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* Rozemyne and Hannelore have a late-night tea party due to both being unable to sleep at the thought the war's casualties and finish it by praying for them.

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* Both Dirk and Konrad make decision that will separate them from their respective sisters within the next few years. The preemptive farewells are just what one would expect from the series at this point.

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* Rozemyne being blocked by a magic barrier at the last step for getting her Book of Mestionora, at a point of the story where she has come to think of it as her only means to save Ferdinand. Not only that, but the earliest point at which she can potentially fulfill the conditions to go through the barrier is three years away, while she's under the impression she only has one to save Ferdinand. The ensuing breakdown, during which she is trying to brute force herself through the barrier, is very painful to read through.
* Both Dirk and Konrad make decision decisions that will separate them from their respective sisters within the next few years. The preemptive farewells are just what one would expect from the series at this point.
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* Both Dirk and Konrad make decision that will separate them from their respective sisters within the next few years. The preemptive farewells are just what one would expect from the series at this point.
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* After the meeting where the contract between Myne and Lutz is nullified, Rozemyne dreams that night about happily walking together with her friends and loved ones from the lower city, but their paths start to diverge. Soon after, she loses sight of them entirely and is left alone as she struggles to even see them again, crying for them to not leave her behind.
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* The conversation about promises to fathers that happens after Ferdinand tells Rozemyne the secret about his gets sad quite quickly. It the fact Ferdinand is leaving soon didn't truly hit the reader before then, it's the moment where it's most likely to happen.

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* The conversation about promises to fathers that happens after Ferdinand tells Rozemyne the secret about his past gets sad quite quickly. It If the fact Ferdinand is leaving soon didn't truly hit the reader before then, it's the moment where it's most likely to happen.happen. Ferdinand's mention of the fact that this is the last time he'll be able to praise her for her good grades in the Royal Academy is an extra nail in the coffin.
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* Kamil's wish to join the Plantin Company is mostly heartwarming, but when he announces to his parents that that's where he wants to work rather than be a soldier or follow his sister Tuuli to the Gilberta Company, his parents react by getting teary-eyed and he [[LockedOutOfTheLoop doesn't understand why]]. It's left to the readers to imagine what they're thinking in that moment, and the look on their faces is almost [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ascendance-of-a-bookworm/images/9/9b/LN_P4V9-10.jpg/revision/latest/smart/width/1017/height/1446?cb=20201117023441 indescribable.]]

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* Kamil's wish to join the Plantin Company is mostly heartwarming, but when he announces to his parents that that's where he wants to work rather than be a soldier or follow his sister Tuuli to the Gilberta Company, his parents react by getting teary-eyed and he [[LockedOutOfTheLoop doesn't understand why]]. It's left to the readers to imagine what they're thinking in that moment, and the look on their faces is almost [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ascendance-of-a-bookworm/images/9/9b/LN_P4V9-10.jpg/revision/latest/smart/width/1017/height/1446?cb=20201117023441 [[https://i.imgur.com/ZtKy3tK.jpg indescribable.]]

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* Myne needs to clear up her family's misunderstanding about the Devouring and in the process announces that she's choosing the option that will only give her an extra year to live, but let her stay by her family's side. Gunther seems to take things relatively calmly all things considered. Later in the night, Myne wakes up, notices there is light coming from the kitchen, peeks through the doorway, sees Gunther in the middle of solitary DrowningMySorrows session and decides to leave him to it. The anime makes it even sadder, as it skips the "Myne waking up and noticing" part, instead having her, Effa and Tuuli asleep while embracing each other while it's happening.

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* Myne needs to clear up her family's misunderstanding about the Devouring and in the process announces that she's choosing the option that will only give her an extra year to live, but let her stay by her family's side. Gunther seems to take things relatively calmly all things considered. Later in the night, Myne wakes up, notices there is light coming from the kitchen, peeks through the doorway, sees Gunther in the middle of solitary DrowningMySorrows session and decides to leave him to it.
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The anime makes it even sadder, as it skips the "Myne waking up and noticing" part, instead having her, Effa and Tuuli asleep while embracing each other while it's happening.



* Myne is sad that she is too small and weak to do anything. Despite being baptized, she still looks like a 4-year-old. She keeps this to herself to not make Tuuli or Lutz sad, but Benno overhears her and silently consoles her.

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* Myne is sad abruptly saddened by a reminder from Tuuli and Lutz [[note]]they note that they don't consider the recipes she is too creates or thinks up as 'eating Myne's cooking' because they have to make it themselves[[/note]] that she's still so small and weak compared to do anything. Despite being baptized, she still looks like a 4-year-old. She keeps this to herself to not make Tuuli or Lutz sad, but Benno overhears her peers, who are growing and silently consoles her.doing things for themselves more each day.
--> "I wanna grow, too..." My sad murmur reached the ears of only Benno, thanks to him carrying me.



