Ascendance Of A Bookworm / Tropes A to G

Tropes for Ascendance of a Bookworm
Tropes A to G (Foreshadowing) | Tropes H to M | Tropes N to S | Tropes T to Z

• Abandon the Disabled: A couple of alternate point of view chapters have their narrator mention that poor commoners usually abandon children who are clearly unable to contribute to the household to be able to dedicate more resources to the children who are. In both cases, the narrator is surprised this hasn't happened to Myne before the beginning of the story.
• Abdicate the Throne:
  • In Part 4, Second Prince Anastasius proposes to Eglantine, who is also sought after by Anastasius' older brother. Since Eglantine does not wish to be the source of a civil war, Anastasius assures her that he will give up on the throne and instead give his support to his brother to be able to marry her.
  • It's shown in Part 4 and 5 that the current zent, who has ruled for the last ten years, is not in possession of Grutrissheit, and he is fully aware of how hard it is to rule that way. He is overworked and does not deem himself, someone who was raised to serve, a good king, which is why he would abdicate as soon as a more worthy ruler appeared.
• Abuse Mistake: In protest to the events from the end of Part 4, Elvira, Rozemyne's public noble birth mother who is also a major Ferdinand Fangirl, writes a story based on the events of Ferdinand's life in which Ferdinand's counterpart is female. After the story is published, people notice that the story reads like a thinly-veiled version of what they know of Rozemyne's life. This notably gets the counterpart to Ferdinand's Wicked Stepmother mistaken for Rozemyne's noble adoptive mother, which is not helped by the fact that Rozemyne's adoptive parents are Ferdinand's half-brother and his sister-in-law, resulting in both women having the same title. This makes the book even more readable as a birth mother denouncing the bad treatment her daughter is getting from her adoptive family. Meanwhile, Rozemyne's Delicate and Sickly nature has resulted in her retainers and both her noble families being a little too used to seeing her suddenly faint in the eyes of her acquaintances from other duchies. Among said acquaintances from other duchies, there are men who have a crush on Rozemyne and have their minds very open to any information that will keep them from feeling bad about making her cancel her existing engagement in the process of making her their wife. Partially conflicting purposes cause Rozemyne's input to be summed up as "that character isn't based on me, she's based on someone else I know, whom I won't name." Cue all those facts pooling together to create a rumor that Rozemyne is being abused.
• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Hugo's relationship with Kirke is over because the latter decided to date someone else while he was working in the Noble's Quarter.
• Absurdly Divided School:
  • The Royal Academy's dormitories are split into the duchies of the country, and the performance of the students affects the ranking of their respective duchy. Furthermore, practical lessons are split into multiple groups depending on the individual's status (and thus mana).
  • Similar to the winter's class room in the Ehrenfest castle, Rozemyne actively defies any split based on faction and promotes unity. Instead, she splits up the students in the third year or above depending on the courses they take, as they can form more effective study groups that way.
• Acceptable Feminine Goals and Traits: Women in this world do work for a living, but both commoners and nobles expect that a woman will be a wife in addition to anything else she does. Effa tells Myne that she won't be "a beauty" if she can't cook and sew, and after she joins the temple and is forbidden to marry, Ferdinand nonetheless tells Myne that she'll have plenty of suitors once she turns fifteen, because her vast stores of mana make her an excellent marriage prospect among noble families.
• Accidental Discovery:
  • The fact that trombe wood makes good paper gets discovered because a trombe happens to appear while Myne and Lutz are preparing the early stages of making paper, Lutz loses track of the wood initially intended to be used for paper while focusing on cutting the trombe down and Myne gets the idea of using the cut trombe branches instead.
  • Myne finds out that trombe seeds are actually mana-altered taue fruits simply from picking a taue fruit for the first time and seeing it absorb her mana. It's implied that this was unknown before because commoners don't have the mana needed to change taue fruits into trombe seeds, while nobles don't participate in the yearly festival that involves handling taue fruits. The discovery is important because her best paper is made with young trombe branches and the only safe way to harvest them entails cutting them down as soon as they start growing.
  • The creation of the setting's first Talking Weapon in Part 3 Volume 4 happens that way. Rozemyne donates her mana to a manablade while thinking of giving it an attribute she associates with Ferdinand. When donating mana to a manablade turns out to be a more delicate operation than she realized, Ferdinand is called over to make sure she didn't mess things up and uses his own mana to examine it. The combination of Rozemyne and Ferdinand's contributions result in a weapon that speaks with Ferdinand's voice.
  • In Part 4 Volume 4, Rozemyne is asked to embroider clothes. Since she really doesn't want to, she instead suggests drawing the magic circles on the cloth with a dyeing method she remembers, which leads to the accidental creation of magical invisible ink.
  • Or more like rediscovery: Since Rozemyne has thoroughly read the bible and a lot of very old books, she tells Giebe Haldenzel in Part 4 Volume 4, that their prayer for spring used to be performed by the subordinate goddesses of Spring (i. e. all women). The noblewomen of Haldenzel give it a try and activate a magic circle that drains them of their mana and causes the snow in Haldenzel to melt over night. After hearing of the "Miracle of Haldenzel", other provinces try to recreate the old rituals for their own benefit, too.
  • In Part 5 Volume 1, Rozemyne's year performs the divine protection ceremony. Usually, one only gets the divine protection of a selection of the main gods according to the colors of one's mana, but there are rare cases when one gets the blessing of some subordinate gods as well. For instance, a lot of Dunkelfelger nobles get the divine protection of Angriff the God of War. What is much weirder is that Roderick gets a seven-colored divine protection, when he is a weak mednoble with the typical two aptitudes of his status. Furthermore, Rozemyne gets 43 protections, Wilfried gets 12 protections, and Philine gets the protection of Mestionora, a wind/autumn surbordinate, despite being born in winter. Roderick and Rozemyne figure out two things with this: One, if one regularly prays to the gods before going through the ceremony (which is what Wilfried for instance does, as he frequently participates in temple rituals and prays to the gods when doing the Mana Replenishment ritual for Ehrenfest's foundation), there is a high probability to receive the protection of several subordinate gods. And two, the deciding difference between Roderick and all of Rozemyne's other retainers and fellow students is that Roderick gave his name to Rozemyne and is thus linked to her. Since Rozemyne is seven-colored, Roderick falls under her protection.
  • In Part 5 Volume 5, Rozemyne, Hannelore, and Hildebrand stumble upon Leidenschaft's shrine while walking around the Academy during the Archduke Conference. Rozemyne and later Eglantine manage to enter the shrine, but for some reason Anastasius can't. Rozemyne figures out that the difference between her or Eglantine and Anastasius is that they acquired a schtappe with all seven attributes. Since schtappes are only given once in life, by the next year it's decided that schtappes can only be acquired in the third year after having learned how to compress one's mana and going through the divine protection ceremony to get more mana colors.
  • In Part 5 Volume 6, Rozemyne accidentally invents a copy-paste spell by trying to select a drawing of which she needs many copies as if it was on tablet rather than paper on a whim. Since the spell requires both the paper and the ink to be magic-infused to work, it's pure luck that she had that specific whim on a drawing that met both criteria.
  • In Part 5 Volume 7, Rozemyne meets Erwarmen at the Garden of Beginning after coincidentally fulfilling all conditions for this. She then is bestowed with the Book of Mestionora, or at least a part of it, as Ferdinand has the rest of its content. As it turns out, Ferdinand discovering Grutrissheit back in his Academy days was a complete accident, too. He found the hints and followed them after obtaining his schtappe while he was doing errands for Hirschur.
• Accidental Marriage: In Part 5 Volume 8, Rozemyne takes over Ahrensbach's foundation to get access to the supply room where Ferdinand is locked and dying. However, by doing so, she accidentally becomes his fiancée. The royal decree said that Ferdinand must marry the young Aub Ahrensbach who has no experience in governing the duchy. Since Rozemyne became Aub Ahrensbach after dyeing the foundation, Ferdinand can still follow that order to the letter. He realizes this after Rozemyne tells him she took the foundation and her retainers later also notice it. However, Rozemyne is only informed of this right before the planned engagement ceremony. She doesn't mind marrying Ferdinand, though, so they decide to not annul the royal decree.
• Accidental Truth:
  • Myne tells several people who genuinely wonder where she gets her ideas from that they are all invokedBased on a Dream to avoid telling them about her Past-Life Memories. A chapter from Effa's point of view reveals that the original Myne would dream of a strange world in which she was healthy during her Devouring fevers. Myne's coverup for her Past-Life Memories hence has more of a basis in reality than she, herself, realizes.
  • In Part 4 Volume 4, Rozemyne wants to introduce new dyeing methods that she remembers from Earth. When asked how she came up with this, she claims she merely rediscovered the method (in a book she recently read, which is technically true, since she read it in a book from Earth). A few scenes later, Rihyarda notes that this kind of dyeing was indeed used many decades ago, backing up Rozemyne's claim that she is just bringing back old trends.
• Achievements in Ignorance: Mostly involving Myne and her use of mana, because for most of the books her knowledge of magic starts and stops at "If I wear a magic ring and invoke the name of god or goddess and spend some mana, then magic happens".
  • As the most egregious example, she is able to invoke the blessings of the divine Mother and Father of the pantheon (Goddess of Light and God of Darkness, respectively) and all 5 main gods (including the God of Life) during one spell, despite the fact that invoking more than one god is extremely taxing and makes the chance of success drop sharply, thanks to the gods having sharply delineated areas of influence and not liking to "play" together - doubly so when invoking the God of Life in a blessing with any other of the divines, since he's the pantheon's Black Sheep and nobody likes him.
  • In Part 3 Volume 1, during Rozemyne's first magic lesson, she restores a feystone that burst into tiny pieces by gathering the pieces and imagining them to be clay, which she can then put together again. Ferdinand, who moments ago told her that what she's doing is futile, is left dumbfounded and ends the lesson immediately because he's getting a headache after witnessing what Rozemyne just achieved.
  • In Rozemyne's second lesson, she manages to create her highbeast. The form of the beast however is a flying car, which she imagined based on something she remembered in her past life (the Catbus). Nobles assume that a highbeast needs to have wings to fly, but since Rozemyne's imagination is not limited by this thought, she created something that was deemed impossible. Come Part 4, more people at the Royal Academy see her highbeast. Since they have already seen that it's not impossible to create highbeasts without wings, some start to imitate Rozemyne and achieve similar results.
  • As Hartmut notes in Part 4 Volume 3, Rozemyne giving blessings that have an effect on people without acquiring, let alone using, a schtappe is abnormal. Rozemyne didn't even realize that the blessings that are given for greetings differ from the ones she has used ever since she prayed to the God of War Angriff in Part 2 Volume 2.
  • In Part 4 Volume 6, Rozemyne learns how to transform her schtappe into different weapons. While concluding that someone like her should use a ranged weapon, she remembers a toy on Earth with which her childhood friend Shuu used to tease her while she was reading books. She murmurs in Japanese "water gun" and her schtappe suddenly takes the form of her water gun, except it can shoot magic arrows. Ferdinand later imitates her and can also transform his schtappe into a gun.
  • Also in Part 4 Volume 6, after seeing that she can't hit the feybeast with her water gun, she transforms her schtappe into the Cape of the God of Darkness and throws it on the monster to immobilize it. As she learns in Volume 7, if you use the spell for the divine protection of the God of Darkness, you can't reshape your schtappe into something different without losing the protection (and you can only get the divine protection once a day). Ferdinand suspects she could do it because she didn't use the spell the knights learn, but the prayer that she remembered from the bible.
  • Starting in Part 5 Volume 2, Rozemyne can use two schtappes, after she used her first schtappe to transform it into Geduldh's chalice and needed a second one to create Flutrane's staff. She based this idea on the knights who can transform their schtappe into a sword and shield. She is not aware they are able to do this because they perceive sword and shield as one unit. Using two schtappes is not entirely unheard of, but in the present Rozemyne is the only one who can do it. The reason why she can have a second one is because she obtained a seven-colored schtappe in Part 4 Volume 1 from Erwarmen at the garden of beginning.
• Act of True Love:
  • In general, it is noted that praying to the gods for the sake of another is much more effective than praying for oneself.
  • At the end of Part 1, Gunther and Effa defy the High Bishop and refuse to just hand Myne over to the temple. They do this despite being aware that defying the nobility is punishable by death. The High Priest is visibly surprised to see how far commoners go to protect their children.
  • At the end of Part 2, having seen how dangerous it is to stay a commoner, Myne accepts getting adopted to keep her family away from danger. Myne's final blessing also shows how much she loves her family and friends. Overflowing with love, she calls upon the seven primary gods and blesses her loved ones, which include her family, her attendants, Lutz, Benno, Mark, Damuel, Dirk, and Ferdinand.
  • At the end of Part 3, Charlotte is kidnapped. Rozemyne immediately runs out with her guard knights and orders them to save her. Unfortunately, this puts her in danger as well and she is almost killed, but after waking up from her two-years-long sleep, Sylvester kneels down to Rozemyne and offers her his deepest gratitude.
  • At the end of Part 4, Rozemyne gives a seven-colored blessing to Ferdinand, Justus, and Eckhart, who are moving to Ahrensbach.
  • In Part 5 Volume 5, Rozemyne is willing to get adopted by the royal family, find Grutrissheit for them, and become First Prince Sigiswald's third wife. One of the conditions for doing so is to improve Ferdinand's situation in Ahrensbach and not execute him for being Detlinde's eventual husband, when she doubtlessly will run her mouth to an early grave.
  • In Part 5 Volume 6, Dirk is prepared to become a noble, even though that would irreversibly change his sibling relationship with Delia. Dirk thinks it's necessary for him to become a noble to protect the orphanage once Rozemyne is no longer there.
  • In Part 5 Volume 7, Rozemyne secures Dunkelfelger's knights, led by Heisshitze, to invade Ahrensbach. Why is she doing that and why are they helping her? To save Ferdinand's life.
• Adaptation Distillation:
  • The light novel main series removes some of the side chapters that were part of the web novel series. They were later published in side story collections.
  • The first half of the "headache report" of the web novel series in Part 4 became the epilogue for Part 4 Volume 1, while the latter half, which summarizes the events at the Royal Academy in Part 4 Volume 2, was completely omitted in the light novel series.
• Adaptation Explanation Extrication:
  • In the light novel, anything that the original Myne didn't know the word for or that doesn't exist in the story's world yet comes out in Japanese if the Urano version of Myne tries to talk about it. This means that when she runs into items and concepts that were merely unknown to the original Myne, she needs to either ask or keep an ear out for the local word. When it comes to things she introduces herself, she's simply using the Japanese name by default and coming up with a good local name as soon as she has the leeway to think about it. In the anime, she seems to magically already know the local words for existing things that the original Myne would have never encountered, while apparently coming up with local names for her "inventions" on the spot when they are not some combination of existing local words.
  • The anime cuts just enough details about Freida's deal with her noble contractor for someone who has only seen the anime to mistake the deal for being worse than it actually is. In the light novel, it is made quite clear that the contract gets Freida fully functional magic tools to treat her Devouring. The stock of purchased single-use broken magic tools in her home, meanwhile, was used to keep her alive before the contract was signed and is still precious enough that even letting Myne buy one is a big deal because Freida can't be sure the contract won't get canceled someday. The anime's explanation of the options for treating the Devouring focuses almost entirely on single-use broken magic tools and mentions the magic tools Freida gets as part of the contract without spelling out that they are fully functional, which makes it sound like Freida's contract is getting her a steady supply of single-use broken magic tools rather than one of fully functional magic tools.
  • The light novel explicitly states the reason the temple orphanage's pre-baptism children don't have any gray shrine maidens to look after them, while Myne was able to make two gray shrine maidens her attendants. The youngest orphans used to be cared for by gray shrine maidens who got pregnant from their Sex Slave duties alongside the children born from those pregnancies. After the purge resulted in less revenue for the temple, all gray shrine maidens without any Sex Slave potential were sold or disposed of in other ways to save money. Those caring for the youngest children were among those who were disposed of, while the gray shrine maidens Myne took on as attendants are among those attractive enough to be kept around. That distinction isn't explicitly stated in the anime, resulting in vague remarks about gray shrine maidens being disposed of when explaining the lack of caretakers for the youngest orphans, only to have a later scene of the same episode have Ferdinand tell Myne to hire a gray shrine maiden to teach her manners.
  • The misunderstanding between Lutz and his parents gets simplified to the point of making much less sense in the anime. First of all, the light novel establishes that Lutz's parents let him become a merchant apprentice half-expecting him to not be able to handle it, but expect him to take responsibility for the consequences of his decision in the meantime, which means not complaining when things get hard. The anime merely shows the parents to consider Lutz has a part in the misunderstanding, but not why. The above expectations come partly from the parents being unaware that Lutz has, at that point, technically been working for Benno for longer than they think and already proven himself in his employer's eyes. The anime only hints at this point via a couple scenes showing that Lutz's brothers know nothing of his work, while it isn't discussed between the parents and Benno onscreen. The parents not realizing how long Lutz has worked for Benno feeds into another issue that is just barely hinted at in the anime: from the prespective of Lutz's parents, Benno, a complete stranger with a job they are prejudiced against, is, by taking Lutz on a trip outside of town, giving a very recently hired low-level, part-time and temporary employee a task suited to a senior high-level, full-time and permanent employee. In the light novel, the contract that is signed after the incident as concrete proof of the extent to which Benno already considers Lutz an asset to his store is one promoting Lutz to the high-level, full-time and permanent worker level. Since the anime doesn't dwelve into the two different worker levels, it changed the contract to one that confirms Lutz as Benno's heir.
  • The anime shows that Shikza is aware of what the High Bishop thinks of Myne and that he knows how to perform the Healing Ritual without any explanation. The light novel spells out that he's one of the blue robed priests who returned to noble society, which explains both those things and adds an extra reason for him to be resentful towards Myne's "commoner given a blue robe" situation.
  • The anime shows commoners being able to produce the magical signal for the Knight's Order without mentioning the existence of the magic tool that allows it.
  • The taue fruit used to treat Dirk's Devouring is much smaller than those previously shown for no apparent reason in the anime. The light novel establishes that this actually the size at which they fall from their trees in spring and they swell to the much larger size of those seen earlier by accumulating water until summer.
• Adapted Out: The anime just plain got rid of several minor characters from the novel:
  • Shuu, Urano's Cloudcuckoolander's Minder and Only Friend, who by the nature of the plot only showed up in the prologue and his own Perspective Flip chapter.
  • As a stepping stone between being home all day and getting her job helping Otto at the city gate, Myne is left with a babysitter named Gerda who otherwise watches over a bunch of toddlers. In the novel, Myne's cover story for already knowing how to make baskets is that Gerda taught her how to do it.
  • Freida has parents, at least one aunt, and at least one uncle. Myne meets the parents and brothers during the novel version of her stay at Freida's house, but the anime leaves out the parents and gives the brothers a non-speaking cameo. The aunt and uncle are known of due to her grandfather's marriage offers to Benno's family that are only mentioned in the novels.
• Adopted into Royalty: At the end of Part 2, Myne signs a contract with Sylvester, turning her into Rozemyne, the daughter of Karstedt and adopted daughter of Sylvester Aub Ehrenfest.
• Aerith and Bob: Runs the whole spectrum from real world names like Otto, Mark and Ferdinand to full fantasy names like Bezewanst (the given name of the High Bishop) or Lestilaut.
• An Aesop: Rozemyne tries to teach the Ehrenfest apprentice knights in Part 4 Volume 2 that Team Spirit is what leads to victory, in ditter and in real life. This is why she does not immediately execute a plan that she believes would lead to an almost guaranteed victory. She wants Judithe and Leonore, who observe the battle, to see how vastly inferior Ehrenfest is compared to Dunkelfelger. Unfortunately, many of the apprentice knights do not learn from said victory, which is why Leonore happily lets them get crushed by Dunkelfelger in a ditter rematch later.
