Ascendance of a Bookworm

"This is..."

That's how he shrugged, and the guild leader solidified.

Touri used this hair decoration only during the baptismal ceremony. Was something wrong then? As dorky as the ever floating smile suddenly disappeared, I wave to Benno for help.

The guild leader has solidified, okay?

Unlike me, who became worried, Benno gave him a nickel and a black smile, only for a moment, with the look of a carnivore making even a tongue groan.

"Wasn't this the kind of hair decoration the guild chief was looking for?

"You're selling this!?

And the chief of the guild opened his eyes, and alternated between Benno and me. I'm afraid of smiley, cannibal faces, - so small and breathtaking.

...... Lutz, sloppy! He's hiding behind Mr. Benno!

I also tried to sneak around behind Benno, but Benno grabbed me by the shoulder and let me gouge forward.

"Oh, it's going to be a winter hand job"

"Winter hand job...... then would you sell this to me now?

The guild chief tried to take the Touri hair ornament I had. I rush my hair ornament into my bag with a little gleaming eyes that will never come back if they take it.

"No. I made this for Thuri. I can't sell it."

"This is the only way out."

Three fingers were put up to stick in the bish. Probably a sign that represents the price, but I don't know what that means.

When I look at Benno as he grates, he is darkening his grin.

"Hmm, right...... If you color me a little more, I think I can make it as a priority. What do you think, Mine?

"Be, Mr. Benno is right"

I can't think of any objections. Follow Benno with a pulling smile.

"If we make it now, we'll make it in time for my granddaughter's winter baptism ceremony. Isn't that right, Mine?

"Yes, I'm fine"

... Oh, I see. My granddaughter, who saw Touri's hair decorations during the summer baptism, said she wanted something similar.

In Benno's words, I finally understand the situation.

If you're the guild leader for a commercial guild, you're in the position where you're supposed to have the most information about what's in circulation in this city, but you can't find hair decorations.

My family just made it for Thuri and it's not for sale, they don't sell similar decorations, the winter baptism ceremony is getting closer and closer, and I guess they were in trouble.

"... we only have about a month left, can we make it?

Speaking of which, I need unexpected time and yarn to make small flowers, so whatever winter I don't have to do trapped in the snow, I'm too busy this season to make it, my mother said. But if it's a job where you get paid, it's okay to get on with it.

I would buy yarn or hear the wishes of that granddaughter, so it would take a little while, but still, until the winter baptism ceremony, I can make it enough.

"Yes, this is not for sale, but not a problem for making a new one. Right, Lutz?

Yeah, I can do that.

When me and Lutz nodded loudly and undertook, Benno, who was listening as he nodded beside me, smiled niggly, adding:

"It's just a shame you can't buy or sell because you haven't been able to register the two of us..."

"Ku...... Then let's order after provisional registration…"

Looks like Benno and the guild leader made a quick decision to win or lose.

Benno is in a good mood to get a tentative registration without being able to put on a lot of difficulty, without giving out any paper information, and tries to leave the guild leader's room.

"Then go back downstairs."

"Wait. The kids just have to wait here to be able to play guild cards. I'd like to order."

I tongue slightly at the words of the guild leader and Benno smiles back.

"I don't know what kind of coarse phase you're going to have if you leave it alone with the kids, so I'll have to wait here too."

"No, no, they look like well-behaved children. Problems don't have to be without Benno. See?"

The Alliance leader's smile is scary that he seems to be up to something, even if he seems nice. I felt like I was about to be rounded up at some point, so I accidentally shook Benno's hand.

"is, because this is my first place, I want Mr. Benno to be there too"

"Let's not."

With a winning grin, Benno sits down in a sofa-like stiff chair in the guild length's room.

And he lifted me up a little, and sat on his thigh, and whispered, well done, and stroked his head round about. You seem in a pretty good mood.

Then I moved the place next to Benno, and Lutz sat next to it. A guild leader sat at the front and began a business meeting for hair decorations.

"Okay, one hair decoration. Ask by the winter baptism ceremony"

"Uh, what color flowers should we make? Your grandson's favorite color, the right color for his hair..."

"I'm not very familiar with that sort of thing. Just like that."

Pointing to my tote bag, that's what the guild chief said. But I have trouble being said out of such grandeur.

Maybe Benno should have plucked the fee, so at least, I want to make it a hair decoration that will please my granddaughter. I would have gathered information for my grandson, because it must be his granddaughter's smile priceless.

