Ascendance of a Bookworm

I was to interrupt Corinna's house today to place an official order for everyday use and ceremonial blue clothes. The ritual takes time, so I had requested it first through Benno, but they have a lot to decide on, like, embroidery patterns, how to weave a belt, fees, etc.

Today's escort was designated by Corinna as a good woman in the family. Corinna was pregnant and asked for help measuring. He wants to measure it properly because Benno measured it from the top of his clothes before, but in the future, it's going to be a long relationship.

For this reason, Lutz is acting with Touri on holiday. My mother seemed a little unwell and wanted to go, but it took a stop from my father.

"For rituals, you use a very good cloth, right? I've never seen such a soft, crunchy, beautiful cloth before."

With me in my underwear, Touri, who had finished his measurements, let his eyes shine and touched the cloth. They don't come so far for a request to handle a good cloth in Thuri's workshop. Seeing Corinna's work would be a good experience for Touri.

It is the cloth given to Benno that I use for my ritual costume. This was already dyed blue in my mother's dyeing workshop and she came back to the store. Deep blue like a lapis lazuli, similar to the color of my hair.

"Mine, you can wear clothes now. Touri, thank you for your help. This ritual costume embroiders biblical prayer complaints on the edges in decorative fonts. When the light hits you, you'll shine in gold and silver and you'll be so beautiful."

And the crest is sewn up in the middle of the embroidery on the collar. The nobles embroider each family crest, but I have no family crest, so it is the crest of the workshop.

"This is Mine's crest?

"Yes. It's the Mine Workshop crest. This is the book. This is the ink and this is the pen. Then they combine paper raw wood with hair decorative flowers. I thought about it, and Mr. Benno added a lot to it."

"It's about Mine anyway, so you made a weird one and it was fixed, right?

"... they just told me it was too simple"

The blue cloth spreads flutteringly over the large working table with a grin that Corinna dulls when she hears our conversation. The table filled up like the sea, which was a wave with a lustrous blue cloth.

"Ritual costumes are meant to pick yarns and specify how they are woven so that the pattern appears on the cloth. But this time, we don't have time, so we'll use the cloth that's already made, right? I'm trying to get the overall embroidery in the same color yarn so that the shape floats when the light hits me, but what good pattern does Mine have?

When I was told to put a pattern in the fabric itself in a weave way, the best thing that came to mind in my head was the kimono's terrain. Do you intend to add embroidery like Rinzu or Satoko?

Even though I'm small and the part where I put the embroidery in is smaller than the adults, the fabric is large because it's plenty of loose and the cuffs are as long as a shaker. Though time is shorter than weaving fabric from scratch, it's hard to put embroidery in the whole thing.

"Um, Mr. Corinna. Whatever they say, I, I've never looked closely at the ritual costume itself, and I don't know. But if you want to add embroidery overall, make it as easy as possible..."

I would have seen it during my own baptism, but my memories are all taken to the library with G.O.K. I don't really remember the costume the blue cleric wore. I remember the scriptures the temple chief had, but I'm refreshed about the costumes that seemed fancy.

"Mine! It can't be easy for the aristocracy ritual!

"Huh!... But Touri also thinks embroidery is tough on the whole thing, and it would be a little easier, wouldn't it?

As he relented so hard at Thuri, Humphunk, Corinna put her hand on her cheek, "Hey."

"I wish embroidery could make it look easy and luxurious, just as I could easily fix Thuri's sunny clothes and look luxurious, but does Mine have anything in mind?

Corinna asks me, and I, um, explore my memory.

Embroidering a larger pattern should be less of an embroidery area than embroidering a smaller pattern properly throughout.

"... If you can add flowers to the 'running water crest', why not?

"Lew Swimon?"

"Uh, by the way, I add flowers to the pattern that feels like water is flowing like this. I think if you spread the spacing of the water or scatter the petals, the embroidered areas will look extravagant, even if they are small."

Draw a gnarly curve on the stone slab to thicken or thin the line thickness of the curved part, draw a running water pattern, and scatter cherry blossoms and petal-like little hearts that solidify five suitably elongated hearts.

"The flowers should think of some more drawings, but this water flow is good. Mine is Brother Benno's goddess of water, isn't she?

My mouth caught on to the words that came out of Corinna's mouth laughing when I dull. Even if Benno or I deny it, there is no way I can solve the misconceptions around me if they are spoken out of the mouth of my sister, Corinna.

"... Um, Mr. Corinna. How far the hell is that spread?

"Is it a story that Otto is spreading with amusement?