• Affair Letters: Subverted. Upon finding a set of letters exchanged between the deceased Bezewanst and a woman, Rozemyne assumes that she's accidental discoverer version of the trope and doesn't share them with Ferdinand as a result. It turns out to be the wrong call because the woman is actually a cherished relative of the male side and Ferdinand would have really liked to know that this specific correspondence was going on.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head:
  • Myne likes to give Lutz and Gil headpats when she praises them, although both eventually outgrow this.
  • At the end of Part 2, Tuuli pats Lutz's head to console him, after he realizes that Myne is gone and he can't visit her home like before anymore.
  • Rozemyne provides Schwartz and Weiss with her mana by stroking the feystones on their heads. The other library committee members do the same.
  • In Part 4 Volume 3, Ferdinand pats Rozemyne's head to praise her for being the best student at the Royal Academy of her year. He does this shortly after Rozemyne cried herself to sleep, since she just cut ties with Lutz and must not meet him again in her secret room.
• Alchemy Is Magic: Magic Potions and many magic tools like ordonnanz stones are created by mixing feystones, mana, and other ingredients in a Magic Cauldron. Nobles learn to do this in their second year at the Royal Academy, although Rozemyne is taught how to do so much earlier as part of Ferdinand's training.
• All of Them: Rozemyne overhears Royal Academy students exchanging stories about Ferdinand's feats during his time as a student and some of them wonder which of the stories are true. Having seen plenty of Ferdinand's accomplishments as an adult first-hand by that point, Rozemyne's best guess is that all of the stories are true.
• Altar Diplomacy: Generally, most marriages between nobles are this, especially interduchy ones.
  • The marriage of the king and his third wife had a political aspect. She was from Dunkelfelger, which was initially neutral and only joined the war after the marriage happened, though she married the fifth prince because she wanted to.
  • In Part 4 Volume 8, Ferdinand is supposed to go to Ahrensbach and marry Detlinde. The civil war and the subsequent purge put Ahrensbach in a mana and Succession Crisis. Detlinde is the only remaining archduke candidate for the coming years, which is why Aub Ahrensbach desired a male and competent archduke candidate who can rule Ahrensbach after he died. The royal family followed this wish as an apology to Ahrensbach, and because Ahrensbach is too valuable, as they are the only duchy to have an open border gate and are the source of sugar via trade with Lanzenave.
  • In Part 5 Volume 4, Brunhilde proposes to marry Sylvester and become his second wife to appease the Leisegangs and lead the newer generation of nobles to a more united future. Sylvester also needs a wife who can socialize in Florencia's stead, since she is pregnant and must save her mana for the baby.
  • In Part 5 Volume 5, the marriage between Adolphine and Sigiswald is politically motivated. Sigiswald gets political backing and mana from Drewanchel this way.
  • As is revealed in Part 5 Volume 6, Lieseleta's engagement to Wilfried's archscholar Thorsten is politically motivated. The engagement is canceled in the same volume after Lieseleta tells Elvira about Thorsten's intention to abuse Lieseleta's connection to Rozemyne.
• Amulet of Dependency:
  • In a technical sense, the medals that are used to registrate baptized people are this.
    • For commoners, they don't have much use besides perhaps allowing the archduke to protect them with magic. Worse, if the medals are destroyed with archducal magic and the archduke candidate decides that they broke their contract with the gods, the owner of the medal will die, as is demonstrated in Part 3 Volume 3.
    • As is revealed in late Part 5, a noble needs to have a registered medal to gain the right to obtain a schtappe. This is why many Lanzenave nobles register as Ahrensbach nobles and later come to the Royal Academy to get their Divine Wills. On the other hand, if their archduke destroys the medals due to a violation, their schtappe is sealed and cannot be used anymore.
  • Angelica's sword Stenluke compensates for one of her glaring weaknesses. Rozemyne forbids its usage in Angelica's final year in Part 4 Volume 1, since Angelica has started to depend on it too much.
• Anchored Teleportation: Teleporation of both objects and people requires the presence of both a sending magic circle and receiving one. There needs to be a person who can give some sort of approval on the receiving side to avoid dangerous objects or people getting sent through those channels without anyone being the wiser.
• And Call Him "George":
  • According to Karstedt, this is why Sylvester's pet shumil was scared of its master and always ran to Karstedt. Sylvester's "love" almost killed it.
  • Rozemyne's noble grandfather, who is in very good shape for his age and aware just how fragile she is, deliberately holds back his Hot-Blooded personality in her presence to avoid killing her by accident. One end-of-novel comic literally has Rozemyne get killed by being hugged by her grandfather too hard. When rescuing her from kidnappers in the story proper, her grandfather trying to quickly get her out of the bag in which she's kept by shaking it hard requires someone else to be present to catch her to keep her from getting even more injured than she already is.
• And Your Reward Is Clothes:
  • As a rule, gray priests and shrine maidens don't leave the temple and those who are purchased are given clothing by their new owner. Because of this, the temple doesn't bother issuing them any clothes other than their gray robes. Myne has her attendants accompany her outside of the temple and doesn't want their outfits to make where they are from too obvious, so each of them gets a set of fancy commoner clothes as a much-appreciated "welcome to the job" bonus of sorts.
  • Myne likes to gift Tuuli clothes that she needs for work, which she claims are a reward for helping the orphans (though she honestly would have gifted her big sister the clothes anyway). The costs far exceed Tuuli's savings, something that she only realizes after she goes shopping higher-class clothes with Lutz at the end of Part 3.
  • In Part 3 Volume 4, after helping Angelica pass her exams, Rozemyne rewards Brigitte with a dress she designed, which perfectly fits Brigitte, to help Brigitte find a marriage partner and restore a bit of her tarnished reputation.
  • Inverted. In Part 4 Volume 1, Rozemyne accidentally becomes the new owner of Schwartz and Weiss, two sentient magic tools that assist in the library. It is tradition for a new owner to provide them with new clothes.
• And Your Reward Is Edible:
  • In Part 1, Myne rewards Lutz and his family with food and recipes for helping her out.
  • In Part 1 Volume 3, Myne bakes a pound cake together with Freida and Leise, as thanks for selling her a rare magic tool. Incidentally, by instructing Leise how to bake it, she gave away the recipe for free, although Freida later signs a contract that gives her time-limited exclusivity.
  • In Part 2 Volume 1, this is how she rewards the orphans who actively clean up the orphanage. It has become a mantra for her that those who don't work shan't eat.
  • In Part 3 Volume 3, Rozemyne offers a unique sweet to Cornelius if he teaches Angelica. If Angelica passes her exams, Rozemyne intends to give him the recipe of a never-seen-before sweet, which motivates Cornelius to study ahead and make sure Angelica passes.
  • In Part 4 Volume 1, she promises the first study team to have all its members pass their exams and the team with the most talented students her pound cake recipe. Wilfried and Cornelius on the other hand would get a new sweet recipe from Ella, since they already eat pound cake regularly.
  • In Part 4 Volume 4, Rozemyne visits Haldenzel and rediscovers an old Spring Prayer ritual that summons the Goddess of Thunder and melts the snow in Haldenzel. As thanks, Giebe Haldenzel intends to give each of the children of the archducal family a rare fruit from a specific tree, but when he sees that the ritual has sprouted new buds of said tree (which is a never seen before miracle), he doubles the reward and gives Rozemyne, Wilfried, and Charlotte two fruits each. The fruit is used for an extremely potent recovery potion that also tastes quite good, to the joy of those who had to endure Ferdinand's efficient, but foul-tasting recovery potions.
• Anger Born of Worry: Pretty much any time Myne gets ill from not taking care of herself, her family and friends will yell at her. Benno is especially prone to yell at her due to her ignorance of social norms.
• Angry Cheek Puff: While Myne, Benno, and Mark are on their way to the temple, Mark pokes fun at Myne's inability to hide her anxiety. She reacts by puffing her cheeks angrily, causing Benno to start poking one of her inflated cheeks.
• Animal-Vehicle Hybrid: When Rozemyne creates her highbeast, she makes one looking like a hybrid between a red panda and a car rather than going for the standard "horse or Horse of a Different Color with wings" design. She was inspired by the Catbus, but went for a red panda because the thing looks so silly by the setting's standards that she was forbidden from making the animal part into something that resembles her noble adoptive family's sigil, which is a feline. Benefits of the form include having a roof over her head and a windscreen in bad weather, having the one-seat variant be small enough to use in larger hallways, and being able to modify it to carry luggage and accomodate as many people as she wants, while a regular highbeast's carrying capacity maxes out at three people.
• Anti-Magic: Starting in Part 5, Rozemyne encounters a silver-like material which is not affected by magic, including any weapons made with a schtappe. It was developed in Lanzenave to counter magic users.
• Apology Gift:
  • After finding Myne unconscious in the temple's repentance chamber after having locked her in it for a day as punishment, Ferdinand gifts her a bedding set for her orphanage director chambers. There is a pragmatic element to it because only the wood part of the bed was left from the previous owner. By that point, Myne has already collapsed while in the temple too many times to be able to use the fact that she sleeps in her own home as a pretext to not have a proper bed in her chambers.
  • After Rozemyne collapses while trying to keep up with Wilfried's impromptu "Ditch the Bodyguards 101" lesson that involves running, Wilfried's bodyguard Lamprecht feels responsible for the situation. When Rozemyne wakes up, Lamprecht gifts her with a book she will be able to finish before the end of the period during which she's expected to rest, which was given to him by Ferdinand when he asked him for advice on what would make a good gift for Rozemyne.
  • It eventually turns out that Justus shares the feybeast and feyplant materials he gathers out of curiosity with Ferdinand, who actually uses them, partly as a "sorry to be causing you trouble so often" tax of sorts. Rozemyne realizes that by that logic, she's deep in debt towards Ferdinand. As Ferdinand later explains in Part 4 Volume 4, her helping him out in the temple doing calculations (for which he does not pay her) already covers the cost of the very expensive potions he keeps using on her whenever she passes out, so she does not need to compensate him any further.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: It is hinted early on (and then seen later) that nobles are above the law in this series. Tuuli is worried at one point that her parents would be killed as she was told that nobles can have peasants executed for simply annoying them.
  • When Myne visits the temple with her parents at the end of Part 1, the High Bishop's personality goes from nice to cruel when he sees he will be dealing with peasants, leaving Myne shocked and wondering if this is how nobles truly are. What's worse, in Part 2 it's noted the High Bishop isn't even a true noble - he had too little mana to be considered part of the nobility and was forced into the temple. This is one of the reasons he has such resentment against Myne - she gets to act like a noble, because she has so much mana that only the High Priest, an actual noble, is the only one who can match her.
  • In Part 2 Volume 2, Myne encounters Shikza, a knight who pulls a Bodyguard Betrayal on her, when he learned from Bezewanst that she is a commoner who was given blue robes. He was originally an apprentice blue priest because of too low mana levels, who lucked out and was accepted back into noble society. Myne earlier using her mana to bless the Knight's Order only makes him hate her more, as if she is flaunting her status to him.
  • At the end of Part 2, a noble from another duchy plays this trope to the letter. He sneaks into the temple with the help of the High Bishop, and forces, what is effectively, a slave contract with one of the orphans who has mana, and attempts to do the same to Myne.
  • It is not a completely universal trait. The lords ruling Illgner, a small, rural province are presented as approachable and affable, enough that their rapport with who they rule more closely resembles good neighbors rather than masters and slaves.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Damuel receives one as part of the "The Reason You Suck" Speech he gets from Ferdinand after letting the higher-status Shikza bully Myne for being a commoner. "Would you have done the same if you were ordered to protect a member of the archduke's family?" The question is relevant because Damuel had both the time and the means to get someone of higher status than Shikza involved, and Ferdinand concludes that he didn't do so because deep-down he viewed Myne as someone of lower status than him despite otherwise treating her nicely enough to have no problem explaining things to her.
• Arranged Marriage: A common theme amongst the nobility, often for political reasons. Sometimes it overlaps with Marriage of Convenience too.
  • It's not a marriage, as Freida is a commoner, but she is arranged to move to the Noble's Quarter and become Henrik's concubine once she comes of age.
  • The old Count Leisegang from three generations ago arranged several marriages of his family members to protect them from Veronica. Elvira's marriage to Karstedt was one such marriage, or Alexis' mother's marriage to the neutral Count Kirnberger.
  • The first Count Groschel was engaged to an archduke candidate from Ahrensbach, Gabriele. They had three children, including Veronica and Bezewanst.
  • At the start of Part 4, Wilfried is engaged to Rozemyne. This is so Rozemyne will not be stolen away by another duchy and Wilfried will have the needed support to become the next archduke. Rozemyne can't marry Ferdinand, as Ferdinand will then definitely become archduke, and the alternative is Sylvester marrying Rozemyne.
  • Adolphine of Drewanchel is set to marry First Prince Sigiswald, since Anastasius convinces Eglantine to marry him. Rozemyne conducts the ceremony in Part 5 Volume 5.
  • Ferdinand reveals in Part 4 Volume 3 that he was once set to marry an archduke candidate from Dunkelfelger, Magdalena. Heisshitze arranged for this to happen, since he knew Ferdinand's miserable situation in Ehrenfest. Ferdinand was also a great ditter player, and he and Magdalena didn't dislike each other, so Heisshitze thought it would work out. Unfortunately, Magdalena neither loved Ferdinand, nor was she interested in marrying an archduke candidate from a backwater duchy like Ehrenfest. She also had feelings for someone else, so she convinced her love to marry her. Ferdinand then went back to Ehrenfest after he graduated and immediately joined the temple.
  • Near the end of Part 4, the king orders Ferdinand to go to Ahrensbach and marry the future Aub Ahrensbach, Detlinde. Since the new aub for the coming years will be an inexperienced young woman, Ferdinand is sent to keep the duchy stable, while educating Letizia, who is set to become aub once she comes of age (the real reason was likely to prevent him from becoming zent). Letizia will then marry Zent Trauerqual's third son, Hildebrand.
  • In Part 5 Volume 5, Rozemyne makes a deal with the royal family. She will be adopted by the king and help them obtain Grutrissheit, in return for treating Ferdinand better in Ahrensbach and compensating Ehrenfest for losing her. When she comes of age, she will become Sigiswald's third wife.
  • Technically, at the end of the story, Ferdinand's eventual marriage to Rozemyne is also arranged. Trauerqual's royal decree is still in effect, only the one who rules over Ahrensbach as aub isn't Detlinde but Rozemyne, who took over the foundation.
• Artists Are Attractive:
  • Women generally love men who can play an instrument or sing well. Ferdinand is a master of the harspiel, coupled with his baritone voice, there is almost no woman who can resist him. Eglantine also admits she would have developed feelings for Rozemyne if she were a man, after the latter composed a song for Eglantine on the spot.
  • Lestilaut develops feelings for Eglantine (and later Rozemyne) while watching her practicing the dedication whirl.
• Art Shift:
  • Myne's Imagine Spots are done in a Chibi format, to differentiate from the reality around her.
  • Downplayed, but used in the anime, as characters who use Myne's shampoo formula have hair highlights rather than flat colors to indicate the hair being clean. This shift usually happens after Myne finally befriends them.
• As Long as It Sounds Foreign: While many spells are inspired by the German language, there are names that are based on German words and some that sound German, but actually don't have any meaning. For instance, to transform one's schtappe into a mixing stick, the spell beimen is used, which may or may not be based on the German word "beimischen" (to admix). "Grutrissheit" also sounds like a portmanteau of "Grundriss" (blueprint) and "Weisheit" (wisdom).
• Asteroids Monster: The Hundertteilung and Talfrosch feybeasts are both known to have larger individuals that explode into a bunch of smaller ones in response to attacks that inflict physical damage.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • Rozemyne's grandfather is quite the Drill Sergeant Nasty towards his grandsons, to the point that Cornelius is baffled when he finds out Angelica is willingly being trained by him. However, when Cornelius and Rozemyne come back from successfully completing their fifth and first year respectively at the Royal Academy, that very same grandfather picks up Cornelius and throws him up in the air to congratulate him. Then the mood is killed by his attempt to do the same with the much lighter and more physically fragile Rozemyne.
  • Despite Justus and his mother, Rihyarda, constantly bickering, it is obvious how much they care about each other. In the Year 1 Side Story Collection, Justus chokes Traugott unconscious and threatens to kill him. Part of the reason is Traugott assuming he can just change masters all the time like Rihyarda does, but Justus explains that she is Loyal to the Position and only serves whoever she is asked to serve by the archducal family. Justus will not tolerate any insults towards his mother. In Part 4 Volume 9, Rihyarda helps Justus packing his room, since he will go to Ahrensbach with Ferdinand and will probably never return. He specifically called for his mother because she is one of the few people he can trust. Rihyarda is deeply saddened to see her son leave, yet she is proud to have raised him.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Many of the magic tools made by Ferdinand in his Royal Academy days have this problem. Since he has a quite large quantity of mana, he tends to consider that prototypes are worth being made as long as he can power them. However, not everything he makes can be used by nobles with less mana, which greatly cripples the item's potential for becoming widespread. In Part 4 Volume 3, he turns out have figured out how to make the Magitek equivalent of a video camera, but to need to provide several feystones containing to some of his own mana for an archnoble to be able to use it.
• Backhanded Compliment:
  • In Part 2 Volume 1, when Myne confesses that she doesn't trust her new attendants from the temple to deliver her donation, Benno manages one of these:
    Benno: For someone who's typically clueless, you're being surprisingly careful.
  • In Part 2 Volume 3, Rosina is about to come of age, and Myne wishes to gift her a present. When she asks Ferdinand for help, he murmurs:
    Ferdinand: That is a rare sensible question from you.
• Badass in Distress: In Part 5 Volume 7, Ferdinand is poisoned by Letizia and, after Detlinde immobilized him, left to die in the foundation supply room, with Justus and Eckhart being unable to enter the room and help him. Rozemyne prepares a rescue squad with her retainers and Dunkelfelger to invade Ahrensbach and give him an antidote.
• Bait-and-Switch Sentiment: Myne says she loves Mr. Otto. She meant it as a platonic-if-intense friendship, but her father thought that Myne was in love with him.
• Bathroom Search Excuse: Played literally. Myne is left alone in a medical room after fainting and, upon waking, sets out to actually look for the bathroom. She finds it, but it has no water, and so she goes looking for someone to bring more and ends up by genuine accident in a part of the temple meant for people of higher status than her, only managing to go further into it while trying to get back to the medical room. This incident results in her stumbling upon the temple's small library, which is a big find considering the world in which she now lives.
• Bathtub Bonding: In Part 1 Volume 3, Myne stays at Freida's house for a day. After baking a cake, Myne suggests taking a bath together, where they can relax and talk.
• Battle Chant: In Part 5 Volume 2, Rozemyne learns that Dunkelfelger knights perform a ritual that resembles a Māori haka dance, where they pray to the God of War and the Goddess of Gale. Rozemyne suggests a joint research with Dunkelfelger and finds out that their chant works as a big blessing that boosts the power of the ones chanting.
• Beam-O-War: A short-lived one at the end of Part 2. Ferdinand is so much stronger than Count Bindewald that it can hardly be called a duel and more a Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: Certain feyplants like trombe have a Darkness element, which means they continuously Mana Drain the earth around them and absorb incoming attacks with mana. To beat them, the members of the Knight's Order bless their weapons with Darkness.
  Damuel: Shrine maiden, those are weapons with the divine protection of the God of Darkness bestowed upon them. If you infuse them with your mana and attack, you can take twice the amount of mana from anything you hit and make it yours. They're vital for exterminating trombes.
• Be Careful What You Wish For:
  • Urano used to joke that the way she wanted to go out was being crushed under an avalanche of books. Then one day it happened.
  • Urano's childhood friend Shuu once wished that Urano got stuck in a world without books and suffer. It became true when she died and was reborn into a poor illiterate family in a medieval world.
