Clarissa

Clarissa (クラリッサ, Kuralisa) is an apprentice scholar of Dunkelfelger that serves as Hannelore's scholar during the book lover's tea party.

Clarissa has scorched brown hair and blue eyes. She is quite tall, being only slightly shorter than Hartmut.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 7 Befitting her duchy of origin, Clarissa is hot-blooded and would charge towards her goals single-mindedly. Her obsession and reverence in Rozemyne rivals Hartmut.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 7 and Royal Academy Stories - First Year Like the majority of children from her duchy Clarissa originally tried to become a knight, but failed the selection exam on account of being too small and weak and thus chose to become a scholar instead. Since she still favours the sword over the pen she kept training with the Dunkelfelger knights, despite technically not being one of them.

Clarissa has shown a great deal of interest - bordering on outright obsession - toward Lady Rozemyne of Ehrenfest ever since the girl led her duchy into a victory in Ditter. That such a small and physically frail girl could not only participate in a ditter match, but turn it around to lead the clearly weaker team to victory greatly inspired Clarissa. Rozemyne personally participating in the match despite being an archduke candidate and a mere first year student and still succinctly taking charge of her duchy's knights is a sign to Clarissa that Rozemyne has the qualities of a general, fit to lead many knights. And how she was able to come up with clever and inspired tactics and tricks on the spot with just the tools she happened to have on her, without any time to prepare marks her intellect as her geatest weapon.

Following the match she bemoaned the fact that Rozemyne wasn't a Dunkelfelger noble, since she would have sworn herself to the girl on the spot had this been the case. From Professor Rauffen she learned that there are ways in which she might still be able to enter Rozemyne's service, despite being from another duchy, but he cautioned her against any rash action and advised her to calm down and carefully weight her options before making a decision. Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 7 Due to her obsession with Rozemyne, Clarissa decided to do everything she can and use every tool at her disposal to try to one day serve Lady Rozemyne. Since the only realistic way to achieve this goal was to marry into Ehrenfest, she carefully vetted all the viable Ehrenfest students for a potential partner. On account of their respective ages, statuses and duchy relations, she concluded that only Cornelius and Hartmut were viable candidates for her ambition.

She first approached Cornelius, but he turned her down due to already having someone else. Desperate to convince her only alternative, her approach to Hartmut was very unusual and forceful, even by Dunkelfelger standards. Her proposal began with her kicking Hartmut's legs out from under him and pinning him to the ground with her body, while holding a knife to his throat. She then demanded that he give her missions to earn his hand in marriage, which the boy fearing for his life did. Over the proceeding month Clarissa successfully finished all of Hartmut's missions and at the same time eliminated all her potential rivals for Hartmut's affection from his consideration.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 7 When Clarissa learns of Lady Hannelore having a tea-party with the object of her obsession, Clarissa manages to get herself assigned to work as a scholar at the tea party, despite not being one of Hannelore's retainers, for a chance to be close to Rozemyne.

At the following Interduchy Tournament Clarissa finally gets a chance to introduce herself to Rozemyne and ask both for permission to marry Hartmut and try to enter Rozemyne's service. In preparation for this meeting she transcribed all the books in her family's possession that the Ehrenfest book room didn't have any copies of to present to Rozemyne as a gift. Despite the meeting technically being about Hartmut introducing the girl he will escort at his graduation, it turns into a sort of inpromtu job-interview.

To Rozemyne's surprise, this is a sentiment that is not just tolerated, but outright supporter and admired by Hartmut, for whom it was a given that both of them would prioritize Rozemyne over each other. He also appears quite happy to have found someone who will listen to his endless praise of Rozemyne and considers Clarissa to be the ideal wife for him not in spite, but precisely because of how obsessed she is with the "Saint of Ehrenfest".

At Ferdinand's prompting Clarissa reveals that her current research is about magic circles that assists area-of-effect magic. She also states that her service to Rozemyne takes precedence over her potential marriage with Hartmut to her. After all this Rozemyne agrees to take Clarissa into her service, once she has married Hartmut and moved to Ehrenfest, though with her being a year younger than Hartmut, this is still some time in the future.

From this point onward she keeps sticking close to Hartmut so she can see first-hand what is expected of one of Rozemyne's scholars. When Ferdinand gives some tasks for his disciple Raimund to finish, she asks to also be given an assignment and Rozemyne tasks her with creating a magic tool to ensare people that left a library with a book without properly checking it out.