Episode 29 – Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 3

One relatively minor detail of this season of Ascendance of a Bookworm that I’m still going to quibble with is the question of how well Ferdinand and the rest of the church have been able to cover up Main’s stay in the cathedral. It seemed like a well-publicized piece of information that many in her circle, as well as others they all interacted with, were in on. Except a major component of the storytelling this episode is how it’s not just staying within the cathedral’s walls that protects Main from the Ink Guild’s designs — they apparently do not even know she’s in there at all. It just comes off as odd, since the sheer number of people interacting with Main and keeping up on business with her hardly makes it seem like her current residence is supposed to be some kind of secret. But we get a couple scenes of the Ink Guild being stymied at trying to track her down at all,…