  • A little before finding out Myne is going to join the temple, Gustav is seen wishing that he could help her sign up with a progressive noble. Fun fact: the archduke of Ehrenfest is a quite progressive person. Henceforth, she drags Gustav into her business and gives him endless headaches.
  • When a blue priest ransacks the temple's book room, Myne spends some time wanting the man's head on a pike. As Rozemyne, she ends up needing to make the decision to execute a group of people who actually committed an execution-worthy crime and is required to be present when the execution is carried out. She hates every bit of it.
  • Myne shows interest in reading books about magic, but Ferdinand tells her those books are for those who have graduated from the Royal Academy, which only noble children can attend. There is a workaround, but it's mutually exclusive with Myne staying with her family and she eventually gets her hand forced into using it.
  • When Myne tells Benno that a second blue priest, Sylvester, wants to visit her workshop alongside Ferdinand, Benno is excited to meet him and wants more information about him from Myne. When he gets to meet Sylvester, he freezes up and gets scared because he has already met Sylvester before on official archduke business and recognizes that Sylvester is incognito.
  • In Part 3 Volume 1, after a very successful meal at the Italian restaurant, Sylvester asks Rozemyne how she wishes to proceed regarding the printing business. Rozemyne wants to create an orphanage and a workshop, similar to the temple in the capital, so she can send gray priests over. Sylvester approves and, in addition to her request, orders the construction of a chapel and a monastery. What Rozemyne doesn't realize is that by asking for a miniature temple, the building has to be created by archducal magic and is maintained by Rozemyne's mana. Thus, the building is the direct property of the archduke and his family, and attacking it is treason punishable by death. After the citizens of Hasse attack the monastery, Rozemyne has to deal with the consequences of their treasonous actions and execute the perpetrators, which clashes with her own values.
  • In Part 3 Volume 1, Lamprecht visits Rozemyne to tell her how jealous Wilfried is of Rozemyne and how he wishes he could have it as good as her. Lamprecht asks her to do something about it. In the next volume, Ferdinand is ordered to cheer up Rozemyne after she got depressed about the situation in Hasse. Rozemyne uses all these circumstances to bait Wilfried into switching places with her for a day. Wilfried and Lamprecht get humiliated by the reveal that the former doesn't have the basic skills, work ethic, and discipline necessary to do a fraction of Rozemyne's everyday tasks, despite being at an age at which he should. It doesn't end well for the person who ordered Ferdinand to cheer up Rozemyne, either, since he's Wilfried's father and has been misinterpreting reports of Wilfried's behavior during his classes to a neglectful extent, which gets him an earful from several people.
  • At the end of Part 3 Volume 2, Rozemyne manages to free up Ferdinand's schedule a little and suggests that he use the extra time to start training a successor as High Priest, hoping it would result in her needing to do less work for him and Ferdinand taking up her High Bishop duties. Ferdinand admits it's a good idea, only to promptly set his eyes on Rozemyne.
  • A craftsman asks Rozemyne to say everything that goes through her mind when it comes to improving the printing press, in case it helps him get new ideas. Rozemyne decides it's a good time to mention the most far-fetched ideas she has.
  • After Rozemyne reminds Ferdinand that if one person cannot replace him, they could always train more than one, Ferdinand decides to train two blue priests as his successors as High Priest. Then Rozemyne notes that the plan for her life is not to stay in the temple forever and that she will have to go to the Royal Academy in a couple of years. Ferdinand suddenly gets thoughtful, with a very scary look in his eyes... Come next meeting, he reveals that he won't be taking Rozemyne's position as a High Bishop: He will be returning to noble society in a couple of years himself, once the blue priests he is training now are good enough to become both High Bishop and High Priest. Rozemyne gets a headache.
  • When Rozemyne finds out that Ferdinand is receiving a "sorry to be causing you trouble so often" tax of sorts from Justus in the form of wild items Justus likes collecting but doesn't use much, Rozemyne thinks she should probably do something similar and wonders if she can pay hers in mana. She ends up doing just that, but she's in a coma during that time, so collecting the mana is also adding to Ferdinand's already heavy workload.
  • Upon meeting Charlotte in Part 3 Volume 5, Rozemyne wishes to become a Cool Big Sis for her and earn her approval. Charlotte does start practically worshipping her sister, but that happens after she wanted to fill the shoes Rozemyne left behind after being forced to go into a Deep Sleep. Whether it's managing the playroom during winter socializing, Mana Replenishment for the foundation or her work as High Bishop, Rozemyne's accomplishments are so extraordinary that Charlotte's confidence in her skills quickly crumbles.
  • Myne constantly complains that she is too small, and Rozemyne does the same. People constantly are Expecting Someone Taller, which annoys her to no end. She wishes to grow taller and prays to the God of Nurture to help her with that. In Part 5 Volume 7, Erwarmen calls Anwachs the God of Nurture and asks him to "fix" Rozemyne's stunted body. Anwachs then uses his powers to rapidly help Rozemyne grow, which is a very painful experience. Also, once grown up and looking mature, Rozemyne cannot act as childish anymore and people expect her to behave appropriately. She also cannot stay that close to Ferdinand anymore, especially after she and Wilfried are engaged.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Generally, Myne trusts people who treat her well and repays them with her loyalty. On the other hand, people that she treats nicely are extremely loyal to her, too.
  • Myne invests a lot of her money to establish a workshop in the orphanage and teaches the orphans how to make paper and forage in the forest to resolve the famine in the orphanage. The orphans are deeply thankful for her and she is hailed as a saint for her actions.
  • Myne in particular treats her attendants well and prioritizes their lives over the lives of tax-paying citizens, for which Rosina expresses her genuine gratitude. Fran can also overcome his traumatic past thanks to her treating him kindly.
  • In Part 2 Volume 2, one of Myne's guard knights, Damuel, is friendly towards her and initially tries to defend her from her other guard knight, Shikza. He only backs off when Shikza brings up his higher status, for which she sympathizes with Damuel. After the trombe incident is resolved, she asks Ferdinand to not punish Damuel too harshly, which ends up saving Damuel's life from execution. He later thanks Myne in the next volume, as she was one of the few people that ever defended and helped a laynoble like him. Part of his punishment involves guarding Myne for a year, which he takes very seriously and he plays a major part in protecting Myne in Volume 4 until Ferdinand arrives to defeat Count Bindewald.
  • In Part 4, Angelica's sister, Lieseleta, eagerly joins Rozemyne's entourage to repay Rozemyne for saving her older sister from a failing grade.
  • Later on, Roderick also becomes one of Rozemyne's scholars. His family is part of the former Veronica faction, but he has been mistreated by his father and was ostracized by everyone else to the point that he had suicidal thoughts. Rozemyne treating him fairly and rewarding him for his efforts is what saves his life.
• Betrayal Insurance: This is a common use for name-swearing, as it creates a Can't Live Without You situation in which the name owner's death will also cause the death of the name-sworn. The situation also gives the name's owner some amount of control over the other's movements, which allows them stop less lethal forms of betrayal.
• Beyond the Impossible: High Bishop Bezewanst defends himself against Myne's Crushing by using a Stone of Darkness, which simply absorbs the mana sent after him. Myne is so powerful, she overloads it. Neither Bezewanst nor Bindewald can believe that she has that much power.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Myne learns in Part 2 Volume 2 that Wilma Does Not Like Men because she was almost raped by a blue priest. Her mistress, Sister Christine, noticed her absence and found Wilma in time.
  • In Part 2 Volume 2, Ferdinand arrives just in time to save Myne before the trombe that has sprouted absorbs too much of Myne's mana.
  • In Part 2 Volume 4, Ferdinand appears in time and stops Bezewanst and Bindewald's attempt to kidnap Myne and turn her into their slave.
  • At the end of Part 3, Rozemyne, Angelica, and Cornelius rescue Charlotte from a kidnapper.
  • At the end of Part 3, Bonifatius appears to rescue Rozemyne. He ends up almost accidentally killing her, but Ferdinand catches her before she hits the ground fatally. He then brings her to the temple to give her an antidote against the poison she was forced to take and puts her in her jureve to start the healing process.
• Bilingual Bonus: A lot of the names and spells are of German origin. People who know German will sometimes learn the meaning of things before they are explained.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Downplayed. The head of the Merchant's Guild Gustav and his granddaughter Freida are very friendly to Myne, but they're also looking out for ways to exploit her knowledge and making them part of their store. If she was in better health, they'd forcibly marry her into their family to one of Freida's brothers. However, it's later subverted in some side chapters: While Freida and her grandfather are both pretty greedy, they're also very concerned about Myne and Benno respectively but their inability to show it correctly tend to alienate them or even minimize the real care they have for them.
• Blackmail: Played for Laughs in Part 3 Volume 1. Rozemyne doesn't want her guards to learn that taue fruits can absorb mana and turn into trombe seeds. This is why she takes Damuel with her instead of Brigitte, as she has something she can blackmail him with to keep him quiet. Her material? Telling Sylvester or Ferdinand that she blessed Damuel at the end of Part 2, which increased his mana growth. Damuel would forever get teased by Sylvester if he learned that a laynoble got such a magnificent blessing and he didn't. It doesn't end up being used because Damuel just stays behind and closes his eyes, so he can declare ignorance if he was ever interrogated.
• Blessed with Suck: Rozemyne's mana compression method creates a discrepancy, as she only teaches it to people who have her and her guardians' approval. All of her adolescent retainers effectively raise their mana levels to a higher stage (laynoble to mednoble, mednoble to archnoble, etc.), but this leads to their mana not matching their status (and similar mana levels are required for a couple to have children). Thus, Damuel needs to marry someone with mednoble mana, Lieseleta canceled her first engagement with her mednoble fiancé, and Brunhilde is eventually engaged to one of the few possible prospects left in Ehrenfest.
• Blood Oath: To sign magic contracts, commoners use blood instead of a pen that writes with mana. That is because a commoner's mana is too low in general, though blood has the highest concentration of mana, so it can still be used for magically binding contracts.
• Bodyguard Betrayal: In Part 2 Volume 2, the Knight's Order calls High Priest Ferdinand and Myne for help to defeat a grown trombe and restore the land. Karstedt assigns two new knights, Shikza and Damuel, to protect Myne. However, Shikza soon attacks Myne and Damuel cannot try to protect her because Shikza outranks him. Myne's wound creates another trombe, but she is saved by Ferdinand. Ferdinand admonishes Shikza and Damuel for dishonoring themselves, and the archduke sentences Shikza to death, while Damuel is degraded back to an apprentice and is ordered to guard Myne henceforth.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: In Part 5 Volume 7, Detlinde makes Letizia poison Ferdinand, but he survives the attempt. She then enters the foundation supply room to gloat and immobilizes him, while letting him die a slow death by draining his mana. She then reports to her mother that Ferdinand is dead, which is the signal for Georgine to attack Ehrenfest. This ends up being a terrible mistake, as Rozemyne saw what happened and prepared a rescue squad to invade Ahrensbach. Not only does she save Ferdinand, she closes the border to Lanzenave and steals Ahrensbach's foundation, which cuts off Detlinde's retreat, since with a new aub she loses access to the Ahrensbach dormitory in the Academy and can't use the transfer circle anymore to return.
• Book Ends: The last episode of Season 2 of the anime has Ferdinand preparing to read Myne's mind with a magic tool, which was also the first scene of the first episode of the series.
• Bottle Episode: Season 1, episode 3 (The first winter) takes places almost entirely in the family's dining room.
• Breach of Promise of Marriage: Damuel gets a double blow after failing to protect Myne. One of the indirect consequences includes his fiancée breaking their engagement after he had spent all his savings on her. When he hopes to get some of that money back because she was the one to end it, his brother advises him against it for reasons that can be summed up as "you're the one who messed up, don't expect a single small copper back".
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: The novel itself doesn't directly spell it out, but this happens to some items on Rozemyne's track record of fainting because of her lack of health at socially awkward moments. During her first year at the Royal Academy, she faints while on a social call with a member of royalty and later at a tea party in which she's the host. During her second year, her second instance of fainting in front of a royal and her second instance of fainting at a tea party she's hosting are the exact same incident. This makes her track record include: fainting in front of a royal, fainting while being the host and fainting in front of a royal while being the host.
• Break the Haughty: Invoked by Rozemyne and Leonore in Part 4. After Ehrenfest, due to Rozemyne's unconventional strategy and a change of rules, wins a ditter game against the greater duchy Dunkelfelger, whose knights are experts in ditter and much better coordinated, the Ehrenfest apprentice knights (like Traugott) become arrogant and overconfident. Rozemyne tells Leonore that she wanted them to lose against Dunkelfelger, but decided not to because Schwartz and Weiss were the prize. Having seen how weak Ehrenfest's apprentice knights are, Leonore trains them mercilessly. When Professor Rauffen appears and suggests a rematch, Leonore makes sure she can't help, and since Rozemyne had to go back to Ehrenfest for the Dedication Ritual, they would have to fight without Cornelius and Angelica (their strongest knights) and without her guidance and blessing. This would help them realize that they still know nothing about teamwork and lucked out. As expected, Ehrenfest suffers a humiliating defeat.
• Breeding Slave: Women with huge amounts of mana can be used as such by the nobility to produce superior children. Ferdinand warns Myne that this could happen to her, if she doesn't focus on her noble education to pass her off as a noble. The most famous example is Adalgisa, the first Lanzenave princess that was sent to Yurgenschmidt to produce an heir for Lanzenave. Her Meaningful Name is Italian and based on the German words "adel" (noble) and "gisel" (pawn, hostage).
• Burying a Substitute: Myne's funeral replaces the body with posessions of the deceased because she's not actually dead. The fact that the buried possessions are her commoner clothes is fitting to the real situation, however.
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Tends to happen when the people of this world are confronted with Myne's futuristic concepts. Her shampoo gets branded as "rinsham" (a portmanteau of "rinse" and "shampoo"), and everyone refers to libraries as "book rooms." Even the "potatoffel," a plant that seems identical to a potato, sounds like a mix between "potato" and its German equivalent "Kartoffel".
• Call-Back:
  • In Part 2 Volume 1, Benno teaches Tuuli and Lutz about clothes and how it's important that they represent the appropriate status of the person. He explicitly notes that wearing clothes that don't fit one's status only leads to trouble, the prime example being Myne with her baptism and Gilberta Company apprentice clothes.
  • In Part 2 Volume 1, upon eating food prepared by Hugo and Ella for the first time, Myne notes that she prefers her food to be saltier that what they made. A few years later, Hugo loses a cooking duel because working for Myne has resulted in him routinely using a little too much salt by the standards of most of the setting's residents.
  • In Part 2 Volume 2, Myne gives Ferdinand a modified manuscript of Cinderella to read, which he rejects as absolutely unrealistic, as there is no way a rich commoner could marry a prince considering their difference in status. In Part 5 Volume 8, Ferdinand asks Rozemyne whether she wants to marry First Prince Sigiswald. He brings up her Cinderella story again, thinking that the book represented her wish to marry a prince.
  • At the end of Part 2, after the archduke has sentenced High Bishop Bezewanst to die, all of his attendants are to be executed with him. When Delia regretfully bids Myne goodbye, Myne remembers that in Part 2 Volume 1 she promised to help and save Delia the next time she is in trouble. Myne then asks Sylvester to reconsider Delia's punishment and ends up saving Delia's life.
  • In Part 2, Myne's blue shrine maiden ceremonial robes are mentioned to include decorative embroidery that is the same color as the fabric. This practice is later mentioned as the means by which nobles are able to embroider magic circles on clothing without them being too noticeable.
  • In Part 3 Volume 4, Rozemyne and Ferdinand need to figure out what to do with the Doorstop Baby orphan, Dirk, who has his submission contract with Count Bindewald canceled. Since Rozemyne wants to keep Dirk at the orphanage for a longer time, and making him sign with Rozemyne would force him out, Ferdinand suggests to do the same thing that Sylvester did with Myne and give a pre-signed contract to Dirk's guardians, which they should only activate if Dirk is in danger.
  • In Part 3 Volume 5, Rozemyne sets up multiple conditions for teaching her mana compression method, one being that the contractor can't teach it to anyone else (including their relatives). She remembers how Ferdinand asked her once how she could still possibly be alive with so much mana and no magic tools, which reminded her of how dangerous mana compression is. For the sake of preserving lives, she can only teach her method to people that are old enough.
  • In Part 3 Volume 4, the summary of a knight story mentioned quite early on has the knight kill a feybeast to be able to use its feystone to propose to his beloved. Later in the volume, a male member of Rozemyne's entourage gains a romance prospect. In the following volume, Rozemyne asks for the operation intended to procure her a good feystone to be extended a little so that same member of her entourage can get a good feystone of his own, as she remembered that the knight story was depicting an actual tradition.
  • When Damian wants to visit Rozemyne's workshop in the temple, Rozemyne wants to make sure he sticks to the workshop and doesn't accidentally wander into the noble section of the temple. Lutz points out that the only reason Rozemyne has to worry about other people wandering into the noble section of the temple is the fact that she did that herself.
  • In Part 4 Volume 2, in Rozemyne's first ditter game, she orders Judithe to shoot a mana-filled ruelle at Dunkelfelger's feybeast. The feybeast eats the ruelle and grows in size and gets aggressive, which distracts Dunkelfelger's knights and gives Cornelius and Angelica the opportunity to kill it and secure their win. Rozemyne used this tactic based on what she experienced in Part 3 Volume 2, when a feybeast ate her ruelle and absorbed the mana to evolve.
  • In Part 2 Volume 4, Myne is researching colored ink with Heidi. However, the colors don't mix as expected and although Heidi wants to find out why, Myne drops the issue because she has higher priorities. In Part 4 Volume 4, this becomes relevant again when Ferdinand teaches her about the elemental properties of raw materials, which she needs to know to make magic ink.
  • In Part 4 Volume 4, before Sylvester is on his way to the Archduke Conference, Wilfried suggests using rinsham and plant paper, to promote Ehrenfest's new products. He based this on what Rozemyne did at the Royal Academy to get everyone's attention.
  • In Part 4 Volume 6, Rozemyne, Wilfried, and Ehrenfest's apprentice knights are forced to fight a dangerous feybeast that, similar to a trombe, can continuously absorb mana to grow in size. To her horror, she learns that none of the knights know how to gain the divine protection of the God of Darkness to fight the feybeast, forcing her to teach the prayer to them. When she later asks her guardians why not even Cornelius knows how to do it, Ferdinand tells her that he ordered Karstedt to implement a test, so that only trustworthy and cooperating adult knights who pass the test can learn that spell. The reason for that was Shikza, who disobeyed orders and attacked Myne four years ago in Part 2 Volume 2.
  • In the same volume, following the extermination of the feybeast, Rozemyne turns her schtappe into Flutrane's staff and revitalizes the desolated land with mana, just like she did in Part 2 Volume 2 after the trombes were exterminated. The illustrations look also very similar.
• Can't Live Without You: Nobles who offer their names to other nobles also bind their lives to them. Thus, should their master die, they will die with their master.
• Capture the Flag: The treasure-stealing ditter variant is a form of Capture the Flag. Teams weaken a feybeast without killing it and are tasked to protect their feybeast from other teams, who need to capture it and bring it back to their own base while protecting their own beast. Turning the opponent's feybeast into a feystone to make stealing it easier is absolutely okay. This variant was very popular during Ferdinand's time at the Academy, though due to a lack of nobles, it's become unfeasible to play. However, Professor Rauffen suggests to play this variant in a bet against Rozemyne in Part 4 Volume 2.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • In general, Myne's book cravings are underestimated. In Part 1 Volume 3 Myne volunteers to enter the temple as a shrine maiden and even offers one large gold as compensation to get access to the temple's book room. Anyone who hears this, commoner and noble alike, thinks this is ridiculous. There is also one story where she crawled out of her bed and tried to go to the book room despite being sick. To prevent this from happening, one should place a book next to her bed.
