Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 8] by Miya Kazuki

Author:Miya Kazuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Lunch Meeting

Lasfam returned to the estate by carriage and announced that we were to take lunch in the castle. Lieseleta had already known—she had received advance notice via an ordonnanz—so the seamstresses had already taken their leave, and everything was ready for our departure. Hannelore and I climbed into our carriage with our respective guard knights.

“So, how should we convince Lord Ferdinand to agree to this political marriage?” Hannelore asked with a straight face. “My knowledge of the man comes entirely from the tales Heisshitze and the others have told me, so no ideas come to mind. Would demanding some proposal challenges from Lord Ferdinand and completing them not work?”

The last thing I wanted was to go all Clarissa on Ferdinand. I doubted that such an approach would even work on him; he would surely smirk and refuse to give me any challenges at all. Rather than try to bully him into a marriage he would never, ever want, I was resolved to secure him a laboratory in Ehrenfest, his Geduldh.

I’ll need to consult him about it before these loons descend on him.

If anyone was going to take action, it was going to be at lunch, when the archducal couple was expected to be in attendance. I needed to leak Hannelore’s scheme to Ferdinand and then work with him to devise unbeatable countermeasures; otherwise, he was going to be pushed into a second political marriage by the same people who had brought about his first. Hannelore must already have forgotten my remark that she and her duchy should stay in their lane.

But fear not, Ferdinand! You can count on me to fight your corner!

“Leonore, send word to Ferdinand,” I said. “I wish to speak with him before lunch.” It was a request one would normally make of one’s attendants, but for reasons of status, Lieseleta wasn’t with me.

“As you will,” Leonore replied. “But is this not too sudden?”

“If you tell him the circumstances are dire, I am sure he will make time for me.”

As much as he frowned and shook his head about it, Ferdinand always made time to listen to whatever was bothering me and help me work through it. This particular disaster risked changing both of our lives, so I doubted he would mind me sharing this intelligence with him.

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