Ascendance of a Bookworm

"... wouldn't it be normal to introduce or speak?

At first glance, when I explained my refusal, Benno glanced lightly over his shoulder. In this city, which is strict on class, it is never uncommon to be refused entry due to lack of clothing or referrals.

"Where I was introduced, the customer's payment and behavior are separate. Just because you pay well doesn't mean you're a good customer. On the other hand, I think it's difficult because I can be arrogant and obscene because I pay well."

Many troublesome customers scratched Benno's hair in a sigh. I politely explain the difference between the introduction given in this city and the seemingly refusal.

"It's not just an introduction. If you become a referral customer, for example, stealing ornaments, getting drunk and making a scene, or stomping down payments, go to the person you referred and make them responsible for prompting or resolving payments."

"Tell the referrer to make the payment!?

Benno peels off his eyes and stands up trying to tap his desk. Pretty unexpected, he looked down at me with a dazed face.

"Yep. If you take any trouble, it will no longer be just a matter for the store and the customer, so I think the containment effect regarding the troubles is quite high. The referring side can never introduce the right person either. If there's anything wrong, it'll come back to me eventually, naturally, right? You'll only be introduced to people you trust."

"… but isn't that too burdensome for the referring guest?

Slowly re-seated, Benno holds his temples together. They've shocked me more than I expected. Even if the store is introduced, it will not be held responsible thereafter.

"We take care of the atmosphere of the store and provide a comfortable time and food that doesn't cause trouble, so I think we're going to take care of our regular customers as a result?... Well, I'll leave it to Mr. Benno's discretion whether to incorporate it or not. Just so we're clear, it's unfamiliar."

It is Benno's role to consider or decide whether to take my opinion into account. Because I have raised the issue, I have only offered the solution that comes to mind. I'm less than a merchant apprentice who ended up not even being an apprentice, and I don't even know if the system I know won't fit into this city.

"I just don't feel that even if it's an unfamiliar rule, it won't be a big problem if you decide from the start, because it's your first attempt at a restaurant called Fine Restaurant where you can eat aristocratic dishes, something you're unfamiliar with. But you can't introduce it from the middle of nowhere, can you?

Benno frowned and stared at the sky.

"If I were to take it, I'd have to make a pretty detailed decision, wouldn't I?

"Hmmm...... why don't you just decide where you'll never be able to give it away and make some changes later in the store and surrounding conditions? It's the first time I've introduced it, so don't make too many cuts, you should make some room. Maybe."

"Hum..."

After seeing Benno contemplate, I dropped my gaze on my book board.

"Well, at first glance, let's say no, and think about what you have to prepare at the store by the time it opens."

"You think it's something to be prepared for? You've made up your mind about the interior, haven't you?

Suspiciously Benno narrowed his eyes and looked at me. I glanced at Benno when I saw the "items I cared about" written on my bookboard.

"What are you talking about? You've only decided on the interior, haven't you? You'll need a menu table or a call bell for each table, right? Don't lose your aristocracy until you have prepared something good."

"Menu table? The menu is what the waiter teaches you, right?

In this world, the menu seems to be taught verbally by the service attached to the table. If you are eating at a civilian shop where there seems to be only some difference between burning your bowels and boiling wherever you go, or at a nobleman's house where the menu has already been decided and just declares "this is the menu for today," you may have no problem because the service teaches you.

But it would be harder to serve without a menu chart, even though multiple people choose what they want from multiple menus that they're not sure what kind of dish.

"If you write on the menu table the dishes you can make in the store or the brands of alcohol that are prepared, and put them on each table, you don't have to ask them all about the service to know roughly, and you'll be able to choose slowly, right? I don't know how much you're going to pay, but you should save yourself some trouble."

"What about those who can't read the letters, for making a menu table?

Benno's bitter face reminded me of the low literacy rate in this city, but I don't think it's a big deal. The literacy rate should be quite high if only for the millionaires who earn enough to put it in an Italian restaurant. Because even Lutz was made to remember the letters in order to become a merchant apprentice.

"If you can't read the letters, why don't you usually ask the service.... but the first customer of the restaurant is the husband of the big store, right? I think you can read the letters, though?

"... well, yeah"

"Besides, most people have squire, so there's no point in not being able to read them all, right?

My husband's meals at the big store will always be focused on work stories, so a squire with materials and writing aids is always holding them aside. If I can't read the letters with all my lords in mind, I won't talk. You don't seem to know what the contract says, it can't be a job.

