Lutz

Lutz (ルッツ Ruttsu) is Myne's childhood friend and partner. He starts helping Myne as she starts getting out of the house more, and gets roped into helping her with her many, many projects along the way to making her precious books. He dreams about traveling through the world and seeing new cities. Myne considers him the Gutenberg of selling books.

Appearance
Lutz is a young boy, being the same age as Myne. He has short blond hair, and emerald eyes.

History
Born as the youngest of the four brothers in his family, Lutz always gets the short end of the stick. He mentions how his food gets taken away by his brothers and never gets enough. During the second arc, Lutz also grumbles about how his brothers takes his belongings as if it were theirs, so his things are never safe at home.

Personality
Since Lutz always gets the short end as the youngest in the family, he is very patient and kind to others. He only ever loses control of his emotions when Myne's safety is concerned or his family disapproves his dream to be a merchant.

Story
Lutz is introduced as the boy her age from the neighborhood in Myne's memory. He is kind and helpful to her, even offering to carry her to the gate. He sought her help when he heard about Otto, a former traveling merchant from her to introduce him.

In order to become a traveling merchant, he is willing to help Myne as much as she needs, though he accepts the compromise Myne staged to become a merchant instead during his meeting with Otto and Benno. Benno soon becomes impressed with his capacity to accompany Myne and her recklessness. Then, Benno assigned Lutz to be Myne's health manager.

Lutz starts to get suspicious of Myne's abnormal behavior and vast knowledge but he decides to wait until they complete Benno's test. After they finished making the paper prototypes, Lutz confronts her to tell the truth and Myne reveals her secret. At first, he thought she killed the real Myne but realisles after Myne's explanation, that no one would be willingly trapped in a body of a sickly girl, so he accepts her, as she is the Myne he knows and befriended.

After passing Benno's test he is registered in the Merchant's Guild alongside with Myne with Benno is their guardian. He will sign a lehange contract after his baptism.

Benno begins to think about making Lutz his successor, as Lutz is an honest, capable and diligent worker. Therefore he wants to take Lutz to another city where he plans to build a new paper workshop. Lutz's family didn't allow him to travel to another city with Benno which is why Lutz runs away from home. Myne meddles and even involves the High Priest Ferdinand into this matter. Followed by an invitation to his parents and the Gilberta Company, Ferdinand holds a meeting with before-mentioned parties and Myne to solve Lutz's problem. It turns out, that there was miscommunication and misunderstandings between Lutz and his family. They made up and resolved Lutz's problem. The Gilberta Company offers him a leherl contract which Lutz accepts.

When Benno forms the Plantin Company, he takes Lutz with him. Lutz's first job at the Plantin company was to travel to Illgner. There he teaches the locals how to make paper as well as researches what new types of paper could be made.

Trivia

 * Lutz was the first person to find out that Myne's body had been taken over by Urano's memories and desires. The second was Ferdinand while Benno and Leise left it alone after asking her what she is or where she takes her knowledge from once.
 * Lutz may be capable of wielding a minor variant of the crushing, as in the Light Novel, Myne describes his eyes as being brighter than normal when he retaliates against Gil after Gil pushed Myne over.