Ascendance of a Bookworm

It's rain. It's rain you can't even look at wrong.

I eat breakfast as I drop my shoulders to the sound of a patter and rain grain hitting the window slab door. As Frieda laughed nicely, as Benno roared low, it rained.

I have no choice. I want to do my best to get a little more useful information than I have confirmed going to Frieda's house.

Lutz is with you, so you're okay, right?

Bite the hard to chew grain bread with a shade as you sprinkle it with the rest of the soup for dinner. I tried to wipe the plate with bread, and after breakfast I looked around in our midst and sighed.

"Souvenirs, I want to take them, but there's nothing I can take to that house..."

We don't have anything to take as a souvenir to Frieda's house, which is anything, like incorporating a number of things in the noble mansion.

After Tulli drank the spit of water, he looked at me and tilted his neck.

"Where's Kanychan Lincian? You were happy to take it before, weren't you?

"Mm-hmm. I started selling them out, so if it's enough to make enough for me to use them myself, don't hand them out cheaply, Mr. Benno told me."

"Oh well. It's raining, so I can't even go pick flowers, and you're in trouble."

Thuri said so using only a little water from the water bottle and washing the dishes. After washing the dishes, I think I'm busy getting ready to go to work.

My mother has already gone out to work, and my father fell asleep because he was on the night shift. I also use water from the water bottle to wash the dishes so I don't make too loud noises.

"At least if I had made a promise a few days ago and had a sunny day, I could have picked enough fruit in the woods..."

Benno always wants to avoid things that are going to piss me off as much as possible because they also make it convenient for Lutz, suggest me a mine workshop to think about new products, and do something to make it convenient.

Sometimes I talk polo a lot, or lose my desire to make it, but not on purpose. I'm not trying to get mad at you.

However, if you try to circumvent Benno's anger, no Lincian. Something about paper doesn't work either. I think Benno would definitely piss me off, although I think Frieda and Ilse would love it if we took it with us for a new treat recipe as well.

Well, I stopped being an apprentice, so I don't know where I'd be free to flush my sweet recipe, but it'll be a hassle.

Yeah nooo, I was thinking, there was a sound of Concon and someone knocking on the door. Apply oil and wax and weave as many thick canvas-like cloaks as possible, and Thuri, who was about to go to work, looks up and heads to the door.

"Yes, who is it?

A little early, but wondering if Lutz had come, Tulli's surprised voice echoed all over the house as I was cleaning out the dishes I had washed.

"Frieda!? What's wrong!?

Looking back in surprise at the unexpected words, across the door, Frieda stood, following her squire. When it comes to rain, the background of our poor home with Frieda dressed in extra clothes and neatly dressed squire is too chiseled, and honestly our poverty looks remarkable.

"I've been looking forward to it since I woke up and couldn't wait to pick up Mine."

Nicole laughed and said, "I won't let you get away with it, will I?" I hear it, "he cries. Go around. I want to make a right, but I can't just leave Thuri and run away.

Thuri shook me back with a smile and a laugh, "I'm so excited that you're bothering to pick me up in the rain".

Touri, seriously angel. Don't lose that purity.

"It's raining, so you can't let a weak mine walk outside. We're waiting for a carriage on the main street."

I don't want to walk out in the rain because I get a fever, you thought they'd reject me. I'm just impressed with Frieda's good hand-working.

"Wow, even the carriage!? Nice, Mine."

Frieda, who took her luggage to go to work and saw Tulli, who was innocently envious, tilted her neck a little.

"Oh? Is Mine's sister working?

"Really? It's time to go."

Too bad, but when Touri said, Frieda turned her gaze up for just a moment so she could think of something, then flattened her hands with bread and a smile that seemed meaningful.

"Then I'll send you on your way."

"Huh!? Am I okay too? Can you get in the carriage?

Pah and Thuri's face shone. A carriage is a ride that a poor man like us can't ride for life. It is understandable that Touri's tension increases. I guess I'll just have to hurry up and get ready to go out.

"Touri, we have to get Lutz."

"Oh, right. I'm coming."

"Um, but when Mr. Lutz gets here, there's a place for your sister to ride..."

Frieda stops where Tulli tries to leave his stuff and run, sorry. When I go out, I'm supposed to have a look at Lutz. When Lutz comes, if Touri can't ride, Touri will have to pull himself back.