"Oh, so, it's a menu table, why don't you put a little thick paper on it and add a plant watermark, like I made it before? Prepare a table of classic and seasonal dishes. It would also promote vegetable paper."

I'd like to try to make it look a little stylish. Not cute, but in a beautiful atmosphere. What plants would fit in this season? Why don't you just make paper with colors on it?

"You use paper on purpose? Do you need the menu chart that far?

"Menu charts are mandatory for restaurants! Oh, shall we get ready in the Mine Workshop? My side of the service, the letters are so beautiful that they snooze. Isn't that amazing? Phew."

"... I don't know what the need is, so I'll leave it to you."

Benno held his head like he was tired.

Having gained a new job, I thought about designing a menu table in my brain, according to.

"Ha, I've been entrusted. And what about payroll? If you want to be noble, you don't work for the civilians you hire around here, do you?

There is a huge difference between the service of a shop to which civilians go and that of a nobleman. I know it best when I am served by flan's side servants.

Because of carrying a lot of food, it would be abusive, but it would be difficult to have the servants and the francs from downtown together who don't care if they get zero. Benno seemed to know it well, too, and he looked at me with a little pity.

"... can we do something about it at your place?

"Does that mean that the service will also be allowed to practice in my room? Hmmm... I don't think the cook can get permission to go inside, anyway."

"On the contrary, how about putting the clergyman out to work?

"Tomorrow, I'm calling you to lunch with the Chief Cleric, so I'll ask you, don't expect me to"

Previously, "Orphans can only be clerics and witches because they have no one to introduce them to or take care of them," the chief cleric said. At that time I received it in the sense that "if I had a guardian, I could go outside," but once I knew the reality of the orphanage and the temple, I would not receive it as it stood in denomination.

With so many extra clerics now, they might say it's good if you can come earn foreign currency, or they might decide that the temple's system could break. It's subtle.

"Right.... And then I'm going to invite the clergyman to the first tasting, but what do you think of Mr. Benno?

"... hold on, hold on. Chief Cleric? For calling a real nobleman, are you sure you're coming?

There can be no such thing as a situation where nobles come to civilian shops. Basically, I call it to my own home in the aristocratic city.

The temple is on the border between the city of nobility and the city of civilians, so there is a gate that leads to both. But blue clerics never leave the city of civilians except for rituals.

"Um, I think I'm interested. The dishes and treats I devised. I know it depends on how you attack me, but I don't think it was the kind of atmosphere you couldn't take."

"... ho"

Interestingly Benno strokes his jaw, thinking.

"So why don't you really invite only someone Mr. Benno can trust to the first tasting? Dining with a nobleman doesn't make you feel special?

"... you'll definitely get out"

"If it's a store where nobles really come in and out, it'll also have foil on the Italian restaurant, right?

Benno's reddish brown eyes look to profit, become carnivorous eyes, and gleam.

"Oh, come on"

"Unlike the Katorkar tastings, don't want to invite a large crowd at once, just a small number of people you can trust. Considering the number of cooks, you can't have a lot at once. Because the food is expensive, there shouldn't be so many potential customers. Why not go in the direction of being as luxurious as possible as a store where only the chosen person can get in?

"If we can get the help of the Chief Cleric, we can go. Don't fail."

I shook Gassi's hand and laughed with Niyali and Benno, and Rosina leaned her neck in the loose.

"Um, Master Mine. What about music?

"Music?"

"If it's an aristocratic dinner party, it's something where players are called more than once and play instead, but they don't play music in restaurants?

... You didn't think about BGM.

As I slowly turned my gaze to Benno, Benno gently flaunted his shoulder that he was doing well.

"Unfortunately, there are no handouts for players who can play in aristocratic meetings"

"... how does Rosina feel? Would you like to play in a restaurant?

"I've never been over it if I had more time to touch an instrument."

As far as Rosina, who said so clearly, rather, it felt like she had said something about music because she wanted to play fesh peel.

"The restaurant opens its lunch main, right? That would make it feel like if you made a request at the time of booking and would pay a different fee... if Rosina moved after the 3 bells at the end of the class, I think she would make it"

If there are customers who want music even if they pay a different fee at lunch, I don't mind lending my side service, Rosina, only then. However, you must also remember the practice, and every day, it will be imperative to ask the Chief Cleric.

"... hey, what do you do at night?