** Delia is young enough to recall living in squalor there with nothing to do but wait for her baptism- noting that many grey shrine maidens left the temple at the same time, resulting in many children dying around her with no one to take care of them. [[note]]Some may have left to accompany the blue priests who were sent to the Sovereignty temple, but in addition, the High Bishop had all the grey shrine maidens who weren't extremely attractive (which included all the ones who were pregnant or had previously given birth and therefore were most involved in taking care of the young children) killed in order to pinch pennies.[[/note]] She's attached to the idea of polishing her beauty and becoming because when she was baptized, the grey that washed her said she'd grow up to be beautiful, and she was picked out of several other young girls to serve the High Bishop as a result while the others were sent back. In her eyes, her cuteness and ability to please men are the only things that saved her from that room.

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** Delia is young enough to recall living in squalor there with nothing to do but wait for her baptism- noting that many grey shrine maidens left the temple at the same time, resulting in many children dying around her with no one to take care of them. [[note]]Some may have left to accompany the blue priests who were sent to the Sovereignty temple, but in addition, the High Bishop had all the grey shrine maidens who weren't extremely attractive (which included all the ones who were pregnant or had previously given birth and therefore were most involved in taking care of the young children) killed in order to pinch pennies.[[/note]] She's attached to the idea of polishing her beauty and becoming the High Bishop's mistress because when she was baptized, the grey that washed her said she'd grow up to be beautiful, and she was picked out of several other young girls to serve the High Bishop as a result while the others were sent back. In her eyes, her cuteness and ability to please men are the only things that saved her from that room.
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** The pre-baptism children live in their own excrements and are forbidden from leaving the floor. They have no clothes to wear, no adult to take care of them, they are starving and it's utterly dark out inside. Gil left the building before things got as bad as this, so he didn't know, but Delia recalls how horrible only one year of living there was.
** Delia remembers the terrible time of living in that place. This is also the reason why she is so attached to her beauty and the High Bishop. It's the only reason she was taken in and not sent back to the orphanage unlike the other children that were baptized. She supports Gil's plea to save the children if it's possible, but she does not want to get involved. She just wants to forget.
* Myne disappoints Gil by telling him that she can't get help from the High Priest. He rejected her proposition, as it's not worth it to save children who are not recognized as humans by the temple. In fact, their deaths would make things much easier for the higher-ups in the temple. The cold rationality makes Myne sick and close to tears.
* The fate of many gray shrine maidens is terrible. The less attractive ones are sold to nobles, while pregnant shrine maidens or those that already gave birth are executed. The High Bishop only keeps the pretty ones as {{Sex Slave}}s for nobles and disposes of the rest because he doesn't want to feed them. This is also the reason why there is no one left who knows how to take care of the pre-baptism children. They are all dead.

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** The pre-baptism children live in their own excrements and are forbidden from leaving the floor. They have no clothes to wear, no adult to take care of them, they are locked in a dark room, starving and it's utterly dark out inside. Gil left with no one to look after them or provide things like clean clothes or bedding. Myne is horribly affected by their plight, to the building point where she can't even enjoy reading books while knowing what's going on for the children (Gil is just as shocked, since he was baptized before things got as bad as this, so he didn't know, but Delia recalls how horrible only one year of living there was.
that bad).
** Delia remembers the terrible time of is young enough to recall living in squalor there with nothing to do but wait for her baptism- noting that place. This is also many grey shrine maidens left the reason why she is so temple at the same time, resulting in many children dying around her with no one to take care of them. [[note]]Some may have left to accompany the blue priests who were sent to the Sovereignty temple, but in addition, the High Bishop had all the grey shrine maidens who weren't extremely attractive (which included all the ones who were pregnant or had previously given birth and therefore were most involved in taking care of the young children) killed in order to pinch pennies.[[/note]] She's attached to the idea of polishing her beauty and becoming because when she was baptized, the grey that washed her said she'd grow up to be beautiful, and she was picked out of several other young girls to serve the High Bishop. It's Bishop as a result while the others were sent back. In her eyes, her cuteness and ability to please men are the only reason she was taken in and not sent back to the orphanage unlike the other children things that were baptized. She supports Gil's plea to save the children if it's possible, but she does not want to get involved. She just wants to forget.
saved her from that room.
* Myne disappoints Gil by telling him that she can't get help from the High Priest. He rejected her proposition, as it's not worth it to save children who are not recognized as humans by the temple.aren't legally people since they only attain that status at their baptisms. In fact, their deaths would make things much easier for the higher-ups in the temple. The cold rationality makes Myne sick and close to tears.
* The fate of many gray shrine maidens is terrible. The less attractive ones are sold to nobles, while pregnant shrine maidens or those that already gave birth are executed. The --> '''Myne:''' High Bishop only keeps Priest, why is the pretty ones as {{Sex Slave}}s orphanage here if not to raise children without parents? \\
'''High Priest:''' You misunderstand. The orphanage exists to train abandoned children into servants
for nobles and disposes of the rest because he doesn't want to feed them. This is also the reason why there is no one left who knows how to take care of the pre-baptism children. They are all dead.
nobility.



