Hugo

Hugo (フーゴ Fuugo) is a character that appears in the Ascendance of a Bookworm series.

Hugo has broad shoulders and is quite muscular due to him being a chef. His hands are covered with calluses from using the kitchen knife.

When Benno looked for chefs to train for his eatery, Hugo agreed to take the job. He met his assistant Ella at the Eatery Guild for the first time when she came to sign the contract. Both had to sign a contract with the Gilberta Company stating that they won't cook Myne's recipes without Benno's or Myne's permission. When they shook hands at their first meeting, Hugo noticed the calluses on Ella's hand. He is impressed by her and respects her for her diligence towards cooking.

He is an aspiring chef and becomes Myne's personal chef in exchange for learning how to cook her recipes. He brings his assistant Ella with him to the temple to train for Benno's Italian Restaurant. When he cooks with the new cooking techniques he is quite surprised how good the food tastes and is eager to learn as much as he can from Myne.

He is the main chef at the Italian restaurant. After the success of the first test run with Rozemyne and her guests in the Italian Restaurant, Rozemyne offers to delay the opening of the restaurant for a month so they can hire him for a month and train their chefs with the new recipes, and simultaneously give Benno more time to prepare everything. Hugo is quite shocked when the Karstedt and Sylvester argue on where he will be cooking for the month.

While Rozemyne is sleeping in the jureve, Hugo and Ella get engaged. Due to their positions as personal chefs of a noble, they can't marry without the permission of their mistress and Rozemyne's legal guardian Ferdinand is unwilling to make the decision himself, leaving them no other choice than to wait for Rozemyne to awaken before they can marry, much to Hugo's frustration, since that means he'll be stuck as an unmarried participant in yet another Starbind Festival, only throwing Taue at other newlyweds.