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Ascendance of a Bookworm
Honzuki no Gekokujou
『本好きの下剋上』

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[P5V6P6] Prepub predictions (self.aobprepub)

submitted 1 year ago by Bookmyner to c/aobprepub

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Last week we continued with the Leisegang interaction. The issue was resolved fairly peacefully and was revealed to have been caused by Florencia manipulating Barthold in attempt to curtail the Leisegang influence.

Sylvester returned from Ahrensbach with gifts, materials, and correspondence from Ferdinand. A more simplified method of producing the maximal quality paper was also revealed. Unfortunately the highly coveted "very good" praise was not to be had for Rozemyne's efforts.

The story left off with a trombe hunt to create more fireproof paper. Following that was the starbind ceremony where Zack was married and Damuel learns of Philine's future intentions.

Where do you predict the story will take us in the near future?

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[–] 15Redstones@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rozemyne buys a new hair ornament every season, and the autumn one will probably be bought shortly before or after the summer coming of age ceremony. Rozemyne could give Tuuli a gift at that occurred.

[–] No_Nick_Needed 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem is that Rozemyne is never alone with commoners, so even giving a gift when they are face-to-face isn't an easy endeavour. And as we've seen in several past events, even being solely in the presence of clearly utterly loyal retainers, isn't enough.

However, now that Rozemyne has quite the number of name-sworn, this might have become different. If ordered to keep a secret, the name-sworn literally become incapable of telling, so if she can go into the meeting with solely name-sworn retainers present, that might be enough to risk it after all. But I still do not think she's likely to do it, since she doesn't like absuing the name-swearing system for personal issues. She might do it for bigger picture stuff, but I don't think she'll do it for personal convenience.

[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Just like Barthold, just because they are name sworn doesn't mean they can't betray them.

Roz is better off protecting the lower city and keeping them at a distance. She already knows if someone (harmut) looks close enough they can see the connection.

[–] 15Redstones@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...why again would she need to keep it secret from her retainers again?

[–] No_Nick_Needed 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably the same reason why she has kept them out of the loop this entire time: The secret is just too big and volatile to take any risks.

Considering how loyal they are, we can probably rule out any intentional leaks, but either swearing them to slience via name-swearing or keeping them out of the loop would make sure there can't be any accidental leaks either. They can't accidentally spill any hints toward something they don't know and if they name-sworn are ordered to silence with the proper wording, the only way they could ever reveal something, is probably by having their heads examined with a memory searching magic tool (probably post-mortem, since I suspect they'd rather kill themselves than allow this).

[–] 15Redstones@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Well, giving a gift doesn't mean revealing their past. Rozemyne likes to protect her craftspeople is already common knowledge.