Ascendance of a Bookworm

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A World Without Books
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Motosu Urano, a college student and a bookworm of the highest order, loses her life in an avalanche of books and wakes up in another world as a sickly girl named Myne. Nevertheless .. show full overview
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Life Improvements and Slates
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Having learned how expensive books are in this world, Myne resolves to make books of her own. However, she soon finds out just how frail her new body is when she and her elder sister, .. show full overview
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The Events of Winter
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While everyone is snowed in by the harsh winter, Myne has a plan: a plan to craft pseudo-papyrus as the first step towards making a book. Meanwhile, Eva teaches Turi a bunch of skills in .. show full overview
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Forests and Clay Tablets
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Spring has arrived, and Main is raring to go make clay tablets in the forest. But first, she must convince her family that she can handle the journey.
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Baptisms and Strange Fevers
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The season has shifted to summer, and the day of Turi's baptism has arrived. Turi attracts attention with a hair ornament made by Main. Main, who has more opportunities to go to the .. show full overview
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Meeting
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Lutz and Myne prepare for the meeting with Otto. But Otto brings someone with him, turning a casual meeting into an interview that will decide both Lutz and Myne's futures.
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Seeds of Suspicion
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With the paper-making process about to begin, Main can't hide her excitement as she and Lutz go to meet Benno as per his invitation. He reveals that he is willing to arrange for all the .. show full overview
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Lutz's Main
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As Main and Lutz begin making their paper for real, Main's excitement gets the better of her, and Lutz's suspicions come to a head. He resolves to talk to her about it after the paper is finished.
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The Guild Master's Granddaughter
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Benno looks to have Myne and Lutz registered with the Merchant Guild, but the guild master proves to be an obstacle. This results in them making plans to meet Frieda, his granddaughter.
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To the Second Winter
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Myne learns from Frieda that the illness she has is called the Devouring, and that it will flare up if she ever feels anxiety or loses hope. Almost on cue, her fever starts acting up...
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Life-or-Death Choices and Family Meetings
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With Myne collapses, everyone she knows comes together in a bid to save her life. But soon, she is faced with a life-or-death decision, one that she must discuss with her family.
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Baptism and Divine Paradises
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The day of Myne and Lutz's baptism has arrived. Wearing a fancy dress and a new hair ornament, Myne appears a clear standout from the rest of the kids, but soon she loses her way and finds herself in what she sees as heaven on earth.
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The Choice To Be an Apprentice Priestess
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When Main brings up wanting to become an apprentice priestess to her family, she learns the truth about the role and what it entails and soon comes to realize that she is in for the fight of her life.
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Conclusions
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Myne, Gunther, and Eva head to the cathedral for their fateful meeting, knowing that Myne's life is riding on a successful negotiation. But will things really go so smoothly for them?
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Apprentice Priestess
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Myne is now an apprentice priestess at the cathedral. How will she adapt to a new life in new surroundings, and how will they react to her?
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Blue Robes and Uncommon Sense
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The stark contrast of the values at the church compared to life downtown continues to bewilder Myne, as she butts heads with her retainers and her expected duties at the church.
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Needs
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With Fran now fully on her team, Myne must then get to work on winning Gil and Delia over.
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Orphanage Reforms
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Myne is taken to the orphanage and collapses in shock when she sees the state it and its inhabitants are in. She wants to help the kids, but will she really be able to?
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Cleanups and Star Festivals
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As newly appointed orphanage director, Myne's first task is to lead a major cleanup of the orphanage and its inhabitants. And as summer comes around, she also has some festivities in mind.
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The Path Ahead of Lutz
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The friction in Lutz's family caused by his choice of profession comes to a head, and he runs away from home to get away from it all.
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New Retainers
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When Myne hears that Eva is pregnant, she decides to make a picture book for the baby and looks to recruit Wilma to be her artist. However, she finds a few roadblocks on her path...
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Wilma and Holy Scriptures for Kids
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With the picture-book production in full sway, Myne must navigate several hurdles regarding the process and, more pressingly, Wilma's condition.
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Harvest Festivals and Staying Home
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The Harvest Festival is here, and Myne finds the library ransacked. She is outraged at first, but this may be a welcome opportunity for her...
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Knight Orders and Requests
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Myne has to break the news to her family that she has to stay in the cathedral over winter. Meanwhile, the request from the knight order looms large over the horizon.
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Trombe and Battles
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Myne and the head priest set out to join the knights on a mission to take down a rampage trombe. With this being her first exposure to proper noble society, who knows what perils lie in Myne's path?
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Dreamlike World
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Tasked with healing the land ravaged by the trombe, Myne has to put on a show. How that will affect the way the onlookers see her is anybody's guess... and so is how the head priest will react.
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The Beginning of Winter
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Autumn has come to a close. Myne starts selling the scripture picture books, gets asked by the apprentice blacksmith Johann to be his patron, and starts taking the next step in her .. show full overview
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The Story About Winter Stays and the Future
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Myne ends up having to start her winter stay at the cathedral. However, she instantly becomes homesick. Also, in a meeting with Benno, Ferdinand, and Karstedt, it's revealed that Wolf is .. show full overview
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The Dedication Ceremony and Spring Arrives
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The knight Damuel has become Myne's bodyguard. Now that she's able to go places, Myne is excited about going to the library. They hold the Dedication Ceremony where she offers her mana .. show full overview
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Spring Prayer
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Myne and the others get ready to head off to the Spring Prayer, when they meet a blue-robed priest named Sylvester. Myne doesn't know how to deal with Sylvester who seems to do whatever .. show full overview
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Gift From the Blue-Robed Priest and Going Home
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With the Spring Prayer finished, Main and the others returned to the cathedral. Sylvester appoints Main as his guide to show him around the orphanage and workshop, where they observe how .. show full overview
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The Abandoned Child of the Cathedral and Making Colors
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Myne is finally able to go home. Her little brother Kamil is born and she becomes even more determined to create books. That is when Myne meets a helpful collaborator named Heidi, who is .. show full overview
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Delia and Dirk
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Dirk suddenly develops a high fever. Delia, who adored Dirk, and started to see him as her own family, was worried sick. Myne sees his symptoms and realizes that he may have the .. show full overview
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Ominous Developments
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On the way home from Heidi's workshop, they hear the emergency bells sound through the city as well as see a red emergency flare go up into the sky. Myne is worried about what might've .. show full overview
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The Black Protective Charm
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Because of the lack of caution exercised by one of the gate guards, the carriage with the noble from another domain has entered the city. Gunther finds out that Myne is being targeted .. show full overview
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Blessing
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To protect her family, Main agrees to be adopted by Sylvester. It is he who enters the cathedral with Sir Karstedt just at the moment when Ferdinand and Sir Bindewald are involved in a .. show full overview
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