  • No matter how often people are warned, no one seems to believe how weak Myne really is until they see it for themselves. It is thus tradition for her to collapse in front of unsuspecting people at least once every two volumes, followed by panic and a call for someone like Ferdinand who knows how to handle this.
  • At the end of Part 1, Otto tells Gunther how amazing Myne is, and how her products are so unbelievable that Otto eventually will have to quit being a soldier to help the Gilberta Company. While Gunther appreciates the praise, he values labor and materialistic things more, so from his point of view, Effa and Tuuli deserve more praise for the hairpins and rinse shampoo respectively. He therefore doesn't think Myne is that incredible, until Otto tells him that Myne rakes in and manages huge amounts of money with her ideas, just like Tuuli told him before, but which he dismissed because it sounded too ridiculous.
  • No one believes Rozemyne's achievements or how hard she is working in general. The products she invented, how she saved and educated the orphanage, how much work she has every day, it all seems too ridiculous for a child that was just baptized. Even Sylvester initially believes she doesn't do much work and it's actually Ferdinand who takes care of most things and then lets Rozemyne take credit for it. He's shocked when Rozemyne tells him that Ferdinand is overworked and he can't possibly handle her work on top of all that.
  • In Part 4 Volume 3, Philine goes home with her hard-earned money that she got from Rozemyne for transcribing books. Neither Philine's father nor her Wicked Stepmother believe that Philine has become Rozemyne's retainer and the latter takes away Philine's money. When Rozemyne and Ferdinand come to Philine's family estate, her stepmother realizes that Philine was telling the truth and tries to hide the fact that she has been abusing her stepchildren in favor of her own offspring. Philine's father's indifference to his wife almost killing his son leads to Philine cutting ties with her father. Rozemyne then orders Philine to move to the castle and takes her little brother to the temple.
  • In Part 4 Volume 6, after the Ehrenfest students defeat a ternisbefallen with the help of Darkness-blessed weapons and Rozemyne heals the damaged gathering spot with Flutrane's staff, she is questioned by Rauffen. For everything she did, Rozemyne answers that she could do it because she is the High Bishop. To Rauffen it just sounds like she wants to evade the questions, but in the following volume she has to explain that everything she said is the truth.
  • In Part 5 Volume 8, Countess Bindewald and Fraularm try to reveal that Rozemyne is a commoner. All of Rozemyne's retainers and the Dunkelfelger nobles think that the two are crazy, as Rozemyne has so much mana that she can turn feystones of decent capacity into golden dust with one touch, is (supposedly) an expert in ditter, has conquered Ahrensbach's foundation, and is in possession of the Book of Mestionora (which makes her a zent candidate).
• Cerebus Retcon: Gunther coddling and seemingly overprotecting his daughters is very heartwarming and funny, but gets harsher once the reader learns that Tuuli and Myne aren't his first children, they are his third and fourth one, and he lost two more after Myne before Kamil was born. Mortality for newborns from low commoner families is high, and Myne has been a weak girl from the beginning.
• Chekhov's Armoury: In Part 1 Volume 3, Myne and Lutz go to the temple for their baptism. Inside the temple, Myne sees the statues of the primary gods. Each one of them carries a divine instrument. The divine instruments later become very important, as they are used for rituals, but also have practical use.
  • The first divine instrument Myne comes in contact with is Geduldh's grail. The High Bishop uses it to determine whether Myne can fill it with mana.
  • Starting in Part 2, Myne regularly donates her mana to the divine instruments, such as for the Dedication Ritual in Volume 3. In Volume 2, she is given Flutrane's staff to refill the lands, which were devastasted by the trombe, with mana.
  • In Part 3 Volume 3, Ferdinand lends Rozemyne Leidenschaft's spear, with which she delivers the final blow to the Lord of Winter.
  • Starting in Part 4, Rozemyne reproduces some of the divine instruments with her Morph Weapon. When she is told to create a shield and a weapon in Volume 6, she transforms her schtappe into Schutzaria's shield and Leidenschaft's spear respectively. She also later uses the Cape of Darkness to deal with a dangerous feybeast, and then transforms her schtappe into Flutrane's staff to restore the lands with mana.
• Chekhov's Army: Rozemyne meets the noble children of Ehrenfest at her first winter socializing in Part 3 Volume 3. Many of the named children like Hartmut, Traugott, or Laurenz, but also the unnamed ones like Giebe Groschel's daughter with the crimson hair (Brunhilde), become relevant in Part 4 when Rozemyne enters the Royal Academy.
• Chekhov's Boomerang:
  • Several of Myne's early book attempts are meant to record specifically stories told to her by Effa. That venue gets dropped for her first few actual paper books because the first illustrator she gets her hands on is only familiar with religious figures. The "Effa's stories" project gets revived as a gift for Tuuli's tenth birth season. It then takes on unexpected importance when the Rozemyne workshop needs to spend some time producing new works without Rozemyne being able to provide new materials herself and just about anything she has finished at that point is good to have.
  • Flutrane's staff is used in Part 2 Volume 2 to refill withered lands with mana. In Part 4 Volume 6, Rozemyne transforms her schtappe into the staff to refill the land with mana after she encounters a feybeast with abilities similar to those of a trombe.
  • A brief flashback in Part 4 Volume 9 epilogue heavily implies that Ferdinand was name-sworn to his father when he was younger, but had the name-stone returned to him before the latter's death. In the epilogue of Part 5 Volume 3, Detlinde demands Ferdinand's name. Ferdinand refuses, as he does not have a name to give (with the author commenting that Ferdinand was not lying). The name later turns out to be hidden in a bag Ferdinand gave Rozemyne a few chapters earlier in Ehrenfest's dormitory. Rozemyne later claims the stone in Part 5 Volume 8 to protect Ferdinand.
  • A some point after Rozemyne thinks that one would be useful, Ferdinand turns out to have made something resembling a video camera during his student days. Several volumes later, the Dunkelfelger duchy turns out to have a similar magic tool when their archduke really wants to see how a ditter game he isn't allowed to attend in person goes.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • In Part 1 Volume 1, Myne finds a book at a merchant's stall. In Justus' side story in Part 3 Volume 2, Justus and Eckhart are doing research on Myne and the former comes across the same book. He ends up buying it roughly 2 years after Myne first saw the book and delivers it to Ferdinand. invokedWord of God says that the book belonged to the family of Heidemarie, Eckhart's deceased wife.
  • Myne quickly gives up on making clay tablets, but the clay she used for that purpose becomes relevant again when she needs something to mix with soot to get something to write with and water doesn't work.
  • Gunther needs to participate in a meeting on the day of Tuuli's baptism because an archnoble asked to have it. The archnoble doesn't see the problem with organizing the meeting on the day of the lower city summer baptism because nobles simply get their children baptized by having a priest come to their estate at a time convenient to them. This results in the day of Rozemyne's baptism being the subject of a thorough discussion, as she is brought into existence with spring well underway and her summer birth season makes for a tight schedule for teaching her what a 7 year old noble child should know.
  • When Myne is learning what she can scavenge from the forest, Lutz rejects some poisonous items she picked up by accident, mentioning one of them will make whoever ingests it unable to move for three days. In a later part of the story, Rozemyne herself is given a poison with a similar effect when abducted.
  • When making an origami crane for Benno to thank him for sponsoring her an Lutz's papermaking, Myne's internal narration mentions origami shurikens. Rozemyne later uses paper shurikens when she needs to get a little more stealthy about spreading printed pictures of Ferdinand, by making prints that seem to be random lines and smudges until they are folded into shurikens.
  • Upon finding out that richer people are often bored during winter, Myne thinks of introducing various tabletop games, but realizes that Lutz's labor alone wouldn't be enough to produce them. Almost all the games she thinks of at the time become winter handiwork for the orphans the following winter, with a couple ultimately being used for edutainment.
  • As part of the training that will help her deal with merchants Myne is told that magic contracts can be consulted in the Merchant's Guild. At the end of Part 2, Gustav and Freida later use their ability to do so practically at will to have a look at the magic contracts that were signed by Myne after accidentally finding out something involving her happened the previous evening and notice that those contracts are now signed by someone named Rozemyne.
  • The temple has a magic tool that keeps the voices of its visitors from getting too loud. When Rozemyne start making plans for her very own Magical Library, she's taught what she needs to know to make that same tool.
  • When deciding on the donation that will allow her to join the temple as far as she's able to guess, Myne thinks of rental libraries back in Japan. Rozemyne later introduces the concept in the Noble's Quarter when she finds out that even her relatively cheap books are expensive to purchase for laynobles.
  • In Part 1 Volume 3, Myne brings up the pound cake she made with Freida and Leise, and Benno notes that sugar is rather rare, as it just recently has been imported from foreign countries. Said foreign country and its relevance as the source of sugar is brought up much later in Part 4 again.
  • At the end of Part 1, the High Priest is seen pulling out a handkerchief to wipe off the slight case of Blood from the Mouth he got from keeping Myne from Crushing the High Bishop to death. Near the end of Part 2 Volume 1, he gives Myne the same handkerchief when she starts crying in his presence. The handkerchief turns out to have his name, Ferdinand, embroidered on it, which is how Myne discovers what it is after several weeks of working for him while only knowing him by his job title.
  • In Part 2 Volume 1, High Priest Ferdinand invites Myne into his hidden room, which Myne finds very interesting. Ferdinand notes that the orphanage director chambers have such a room as well, though Myne can't use it yet, as she needs to registrate her mana. He leaves it at that. The room is set up at the end of Part 2 after Myne becomes Rozemyne and will soon be baptized as an archnoble.
  • Myne arranges for her apprentice blue shrine maiden ceremonial robes to be made in such a way that they will be able to accomodate the fact that she's growing. She doesn't stay an apprentice blue shrine maiden long enough for that to matter, but her adoptive brother, at a later point in the story, needs something to wear while temporarily replacing her for temple duties and the way the robes were made allow them to be quickly altered to fit him.
  • While Ferdinand is searching her memories at the end of Part 2 Volume 2, Myne shows Ferdinand an item that requires rubber and asks him if there is anything that resembles it in their world. Ferdinand mentions that the bark of a feytree called a gumka might work, but the species isn't found in Ehrenfest. Several in-universe years and more than fifteen volumes later, the Royal Acaemy professor in charge of making Ehrenfest's target for speed ditter chooses a gumka tree, allowing Rozemyne to get a lead on finding a real one.
  • In Part 2 Volume 3, the High Bishop "requests" from Myne and Ferdinand to fill a few additional small chalices for him. It's not revealed for whom they were until Part 4. Bezewanst gave them to Georgine, who used them to support the former Werkestock part of the duchy that was now under the management of Ahrensbach. This earned her the approval of Aub Ahrensbach's second wife and her faction, who came from Werkestock. When she stopped providing the chalices, she blamed Ehrenfest for this.
  • At the end of Part 2 Volume 3, Sylvester leaves Myne a necklace with a black stone, as thanks for giving him a tour in the temple and the commoner forest outside of the town. He tells her it's a protection charm and that she should touch it with her blood if her life is in danger. It's a magic tool that makes Myne a part of Sylvester's family. By using it at the end of Part 2, Myne was adopted by Sylvester.
  • In Part 3 Volume 1, Rozemyne discovers a bunch of letters of the High Bishop that he exchanged with a woman. Said woman being his niece, Georgine. Georgine visits Ehrenfest in Part 3 Volume 4 and Sylvester allows her to take back the letters. As it turns out in Part 5, those letters contained info that revealed the location of Ehrenfest's foundation.
  • In Part 3 Volume 1, Lamprecht gives Rozemyne a book that was selected by Ferdinand as an Apology Gift. A couple volumes later, Rozemyne and three of her guard knights are helping the fourth one with her schooling. The book gifted to Rozemyne earlier is among the written materials used for that purpose.
  • The robes of the High Bishop are changed to fit with a few modifications, even if the one wearing it starts growing up. In the latter half of Part 5, Rozemyne gets an unexpected rapid growth spurt. She can still wear her High Bishop robes after cutting a few threads loose.
  • On the Night of Schutzaria in Part 3 Volume 2, Justus tells Rozemyne about the Royal Academy Library that she will eventually visit once she attends the Academy. Among other things he mentions are also the forbidden archives that only royalty supposedly can access. Rozemyne brings this topic up multiple times in her first and second year at the Academy and said archive becomes very relevant in her third year and the subsequent Archduke Conference in Part 5.
  • Part 3 Volume 2 reveals that Ferdinand has a library in his estate. This is later brought up in Part 4 Volume 8 when Rozemyne visits Ferdinand's estate and one volume later he leaves it to Rozemyne.
  • In Part 3 Volume 4, Lutz, Gil, Damian, and some gray priests try to develop new paper based on the Illgner province's trees. One particular paper has the ability to restore itself. The nanseb paper later comes up again in Part 4 Volume 4, as an identification tool for merchants from other duchies. It is also experimented on in Part 5.
  • In early Part 4 Volume 2, Hirschur asks for Schwartz and Weiss to be measured in the morning because she has classes to teach in the afternoon. The measurement ends up cutting into afternoon and Hirschur promptly returns to her room to study her notes once it's done. The group of students that tries to take Schwartz and Weiss away from Rozemyne a little later turns out to contain at least one person that Hirschur was supposed to be teaching that afternoon, whose motivations stem partly from Hirschur not showing up for the class.
  • In Part 4 Volume 4 Rozemyne and Ferdinand develop invisible ink. It only becomes visible if Rozemyne or Ferdinand (people with seven-colored mana) come into contact with it. It's used on Schwartz and Weiss' clothes, but it once again becomes an important tool in Part 5.
  • In Part 4 Volume 6, Rozemyne hands over a manuscript of a book that she rewrote in modern vernacular at a tea party. This manuscript becomes relevant in the next volume, as it is delivered to Aub Dunkelfelger, who uses it as a means to challenge Rozemyne to a game of ditter.
  • The tea party also mentions that at the Royal Academy there are shrines to the gods. Rozemyne visits these shrines in Part 5 Volume 5.
  • In Part 4 Volume 7, Ferdinand battles Heisshitze in a treasure-stealing ditter match and wins several rare ingredients at the end. One volume later, he gives those ingredients to Rozemyne to make another high-quality jureve for her.
  • In Part 4 Volume 8, upon discovering rainbow feystones, Rozemyne thinks they would make nice-looking jewelry, only to be told they are too precious for ornamental use. In the following volume, Ferdinand turns out to have made some into a jewel-shaped charm.
  • In the prologue of Part 4 Volume 9, it is noted that Aub Ahrensbach contacted Aub Ehrenfest via letter instead of the water mirror magic tool that aubs can use to communicate. The tool is used in Part 5 Volume 7 by Sylvester to contact Aub Dunkelfelger and ask for help.
  • In Part 4 Volume 9, during the search for a missing item that someone may be trying to transfer from Ehrenfest to Ahrensbach, the hypothetical logistics of doing so, including how various teleportation magic circles work, get discussed at length. They seemingly become a moot point after the item is recovered, but at the end of the volume, those same means are shown to be used to move an unknown item of implied great importance.
  • In Part 5 Volume 8, to make sure she can enter the Ahrensbach mana replenishment hall safely, Rozemyne, on Hartmut's suggestion, casts a waschen by putting only her schtappe-holding hand through the entrance. Georgine's plan to obtain the Ehrenfest foundation later turns out to include the same trick.
• Chekhov's Gunman:
  • Benno mentions that he has another sister, Milda, who lives in another town. In Part 5 Volume 6, Benno lets her take over the Ehrenfest branch of the Plantin Company, since he, Mark, and Lutz intend to move with Rozemyne.
  • The south gate commander briefly appears in a side chapter focusing on Gunther and Otto. The man later makes a critical mistake that allows a noble who wants to kidnap Myne to enter the city and the fallout of the mistake results in him being demoted and Gunther being promoted in his place.
  • In Justus' side chapter in Part 3 Volume 2, Ferdinand's noble attendant, Lasfam, who stays at Ferdinand's estate in the Noble's Quarter, makes a brief appearance. He first appears in the main story in late Part 4.
  • When considering hiring an extra attendant to oversee her workshop, Rozemyne asks both Gil and Lutz to suggest a gray priest for the job. Each of them suggests two people, but a total of three between them, so Fritz, the one they both suggested, is made the extra workshop overseer. The two gray priests who were suggested, but not chosen at the time, are two of the four who are later brought to Illgner to establish the papermaking workshop there.
  • For those who haven't read Royal Academy Stories: The First Year, Clarissa's appearance at the tea party at the end of Part 4 Volume 6 makes her a gunman, as in the next volume it is revealed that she is Hartmut's girlfriend and escort partner, who wants to marry him to become Rozemyne's retainer.
  • The prologue of Part 5 Volume 7 mentions that Detlinde is so out of control that Alstede, her older sister, has been summoned to keep an eye on her. Much later, Alstede's long stay in the Ahrensbach archducal castle turns out to be relevant in that she's the one who actually dyed the duchy's foundation, hence keeping Detlinde from getting locked out of becoming Zent due to being an Aub.
• Chekhov's Skill:
  • Part 2 Volume 3 establishes that Myne reads and compares multiple versions of the bible. In Part 4 Volume 4, she uses the knowledge she gained from comparing the bibles to reenact the Spring Prayer ritual that melts the snow and causes the "Miracle of Haldenzel".
  • In the same side chapter in Part 2 Volume 3, Damuel complains that Myne (and Ferdinand who is teaching her) is better in reading archaic texts than him. She rewrites the history book of a greater duchy into modern language in Part 4, which is why Hannelore asks Rozemyne in Part 5 to assist the princes in reading ancient texts in the library beneath the Royal Academy.
  • It's early on established that Justus occasionally crossdresses to gather information. In Part 4 Volume 3 he does exactly this, and accompanies Rozemyne to tea parties as "Gudrun" (his sister's name).
  • In Part 4 Volume 5, in preparation for a wedding Rozemyne needs to attend, Ferdinand teaches her several things to defend herself. Among those things is a spell to transform her schtappe into the Cape of Darkness. Rozemyne uses this one volume later when her apprentice knights have to fight a dangerous feybeast.
• Claimed by the Supernatural: Beings with mana that are close to death will have hardened mana clumps inside them, not unlike feystones. As is revealed in Part 5 Volume 7, people like Myne who carry those clumps are bearers of the so-called "Mark of Ewigeliebe" - those who have danced with death and yet still are alive.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Magic in the Bookworm world has its own logic and one's imagination and visualization play an important role in making it real. For instance, Rozemyne can create a highbeast without wings because she remembers the Catbus from My Neighbor Totoro. It has a steering wheel, accelerator, and brake pedal. In Part 4, Professor Hirschur creates a similar highbeast, but she makes it look like a shumil and replaces the steering wheel with reins, since she doesn't understand the logic behind the wheel. But since she has already seen that a highbeast doesn't need wings, her highbeast can fly as well.
• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience:
  • The gods, as well as their corresponding seasons and mana attributes, in the Bookworm world are associated with colors. Black and gold are the colors of the God of Darkness and the Goddess of Light; green is the color of Flutrane/spring; blue is the color of Leidenschaft/summer; yellow is the color of Schutzaria/autumn; white and red are the colors of Ewigeliebe and Geduldh respectively, and both represent winter.
  • Each duchy is assigned a color and nobles typically wear capes of their corresponding color. For instance, Ehrenfest's color is ocher, while Dunkelfelger's color is blue, and Klassenberg's color is red. The Sovereignty's color is black.
• Comically Missing the Point:
  • In Part 2 Volume 1, Myne enters the temple and her room without an attendant. She sees High Priest Ferdinand waiting in her room, who scolds her for walking around without an attendant who would open her door. Myne feels he's overreacting and the lecture goes on for a while, at which point Myne gets bored.
    Myne: High Priest, I have learned how to open a door.
