Ascendance of a Bookworm - Chapter 181
Star Knot Rite Lower Town Edition
I spent until the ritual of the star knot, without leaving the temple. Remember the ritual prayer complaint, ask Nicolas to report on the progress of the natural yeast, discuss and summarize with Lutz and Benno the reports and budget proposals for the menus and lords to be served to dinner parties in the hidden room of the orphan dean’s office.
Benno and Lutz are still here today from the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce, and we discussed it in a hidden room.
“I’m going to the aristocratic city in a star knot ritual, so I’ll ask my adoptive father about the day and time.”
“Oh, please”
Before the dinner party, roughly what needs to be done is done. Though a little less lively in Benno’s eyes, he’s going to get some rest until the dinner party. “Is this it? You’ve got it figured out,” Beno exhaled loudly, fingering between his eyebrows.
“… Hey, Lutz, what do you do for a star festival?
“I’m going to be with you last year, though?… if you’ll let me grab lunch at the orphanage.”
If I could just prepare Lutz’s minute lunch and have him eat with me in the orphanage dining room, I could arrange it. But how can I get this Benno to take care of the orphanage in the midst of his busyness that he’s about to die of overwork?
“Aren’t you busy? Are you okay?”
“Now we’re done with what we really have to do, and there’s no way we can rest at home on a festival day, is there? The orphanage is still more relaxing. The rice is good…”
The Star Festival is a festival that unites the city. Except for the bride and groom and their families, they go to pick up the fruit of tau at the same time as opening the gate, and after throwing it all over, they are busy preparing meals to be served in the square and evening festivals. Just because a married person is not in the family, it is not an environment where you can relax at home without my involvement. They kick me out and drive me out to help.
“Don’t actually throw all of Tau’s fruit, just leave it for a little while”
“I know.”
Even though Ni laughed Lutz is no different from before, the family I want to meet doesn’t show a tiny face.
In the name of asking me to take care of the orphanage children, I wanted to meet them face-to-face, but they declined to have plans for Star Festival Day. You said you’d show your face to the orphanage, but Touri hasn’t even been here yet.
“… Touri, you’re not coming”
When I was zero, Benno laughed with his nose “naturally.”
“Touri’s busy right now. I study sewing in the name of working in a workshop contracted by Dalua and helping Corinna on holidays”
“Huh?”
“Corinna says he’s absorbing technology with great momentum and greed…. being a first-rate needle is the last promise, isn’t it?
Benno’s mouth was told of Tulli’s hard work, which he could not read from the letter, and the back of his eyes was getting hot. It seems that Touri is desperate and striving to keep his promise to me.
“Uncle Gunter’s in trouble too.”
“Really?
“By letting in extra nobility, the Knights’ investigation and not communicating important matters, the East Gate sergeant was punished.”
Testimony was obtained from the captains of the respective gates that his father had communicated information to the captains of each gate that “because of the absence of the lord, no permit would be issued in the future”. In addition, the information is properly conveyed to the gatekeeper at gates other than the East Gate.
The East Gate was the most crowded and the most vigilant gateway, and the Chief of Staff failed to communicate, even though he had received the most information. Apparently this was judged to be a serious malfunction.
And the loss of his daughter, the good fight to capture the nobility who entered the city, etc. were taken into account, and his father was promoted, as he filled the cadet’s hole. He said he became the chief of the East Gate.
“More hours at work, too busy to have dinner with my family properly,… during this time, I was crying”
“… in my eyes.”
Can’t we all come because we’re too busy? Lutz slapped me on the head lightly as I sighed that I had no choice but to work.
“Don’t be too depressed. You’re the one who’s planning the Tulli Star Festival Day.”
“To?”
When I rounded my eyes to Rutz’s unexpected words, Rutz glanced lightly over his shoulder.
“They’re going to meet the bride and groom’s family and wait for the door to open in the temple’s front yard. You’re at the altar when the bride and groom leave, aren’t you?
“If you were acting with the orphanage kids, you wouldn’t see your first temple head,” Rutz said to Thuri. Just for a moment, just to take a look, we’re going to have a whole family waiting in front of the door, Rutz says.
“Why don’t you show him?
“… Ugh, I’ll remember to pray and complain one more time by the production”
I think I need a little more temper. I don’t know what to say, it’s similar to feeling nervous about my first class visit. I want to show you a good place because you’re coming to see me. But what if I fail, like.
Break up with Benno and Lutz, who put a cut off fullness on their exhausted and naughty faces, and return from the hidden room to the temple chief’s private room.
I said Rutz would act with me, so I also have to discuss with Vilma how the orphanage kids spend the day of the star festival.
“We’re going to the orphanage. Accompany.”
“Let me accompany you, Master Rosemaine”
Monica smiles at me all the time, looking so happy to see Vilma that I can’t help it.