...... Mr. Otto's stupid idiot. Get mad at Mr. Benno.

While we were eating the lunch that Corinna prepared for us, Corinna and Tulli began to thrive with stories of flowers that could accompany running water for both of us. I do not know the names of so many flowers that they are left, even though they are the same.

"Dear Corinna, Mr. Benno wants to enter the room..."

"Sorry about that during lunch, Corinna. I have something for Mine, okay?

"Yeah, I'm fine. Mine is over and seems to have plenty of time"

When Benno invited me, I jumped a little from my chair towards Benno.

"Where there's no other guy, you read it alone. After that, I'll leave it to you. If there's a solution that comes to mind, it'll help if you tell me."

"Is...?

Give me only one piece of paper and say so, Benno lifts his hand gently and goes back to the store below.

And I looked around, and made sure that there was no one there, and spread out the four folds of paper, which I had immediately handed over on the spot. What was written on the paper was a list of the problems Benno had.

"Hey, hey, the next on the note form for cursing and precautions is a letter in the list of issues? I don't care if you get this..."

From the crappy problem of Otto floating around and not being able to use it since Corinna got pregnant to things about Italian restaurant interiors, menus, services, and customer unit prices. Some of the solutions come to mind, others I can think of but I don't know if I can accept them here. Of course, there is a complete line of problems with your condition.

As I pondered the answer to Benno, I indulged in one problem at a time. And the moment I read the last issue that's written, it suddenly draws my blood away.

"Mine, what was it?

For how long he stood on the spot, Tulli glanced at the letter worryingly clouding his face. I folded the letter in haste, but I breathed out softly, realizing that Touri, unable to read the letter, was equal to a line of patterns.

"Hey, what's it say?

"It's about your job. It's a secret."

While deluding Tulli, who wanted to know, I gently bagged a piece of paper with a list of problems.

Take a slow sigh and try to get your thoughts around if there is any solution to the last problem, but it doesn't come to mind right away.

He was peddling it because Benno said it was only after he held down the workshop location that he would take Lutz to the other city. No way, I didn't realize you couldn't take me because I couldn't get permission from Rutz's father.

Lutz believes in Benno's words as much as I do. When I saw Benno back from the extra city, I said, "Wouldn't you like to decide where the workshop is soon?" He was sparkling his eyes at expectations. There's no way I can say to Lutz like that, "If your father gives me permission, I can go tomorrow." It will put cracks in Rutz's home that he has no intention of repairing.

... I don't know how to flex Lutz's father.

I wanted to put in the flowers embroidered by Touri and Corinna in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but I held my head next to it thriving from top to bottom or from left to right.

"It's time for the star festival."

"Heh heh!? Hey, what?

Speaking to Lutz on the road to the temple, I look around as a vic. Lutz narrowed his eyes a little and peered at me. It's a difficult business for me to hide things from Rutz, who is in physical control.

"What is it, Mine? Have you been confused a lot?

"I didn't! What are you talking about?

It seemed foreseeable that I was sober, and Lutz returned to the subject after one sigh.

"Star Festival. Looks like we could go together this year?

"A star festival?... Oh, was it a summer festival? It was a water game, wasn't it?

"Hit the tau fruit, not the water."

Tau's is actually the little red fruit I saw in the spring. I heard they contain a lot of water in the summer and are as swollen as fists. I understand that I am like a natural water balloon, but I have never seen the real thing.

"What festival is a star festival if it's not water play?

I have no idea what kind of festival it is because I never attended it. Lutz taught me to lean my neck.

It seems that the star festival is actually not a water festival, but a day when the wedding takes place. Apparently, it's a joint wedding that takes place once a year, and bumping Tau's fruit is an event that takes place in connection with the wedding.

"They have nothing to do with the wedding. They go to the woods with the 2 bell openers to pick up the tau fruit. When the 3 bells ring, the wedding starts and the bride and groom comes out who finished the ceremony with the 4 bells. By then, lurk in all kinds of alleys around Central Square and hold the fruit of Tau."

I thought of the sight of a large number of people out on the boulevard at the baptism ceremony, and of a diagram where everyone had water balloons in their respective hands. It's surreal. I don't know what that means.

But there are many events related to coronation that don't make sense from the outside. There must have been a lot of books I used to read about guests beating each other up at weddings, invitees pushing each other on the first night, and the first night rights of lords. It would be best to think of it as a culture here and ask.

"So?"

"After the bride and groom have all entered Central Square, the battle begins when the bell rings. Hit the bride and groom with tau fruit."