"Huh? Huh?... So, me, no?

Disappointment only grows once you have expectations. Touri dripped with a crying face.

Frieda's hand comes before me, who is confused by what to say and comfort me. Keep taking Touri's hand, it, it gave me a tender grin.

"Dear Sister Mine, today I am responsible for sending Mine on behalf of Mr. Lutz. I promise I'll be careful not to let Mine fall. So, shall we come with you in the carriage?

"... if you travel in a carriage, Mine, you're not tired, and you're not wet in the rain, are you? Lutz, you don't have to be here, do you?

It's not okay!

I wanted to say so, but I lost to Touri's grim gaze.

Touri can't tell me to walk away because I'm in trouble without Lutz. I just can't stand in the way of seeing Tulli's face, which I was sure I could get in the carriage. I don't want to go to Frieda's house alone, but I couldn't say no.

"... it's okay. Thuri, let's go together."

"Thanks, Mine. I'll tell Lutz. Mine's ready."

Touri groaned and gently left for Lutz's house. When Thuri's footsteps get smaller, all he hears is the sound of rain.

I take care of Frieda, who successfully used Touri to eliminate Lutz.

"Frieda......"

"Sister, you looked happy, didn't you?

"Right.... Ha, I can't help it. I'm the one who chose."

I'm the one who couldn't trump Tulli, so I can't help blaming Frieda any more. I prepare my tote bag, thinking that Lutz and Benno are going to be mad at me for not thinking again.

"Actually, I'm not ready for a souvenir."

"Oh, I'm going to give you a day of mine. Is it enough for Mine to talk to me?

The happy, fluffy, laughing face belongs to a toddler girl whose friends are happy to come visit, but I know very well that Frieda is not just an innocent toddler.

"Mine, I've been messaging Aunt Carla. Come on, let's go. I'll be late."

The bitter atmosphere between me and Frieda fogs with the smile of Thuri, who jumped lightly in the footsteps.

"Well, let's go"

Tighten the door and go outside. Thick cloaks and wide hats are the rain gear here. Of course, it's not completely preventable, but stained when it's raining heavily or hitting for a long time. If you're going through a narrow alley like now until you get into a carriage on the boulevard, though you don't have to worry about staining it.

"Come on, get on it"

As I hurried onto the carriage waiting on the boulevard, I took my cape and hat and placed it at the end. Because the squire sits next to you, we are the only ones who went in.

"Heh, this is what's happening in the carriage?

"Come on, sit down. Near Central Square, please?

"Yeah, it's the closest thing on Craftsman Street to Central Square."

I look around in the carriage and urge Frieda to sit on Shagguturi, and sit me in line in the middle. A carriage built to allow two adults to ride also had a little room for three if they were children.

It still rocks quite a bit when the carriage moves, but unlike when I rode with the guild chief or Benno, it's not enough to jump out of the seat because it sits properly.

"It's already Baptism, isn't it? What kind of costume is Mine?

"Mine's costume is my fix, but I don't think it's a fix."

Tulli answers Frieda's words with his chest stretched like it was about him. Sometimes it seemed that Touri and my mother had gotten their hands on it even after we fixed it in the winter, with a little more decoration.

"... luxurious?

"It's hard to explain, but I think you're feeling a little different. She's cute because she worked so hard for me."

After seeing us, it will be difficult to think of a luxurious costume. Although Frieda looks strange, she's not lying. And because the fix here is different from the fix I did, it's hard to explain.

"Frieda's costume was also very fluffy and nice, wasn't it? I want to try on those clothes too."

"Well, thank you. So, did you also make new hair decorations?

Frieda, who laughed happily at Thuri's words, turned the subject to hair decoration. Except for the hair decorations I made on Frieda, they're all just different colors and the designs are the same. But you don't think I make it for myself like any other, and you care.

"It's a celebration for Mine. I did my best to make it. Three flowers the same size I made for Frieda."

"So, do you think Mine's hair decorations match mine?

I lean my neck as Frieda looks at me with a little suspicion. Touri didn't seem to know what to explain, and grabbed my sleeve like trouble.

"The colors are white, they shake, the big flowers are the same, but they're a little different from the alignment, aren't they, Mine?

