Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore’s Fifth Year at the Royal Academy Volume 1 by Miya Kazuki

Author:Miya Kazuki [KAZUKI, MIYA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

Having eaten my food, I sipped my tea and racked my brain for ideas.

Before anything else, I must pin Lord Wilfried down and obtain my challenges!

My next step was clear, but how was I to manage it? My target was a boy—even if his future of becoming an archduke had changed, he had still surely received the appropriate education and training. My chances of defeating him in combat felt slim to none.

Not to mention, he protected his Noble’s Quarter during true ditter.

I could remember Lord Wilfried celebrating that fact during my visit to Ehrenfest. Coupled with the wartime victories Lord Ferdinand and Lady Rozemyne had secured—even in the face of their shortcomings—I could say without a doubt that Ehrenfest’s archduke candidates were abnormally strong. I would need to go all out to even stand a chance of pinning Lord Wilfried down. Unless I could succeed against Ehrenfest’s archduke candidates and their wiles, I would not even obtain the proposal challenges I so desired.

Am I really capable of doing this...?

So daunting was the task ahead that I almost wanted to cry. I would need to pick the best time and place to make my move, and work out any other techniques that would maximize my chances of victory.

Retainers will prove my main obstacles, without a doubt.

It was hard to imagine securing conditions from an archduke candidate constantly surrounded by his retinue. Were I to even attempt to grab Lord Wilfried, his retainers—and mine—would move to obstruct me. Overcoming them all was as good as impossible. How had those before me won against the odds?

The only archduke candidate I can think of who managed it was Lady Magdalena. But how?

She had been a member of Dunkelfelger at the time of her proposal, whereas Lord Trauerqual had been a prince. And she had cornered him in the midst of the civil war, when his knights would have been on high alert. The fact she had succeeded made my head spin.

If I can find out how she did it, I might have a chance as well.

“Lady Hannelore, it would appear your cup is empty. Shall we head back to your room?”

“Indeed...” I said at length, returning to the world around me. I set my empty cup on the table and rose to my feet.

“Um, Lady Hannelore...” one of my retainers muttered, “you look ready to march to war.”

“Is that so?”

I forced a look of complete detachment from the thoughts running rampant in my mind. It would not be wise to put my retainers on their guard. At the very least, I could not tell them of my intentions until I knew how Lord Wilfried felt about me.

This would be so much easier if I could trust them to cooperate.

My actions during bride-stealing ditter had thrust me into a deeply uncomfortable position—and of course, my retainers had needed to carry that burden with me. Many of them were still furious with Lord Wilfried for the damage that had come to my reputation. I could hardly

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