Gervasio: If she really can't hear you maybe I could try calling out to her? Then we can deal with the Zent race and you can figure out how to restore her memories later.
Ferdinand: No, that'd take too long. I'll just dye her now.
Gervasio: Seriously, without even asking her? I don't think she'll appreciate that once she finds out.
Ferdinand: No need to worry. This isn't the first time I've dyed her while unconscious, she'll understand that the circumstances required it just like last time, and she's much more mature now.
Gervasio: This is kinda fucked up.
Erwaermen: Yeah.

@staylo67 the Royal Family wants to hook her up with Prints somehow. 😁

Quickfire-

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Gervasio: Seven you came out of nowhere- is that a [water gun]?

Ferdinand: No it's a-

Rozemyne: Wait, you know [English]?

Gervasio: What's English? Still, if you can do that...BANANA GUN!

Ferdinand: What in the name of-

Rozemyne: SHIELD SHIELD SHIELD

CHU CHU CHU

Ferdinand: Why does that thing look ridiculous!?!

Rozemyne: That's an AK47! Unlike this translucent thing that's a REAL [automatic gun]!

Ferdinand: Why is the name so different? And why does it have a protruding- wait, we're in a battle situation >_<. I'll have to read his mind later and learn how to-

Rozemyne: Hey, if you lose can I have your copy of [War and Peace]?

Ferdinand: ROZEMYNE!

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Erwaermen: Alright, race time now!

Mestionoria: Ah Terza, shall you call Dear Myne? I have switched off all her memories she views as more important than books because I want to get back at the Fool who hurt Gramps!

Ferdinand: Oh? So just as Erwaermen gave up his divinity to help the mana wielders, you're giving up your divinity for...what reason exactly?

Mestionoria: What did you just claim?

Ferdinand: You took away the memories of those Rozemyne holds more dear than books.. What makes you think she's ever leaving what was once "your" library?

Gervasio: Quinta, do you really think she'd attempt squatters right on a library?

Mestionoria: Do you really think she'd challenge a God for a library?

Ferdinand: Well, now that she no longer cares about her family. And if she can either swear fealty to the Gods for a Library or lay claim to the Library "Herself," what do you think she'd choose?

beat

Erwaermen: You know, if Terza and Quinta can't take the Foundation, I can help you get used to the mortal world, assuming Myne's body can survive-

Rozemyne: FERDINAND! ARE YOU OK!?! I WAS HAVING THE MOST WONDERFUL DAY WHEN I REALIZED I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF COMBAT!

Gervasio: I have the sudden feeling I should really leave this country, NOW

I was re-reading the Q & A in fanbook 3 and I came across the following:

Q: What role did Ferdinand perform during his graduation ceremony? Given his talents, I would expect him to have been the God of Darkness—but given his duchy’s rank, I imagine he was either on reserve or played the God of Life, a role I would expect to be unpopular.

A: He played Ewigeliebe the God of Life. And as he is a member of an archducal family—the leaders of a duchy—Ehrenfest’s ranking is also considered among his “talents.” With that in mind, it would be incorrect to say that he was better suited to playing the God of Darkness

Looks like he was recognised as Ewigeliebe right from his RA days. :P

@Outinthegardener said in Speculations over the workings of Rozemyne's duchy:

Would Ahrensbach or Ehrenfest even want the Werkestock nobles? They're traitorous fools who supported Detlinde. Having to keep them in line would be a difficult and dangerous. Imagine getting them to support the treatment of commoners, when they abandoned their commoners in Werkestock?

Sending them back to Werkestock seems the best option. Make the new Aub deal with them there.

Then there are the Detlinde supporters who are from Ahrensbach proper... Baiting them with whatever they thought they were getting from Detlinde could work. I can see them accepting Rozemyne's reforms because of the short-term benefits, but I can't see the current generation fully embracing her perspective. Only the future generations, given time and education.

The ones who didn't do anything super illegal but have questionable loyalties can go back to Werkestock. Those who did commit crimes are batteries in prison, keeping them in line isn't necessary.

@zeji13 You're right! Now I remember. The part he suspected was whether she was Rosemarie's daughter.

@clear_aria I'm not sure how much bigger in scale you would need, going from "something affordable by a not particularly rich medial duchy" to "consuming the entirety of the Sovereignty's budget" to count as a major or even complete blindside.

Sylvester told her to raise everyone's grades and ranks. He did not tell her to insult a prince to his face (twice!) or inject Ehrenfest into the courtship of the Klassenberg princess (and therefore the royal succession!). In year two, Myne was explicitly instructed to limit how much "advice" she dispensed to others, especially royals. She immediately started offering advice to Hildebrand because she felt sorry for him feeling left out. In year three, Myne was again told to stop proactively offering help and limit the scope of her involvement only to the letter of prior agreements. She then went and suggested the royals participate in the dedication ceremony because she wanted to "help" them with their mana shortage.

Sylvester did tell Myne to do her thing with the negotiations with Sigiswald, and almost certainly did so knowing she would likely again exceed whatever remit or constraints he might have tried to impose. That doesn't mean he's hypocritical or otherwise for complaining about it afterward. Intentionally choosing a path that you know will cause you difficulties or headaches, if only because it's the only path, doesn't mean you can't feel annoyance or frustration afterward, since the headaches and difficulties certainly don't magically go away because this was the only option. As I said earlier, Sylvester is venting here as a stress reaction. Hypocrisy only enters the picture if he actually tried to undermine the results of Myne's actions, which Sylvester most certainly did not try to do here.

"Price" entails much more than just coin or resources. Political capital has a price all its own, and Sylvester is needing to expend quite a bit of it in order to make Myne's requests stand, especially in the face of the misunderstandings some of her actions caused. After all, Sylvester could just accept the Sovereignty's demands wholesale and not even try to negotiate terms. Myne's "requests" made prior to Sigiswald however carried a greater degree of legitimacy because Myne had the implicit authorization of speaking on Ehrenfest's behalf, as far as naming Ehrenfest's terms, and her own personal requests had further weight because that same authorization implied Ehrenfest would also be backing those personal requests, and that implicit death threat. Against the royal family.

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@AscendedFanBoy I think you could use rinse when talking about beating them, as rinsed means to thoroughly beat someone as slang, but they are not talking about beating them, its assumed they were already defeated, and they are talking next steps, imprisonment and interrogation to gain information. So "wring them for all they are worth" when in the context of obtaining as much information as possible may make more sense.

@learn_japanese_ay Indeed. I mean, he stumbled upon it without the librarians even telling him about it just because he was curious. But the royals were allegedly desperately searching for it, so... Basically, the readers' incredulity at the perfect combination of incompetence and forgetfulness is also Ferdinand's :P

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@Quof said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@Axehand What's the relevance of Karstark? Are you maybe thinking of Rasantark? Rasantark and Rarstark are definitely similar names, though their names are equally similar in JP, so it didn't cross my mind too much. ラザンタルク + ラールタルク.

Looks like Quof considers them to be separate people.

I think perhaps you and @IppieLok are remembering the discussion around Lahrtaruc and Rarstark - which were, in fact, the same person.

@Quof said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@Flamesz-0 Rarstark. It's more similar to Lahrtaruc if you morph the spelling to how it looks in JP: Rarutaruku. The "s" is introduced in translation. The JP spelling is extraordinarily messy, as what happens when random words are mashed together. "Lahr" and "taruc" are names, so Rarutaruku looked like Lahrtaruc, but "rar" is "very" and "stark" is "strong" (to my knowledge), so it was actually probably Rarstark for "very strong." (Also, L/R are equivalent in JP, so yeah the first letter is always gambling.)