"Because it's a yarn that grows, it looks creamy, but in the long run, it's white. I put a small flower on it, but it feels different from Frieda's hair decoration. What hair decorations are fun of the day. Hey, Touri."

"If I tell you everything, you'll lose the fun of the day."

When Touri said that and covered his mouth, he laughed prankily that it was a secret. Zero smile as Frieda was also attached.

"Well, I'm really looking forward to it. I'll take a look outside."

As we talked about the baptismal ceremony, we saw Thuri's workplace in the corner where the workshop stood. Touri, who had the carriage stopped, weaves a cape and wears a hat. He looked back at me with a bag of tools and worried for a moment.

"Don't worry. I'll take care of Mine."

"Good luck with your work, Touri"

"Thank you for letting me in the carriage, Frieda. I'll go, but don't bother, Mine."

After waving loudly and dropping off Thuri as he ran to the workshop, the carriage began to move again with Gotgoto.

"There you are, Mine. Nice to meet you. I baked a cattle curl and waited. Let me know what you think."

When we got to Frieda's house, the cook Ilse was waiting for us.

Tea and cattle curls are arranged on the table through the reception room. Take a bite, and I broke up. It's a good baking color for moist dough, and has captured the habit of the oven or it tastes much better than before.

"Yum. Much better than before. The grill is exquisite."

"I'm glad you said that. I was wondering if there was anything I could do to improve."

"Improvements?... um, I think it tastes good enough?

I thought, throwing it into my mouth with pacli, savoring sweet treats.

Sometimes I think of luxurious looks when served on a plate, adding dried fruit, grating and mixing citrus peels and enjoying a different flavor, but I don't know if this would be information that would piss Benno off.

Um, whatever you do, Mr. Benno's going to be mad at me, and I don't have a problem keeping my mouth shut because it's simple to eat or tasty, but the artisans who are motivated are going to want to support me.

"I'm not even close to getting an improvement... if I redeem it for a bag of sugar, I'll tell you?

Remembering a bag containing about a kilo of sugar that I had seen in the kitchen before, when I negotiated that way, Ilse turned her gaze to Frieda, who had the right to decide.

"A bag of sugar... Can I give it to Mine, ma'am?

"Yeah, fine."

"I got permission from the lady. Come on!"

I opened my mouth breathlessly to the power of Ilse as she devoured me.

"The fragrance and flavour change and taste is delicious when you grate the Felizine skin and add it to the dough. The flavor changes by adding something else. Do your own research on what would taste better if you put in what ratio. Besides this information, if you have something to serve to a nobleman, it will look extravagant if accompanied by well-foamed raw cream or decorated fruit."

"Huh!? Let's do it."

Ilse immediately rose up and left the room after breathtaking. Me and Frieda, left behind, smile bitterly after blinking a few times.

"I'm sorry, Mine. He showed up like that to his customers. Ilse is usually cool, but she doesn't have eyes for new recipes..."

"It's good to be research enthusiastic. If Mr. Ilse works hard for me, that's all the more delicious stuff, right?

It's an enthusiastic and inspiring thing to study. It is also a pleasure for me to have something delicious spread around the world, so I would love for you to do a lot of research to create a new sweetness.

"Speaking of which, why is Frieda doing an apprenticeship in a commercial guild? In the future, you own a shop in the aristocratic district, right? You're not gonna be an employee, but you can be an apprentice?

When I grew up, I didn't think Frieda was an apprentice in a commercial guild, even though I had decided to go to a nobleman.

asks rather as she puts Katorkar in her mouth, Frieda answers, sipping cockles and tea.

"I asked my uncle. Studying and networking to own a shop in the aristocratic district. I'm the only one who opens a shop in the aristocratic district. We have to be able to do it all by ourselves, and we have to keep our connections as wide as possible."

"All alone? Who, uh, who's a sidekick like Mr. Utte?

"I'm not allowed to stay in the aristocracy except for me. It's not like I'm alone in my life because there's a side service that the other side prepares for me after I go there."

Still, I don't think the side service that can be attached after going to the aristocratic district is bright for the economy and management.

Isn't it too harsh for a girl who's just grown up with just about anything to suddenly shop alone where she doesn't have allies? Can I not attach about one of the people I consult?

