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Last week's chapters began with Rozemyne and Matthias charging toward Grausam inside the giebe estate. After gaining the God of Darkness's blessing for their weapons and avoiding traps by flying over them in Lessy, they confront Grausam. Rozemyne enlarges Lessy to block Grausam's escape while Matthias and Grausam argue their own convictions. Grausam no longer considers Matthias his son and attacks him while physically enhanced. Rozemyne thinks about how she could best help and decides to bless Matthias. Rozemyne gradually grants Matthias the divine protections of nine gods. Grausam is angered as Matthias becomes even matched to himself and vows to kill Rozemyne. Rozemyne's mana is drained through Lessy by one of Grausam's attacks. Matthias's attacks reveals that much of Grausam's body has transformed into feystone. Grausam uses all his remaining mana to enhance his speed then charges Matthias, throwing him to the balcony. Grausam then drains the mana from the previous Giebe Gerlach's feystone. With Matthias safely out of range, Rozemyne uses her water gun to attack Grausam. As Grausam falls from the attack, he is able to touch Lessy with his prosthesis, draining Rozemyne's mana. Rozemyne panics and pours more mana into Lessy—enlarging it to ensure her safety. Rozemyne continues to flood Lessy with more mana than Grausam can drain causing his prosthetic hand to turn into gold dust. Meanwhile Ferdinand has taken over the foundation and is able to deactivate the estate's barrier. He then signals knights waiting outside and they break Grausam apart like a shattered feystone.

After the fight Rozemyne reunites with everyone and discovers Lessy has damaged the giebe's estate when growing large. She discusses what they should do next. She decides that a feast would be held in Bindewald for the Dunkelfelger knights while she, Ferdinand, Hannelore, and their retainers would go to Ehrenfest for a day to celebrate and inspect the city. Aub Ehrenfest arrives and teleports them to the city.

They arrive in Ehrenfest and are greeted by Charlotte and Florencia. Guest rooms and baths are prepared for them. Rozemyne lets Ferdinand stay in her library while she stays at the castle. Rozemyne meets with her retainers who stayed in Ehrenfest and they discuss what happened in the city. Both Grausam and Georgine were found to have body doubles. Sylvester confirmed that the real Georgine had been killed and the bible key was recovered. Rozemyne hears the tales of her knight's valor, Brigitte's assistance, the effectiveness of her shumil magic tools, and her Dad's contribution to the defense of the lower city.

What new developments do you predict will happen in this week's chapters?

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Volume 9 began last week with a prologue following Grausam. After being delayed with dismantling traps set by Bonifatius, Grausam retrieved some traps and magic tools and made his way to Gerlach's estate. Using a magic tool that changes color, he and Georgine are able to communicate their status without sending an ordonnanz. Grausam and a devouring soldier easily dispatch the guards at the back of the estate. Grausam uses silver cloth to pass through the estate's barrier and proceeds to take the foundation. He then strengthens the barrier preventing any but him, his relatives, and the archducal family from entering the estate. He spies on the previous Giebe Gerlach, overhearing defensive plans. After the giebe is thought to be left alone, Grausam captures him and uses a potion to make him mute—allowing ordonnanzes to still reach him, but is unable to reply. Grausam dispatches all others that see him and reflects on how well his and Georgine's plans are progressing.

In the other chapter Ferdinand, Rozemyne, Hannelore, and their knights force their way through the battle to aid Giebe Gerlach's overwhelmed forces. Rozemyne is shaken by the sights and sounds of battle. She is constantly reminded by her retainers to not hesitate and keep going while her highbeast encounters severed limbs, injured knights, and feystones. Gerlach's knights rejoice as Rozemyne grants them Heilschmerz's healing. The commander of Gerlach's knights thanks Rozemyne in person. A knight reports that they cannot get inside the estate as an object is launched from the estate into the battle. The object explodes with white powder, instantly killing or injuring many on both sides of the battle. Ferdinand casts waschen to remove the powder and commands the injured to use jureves. The commander inspects where the object was launched to find it wasn't the giebe and is killed in another explosion of white powder. Grausam is revealed to be behind the attacks. Rozemyne recognizes his voice and knows that he was responsible for her being in a jureve for two years. Cornelius and Angelica use a fused attack against Grausam which he absorbs with his hand. After defending against a counterattack, Ferdinand arrives to assist. Grausam is furious that Ferdinand is still alive and vows to eliminate him. Grausam uses something that causes blue flames to erupt around him while he remains uninjured. Hannelore's detachment attacks him, but their attacks only strengthen Grausam's flames. Rozemyne receives an ordonnanz from Ferdinand explaining that he will draw Grausam's attention while she and Matthias should sneak into the estate and use black weaponry against Grausam.

What do you predict will happen in this week's chapters?