"Huh!? To the bride and groom!?

"Yes. The groom runs into his new home, protecting the bride. They're going to test him for his merit. Mostly he hits all kinds of guys on the way to throw at the bride and groom, throws them back, gets thrown back, runs around the city and gets a mess."

"That's a great festival."

Even the Japanese knot exchanges mysterious items, but for the most part, it makes sense. If Tau's fruit of hitting the bride and groom is such a fruit that it can take a lot of seeds, it may mean offspring prosperity or child prayer.

"But, you know, the most strained, tau fruit-gathering, bumping is the adult I couldn't get married to this year. Every year, I have such a temper in my eyes for the bride and groom. Funny, though."

Oh, I get it. Such a grunt came to my chest.

I had very thin connections to lovers and marriages, even during Reino. I know exactly what it's like to want to throw Tau's fruit full of strength at the bride and groom who comes out of the temple with a smile full of happiness when an adult who couldn't marry.

"... I understand what kind of festival that is. Looking forward to it, Lutz."

"Oh, Mine. You're suddenly motivated, huh? So, kick him off with the fruit of tau, and when the bride and groom are gone, there can be a line of celebratory food in all kinds of squares. By the time you're satisfied with it, the sun will be down, so the kid's going home. After that, the child should never go outside. The next thing you know, we're gonna have a bar full of booze and a bar full of adults."

Apparently, there's only a festival named Star Festival and the most important event is the night. After eliminating the child, the bride and groom appear and are celebrated in abundance, and it seems that unmarried adults will be festivals searching for lovers. The most regrettable thing here is the summer born ones who have mitzvahs at the end of summer, Lutz said.

"That, the star festival, will the orphanage kids participate?

"Come on? You've never seen it before.... Does Mine have something to do in the temple? Sure, it sounds like they told me it won't be until autumn, but do you think I could come with you to the star festival?

Rutz didn't answer me right away when he asked me anxiously. There may be more work to do than have a wedding at the temple.

"... I'm not sure, I'll ask the Chief Cleric"

Arriving at the temple, Lutz returns to the store. After dropping off Lutz, dressed in the room, I asked Fran about the star festival as I quickly wrote to the Cleric Chief since the meeting.

"Hey, has Fran ever been to a star festival?

"Dear Mine, it's not a star festival. It's a star knot ritual. Isn't the star knot a ritual of life in marriage"

In the temple, Fran explained to me that in a ritual called the Star Knot, not the Star Festival, the Supreme God, the Dark God, attributed it to the myth that blessed the marriage of the God of Life and the Goddess of Earth.

Originally performed on nights prone to the protection of the Dark God, it seems that, even now, it really takes place at night in the aristocratic city. When the number of people in the city increased too much to divide the rituals of nobility and civilians, it meant that the rituals of civilians began to take place in the morning.

"If it is the blessing of the Dark God, though winter seems to be longer and better at night..."

"Dear Mine, it is summer that the Dark God has allowed us to marry, and there will be a service ceremony in winter, so it seems that there are no priests to be blessed"

Nodding at Fran's denial, I shook my head lightly, thinking of the midwinter wedding on my head. Although I've spoken for myself, there's no wedding in the middle of the winter.

"On second thought, weddings are difficult in a snowstorm, and if a newlywed family wants to do winter support, it's sensible to get married before fall. If our wedding anniversary is all the same, some husbands would be wrong and offend your wife's mood."

As I said so, I wrote down a letter.

"Fran, could you ask the clergyman for this letter? I'd like to ask the Chief Cleric about the orphanage and my role at the Star Festival."

"Yes, sir."

Despite face-to-face paperwork in the morning with the chief cleric, I also need to see a little consultation and have to make an appointment by letter. I'm getting used to that kind of hassle one by one. If you have a minor question, you may need to write your answer in a letter.

Anyway, Fran and the Cleric Chief told me to sour my mouth, don't inadvertently talk where others are.

Even though he was prepared a few days later for the scheduled date of the meeting, the clergyman invited me to the concealed room with his head the moment he glanced over at the letter Fran had given him.

I follow quietly, but I can't think of a reason why I can hold my head in a letter requesting an interview.

"Are you sure you don't have an appointment to see me?

"You fool. The star knot ritual is the day after tomorrow, right? If you had sent out invitations, the ritual would be over."

As soon as I entered the concealed room, I asked him so, and the chief priest pointed his eyes. I usually take it. I tell you a novel with my face, but in this room the clergyman shows you and preaches with an anger that exhales cold air, so the usual room is better than here when you get angry.

