Myne/Story

In the first chapter, Myne dies because of a fever which lead to her past life's memories to emerge inside Myne's body. Due to her strong willpower Myne's body survived the near death situation. Learning she has been reborn to a body of a frail five-year-old girl living in a medieval era, Myne who became depressed decides that as long as she has a book she can overcome anything. She tries to find something to read, only to become frustrated by the lack of books at her disposal.

Upon learning that books are expensive, owned mostly by nobles, Myne declares "I'll make them myself!" beginning her journey into bookmaking. The first hurdle she finds is her frail and sickly body, often left bedridden with a fever after mild exertion. The second hurdle is the language barrier, with the previous Myne's limited vocabulary and only knowing how to write and read in Japanese.

One day she is visiting the gate where her father works at and is introduced to Otto, a colleague of her father and former traveling merchant. Otto gives Myne a stone slate and shows her how to write her own name. She begins frequenting the south gate, learning new words and the alphabet to help Otto with his paper work. She also helps him with his math paperwork by using the math skills she developed in her Urano days, in exchange for more slate pens.

As her health and literacy increases, she trains her body so she can walk to the forest. Her progress is slow but thanks to her friend Lutz, she is able to manage it. Lutz suspected Myne being someone else after they spend more time with each other and confronts her. Myne agrees to Lutz's claim and telling him that the old Myne most likely passed away. In the end he accepts her for who she is and they make up.

Myne displays many extraordinary skills and ideas like plant paper making which leads to her successful business relationship with the merchant Benno. While Myne expands her connections in the merchant world through Benno, she befriends the granddaughter of Gustav the guildmaster. Freida also suffers from the Devouring like Myne so they are both happy to having found a kindred spirit in the other. One day Myne couldn't contain the heat anymore and was about to be devoured. Freida sold a magic tool to Myne which enables her to extend her life to up to one year. As magic tools are expensive and normally owned by nobles, Myne is confronted with two choices: She either signs a contract with a noble or withers away besides her family. Myne decides to stay with her family until the day she dies.

During her baptism ceremony she faints and is brought into a room to rest. After getting lost in the temple she finds a room which resembles a library. Being excited by the pure sight, she then meets with the High Bishop Bezewanst, the highest entity in the temple, and requests an apprenticeship which would allow her entering the book room. After hearing the amount of money Myne intends to donate, he asks Myne to talk to her parents and offers her to visit the temple to read the bible. Myne's parents got angry with her and explain the reason behind their anger. She understands and intends to decline her apprenticeship. Therefore, Myne visits the temple again where she encounters the High Priest Ferdinand. He was instructed to read the bible to her until the High Bishop arrives. When the Bezewanst arrived, Myne began her argumentation stating her bad health and the Devouring as reasons as to why she isn't fit for working in the temple, and hopes to cancel her apprenticeship. When hearing that Myne suffers from the Devouring, they made her touch a magical tool which shows that she possesses a certain amount of mana. What follows is a summon invitation for Myne's parents and the stronger intention in making Myne join the temple. The High Bishop thought Myne was a rich merchant child due to her appearance, but after seeing her parents he knows better. His friendly behavior changed to an unfriendly and condescending one towards Myne and her family, even resorting to violence after Myne's parents tried to cancel the requested apprenticeship. Myne witnessing her father's fight loses herself in rage and crushed the High Bishop using her mana until he faints. Ferdinand intervenes before she kills Bezewanst which leads to him being the new target. He convinces her to calm down and hold a proper discussion about her apprenticeship. They agreed on favorable terms, so Myne becomes a blue apprentice shrine maiden.

After a month, Myne officially assumed her blue shrine maiden apprenticeship. Therefore, she is walked by Lutz to the temple where she meets Fran. She parts with Lutz at the temple's gate and is guided by Fran to the High Priest's chambers. Ferdinand is in charge of her inauguration ceremony where Myne receives her blue robe. Following the ceremony, he introduces her to her three attendants, Delia, Gil and Fran. Everyone has their reasons but they all share one thing. They don't recognize Myne as their proper master while Myne doesn't see them as her proper attendants. While Myne bonds with each one of the three over the time, she learns more about the temple and her role as a blue shrine maiden. When the donation was due, Benno helped her to realize her short comings and was involved to immediately bring the donation over to the temple. Fran had trouble to accept Myne due to her mannerism and his frustration. As Myne changed he also changed his attitude. Gil lost his place to stay and the food he received before, directing his anger at Myne. Myne didn't know she had to take proper care of her attendants as a blue shrine maiden and feeding them the alms of the gods. When she learned about Gil, she works out a plan to offer him a place to stay and food, leading to her acquiring the orphanage director's chambers. Bezewanst was furious after hearing, that Myne got her chambers, which lead to him throwing out Delia. Delia was angry at Myne (due to her own fault though) and barged into her chambers. There she learned through Benno, that she can't get by acting like a hostess. She pleads to Myne to not abandon her, which would mean she had to return to the orphanage.

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