Rozemyne/Story

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See Myne/Story

After Myne officially becomes Rozemyne, she undergoes a health examination with Ferdinand, the High Priest, supervised by her new noble father Karstedt.

Ferdinand determines that her mana pathways have become badly scarred and hardened due to the damage caused by her Devouring. In order to dissolve the hardened "lumps" of mana and improve her health, she will need to make a jureve potion using a variety of rare and high-quality ingredients.

As Rozemyne prepares for her noble baptism and adoption, she meets Karstedt's family, which is now also her family.

She introduces herself to Elvira, her new mother, as well as her older brothers Eckhart, Lamprecht and Cornelius, all of whom welcome her warmly. She also begins intensively studying to master noble etiquette prior to her baptism. Ferdinand visits every few days to check on her health.

On the day of the baptism, Ferdinand gives Rozmeyne one of Tuuli's hair ornaments as a baptismal gift. Overwhelmed by nostalgia and missing her family, she bursts into tears. Ferdinand hurriedly clears the room, gives her a hug to calm her down, and then heals her swollen eyes with some exasperation.

About two hundred nobles are present for Rozemyne's baptism, including her new family and Sylvester and Florencia. She registers her new citizenship medal with mana, rather than blood, and it shines with a rainbow light in response. She is then given a mana ring, and Ferdinand instructs her to give the audience a blessing. Her blessing fills the entire room, shocking the nobles present and giving Sylvester a good segue to announce her adoption as the daughter of the archduke.

After the ceremony, she is introduced to her adoptive mother Florencia and adoptive big brother Wilfried. Her other adoptive siblings, Charlotte and Melchior, are too young to appear in public. She also meets Brigitte, her new guard knight who will work alongside Damuel.

Wilfried drags Rozemyne out to play, and she predictably collapses due to her poor stamina. Wilfried and Lamprecht are both shocked and guilty at the sight fo her seemingly lifeless body. Rozemyne later learns that Ferdinand planned for that to happen as an object lesson on her frailty.

Rozemyne returns to the temple and is formally inaugurated as the new High Bishop. Her first formal ceremony is the Starbind Ceremony at the end of summer. Rumors of the tiny new High Bishop who gives real blessings begin to circulate through the lower city, and Rozemyne also gets to see her lower city family from afar for a short time.

After the lower city's Starbind Ceremony Rozemyne visits the castle for the first time. There she meets her new attendants Rihyarda, Ottilie and apprentice guard knights Angelica and Cornelius for the first time. She also gets to see her younger sister Charlotte and her younger brother Melchior.

Rozemyne, Sylvester, Ferdinand and Benno, among others, meet at the Italian Restaurant to eat lunch and discuss the printing industry. Sylvester approves Myne's request to set up a monastery workshop in the nearby town of Hasse. To her surprise, they depart for Hasse immediately on the nobles' highbeasts, and Ferdinand uses magic to build the monastery before their eyes, using the same white stone as the City of Ehrenfest.

Tasked with raising funds for the monastery, Rozemyne suggests hosting a “charity concert” and asks Ferdinand to perform harspiel for her. He initially refuses, even when she offers him to trade him new songs and recipes, but is eventually badgered into helping her by Rihyarda.

To vent his annoyance, Ferdinand begins Rozemyne’s magic training at a ruthless pace: He gives her a large collection of books on magic but ensures she has no time to read them. Determined to get her own revenge, Rozemyne begins plotting to make and sell detailed illustrations of Ferdinand at the harspiel concert.

When Rozemyne finishes her highbeast, Ferdinand is dubious of the unconventional design of her Pandabus, which uses a drivable (rather than rideable) design and bears an unfortunate resemblance to a grun.

The performance is a rousing success, both as a performance and as a sales opportunity: Rozemyne sells out of all 300 illustrations she prepared. However, Ferdinand tracks her down as the culprit, scolds her, and puts an end to her illustration business.

On a visit to Hasse, Ferdinand and Rozemyne take four of the town’s orphans from the mayor and move them to the monastery. Ferdinand is disgusted by the commoners’ poor manners and impatient with Rozemyne’s reluctance to discipline them. After they return to the temple, they sense a disturbance at the monastery and discover that Hasse’s citizens attempted to break in.

