Episode
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Life-or-Death Choices and Family Meetings
Overview
With Main collapses, everyone she knows comes together in a bid to save her life. But soon, she is faced with a life-or-death decision, one that she must discuss with her family.
Details
- Series
- Ascendance of a Bookworm
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 2019-12-12
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Life-or-Death Choices and Family Meetings is Episode 11 in Ascendance of a Bookworm of Ascendance of a Bookworm. It aired on 2019-12-12. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 10: To the Second Winter
Main learns from Frieda that the illness she has is called the Devouring, and that it will flare up if she ever feels anxiety or loses hope. Almost on cue, her fever starts acting up...
Episode 12: Baptism and Divine Paradises
The day of Main and Lutz's baptism has arrived. Wearing a fancy dress and a new hair ornament, Main appears a clear standout from the rest of the kids, but soon she loses her way and finds herself in what she sees as heaven on earth.
More episodes from this season
Episode 9: The Guild Master's Granddaughter
Benno looks to have Main and Lutz registered with the Merchant Guild, but the guild master proves to be an obstacle. This results in them making plans to meet Frieda, his granddaughter.
Episode 13: The Choice to Be an Apprentice Priestess
When Main brings up wanting to become an apprentice priestess to her family, she learns the truth about the role and what it entails and soon comes to realize that she is in for the fight of her life.
Episode 8: Lutz's Main
As Main and Lutz begin making their paper for real, Main's excitement gets the better of her, and Lutz's suspicions come to a head. He resolves to talk to her about it after the paper is finished.
Episode 14: Conclusions
Main, Gunther, and Eva head to the cathedral for their fateful meeting, knowing that Main's life is riding on a successful negotiation. But will things really go so smoothly for them?
Episode 7: Seeds of Suspicion
With the paper-making process about to begin, Main can't hide her excitement as she and Lutz go to meet Benno as per his invitation. He reveals that he is willing to arrange for all the equipment and materials they need to make paper, but the ensuing conversation makes Lutz see Main in a very different light.
Episode 15: Apprentice Priestess
Main is now an apprentice priestess at the cathedral. How will she adapt to a new life in new surroundings, and how will they react to her?
Episode 6: Meeting
Lutz and Main prepare for the meeting with Otto. But Otto brings someone with him, turning a casual meeting into an interview that will decide both Lutz and Main's futures.
Episode 16: Blue Robes and Uncommon Sense
The stark contrast of the values at the church compared to life downtown continues to bewilder Main, as she butts heads with her retainers and her expected duties at the church.
Episode 5: Baptisms and Strange Fevers
The season has shifted to summer, and the day of Turi's baptism has arrived. Turi attracts attention with a hair ornament made by Main. Main, who has more opportunities to go to the forest, starts making wooden tablets with the help of Lutz. Meanwhile, Lutz asks Main Lutz to let him meet Otto. Lutz had a dream of becoming a traveling merchant. However, Main, shocked by her repeated failures at making paper, collapses from a high fever before the meeting with Otto.
Episode 17: Needs
With Fran now fully on her team, Main must then get to work on winning Gil and Delia over.