“Fran can do his job. I’m just gonna talk to Vilma about the kids at the star festival.”
And I lift up my gaze, and behold Fran. Fran nodded lightly, talking to the Zam who had been dispatched by the clergyman.
“I’m afraid so. Regards, Monica and Lady Rosemayne. Welcome.”
“Welcome, Master Rosemaine”
I left the room with Monica as she and Fran also crossed arms and knelt down on the spot to drop me off. The escort knight follows us both, of course.
Here recently, the chief cleric has sent me a side service called Thurm, and Fran and I have been working on the temple chief relationship.
It seems that Zahm was the Lord in his interactions with the former Temple Chief, among the side services of the Chief Cleric. He was a less impressive person to me because he always had Arnault, but apparently, from now on, he will be the liaison between me and the chief cleric, for whom Zahm is the head of the temple, not Arnault.
I feel that Arnault followed the Cleric Chief even when the former Temple Chief was involved, but I don’t know the details of what allocation the Clerical Chief’s sidelines were working with.
However, I think it might have been good for Fran because Fran, who was somewhat in the mood of talking to his boss when he was talking to Arnault, is dealing with Zahm with his coworkers with the kind of anxiety he feels.
“Vilma, Lady Rosemayne is here”
I opened the door to the orphanage and spoke to Vilma, where Monica was waiting.
“Thank you for taking the time to get to my feet. I know. Didn’t the Chief Cleric say anything about the temple taking his own feet?
Vilma asks me worried. Unlike when he was an orphan dean, he couldn’t think of a temple dean going into or out of an orphanage.
“I am the head of the temple, so do as I will. Unless you’re safe or embarrassed to be a lady, the Chief Cleric is not forbidden.”
When I tried to involve the clergyman in a plan to create an orphanage and workshop in a spare town, he said, “Accomplish your virgin deeds,” so there’s no way the clergyman would complain about going to the orphanage.
“So, we’re talking about Star Knot Ritual Day…”
Originally, the Blue Cleric is supposed to take all sides of his service to the aristocratic district. This seems to be a circumstance where there is no one to take care of me even when I go to my parents’ house, so I have to take them home myself.
The chief cleric said he had his own mansion in the aristocratic district, and he has flanking service there too, so he doesn’t have to take them home, but he’s taking them home once and for all to take them home.
“It’s just that I’m the adopted daughter of a lord, so they can’t let those without permission into the castle beforehand, and all the side services will be left in the temple. Although I will only take Rosina, a musician.”
Dedicated musicians are an absolute necessity for a feast. Only Rosina goes to the castle with me. Ella, an exclusive cook, can also be taken to the castle if she wants to, but she just struggles to throw herself into the kitchen, which is in a state of war before the grand ceremony.
Having also heard the hope of the person, this accompaniment was to be taken together, at a later date, when I was to dwell in the castle of the lord.
“So I’m offering Ella and Nicola to prepare an orphanage meal. Then I sent out a circular to the other blue clerics to make sure the meal was in order.”
The Blue Cleric pays off, so on the day of the Star Knot ritual, the orphanage seemed to skip dinner every year, but the Blue Cleric doesn’t take the cook. Because there are cooks in noble houses, they don’t need cooks, unlike side service.
This year, by order of the Temple Chief, I decided to let the blue clerics, who said they were not in the temple but did not need to make a meal, do the meal support.
Instead, in a star knotting ritual, he changed the distribution of the blessing brought by the bride and groom to be married and their families to last year. The former temple chief seemed to have stuck around a long time, taking half by himself and distributing as many portions as the hipster wipes were convenient for him.
I thought it would be good to have a headache, but because of pre-construction and future generations, not all of us could be equal, and the temple and the clergyman decided to divide one quarter at a time and the other half with blue clerics.
Except for the waist wipes of the former temple chief, he raised his hands and endorsed them, and the waist wipes stood out and didn’t complain just because they looked dissatisfied.
“So you don’t have to worry about eating this year. Thank you very much. I know, Master Rosemaine.”
“Then, on that day, Lutz is supposed to take me to the woods, just like last year. Make sure Lutz’s lunch can be held together in this dining room. The way we spent it is the same as last year, so there won’t be so much confusion. Watch carefully to make sure the orphans don’t bother the lower town.”
“Yes, sir.”
After grinning and laughing nicely at Vilma, I turn my gaze around the dining room.
“… Delia would like to take a nap with Dirk.”
“How are you two doing?
Dirk also received reports of the light of blessing flying from Monica and Nicolas, who convened him to serve. He seemed to have been healed, so he was horrified, but Vilma also reported that Delia was unfamiliar with his surroundings and that it was difficult.