* Right after Rozemyne takes part in her sister Charlotte's Baptism as the High Bishop, Charlotte is kidnapped. Rozemyne takes her knights to go rescuer her sister, but in doing so gets kidnapped and poisoned herself, forcing her to enter her jureve early and entering into a long coma.

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* Right after Rozemyne takes part in her recently introduced younger sister Charlotte's Baptism baptism as the High Bishop, Charlotte is kidnapped. Rozemyne takes rushes after her knights to go rescuer her sister, save her, but in doing so gets kidnapped and poisoned herself, forcing her to enter her jureve early and entering into a long coma.coma. Charlotte is devastated by this, and blames herself for getting snatched by the attacker.
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** There is another scene that can either come back or become much sadder to reread after finding out that Gunther and Effa lost children before: the one in which Myne preemptively tells Gunther that she needs to tell him something about the Devouring while he's carrying her home from the south gate and still under the impression that she got cured at the beginning of the book. During the scene proper, Myne describes Gunther's reaction to the information as him speeding up his pace as if running from something.

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** There is another scene that can either come back or become much sadder to reread after finding out that Gunther and Effa lost children before: the one in which Myne preemptively tells Gunther that she needs to tell him something about the Devouring while he's carrying her home from the south gate and still under the impression that she got cured at the beginning of the book.volume. During the scene proper, Myne describes Gunther's reaction to the information as him speeding up his pace as if running from something.
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** Ther is another scene that can either come back or become much sadder to reread after finding out that Gunther and Effa lost children before: the one in which Myne preemptively tells Gunther that she needs to tell the family something about the Devouring while he's carrying her home from the south gate and still under the impression that she got cured at the beginning of the book. During the scene proper, Myne describes him as starting to walk faster as if he's trying to escape from something.

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** Ther There is another scene that can either come back or become much sadder to reread after finding out that Gunther and Effa lost children before: the one in which Myne preemptively tells Gunther that she needs to tell the family him something about the Devouring while he's carrying her home from the south gate and still under the impression that she got cured at the beginning of the book. During the scene proper, Myne describes Gunther's reaction to the information as him as starting to walk faster speeding up his pace as if he's trying to escape running from something.
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** Ther is another scene that can either come back or become much sadder to reread after finding out that Gunther and Effa lost children before: the one in which Myne preemptively tells Gunther that she needs to tell the family something about the Devouring while he's carrying her home from the south gate and still under the impression that she got cured at the beginning of the book. During the scene proper, Myne describes him as starting to walk faster as if he's trying to escape from something.
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* Kamil's wish to join the Plantin Company is mostly heartwarming, but when he announces to his parents that that's where he wants to work rather than be a soldier or follow his sister Tuuli to the Gilberta Company, his parents react by getting teary-eyed and he [[LockedOutOfTheLoop doesn't understand why]]. It's left to the readers to imagine what they're thinking in that moment, and the look on their faces is almost [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ascendance-of-a-bookworm/images/9/9b/LN_P4V9-10.jpg indescribable.]]

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* Kamil's wish to join the Plantin Company is mostly heartwarming, but when he announces to his parents that that's where he wants to work rather than be a soldier or follow his sister Tuuli to the Gilberta Company, his parents react by getting teary-eyed and he [[LockedOutOfTheLoop doesn't understand why]]. It's left to the readers to imagine what they're thinking in that moment, and the look on their faces is almost [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ascendance-of-a-bookworm/images/9/9b/LN_P4V9-10.jpg jpg/revision/latest/smart/width/1017/height/1446?cb=20201117023441 indescribable.]]
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* Kamil's wish to join the Plantin Company is mostly heartwarming, but when he announces to his parents that that's where he wants to work rather than be a soldier or follow his sister Tuuli to the Gilberta Company, his parents react by getting teary-eyed and he [[LockedOutOfTheLoop doesn't understand why]]. It's left to the readers to imagine what they're thinking in that moment, and the look on their faces is almost [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ascendance-of-a-bookworm/images/9/9b/LN_P4V9-10.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20201117023441 indescribable.]]

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* Kamil's wish to join the Plantin Company is mostly heartwarming, but when he announces to his parents that that's where he wants to work rather than be a soldier or follow his sister Tuuli to the Gilberta Company, his parents react by getting teary-eyed and he [[LockedOutOfTheLoop doesn't understand why]]. It's left to the readers to imagine what they're thinking in that moment, and the look on their faces is almost [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ascendance-of-a-bookworm/images/9/9b/LN_P4V9-10.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20201117023441 jpg indescribable.]]
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** She also notices that Gil must be malnourished after she sees how Lutz (who is three years younger and also doesn't get to eat his fill) eats much more than Gil despite them being of similar size, possibly due to his shrunken stomach. Eating warm food in general is new to him, due to the trickle system of divine gifts in the temple. Even attendants only get to eat once the food has gotten cold.

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** She also notices that Gil must be malnourished after she sees how Lutz (who is three years younger and also doesn't get to eat his fill) eats much more than Gil despite them being of similar size, possibly due to his shrunken stomach. Eating warm food in general is new to him, due to the trickle down system of divine gifts in the temple. Even attendants only get to eat once the food has gotten cold.

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