"Huh? You might get alcohol in at night, right? I'm not going to let a pretty girl like Rosina out in front of a drunk. Isn't it decided to reject it? If you want to use music at night, Mr. Benno will look for players."

Working in a liquor store at night, women's salaries often combine with prostitutes. No matter how upscale the restaurant is and how different it is, there is a good chance that the guests won't listen. I'm not going to let Rosina out of there before my nails.

While discussing the details, 6 bells rang. Work is the end time. Look to me as Benno summarizes the various items we discussed today.

"You, come see all this tomorrow at the Cleric Chief's."

"Leave it to me!

"... come on, I can't help but be anxious"

When I saw Benno holding down around my stomach, I swelled my cheeks softly.

"I can't help but be anxious about when the restaurant will finish."

The next day, call on the Chief Cleric for lunch.

Until the 3 bells rang, it was Fesh Peel's last practice, practicing with awesome eyes on her temperamental Rosina. I can definitely play it now if it's just the fesh peel. If you pay attention to where it's easier to lose sight of the string position when the song distracts you, you'll be fine. Maybe.

After that, I helped the Chief Cleric. Fran said he was ready for luncheon and left it to Gil to go to the Cleric Chief's room. It is my first noble calling. Fran and Rosina are pointing their nerves, though it's an easy call that has no problem with some failures because the other person is the sheriff.

... When it comes to being against nobility, those two are very breathtaking.

Rosina's true value is demonstrated in the context of dealing with nobles. Because Rosina can follow me to the point where I can't follow you in Fran, a man, and I've been through the side service of a noble courtier for years now.

After the 4 bells rang, I returned to my room once with Gil, having finished helping with the clerk.

By Delia's hand, after being lightly familiar, he is out with Rosina, who holds a large fesh peel, and Fran, who holds a cutlery and a small fesh peel.

For once the assignment song can be played, but unlike me who is nervous and my hands are already trembling, Rosina has a cool face who is being asked to play fesh peel during meals in the Cleric Chief's room.

"... doesn't Rosina get nervous?

"I am. The area around your chest is very restless."

I don't trust them at all, even if they say it with a smile and a soft smile. But Rosina's smile is as armed as the noble lady's. to protect oneself and not show a gap to the other person.

"It doesn't look like it at all... but you have to make sure I don't show it either, right?

"Yeah, you smile and make it look like you can afford it."

Upon arrival in the Cleric Chief's room, several gray clerics had changed the furniture arrangement and had begun to prepare for lunch. While I retain at the edge of my sight the flanking service of the clergyman who works with tequila in a motion free of waste, I extend a noble greeting to the clergyman who invited me.

It is an elegant bow beaten down by Fran with greetings and Rosina.

The greeting that Fran and Rosina thought about for the two of us began with the names of the gods and was a poetic expression of how honored they are to have been invited, quite long. I must kneel down with that greeting on one knee, without breaking the crossed position with my hands in front of my chest, and say it out. If I could ask for elegance there, it would have been nothing but a painful affair for me without muscle strength.

Lutz, who was accompanied by memorization of the greeting, was also sloppy. "You're a pain in the ass. Thank you for inviting me today, Chief Cleric. I know, that's fine! As much as he said."

As Dapra of the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce, Lutz will also become related to the nobility, so I remember with him now the difficulty of rhetoric and pioneering in the name of God, who often does. I think monotheism was good all this time.

Even in front of the Chief Cleric, I never forgot and my head turned bright white, and I was able to greet him about 1.5 times more gracefully than usual. The last time I stepped on the costume hem, I couldn't get up right away, but I didn't fall. I grew up.

"Well, fine. It would be a well done category. Thank you for your hard work, both of you.... So, have you been able to practice fesh peel?

As for greeting, praise the two instructors, look at the fesh peel Fran has, and the chief cleric lifts the edge of his lips slightly.

"The teacher is good, so I guess it has improved"

"Well, that's not true. Master Mine has a musical talent! The scales are quickly remembered, your ears seem good, and you have the ability to perceive the sound. I can't get my fingers moving, but that depends on practice."

... Stop! There's no such thing as talent! What's left of Reino's piano experience and music class?

In my heart, I feel like apologizing in the dungeon for not giving me a break anymore, but don't wander. As Rosina told me earlier, I laughed for a second. I feel like I'm pulling on it, but I can't help it because I'm not used to it.

"Ho, that's exciting. I'm not ready to eat yet, so in the meantime, let's see how your practice turns out."

