When things don't work out between them, Elvira offers to find a suitable husband for Brigitte, in accordance to Brigitte's own wishes. Not only is he reprimanded for judging his adopted sister and uncle before hearing their side, visiting a criminal without his father's permission and protesting the archduke's decisions are serious acts of treason that get him his status as Sylvester's guaranteed heir removed. Like Charlotte, Florencia is responsible for his upbringing. Wilfried doesn't realize the flaw in this logic, as there are other higher-ranked duchies and royalty to which he has to bow down to. Ferdinand and Rozemyne are regarded as exceptional archduke candidates, whose talents seem wasted and who are abused by their archduke. As the grandson of the first Giebe Groschel and his Leisegang wife, he is a prominent member of the Leisegang faction and thus a supporter of Rozemyne. He still turns out to be extremely dangerous in battle, he quickly got Egmont's help after promising to make him High Bishop after Rozemyne is eliminated, which he sealed with a magic contract (it was a submission contract), Joisontak acts like such a clueless buffoon because he was under influence of drugs that someone forced on him. The current Giebe Groschel, father of Brunhilde and Bertilde, and first cousin of Elvira and Claudio. As shown in Part 5, many of the older Leisegangs are actively trying to curb Rozemyne's efforts to raise Ehrenfest's ranking. She shows her real emotions and cries for the first time in Rozemyne's presence in their. the whole incident with Bindewald and Bezewanst with Ferdinand and Karstedt's help. Seeing Wilfried's poor education and that he is surrounded by, In Part 4, she is absolutely livid when she realizes that. Detlinde is an archduke candidate who suffers from an inferiority complex, who has very weak social skills and is neglected by her parents, which is why she in turn neglects her studies. which is why she is extremely angry when other duchies start badmouthing him for being a bad ruler, Sylvester doesn't act like an aub of a medial duchy in the single-digit ranks. He initially doesn't raise Wilfried properly to the point that Wilfried almost commits political suicide twice within two years after his baptism. He is even less enthusiastic when he learns that Archduke Ehrenfest would adopt her, and his mother forces him to become Rozemyne's guard in the Noble's Quarter. An apprentice knight who is two years older than Rozemyne.

This is what she does for Brigitte after it's deemed impossible for her and Damuel to marry. In Part 4 Volume 2, he almost ruins Ehrenfest's chances for victory against Dunkelfelger by ignoring Rozemyne's instructions. In his side chapter in Part 3 Volume 1, Cornelius expresses his refusal to serve a member of the archduke's family because his father, Karstedt, serves an aub who is essentially a puppet to his mother. To prevent this from happening, Rozemyne asks Bonifatius to temporarily take Damuel in until he can move to Rozemyne. Rihyarda's 32-year-old son, who is Ferdinand's personal attendant and scholar, and unofficially acts as his personal spy. Another flaw is his laziness. She also can't support his life as a noble because she hasn't come of age and thus no access to her mother's inheritance. Two original video anime (OVA) installments debuted with a limited edition of the first novel of the series' fifth part in March 2020. His behavior towards Rozemyne's retainers is also extremely arrogant and repugnant, since most of them are part of the Leisegang faction, whom he doesn't trust. Matthias then gives Rozemyne his name and becomes her guard knight. In Part 4 Volume 6, after learning Rozemyne's mana compression method, he becomes overconfident and ignores Matthias' warnings to fight a feybeast with a big charged attack, which the feybeast absorbs, causing it to grow in size and power. By the time Rozemyne is baptized, all of her children are old enough to attend the Royal Academy, which is why Elvira asked Ottilie to look after Rozemyne in the castle once she is adopted by Sylvester.Ottilie is part of Elvira's and Florencia's faction of noblewomen. Also with Eckhart. However, he draws the line at the nobles who gave their names to Georgine. Wilfried is really just used as a tool by everyone; his grandmother, his parents, and the Leisegangs. When Brigitte asks why Rozemyne seemingly trusts Damuel far more than her, Rozemyne replies that she can actually. Furthermore, Karstedt neglected his first wife's family, while Veronica cut Haldenzel off of mana and food aid from Leisegang, leading to. Charlotte also correctly reads the Leisegangs' reaction to Wilfried's visit, which Wilfried notably doesn't. He's Rozemyne's match in terms of hunger for information and is much less reluctant than her to get his hands dirty to obtain it.The information he collects unfortunately