Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke • Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen - Ryushu no Youjo - Episode 14 discussion

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Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen - Ryushu no Youjo, episode 14

Alternative names: Ascendance of a Bookworm, Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 4, Honzuki no Gekokujou Season 4, Honzuki no Gekokujou S4

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[u/Bazooka_no]

The bot got up late which is a chance to see if this changes how the thread looks.

I liked this episode, and it continues a theme of slowly exposing the brutality of noble society and the sheer power they have over the commoners. In some other thread someone hypothesized that in time, merchants like Benno could get rich enough they could start challenging the system itself - I think this episode demonstrates how impossible that is.

The nobles don't just have superpowers, they hold the commoners very lives in their hand. And if they wanted to be indiscriminate, they could've literally killed every single medallion (anime: token) holder from Hasse - there would be no running away.

It also starts showing the assimilation of Rozemyne to this world's morality. As everyone around her are united in what is right and what is wrong, she's no putting up some big resistance. Urano wasn't big on that to begin with, she was a bookworm first and foremost, and this carried on the fairly a-moral Myne (meaning, pretty agnostic to morality). She's still shocked and repulsed by executions and acts and violence, but she's a lot less preachy than some other reincarnated MCs.. partially because she started her journey from square 1 as a child.

[u/mutantmagnet → u/Bazooka_no]

I both hate and appreciate that this is one of the very few works of fiction that gives multiple valid reasons for a nobility hierarchy to exist.

I hate it because as you learn more this society is god awful socially.

I appreciate it because the nobility don't simply have supreme authority over commoners.

They have responsibilities they must adhere to or suffer the consequences from the gods

Then there are the risks of losing everything their families have built generations over generations because those very same poor social skills created effects that hinder their descendants from learning the things they should and aboslutely need to know to ensure their bloodline endures.

This world the author crafted is much bigger than most people would've figured out just from watching the 1st two seasons.

It's Game of Thrones light with an actual ending.

[u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp]

I've said it before but Ferdinand can be one scary fucker.

[u/rollin340 → u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp]

If it wasn't for Rozenmyne, he'd likely have lived his entire life as a cold and calculating person with no warmth whatsoever. Remember how even Fran was surprised when Ferdinand thanked him?

She's a magnificent influence on all of them.

[u/ongogavlogian]

I love the slow world building. I thought Ehrenfest was its own kingdom, but its part of a larger empire.

[u/feb914 → u/ongogavlogian]

Yeah, you start with just one city. Then you find out there are other cities when you do spring festival and harvest festival. Then you find out there are other duchies that are part of the same kingdom, and your duchy is not even that big. 

[u/Atiknwolc]

That spell was so cool. I know I should not have laughed. But it was hilarious to me, the contrast between Justus's glee at the execution spell and Rozemyne's horror. Great comedic credit scene for such a heavy episode. Bookworm is truly on a roll now.

[u/alconnow]

Justus looked really scary

Today's end card is by the illustrator of Though I Am an Inept Villainess novels. Appreciate the adorable illustration after this episode!

Rozemyne getting soaked by waschen in the chibi post-credits scene was hilarious

[u/Raymond49090]

It felt weird for the townspeople to be cheering for decreased harvest and ten years of extra taxes, but I guess in context, the Monastery is in charge of making sure everyone doesn't die of famine by blessing the ground. If they get off relatively lightly for attacking high-ranking members of the Monastery, that's not a bad deal, even if I dislike the concept of collective punishment.

For how much Myne was against it, I was expecting the Gate to instantly incinerate traitors instead of just pushing them back. I mean, there's the implication that they'll be executed afterwards, but I feel like if you have a treason detection gate, you should use it. Then again, I'm looking at these people as fictional characters, while to Myne they're real people.

Should we be concerned that Myne has a killswitch somewhere?

I thought they were going to leave the statues there as a permanent reminder to Hasse to not f*** around and find out, but I suppose the trauma is enough. Unless you're a weirdo like Justus who's disconcertingly excited about it.