To deal with the ongoing hostility, Ferdinand assigns Rozemyne to gather evidence on the mayor, politically isolate him and his allies, and execute him. However, she is deeply frightened and sickened at being asked to harm another person. Over the next few days, Rozemyne’s attendants and family notice her losing sleep over her worries, and Ferdinand receives several complaints and worried reports from Fran, Karstedt, and Sylvester. He promises to try to cheer her up somehow. Although Rozemyne is already feeling better by the next time they meet, she insists that he owes her a “cheering up” anyway.

Rozemyne explains that what is “common sense” for Ferdinand, like eliminating one’s political enemies, is completely different from “common sense” of the world she knows. He is shaken by the realization that their perspectives are so different, but praises her for managing to adapt. In turn, she assures him that she plans to take responsibility in Hasse.

Rozemyne loses patience with Wilfried’s jealousy and decides to switch places for the day. She spends the day leisurely reading, enjoying her free time, and developing a study curriculum to improve Wilfried's education.

Ferdinand, however, is infuriated by his nephew's laziness at the temple and demands that Sylvester remove him from the line of succession. Rozemyne asks him to give Wilfried one more chance and do his best to frighten him into studying. As she hoped, Wilfried is able to memorize the prayer he was assigned, and Ferdinand concedes that he can be taught.

During the switch, Rozemyne realizes that Sylvester has no clear idea how much work she and Ferdinand have been doing at the temple. She warns him that “if you work him too hard, he will just die,” and Sylvester agrees to ease off their schedule. Ferdinand is appalled that she told the archuduke that she couldn’t handle the work she was given, but she tells him that open communication with one’s superiors is important.

Ferdinand calls Kantna, the scholar-official of Hasse, to a meeting and pressures him into voiding his contract to buy some of the orphans. Intimidated by his skill at blackmail, Rozemyne assures him that she will never in her life make an enemy of him, no matter what.

When they return to Hasse with the contract, the mayor, who is under the mistaken assumption that the former High Bishop is still alive, treats them arrogantly. Ferdinand is coldly furious and makes it clear to Rozemyne that, were this not a good learning opportunity for her, the mayor would already be dead.

With the autumn Harvest Festival approaching, Ferdinand assigns Justus and Eckhart to accompany Rozemyne in collecting the first ingredient for her jureve on the Night of Schutzaria. Ferdinand and Rozemyne travel separately to spread out the work and limit the toll on her health. Due to a problem with his schedule, he is unable to meet her in Dorvan as planned, and she has to begin gathering her ruelle fruit without him.

When they reach the ruelle tree, Rozemyne harvests a ruelle and begins to dye it with her mana under Justus's instructions, while Eckhart, Damuel and Brigitte protect them from the approaching feybeasts. However, her ruelle is eaten by a zantze that grows into a goltze.

To buy time until Ferdinand can arrive, Rozemyne casts a reverse shield of Wind to contain the feybeast. She becomes drowsy and is only able to maintain the shield thanks to Justus telling her stories about the Royal Academy Library. Finally, Ferdinand and Eckhart manage to kill the goltze. Rozemyne is deeply disappointed at her failure to obtain the ingredient.

Rozemyne accidentally gives a blessing during her debut harspiel performance, which her guardians use as an opportunity to promote her as the Saint of Ehrenfest.

During winter socializing, she and Wilfried visit the winter playroom for the first time and meets the other noble children. She makes plans to use her study methods from the orphanage, like karuta and playing cards, to improve the quality of their education.

Ferdinand and Rozemyne return to the temple for the Dedication Ritual, where they again fill extra chalices for Frenbeltag. However, Ferdinand insisted that Sylvester and Florencia take responsibility for providing the necessary mana, and the ritual progresses quickly.

When Lord of Winter appears, Rozemyne goes with the Knight’s Order during their battle and gives them a blessing of Angriffe to help them during the fight. As soon as the schnesturm is sufficiently weakened, Ferdinand carries Rozemyne on his highbeast and helps her deliver the finishing blow with the spear of Leidenschaft so she can claim its feystone as the winter ingredient for her jureve.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 6

At the beginning of her second year at the royal academy, Rozemyne's atrophied muscles have recovered to pretty much the state they were in before her coma. She is once again able to move without any magical aid, but only at the slow speeds she was capable of prior to her jureve treatment. For this reason her guardians advised her to keep wearing the body enhancement magic tools. By pouring mana in them, she is now able to reach the speed of healthy people for at least short periods without immediately running out of breath or collapsing.

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