“We’re both fine. Neither Delia nor I have fallen by herself surrounding the care of Dilk, and I have remembered to ask for her surroundings, and since Dilk’s life is starting to feel the same as ours, we seem to have been able to afford it. Dilk started crawling recently, so it’s hard to clean and chase, too! and angry, chasing Dilk around.”
“Yes, that would be nice”
When his temper disappeared and he exhaled in relief, Vilma was looking at me with the Virgin’s smile.
“Dear Rosemaine, I am so glad to serve you”
“Vilma, what’s wrong? All of a sudden, that’s…”
“In that year, I know it’s hard to take up the duties of the Temple Chief, but I’m sure, I’m sure we can accomplish it”
The backlight seemed to be shining from Vilma, who narrowed his eyes and stared gently at me. Here, it could be a light of blessing, not a hindlight. I feel blessed, even though I have no magic.
Vilma, Seriously Virgin. Too divine.
And the morning the star knot ritual takes place. I was woken up early in the morning by Monica, and I took a simple meal.
“Dear Rosemaine, I’m going to the orphanage”
“Gil, best wishes to the children”
When Gil left, 2 bells rang a little.
I let Rutz and Gill bathe in the water, wondering if it was time for them to go to the woods. Originally, it seems to be a clean, water bath, but if I take a water bath or something, I immediately heat it up and it is no longer a ritual place.
When you clean your body, put it on.
“No, you can’t. So you can wrinkle here, right?
It seems that the musician Rosina should not encroach on her side-serving duties, but for the two freshly side-serviced, it is still difficult to wear ceremonial clothes beautifully after some practice.
“Here’s the thing… here’s the thing?
“Yeah, you look beautiful.”
It takes time because Rosina is wearing it while teaching you how to wear it beautifully. It’s the first ritual I’ve ever been in public as a temple chief, but I can’t leave with proper clothing.
… Delia, who was able to dress for the ritual from the beginning, seemed surprisingly amazing, although it was partly due to her side service with the temple chief.
Dressed in a temple length costume by two of Rosina’s mentors, Monica and Nicola, the fabric taski woven in black and gold is diagonally placed from her right shoulder and fastened with a brooch. The belt decorations are also black and gold, so I can see at a glance that the ritual of star knot is a ritual that obtains blessings from the supreme god’s couple gods.
My mother has given me a pommerd-like hair conditioner so that my hair can be done on the side as well. Apparently the daughter of a senior aristocrat shouldn’t get her own hair done.
Applying a haircut to the hair for ease of finishing, Rosina ties it with a string knitted in gold and black as she teaches the two of them how to tie it intricately. Then, a beautifully looking angle is inserted there while verifying it over and over again. Today’s violin is the same as it was at the baptism ceremony.
The finish was just before the 3 bells rang.
“Chief Temple, move to the chapel and stand by.”
“Lady Rosemaine, let’s come.”
It is always Fran who follows me when I am called “Temple Chief” by a gray cleric but still does not come to the pin and my reaction is slightly delayed.
Drawn by Fran, I walk careful not to step on the hem of my costume. It’s usually at the girdle, woven like a pussy and adjusted to knee length, but today, just like an adult woman, it’s the length at which her feet hide completely.
Coming from behind me is Monica with a large scripture for the temple chief in her chest. Nicola is going to help Ella prepare lunch.
“Temple Chief, come in.”
With the voice of the chief cleric, the door is opened by the gray clerics. A blue cleric lined up in front of the altar waved the stick in his hand, sounding like a lot of bells rang through the prayer room.
Through it I receive a large and heavy scripture from Monica, slowly advancing my feet.
Blue clerics on the right and dozens of brides and grooms lined up sloppily on the left.
Both the bride and groom wore precious colored sunshine from each birth season. Leaning close to each other seems to be a familiar romantic marriage in which the two families have known each other since an early age in the neighborhood, and standing faceless in line are those who have been decided to marry in relation to the house. If they suck, some couples may be face-to-face for the first time.
Except now everyone was looking at me and changing their expression. He’s pampering his mouth, looking at each other and whispering to other couples.
It would have been a fuss if we hadn’t used magic equipment that didn’t sound like we did at the baptism ceremony when it was Mine.
When we arrive in front of the altar, we give the scripture to the chief cleric. Then the chief clergyman puts the scriptures on the altar.
With my arms lightened, I exhaled howly and lifted my feet up the stairs. Keep stepping on the costume with one step. The pin and fabric tension showed that I had stepped on it. If you try to keep going up like this, you will definitely fall.
It’s strange to go back, I know I’m going to fall and it’s stupid to go in, and what am I going to do, when I’m solidified, the chief cleric hugged me all the way up and put me down on the stage. A cold smile says “you fool”. Yes, I’m sorry.