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The volume concluded last week beginning with a chapter from Effa's point of view. Kamil relays a message from Benno to evacuate along with Rozemyne's other personnel. After packing luggage, they take a carriage to the Noble's Quarter. Here Effa gets to see for the first time where Myne and the other nobles live. She is perplexed by the notion of a library being a house for books. Her expectations of being able to meet with her daughter are dashed when she finds out Myne is leading a platoon of knights on the front lines. Concerned for Gunther's safety, Effa, Tuuli, and Kamil give their protection charms to Damuel to be given to Gunther who is defending the west gate. Effa gladly accepts Corrina's request to help in finishing Rozemyne's clothes.

The next chapter was from Gunther's perspective. We find out that he has been demoted to a captain in preparation for his departure. He is tasked with preparing barrels of excrement to be dropped on the invading nobles. He and his fellow guardsmen are appalled that a noble concocted such a plan, not suspecting Myne was the source. After being informed of impending trouble, Gunther spreads word to be on the lookout for ships from Leisegang. The guardsmen question the new arrivals and soon receive orders to evacuate the commoners. After the evacuation Gunther meets with Damuel and receives his family's protective charms. They see silver clothed individuals and prepare for a fight. Gunther swears to protect the city and his family.

The final chapter followed Ferdinand after being poisoned by Detlinde and left to die. He reflects on how Letizia was duped and the consequence it would bring. He also worries about his own retainers. Ferdinand regrets his inability to fulfill his promise to his father—that he would protect Ehrenfest—and resigns himself to his fate. Ferdinand later awakens to realize he is enveloped in Rozemyne's mana and is given the order to live. This reminds Ferdinand of the woman he called his mother, Lady Irmhilde, who told him he could live freely to shape his own life and dreams. Ferdinand is engulfed in a flood of water from a waschen. He believes that Detlinde or Georgine has come to finish him off with an awful tasting poison only to later find out that Rozemyne was trying to help him. Ferdinand is stunned by Rozemyne's desire to prioritize him over the entire county. Words his mother once said came back to memory: "Once you have found the things you desire, live to make them come true and protect them."

This week begins a new volume and a return to the main story. What predictions do you have for this week's prologue and chapters?

Quof (Translator) (Source)

Hello all, I would like to briefly co-opt the thread for an announcement. I am sad to say that the next volume (Part 5 Volume 9) will be posted over 10 parts instead of 8. It pains me for this to happen at such a high-octane part of the series, and I apologize for the inconvenience.

The reasoning is not so much as important as the consequences, but quite simply P5V9 is one of the longest volumes in quite a while and would have been brutal at 8 parts. (It has like an entire part's worth of extra content, which would have made each part substantially longer than usual.) Some other long-term coincidences lined up as well to make it so that doing that extra work over this specific time period would have been pretty rough; the silver lining here is that, and this isn't the lip service, the extra time actually will lead to higher quality assurance. The crunching that would have had to be done on 8 parts for this volume, especially on the editing, would not have been pretty, and that is one big reason why despite the poor timing we went for 10 parts.

Anyway, sorry for the inconvenience and I hope you continue to enjoy reading regardless. As usual there is no break scheduled before the next volume, so no need to have any concerns about that, unless something unexpected happens in the short term interim in which case I apologize to the esteemed J-novel backenders who will suffer the consequences of my glib statement.

(The bright side is that, in the past, doing 10 parts carried with it the ominous possibility of 10 parts becoming the new standard, which would have added over a year to how long it takes to finish, but we're so close to the end now that it will hardly add any time at all either way).

Ingraman (Source)

@Quof What?! It’s not because you’re starting work on a concurrent translation of the next side stories book? Or fanbook? ;p

Quof (Translator) (Source)

@Ingraman Sadly not... My part of the unfortunate coincidences is much more self-centered in nature. I'm going to be away from home for a few months and have to translate while staying in hotels and stuff. But that's all I'll say on that matter here. I'm already pushing my luck with Rahul-sama... :V

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The first side story from last week was from Brigitte's perspective. We saw how Illgner received message of an impending invasion and how they increased their defenses. Upon inspecting an anomaly in the mountainous terrain, Brigitte and the knights of Illgner discover people dressed in Ahrensbach capes using black weapons and chalices to drain the land of mana. They decide to retreat and send ordonnanzes requesting aid from the Ehrenfest knight's order. Bonifatius replies that they will teleport reinforcements to Illgner and then they arrive shortly after. They share intelligence and plan to retrieve the chalices containing their province's mana. Bonifatius topples trees onto enemy forces in a landslide preventing their retreat. The remaining enemy forces scatter and Bonifatius is forced to assist to Griebel the next day. Brigitte receives report of suspicious individuals boarding a vessel to Ehrenfest. She attempts to contact Rozemyne, Cornelius, and Angelica only to have her ordonnanz fail to take flight. She is able to send message to Damuel who informs her that the others are in Ahrensbach. Brigitte resolves to devote her all to protect her home.

The other side story was from Philine's point of view. She attends a meeting with her fellow retainers who stayed in Ehrenfest where they discuss the current state of the invasion as well as the preparations for the temple, Gutenbergs, and Rozemyne's seamstresses. Later Philine receives an ordonnanz from Damuel stating they believe Georgine's group would soon arrive at Ehrenfest's dock and that she should begin evacuation. The evacuation proceeds as they had practiced, securing the orphanage, informing the guards, and activating the shumils. After checking the blue priests and shrine maidens preparations, she closes the door the noble section. She and Roderick activate a barrier magic tool—created by Rozemyne—securing the High Bishop's chambers. Judithe sends word that people in silver cloth have been spotted. They then pray for everyone's safety.

