Part 1 Volume 1 Chapter 1: A New Life

A New Life (新しい生活, Atarashii Seikatsu) is the first chapter of the Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 1 Volume 1 light novel adaption.

After Urano Motosu's death, she finds herself lying on a bed in an unknown environment, seeing a meak small hand in front of her, which moves according to her thoughts. Still confused over her memories of her death, a woman enters the room. Unrecognisable sounds, which come out of the woman's mouth, make her head hurt. A stream of memories flow into her head, familair memories that were not her own. While she tries to locate herself and her memories she interacts with the woman, her mother Effa. From the moment she called the woman her mother, she became Myne.

Urano becoming Myne, begins her first interactions with her family. She quickly reached her limits, as the sickly five-year-old Myne has almost no memories about the world and society and very limited vocabulary. In a conversation with her sister Tuuli, she asks for a book, but Tuuli does understand Myne at all. Besides books, she is also worried about the cleanliness and her own itchy body.

Characters are listed in order of appearance.


 * Myne (first appearance)
 * Effa (first appearance)
 * Tuuli (first appearance)


 * Urano awakens as Myne.


 * Book
 * Letters
 * Written
 * Illustrations
 * Picture Book
 * Bath


 * Urano awakens in a different world more medieval than her previous one.
 * Myne's auto-translator only works for words the previous Myne knew or which she learns in the new world's language.
 * Her family's appearance is described in this chapter.
 * Myne thinks Effa and Tuuli waste their beauty by being full of dirt.