Ascendance of a Bookworm

Make Japanese paper. A situation has come in which Japanese paper can be made.

That's what Lutz does, too, not what he makes. as part of a job offer.

Now I think I can fly the figure skating lateral rotation jump once or a spin and a half.

Don't stick around saying you can even fly normally! It's hard in this body!

"Ugh. Phew."

"Mine, I'm in a good mood, but... don't get too excited. We're gonna heat up again, right?

"I can't help but be excited. 'Cause you make paper, don't you? You can make it, can't you? If you can make paper, you can also make books. Noooo!"

I know the book is approaching the present, and how can I stay unexcited?

Lutz sighed with his head to me as I headed home with bouncing footsteps.

"... Mine, it's good to make it. How do you make that? I don't know anything about it. You don't need tools or anything? Are you okay with this?

The air that was floating fogged to Lutz's overly sober doubts spilled into the sigh mix and returned to reality all at once.

... it was. You have to make it by hand from tools, it's in nothing!

I know how to make Japanese paper. I manage to remember the name of the tool. But until the way I made the tools I used to make Japanese paper, I read it in a book on obsolete craftsmen and their tool relationships, but I don't remember the details.

Without tools, you can't possibly make them.

... Wow, making tools first. It may not be possible to start making paper right away. Ah, as usual, my knowledge, I can't use it.

"... Hey, Mine. I'm suddenly quiet, but you're not gonna tell me you can't come this far, are you?

I shook my head in a panic when Rutz looked so anxious.

"I won't say that. I know how to make paper. I always wanted it. But I couldn't do it because I didn't have the power to cut trees, and I still couldn't use fire, and I couldn't crush fiber. For my sake, I can't tell you how to make paper..."

"I said I'd help, so I should have told you..."

Lutz pointing his lips a little remorseful.

I'm happy with your feelings, but making paper is a pretty heavy labor. It's not the same as having people help you dig dirt between collections or help you cut trees.

"You know, I can only teach Lutz how to make it. Unlike before, when they were helping me with something that I was likely to be able to do myself, almost everything from start to finish would be made by Rutz alone. Still, do it?

"Naturally. Mine thinks, I make it. That's the deal, isn't it?

Lutz nodded instantly but needs confirmation. Because I thought maybe I was just swallowed up by the atmosphere on the spot.

"So, Lutz. I have to start from where I make the tools, but can you work hard?

"... Mine's gonna do it with you, right?

"Sure. I'll do whatever I can."

With that said, I thought, Mmm.

You have to wash out what tools you need to make tools. Then we'll explore the house to see if there's anything we can substitute.

My mother may be mad at me again, but we have no choice but to look for substitutes as much as we can.

"I'll write down the tools I need and see if I can use them instead. If I didn't, I'd have to make it... Lutz wants you to look for a tree that will be a raw material for paper."

"How much would a tree cost to go to the woods?

"Yes, but I don't know which tree is suitable for paper making."

Here's the thing, Mitsuki, I know that around Cancer Pi is the right wood for Japanese paper, but I don't know which tree is suitable for paper making in this world.

"Er, the tree that is easy to use to make paper is that it has long fibers and is strong. The fibers are scratched and the fibers tease each other easily. That you can take a lot of fiber... but you don't know how to tell if the fiber is a long, strong tree"

Besides, I hear this is the first tree of the year for you. I have read that after the second year, the fibers become harder and the verses become more difficult to use.

But I can't tell if it's the first or second year when I look at a tree.

"... I don't even know what you're talking about."

"That's right. For now, I think we have soft trees and solid trees, but we have soft, young trees."

"When you're older, you get stronger."

After all, experience suggests Lutz knows better about trees.

They are all tough and uncut trees for me, but they know the difference between easy to cut and hard and soft for Lutz.

"Well, even if it's unsuitable, even if it's made of bamboo or sauce, once a plant, it should be able to make it into paper, but it's better to make it a little easier, right? Besides, if you want to make it a product, you have to choose a tree that's easier to use."

"Heh..."

I nodded lightly at Lutz whining that it was an easy-to-use tree.

"Hopefully, if you can grow it and get the ingredients, it's still good, but you don't know if it's easy to grow it, do you?

"No, trees that grow easily and trees that don't grow are different. There are trees that grow easily."

"Really!?

I bite my teeth at the low experience of mine not out there.

A month when I can go out into the woods. I have never cut a tree before, and I cannot choose a tree.

"Then I'll leave it to Lutz to choose the tree. I'm going to try with several types of trees and look into unsuitability, so think about some trees that look soft. And then... I want you to look for 'Trollo'"

"What, that?

"All I know is the root of a tree, but I don't know if it's around here. Like a tree that comes out with a little twisted liquid... I don't mind the fruit, do I?

Rutz didn't seem to think of it immediately either, and I thought about it for a while.

"Hmmm......"

"It serves as a paste to snap fibers together, so you're here."

