this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
24 points (100.0% liked)
PrePub - Ascendance of a Bookworm
240 readers
2 users here now
Navigation Links:
A Space for discussing the weekly chapter releases.
Even though this is a separate community please be aware that Post titles and in some cases the first few lines of text will be displayed in the local and all feeds, so avoid spoilers there as much as possible anyway. Thanks.
synonyms
- Ascendance of a Bookworm
- Honzuki no Gekokujou
- 『本好きの下剋上』
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I wonder what relationship Lianzo and Georgine have. I think both view Detlined as a manipulable pawn that could probably be disposed of as easily as Latizia.
Also politically I wonder how this would play out. Latiza (in the eyes of other nobles) killing Ferdi would be in a way similar to Arinsbach as a whole going against a royal decree. It would put the entire duchy in a further disadvantage. It also doesn't really give any openings fort Arinsbach to legitmatly declare war on Erinfest.
Its going to be interesting to see how all the domino's fall.
I guess it's possible Georgine wanted to provoke Ehrenfest to strike first, once they learn of Ferdinand's death, and use that as the justification for Ahrensbach to "defend" themselves.
Though even if that was the case, I think she would only have expected Ehrenfest to learn of it a bit later, rather than getting a live-broadcast of the incident itself. I also don't think she considered that they would get Dunkelfelger and the royal family on their side so quickly.
The one thing that surprises me though, is that there was no contingencay in place to intercept Justus, Eckhart... or anyone really, should they try to bolt to the academy... then again, we haven't heard how Justus and Eckhart got through, so maybe there were additional guards and they just managed to fight or sneak through anyway, or the guards were picked by Detlinde, who didn't bother to wonder who they really were loyal to and thus picked some that still listened to Strahl.
Maybe Georgeine thought everyone in Erinfest is dumb (including Ferrdies retainers) and once the mastermind is gone it will be a cake walk.
The noble sentiment across Yogert land was to an extent Ferdi was the mastermind. She probably views her self supearor to Sylvester and still might consider Erinfest partially a bottom ranked duchy (not fully due to royal decrees).
One a side note Georgine in prior volume I think tried to limit Justices ability to cross dress/sneak (she gave some hint to him to not try any funny buisness atleast, though thats when Aub Atinsbach wasnt dead).
I may be going of the rails though