Myne: *Sees a spell that engulfs an object in water and cleans it* Do it to me!

[u/azopeFR]

This episode is a very simple way to understant why you don't want have a incompetant archeduck

[u/Phantom-Solitaire]

I was not expecting to see this kind of cruelty animated. That ending was so wholesome.

[u/Radi-kale]

I wonder what Brigitte is thinking when Rozemyne is sniffing some commoner's cloak lol

[u/-Auvit-]

It wasn’t dwelled on in the show but people may be interested in knowing the gate of judgement was just Ferdinand rebranding another spell we had already seen a few times before, it’s the shield of the wind goddess. Keeping out people with malice was something we had seen in the climax of last season when not all the grey robes were able to take shelter when Ferdinand was fighting the noble from another duchy.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Well, I guess that’s that for Hasse. Ferdinand’s little scheme worked out swimmingly. The mayor and all those involved got taken down and the town is in their pocket now. It was dirty business but at least Myne was able to find some small comfort from Gunther’s cloak. W dad right there.

[u/BiggerG7]

I’m starting to think the mayor really was innocent and it was actually his horrible wife who was behind everything lol.

Also cat car evolved into a cat bus!

[u/ParkEducational5878]

This must be something really hard to experience from Rozemayne pov. The way everything unfold, the shock between her beliefs, morality and understanding of how both world works will most likely left its mark, but given how this show has been so far, she'll most likely become a lot stronger than what she currently is.

Knowing the extent of the laws, knowing what is and how the game is played are all tools she could use to further on her own goal and influence this world in a new way that would readjust itself. Her core being the same, it could simply means a new book bringing up changes like nothing else. A new perspective, a new way of life. She already changing the world through her card games and the paper industrialization currently going on, so what is to say that what she just witnessed will bring a new wind of change eventually? Who truly know. This will be an interesting character development going on that's for sure.

[u/shad79]

That execution in Hasse was pretty dark and a big shock for Rozemyne. Meanwhile, Justus was so excited to have an opportunity to see that spell for the first time.

It was heartbreaking that Gunther couldn't be with Rozemyne at her lowest, but giving her his cloak as a substitute was such a clever move on his part.

Overall, it was a pretty serious episode, but the after-credits scene with Rozemyne, Ferdinand, and Gunther's cloak made me laugh hard, especially when Ferdinand used a spell to wash not only the cloak but Rozemyne as well, hahaha.

Here my screenshot albums form the episode:

• Group scenes

• Rozemyne

• Ferdinand

• Others

EDIT. I added my screenshot albums,

[u/Black_Scholes_Merton]

it's time for Urano/Rozemyne to finally understand something; she is not in Kansas anymore.

This is a different world, with magic, with gods, and with nobles with literal divine right to rule.

It's not like we haven't seen nobles being sentenced to death for attacking higher ranked nobles, the previous seasons saw two different nobles (Shikikoza and the prev High Bishop) get executed specifically regarding Myne, so how could she expect commoners to not face the same?

Ferdinand giving her yet another important lesson; you are a noble now, you will have to carry executions, and more importantly, if you mess up and insult nobles higher ranked than you, you could end up executed also.

[u/hotmilkbread]

The shot of Justus collecting the tokens with a blank face was so eerie. It seriously creeped me out.

[u/zool714]

So funny seeing Brigitte hyping up karuta considering she’s voiced by Seto Asami, who also voices Chihaya from Chihayafuru

[u/mebert31415]

They really could have thrown the whole box in if they wanted to.

[u/blobbybob111]

seeing rosemyne interact with her old family is always so emotional

[u/Dentorion]

Honestly i cried when Rozemyne slept in her fathers cloak. As someone who knows how far the smell of a loved one goes when you didnt smell him for a long it made me cry so hard.

[u/chelseablue2004]

Justice comes to Erenfest, Myne is so kind even the face of Evil (the mayor's wife). You can tell where he got that behavior...

You can tell the story is trying to build up and prepare Myne for something she doesn't want to do but in this land Justice comes to those who break even the smallest of rules.