"Ask someone familiar with the woods"

"Then I will recall the procedure and write down the necessary tools. Then, figure out how to make it"

While I was mentioning what I was going to do, I was getting in front of the house.

"We're here. Well, good luck with that."

"Yeah."

It's going to be tough until you make paper, and in fact, it's going to be a pretty long task when it comes to prototyping for the product.

And when I went home, I took away the tablet. I have to write down the necessary tools as I reflect on the process of making Japanese paper.

Procedures include pruning trees and plants that are the first ingredient. I also had a rutz for something like Xu, and I wouldn't need any tools in particular. Yes, next.

In this case, it should have been steamed to peel off the black skin. Think about it, there's a steamer.

I've never seen you use a steamer in our house, so I'll lend it to you if it's in the kitchen. I thought about it and looked for the kitchen quickly, but it didn't.

Steamed food has never come out before. It doesn't have to be surprising, does it?

I wrote the steamer and pan on the tablet. Yes, next.

Expose the steamed tree to cold water and peel while hot. In other words, I think it would be better to do it near the river from steaming work, but with a knife, the tools seem particularly necessary. Yes, next.

Dried well, or exposed to the river for more than a day to peel white skin, does not require any particular tools. With a knife, we'll figure it out. Yes, next.

Boil the white skin in ash, soften and take the excess. I mean, there's ash and pot. The pan is used when steaming, so it can be used around, but the ashes are tightly prepared. I don't think my mother will give it to me, and I don't know if the ashes I made when I steamed are enough.

Write ash on the tablet. Yes, next.

And they shall be exposed in the river for more than a day, and they shall shed ashes, and they shall be exposed to the sun, and they shall be made white. Then remove the fiber scratches and verses. It's mostly manual around here. I don't need any particular tools. Yes, next.

Beat the fibers all over until they look like cotton. I'm gonna need a horn stick like a stick for slapping fiber here. Can this be made from wood or firewood?

I wrote down the corner material on the tablet. Yes, next.

Mix the beaten fiber well with water and trollo and rinse the paper with the girder.

There's a bucket to mix it all up, or maybe, anyway, there's a vessel. Then, it's like a wooden frame for scrubbing paper. This girder is going to be the hardest.

Write on the stone plate as a girder. Yes, next.

Remove the scratch and transfer the scratched paper onto the paper floor. Layer a day's worth of paper on the paper floor and cut water naturally about day and night.

I wrote paper floors on the tablet. Yes, next.

Then slowly apply pressure with heavy stones, jacks, etc., and squeeze more water. If you leave it pressed all day and night, the toro's twitch will be completely eliminated.

Is heavy stone okay with anything? Sure, there were heavy stones for pressing when squeezing oil, but can I use Lutz?

In the meantime, write "heavy stone".

Remove the finished press pieces from the paper floor one by one and attach them to the board.

I wrote it down as a flat board.

Dry it in the sun. When you're done drying it, peel it off the board.

"Hmm, there are quite a few things to think about like this..."

Necessary objects, steamers, pans, corners, ashes, tares, girders, paper floors, heavy stones, flat plates. And raw materials, trollo.

I've seen it in pictures and illustrations, and even though I generally remember the process, I've never actually made it, so I don't know the details. For example, the proportion of wood fiber, trollo and water?

But when it was, an idyllic idol who was making a village was making paper on a TV show. It can't be made into idols and I can't.

Remember the TV show you used to see. Come on, my memory!

No, but that idol, he owed you tools, didn't he? You didn't make the tools, did you?

Besides, you had a mentor, didn't you? Uh-huh.

Knowledge alone is enough to make recycled paper postcards using milk packs in family medicine classes. I'd rather think it was better than never doing anything, but very unreliable.

Anyway, let's try from about the size of a postcard. Smaller tools will also be easier to make, and if you want to be sure of the type of tree, you should make it in a smaller size than the larger size.

"Bye, Lutz. Let's make a steamer first."

It would be difficult if you tried to make a round blame like you would use for Chinese food, but it shouldn't be that hard for making it square with a tree.

Show it to Lutz as he paints with this stuff on the tablet.

"I think we can do it because the way it's made itself is easy, but is there a nail?

"What!? Cut into a tree, combine it... can't you?

"What, that?

Having trouble trying to make tools. I don't have the tools to make tools.

There are trees cut, but there are no nails. Here, nails are not as expensive as children would like to use them.

And even if you have tools for cutting wood, you don't have tools for fine finishing.

I wish I could have used my father's tools for a little bit of Edo finger technology to make and combine brooms, but there is no way I could have used that craftsmanship, even if I knew it as knowledge.

At the end of the day, I wouldn't call it craftsmanship if it was something I could lutz just to explain.

Nails are used in everyday life, so if you go to a hardware store, they're not for sale, but there's nothing preceded the trouble.

Suddenly it's blocked in eight directions.

"What are you gonna do, Mine?

"Ugh, I'll talk to Mr. Otto. Because I'm familiar with the market, the vendor, and I might be able to get nails with my help..."

