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So after all this time we know what happen with Lutz and Myne all the way back. He recievied her last will.
The action and change of plans accelerate faster and faster. I wonder how Hannalore is going to get entangled in whole mess as she is on the cover.
I would imagine that Lutz got a far less detailed version (just a momentary flash really), because he isn't a mana wielder. Either that or it was because the Trombe was sucking out Myne's mana. After all, the "transmission" did cut off from Ferdinand too, when the mana began being sucked out of him.
I gotta admit, it's kinda funny how Rozenmyne perceived Ferdinand's Last Will as, "I MUST GO SAVE HIM," while the letter he sent through Justus was basically the opposite, "DON'T DO ANYTHING, YOU FOOL".
To be fair to Rozemyne, when Ferdinand wrote the letter, he wouldn't have known that Georgine is already poised for striking Ehrenfest and that she has a way to take their foundation. Nor would he have known that Rozemyne likewise has a way to steal Ahrensbach's foundation and would be able to get Dunkelfelger on their side for the assault on top of getting permission from the royal family to go through with the attack... well technically we haven't heard the royals actually giving that permission yet, but with how much the royals want to get rid of Detlinde and how much they stand to gain from this, I think that's just a formality.
Nor would he have known, that Ahrensbach would be so considerably weakened, by the slaughter that Georgine and Detlinde have planned for any noble who's not following them unconditionally. This slaughter is planned for the exact same night, in which Rozemyne plans to launch the assault. So in the worst case, Ahrensbach's defenses will be in weakened and in disarray, and in the best case there will be Ahrensbach nobles, who realized they are on the chopping block, but are still alive and thus will likely ally with the attacking force, further bolstering the strength of the attackers.
Ironically rember during the Santa (Bezewazz) incedent he mentioned Myne should have completely terminated him. I guess Roz took a page on that. Just at the scale of another dutchy ..... 🫠
I guess that noble education is finally paying off, sort of... The only other noble one we know that wants to take another duchy is Georgine 🙃
Nobles education but with the common sense of an other worlder + commoner.
I rember Syl + Wilfred justifying it as meh judt another grenlin rampage.
Even Dunk its partially due to her gremlin ways they got on board.
I almost feel bad for Georgien. A plan for nobles falls by a single book obsesed gremline
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Georgine has no idea how ridiculous our little bookworm can be. How bold and unpredictable. She doesn't have noble commonsense, and because of that, now imbued with the largest single knowledge-base of the country, can plan and execute a takeover of a duchy in a single day. She never even made an appointment ahead of time!
I really don't think this whole counterattack has anything to do with Rozemyne's weirdness or being a former commoner. The only difference between her thinking and that of most normal nobles is, that she wants to take the Ahrensbach foundation to save Ferdinand, while other nobles would do it for the sake of becoming the new Aub themselves. But there's got to be plenty of nobles who would jump at the chance to steal a foundation for themselves, if they believe they have good chances of pulling it off and getting away with it.
In that sense, Georgine has only herself to blame, for losing her current support base, because she personally made it so that Ehrenfest has the means to steal Ahrensbach from under her butt, by switching the keys.
I guess you could say Rozemyne's weirdness saved the day in so far, that it led to her having the Grutrissheit and the connection with Ferdinand, which gave her the necessary tools to set the assault up, but I think many nobles with the same information and means as Rozemyne, would have done the same as her, though as I said before, for their own benefit, not to save Ferdinand.
Oh no I never intended to imply this was a result of Rozemyne, but instead that Rozemyne's going to always exist beyond her expectations.
It's clear to me that she's always wanted Ehrenfest's foundation since Sylvester took the role of Aub from her. This is her trying to take that which she believes should belong to her. I think it's interesting how uninterested she is in Ahrensbach though; is there something particularly special about Ehrenfest, or is she driven by sentimentality and spite for her mother and Sylvester?
I'm really looking forward to the next two weeks' chapters as we meet with allies and begin our first steps into the oncoming war. And like, GG @ Kazuki for having left us hanging on this plot thread since Rozemyne first met Georgine back in Part 3, and even incorporating the theft of the Bible in Part 3 as well. She's been writing the long-game for us, but Georgine's already waited, what, 15 years since being married out of Ehrenfest? I'm really excited to see what this battle holds, but I hope none of Rozemyne's beloved retainers are lost in the process. Thank goodness for Rozemyne's overpreparedness with potions.