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PrePub - Ascendance of a Bookworm
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- Honzuki no Gekokujou
- 『本好きの下剋上』
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I wondered about that too... and I think Ferdinand might have been mildly drugged by accident.
Remember how what little brains Detlinde has rattling in her mostly empty skull completely melted down, the moment she smelled Leonzio's sweet smell up close and he touched her hand?
He already tried to touch Detlinde during their introduction, but had his hand smacked away by Ferdinand. I suspect that he tried to touch her, to put her under the effect of a drug. And when Ferdinand smacked his hand away, he got some of this onto his own skin, which might have cause him to take in a small dose of this drug, which in turn might have dulled his mind to some degree, while Detlinde later got a full dose during the private meeting.
The sweet smell would suggest Trug, but at least so far the effects seem to differ from the disorientation and memory loss reported by Matthias. I wonder if it's actual trug, but of a smaller dose, a more refined and targeted version of trug than Georgine uses, or a different drug, made partially from the same ingredients, but with some different ingredients for the different effect.