tends to be stored in his mind in a jumbled mess that only Ferdinand is able to convert into a form that is both useful and comprehensible to anybody else. manipulate several members of the archducal family (except Rozemyne and Charlotte) to do their bidding, with their end goal being Rozemyne becoming the next aub. Due to being bestowed with Ferdinand and Rozemyne's mana, with Rozemyne wishing for the sword to compensate for Angelica's lack of common sense and intelligence, it has gained sentience and now talks with Ferdinand's voice. Once Melchior is old enough, she plans to abdicate and leave the seat to him. Traugott misunderstands this and assumes that he could just switch masters willy-nilly, which is why he is not attached to Rozemyne. Philine's stepmother. He's Wilfried's bodyguard and hence has a significant portion of his place in noble society riding on his charge staying Sylvester's heir. He divorced her after he became Ferdinand's retainer. Since Karstedt didn't want to deal with Veronica's harassment, he ended up marrying Veronica's attendant, Trudeliede, and another mednoble from her faction, Rozemary, which did not sit well with Elvira and is one of the reasons why their relationship is strained when Rozemyne enters his family, Damuel benefitted from Myne's last blessing and, as a result, his mana is still growing when it should have stopped doing so, he didn't get the blessing and is a little jealous of those who did. Not only can Justus physically overwhelm Traugott easily, he finds Traugott's stupidity so aggravating that he threatens to kill Traugott if he doesn't fix his behavior. At the end of Part 3 Volume 5, his quick reaction and explosiveness ends up saving Rozemyne's life, and he and a squad of knights storm Viscount Gerlach's mansion at the start of Part 5 that ends with Gerlach barely escaping to Ahrensbach. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and it also streamed an English dub. Laurenz however does not share their enthusiasm for Georgine and he instead has great respect for Rozemyne. Rozemyne is almost killed in a kidnapping/assassination attempt on her, Ferdinand promised her that Rozemyne will recover. That incident is what forced Myne's hand into accepting to be adopted early. Since Wilfried is engaged to Rozemyne at that point already, Lamprecht believes that the two factions would eventually merge. If Wilfried hadn't said anything, Rozemyne could have kept a relatively low profile and stayed away from the royal family, just as her guardians had intended, he quickly forgets the meaning of the euphemistic farewell he was taught earlier and gives Georgine an excuse to visit Ehrenfest again, something that Sylvester and Florencia wanted to prevent at all cost. Rozemyne immediately understands that he uses as much mana on each attack as before and begins to explain it to him like she would explain to a child. The first wife of the previous Aub Ehrenfest, older sister to Bezewanst, and the mother of Georgine, Constanze, and Sylvester. In fact, she refuses Damuel's marriage proposal at the end of Part 3 after she learns that he won't give up his position as Rozemyne's guard knight when they marry. on top of his heart being broken because Brigitte cannot accept his marriage proposal, he had to go through two years of Bonifatius', he is subjected to more brutal training by Bonifatius. Lieseleta learned Rozemyne's mana compression method and actively practiced it to the point that she has risen to the levels of an archnoble. A young man who became the ruling lord of the Illgner province after his father's death. Ottilie accompanies Rozemyne to the Academy during the Archduke Conference and remains her head attendant until Rozemyne leaves Ehrenfest. Sylvester and Florencia's second child, who is one year younger than Wilfried and Rozemyne. Something that he apparently didn't learn after the, A major cause for Wilfried's ill decisions is. Their advice negatively affects Wilfried's standing in the eyes of other nobles and is a major reason for his unpopularity, which is why some of Wilfried's other retainers like Alexis want to leave him, Wilfried proudly tells the music professors that the original songs they just heard from Rozemyne were composed by her. She has several children and grandchildren. Crunchyroll, which streamed the previous two seasons of the television anime of Miya Kazuki's "biblia fantasy" novel Ascendance of a Bookworm (Honzuki no Gekokuj - Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiramasen), describes the anime's story: The first anime season aired in two parts. While she assumes that he wasn't serious, given their vast mana differences, she later learns that he can still increase his capacity. Charlotte would wholeheartedly acknowledge that Rozemyne is the better candidate, but Wilfried winning because of the engagement feels unfair to her.