I just have to go where you buy my workforce more than I can provide my family with.

The next day I went to the gate and asked Otto.

"Mr. Otto, I have a question, how much is the price of a nail? If you know of a cheap vendor, I'd like you to introduce me."

"... why the nail? You can't use it, Mine."

Yes, I have no muscle power to use tonkachi.

Regardless of the stone brush or ink, I replied to Otto, who tilted his neck wonderingly, not knowing how to want a nail.

"I want to make the tools I need to make paper, but I don't have the tools to make tools."

"hahahahaha......"

"It's not funny."

Don't hesitate to slap your desk and laugh, and I will swell and show.

Sure, right after Benno cut it off, "I'll make it by spring," "I can't make tools," which would only be a joke, but this one's true.

Otto grinned nicely as he wiped the tears in his eyes as he laughed too much. It's a little black smile from a refreshing looking computational merchant.

Otto laughs a lot when he notices me inadvertently on the alert.

"If you tell me how to make something glossy out of my hair, I'll accommodate the nails for you, okay?

The consideration is not at all commensurate. Whatever it takes, it's too much.

If information flows from Otto to to Benno, he will lose one valid card that I can cut against that Benno. It's too much to lose.

"... just nails, I can't give you how to make them. Because from Benno's reaction the other day, it's going to be a fairly profitable product."

"... you've been watching very closely"

Otto shrugged like he was just a little impressed.

Well, I think desperately, answering vaguely. If I lose the outline of Otto, I have no other outline. We have to find a dropping place somehow.

... Why does Mr. Otto need Simple Lincoln?

Otto is not a merchant, unlike Benno. Then I don't think I want to sell it as a product.

I want to make a debt to Benno, then maybe there is.

... Mr. Otto is relatively pretty, but he's not the type to worry about his appearance as much as he wants to use it himself, and it's the woman who wants to use it one way or another...... daughter-in-law!? My wife!?

Otto, my beloved daughter-in-law wanted me to talk to you, then I feel I can explain.

"... Mr. Otto, I can't give you the information, but you can exchange the real thing for each other."

"Yeah?"

Otto raised his eyebrows lightly. I may not be obsessed with the information because of how interested I am in it. Take another step forward looking at just a few winning opportunities.

"... uh, right. I will also teach Mr. Corinna how to use it and let it finish off in a crunchy way. I can't help it unless I know how to use it even if I only get it in kind."

"Fine. We have a deal."

Not even showing a bare gesture to think about, Otto nodded.

I thought it might work best for Otto to give Corinna's name, but I didn't expect things to be so easy to carry.

"Then come to us for the next holiday. Shall we exchange it then?"

"Okay."

I took a simple rinshan to Otto's house the next holiday and decided to become an impromptu hairdresser (shampoo only).

I was horrified that I was going to get nails somehow, but as it is, my share of the simplified linchant is gone.

Besides, if you don't make enough, Simple Lincoln is a consumable, so there is a good chance that Otto will ask you to replace it in the future.

"Lutz, we've got a shot at getting the nails."

"Seriously? That's amazing, Mine."

"Yeah, I was supposed to give you 'Simple Lincian' instead... not much more, right? Can you help me make it today?

"Oh, good."

Why don't you just make a little more Simple Lincoln and use it as a source of funding?

"In a little while, I can take Merrill, but Rio's fruit is best suited for this season"

Take the fruit of Rio with Lutz in the woods, and have it crushed and oil taken in my house. Lutz still can't use heavy stones for pressing either, so he was tongued with a hammer.

I throw the herbs one after the other into the squeezed oil.

"Hmm, that's pretty easy, huh?

"That's right. What matters is the combination of oil types and herbs. So, Lutz. It's good to exchange things for what you can raise the materials and funds you want, but you can never just teach them how to make them."

"Why?"

"It's easy, so once I teach you how to make it, you can make it yourself. You're never gonna get me to trade again, are you?

"Right. Okay."

Simple you can. Put the linchant in a smaller vessel and give it to Lutz.

Lutz, handed over, tilted his neck and turned into a suspicious face.

"I don't want it, do I? Mine's the one who raises things and money, so Mine's got it."

"For what Lutz worked for, and now you just need to get in Aunt Carla's mood. You've been questioned, haven't you?

When I cleaned Rutz's hair before the interview with Otto, Aunt Carla insisted and said she came. Since then, all the questions should be directed to Lutz because I'm not face-to-face with Aunt Carla.

"Oh, that helps. Thanks, Mine."

Lutz sprinkled with joy and received the vessel.

On such a rutz I smile nicely, imitating Otto's smile.

"Because even if Aunt Carla's momentum pushes you, you should never leak the way you make it. It's an exercise where you don't give away information even if you give it in kind. If you're going to be a merchant, you're going to have to keep it a secret."

"... I want to practice from a simpler place, me"

I chuckle at the laid back rutz.

I still can't get the nail.

The road to Japanese-style paper looks pretty far.