"Um, if I can talk to your grandson, can I ask him what he wants? I'm sure you'd be more pleased with that."

"I want to surprise you with a secret gift."

Out! An annoying surprise!

The only time you'll be happy to give in secret is if you're familiar with your preferences and hopes from time to time and you're in the right place to want them.

It's quite challenging for a grandfather who says he's not even familiar with his granddaughter's favorite colors.

"... you know, but hair decorations need to go with clothes, and if they don't go with the color of your hair, or if you already have another decoration available, you could have a lot of trouble getting it, right?

"Really?

For a winter christening ceremony, the costume should already be ready. Maybe I'm preparing something to decorate my hair with my granddaughter and her mother as well.

"Because I make it from scratch, I think it would be much more important to give something in line with your wishes than something that doesn't fit your taste. Don't you think a happy face would be nicer than a surprised face?

"Hmm, I see..."

As the guild leader stroked his beard, he turned up to think of something.

"Did I say Mine?

"Yes."

"You, why don't you come to our store?

"Rejected!

faster than I would react, Benno immediately dismissed.

"It's bigger than Benno's, and we do business for a long time. The terms are good, huh? I haven't officially become an apprentice at the end of the baptism ceremony yet, so I can also be our apprentice. What do you say?"

What do you say? I'm not going to get all that assistance and suddenly turn the store upside down.

"Mr. Benno owes me nothing."

"Hmm, I'll give it back instead."

"Huh? Er..."

I meant to say no, but I'm not saying no. Benno's mood drops sharply as he wraps up with the pushy guild leader.

Benno glanced at me as I chopped wrinkles between my brows and gently tapped my temples with a ton of fingers.

"Mine, give the guild leader a clear answer. I said no."

"Oh, oh, I refuse!

"Mmm, too bad, but let's just say we give up this time. You can't even tell the truth when you have a scared watch."

What is it this time!?

I'm going to be telling you the truth!

"Tomorrow is a good time to come and talk to my granddaughter Frieda, okay? You'd better decide early, wouldn't you?

"Um, can I have Mr. Benno with me!?

As a lesson of the day, "Don't Meet the Guild Chief Alone" is firmly engraved in your heart. With no one able to handle the guild leader, it's dangerous to meet him.

But the guild chief shook his head.

"Unfortunately, tomorrow is the day Benno and I have a meeting. Girls around the same age don't need to be accompanied by a great uncle, do they?

"... well, if it's between kids"

In the battle between Benno and the guild chief, I thought of a diagram listening to the hope of my granddaughter Frieda, and I nodded without thinking of the word that girls of the same age would meet each other.

Mr. Benno tongued beside me, who agreed with the guild chief.

Huh!? Something went wrong!?

Compared to Benno, who revived the frown wrinkles between the eyebrows, and the guild leader, whose smile revived, I realized that I had replied in a far-fetched manner. If you agreed to "child to child," you can't even ask Marc to follow you.

I don't know what to do, I desperately spin my head full, look around both neighbors, hah.

"Yes, we're making it together, so it's good for Lutz to go, right? It's between kids!

Getting in alone is too scary. Making a suggestion involving Lutz, Benno softened his expression slightly.

"Well, fine. So, how about three bells in Central Square tomorrow? Let Frieda pick you up."

"Yes."

As I waited for the story to come together, an official with a provisional membership card came in. Apparently, provisional registration has been successfully completed.

"This is the temporary membership card for a commercial guild. This is also a form of magic equipment. We always need it when we talk business. You can ask Benno for more information. The two cards correspond to the store's apprenticeship, so you can go upstairs."

It's a strange card that reflects in rainbow color when it hits light with a thin metal card. Too different from what you usually touch. It's a fantastic card from anywhere, and the more I hear the explanation, the more I admire it. I can only blink my eyes at the awesomeness of the magic equipment.

"Now, at the end of each day, push your own blood onto your cards and let them recognize you. That way, others won't be able to use it on their own"

"Huh!? Blood!?"

Is blood a must for sorcery? The fact that I scratched my fingers and pushed my blood judgment with contract magic before is new to my memory.

"Give it up, Mine"

"Lutz to…"

"Just give me your hand.... You can't do it yourself anyway, can you?

"Ugh..."

If I put my crying hand out, Lutz poked me in the fingertips with a needle. Push and stain the cards with the blood that has been thriving.