    Ferdinand: This was not about opening a door. Were you even listening? I am telling you how to act like a proper lady.
    Myne: (thinking) Ooooohh.
  • In Part 3 Volume 3, Rozemyne learns that as the archduke's adopted daughter, she must take the archduke candidate course at the Royal Academy, instead of her desired scholar course, which is required to become a librarian. Ferdinand informs her that she can just take multiple courses, like he did. Rozemyne then gets depressed since she is just a normal girl and not a superhuman like him. Ferdinand tells her that she should just give it up then, since a normal person can't possibly become a librarian, and Rozemyne takes his bait, but not the way Ferdinand expected.
    Rozemyne: I will never give up, no matter what. Forget all that about me being a normal girl. I'm going to become the weirdest, strangest girl who ever lived!
    Ferdinand: Hold it. You are already bizarre beyond words. That is the wrong direction to focus your motivation.
  • After a mix of facts out of her control and her own personality result in Rozemyne being at the center of several unusual events at the Royal Academy, she gets summoned back to her noble adoptive home much earlier than fulfilling her temple duties would have entailed. Upon being told she was summoned back because her adoptive father can't make sense of the reports of her actions that her adoptive brother has been sending him, she assumes that the problem with the reports is her adoptive brother's writing skills, rather than what she has been up to.
• Coming of Age Story: This is the story of how Myne spreads literacy and books throughout the world to eventually become a librarian. However, it is also the story of how Urano Motosu, who was still much of a Womanchild despite already being in her twenties, slowly matures and takes over responsibility.
• Consequence Combo:
  • The offer the archduke of Ehrenfest made to Shikza's family after his Bodyguard Betrayal towards Myne has this element to it. They could either get executed alongside him or have the patriarch of the family sign a contract in which they promise to never interact with Myne ever again, pay a large fine and have Shikza recorded as having died honorably doing his duty as a knight.
  • Myne's noble identity Rozemyne is the result of a similar situation. Her choices were getting adopted by the archduke of Ehrenfest with all the perks that it entails or getting executed alongside her family and attendants. In the latter case, the archduke of Ehrenfest would have been the one to order the execution. Several people who went from serving her as Myne to serving her as Rozemyne are in a similar bind: they get a boost in social status and the privileges that come with it, but it's a Resignations Not Accepted job.
• Continuity Nod:
  • In Part 1 Volume 1, a side chapter introduces shumils. They are very weak feybeasts with sometimes blue fur who squeal "pooey". One of Ralph's friends, Fey, directly compares Myne to a shumil. In Part 2 Volume 3, the blue priest Sylvester accompanies Myne to her first Spring Prayer, and the first thing he does when he meets Myne is poking her cheek and demanding from her to chirp "pooey". He later states that Myne reminds him of his pet shumil that he had in the past. Rozemyne only learns about what shumils are much later in Part 4.
  • When Myne meets High Priest Ferdinand for the first time in Part 1 Volume 3, she guesses that he is around Benno's age (late twenties to early thirties). In the prologue of Part 2 Volume 1, it's mentioned that Ferdinand is frequently mistaken to be 25 or 30 years old, when he is actually 20.
  • In Part 1 Volume 3, Freida's chef Leise is rather surprised how well Myne can handle sugar. As far as Leise is aware, chefs in the Sovereignty are operating under the principle that if you are going to be using expensive sugar, the sweeter the better. In Part 4, the Academy students get to eat sweets made by the Sovereignty chefs. While they are presented in a very beautiful and elegant way, the chefs overuse sugar, making the sweets barely eatable for the Ehrenfest students.
  • In Part 2 Volume 1, Myne tells Delia to deliver a message to the High Priest, as Myne will get in trouble otherwise. Hearing this, Delia promises to deliver the message. When Myne returns a few days later, she is greeted by Delia smugly saying that Myne must have gotten in trouble. Delia indeed did not deliver the message.
  • In Part 2 Volume 1, Myne notes that she likes her food a bit saltier than most people. In Part 3 Volume 5, Hugo ends up losing his cooking duel with Leise because the food he made was too savory. He based the dish on Rozemyne's personal preferences.
  • In Part 2 Volume 1, after Lutz runs away from home, Gil comes to Myne's home to walk her to the temple. However, she can't leave because she is still stuck with a fever. Gil then kneels, takes her hand and presses his forehead against the hand. He then prays for her soon recovery. At the start of Part 4, Sylvester does a similar gesture to express his heartfelt gratitude to Rozemyne for saving his children.
  • Elvira and Eckhart are first seen in Part 2 Volume 3, when Ferdinand visits Karstedt to discuss Myne. Karstedt notes that his wife and eldest son seem to like Ferdinand much more than him. In Part 3, when Rozemyne and other characters like Cornelius narrate the story, they make the same observation.
  • In Part 2 Volume 3, the first town Myne visits for Spring Prayer is very close to the capital. She notes that it's the same town where her neighborhood went to on pig killing day back in Part 1 Volume 1. She visits the town again in Part 3 and the reader learns that the town's name is Hasse.
  • In Part 2 Volume 3 Supernatural Sensitivity is explained. Damuel, who is a laynoble, is weak enough to sense the relatively weak Devouring soldiers. In Part 3 Volume 4, Brigitte, a mednoble, starts sensing Damuel's mana, which is a sign that his capacity is growing.
  • In Part 2 Volume 3, Sylvester leaves Myne with a protection charm, that would help her when she's in danger. It doesn't have any actual magic function besides sealing Myne's adoption contract with Sylvester. However, starting in Part 4, Rozemyne wears protection charms Ferdinand gives her, and those really are intended to protect Rozemyne should she ever get attacked by someone.
  • In the prologue of Part 3 Volume 1, Karstedt mentions that someone will have to synchronize minds with a criminal archnoble to interrogate them. Someone who is compatible in mana with that archnoble will have to do that, and Karstedt prays it won't be him. He later returns back home with a very tired look in his face, making Rozemyne wonder what happened to him.
  • In Part 3 Volume 3, thanks to Rozemyne's support, the Knight's Order defeats the Lord of Winter faster than usual. It is said that killing the Lord of Winter will shorten the terrible blizzards during winter. A side story at the end of Part 3 mentions that winter is lasting longer than last time. That is because Rozemyne is recovering in her jureve, so she can't help the Knight's Order.
  • In Part 4 Volume 1, Rozemyne enters the Royal Academy and has to choose her own retainers amongst the students. Most of them have been chosen for her in advance, and as she later finds out, all have a connection to either Florencia/Elvira's faction or House Leisegang. When Sylvester later reviews Rozemyne's chosen retainers, the only ones he finds surprising are Philine and Judithe. That is because neither of them are connected to the Florencia or Leisegang faction.
  • In Part 4 Volume 1, Leonore brings up the rumor that Angelica is to be married to one of Bonifatius' grandsons. Rozemyne thinks it's ridiculous for Angelica to marry one of her brothers; someone like Traugott would make far more sense. And she is right. As it later turns out, Traugott was the intended fiancé for Angelica, at least until he quit being Rozemyne's guard knight.
  • At the start of Part 4 Volume 2, Rozemyne discusses with Hirschur the date and time when Schwartz and Weiss are supposed to be measured. Hirschur suggests to do it in the morning, since she has to teach classes in the afternoon. On the day of the measurement, Rozemyne is confronted by Lestilaut. One of the reasons why he's angry is the fact that Hirschur skipped the classes she was supposed to teach in the afternoon and instead went straight back to her workshop after the measurement was done. Rozemyne internally curses Hirschur for neglecting her duty.
  • In Part 3 Volume 1, Rozemyne earned roughly 12 large gold with the charity concert and the printed illustrations of Ferdinand. After Ferdinand found out about the illustrations, he forbade Rozemyne from selling such merchandise ever again, even after she offered him a portion of the profits. It is then noted that, amongst other things, one of his sources of money are the magic tools he makes and sells. In Part 4, Rozemyne learns that Ferdinand is well known outside of Ehrenfest's nobility as a Gadgeteer Genius who made quite a fortune with the magic tools he sold to other nobles.
  • At the start of Part 4 Volume 3, Ferdinand notes that Eckhart calling him multiple times a day reminds him of Bonifatius, which equally annoyed him. As revealed at the end of Part 3, Bonifatius sent several ordonnanz to the temple for almost two years to ask about his granddaughter's status.
  • At the end of Part 4 Volume 3, Rozemyne compares the people of her life to furniture. Her family and Lutz for instance are a bed, a place where she can comfortably relax, while her temple attendants are a table, since she does work but also can read there, so it's also very nice. When Justus asks Rozemyne what Ferdinand is to her, she compares him to a bench. In Part 4 Volume 8 Ferdinand orders a comfortable-looking bench from Zack, which he gifts to Rozemyne one volume later. He can't take it with him to Ahrensbach, and she will miss a bench, since he will be gone.
  • In Part 4 Volume 4, Angelica is visibly disappointed that accompanying Rozemyne does not involve getting rare ingredients. She thought this was the case because Damuel once brought back a beautiful feystone (his proposal stone for Brigitte), which he obtained in Part 3 Volume 5, while Rozemyne was gathering the ingredients for her jureve.
  • In the prologue of Part 4 Volume 5, Marianne is frustrated that her lady, Charlotte, could not contribute to sharing the costs of Ehrenfest's hairpins that all girls wore. Hearing her retainer complain angers Charlotte, who thinks that Stealing the Credit is wrong. She asks rhetorically how her retainers would all feel if Oswald came and demanded their accomplishments for his lord's sake. This is exactly what happened in a side story in Short Story Collection 1 which took place near the start of the previous volume.
  • At the very end of Part 4 Volume 5, Philine and Roderick attend a lecture for apprentice scholars that is given by Kantna, the scholar who was involved in Nora and Marthe' purchase all the way back in Part 3.
  • In Part 4 Volume 9, Rihyarda starts calling Ferdinand "Lord Ferdinand", because he will soon go to Ahrensbach and eventually marry Detlinde. Back in Part 3 Volume 1, she promised she'd stop calling him "my boy" when he would get married.
• Contrived Coincidence:
  • In Part 2, Myne, Lutz and Benno visit one of Benno's go-to carpenters to make their diptychs and karuta cards, where they find Lutz's older brother Sieg working as an apprentice. Neither brother was aware their employers knew each other up to that point.
  • A side chapter in Part 2 Volume 2 reveals that the apprentice chef Ella was in a desperate situation where she eventually would have had to become a bar waitress/prostitute once she came of age. The only way to escape her uncle was by either getting enough money to open her own store or by becoming a noble's chef. She coincidentally was sent on an errand at the Eatery Guild on a day where Benno was present, whose job offer was basically a godsend for her. Incidentally, no one at the Eatery Guild but Hugo wanted to take Benno's offer, due to the temple's bad reputation, so Benno was lucky to find Ella.
  • Johann at one point needs a patron to sponsor his apprenticeship graduation task, but the urgency couldn't have happened at a better time for Myne, who needed a skilled smith to make her type letters.
  • Gustav and Freida just happen to be visiting the latter's benefactor on the evening on which a noble from another duchy attempts to kidnap Myne. Because of this, Freida accidentally briefly ends up in the same room as a badly wounded Damuel, which allows her to see and hear enough to figure out something happened to Myne.
  • Myne comes into contact with the divine instruments of the primary gods, as she is required to donate her mana to them as an apprentice blue shrine maiden. As she later learns in Part 5, the divine instruments in the temple are meant for practice. The goal is to dedicate mana to them to learn the magic circles engraved on them, so that she can later reproduce them with her schtappe. Since she's been donating mana for years, she can do it on the spot after she acquires her schtappe.
  • Rozemyne eventually finds out that within the nobility, people usually have a natural affinity for one or several of the elements associated with the seven main gods. Those affinities are usually inherited within families. Laynobles usually have only one such affinity, mednobles two, while three and more can only be found in archnobles and archducal families. Rozemyne figures out that she probably has seven of them, while officially being born in a family in which four is normal. As to not draw unwanted suspicion, she only admits to affinities associated with spells that she has used in front of other people at that point. Luckily, this gives her a combination of affinities that makes sense in regards to her official bloodline, including a believable overlap with her "biological" brothers.
• Conveniently Empty Building: Deconstructed. While the first magic-built building to collapse due to completely running out of mana is a small tower used for storage, the possibility of the same thing happening to similar buildings that are not empty is taken extremely seriously.
• Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story: Rozemyne's cover story is partly reliant of this, as the noblewoman who is supposed to have given birth to her is dead. That same woman's still-alive husband, meanwhile, is one of the people actively and knowingly participating in the cover-up.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: In Part 2, after the debacle attempting to punish Myne by confining her to the repentance chamber, Ferdinand is informed that a much more effective punishment is to deny Myne access to the book room.
• Cooldown Hug:
  • Myne can calm her raging emotions (and mana) if she embraces or is embraced by another person. She regularly receives hugs from Tuuli and Lutz and later Ferdinand.
  • At the end of Part 2 Volume 2, after Ferdinand is clearly affected by the wave of emotions he just experienced, Myne gives him a hug.
• Conspicuous Consumption: The Sovereignty shows off how much sugar it can afford to buy by putting so much of it in their sweets that they become inedible after the two first bites. The honey version of Rozemyne's pound cake contains a more reasonable quantity of sugar than the Sovereignty desserts.
• Corrupt Church: During High Bishop Bezewanst's reign, the temple in Ehrenfest has become highly corrupt. Towns regularly bribe the High Bishop with alcohol, money, and women, and the High Bishop uses his influence to decide who gets the necessary mana for their lands and who doesn't. The donations for the temple are also unevenly distributed and the High Bishop has embezzled a lot of money for his own use. It's pointed out that a new High Bishop doing nothing would be more helpful.
• Could Say It, But...:
  • After Shikza's Bodyguard Betrayal has unforeseen consequences, Karstedt, Shikza's commander, demands answers. Myne is afraid that her low status will result in nobody believing her, and possibly everybody making her The Scapegoat, if she tells the truth. As a way out, she states that she will speak only if she gets the guarantee nobody will hurt her and, under the pretense of asking Karstedt how he'll respond to any part of her testimony he won't like, spells out what Shikza did to her.
  • The morning after Myne's noble identity Rozemyne is established with the condition that as few people as possible should be made aware that they are the same person, Benno, who is in the loop out of necessity, is asked to get an outfit altered so it can fit Rozemyne. He hands the outfit over to Corinna, telling her that the order is for a noble child named Rozemyne, but that she can reuse Myne's measurements for it.
• Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: In Part 4 Volume 7, upon realizing that a group of people that all three of them can see (but are protected from thanks to a magic shield created by Rozemyne) are about to pull an Action Bomb, Ferdinand places his long sleeve in front of Rozemyne and her younger adoptive sister Charlotte's eyes. In Rozemyne's case, it has more to do with the fact that he doesn't want the consequences of the time she was Forced to Watch an execution to happen again if they can be avoided.
• Counter-Productive Warning: Thanks to a mix of polygynous Exotic Extended Marriage and a Feuding Families situation, Rozemyne's noble "biological" family includes a half-brother named Nikolaus whom she's supposed to avoid interacting with because her mother and the boy's are on different sides of the conflict. At a later point of the story, the status quo changes in a way that allows Rozemyne and Nikolaus to properly communicate with each other, revealing that Nikolaus would like to be in Rozemyne's employ if it weren't for their respective mothers. One of the rules about the Royal Academy is that it's a place for ten to sixteen-year-old noble children to be among each other without the interference of adult family members. Rozemyne has also, by that point of the story, agreed to have an acquaintance be her retainer only while they are both at the Royal Academy. Because of this, Rozemyne's "full brother" Cornelius, who is much more wary about Nikolaus' motives than she is, assumes out loud that her idea of a compromise between the desires of everyone involved is going to be making Nikolaus a second "Royal Academy only" retainer. Rozemyne hadn't thought of it until he suggested it.
• Crapsaccharine World: A downplayed example fueled mostly by perspective. The Slice of Life of a peasant six-year-old often plays as simple and idyllic as any childhood, but as Myne reaches out to accomplish her goals, she runs into darker elements of the world around her.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: The God of Life Ewigeliebe, whose strong desire to monopolize his beloved is what ended up creating the world's seasons. In Noble Society whenever a man is too possessive of his lover, or the woman he is courting, people will inevitably compare them to the aforementioned god.
• Creation Myth:
  • Myne hears the story of how the world came to be at her baptism in Part 1 Volume 3. The God of Darkness one day met the Goddess of Light and they fell in love with each other. They had four children: the Goddess of Water, the God of Fire, the Goddess of Wind, and the Goddess of Earth. Their birth led to the creation of the world. The God of Life fell in love with the Goddess of Earth and asked for her hand. However, manipulated by the Goddess of Chaos, the God of Life grew possessive of the Goddess of Earth and encased her in ice. The Goddess of Light became worried about her daughter and melted the ice with her light, the Goddess of Water washed the ice away, allowing the children, the seeds, of the God of Life and Goddess of Earth to bloom. The God of Fire gave them the strength to grow. This also empowered the God of Life again, and as he tried to get the Goddess of Earth back, the Goddess of Wind tried to shield the God of Life away from her sister. But as she weakened, the God of Life froze the Goddess of Earth again. Thus, the cycle of the seasons came to be.
  • Part 5 introduces the legend of how the country of Yurgenschmidt came to be. After Erwarmen helped Ewigeliebe marry Geduldh, he saw how his friend turned into a cruel and possessive man who raped his wife and stole the power of his own children. Erwarmen helped Geduldh's subordinates escape and ushered Geduldh to safety to give birth to Mestionora, the only child of Ewigeliebe and Geduldh whose divinity was not stolen from her father. Mestionora was sheltered by Verbergen the God of Concealing and nurtured by Anwachs the God of Nurture, her grandparents blessed her with night-blue hair and golden eyes to hide her from her father, and she was allowed to wield the divine instruments of her relatives. Erwarmen meanwhile gave up his powers with which he bonded Ewigeliebe and Geduldh and descended into a world of white sand. As an act of atonement, he protected the humans that were spirited away to the white earth by Ewigeliebe and bound Ewigeliebe's powers in a magic circle. Humans lived in white buildings to hide them from Ewigeliebe. Erwarmen then continued to pray to the gods for Geduldh's and Mestionora's happiness. Mestionora heard his prayers, but not the ones of the humans. She consulted the other gods who wanted to fulfill Erwarmen's wish to bring salvation to mankind. To help mankind's prayers reach the gods, the humans were given the schtappe and the priest who offered the most prayers was allowed to copy Mestionora's book and became Yurgenschmidt's first king.
• Crime of Self-Defense: The setting's society is stratified enough that when one person attacks another, law will always favor the person with higher status. Unsurprisingly, the higher in status one is, the better they are at Playing the Victim Card.
• Cruel Mercy:
  • Subverted. At the end of Part 2, Myne tries to spare Delia for being associated with High Bishop Bezewanst, who is set to be executed. Sylvester only accepts life imprisonment in the orphanage after he sees Delia's shocked reaction to this, deeming it a fitting and cruel punishment. Delia though is actually thankful because despite being sent to the place that she never wanted to see again, she can watch over her adoptive brother Dirk and raise him.
  • In Part 3 Volume 3, Sylvester asks Rozemyne how she intends to punish the people of Hasse if she has no intention to raze the town to the ground and kill them all for attacking the archduke's family. She responds that she would raise their taxes for the next 10 years. Sylvester finds this especially cruel, as he thinks it would be better to just kill them immediately instead of letting them slowly starve.
