Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 6] by Miya Kazuki

Author:Miya Kazuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Late-Night Tea Party

Gretia went to the greenhouse ahead of us to prepare some tea. The building was used quite regularly during the blizzard-heavy winter when everyone gathered to socialize. My retainers had advised me to leave later than I normally would to account for the time Hannelore would need to get changed.

“Let us go, Lady Rozemyne,” Damuel said as I exited my room. He and Judithe were going to be guarding me. “Are you not going to use your highbeast?”

I reached down to grab my feystone, as I normally would... then stopped.

“Is something the matter?” Judithe asked, looking at me curiously. Her eyes widened when I explained the phobia I’d developed since the battle.

“Please inform your attendants when you are in such a state,” Damuel said with a grim frown. “Lieseleta expressed her concern earlier when she saw you drop an ordonnanz feystone. Leaving her to guess the cause was entirely unreasonable.”

“Damuel! We weren’t going to tell her yet, remember?! What happened to letting her get a good night’s rest?!”

“There is a clear distinction between someone who simply needs to rest and someone in an abnormal state of mind who requires special attention. If we want our lady to tell us these things, we should make that clear to her, should we not?”

My knights were in an argument of some kind. From what I could gather, they’d intended to delay a report meant for me, but Damuel thought it was best for me to hear it now.

“Please tell me, Damuel,” I said. I was traveling to the greenhouse on foot, since I was too afraid to form my highbeast; we weren’t going to arrive anytime soon.

“Although you did so upon Lord Ferdinand's prompting, the fact is that you were the one to invite Lord Bonifatius to share his tales of heroics. Are you aware that this made you the host of the table?”

I was not.

In my eyes, I’d simply taken advantage of the feast to contain Bonifatius’s rampage. The others had appreciated my actions at the time, but reporting to the archduke should have come first. Bonifatius’s attendants and my own had colluded and, out of sheer desperation, invited Sylvester to sit with us, thereby allowing a facsimile of order to be maintained even as Bonifatius gave his report first.

“Lord Bonifatius regaled us all with his tales of the conflict,” Damuel said. “Then, after an evening spent in silence, the aub finally spoke about his own battle. To all those observing the conversation, things were proceeding as smoothly as one could hope—until you interrupted the aub, rose from your seat, and started rambling about your fitting.”

My sudden anxiety attack had made me want to get as far away from Georgine’s feystone as possible, but the others at the feast hadn’t known that. As far as they were concerned, I’d randomly stood up and tried to leave, not even bothering to signal my attendants or give those sitting with me the courtesy of a farewell. I’d seemed so upset about my

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