“It is Lady Rosemaine, who is the daughter of the Lord, who has newly assumed the position of Temple Chief”
The bride and groom’s face solidified in an introduction from the clergyman. Anyone would be surprised if the person who was hissing was introduced to the lord’s daughter.
In the meantime, with the good voice of the Chief Cleric, he begins to utter words of celebration and to tell myths. Talk about the marriage of the Supreme God, the Dark God, and the Goddess of Light, where various problems still arise after marriage, but where the two join forces to get over it, becomes the story of a star knot ritual.
By the way, unlike the former temple chief, the clergyman recites rather than reads the scriptures.
It was originally the work of the temple chief to talk about mythology, but since my voice was young and small and when I read it out for a long time, I ran out of breath, the clergyman was to speak on his behalf.
All I do is make you offer prayer and gratitude to God and, instead, bless me from God.
“Then let us pray to God. Pray to God!
The bride and groom offer prayers following the Zakko Blue Clerics. As I watched how it was, I somehow paralleled the pages of the Bible.
… sloppy! It says a prayer complaint! I remember desperately!
And I found in the scriptures a writing which was neither the word of the chief priest, nor the word of Fran, nor my own, and I let my cheeks draw forever.
They couldn’t afford to reread the scriptures in the room, just staring at and remembering the wooden plaques written by Fran and Monica, but they didn’t have to bother remembering.
Humph, beside me outraged, the chief cleric told the bride and groom to kneel on the spot, “Then I will bless them with the blessings of the gods more than this”.
It’s my turn. I just memorized it. I don’t need a campe.
When I close the Bible, I breathe softly and magically into the ring.
“The Supreme God, who presides over the high pavilion sky, is a husband and wife of darkness and light, who hears my prayers, who bless the birth of a new couple, who offer their thoughts, their prayers and their gratitude, and who do not give them the blessing of holiness.”
Praying for the blessings of the Supreme God’s husband and wife, the gold and black light swirled from the ring and flew near the ceiling of the prayer room, bouncing. Black and gold splash, pouring on the bride and groom.
Everyone is looking up, with their mouths open, like they saw something incredible. Not just the bride and groom, but the blue cleric looks up with the same look.
The only thing that is flat is the chief cleric.
“A real blessing, even though I don’t have any god utensils…?
To the whining of the blue cleric who was nearby, I stared at the ring of my own hand.
Speaking of which, the Blue Cleric was something of a poor nobleman with little magic power or unable to assemble his magic equipment.
Naturally, you can’t have magic equipment with demonic stones. It seems that for a blue cleric who also has only divine objects to instill magic, there can be no blessing without divine objects.
… Could it have done it?
When I asked him how the fearful clergyman was, the clergyman raised the edge of his lips with such a face as was calculated…. Oh, is that the Virgin of Examples plan?
“Let their doorstep be bright with the blessing of the Supreme God”
With the voice of the chief priest, the door of the temple is opened giggly, by the gray cleric. The dazzling summer sun came in at once, reflecting on the white walls, and the prayer room brightened all at once.
At the same time, the magic equipment of silence loses its potency and a voice starts to rise from the mouth of the bride and groom like excitement.
“I’ve never seen it before! Blessings!
“God bless you. New temple chief, little one, isn’t that amazing?
“You said she was a lord’s daughter, right?
“This blessing starts this year, right? I didn’t ask you this when you were my brother.”
The bride and groom exit through a wide open door, excited by what was clearly different from the star knot ritual they had been hearing from around them.
“Then the temple chief will leave, too.”
“No, I will see everyone off to the end”
Even when the chief priest urged me, I stayed on the altar and stared beyond the door.
Beyond the door, I can see the face of the family peeking wholeheartedly into the prayer room, not looking for the bride and groom I’m looking for, not to give a blessing to the bride and groom I’m leaving. It’s clearly floating from the perimeter delighting in marriage, and it’s behaving suspiciously.
Smaller and more laughing. All the while I want to call on my family, I gently slap my left breast twice with my right fist.
He seemed to notice over there and returned the same behavior.
“… I see”
When the chief sighed gently, he began to give the surrounding blue and gray clerics instructions to clean up and after this. Apparently you’re going to make me do what I want.
Touch the violin and shake the flowers and Thuri will fly up and rejoice. My mother puts out the camel in the sling and shows it to me. My father is laughing.
I did not move the altar until all the brides and grooms had left and the door had closed.
When the door closed, the gray clerics were cleaning up the prayer room, and not a single blue cleric remained in the prayer room.
A clergyman with a wrinkle carved between his brows came to me feeling like I had woken up from a happy dream. Lift me up on the altar, walk with Stasta, and give me to Fran, who was waiting for me when I left the prayer room.
“Hurry up and finish your lunch. We don’t have time.”
“Yes.”
Having come into contact with my family, albeit only temporarily, I nodded loudly as I felt my heart filled with warmth.