• Crystal Dragon Jesus: The religion in the world worships a pantheon of multiple gods ^note  two creator gods, five inheritors of the planet and multiple subordinate minor gods under jurisdiction of the seven. The temples are led by blue priests and shrine maidens, who are of noble origin and have mana. They fill objects with mana for a bountiful harvest and ensure prosperity for the people.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: When Rozemyne goes missing for an extended period of time mid-way through Part 5, one of the signs that she's still alive is that the handful of name-sworn that she has at that point, who are in a Can't Live Without You situation towards her, are perfectly fine. Among them, Hartmut, who is her literal Hero-Worshipper, claims that because all of Rozemyne's namesworn can feel her mana growing at an unusually fast pace, Rozemyne's body must be rapidly growing, as well. He's insistent enought about this that a female six-year student leaves her clothing behind when Rozemyne has yet to return by the time she graduates. The two attendants who appoint themselves as the "care for Rozemyne whenever she shows up again" team and are the first people from Ehrenfest to see Rozemyne physically aged up by several years upon her return are amazed that Hartmut was correct about that specific detail.
• Damsel in Distress:
  • In Part 2 Volume 2, Myne is first attacked by her own bodyguard, then a trombe is created when her blood comes into contact with the ground, causing a giant trombe to appear and entrap her in its branches. High Priest Ferdinand notices the trombe and quickly appears to saves her.
  • At the end of Part 2, Myne and Tuuli are kidnapped on their way home by Count Bindewald's forces. Myne is quickly freed by Gunther, and she and Gunther then save Tuuli. When Myne flees to the temple, she is ambushed by Bindewald himself and Bezewanst. Ferdinand (and Sylvester) save Myne.
  • At the end of Part 3, Charlotte is abducted, but Rozemyne's guard knights, Angelica and Cornelius, save Charlotte. This leaves Rozemyne unattended, who is then kidnapped and poisoned by an unknown assailant. Rozemyne's grandfather, Bonifatius, catches up to the kidnappers and stops them, and Ferdinand again comes to Rozemyne's rescue and saves her life by giving her an antidote and putting her in the jureve to heal her wounds.
  • In Part 5 Volume and 8, Letizia's retainers are killed and she is kidnapped by Lanzenave forces. Rozemyne and Ferdinand, with the help of Dunkelfelger, save her.
• Darwinist Desire: Due to the child's mana usually coming from the mother, Ferdinand states that when Myne comes of age, it is very likely a large number of noble male suitors will be after her due to her very large amount of mana reserves.
• A Day in the Limelight: The light novel and manga have extra chapters that are narrated from different characters' perspective. In the anime, the OVAs focus on characters other than Myne.
• Deadly Euphemism: "Climbing up the towering stairway" is a noble's way to say someone died, so being made to climb said stairway means somebody was executed or murdered. This is first mentioned in Part 2 Volume 4 by Fran when he realizes that High Priest Ferdinand had his head attendant Arno killed. It's mentioned again in Part 3 Volume 1, when a side chapter from Cornelius's point of view brings up Karstedt's deceased third wife, Rozemary. The explanation comes in Part 3 Volume 2, when Rozemyne has to write in a letter that Bezewanst was executed. The mayor of Hasse, to whom she writes, doesn't understand the meaning and thinks Bezewanst was promoted.
• Deep Sleep:
  • At the end of Part 3, Rozemyne is informed that taking the jureve will put her in a sleep that may last up to a season. However, as she takes severe damage after being poisoned at Charlotte's baptism, she sleeps for nearly two years.
  • In Part 4 Volume 8, Rozemyne is put to sleep again for another jureve bath. This one only lasts four days though.
• Defiled Forever: The belief that pre-marital sex taints a person in some way is definitely present in the setting:
  • One of the reasons Growing Up Sucks for Rozemyne is that as she grows up, it becomes less and less acceptable for her to be in the same room as her mostly male long-time Lower City associates without her noble retainers also being present. Before that, she had been using those meetings as an opportunity to interact with familiar people without any of the elaborate noble decorum.
  • Sometime after Myne joins the temple, rumors that can be interpreted as she and Benno having sex need to be addressed.
  • Fran doesn't want his past as a Sex Slave in all but name to be known, especially by people he looks up to.
  • A recurring worry for Rozemyne is making sure her young, female, cook Ella doesn't end up in situations where she might be forced into sex by a noble. In a an instance where such plans must be made not that long before Ella is set to get married, Ferdinand mentions "the possibility that she may be put in a state where she cannot get married".
  • In the last third of Part 4, various circumstances result in Benno taking a young unmarried woman who was forgotten by her traveling family into his household until her family comes back. Those living arrangements alone are mentioned to potentially result in Benno needing to marry the young woman to preserve her reputation.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: A constant source of conflict is Myne's morals and regard for life clashing with the values of noble society. Myne absolutely abhors how nobles view commoner lives as expendable. Aside from some good nobles, average nobles usually view commoners as a race different from themselves, more like monkeys to humans or at most subhuman, and some view commoners as mere tools; while bad ones even view commoners as parasites that live off of the mana from nobles with nothing to give back. As Ferdinand is aware of Myne's circumstances, he is more accommodating towards her, but he still intends to make her become more ruthless, as in his opinion she is often too soft on everyone. Myne is also horrified that relationships between adults and children are commonplace among nobles.
• Demonic Possession: Lutz eventually figures out that Myne cannot possibly know all the things she does and demands she leave the original Myne's body. To his surprise, she agrees, but suggests they go home first...because if she lets the fever take her, all that'll be left is a corpse, not a living little peasant girl that had already died of a fever. After some discussion, he realizes she didn't want to be here in the first place and she's the only Myne he really knows, so he decides it's none of his business and that she should speak to her family.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Myne attempts to list the High Priest's positive qualities, but gets stuck on the last one because it involves... well, you can probably guess.
  He risked his life to stop my rampage, he's a skilled leader managing the administration of the temple himself, he read the bible to me, he let me enter the book room, he let me enter the book room, and he let me enter the book room!
• Denied Food as Punishment: A common practice in the temple, where access to food works on a trickle-down system from blue-robed priests to their gray-robed attendants. Myne turns out to have been doing this to Gil by complete accident due to skipping lunch to have more time to read the temple's books before returning home. Fran and Delia were being properly fed by the temple higher-ups to whom they report information about Myne.
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: In Part 4 Volume 5, Rozemyne publishes a new method to dye cloth and asks Ehrenfest's dyers to revive an old dyeing method that was popular a few generations ago, but is now forgotten. She also organizes a competition with the price being a title and becoming her exclusive dyer. While thinking about the revival of old techniques, she accidentally blurts out "Renaissance", and everyone around her assumes that this is supposed to be the dyer's title.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • In Part 1 Volume 3, the High Bishop changes his behavior drastically after seeing that Myne's parents are poor peasants. He orders Myne and her family captured after they refuse to comply with his order to leave Myne in the temple. The High Priest doesn't interfere either, as he thinks it's the fastest way to get what he needs (money and mana). Neither expected Myne to have so much mana that she Crushes the High Bishop.
  • In Part 2 Volume 3, Myne tours the duchy to perform the Spring Prayer ritual. She is accompanied by Ferdinand, but also by Karstedt and Sylvester. Viscount Gerlach, Count Bindewald, and their associates knew Ferdinand would come along, but the archduke and the commander of the Knight's Order being with Myne to protect her foils their plan to kidnap her.
  • At the end of Part 2, Myne is getting attacked by Count Bindewald and High Bishop Bezewanst directly. Their plan was for Bezewanst to give Bindewald a permit forged by Veronica, while the archduke is away for the Archduke conference, and they would wait until Ferdinand was not there to protect Myne. And in case Myne tried to Crush anyone again, Bezewanst had a black feystone to protect himself. Their plan falls apart because it was a trap laid out by Sylvester, Karstedt, and Ferdinand. The trio let Bindewald enter the city to get foolproof evidence to lock Veronica away, Myne was guarded by a knight (Damuel), she had so much mana that she turned the feystone into golden dust, and Bindewald could not feign innocence because Myne had a tool that sealed her adoption with Sylvester and that Sylvester would go back to Ehrenfest before the Archduke Conference ended. Furthermore, Bindewald didn't know that the High Priest guarding Myne is an actual noble. The only thing Ferdinand didn't see coming in his plan was that Arno did not inform him of Bindewald entering the city, which led to the violent confrontation.
  • At the end of Part 3, Georgine either plans to kidnap or kill Rozemyne. However, Bonifatius' quick reaction and Ferdinand already having prepared a jureve for Rozemyne ends up saving her life. There is also a moment of this early in the process, as the person who kidnaps Charlotte doesn't expect Rozemyne's highbeast to be able to fly because of its lack of wings.
  • Fraularm is a Sadist Teacher and wants to make Rozemyne's life at the Royal Academy as difficult as possible. However, since Rozemyne and the Ehrenfest students study ahead, they always manage to pass the exam at the start of the semester and then don't have to attend her classes anymore.
    • In Part 4 Volume 6, she changes the content of the exam to what her predecessor taught before the civil war. Even the Drewanchel students are visibly struggling, but all Ehrenfest students again manage to pass because Rozemyne used Ferdinand and Eckhart's notes, and both are graduates who still studied under the old professor.
    • In Part 5 Volume 1, Rozemyne applies for an individual examination for the scholar course with Fraularm. Fraularm gives Rozemyne, a third year student, an exam for fifth graders, but Rozemyne again aces the exam. Ferdinand taught her the entire curriculum up until the final year before leaving for Ahrensbach. Fraularm also can't sabotage the results because Hirschur is present and watching.
  • In Part 4 Volume 5, Lamprecht's wedding with Aurelia and Freuden's wedding with Bettina is to be held at the border between Ehrenfest and Ahrensbach. Georgine and her lackeys planned to attack the temple members, but the plan fails because Matthias and Laurenz warned Rozemyne through Roderick about the ambush. Furthermore, the attackers were not aware that Rozemyne could change the size of her highbeast at will and would take all of her temple staff with her in her highbeast. As it turns out in Part 5, if the plan had succeeded, the key of the Ehrenfest bible probably would have been lost, which would have hastened Georgine's plans to take Ehrenfest's foundation.
  • At the start of Part 5, Georgine plans to invade Ehrenfest after having secured the tool to gain access to the foundation, Aub Ahrensbach died, and Ferdinand is far away from Ehrenfest and cannot help Sylvester. However, Matthias betrays his family and reveals to Rozemyne that Georgine has found a way to steal Ehrenfest's foundation. This forces Sylvester to accelerate his plans to purge Georgine's allies in Ehrenfest. Viscount Gerlach's mansion also has secret rooms that are only accessible to him and blood relatives. Matthias being active to help bring down his father and being able to enter Gerlach's room gives Sylvester information about Georgine's plans.
  • In Part 5 Volume 7, Detlinde and Leonzio drug Letizia with trug and make her release a poison that is supposed to instantly kill Ferdinand. The plan fails because Ferdinand was protected by Rozemyne's charm and he has a resistance to poison as well as an antidote ready. Detlinde improvises by anesthetizing him, giving him schtappe-sealing cuffs, and draining his mana by forcing him to supply the foundation. This also fails because Rozemyne saw a vision of Ferdinand dying and in the next volume she invades Ahrensbach to save his life.
  • In Part 5 Volume 8, Georgine's invasion against Ehrenfest begins. However, she is met with far more resistance than expected. Rozemyne informed Sylvester that Georgine has the tool to enter the foundation room, which gave Sylvester one month of time to prepare his defenses. Furthermore, Georgine was told by Detlinde that she successfully killed Ferdinand. What she didn't know was that Detlinde failed to kill Ferdinand, Rozemyne secured Dunkelfelger's help to counter-invade Ahrensbach, save Ferdinand's life, and then rush back to Ehrenfest to aid in the defense. Ferdinand leading the knights is a major reason why the defense is successful.
  • Also in Part 5 Volume 8, Rozemyne and her knights invade Ahrensbach's temple. Inside, they find Lanzenave soldiers wearing the Anti-Magic silver cloth. In their arrogance, they believe they can't be harmed, but Angelica uses a normal dagger to stab them and Eckhart beats them up barehanded, as they already knew about the silver cloth.
  • In Part 5 Volume 9, Sylvester tells Rozemyne at the victory feast how he survived and stopped Georgine because of fortunate timing. While he was guarding the foundation, Georgine attacked multiple locations with several shadow doubles of hers, waiting for the moment until the path to the foundation was left unguarded. When Sylvester heard reports that Georgine was captured, he moved out of the room, only to return immediately when Florencia warned him that they only caught Georgine's shadow doubles, so he should remain in the foundation room until they located the real Georgine. When Sylvester came back into the room, he was hit by a waschen flood. After the flood dissipated, Georgine entered the room and was shocked to find Sylvester alive and well. Sylvester, who had the advantage in battle, then killed Georgine. Georgine knew Sylvester would be in the foundation room to guard it. She released her One-Hit Kill poison in the very small foundation room, expecting Sylvester to die, and then removed the poison in the air with waschen. So Sylvester left the room just as she tried to kill him and then reentered it when she got rid of the poison and before she could steal the foundation.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Considering the disaster that ensued simply from the back of Myne's hand accidentally getting cut open by his blade, one wonders how much Shikza was thinking when he intended to gouge out Myne's eyes out of pure spite. He also didn't think of a good excuse to explain his actions to Ferdinand and Karstedt who ordered him to protect Myne.
  • In Part 3 Volume 5, Charlotte's kidnapper throws her away to escape. Angelica jumps to catch her, but when asked what she intends to do about the landing, she admits that she didn't think that far ahead and promptly cries for help herself.
  • In the aftermath of the incident in the same volume, Charlotte's kidnapper, Viscount Joisontak, explains his "flawless" plan to gain Rozemyne's favor by kidnapping either her or one of her siblings to save them and then appear like a hero. Everyone comments on how flawed his plan was, because he never would have been able to contact Rozemyne or her retainers without appearing suspicious in the first place, since he is on the black list of nobles that Rozemyne justifiably shouldn't meet.
  • In Part 4, Traugott becomes one of Rozemyne's guard knights. His goal is to join her to learn her mana compression method, and once he has done so, he would have the means to become strong enough to become Ehrenfest's knight commander, so he could just quit as her guard. It doesn't occur to him that leaving (or worse, being dismissed of) an archduke candidate's services without proper reason is a disgrace for oneself and one's own family that could last a lifetime. He would thus never ever have the chance to serve under anyone else again, which makes it impossible for him to become knight commander. Rozemyne warns him of this, but Traugott doesn't understand Rozemyne's advice and Justus has to spell it out to him, when he has the audacity to think he could re-enter Rozemyne's services.
  • Starting in Part 4, Rozemyne enters the Royal Academy. Since she was sleeping in her jureve to recover, she has missed out on two full years of education. Sylvester and Ferdinand nonetheless make her cram material for her classes (but not any social training), then send her to the Academy to introduce Ehrenfest's new products and assist Wilfried, so that he can get a headstart against Charlotte. Unsurprisingly, Rozemyne's lack of training in noble etiquette and manners leads to a series of events that causes Rozemyne's guardians endless stress.
  • Detlinde tries to invite only Wilfried to what is officially a "cousin bonding" tea party by telling Rozemyne she can't come because she's only Wilfried's sister via adoption. This fails because Wilfried and Detlinde's shared biological cousin Rudiger notices the discussion, and is quick to point out that according to the tea party's official purpose, he should be able to come to it, as well.
  • In Part 4 Volume 6, Rozemyne's water gun arrows all fail to hit her target, so she changes her gun into a giant Cape of Darkness and throws it at the feybeast to immobilize it. Now that the beast can't move, she intends to shoot it with her gun, only to realize that she just threw away her weapon.
  • One has to wonder what Sylvester, Ferdinand, and Karstedt were thinking when Rozemyne was baptized as Karstedt and Elvira's daughter and her subsequent adoption into the archducal family. While being an archduke candidate gives Rozemyne a high status (and authority) and allows her to support the foundation with mana while protecting her from the Sovereignty, Rihyarda and Elvira are worried in a side story at the start of Part 3 how the Leisegangs may use Rozemyne to regain their influence. Rihyarda eventually brushes it off, as she believes that Sylvester must have thought of that and decided that it was worth it anyway. As Sylvester eliminated Veronica's faction, the Leisegangs naturally fill the vacuum of power that is left behind, and since Rozemyne is officially descended from their line and so much more brilliant than Sylvester's intended and hated heir, a succession crisis (such as the one in the first third of Part 5) was almost inevitable.
• Did They or Didn't They?: At the end of Part 5, Cornelius warns Rozemyne to be careful and be firm with Ferdinand to prevent an "early winter". When she asks Cornelius whether Leonore also has been firm with him, he averts his eyes.
• Differing Priorities Breakup: This is the reason the pairing between Damuel and Brigitte breaks up before even officially becoming a thing. The male half of the pairing secretly can't leave his job in the duchy's capital without risking a He Knows Too Much death, but thinks the job is good enough that the female half would happily move in with him. The female half wants to go back to her home province after getting married and is technically the better off one, so what she wants to do takes precedence as far as society as a whole is concerned.
• Disguised Hostage Gambit: Inverted. In late Part 4, Devouring soldiers working for Rozemyne's noble enemies abduct gray priests in hope that Rozemyne will rescue them. When she does, it quickly turns out that the "gray priests" she finds are actually Devouring soldiers dressed in their robes. The actual gray priests are somewhere else, stripped down to their underwear.
• Dispel Magic: Dunkelfelger nobles traditionally participate in a ritual after each ditter that calls upon the Goddess of the Sea which calms them down. If the knights were blessed because they performed a Battle Chant before going into battle, this post-fight ritual will remove the blessing again. Rozemyne abuses this effect by performing the ritual at the start of her ditter match against Dunkelfelger in her third year.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Most people would agree that the massive purge that followed after the civil war ended was excessive. It has led to a mana shortage across several duchies, including Ehrenfest, which wasn't even involved and stayed neutral (or Ahrensbach which was on the winning side). The greater duchy that pushed for such an extreme culling had a deep grudge against the losing side and ended up becoming the highest-ranked duchy afterwards.
• "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The first season of the anime adaptation has an ending song that is sung by Megumi Nakajima, who happens to be Tuuli's voice actress, while the second season's ending theme is performed by Minori Suzuki, who voices Rosina.
• Don't Split Us Up: After Myne reforms the temple's orphanage, plans are made to export its model to other towns. In the first town that gets an expansion of the temple orphanage, local orphans are offered the choice between moving to the new orphanage or staying in the current set-up for them. The four who accept to move from the get-go are two pairs of siblings in which one half was about to be sold off by their caretaker.
• Don't Tell Mama: In Part 1 Volume 2, Myne collapses after overexerting herself, giving Mark the shock of his life. She wakes up in Corinna's home, where she asks her to not tell her family she collapsed while Lutz wasn't with her. Corinna flat-out refuses, because Myne deserves that scolding.
• Doorstop Baby: In Part 2 Volume 4, a baby is found at the entrance of the temple. Myne gives the baby to Delia to take care of and names him Dirk.
• Door to Before: At the start of Part 4, Rozemyne has to acquire her Divine Will feystone for her schtappe. The entrance is a cave, but her Divine Will is very far inside, which exhausts her still-weak body so much that she collapses after getting it. As she later learns in Part 5, there is a door that leads directly to the location in which she acquired her Divine Will, that opens specifically for those who would otherwise have to make a very long trip to said location, and it's right near the cave's entrance. She could have avoided walking all the way there if the curriculum had not change to prioritize students getting their Divine Will as early as possible.
• Double In-Law Marriage: The Ehrenfest and Frenbeltag archducal couples are in such a marriage. Ehrenfest's archduke's wife is the younger sister of Frenbeltag's archduke, whose wife is the older sister of Ehrenfest's archduke. Ehrenfest being led by the younger siblings all while having been less damaged than Frenbeltag by a recent civil war results in its leaders having trouble saying "no" to requests for help from Frenbeltag.
• Do Well, But Not Perfect: Myne sells the formula she uses to make shampoo, which at one point contains the necessary step of filtering oil through a ragged cloth. When the buyer tries to use her recipe to make oil, she tells him that the cloth he's using is too high quality and won't work for making shampoo. She has to tell them an alternate recipe for shampoo instead, which does end up being of higher quality than the first stuff she sold them.