At that moment, the card glowed.

"Uh-huh!?

It just glowed for a moment, and then it was a card that wasn't at all the same as earlier. It was a beautiful thing that had not changed at all, in the sense that there were no blood marks or fingerprints left.

Magic equipment, maybe convenient, but scary.

Because of my fear of bleeding or watching the cards glow and panic, Lutz finishes the work pale.

"This concludes the registration"

"Thank you for your help"

We'll go after Benno, who leaves the room only if we don't need him anymore, and we'll go after the commercial guild.

I'm just tired of registering.

"Welcome home. Looks like you've successfully registered."

Back at Benno's, Marc waited for me. Sometimes a merchant-like black smile also comes to mind, but basically I feel healed by Marc's smile, an ally.

"Oh, today was a complete victory thanks to Mine."

"Ho, that's unusual"

"I got my eye on that shithead."

"... it's going to be a pain in the ass"

Marc's impression of the guild leader is also troublesome.

I wholeheartedly agree.

"This way, please. We're ready to settle the prototype."

"Well, let's end it crisp"

Marc opens the door to Benno's room and invites us in. When I heard of the actuarial work of the prototype, I raised my hand viscibly.

"Yes! I have a favor to ask. Can you tell me about the money?

"Hmm?"

Benno just frowns when he doesn't know what it means. Marc is leaning his neck in the same way.

"Uh, me, I've never touched money before... I can read the numbers, but the numbers and the money aren't quite linked. … For example, at 5640 lions, I don't know what coins to pay."

"Huh!?

Not only Benno, but Marc and Lutz raised their barbaric voice.

"Kim, that you've never touched... well, not even a merchant, if you're a kid that year, isn't that so unusual? No, it's unusual, isn't it?

"... well. Mine's never even been to see you. 'Cause I'm gonna fall down."

"Ah......"

Rutz's words leaked a convincing sigh from everyone's mouth.

"Even though I do the calculations at the gate, I've never seen you actually exchange money with a merchant, and even when I went to order with Mr. Marc, I didn't actually exchange money just by placing a purchase order, and I saw you pay a small coin when you went to the market with your mother, but I don't know what that is."

Marc, with a cloth bag in my words, entered before Benno, and Jalari and Marc spread a coin on the desk.

"So first, let me tell you what kind of money you have"

There were three kinds of brown coins like copper, and silver coins and gold coins large and small.

I can see Lutz rattling his throat gobbling and seeing it in the gold coin on the desk.

"One of these little copper coins is 10 lions. 100 lions for medium copper coins with holes, 1000 lions for large copper coins and 10,000 lions for small silver coins. Then it continues with big silver coins, small gold coins, large gold coins."

I feel very comfortable because I just need to remember that it's a big one with 10 sheets and an exchange.

Next to me listening convincingly to ho ho ho, Lutz roars small. Apparently, when the digits got bigger, they were completely clueless.

Let's study hard in winter, shall we?

If I start to have my own money, I think I'll learn to calculate the money even though I don't like it, so maybe I'll be fine.

Benno brings six sheets of prototype paper and arranges them on his desk.

"One piece of parchment is one small gold coin. One large silver coin at the size of the contract you normally use. If it's this big, it's like two small pieces of silver."

Two small silver coins in a postcard size......

I knew the paper was expensive, but I know very well when I can line it up with the money in front of me. Speaking of which, I thought you said the contract size was my father's salary for a month.

"This time, we'll set the price based on parchment. Follin paper is two small silver coins and four small silver coins are trombe paper with good quality. From there, deduct 30% as commission. Then, apart from the prior investment until the prototype can be made and the required girder (soaked) from now on. Allow me to deduct the price of the girder in splits. 50% of the cost."

"Yes."

We have a prototype, so from now on, ordering tools and raw materials will be well assembled into the cost.

As I nodded, Benno laughed niggardly.

"How about 20% of your share this time? Purchasing the wood that will be the raw material from the lumber store or the paper distribution will reduce the price, it will need to be reviewed again..."

"That's fine."

When I nodded and turned my gaze to Lutz, Lutz also nodded as I remained unsure of his face.

Benno put Don and the calculator on his desk and pushed them out in front of Lutz.

"Lutz, do you know how much it will cost with 3 Follins and 3 Trombes?