Lasfam nonetheless gained Ferdinand's trust eventually and Ferdinand let Lasfam manage his estate in the Noble's Quarter after he moved to the temple.Unlike Eckhart and Justus, Lasfam is left in Ehrenfest after Ferdinand moves to Ahrensbach and is ordered to keep managing Ferdinand's estate until Ferdinand is married. For instance, she isn't prejudiced against the temple and the priests at all. It was only when his position came under threat due to Wilfried's shortcomings becoming visible between his baptism and his winter debut that Oswald began to become serious about his work.Oswald's deceased father was Sylvester's head attendant at the Royal Academy. At the awards ceremony in the same year, he kneels down to her in gratitude for saving his life, which allowed him to participate in the ceremony in the first place. has to face an archnoble. In the epilogue of the same volume, Veronica's supporters plan to use him to dethrone Sylvester eventually and replace him with Georgine. Even if Traugott hadn't caused his own ruin, Angelica would not have wanted to marry him, since he's weaker than her. While Sylvester wants to make full use of Rozemyne and bind her to his duchy, he is not particularly interested in her being archduchess (either as aub or by marrying his intended heir, Wilfried). Her husband is Count Leisegang's half-brother, Leberecht, with whom she has three sons. Once Sylvester was born, Karstedt was demoted to an archnoble, as it was arranged to protect Elvira from Veronica. The industries were meanwhile led by Justus (since Ferdinand was too busy), the Plantin Company, and Elvira. As is shown at the start of Part 4, Inside Ehrenfest, Sylvester is not regarded well by most nobles. He's young enough for his last two years at the Royal Academy to overlap with Rozemyne's two first in Part 4. Matthias respects and admires Rozemyne's leadership, as she advocates unity and cooperation, and has no interest in factional conflicts. After Gabriele's death, her faction was taken over by her daughter Veronica. She is two years older than Sylvester and an "older sister" type, which is very much needed considering who she's married to and how her oldest son is turning out.Florencia is a daughter of the archducal house Frenbeltag, her older brother being its current aub and married to Sylvester's second older sister, Constanze. Which is another reason why Traugott isn't suitable for her, but Eckhart is.

Between her career choice and growing up in one of the outer provinces, she's more open-minded about what constitutes proper female behavior than many noble ladies.Some years ago, her older brother became the head of their family right after reaching adulthood and she broke an engagement off to keep her fianc from pulling an Heir-In-Law. Sylvester also left Wilfried's education to his mother, who picked a bunch of. For instance, he advises Wilfried to order Brunhilde around and prepare for the tea party Wilfried is supposed to attend in Rozemyne's place, which infuriates Brunhilde. Charlotte receives even less attention from him than Wilfried, as he does not view her as his potential heir. The two spend a lot of time together in their first year at the Royal Academy, as both barely pass the history and geography exams, which is why they still partake in the lessons. The daughter of Giebe Groschel, who is two years older than Rozemyne and first meets her at Rozemyne's first winter socializing. After being told the Sent Into Hiding cover story about Rozemyne, she accepts to pass her off as her daughter due to potential problems attached to her alleged real parentage and have a hand in raising her alongside Florencia.Elvira is a trained scholar. A medknight and the second son of the viscount house Dahldolf. When Philine's mother Theresia passed away shortly after giving birth to Konrad, he decided to marry Jonsara, who would act as a mother to his children. When Rozemyne later wants to tell her about Philine and Judithe, Elvira notifies her that she already knows they are trustworthy people. Her marriage was forced upon Aub Ehrenfest, too, and she has trouble integrating. A layscholar and Philine and Konrad's father, who married into Philine's mother's family. He does this to lure Bonifatius away from Gerlach. Rozemyne has provided Haldenzel with mana, and thanks to her introducing printing to Haldenzel and rediscovering the ritual to completely melt the