• Do You Want to Haggle?: The main skill of any merchant. Thanks to Benno's training, Myne has gotten quite skilled at it, even getting a great deal out of Benno for exclusive rights to her hairpins.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • A short story that was collected in the first short story collection explains that Philine's family is so poor that she wears commoner clothes on days on which she doesn't expect to leave her home. The most obvious difference beteween the higher end of commoner clothing and the lower end of noble clothing is that noble clothing always has its buttons in the back rather than the front, thus requiring the help of another person to close. The story involves Philine coming face to face with Damuel while wearing her "at home" clothes and trying to hide the front buttons out of embrrassment. Damuel is a "knows she's a commoner" level Secret-Keeper for Rozemyne, whom Philine only knows under her noble identity, and is used to quite a few commoner-typical things by that point.
  • Thanks to alternate point of views, the reader is aware of Aub Ahrensbach dying right around a calendar autumn-to-winter transition, but there being plans to fake his time of death for various reasons. The death ends up being announced well into the following spring, having officially occurred a few days before the announcement. Rozemyne is among the many who are informed upon the official announcement and wishes the person would had kept on living just a few days longer, as their death disrupts something she was planning to do while having a special permission to attend the Archduke Conference despite being underage. Unbeknownst to herself, she's wishing that a person she knew to be potentially dying had held onto life for extra months, rather than days.
• Drowning My Sorrows:
  • After breaking to her family the bad news that she has only one year left to live in early Part 1 Volume 3, Myne wakes up in the middle of the night and notices her father drinking alone in the kitchen. The anime has it happen without Myne waking up to notice it.
  • In Part 4 Volume 9, before Ferdinand leaves Ehrenfest for Ahrensbach, he has a final private conversation with Karstedt and Sylvester. Sylvester has gotten drunk, upset that he didn't stop the engagement and that he can never talk to his little brother like that again.
• Dude, Not Funny!:
  • This is Benno's reaction to Otto contributing to spreading the rumor that Myne is Benno's Goddess of Water. Goddess of Water can be a euphemism for both "bringer of prosperity" and "lover". Benno is a 30 year old Confirmed Bachelor, Myne hasn't turned seven quite yet at the time. Serious threats of having Corinna divorce Otto come up quickly and the phrase "Jokes that aren't funny aren't jokes" gets pronounced.
  • In Part 4 Volume 3, Ferdinand, Florencia, and Sylvester discuss the fact that more and more duchies want to snatch Rozemyne away by making her marry into one of their families. Sylvester jokes again that few people have as much mana as Rozemyne all while being able to control her, so she should stay in Ehrenfest and Ferdinand should go ahead and marry her. Ferdinand doesn't think it's a laughing matter at all and reprimands Sylvester, since if that were to happen Ferdinand would become Sylvester's heir. Between Rozemyne heading the future printing business alongside Elvira and her heritage as Bonifatius' granddaughter from his Leisegang wife (without any relation to Ahrensbach), she would have the political support of House Leisegang, Groschel, and Haldenzel. If Ferdinand were to marry her, in addition to his capabilities and experience, he would have such strong political backing that none of Sylvester's children could possibly win the competition to be his heir when they came of age. This is why Ferdinand suggests betrothing Rozemyne to Wilfried.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Downplayed. In Part 4 Volume 6, Rozemyne, Wilfried, and Ehrenfest's apprentice knights take down a dangerous feybeast. Cornelius then decides to split the materials that can be harvested from the feybeast according to how much everyone contributed. Cornelius did the most damage, followed by Wilfried and then Traugott, so Rozemyne just takes a few feystones that she intends to give to Roderick later. In Volume 7, she tells Sylvester, Karstedt, Ferdinand, and Bonifatius what happened. Bonifatius and Karstedt immediately question Rozemyne why she is so humble and thinks she didn't contribute much. In their opinion, the ones who contributed the most were the ones that set the necessary preparation, which were Leonore and Rozemyne: Leonore, for identifying the feybeast and providing crucial information about its strengths and how to defeat it; Rozemyne, for giving all knights the divine protection of the God of Darkness, making the feybeast focus its attention on her by repeatedly shooting at it with her water gun, and immobilizing it temporarily with the Cape of Darkness that she threw at it. If damage contribution was all that mattered, everyone would just recklessly attack, just like Traugott did. Bonifatius is irritated that apparently neither Cornelius nor the other apprentices realized this and promises to train them properly when they return from the Academy.
• The Dung Ages:
  • The Urano version of Myne to her horror learns how awful the lower city smells, especially in the southern part of the lower city, as there is no sewer system and people just throw out the contents of their chamber pots out the window. The further south one goes, the less people care about hygiene. One of the first things the Urano version of Myne tries to do is improving the hygiene in her house, which makes her family and neighbors think she's become a Neat Freak. However, Myne's insistence to keep their house clean may have contributed to her health improving and to her baby brother, Kamil, surviving.
  • Averted for the temple and the Noble's Quarter. These parts are very clean, which is why all nobles start feeling nauseous when they enter the lower city. As is revealed later, that's because they already implemented sewage pipes and a garbage disposal system that was developed by another duchy. Sylvester's predecessors however never bothered to introduce this to the lower city and were too occupied with using their resources for the newly created province Groschel, until Sylvester decides om Part 4 Volume 4 that they have to restructure the city to make it presentable to noble visitors and their people.
• Emotion Suppression: Nobles are taught from the start that they must never reveal their true feelings and stay stoic. This also has practical reasons, as mana begins to leak if they get agitated. Myne clearly struggles with this, as she is very open about her feelings and she is a Bad Liar on top of that.
• Engagement Challenge: If women from Dunkelfelger want to marry a man, but know that the chances that the man will propose to them are very slim to none, they are known to ambush the the man and demand a task that that will allow them to prove that they are a worthy wife via its completion. The third queen, who is from Dunkelfelger, is known to have done this to the current king back when he was a Royal Academy professor she was in love with. This is also how Hartmut from Rozemyne's generation ends up finding a wife.
• Et Tu, Brute?:
  • It's implied that part of Georgine's anger and resentment is due to how her mother figuratively stabbed her in the back. Georgine was Veronica's firstborn, but since heirs are preferably men, Karstedt was still considered an archduke candidate. She thus was mentored by her mother and worked hard to become the next aub. However, her mother focused her attention on Sylvester after he was born, and after Sylvester's baptism, it was decided that Georgine would be sent to Ahrensbach and become Aub Ahrensbach's third wife. This is why Georgine hates her parents and Sylvester, and despite becoming Aub Ahrensbach's first wife and later the mother of the next aub, what she really wants is Ehrenfest.
  • In Part 3 Volume 5, while Wilfried is playing with the children of the former Veronica faction (who he befriended two volumes earlier after his winter debut), he is led to an ivory tower where his grandmother is imprisoned. After learning that it was a trap to make him commit treason (which could have cost him his life), he shuns the children, even though many of them didn't know any better, either, and were used by their parents. This turns out to be not a smart move, as Wilfried's political faction is automatically his grandmother's, and shunning them not only robs him of their support, it also makes him look bad in the eyes of the other nobles. Many children of the former Veronica faction instead go over to Rozemyne.
  • In Part 5 Volume 5, Rozemyne is forced by Anastasius and Eglantine to help getting them Grutrissheit by using their royal authority. They also plan to make her Sigiswald's third wife, even though this would harm Ehrenfest deeply, as they sent Ferdinand to Ahrensbach and the royal family is unwilling to let him return, because Ahrensbach will otherwise collapse. Anastasius goes so far to threaten executing Ferdinand for being Detlinde's future husband, if Rozemyne doesn't comply. Up until that point, Rozemyne thought she and Eglantine were friends and their relationship never returns to what it used to be.
• Every Man Has His Price: In Part 1 Volume 2, Benno asks Myne to make more of her hairpins. When Myne and Lutz ask their families for help, they initially want to refuse, but quickly change their mind when Myne pulls out her money and shows them how much she is willing to pay for each part.
• Everyone Can See It: Over the course of Part 5, it becomes obvious that Rozemyne loves Ferdinand. All of her retainers see it, and Karstedt and Sylvester tell her that she must watch her behavior, since she is engaged to Wilfried. Rozemyne goes to great lengths to make Ferdinand's life in Ahrensbach comfortable, and Eckhart and Justus find it rather amusing to see Rozemyne and Ferdinand constantly trying to one-up each other with return gifts. Ferdinand also sees how much Rozemyne cares about him and at one point asks her in a secret letter what her "Geduldh" is. The only one who doesn't see it is Rozemyne. She constantly says that Ferdinand is family to her, and she would of course do the same for other people that she considers family, too, but no one believes her.
• Everyone Went to School Together: Justified. There is only one school for nobles, the Royal Academy. Thus, people of similar age (i.e. with an age gap of five years or less between them) went to the Academy together, such as Rihyarda and Bonifatius, Elvira, Karstedt, and Hirschur, or Ferdinand and Eckhart.
• Evolving Credits: The final shot of the Season 3 ending includes puppet-like figures of Myne's family. Once Kamil is born, he gets his own puppet.
• Exact Words:
  • Sylvester's words while telling Myne how the Protective Charm he gives her works are "If you're in a bad spot, press your blood against the dark gem part and I'll come save you." While Sylvester is a little too far away to respond as promptly as he first made it sound like he would when she ends up using it, it later turns out that the charm has another effect that takes place as soon as Myne activates it: it legally makes her the daughter of Sylvester's real identity, Ehrenfest's archduke, which means that whoever is causing her trouble can no longer be protected by their higher status and she no longer risks getting herself and her allies executed for self-defense.
  • When Delia asks Myne if she knows what's going on with Dirk's illness, she says that "I really can't say." That's not because she doesn't know. It's because she knows Delia's a spy and doesn't want the High Bishop to know that Dirk has the Devouring.
  • Ferdinand had forbidden Rozemyne from selling prints of him. He didn't forbid her from simply gifting them or loaning the artist drawing them to somebody else. Or that somebody else may open their own print shop and sell the prints.
  • When Hartmut returns from what was speculated by some to be a meeting with a lover, he tells Rozemyne his meeting was with a scholar from another duchy who has promised to transcribe knight stories for her, and hands the stories over to distract Rozemyne from asking. In addition to dodging the exact nature of his relationship with the scholar, Hartmut's answer downplays the extent to which said other scholar was transcribing the stories for Rozemyne. Said other scholar is female and a Rozemyne fanatic to an extent that matches Hartmut, who really wants to marry into Ehrenfest to be able to serve her. Guess which Ehrenfest student she convinced to help with this.
  • Ferdiand responds to be being asked for his name by someone to whom he doesn't want to give it by saying that someone else beat them to it. As the narration itself points out, he only says that he was asked. He didn't give that "someone else" his name, either.
• Excessive Mourning: At the end of Part 2, Gunther can't get over losing Myne to the nobility. Long after her "funeral", he still stays at home until Effa gets fed up with him and spurs him on to help in the house and get back to work.
• Exotic Extended Marriage: Nobles are known to take both extra spouses and concubines.
  • Karstedt had three wives at some point, one of them having died a few years prior to Myne meeting him. When shown Sylvester's home, Rozemyne is explicitly told that there's a wing meant for his eventual second and third wives. In Dunkelfelger (and other higher ranked duchies), it's tradition for the aub to marry one woman from their own duchy and a second woman from another duchy, who becomes the first wife. The first wife manages interduchy affairs, while the second wife manages internal affairs.
  • Although at first it is easy to assume that this arrangement is only allowed for noblemen, as the reader is not presented with any reversed scenario, in Hannelore's Spin-Off it's mentioned that female aubs can also marry up to three husbands too, with the second and/or third husband spots being reserved for a Marry for Love type of situation rather than the Altar Diplomacy that is usual for the first husband position. While also not specified it is possible to infer then that female giebes can marry more than one husband too.
• Expecting Someone Taller: When Rozemyne reaches a point where her reputation precedes her, her extreme case of Older Than She Looks causes her to not exactly match people's expectations.
• Expository Hairstyle Change:
  • Girls under the age of fifteen are expected to wear their hair in a style that lets most of it naturally drop. Once they reach adulthood, they are supposed to bind their hair in a way that keeps most of it up. This results in there being an age range during which the only obvious difference between a minor and a woman who has come of age is the way she wears her hair.
  • From an outside perspective, Myne is prone to changing hairstyles after major changes in her life:
    • Her Past-Life Memories awakening result in her starting to use a stick to partly bundle her hair, while she didn't seem to care much about styling her hair before that.
    • As Rozemyne, she has braids in her hair in addition to her bun.
• Facepalm: Myne frequently causes those around her to perform this.
• Fair for Its Day: Done deliberately. In most other works, having someone turn an orphanage of very small children into a workshop would be seen as an act of incredible cruelty. Myne ends up doing it to save their lives, as the work they do in the workshop allows them to buy their own food.
• Faking Another Person's Illness:
  • Veronica's first year of emprisonment is explained as her being ill with a serious case of You Don't Want to Catch This to a young grandson to whom she only showed her good sides, until a later incident shows the drawback of the lie.
  • Events form early Part 5 result in a significant portion of Ehrenfest students being confined to the duchy's dormitory so they don't take part in the Royal Academy's meet and greet events. Since the reason for the confinement is to be kept secret, everyone else at the Royal Academy is told that the students are sick.
  • When Rozemyne goes missing during her fourth Royal Academy term, the official story is that she's sick and bedridden. It works because everyone from outside her duchy who cares about her whereabouts is used to her being Delicate and Sickly.
• Family Extermination: This is what can happen to anyone that defies nobles. If someone commits a crime, they will be executed along with their families. Nobles who rebel against the archducal family are no exception, as Shikza's family would have been exterminated as well to ensure they will not retaliate against Myne. The archduke however showed mercy and spared their lives after Shikza's family promised to never approach Myne.
• Family Relationship Switcheroo:
  • The story has a faked case involving the polygynous marriages common among nobles. Rozemyne is passed off as the daughter of her father and his first wife, but her real mother is actually her father's third wife. In reality, she's the daughter of neither of the two women.
  • The reader is introduced to a genuine case of this with the daughter of two blue robes who is being passed off as the child of her biological mother's brother and his first wife.
• Fantastic Arousal: Pouring mana into someone else is usually a painful experience, as the body violently rejects foreign mana. However, after making the partner get used to one's mana, it doesn't feel bad anymore. In the latter half of Part 5, Rozemyne pours mana into Ferdinand's schtappe/Grutrissheit repeatedly to add parts of her Book of Mestionora into his Book. Unknown to her, the more she does this, the more she is arousing him. When she asks Ferdinand to copy his parts of Grutrissheit to her book, he refuses and tells her to wait until she's come of age. invokedWord of God later stated that if the chapter had been written from his point of view, it would not have been G-rated.
• Fantastic Drug: Trug (old German word for deception). It is a drug that slowly over time lets a person control another and gives off a sweet scent.
• Fantastic Flora:
  • The first indication that Myne was reincarnated in a fantasy setting is the paru tree, a strange tree made of ice that grows coconut-type fruit that can only be harvested in the early hours of the morning during winter. Once the sun gets too high, the tree flings its fruit an incredible distance and melts.
  • Another is the taue, a fruit that swells with water during the summer, and is used by the people of the town as water balloons for a wedding festival. But if a person with Mana touches the fruit, it suddenly transforms into a Trombe, an invasive, mana-hungry, fire-resistant woody plant that grows extremely fast (as in, after the seed cracks, it immediately lays roots and grows almost a couple of feet in as many seconds). Lutz calls his brother and cousin to immediately cut it apart before it can keep growing, as its rapid growth sucks up all the nutrients in an area and, if it grows into a tree, ruins the soil in a large area for other plants afterwards and takes entire teams of knights to take down (it also seems to shoot off its seeds like the Paru). Said wood is also noted to be unable to burn. However, it turns out its bark is actually one of the best materials for Myne's paper.
  • Even cooking ingredients aren't exempt. A radish can scream or a mushroom dance.
• Fantastic Legal Weirdness: Name-swearing creates a Can't Live Without You situation of the name-sworn towards their master and is, in many ways, a voluntary form of magically-enforced slavery. It's mentioned in passing that by giving his name to Ferdinand, Eckhart gave up on being able to inherit his family house and any prospect of becoming the next commander of the Knight's Order.
• Fantasy Contraception: People with significantly different mana levels can't have children with each other, making Uptown Girl situations quite rare. There are twists to this, however:
  • Having a much higher or much lower quantity of mana in regards to one's own family is far from being unheard of. Those with significantly high levels of mana compared to the rest of their family have a chance of marrying up. Those with significantly low levels of mana compared to the rest of their family are put up for adoption in the lower classes, made servants in their own household or sent to the temple, which means that those not sent to the temple will be marrying down compared to what their lineage should have allowed for.
  • In the temple, people of noble birth with extremely low mana cohabitate with commoners raised to be their attendants. People are forbidden to marry, but the discrepency in status between masters and attendants means that sex still happens, usually without the attendant's consent. Child by Rape happens frequently enough that up until some time before Myne took over as orphanage director, the pre-baptism orphans were being cared for by former Sex Slave attendants who had been dismissed for getting pregnant by their masters.
  • Someone who is both female and a Mage Born of Muggles runs the risk of becoming a Breeding Slave for the nobility.
• Fantasy Pantheon: A quite large one.
  • The main seven gods consist of the God Couple formed by the God of Darkness and Goddess of Light alongside their children the Goddess of Water (also spring), the God of Fire (also summer), the Goddess of Wind (also autumn) and Goddess of Earth (also winter). The seventh is the latter's husband, the God of Life, who is also associated with winter.
  • All of the seven primary gods have twelve subordinate gods, except the Goddess of Earth whose subordinates were chased away. Many of these subordinates are completely unknown or are known only from a passing mention.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Along with sewing, low commoners rank cooking as one of the most useful skills to have for a woman, which makes them especially attractive.
  Effa: Creating clothes for your family is important both practically and to show off to the neighbors. You can't be a true beauty if you’re not good at sewing and cooking.
  Myne: (thinking) Aaah... I'm definitely not gonna grow up into a beauty, then. And I mean, I can understand all that being important for a good wife, but what do cooking and sewing have to do with being beautiful?
• Fell Asleep Crying: In Part 4 Volume 3, Rozemyne is alone in her hidden room and cries upon reading a letter that suddenly became the last she would be able to get from her lower city family for quite a while. At that point of the story, the combination of now having her own scholars and soon being betrothed makes it so that meeting Lutz in circumstances that allow the letters to be exchanges is no longer an option. Next thing she knows, she's waking up sprawled on the table at which she had been sitting.
• Fertile Blood: If one has enough mana, just a few drops of their blood hitting ground can cause feyplants that feed on mana to start growing. Myne finds this out the hard way when a Bodyguard Betrayal results in her getting a cut in her hand while both of them are in the forest.
• Feuding Families: For three generations, Ehrenfest has been in turmoil due to Gabriele, a daughter from Ahrensbach, marrying an Ehrenfest archduke candidate, who founded the count house Groschel. Gabriele brought her own retainers to Ehrenfest, and she was in a bitter conflict with the family of Count Groschel's second wife, who was a daughter of House Leisegang. After Gabriele's death, her followers switched allegiance to her daughter, Veronica. Veronica and her faction have been in control of Ehrenfest and suppressed House Leisegang for years. But with Veronica's imprisonment and the adoption of Rozemyne (officially a Leisegang) into the archducal house, the momentum has switched to House Leisegang, who aim to make Rozemyne Ehrenfest's next archduke, even though Rozemyne's mother, Elvira, a moderate Leisegang, has already stated that she has no intention to seat her daughter on the throne.
