Konrad

Konrad is Philine's brother.

Konrad's mother died shortly after his birth. His father soon married Lady Jonsara, who didn't take well the to children of her new husbands deceased wife, treating both Konrad and Philine coldly. When she gave birth to a boy with more mana than Konrad, this cold treatment turned into outright abuse. When she was alone at home with the two youngest children, she even turned her schtappe on him, leaving Konrad covered in wounds and traumatized. She also took his magic tool away and gave it to her own child, effectively leaving Konrad to die.

When Philine returns from her first year at the Royal Academy and discovers what Jonsara has done in her absence, things escalate. Likely in an attempt to keep things under wraps, Jonsara sends an ordonnanz to the castle, claiming that Philine has fallen ill, but the girl's screaming in the background leads Rozemyne to personally investigate, accompanied by Ferdinand and several of her retainers along with Kashick, their father.

Upon their arrival, Rozemyne and her companions learn that the family simply does not have the money for a second magic tool or to support Konrad as a blue priest. And while unlike his wife, their father clearly is pained by this fact, he reluctantly admits that they have no choice but to choose one of the children and that this choice can only fall to the one with the bigger mana capacity. Since both parents are apparently willing to let Konrad die, Rozemyne rather forcefully suggests to make him a grey priest, which Jonsana happily accepts, while Kashick is taking this in with mixed feelings.

Following this declaration, Rozemyne attempts to heal Konrad with her schtappe, but this only sends him into a fit of panic, showing just how far Jonsana had gone in hurting the boy. Seeing this, she dispells her schtappe and proceeds to heal him with just her ring.

After wrapping things up between Philine and her family, Rozemyne leaves with the two siblings, with Philine vowing to never return, leaving Jonsana relatively happy and Kashick devastated.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 4

Konrad takes to his new home surprisingly well and quickly, showing non of the usual arrogance and prejudice against grey robes and the temple in general so common among the vast majority of nobles and blue robes. Right away he panics just from hearing footsteps, showing futher evidence of just how extreme the abuse he suffered at his former step-mother's hands was, but that quickly fades.

Due to them being the only children of roughly the same age, Konrad quickly forms a friendship with Dirk who took it upon himself to teach the new arrival about life at the orphanage. Recently Konrad even started to smile and laugh, getting rather energetic and keeping his primary caretaker Delia quite busy.