snow (which usually only happens in summer), has shown Haldenzel a path to a brighter future. At the same time, Count Groschel's Leisegang wife was demoted to second wife, incurring the anger of the Leisegangs. Poor, poor Klonoa. Traugott's father is Bonifatius' son from his second wife. Karstedt and Elvira's oldest son, an 18-year-old member of the Knight's Order. Lamprecht doesn't do much to sort out this misunderstanding and it's only because of Rozemyne's innocence and good-heartedness that Aurelia opens up and decides to join Florencia's faction, gets married to Aurelia, an archnoble from Ahrensbach. On top of this, he debuts as "Brother Sylvester". Thus, he is very angry at Rozemyne and Ferdinand when his potential future retainers, children of Veronica's political faction, tell him that his grandmother was falsely imprisoned because of them. Officially, Joisontak is made responsible for Rozemyne's kidnapping and poisoning as well, as Ferdinand and Sylvester are unable to find the real culprit. As the second son of a bottom-of-the-barrel family from the Noble's Quarter with a criminal record who can't leave his mistress' service, it's extremely unlikely for him to find a suitable partner. The difference between her and Wilfried is largely that Wilfried was favored and spoiled because he was male, is not malicious at all, and that he puts an effort in his studies once he becomes aware how bad he is at it. J-Novel Club is releasing both the light novels and Suzuka's manga adaptation in English. Aware of Rozemyne's naivety and her willingness to bond with her siblings, he warns her to stay away from Nikolaus, their half-brother, mostly because his mother Trudeliede cannot be trusted. His plan was to marry Ferdinand to Rozemyne and thus eliminate all traces of Gabriele from future ruling generations, but Ferdinand and Sylvester see through this and quickly betroth Wilfried to Rozemyne to foil his plan. During Rozemyne's jureve sleep, Elvira began the development of the printing industry in Haldenzel together with the Plantin Company and her brother. And let's not even get into the fact that the kidnappers were hoping to do the whole thing without the archduke of Ehrenfest becoming aware of it. He doesn't know why, but his gut tells him that it's suspicious, he notes that the silver cloth he found in Gerlach's mansion is suspicious because it was torn apart and not cut with a schtappe knife. During Rozemyne's first visit to Illgner, Damuel struggles to defeat the effon feyplants unlike Brigitte. All he ever talks about is trying to learn Rozemyne's mana compression method. Matthias and Laurenz see through this, but nonetheless help Roderick, as they want to leave the option to join Rozemyne open. She led her own political faction of nobles that directly opposed House Leisegang and their allies. As Orochi once again drifts through the lives of humans, she encounters three separate tales of children caught in unimaginable circumstances. literally go see some flowers, as that is what she heard soldiers and knights apparently do after a battle. They go to (a pregnant) Florencia at a time when Sylvester is absent, but Rozemyne and Count Leisegang defuse the situation. Sigiswald shows a very arrogant and.

He then gets an earful from Karstedt and Ferdinand for failing his task to protect Myne, which caused another trombe to appear. Muriella decided to give her name to Rozemyne, although she asked to give it to Elvira once she graduates, as Muriella is a big fan of Elvira's romance novels. The video introduces Kazuhiko Inoue as the new character Sylvester. He then gives his name to Rozemyne and becomes her guard knight. Gretia's family belongs to the former Veronica faction. During Rozemyne's first winter socializing, he is seen hanging around with Wilfried a lot. The issue Myne resolves in Otto's place on the day of Tuuli's baptism involves someone coming to visit Baron Glaz with a letter of introduction from Baron Blon. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. In Part 4 Volume 5, on behest of Matthias, he warns Philine that an attack on Rozemyne is planned and eventually switches sides by becoming Rozemyne's retainer. He also shuts up Cornelius, who insists that Rozemyne shouldn't ride a highbeast together with Ferdinand, as people will surely interpret it as. This somewhat is amended when Brunhilde is willing to become Sylvester's second wife.