• Fictional Age of Majority:
  • Children have their baptism around their seventh birthday. During that ceremony, children enter their local temple for the first time and are officially made citizens of the city in which they were born. All children officially start their vocational training after their baptism. Getting orphaned or running away from home after one's baptism is also just slightly less painful than before it, as employers are expected to have housing space available for employees and apprentices with no other place to live. Working pre-baptism children are akin to child labor in modern times in that they're technically illegal by temple rules, tolerated if they're children helping with their parents' business, and paid less than a seven-year-old just getting started. It's also mentioned that children aren't considered human beings by the temple before their baptism. All of the above is problematic for Myne because she's still as small as a 5-year-old long after her 7th birthday has passed, causing people who first meet her or only know her by sight to not realize that she has already been baptized.
  • Age ten has some degree of importance as well, as it's the age at which noble children enter the Royal Academy, at which the proper length of female skirts moves from knees to shins, and when the first contract of lower city apprentices usually runs out.
  • Adulthood ceremonies happen around fifteen years after one's birth. It's justifiably earlier than in other places on Earth because a year in the Bookworm world is 420 days long. If one wants to skip the "number of days actually lived through" math, a fifteen-year-old in the Bookworm world would be about seventeen years and three months old on Earth ^note Five years in the setting have about as many days as five years plus nine months on Earth.
    • The new rights acquired after the ceremony include no longer needing parental approval do to things, getting married and starting a formal concubinage. However, it's implied to not be any sort of age of consent; when Ferdinand hears rumors that the adult Benno and the seven-year-old Myne are in a sexual relationship, he mentions that that's not uncommon.
    • Fifteen is also the age at which people are expected to settle in their permanent workplace (vocational training starts at age seven) and graduate from the equivalent of a temporary employee to the equivalent of a full-time one if it hasn't happened earlier. Some trades require the person to have proven that they can bring money into their new workplace by completing a special order for a customer by the time they reach adulthood.
    • Noble children that come of age are allowed to keep their wands if they have graduated from the Royal Academy and are given permission to leave the Noble's Quarter. Angelica for instance cannot accompany Rozemyne to the temple or leave Ehrenfest with her mistress because she hasn't come of age until Part 4.
• Fictional Currency: The world uses a Gold–Silver–Copper Standard, further subdivided by coin size. However, currency is also measured in "lions," and a quirk of the system is that there isn't a 1-lion coin (a small copper is 10 lions).
• Fictional Sport: Several have been mentioned:
  • Warf, a game in which the ball is an armadillo-like feybeast (itself called a warf) rolled-up. It plays like soccer in the two middle quarters of the field. As the goals are hoops the warf/ball needs to be thrown into, it can be picked up when within a quarter of the field of the goals. There are no real rules against players getting violent with each other, as it's played during the autumn Harvest Festival and anyone who gets injured will have the winter to recover.
  • Ditter, which is played by nobles on their highbeasts. It is actually a sport based on real warfare and comes in many variants. Speed ditter resembles the extermination missions knights participate in against dangerous feyplants and feybeasts, while treasure-stealing ditter resembles interduchy warfare. Due to a lack of nobles after the civil war, speed ditter became the norm instead of treasure-stealing ditter.
• Final Speech: People with mana who feel like they are in danger of dying send a final vision to their loved ones. In-universe it is often treated as a last will.
  • In Part 2 Volume 2, Myne is in danger of being killed by Shikza and a trombe. She sends out a cry for help to Lutz, who later tells her that he saw what happened and quickly ran to the temple to see if she is alright.
  • In Part 5 Volume 7, Ferdinand calls out to Rozemyne after he is poisoned by Letizia. Rozemyne sees how Detlinde lets Ferdinand die a slow death, which is why she quickly gathers support to attack Ahrensbach and save Ferdinand.
• Flight of Romance: Letting someone fly on your highbeast is often seen as romantic, or at least as very intimate. Ferdinand lets Rozemyne fly on his highbeast, which Karstedt finds rather surprising. Cornelius flies together with Leonore while they are on a date in a side chapter in Part 4 Volume 7.
• Floral Theme Naming: Klassenberg nobles typically have French flower names such as Eglantine, Hortensia, Primevere, or Gentiane.
• Follow in My Footsteps: Children are generally expected to follow the same career paths as their parents or take a job that is very similar, as most baptized children become apprentices by being introduced to workshops via their parents.
  • Effa is a dyer and can also sew very well, and Tuuli's dream is to become a seamstress. Since Gunther is a soldier, Myne's neighbors don't raise an eyebrow when they see her commuting between her home and the gate, as they think she's eventually going to find work there.
  • Lutz's father and brothers all have craftsman-related jobs (specifically carpentry and construction) and apprenticeships. Lutz's father expects his son to do the same, which is why Lutz initially is mocked and disabused by his family for wanting to become a merchant.
  • Nobles are more flexible regarding their paths, but some families specialize in one profession. Karstedt for instance followed the same path as his father and became the commander of the Knight's order, and all of his sons have become knights, too. Angelica's family traditionally consists of noble attendants, which makes her an exception, as she has taken the knight course at the Royal Academy.
• Forced to Watch: Justified in Part 3. Ferdinand forces Rozemyne to watch how the mayor of Hasse and his faction are executed. The entire story of Hasse is meant to be a learning experience as a noble for her.
• Forceful Kiss: Clarissa of Dunkelfelger forces one on Hartmut after she "defeats" him and holds him at knifepoint. She wanted to see how compatible they are.
• Foreshadowing: Enough of it to get its own page.
• Forgettable Character: Kantna is a layscholar who is introduced in Part 3 as the noble who asked the mayor of Hasse for pretty orphans that he intended to sell to higher-ranked nobles. He has a Punny Name, as his Japanese name is an anagram of "nantoka" which basically means "something or another", as in "whatever". It's a joke about him being unimportant and the author (metaphorically) trying to remember what his name even is.
• Foul Medicine:
  • Ferdinand's homebrewed medicinal potions tend to sacrifice taste for efficiency to the point that they often become the gold standard for "bad-tasting" for anyone else who consumes them at least once. At some point, he makes a better-tasting version. At a later point, Charlotte is horrified by her first time tasting one of Ferdinand's potions, to the point that she later mentions she mistook it for an act of antagonism from Ferdinand. Then a chapter from someone else's point of view clarifies that the potion Charlotte drank was the one with the taste upgrade.
  • During a ditter game with her engagment on the line, Rozemyne's reaction to chugging one of the potions without the taste upgrade to be able to continue her Support Party Member gets mistaken for her deliberately poisoning herself by an opponent who could have stopped her, had he realized what she was actually doing.
• The Four Loves: All four kinds are represented in the story.
  • Storge:
    • In general, children whose parents neglected, abandoned, or abused them tend to seek out Rozemyne or do not develop into a good person. Roderick, Philine, and Gretia are cases of the former, Bezewanst and Detlinde are examples of the latter.
    • One of the most important steps in Myne's Character Development is that she comes to love her family more than books. She was raised in a family that showered her with love for which she is endlessly grateful. She considers people like Lutz, Benno, Mark, and Ferdinand part of her family, too.
    • Ferdinand was not given much familial love. He had Abusive Parents, and seeing Myne and Lutz's parents' love for their children makes him realize that he never experienced this kind of love. He later wishes for a family, too.
  • Philia:
    • Rozemyne bonds with fellow booklovers like Philine or Hannelore. One of her role models is Solange, the lone librarian of the Royal Academy's library, and Rozemyne regularly organizes tea parties to chat with Solange.
    • Dunkelfelger nobles believe that through ditter one can bond with other people, especially when one faces a Worthy Opponent. One such case is Heisshitze, who dueled with Ferdinand many times during their days in the Academy.
  • Eros: People who Marry for Love usually end up being happy at the end.
    • As is shown in Part 5, the love Ferdinand and Rozemyne feel for each other is also of romantic nature. Ferdinand becomes aware of this in the early parts of Part 5, while Rozemyne remains dense about it because she never experienced romantic love before. It's clear for everyone else that Rozemyne loves Ferdinand that way.
    • There are also cases where Love Makes You Evil. One such case is Third Prince Hildebrand. His love for Rozemyne allows Raublut to manipulate him and commit treason.
  • Agape:
    • Rozemyne shows unconditional love for people that she views as family. In particular, she often tries to make sure that Ferdinand doesn't work too much, eats properly (instead of relying on potions), and gets enough sleep. In Part 4 Volume 8, she goes so far that she promises Ferdinand that she will make sure he stays happy, even if she has to defy the royal family or the gods. When others hear her make that same remark later on, they interpret it as Rozemyne declaring her (romantic) love for Ferdinand. In Part 5 she despairs at the thought of Ferdinand dying and even invades a duchy to save his life.
    • Over time Ferdinand grows very fond of Myne and later promises her parents that he will protect her, which he takes very seriously. Ferdinand in general is a very selfless character, who was raised to support Ehrenfest and Sylvester, but Rozemyne is the first thing he truly desires for himself, both amplifying his familial and romantic love for her. And yet, at the end, Ferdinand still gives her the option to return to a life as a commoner and marry someone else (Lutz) if she doesn't want to be with him. He wants what is best for her and develops a plan that mercilessly dismantles the royal family and sets up the conditions for her to live the life she always dreamed of. He goes so far to attack a former god for endangering Rozemyne.
• Framing Device: The anime's first scene is the High Priest going back and examining Myne's memories. Presumably, this continues until the scene appears again at the end of the second season.
• Freudian Trio: Ferdinand, Sylvester and Karstedt tend to become this when they are in the same room:
  • Sylvester, the Manchild who gets away with it because of the low number of people who are allowed to even try keeping him in check, is the Id.
  • Ferdinand, the Stern Teacher to whom other people's feelings are frequently an afterthought to getting desired results, is the Superego.
  • Karstedt, who meets the fairly low bar of being both more mature than Sylvester and more relaxed than Ferdinand, is the Ego.
• Gag Echo: In the anime, after Myne gets the idea of making a picture book for a baby she knows to be coming, there is a montage of Lutz, Benno and Ferdinand all having the same bemused reaction to the notion of a picture book. Myne's reaction to Ferdinand's is the feeling she's hearing an echo.
• Game Changer: Myne could accurately be described as a game changer engine due to her past life memories. Between being dragged into various arts and crafts hobbies by her mom, her education, and prodigious reading of various fields of study making her a polymath, she is primed for reinventing the various technologies necessary to achieve her goals.
  • When discussing her first picture book with Ferdinand he is floored that she has already produced 30 copies. Myne summarizes the process of stencil printing to him and the explanation leaves him so stunned he freezes up like a crashed computer until Myne snaps him out of it.
  • After receiving the metal letter types she commissioned Myne explodes in a joyous frenzy and outright declares that this is the moment history will be changed forever. A demonstration of what they are for and how they work causes most of the witnesses, Benno, the smith foreman, and Myne's bodyguard, to immediately grasp the gravity of the situation and agree with her claim. A later demonstration to Ferdinand yields similar results and he echoes, "This will change history... Yes, I understand that now."
• Gem Heart: Feystones are the hearts of feybeasts crystallized upon their death. This can also happen to humans who have mana. A magical medical exam done in preparation for Rozemyne's new life reveals that her brushes with death as Myne were close enough to create several hard clumps of mana in her chest.
• Gender Flip: In-Universe, The Story of Fernestine is Elvira's retelling of Ferdinand's life, in which Ferdinand's counterpart is female among many changes that were made to keep the general public from knowing that the events are based on a real person's life.
• Gender-Restricted Ability: Flutrane, the goddess associated with both water and spring, has been shown to greatly favor women over men. For instance, a traditional spring ritual turns out to no longer have its desired effect because it needs to be performed by women and it has become something only performed by men by the time Rozemyne finds out about it.
• Generation Xerox:
  • This gets discussed and defied concerning Wilfried and his bodyguard Lamprecht. After an incident reveals both of them to be incompetent for the roles they are expected to eventually take over from their respective fathers, Ferdinand admits to have paid limited attention to them up to that point due to expecting them to spontaneously grow into copies their respective fathers, whom he considers to be quite good at their jobs. The statement comes from the incident making Ferdinand realize that they are completely separate individuals and more complacent versions of their respective fathers at best.
  • Later in the story, Rozemyne and her adoptive siblings are shaping up to be in a situation similar to that of her adoptive father and two of his siblings:
    • Wilfried is a dead ringer to their father, has a similar personality and is favored as heir despite not being the best choice in terms of skill and later politically.
    • Their father has a paternal half-brother who has significantly more mana than him and would almost certainly do his job much better than him. However, the half-brother's bloodline is far from ideal in a system that favors the first wife's children, he's actually not interested in the seat at all, he's completely fine being the Hypercompetent Sidekick and he has a passionate hobby that is clearly his true professional calling. Rozemyne, as an adoptive sibling who prefers the prospect of being a librarian over literally anything else and is said half-brother's prize disciple, is filling his slot in the family's youngest generation.
    • Charlotte is more competent than Wilfried, is also interested in their father's seat, but held back by a mix of being The Un-Favorite and women competing for seats that come with Living Battery duties being handicapped by the need to provide their children with mana during gestation to avoid giving birth to a Muggle Born of Mages on top of said duties. One of their paternal aunts was being raised to take the seat before their father was born and became the better choice just because of his sex.
• Genius Burnout: After her mother shows surprise at the fact that she figured out her new world's numbering system over a single market run, Myne wonders if this trope will happen to her.

"... Oh wait, am I going down the child prodigy path here? At age ten I'll be God's gift to mankind and at age fifteen I'll be a genius, but once I hit twenty I'll just be a normal person."

• Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand:
  • This is used by Rozemyne to get Wilfried to study more when in turns out that the state of his education is bad enough that he will need to be removed from the family line of succesion at the very least if he doesn't catch up fast. She notably makes sure that the firm hand is not coming from his parents, instead having them play the role of the gentle touch, while giving the firm hand role to Ferdinand, who is a natural at it.
  • At the end of Part 3, a gray shrine maiden is sent back to the orphanage because she got pregnant. However, since the previous High Bishop removed every gray shrine maiden who may have known how to handle childbirth, Lutz, Tuuli, and Benno are consulted and asked to help. When Benno suggests moving the pregnant woman to the nearby town of Hasse, Wilma refuses to come with them due to her trauma. A stressed-out Benno then starts verbally abusing her, leaving Wilma a blubbering mess. Fran reacts in a more sympathetic way (since he can relate), and tells her in a gentle but firm way that she indeed was protected by Rozemyne the whole time and that she needs to overcome her weaknesses like everyone else did. Wilma then goes to Hasse, and Rozemyne can see that she is doing better after she awakes.
• "Get Out of Jail Free" Card: At the start of Part 5, Rozemyne tries to spare the children of Sylvester's purge, who are guilty by association, by letting them offer their names to the archducal family. Roderick warned her about doing this and in Volume 5 Bonifatius calls her out, since offering someone their name is a sacred ritual and if more people (including other duchies) find out that Rozemyne gave others this option to escape execution, fewer people will want to offer their names. Sylvester officially gave Rozemyne his permission, so he is willing to take the blame, which Rozemyne was not aware of, but Bonifatius warns her that while her compassion is a virtue, it may get abused. He finishes his reprimand by telling Rozemyne's retainers that they should do a better job at stopping her from doing something drastic that goes against the norm.
• Girls Like Musicians: Especially women love Ferdinand playing harspiel and singing songs. Even Wilma, who is usually too scared of men, can't help but yearn for Ferdinand when she sees him playing music. Rozemyne makes a noblewoman almost fall for her after composing a song for her on the spot.
• Giving Radio to the Romans: Myne eventually starts moving up in status as she starts reinventing things, though she only makes them in passing because she needed them for something else. However, it's very difficult to even make things like paper, which keeps her invention making at a slow pace as she struggles with the trial and error necessary to make things.
• Giving Them the Strip: Exploited. In late Part 5, one of the assets of Georgine is access to Anti-Magic clothing. Because of this, some of the counter-plans against her include means of forcing her out of the clothing, one of which is making her fall on a glue-covered floor that can only be escaped by slipping out of any clothing stuck to it.
• Giving Up on Logic: Myne's knowledge of inventions like her hairpins, rinse shampoo or plant paper, as well as her unusual intelligence, cleanliness and manners make people question where she learned all that when she is the daughter of a low-class soldier and dyer. Benno and Mark eventually just give up trying to make sense of it and when Otto asks Gunther where Myne got her knowledge, he suspects that the gods must have blessed Myne. Funnily, Otto actually thinks that makes a lot of sense.
• Glad He's On Our Side: Each time Myne sees how ruthless Ferdinand is against his enemies, she's very grateful that he's one of her allies.
• Gold and White Are Divine: The robes of the High Bishop, the highest religious authority in any given duchy, are white with gold trimmings and decorations.
• Gone Horribly Right:
  • In Part 2 Volume 4, Myne wants to teach Delia the concept of family, which is why she allows Delia to spend a lot of time with the Doorstop Baby Dirk. It works too well. Delia goes to great lengths to stay together with Dirk and runs away with him to High Bishop Bezewanst after she hears from Arno that Myne is trying to find a family to adopt Dirk. Myne is forced to fire Delia for this and Delia once again becomes Bezewanst's attendant.
  • Ehrenfest's archduke has made it his goal to raise Ehrenfest's ranking, and adopting Rozemyne and making her introduce new trends is part of his plan to do so. However, starting in Part 4 when Rozemyne enters the Royal Academy and drastically changes how others view Ehrenfest, Ehrenfest's ranking rises from 13th to 10th and one year later to 8th place, and Sylvester realizes that he is in over his head. The Archduke Conferences cause him endless stress, as he has to deal with the envy of the other duchies Ehrenfest has overtaken, the marriage offers to his children, as well as business and trade requests. A lot of things he could get away with before when Ehrenfest was a bottom-of-the-barrel duchy are now also frowned upon, such as his unwillingness to take another wife. Ehrenfest doesn't act like a medial or greater duchy, as its rank implies.
• Good Cop/Bad Cop: In Part 3 Volume 3, Ferdinand plays the bad cop, who intends to eradicate the entire city of Hasse for treason, while Rozemyne builds up her saint image by insisting to only punish the ones responsible.
• Gossipy Hens:
  • The neighborhood around Myne's family is a tight-knit community, and the wives love sharing stories about their families and rumors.
  • Both male and female nobles are expected to participate in social events to exchange information. Noblewomen engage in tea parties mostly, while noblemen go hunting or play gewinnen. Tea parties are in fact one of the most important activities a married noblewoman of high status needs to perform, as can seen with Elvira who leads her own faction of noblewomen and has hold of one of the most extensive information networks within Ehrenfest's nobility.
• Gratuitous English: Although not as often as German, English words can be found in the names of the gods, like in Kunstzeal the Goddess of Art.
• Gratuitous French: One of the spells to transform one's schtappe is stylo (pen).
• Gratuitous German: A lot of the names are based on actual German words. For instance, the Lord of Winter that appears in Part 3 Volume 3 is a schnesturm (based on "Schneesturm" meaning blizzard), the God of War is called Angriff (attack), and the dedication whirl involves a spinning move that is compared to a kreisel toy (spinning top).
• Gratuitous Italian: Besides German and English, Italian is sometimes used in some names, like Cuococalura the God of Cooking (cuoco (cooking) + calura (heat)), or Schutzaria (wind) the Goddess of Wind.
• Great Big Library of Everything: Near the end of Part 5, Rozemyne is given access to Mestionora's library. The library is even bigger than anything Rozemyne has ever dreamed of.
• Grouped for Your Convenience: The four possible Royal Academy courses, alongside age and status to a lesser extent, allow the readers to keep track of the large number of named Ehrenfest students. Going by the beginning of Part 4, the two fifth-year archnoble males are in different courses, the female knights and female attendants are divided by a mix of age and status, the two first-year scholars are of different sex and status.
• Growing Up Sucks: Rozemyne actually wants to grow, but growing up also means being more bound to social norms. Gretia can sympathize with Rozemyne a lot, since she grew up faster than other children her age, for which she was mocked and bullied.

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