"It's not like I'm in a store or totally alone. My family is allowed to enter and leave the aristocratic district for the delivery of goods, etc. It's comforting, though you won't be around forever, will you?

"... right"

I couldn't say anything other than affirmation to Frieda, who didn't seem very comfortable but looked straight ahead and seemed to be fighting his own destiny.

Adult sayings and thinking are weapons and protective equipment that Frieda is wearing. Even, we have to polish it and survive in a strange world.

"After I started shopping in the aristocratic district, I'm now alternating between my guild apprenticeship and my shop's help so I can deal with whatever happens"

"Frieda is great. I've been thinking a lot about the other day, and I know exactly what I mean."

Frieda's face became much tougher on my words. Look quietly at me with a serious eye and open your mouth.

"I want to ask Mine something, too, okay?

"Yeah, fine."

Oh, here's the point.

I thought so. I know that Frieda will ask. I encouraged Frieda, laughing nicely.

"What the hell are you thinking? Mine should have followed Mr. Benno as soon as possible, right? I've been waiting a long time. Mine came to me looking for a handover..."

If you want a handover to the nobility to live, you better rely on Guild Chief and Frieda than Benno. That was what Otto also pointed out. Everyone would think so. It has been decided that shops with long and deep connections to nobility can negotiate in a slightly advantageous way.

The tone of Frieda, soliciting with confidence based on history and power, is slightly feverish, and the eyes look like indescribable haste transparent.

"Mine hasn't acted on anything when he says summer is coming already. Are you really thinking about what's ahead? We need to cross to the nobles as soon as possible, not like this..."

I know Frieda's appeal is to worry about me, the same eater. Giving the nobility a pass does not necessarily mean that it can be contracted immediately. Quick, if the feeling of hurry is connected to Frieda's fortitude, it's a little too much to be worried about.

Laughing furiously, I also gazed straight at Frieda.

"You know, Frieda. As a result of my own thoughts, I chose to stay with my family and decay."

"... Huh?

Keep your eyes open and keep your mouth gently open, Frieda solidified. A slight grunt leaks from her tiny, trembling lips, incredible.

"I've already given up half of it. Touri cries, so I said I'd look for a way to live, but there's no other way to live than to sign with nobility, is there?

Is there any way, to help Frieda, the guild chief should have used everything he could use, power, money and handouts to look for in a madness of death. I would have gathered a bunch of magic equipment and bought some time to find out if there were any other effective means besides the contract.

If that guild chief doesn't know, if he had no choice but to give up that he had no means, if he chose a nobleman with better terms and Frieda had no choice but to contract, the answer is decided.

"... I do not know"

"Seriously, can't you get another piece or so of magic equipment somewhere? I do, but I don't want to sign with nobility. You don't have a substitute for eating anything but magic equipment, do you?

"If I knew, I'd be using it."

And I bowed my shoulders lightly, bewildered as I was angry.

"Right? Today, what I was going to ask Frieda was that I couldn't buy magic equipment from anyone other than nobles. Or make your own magic equipment... you can't, can you?

If not, I thought I should make it, but unfortunately, there was no way to make magic equipment in the book Reino read. In fantasy novels and games, words like that have come out, but can't be an actual reference.

And there was no workshop in this city to make magic equipment.

"They need magic to make magic equipment, so they can't make it except for nobles who have magic. So no one here knows how to make magic equipment better than the walls."

"Yes.... I thought I'd make it myself when I found out how to make it, but I guess I can't"

If only a nobleman with magic can make it, then the magic workshop is only beyond the high walls of the castle. If I knew how to make it, it would still have seemed sweet, although I expected the funds to be in luxury so I could figure it out.

"... I never thought I'd make it myself."

"Because Frieda is a lady. Because I live in an environment where I can't get what I want unless I make it myself, the most I thought I could do something about it..."

Smile small with Couscous. The phosphors, the hair decorations, the paper, the coal pencils, the vegetable chopsticks, they were all made because what I made was needed.

"Is Mine so important to my family? Aren't you afraid to die swallowed by fever like this?

pompous and Frieda asked.

"Um, why not? I know you don't want to die, but you don't think I'm too scared."

For me with a memory of death once, Mine's raw was like an extra God gave me. I'm finally enjoying living, but the fundamentals have probably not changed.

