Episode 5

Baptisms and Strange Fevers is the title of the fifth episode of the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime series.

Summary
By summer time Tuuli is dressed ready for her baptism. As she heads to the cathedral, Gunther has to attend a meeting and is late for it.

Myne informs Otto that there is a merchant with a noble's referral here as she is carried home by her dad. There, Tuuli receives gifts in preparation for becoming an apprentice seamstress.

Gifted a knife to help work in the forest, Myne finds Lutz acquiring wood himself. Helping her prepare wood tablets, Lutz requests Myne to ask Otto how to become a travelling trader. She also asks to be paid in ink instead of slate pens with her using wood now.

Drying the wood she has acquired, Myne wonders how to get ink. Opting for soot, she mixes some with water. Back home, Myne finds that her mother had burned the wood thinking it was for the fire, and she passes out after emitting the same colored aura from before.

After contemplating it, and discussing how her efforts to make a book keep failing, Myne is advised to hire someone.

Characters by Appearances

 * Tuuli
 * Myne
 * Effa
 * Gunther
 * Otto