Ascendance of a Bookworm

2. Life Improvements and Slates

Having learned how expensive books are in this world, Main resolves to make b...

3. The Events of Winter

While everyone is snowed in by the harsh winter, Main has a plan: a plan to c...

4. Forests and Clay Tablets

Spring has arrived, and Main is raring to go make clay tablets in the forest....

5. Baptisms and Strange Fevers

The season has shifted to summer, and the day of Turi's baptism has arrived. ...

6. Meeting

Lutz and Main prepare for the meeting with Otto. But Otto brings someone with...

7. Seeds of Suspicion

With the paper-making process about to begin, Main can't hide her excitement ...

8. Lutz's Main

As Main and Lutz begin making their paper for real, Main's excitement gets th...

9. The Guild Master's Granddaughter

Benno looks to have Main and Lutz registered with the Merchant Guild, but the...

10. To the Second Winter

Main learns from Frieda that the illness she has is called the Devouring, and...

11. Life-or-Death Choices and Family Meetings

With Main collapses, everyone she knows comes together in a bid to save her l...

12. Baptism and Divine Paradises

The day of Main and Lutz's baptism has arrived. Wearing a fancy dress and a n...

13. The Choice to be an Apprentice Priestess

When Main brings up wanting to become an apprentice priestess to her family, ...

14. Conclusions

Main, Gunther, and Eva head to the cathedral for their fateful meeting, knowi...

15. Apprentice Priestess

Myne is now an apprentice priestess at the cathedral. How will she adapt to a...

16. Blue Robes and Uncommon Sense

Myne finally gets access to the library, but has to learn how to deal with he...

17. Needs

Myne receives quarters in the cathedral, makes further headway dealing with h...

18. Orphanage Reforms

Myne discovers the horrible state of the orphanage and the children living in...

19. Cleanups and Star Festivals

As newly appointed orphanage director, Main's first task is to lead a major c...

20. The Path Ahead of Lutz

The friction in Lutz's family caused by his choice of profession comes to a h...

21. New Retainers

When Main hears that Eva is pregnant, she decides to make a picture book for ...

22. Wilma and Holy Scriptures for Kids

With the picture-book production in full sway, Main must navigate several hur...

23. Harvest Festivals and Staying Home

The Harvest Festival is here, and Main finds the library ransacked. She is ou...

24. Knights Orders and Requests

Main has to break the news to her family that she has to stay in the cathedra...

25. Trombe and Battles

Main and the head priest set out to join the knights on a mission to take dow...

26. Dreamlike World

Tasked with healing the land ravaged by the trombe, Main has to put on a show...

27. The Beginning of Winter

Autumn has come to a close. Main starts selling the scripture picture books, ...

28. The Story About Winter Stays and the Future

Main ends up having to start her winter stay at the cathedral. However, she i...

29. The Dedication Ceremony and Spring Arrives

The knight Damuel has become Main's bodyguard. Now that she's able to go plac...

30. Spring Prayer

Main and the others get ready to head off to the Spring Prayer, when they mee...

31. The Gift from the Blue-Robed Priest and Going Home

With the Spring Prayer finished, Main and the others returned to the cathedra...

32. The Abandoned Child of the Cathedral and Making Colors

Main is finally able to go home. Her little brother Kamil is born and she bec...

33. Delia and Dirk

Dirk suddenly develops a high fever. Delia, who adored Dirk, and started to s...

34. Ominous Developments

On the way home from Heidi's workshop, they hear the emergency bells sound th...

35. The Black Protective Charm

Because of the lack of caution exercised by one of the gate guards, the carri...

36. Blessing

To protect her family, Main agrees to be adopted by Sylvester. It is he who e...