"... I don't have books around right now, so I don't have anything else important to do with my family. I didn't choose to die, I just chose to be with my family."

"Book?"

"Yes. I've saved quite a bit of money, so can I buy about one book?

As I leaned my neck, Frieda laughed like trouble.

"If you want a book, why don't you go to the aristocratic city? It's over there, isn't it?

"Ahhh, if you could read the book all you want in the terms of the contract, you might have followed me whee, but do you think a nobleman like you to keep and kill would make me read such a precious thing of the poor?

"It must be difficult considering Mine's living environment."

From a noble point of view, I am the poor in this city with a low literacy rate. Even if I know the letters, it's normal that I don't want them to touch the expensive and precious books that I have. If I read it on my own, I can't help but get killed.

And I know myself well in a way. There's no way you can keep reason in front of a book. I can easily imagine myself jumping on a book and getting killed.

"... so I'm trying to create a mass production system for the book by the time I die, but it's going to be hard. I think it's lifespan about eating, and I give up half of it. I'm making plenty of money right now because I'm annoying my family, and I'd like to leave it for you."

When I joked and laughed softly, Frieda glanced at me with a glittering brown eye.

"So shall I buy a cattle curl recipe?

When I saw Frieda, who had become the eyes of a merchant altogether, I roared hmm.

Katorkar is a basic treat, so it doesn't matter if it's about an exclusive sale for a limited time, but it's hard to get all the rights monopolized like Benno's Lincian. It must inhibit the development of sweets.

"... What if I told you that Frieda would sell it exclusively for a year with five small gold coins?

"Sure, I'll buy it"

It was an instant answer that didn't show a moment of stray or anything.

"... of course, what? You mean maybe cheap?

"Well, you are. It's not uncommon to have exclusive sales rights to unprecedented items like cattle curls and vegetable paper to cross large gold coins."

"Big gold coins..."

Apparently, I, Mr. Benno, have been cheaply tearing knowledge and information apart.

"Do you want to hoist the price?

"Yeah, no. It's been a year. I'll sell you the exclusive right to sell for five coins."

I didn't feel like hoisting the price I offered once, and I shook my head.

"Well, let's make a contract"

"Huh? Could it be contract magic!?

Will it be a scary development to see blood again, to care about the safety of people you don't know? When I shook my body unintentionally, I sighed like Frieda was frightened.

"... you know, Mine. Contract magic is not so easy to use. If you are an opponent of magic or power and you are in an overwhelming disadvantage, you use expensive magic equipment to secure profits. Would it be enough for us to have a regular contract on parchment, which is a formal contract?

"It is."

My senses seem a little strange because the first contract was contract magic.

But if Frieda is right, why did Benno use contract witchcraft against us who are not opponents of magic or power? Strange.

"Nevertheless, when and where did Mine find out about contract magic when it wasn't something he rarely used?

"... because Mr. Benno is going to piss me off, secret"

"Oh, you're learning a little bit."

Laughing furiously, Frieda reached for the bell on the shelf. When I ring Chillin, Utte comes in with very little noise.

"Please prepare the contract"

Frieda uses a feather pen on the parchment that Utte prepared for me to write down the contract. Am I to blame for looking more luxurious and good looking than the wooden pen I bought, but less likely to use it?

Contract making was a routine task for Frieda, who is an apprentice in a commercial guild, something I've also been used to seeing over the last while.

After checking the contents for errors, combine Frieda and Alliance cards to settle the matter.

"How come it's a year?

"If we had a year, we'd all know that Katorkar's ancestors were Frieda's, right? Besides, I want to leave room for new entries because there may be sugar for others."

"New entry?

"If we publish the recipe, more and more people might try things and get more and more new treats, right? Because delicious treats make me feel happy, I hope people make them and spread them out."

"Ah, mine is not for merchants who look out for their interests."

Me and Frieda will sign the parchment that will be the official contract. Now a covenant has been made that I will grant Frieda the exclusive right to sell Katorkar for a year.

"But, well, if the recipe was published a year later with me, would it be about? I'll leave it up to Frieda to publish the recipe when she's not around."

"I will put my interests first, so make sure you publish them yourself in a year's time."

Frieda's face, misaligned with Tung's face, looked like she was going to cry.