This week will conclude volume 8. What other characters would you like to follow in this week's short stories?

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The story continued last week with Ferdinand tempting Rozemyne with promises of fish, her dream of a library city, and time with her lower-city family. This would be in exchange for Rozemyne remaining Aub Ahrensbach and building Ferdinand his dream research paradise where he would publish material for new books. Ferdinand then closes the country gate using a magic circle combined from both his and Rozemyne's Book of Mestionora. Rozemyne then closes the border gate and they return to the castle. Ferdinand prescribes a double dose of potion for Rozemyne who rests inside Lessy.

Rozemyne wakes up to find that two days have passed and Ferdinand has left with Dunkelfelger's impatient knights to join the battle against Georgine. Rozemyne is attended to by Fairseele and after being dressed she joins Hannelore and Letizia for a meal. They discuss what Rozemyne missed while she slept and Hannelore says that she will follow Rozemyne into battle. After receiving direction via ordonnanz from Ferdinand, Rozemyne and her retainers, Hannelore's squad, and five Ahrensbach knights are teleported to Bindewald.

Upon arrival in Bindewald, they are met by the screeching voice of Fraularm and three of her relatives. Fraularm and her cronies incessantly complain about the sudden arrival of Ehrenfest nobles. Hannelore and her knights restrain them with bands of light before sending Ahrensbach's knights to restrain the others in the summer estate. Fraularm finally recognizes Rozemyne and complains that she should have been dead. Hartmut implicates Fraularm's involvement in the previous bible poisoning plot. The wife of the former Count Bindewald attempts to out Rozemyne as a commoner. Her words are dismissed as the ramblings of a madwoman. Fraularm refuses to believe that Rozemyne is Aub Ahrensbach and insists that everyone is being deceived. Cornelius gets violent with Fraularm when she continues her tirade and she is gagged after Ferdinand arrives. Ferdinand explains they caught Werkestock giebes stealing mana from Ehrenfest using black weapons. Rozemyne teleports the captured giebes and Bindewald nobles to be held in Ahrensbach castle. They then fly by highbeast to Gerlach where they find embattled knights and giebes draining the earth of mana.

With Rozemyne, Ferdinand, and Dunkelfelger joining the fray in Ehrenfest, what do you predict will happen during this week's story?

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Our story continued last week with Rozemyne and Ferdinand setting out to stop the Lanzenave ships and rescue the captured nobles. They first attack a ship that is still at the port and is under assault by Ahrensbach commoners. Rozemyne heals the injured commoners and provides the surrounding citizens the aub's protection. Dunkelfelger knights then blind and sweep the Lanzenavians into the sea with magic tools and a large scale waschen. Hannelore and two squads of knights remain to rescue hostages and retrieve feystones while everyone else continues to the next ship.

The next ship they reach is subjugated by infiltrating Dunkelfelgerians. Two more squads are sent to assist with the hostages and feystones. The rest head toward the remaining two ships which are approaching the country gate. One ship prepares to teleport by changing its silver tiles to black. At that moment Rozemyne gives the aub's protection to those onboard. Then Ahrensbach and Dunkelfelger knights unleash a coordinated mana attack and destroy the ship. The protected Ahrensbach citizens are then rescued. The remaining ship launches a volley attack and remains covered in silver. Unable to use mana against it, Rozemyne and Ferdinand discuss how to deal with it. It is decided that Ferdinand will modify the magic circle used for summoning spring to instead summon winter and Rozemyne's retainers will use Ewigeliebe's sword to freeze the ship.

Rozemyne uses five feystones to activate the magic circle summoning winter surrounding the ship. Cornelius, Matthias, Laurenz, and Hartmut wield Ewigeliebe's sword—summoning at least seventy winter subordinates that freeze the ship and water surrounding it. Four Dunkelfelger knights summon Leidenschaft's spear and attack the frozen ship. The heat of Leidenschaft's spear causes the silver metal to contract causing a breach in the ship's defenses. Rozemyne is then able to provide the aub's protection to the captured nobles onboard. Eckhart makes an opening in the bow of the ship allowing Dunkelfelger's knights to infiltrate. Letizia is rescued and Rozemyne decides to treat her with forgiveness and generosity.

Letizia is tasked with preparing somewhere for everyone to rest while Rozemyne and Ferdinand go to close the country gate. Ferdinand proposes four different options for Rozemyne's future. Rozemyne decides she does not want a nightmarish marriage to Sigiswald or to rule Yurgenschmidt. Since Rozemyne feels she can not return to live in Ehrenfest, she determines it would be best to give the magic tool Grutrissheit to the royal family and remain as Aub Ahrensbach.

It's been a long day for everyone and it's not over yet. What do you predict will happen in this week's chapters?

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