To the word of the chief cleric, a gray cleric, who had a transverse whistle, gently prepares the chair and seats me. "It's okay," Fran encouraged me in a small way as she handed me a fesh peel.

You can do as you practice. It's not that hard of a song because it's the first challenge. Just calm him down and he'll be fine.

After a slow, deep breath, when I raised my face, it entered my eyes that Rosina was making her face tense as she was more nervous. It's like a mother watching her first class visit.

Play fesh peel strings pin. The first short practice song I will remember is "Autumn Fruit". As for the lyrics, it's a song with food names lined up, yummy, and it's not hard to even move your fingers.

"Forest Grace, Autumn Fruit ~ …"

I could definitely play it for once and exhaled a ho relief.

"... well done"

"Yes, Master Mine is very quick to remember. Because of this opportunity, during this time, why don't you also show the Chief Cleric the song you've been making?

"Huh?... the song you made?

I wonder what it is? I don't remember at all...?

"Sure... of such a melody..."

Is it because you are a child, this body is excellent, Mine's ears are easier to pick up sounds than Reino's? I'm not saying it's definitely sound, but I think it's pretty sound. It's easier than the Reino era to replace the songs you remember with scales.

I secretly played the song I remembered with fesh peel, but it seemed to be well remembered by Rosina.

"I haven't done the lyrics yet... this time..."

Just improvise the theme song of an English movie into these words. Suddenly it's impossible to sing. As I shook my head slowly and said so, the Chief Cleric grinned slightly, his eyes glowing with interest.

"Well, let's look forward to the next time. This is the issue song."

... ooh. I'm up the hurdle again.

I weep in my heart as I receive a new spectrum. Next time, in addition to the assignment songs, we were even to perform our own songs.

"Come here, then"

Silver-shinning dishes line up in front of the clergyman. Before me shall be arranged the dishes brought by Fran by Fran's hand. They say it's normal for their own squire to handle dishes that are in danger of being broken or stolen and not let them touch anything else.

What I use in my room is the dishes that the previous orphan dean left behind, and things seem to be good. Fran said it was better to buy it differently, but rejected it because the dishes worthy of the room were expensive. "I don't know who the previous orphan dean is, but I'm not guilty of things," he says, giving in at will.

The aristocratic meals were very similar to the order of course dishes I know, as I have also eaten in the house of the guild chief. A drink is poured, followed by an appetizer with soup, followed by the main dish, followed by fruits, desserts and after-dinner tea.

I just don't have half the amount and kind. It is likely because the remaining portion is turned by the squire, but there are eight dishes lined up with appetizers alone. The side servings I serve will be served on the Lord's plate little by little, but the appetizers alone are going to fill my stomach.

Fran, who knows how much I can eat, has divided me into only three kinds of things that I might like. eating rather, and I look for improvements in our own cuisine.

... the flavor is a good line, but I might need more ideas to cut and serve the dishes. Pretty level, noble food.

The soup was unsavory even at the chief cleric's. If it's just soup, it's my win. They also have a few main dishes to cut as much as they can eat.

Even at the clergyman's, the main dish is meat. I don't see any fish dishes. Even the aristocrats seem to be barely eating fish around here.

During the meal, we talked about Fesspiel's practice, a few questions about the conduct of business, the current situation in the orphanage, and the status of the Mine Workshop.

The sheriff basically just hammers. Sometimes I say something farther away, but I can't grasp the intention. Until I leaned my neck and the chief cleric exhaled the sigh of giving up was one set.

... I don't have a problem with the service as Fran does. Maybe the music should have been there if I could.

Listening to Rosina's fesh peel, eating, I couldn't help but feel that way. The Reino era was one in which music was playing when we entered the store, but listening to music here is not that easy. That's why I feel terribly hearty.

"... you seem to be thinking of something, did you find it helpful?

While drinking tea after meals, the clergyman asks.

"Yes, very.... Chief Cleric, I need to talk to you."

"Wait. I'll listen to your consultation over there."

"... Yes"

Obscured by the chief clergyman, I slowly drank out my fragrant tea.

Lead me into the hidden room, and I will go inside about the chief cleric. While the Chief Cleric prepares the chair, clear the top of the bench to secure his place.

"Okay, let's hear it. Now what the hell?

"Can't you get a gray cleric to work outside who's been told there's excess?

To my question, the chief cleric held down his temples and carved a deep wrinkle between his brows.