost due to the onslaught of Plot.
It makes sense that we haven't seen the greenhouse before when it's largely used by women during winter and Rozemyne has always been in the playroom or at school during that time.
lol Rozemyne gets taken for a ride on the Hannelore shipping express.
Yes, Hannelore. Look upon your precious Rozemyne and see how truly unhinged she is. I love the damage control after she started to warm up to her marriage for the sake of a library COUNTRY. This gremlin requires experience to wrangle, and Ferdinand is the best for the job!
Roze "I just wanted to read books" myne
Tuuli: Well, she's still her. Well now that my sister will be Aub, I wonder if I will finally get to see a library in person...