Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 6 Part 1
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 6 Part 1
The Archduke Conference has come to an end, but Ehrenfest’s archducal family is still reeling from the troubles it brought. Rozemyne has one year before she must depart for the Sovereignty, and those in her service have an important choice to make.
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Of course Barthold is the one keeping Oswald in the loop. This guy.
Flo bringing up embroidery again? These noblewomen...can't they see Roz is busy with a bunch of other important stuff? Though it'd be funny if later in the story Sigi mocks Roz for not being able to embroider, and that's when she finally snaps and crushes him.
Flo gets some flak for not properly educating Roz, but here we see that she wanted to, but it was de-prioritized in favor of Roz's other endeavors. Also reiterating her misunderstanding about Elvira going to the temple...I wonder if that will become a plot point.
Sylvester going to Ahrensbach alone makes me apprehensive. Also this talk of "if I die first Boni's here." Maybe you should stay home and let Ferdinand cover for you.
Wilfried...semi-redeemed? He wasn't really scheming or up to no good, just dissatisfied with his situation. Seems like he's still a good kid at heart.
There is one caveat to Florencia's failed attempts to educate Rozemyne though: She laments that she couldn't invite Rozemyne due to her being so rarely at the castle... but does that really matter? Between Ordonnanzes they can communicate at any time and with her highbeast, Rozemyne can hop between the temple and castle in a manner of minutes, so her being at the temple should not be a hurdle to inviding her for dinner or the occasional tea party.
Even when prioritizing Rozemyne's temple work, surely there would have been time to meet once a week or something.
I feel like Florencia is a bit too stuck in the traditional noble thiking and a bit slow and inflexible in her adaptation to the new situation.
I don't think Sylvester is in danger at the funeral. Getting him there, would be far too obvious and risky for Georgine.
Not to mention she doesn't just want to kill him, but also take over Ehrenfest. Assassinating him, while he's in Ahrensbach or in transit to or from the funeral, would likely put her further away from ever gaining Ehrenfest's foundation, since it would put Bonifatius in charge and give him very good reasons to take steps against any possible incursion... like moving the entrance of the foundation for example, which would completely foil any chance Georgine has to rule Ehrenfest in her lifetime. If she's going to strike, it will only be when she's in a position to also take the Foundation at the same time as she gets rid of Sylvester. I doubt even she is able to put in replacements for the groundwork that the purge smashes in such short order.
I fully expect her to try to undermine Sylvester's position and further ruin his reputation in front of everyone attending the funeral in any and all ways she can, but I don't think his life is in any immediate danger.
To be fair to Florencia, embroidery is one of the ways noblewomen defend themselves. They embroider their husband’s capes true, but also their own. We know Roz just brews charms for herself and her loved ones if needed but that’s a Ferdinand approach, a typical noble women would embroider magic circles, so it is quite important.
Tbh after the archive I doubt he as any expectations from her aside gbook, mana, and temple stuff after getting burned on the coals.
Side note aren’t first wives manly responsible for embroidery?
If I had to take a guess, I'd say it's the first wife's place to embroider the husband's cape, and with how mana mixing works, I doubt they'd make it a team effort. But I'm sure there are other things than the cape, that the other wives can work on. Also you never know when the first wife might suffer an unfotunate, untimely death... or find a way to make the divorce she's so desperately praying for happen, so it can't hurt to have the necessary skills of a first wife, just in case.
Good explanation 👍
On the bright side Siggy won't have to deal with that problem with mana and Gbook crisis looming.
Still it would be funny for Siggy to convince Roz for reasons to embroider and Roz finding excuses/work arounds (like mana dyeing).