Moving the calculator slightly, Rutz, who had entered for three Follins but was then stretching and bending his fingers, shook his head as a soaker. Even if you can calculate a single digit, it seems to be a good idea if you have more numbers or more types.

"Where's Mine?

"Uh," Three Two is Six and Three Four Twelve, "so that's 18 small silver coins. That's 20%, so three small silver coins and six large copper coins are for me and Lutz, and one small silver coin and eight large copper coins for one person."

Mr. Marc grinned bitterly, refraining behind Benno, staring at me slightly blinkingly.

"Correct. It's amazing because you can calculate instantly without using a calculator."

In my case, I can't use the calculator, so I have to practice with Lutz during the winter. I want to be as familiar with my surroundings as possible.

"And then... the cost of Lutz's tablets and stone brushes, but this is a levy from an individual. Deduct 2 large copper coins from Lutz's share"

Lutz was pulled two large copper coins and received some stone slabs and stone brushes instead.

"I can give you the cash, or I can leave it with a commercial guild if you have trouble with where it's stored, but what do we do?

Apparently, commercial guilds also have bank-like features.

I'm scared to have a lot of cash, and I want to save some time to buy a book.

"Big copper coins, please. I'll give it to my mother. I'll keep the small silver coins."

It was Reina-era dreams of filial filial piety in the family with the initial salary, wasn't it? Can I dream here?

"Okay. What about Lutz?

"I'm the same as Mine."

"Right."

I get eight large copper coins and match them with my cards with Benno's. After the sound of playing the pin and string, the card returned, but nothing changed.

"Now your money can be taken out on the third floor of the guild. One of these days, we're gonna have to let them practice."

"Right."

Benno smiles bitterly at me as I turn the card around and Marc agrees.

Lutz got six big copper coins after matching the cards the same way. My heart rises to the cold weight in my hand.

"I have money, for the first time"

"We earned this, didn't we?

Thinking back on the many failures we made until we finished the paper that we were convinced of, seeing the money fills our hearts with emotion.

"When it's spring, we'll make lots of paper and sell lots of it"

"Ooh."

Glad for my first money, I looked up to Benno with the satisfaction I had done.

"That's it all, isn't it?

But Benno played my forehead with his fingers, looking thoughtfully at my words.

"Hey, don't be silly. Your battle is tomorrow. You're gonna fuck that shitty granddaughter in the middle of nowhere, right? What if you look out of your mind!?

"Huh? But it's a child, and it's a girl to girl, right?

I don't think it's going to be like a fight. All I have to do is go hear Frieda's hopes, and the guild chief is not in a meeting, and is there something we can do about it?

"Rumor has it she's a damned but drowning granddaughter, and she looks the most closely like one of her few grandchildren"

"Oh, like grandpa?

I've tried to imagine the girl with the Alliance leader's face, but I can't imagine it at all.

"Well, I can just take Lutz, it's better. Don't get swallowed. Lutz, you don't have to force yourself into a conversation, so if Mine's about to get pulled out like he did today, stop him. I don't know where the trap is lurking. All right?"

"Okay."

Lutz is nodding loudly with a serious look on his face, but do we need to make it that big? 'Cause they're pre-christening girls, right?

When I tilted my neck, a coin rubbed in my hand and made a noise.

"... Speaking of which, how much did you undertake to decorate Frieda's hair? I didn't understand the sign on the guild leader's finger."

"Grandpa's signature is three small silver coins. Let me color it. It's four small silver coins."

A little to Benno's word. Even considering the price of the yarn, that's too plump for one hair decoration.

"Hey, uh, yeah!? It's too plump!

"Finish it exactly. It's going to advertise handiwork in winter, and it's going to be about how it sells."

"Um, the correction of the amount..."

My desire spreads with a glimpse of Benno.

"Do you think I'm going to deal with that twitch?

"No, not at all"

After the answer, I can drool with Kakun.

I have to make a decoration that just matches four small silver coins, so I don't have half the pressure on this one.

"Even if I think about my referral fees and fees and costs, do you guys get about 50-60% of your share? Feel comfortable. I'm fine. What I finally found, and not selling the decorations you have now, would have given you the impression that it's even harder to get? Plus the guilt of screwing winter handiwork forward during busy winter support and the amount for special treatment to be attached at the winter baptism ceremony that no one wears before the sale. Don't worry too much."

How many reasons have I given you, and it's a good place to go?

Seriously, give me a break.