@wanderer_1204 someone on the discord was there, nothing about it was mentioned. Hannelore being a new series understandably had more hype behind it, so they deviated from their normal behaviour a bit more than usual. I would expect SSC3 to start up relatively soon, but it might not.

One of the greatest achievements of Bookworm as a series is the way in which the plot advances as a consequence of the cumulative actions of the characters instead of being some fiat dictate of the author. If you examine each plot development, you can see how what the things various characters did, even minute ones, led up to that development. Case in point with Corinna, another thing she did was consent to Benno helping Myne when she entered the temple, because at the end of the day, the Gilberta Company is her store, not Benno's. She could have said that Myne wasn't worth the risk, but she believed enough in her brother, and cared enough for him and the memory of her own good friend Liz, to risk her store for Myne's sake.

This thread is quite old, but I noticed this on a re-read. At 49%:

“We need eyes on him at all times now that he has started to crawl. He tried crawling all the way over to me, so Lily had to hurriedly stop him. Has anything happened in the monastery?” I asked

It should probably be something like:

“We need eyes on him at all times now that he has started to crawl."
He tried crawling all the way over to me, so Lily had to hurriedly stop him.
"Has anything happened in the monastery?” I asked

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@henshaw33 Cornelius and Lamprecht talk about it in Winter Debut and the Playroom:

“Eckhart is abnormal...? I had assumed that one would need feelings that strong to pick a master, so I’m glad you disagree. I’ll try thinking this over some more in an attempt to find my own reason to stay with Rozemyne,” Cornelius said as he turned, the unease having vanished from his expression.

In my eyes, Cornelius had made his decision the moment he started actively looking for reasons to continue serving Rozemyne. But I didn’t need to point that out to him.

Meanwhile, the Cornelius/Eckhart discussion I remember was from Royal Academy Stories, in the chapter As a Guard Knight and a Brother - in a scene set just before Cornelius teleported to the Academy in P4V1:

“This is just my own experience,” he said, “but the more loyally you try to serve your lord or lady in the Royal Academy, the more you’ll suffer. It also becomes much easier to slack, since you’re going to have classes and other excuses available to you. This will be a good opportunity to see just what kind of guard knight you wish to be. You can’t rely on your parents at the Academy, so your time there will force you to grow whether you want to or not.” He clenched one hand into a tight fist and extended it to me. “Good luck.”

I reached out and bumped my fist against his. Apparently, the Royal Academy was where guard knights sank or swam—and the intimidating light in Eckhart’s blue eyes very firmly urged me toward the latter.

“As her older brother, I will strive to be a worthy guard knight,” I declared, making a vow between knights.

J-Novel Club has downloadable DRM-free publications. This is the gold standard of e-publications, and you should always prefer this when possible. I ALWAYS check if J-novel club has a series before buying it elsewhere.

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@Ingraman Actually I got it from another source, but why not.

@Trinh Actually, that's not what I meant.
The cape will stop absorbing automatically, but when it does the mana it's no longer absorbing will continue on to its target... which in the case of the attack was Ferdinand and Myne. So in the case of the attack, Myne was forced to compress her mana to avoid filling up and being hit with the rest of the attack, whereas the knowledge mana was harmless.

Basically, it's the difference between pouring cold water and hot coffee into a cup. If the former overflows onto my lap, it's (relatively) no big deal, if the latter does I'm looking at severe burns.

To be clear, Myne was working to compress her mana so she still had room for more mana, to avoid the automatic cut-off that would have let the attack hit her.

@Almond-Magnum thanks a ton!

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Prediction poll: Who will Hannelore be betrothed to?:

"Somebody Else" has edged out a Named Person by scant votes. Based upon the discussion topic most of those are the Rozemyne supporters.

I really should have thought to give Rozemyne as an option.

@Loreamire-Nhymryedel

Hi,

Are you trying to point out a correction, or are you asking for additional material in the book?

If the latter. We are not the original Japanese publisher. We license the book for translation and publication in English. Our releases must mimic the Japanese release. Other than being in English. So we can’t add anything extra that was not in there. Other than our premium release which just gets a higher quality illustration of an image already in the Japanese release.

@Libri-Liberorum said in Bookworm Short Story Collection Vol. 2 Discussion!:

#1: single panel half page. I don't understand what character motivations are behind any of the thought bubble/text boxes.

It's from the Lutz story "Tuuri's worries". He was looking at her, thinking to himself she'd become elegant and envying the fact that she could go to the castle when she came of age (which was still more than a year away for him). Otto interpreted it as Lutz finally getting interested in girls.

@Kreeblah said in [CORRECTIONS] - Bookworm Part 5 Vol 7:

just desserts

To add on to what Geezer said, it's "deserts" as in "deserve" i.e. "just what you deserve" (which means that yes, it's pronounced like desserts)

@KSul said in Hannelore Romance Outcomes V1 pt. 1:

Also, let me know if you'd prefer I keep adding polls to the end of this thread to prevent clogging the board with a bunch of polls, or if you'd prefer I make a new topic per poll to increase the visibility.

My recollection from what others have said is that you can only have a poll in the initial post for a topic.
Something to do with how the poll software is set up within the forum software.

@Quof Thanks for your insight! I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts all through out the long translation.

@Neelahn3
https://ascendance-of-a-bookworm.fandom.com/wiki/Letters_and_Numbers

Right there apparently.

@15Redstones
Or with buckets of poo, but maybe it was the silver cloth keeping them from releasing their auras.

@Almond-Magnum said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 11 Discussion!:

@Gamen said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 11 Discussion!:

If it was so shocking, perhaps that's reason to re-evaluate your assumptions? The question of whether you can really say Myne was being raised by Ferdinand or whether she was already a fully-formed ego aside, what he taught her was not how to be his ideal woman, but what she needed to survive without him in noble society as he had experienced it. His "ideal woman" if there is such a thing is the Myne that ignored what he tried to teach her and led an army to rescue him.

Yeah, the kind of woman he was training her to be is the Rozemyne without her memories, and he hated it.

Building on what both have said:

Ferdinand was providing Rozemyne survival skills.
To the extent he "shaped her" it was to give her the ability to survive in Noble Society.
How to navigate the twisted shoals of noble interactions without yielding more than you must.
Building upon the foundation laid by Benno.

He never considered her as a potential mate until late in the game, she was going to be tied to the ruling house (be it duchy or sovereignty.)
No thought of grooming her for himself.
No Hikari Genji stuff here, thank you very much.

Rozemyne choose otherwise. She exercised Free Will.
I'll concede that once she did chose by launching her "Operation: Saving Lord Ferdinand!" he took things beyond where she'd consciously intended, but if she's going to overthrow the established order society wide for his sake...that's a proposal, damnit!