"Oh, really? I was told it was time, so I just thought it was something that still had a little more time..."

"Because it's normal within the temple, no one would have brought it up for discussion. The paperwork I've been accumulating is going well, so I put it behind me, but it looks like I'm gonna have to educate you first."

It has become clear to the Chief Cleric that I have no idea of what is happening in the Temple. This is not good. It's a dangerous sign.

If I don't like being at the side of the chief cleric, but I'm first class, I have a feeling that rumored bloodthirsty education will come down to us among the gray clerics in the orphanage, and I take my gaze off softly. At the edge of his vision, he saw the clergyman's shy face.

"Not at all. You... So, for the answer to the question, the star knot ritual is the ritual of adulthood. For the sake of your apprenticeship, you must not take part in the ritual. Instead, keep a close eye on the orphans so that they do not leave the orphanage as deans. The ritual of the star knot brings many city people into and out of the temple. And don't let one of them out of the orphanage during the ceremony because it's a ritual that the blue cleric for the buzz sticks out."

I was in a hurry when they told me to stay in the orphanage on the day of the festival. I don't like being stuck in an orphanage even though I want to attend a star festival and throw tau fruit.

"Uh, me, I'd like to attend a star festival in Lower Town, can't I?

"What is the Lower Town Festival?

The chief cleric moved his brow slightly.

"In the morning, all the kids in the city are going to the woods to pick up the tau fruit. They say this afternoon is a festival where they hit each other with tau fruit."

"... what is that? What the hell does that have to do with star knots?

"I don't know. I had a fever last year, and even before that, I wasn't feeling well, and I've never participated before. I'm very excited about my first participation this year..."

The chief cleric carved a wrinkle between his eyebrows. I'd say no, but you look like you're shaking between rejection and sympathy that you're pathetic even though you're ready to participate for the first time.

"... no, is it? I think it'd be quieter if the orphanage kids got out, too?

"Still good in the morning, but what do we do in the afternoon? I guess we'll hit that fruit, huh? We get the orphans out of the city, and we get in trouble when there's a useless collision. In the afternoon, the blue cleric goes to the aristocratic district, so there will be no one in charge."

At the end of the morning wedding, the Blue Cleric and his sidekicks will apparently pay out the temple for the star knot ritual in the aristocratic city.

If there's no one to be angry with, why don't we just play on the temple grounds?

"... Um, Chief Cleric. Forgive me if I pick up the fruit in the woods in the morning and bump the tau fruit in the temple, in the orphanage alone, so that I don't rub it outside in the afternoon? Because of this, I want my kids to experience the festivities as well. I've never seen it before, so I was looking forward to it..."

I lay my eyes down gently and the clergyman, who had been thinking about it for a while, slowly raised his gaze.

"Good. Making sure you clean up after. And then it doesn't matter if the city people are not so fussy as to be surprised"

"Thank you, I know."

We'll meet in the orphanage early this afternoon. That's fine if the blue cleric doesn't find you, so after cleaning the prayer room early in the morning, change into clothes for the woods and wait for me and Lutz to arrive. Then he sneaks out and goes to the woods to pick up the tau fruit. The orphans, who are often confined to orphanages, rejoice.

"I'm the gatekeeper that day."

"I'm ready for the carriage."

Gray clerics who must attend rituals, prepare carriages of blue clerics going out to the aristocratic city, or stand as gatekeepers should not pick up tau fruit in the woods. I look at the children shaking with envy.

"But until the end of the ritual, right? Throw Tau's fruit together after everyone's service is over, as it will be after the blue clergy and their sidekicks head out to the aristocratic district. Something we should all enjoy. You can wait patiently until the clergy's service is over, can't you?

When I asked the children, they nodded loudly.

"Yeah. I'll wait!

"Me, I pick up a lot of people who can't come for a role."

The gray cleric, who has a role, had the children compromise by being patient too and by preparing dinner. Oh, my God, the blue cleric pays for it, so they skipped dinner every year on the star knot ritual day.

"Ask my cook to make lots of them"

After returning to the room, work on Star Knot Day for Hugo and Ella will be finished by 4 bells. Instead, I asked through Fran to keep the dinner for me as well.

Apparently, Hugo is like an adult who hasn't been able to marry and is burning his willingness to participate in the festival. Fran told me that she was willing to get the job done as soon as possible.

I can no longer hit the bride and groom with tau fruit, but I hope the orphanage kids enjoy it.