Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Commmittee Volume 1 by Miya Kazuki

Author:Miya Kazuki [Kazuki, Miya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

“Rozemyne, what do you think about your personal chef and musician being sent to the Royal Academy with you?” Sylvester asked one day at dinner.

At the Royal Academy, students lived in dormitories that were separated into duchies. The musicians who worked in each dormitory were selected from the personnel of five high-status nobles, while five chefs and their servants were chosen from the castle’s kitchens.

As Wilfried and I were the highest-status nobles in our dormitory, being archduke candidates and all, our personal musicians were naturally to be included. Ella and Hugo, however, weren’t castle chefs—they were my personnel who followed me wherever I went, so it seemed Sylvester wanted to get my permission before sending them off.

“You were planning to send them back to the temple while you’re at the Royal Academy, correct? That’d be a waste. We should use their skills as much as possible.”

“I don’t mind taking them along with me—after all, I’d prefer being able to eat food I’m familiar with. To be clear though, we won’t be teaching the chefs that come with them any new recipes.” I didn’t mind Hugo and Ella sharing the original recipes they had made while I was asleep, but my personal ones were business secrets that I couldn’t share without first receiving payment.

Sylvester nodded sadly, having clearly been at least a little hopeful about obtaining new recipes. “No helping that. Still, if possible, I want you to debut the recipes I bought from you at tea parties and archduke candidate gatherings.”

“Did you not want to keep those a secret?” I asked, remembering his strict orders to keep my study materials, picture books, and recipes hidden from other duchies. Perhaps this was him lifting the ban.

Sylvester deliberately crossed his arms. “Everything you make carries with it enormous influence, so I thought it best to keep them a secret until you entered the Royal Academy. You are due to spend the next five years there as an archduke candidate, and I want to use this opportunity to boost Ehrenfest’s influence as much as possible,” he said, wearing the serious expression of an archduke. I couldn’t tell exactly what future he was envisioning here, but given our current relationship with Ahrensbach, I could imagine we would want as much power as we could get.

“From what Ferdinand has said, you want me to raise everyone’s grades in the Royal Academy, I believe?”

“That’s right.”

“What’s my budget for accomplishing this?” I asked. “If you genuinely want to raise the entire duchy’s grades, there are several plans I could execute, though they are much too expensive for me and the other students to finance ourselves. My options will change depending on how much the duchy is willing to dedicate toward this.”

Money was necessary for doing pretty much anything, and then we had to consider time as well. Had I woken up just a year earlier, there was a lot more I could have done to prepare for this.

“I am leaving for the Royal Academy so soon that there is not much I can do right now.

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