Gil/Story

When Myne joins the temple as an apprentice blue shrine maiden, the High Bishop orders the High Priest to assign her one of the worst troublemakers in the orphanage to be her attendant. On Arno's suggestion, the High Priest chooses Gil.

Gil accepts the coveted position cheerfully, since he expects being an apprentice attendant will give him better food and living conditions than staying in the orphanage. However, he is appalled to learn that Myne, as a commoner, will be commuting to the temple and not providing him with living quarters or food at all. Resentful, he becomes openly hostile toward his new master.

When Myne says she will reward Gil with food and wages if he works hard, he is initially bewildered at the concept of being compensated for work. However, he becomes motivated and takes to his job with new enthusiasm. Due to never having been shown affection before, Gil is moved to tears when Myne praises him for his diligence and becomes a loyal attendant to her.

Later, Gil goes with Myne, Fran, and Lutz to the lower city, where he's shocked by the difference in culture between the city and the temple. He also inadvertently causes a stir by taking fruit from a vendor without paying, since he has little awareness of money. In the end, Gil apologizes for mocking Myne's inexperience with temple customs.

Along with Myne's other attendants at the temple, Gil moves into his new quarters in the orphanage director's room. One day, he goes with Myne to deliver leftover food to the orphans, and suggests they take a shortcut through the back of the girls' building instead of the main entrance.

Confronted with the true conditions of the orphanage and the sight of starving children, both Gil and Myne are deeply shocked. Because he was baptized before the recall of the blue priests, he was unaware of the true conditions the children were living in. He immediately implores Myne to do what she can to help them.

While Myne works to secure permission from the High Priest, Gil continues to bring food and supplies to the orphans as often as he can, and they come to view him as their savior. He also takes an active role in the cleanup of the orphanage and goes with the children on trips to the forest for foraging, helping them learn how to behave properly in the lower city.

When Myne sets up the workshop in the orphanage and begins making karuta, she gives a set to Gil to help him read. He also gets a stone slate and pen to learn to write.

Later, when the monastery in Hasse is built, Gil is sent out as the representative of the Rozemyne Workshop alongside the Gilberta Company.

During Rozemyne's coma Gil acompanied the Plantin Company to Haldenzel to establish their first paper-making and printing workshops, which took from the spring to the autumn of the first year of Rozemyne's sleep.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 5 In the spring following Rozemyne's first year at the Royal Academy Gil, together with a couple of other grey priests is chosen to accompany personell of the Plantin Company to help establish paper-making and printing workshops in Groschel. Soon after their arrival they petition the giebe for permission to lodge in the local lower city, rather than the side-building of the giebe's mansion, so they do not have to commute every day and thus are able to work more efficiently, which Giebe Groschel grants.

During his stay in the city, surrounded by low-status commoners, Gil regresses to his old, crude manners and speech patterns. When the locals are amazed about Rozemyne's true blessings during the Harvest Festival Gil proudly states that he told them this would happen and brashly braggs about being her attendant. Once back at her side though, he is able to quickly switch back to what is considered proper behaviour and choice of words for an attendant to such a high-status person.

Together with Lutz he is able to compile a set of local stories and make them into a book to give to Rozemyne, much to her delight.

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