It took around 7 years, but Count Bindewald's dream has finally come true! Rozemyne is now in Ahrensbach using her vast quantity of mana toward the betterment of the duchy!

Rescuing Ferdinand may be her primary motivation for obtaining Ahrensbach's foundation, but rescuing the fish is probably a close second.

“Aah, fish tastes so good...” I gushed. “I’ve come to want Ahrensbach.” - Rozemyne P4V8

Wow, so much awesomeness for one week! I like that Rozemyne's Grutrissheit divine instrument is a tablet with a search function. Not sure how she's going to explain all this to everyone else. "Somehow I got big by offering mana to the Mestionora statue in the library." Rozemyne being a mana chameleon is kind of an interesting development. I wonder if she's going to inform Ferdinand at all or just continue as if everything is normal. In my headcanon Ferdinand's estate will now be known as "La Quinta".

Sigiswald at beginning of chapter: Must I marry her...?

Sigiswald by end of chapter: I get to marry her?!

It was interesting to see Effa's perspective on the noble's quarter. She never really knew how much money Myne had even back in her commoner days either. Poor Gunther has a crappy job, but all to defend his home. Seems that Ferdinand was a lot angrier with Letizia than I suspected as well.

Anyway, really looking forward to continuing the main story next week!

Guess we're getting lots of side stories in this volume.

Rozemyne gets to see first hand how the inability to redraw duchy borders has made Werkestock's giebes incredibly desperate. Their excuses aren't likely to save them from prison though.

The epilogue was some interesting backstory for Georgine's character. Can't help but feel a bit of sympathy for what her parents made her endure and her motivation was just trying to earn their approval instead of actually serving the duchy. When Sylvester entered the picture and Georgine decided to adopt Veronica's methods is when she really started going off the deep end. Veronica really is the cause of so many issues for so many people in this story. Also didn't expect Georgine to use the sewers to bypass security.

I like Giebe Kirnberger. He seems like a guy that really thinks things through and has interesting insights. I imagine a lot more Ehrenfest nobles will soon share his concerns about the future of the duchy.

Have to admit that Grausam's prosthetic arm is pretty cool. I feel bad for Rozemyne having to fly through severed arms, wounded knights, and feystones. That would be pretty traumatizing. A lot more nobles were killed than I expected too, but that shows that Grausam is a worthy opponent. Looking forward to see what Rozemyne and Matthias can do against him.

I'm really worried about Ferdinand. Rozemyne will have to go through the Ahrensbach temple's book room (using silver cloth, registering with it, or becoming the High Bishop?) to get to the foundation. Final boss: unread book room.

I feel bad for Dunkelfelger. They got all hyped up for practically no action so far. Maybe next week they'll have something to fight.

Marbles on the ground, throwing waste, insect swarms, flash bangs, hidden teleporters, battle shumils! Almost seems like we're having a "Home Alone" style battle on our hands. The part of the silver hooded man with a missing hand will be played by Joe Pesci.

Maybe. I kind of got the impression that Damuel would be guarding not only Myne's lower city family, but all the commoners Rozemyne gave a crested feystone which would make it less suspicious.

Ahhh, so many questions now...

Since Rozemyne and Ferdinand's mana is so similar would magic contracts, citizenship and hidden room registration affect both of them? It seems that the magic ink they make is slightly different still, so perhaps not? Still close enough that a god couldn't tell them apart though.

I wonder if Ferdinand knew that Rozemyne was marked by Ewigeliebe. Still very curious why he needs all that maximal quality paper.

Will Rozemyne be able to fix Yurgenschmidt's nearly dry foundation even with the holes in her knowledge? Will Georgine assault Ehrenfest's foundation while Rozemyne is away at the Royal Academy?

Gah! Can't wait for next week!

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My (very wrong) interpretation of the cover:

• Rozemyne hits puberty. Her sudden height change causes her to trip and accidentally let out blessings.
• Ferdinand gets kicked out of the side building for arguing with Detlinde. He's forced to sleep outside wrapped in his cape.
• Letizia plays hide and seek with those nice looking guys.

I've wondered about the sewer pipes as well. Perhaps these are actually the pipes that were placed for future water purification?

“Ferdinand, what do you think?” Sylvester asked. “Could we use water-purifying magic tools on the river?”

“In the long-term, it would use far too much mana; the magic tools would need to be redesigned to be usable. However, if the water will only be needed in the future, perhaps we could add only the pipes for now? Those alone would not be a significant burden.” - P4V4 (The Archduke Conference Approaches)

“Stay focused, Rozemyne,” Ferdinand said. “By stealing mana on such a large scale, Georgine has forced Ehrenfest to deploy knights here and in Illgner. Assuming her plan was to weaken the guard around the Noble’s Quarter, she must be close to the city of Ehrenfest or already within its walls.”

Couldn't they use a similar technique that Bonifatius used when Rozemyne was in a coma and just spam ordonnanzes at Georgine to find her—perhaps taunting her all the while?

I find it ironic that Rozemyne wasn't considered a bigger threat to Georgine's plans than Ferdinand or Bonifatius. It's possible that they believed Fraularm's rants about her being dead or at least too ill to be of consequence. They must not have found out that Rozemyne was the responsible for ruining Viscountess Dahldolf's plans either. Georgine is a cold calculator like Ferdinand and can guess what moves he'll make, but she'll never be able to foresee the actions of the chaos gremlin!

One thing I will predict is that the word "Fool" will probably be mentioned in the next chapter more times than any previous one.

It kinda makes me wonder how many people are trugged up. Letizia was until the light of Rozemyne's charm/blessing enveloped her. Detlinde is no doubt living in her own little fantasy world. I'm wondering if either Leonzio or Georgine are too. The question is who's pulling everyone's strings.

I can understand Georgine hating her mother and brother for being forced to give up being an archduke candidate—after training hard to become one—and get married off to Ahrensbach. Even Rihyarda has sympathy for her. We don't really know what her circumstances were like in Ahrensbach, she may have had good reason to get rid of the other archduke family members, or maybe she was just broken at that point. But there's a big difference between taking revenge on the people who wronged you and genocide.

If Letizia were old enough then I'd agree that she'd be best to take the lead, but she's not even close to entering the Royal Academy. Ferdinand has been building a good rapport with the people of Ahrensbach. I think almost everyone—including Detlinde's retainers—would prefer him to lead over Detlinde at this point.