Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Commmittee Volume 2 by Miya Kazuki

Author:Miya Kazuki [Kazuki, Miya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

“Milady’s here.”

“Milady. Welcome.”

Upon entering the library’s reading room, Schwartz and Weiss came out from behind the work counter, their ears wobbling slightly as they walked. Their voices alerted Solange, who poked her head out from the office with wide eyes.

“Oh my! Lady Rozemyne?!” she exclaimed.

“Professor Solange. Schwartz. Weiss. Good morning to you all.”

Schwartz and Weiss closed their eyes upon reaching me, telling me they had worked hard and that they wanted praise. I stroked their foreheads, pouring some mana into their feystones while Solange also started making her way over.

“Good morning to you too, Lady Rozemyne. Were you not forbidden from coming here until after you passed all your classes?” she asked.

“I finished them all just yesterday. I worked my hardest for the sake of the library and its books,” I explained proudly. Solange gave me a disbelieving stare before looking over at Rihyarda and Philine for confirmation. When they nodded, she cooed in admiration.

“To think you would pass even your practical lessons so quickly... I am stunned by your excellent academic performance. Perhaps it was only natural that you would have the qualities necessary to become the master of Schwartz and Weiss.”

The fact that classes were currently being held meant there was nobody else in the library, so I could read at my leisure. I gazed around the reading room with a broad grin on my face until my eyes rested on the wide staircase to my left. “I’ve been looking forward to seeing the second floor ever since my first visit...”

“We’ll take you.”

“Second floor, milady.”

Happy to have work to do, Schwartz and Weiss began leading the way, their cute little heads bobbing from side to side. The stairs were made of the same ivory material as the rest of the building and were wide enough that five adults could climb them side by side.

“How many books are there in the library?” I asked.

“If you include the old documents moved to the storage area for preservation, I would say about thirty to forty thousand,” Solange answered. Schwartz and Weiss bobbed their heads a little more eagerly, seeming to be nodding.

“Most on the first floor. Like twenty thousand.”

“Because classes. Everyone reads them.”

“Yes, as they say, the majority of our books are stored on the first floor as study resources,” Solange explained. “The documents for each subject are preserved, and as Schwartz said, there are about twenty thousand in total.”

Among those twenty thousand, one could find anything from simple wooden boards to books that were actually bound and made with parchment. The bound ones were written by individuals and then given to the library, and they often covered several different subjects.

“How do you sort the books that aren’t limited to a single subject?” I asked.

“The same way we sort all our other books...” Solange replied. “We record who they were written by and then put them with the rest. Though it is somewhat rare for such skilled students to give their books to the library.”

“It must be hard to categorize them in any other way.

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