The Archduke Conference has come to an end, but Ehrenfest’s archducal family is still reeling from the troubles it brought. Rozemyne has one year before she must depart for the Sovereignty, and those in her service have an important choice to make.
I wonder if the pain felt during name-swearing is a set intensity, or if there are individual differences, like with the mana synchronization potion. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the closer the mana quality and quantity of two nobles is, the less pain the process causes the supplicant. That way it would make absolute sense for Roderick to be in intense pain, after all he barely has the mana quality to still be counted as a mednoble and has only two natural elements.
Hartmut on the other hand was one of the more powerful archnobles to begin with and already learned Rozemyne’s mana compression, has considerably more natural elements and even got Life affinity from divine protection before giving his name.
Of course I wouldn’t put it past him to just be so fanatical, that his bliss drowned out the pain, or he even enjoyed the pain, since it’s part of connecting him with his goddess… or whatever Rozemyne is to him in his own mind.
Syl doesn’t know about the ink at all so he’s completely unaware of the hidden messages. He also wouldn’t be able to check it since it requires Ferdinand’s mana to make the text visible. But he does know they exchange communications secretly.
He knows that Rozemyne has some way to secretly communicate with Ferdinand, but has no idea how and thus can’t check it.
And I strongly suspect that he’s more inspecting her letter to avoid Rozemyne accidentally giving anything away to the Ahrensbach nobles, who are sure to read the letter before passing it on to Ferdinand, rather than worry over what she might tell Ferdinand.
That makes sense (guess he’s just doing a surface level check). I wonder how he is secretly conversing with Ferdi (since he doesn’t appear to have a invisible ink equivalent).
Perhaps just codephrases that nobody else knows. Ferdinand keeps asking Syl to send over some of his luggage, perhaps the order in which he asks for certain items have pre-agreed meanings?
In neither of Sylvester’s and Justus’ side stories have they mentioned communications or secret communication methods so it’s anyone’s guess. But I really don’t think Syl has any special communique going on because he’s completely unaware of the happenings in Ahrensbach.
That’s how I read it too. She was there, but upon seeing the weird look in her son’s eyes, she turned away in disgust, while making a face, partway through, without leaving the room.
Absolute banger of a prepub.
Hartmut’s orgasmic reaction to being namesworn is absolutely hilarious.
Not telling Ferdinand about the adoption and the Zent candidacy…why, Roz, why? This can’t be a good idea.
Telling her namesworn about her commoner origins…also feels like a bad idea.
Mother and Daughter:
Elvira knew the whole time?!! But also: holy shit, sasuga Kazuki-sensei! This was so touching. I think it may rival P2V4.
Elvira best mom? Effa best mom? Doesn’t matter, they both love Roz.
I wonder if the pain felt during name-swearing is a set intensity, or if there are individual differences, like with the mana synchronization potion. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the closer the mana quality and quantity of two nobles is, the less pain the process causes the supplicant. That way it would make absolute sense for Roderick to be in intense pain, after all he barely has the mana quality to still be counted as a mednoble and has only two natural elements.
Hartmut on the other hand was one of the more powerful archnobles to begin with and already learned Rozemyne’s mana compression, has considerably more natural elements and even got Life affinity from divine protection before giving his name.
Of course I wouldn’t put it past him to just be so fanatical, that his bliss drowned out the pain, or he even enjoyed the pain, since it’s part of connecting him with his goddess… or whatever Rozemyne is to him in his own mind.
Silly side question does Syl know about/check Roz’s hidden ink messages or does he only really check the dummy messages only (the non invisible ink)?
Syl doesn’t know about the ink at all so he’s completely unaware of the hidden messages. He also wouldn’t be able to check it since it requires Ferdinand’s mana to make the text visible. But he does know they exchange communications secretly.
He knows that Rozemyne has some way to secretly communicate with Ferdinand, but has no idea how and thus can’t check it. And I strongly suspect that he’s more inspecting her letter to avoid Rozemyne accidentally giving anything away to the Ahrensbach nobles, who are sure to read the letter before passing it on to Ferdinand, rather than worry over what she might tell Ferdinand.
That makes sense (guess he’s just doing a surface level check). I wonder how he is secretly conversing with Ferdi (since he doesn’t appear to have a invisible ink equivalent).
Perhaps just codephrases that nobody else knows. Ferdinand keeps asking Syl to send over some of his luggage, perhaps the order in which he asks for certain items have pre-agreed meanings?
In neither of Sylvester’s and Justus’ side stories have they mentioned communications or secret communication methods so it’s anyone’s guess. But I really don’t think Syl has any special communique going on because he’s completely unaware of the happenings in Ahrensbach.
Ottilie apparently rejected joining in on the name-swearing, so you have to wonder who was subjected to that experience.
I think she was the witness but avoided her eyes, and Roz was commenting that she should do her “job” of supervising it properly.
That’s how I read it too. She was there, but upon seeing the weird look in her son’s eyes, she turned away in disgust, while making a face, partway through, without leaving the room.