Otto/Story

Myne first meets Otto when Gunther forgets something important at home and Tuuli and Myne go to the gate to bring it to him. While Myne rests in a waiting room, Otto reports to Gunther that Count Woenhardt asked for the gates to be opened. This is the first time Myne sees her father's serious work attitude, which impresses her.

When Myne sees Otto writing up budgets and reports, her excitement makes Otto offer to give her his old slate and teach her some letters. Much to Otto's dismay Gunther ends up envious and sukling for days due to his beloved daughter asking a stranger instead of him to teach her letters.

At one point Myne points out a calculation mistake in the budget Otto's working on, showing that despite her not knowing her letters yet, she is well aquainted with numbers and able to do math to an astounding degree. In a desperate time-crunch Otto swallows his pride and asks the five year old girl for help, making her his assistent and agreeing to pay her in slate pencils.

When the next batch of new recruits enters their apprenticeship at the gate, Otto adds her to the class, officially stating that he's doing a favour to his superior by teaching his daughter. Much to Otto's surprise Myne has some very good suggestions on how to make the teaching process of the little boys more efficient.

When Myne learns that her friend Lutz wants to become a traveling merchant, she asks Otto for advice, which results in Otto introducing the pair to his brother-in-law Benno, who owns a prestigeous clothing and apparel store in the city. During their meeting Myne and Lutz manage to get an agreement with Benno that he will take them on as merchant's apprentices if they succesfully complete a test. Otto is not happy about this, since Myne's help made his job at the gate much easier and he had been hoping to keep her as his assistent.

During their prototyping, Myne approaches Otto because they need nails. Otto tries to get her recipy for Shampoo, but Myne manages to negotiate him down to a single jar of the finished product. Otto invites her to his home, where she teaches Corinna how to use it by washing her hair with it.

Seeing a still wet and now glistening hair of his beloved wife set's Otto off and he persuades Myne to quickly leave her alone, by giving her the full bag of nails without even trying to negotiate her down.

When Myne starts to doubt whether she has the ability to work as a merchants apprentice due to her poor health, Otto advices her to think about working as a scholar, at last in part hoping this will keep her as his assistent for longer. But any such hopes are dashed, when Myne stumbles into becoming an apprentice shrine maiden at the temple upon her baptism.

Shortly after Otto and his wife discover that Corinna is pregnant. Despite his attempts to hide this for the time being, Gunther sees through Otto right away.

It is presumably at this point that Otto starts to seriously consider quitting his job as a soldier and accordingly starts to train his most likely successor Leckle harder than ever before... or as some might say, push ever more work onto him.

Myne's new products brought the Gilberta Company great profits, but also ended up causing troubles with other stores who were concerned about the store expanding into other industries. As a result Benno decided to leave the Gilberta Company and take all the business not related to clothes and beaty products into a new store and starts to train Otto to take his place in the Gilberta Company.

Come the following spring a noble of another duchy manages to slip into the city with a forged permission, so many soldiers - Otto included - are sent out to look for him in the lower city. This leads to Otto being present when Count Bindewald's devouring soldiers attack Myne and Tuuli out in the streets. After the assailents are dealt with by Damuel and Gunther, his superior tasks Otto with keeping Tuuli save at the Gilberta Company while the others head to the temple.

Shortly after a badly injured Gunther comes to the Gilberta Company to retrief his daugther, without giving an explanation. Only later does Otto learn that Myne was adopted by the Archduke, that the official line is that the commoner Myne was killed by the foreign noble and that the girl was now called Rozemyne.

At the end of winter Otto's daughter Renate is born.

As part of the training to take over the Gilberta Company Otto is being taught how to interact with nobles by the grey priest Fran, who is willing to do so thanks to how helpful the Gilberta Company has been to the orphanage ever since Myne became the orphanage director.

When Benno is confident that Otto is ready, he created his new store and takes Mark and Lutz with him. This new company is named the Plantin Company, a name chosen by Rozemyne.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 4

In the two years of Rozemyne's coma the leherl Theo earned Otto's confidence, effectively becoming his right-hand man.

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