Ascendance of a Bookworm

I went to the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce today, so I put on my apprenticeship clothes. Beginning with apprenticeship clothes, the beautiful clothes I have are thin long sleeves, so it's just a little cold this season. I've been using the hooded poncho that Benno gave me lately last winter, but I can't stay this way forever.

"It's time to buy some clothes for the winter."

"Clothes for the north?

I nodded at Tulli's words. I've been sleeping a lot here lately when I'm at home, so I honestly don't need it that much anymore. I often go to temples, Gilberta chambers of commerce, etc., so I will need winter clothes to go with it.

"Invite me when you go to the store. Because this time I will definitely win."

Speaking of which, I recall Thuri and Lutz were the draw before. Since then, Touri has become quite enthusiastic about looking at his clothes.

"You know, Touri. I'm going to Benno's today, so I thought I'd go buy some clothes."

"... I'm working today, aren't I?

I was off yesterday, so I asked you to help me with Mine Workshop. Touri today is your job. I have a grudge. I put a picture book in my usual tote bag, laughing small at Thuri, staring with my eyes.

"Don't look like that, Touri"

"Because."

"I have to buy some winter clothes for my sidekicks, so let's go when the rest of Thuri and I overlap. If you're going to do a sewing class, you'd better have a piece of clothing for the north, too, right?

"Huh? My share!?

He's a cooking class teacher, he's taken the kids to the woods, he's going to be a sewing class teacher, he's pretty cooperative with Thuri, but he's never paid properly.

Lutz feels like he's coming from the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce, and he pays in the form of a little color on his salary, and some money he's splitting about new products, so I was just about to give Tulli something.

"Ask me to be a teacher, think it's your salary"

"... expensive even though I can't tell you the big deal, it"

Much pointed lips and swollen cheeks, but those cheeks are dyed rosy and Touri's expression looks delightful. If that pleases you, that's fine. Let's get excited.

"Let's go, Mine"

Lutz picked me up, so I went outside with my bag. My skin feels the wind is getting a little tighter.

"Morning, Lutz.... Lutz decided to use that too?

Rutz has grown quite a bit tall in a year, so I don't like it because it's a little cramped, but he finally can't stand the cold. He's wearing a different color poncho from me.

"The next time it overlaps with Thuri's holiday, I was just talking about buying some clothes for the winter."

"Clothes, you're here, that's right"

Lutz sighed lightly as he looked down at Poncho, who was getting smaller.

By the way, I grew up a bit too. He's like a kid. It's just me. Poncho's a little bumpy.

I think this is because seriously devoting my magic to eating and falling less. Weakness remains the same, but if you fall a little less often, you'll be able to eat regular rice more often. Besides, rice eaten in the temple is as luxurious as the nobles are eating.

As a result of the slight decrease in the number of falls and the ability to eat nutritious things full of stomach, I, am a little older. Thank you, Rydenshaft, God of Fire, who directs growth!

"Pray to God!

"Suddenly what!?

"Oh, I'm sorry. Somehow."

Apparently, I have become quite accustomed to the customs of the temple. Nature and gooko are available throughout the city. You have to be careful.

Noticed by those on the road, wiping an embarrassing sweat, I followed Lutz to the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce.

"Good morning, Mr. Marc. I need to show Mr. Benno something. Is there anyone here?

"Yeah, my husband is in the back room. Please wait."

Marc followed me, and me and Lutz went into the back room. In the back room, Benno turns to the concierge and writes something gassy.

"Good morning, Mr. Benno"

"Good morning, sir"

Waiting for Benno's hand movement to drop a paragraph, when me and Lutz greeted him, Benno put the pen down and returned the greeting. Instruct Lutz to head to the table, slipping away from his back and relaxing his body.

"Yes, sir."

That's what Lutz said, and when he told me to sit down, he vanished into the back door that led to Benno's house.

"Where's Lutz, Mr. Benno?

"Oh, I went to ask for tea preparation downstairs"

Benno also moved toward the table. I'm saying it as a matter of course, but I've never seen Lutz go up through the back door before.

"Can I come in on my own?

"On your own... Lutz is a Dapra, isn't he? I'm just a kid, so I'm only looking after lunch now, and I'm letting them pass from my parents, but when I grow up, I'll live in our house like Marc and take care of my life"

"Heh..."

I, who did not become a merchant apprentice, have not been able to clearly recognize the difference between Dalua and Dapra either. I was only thinking about contractors and executive candidates.

"Your knowledge is really biased."

Lutz came back almost at the same time Benno sighed like a shudder. Lutz stands behind Benno, or lines up next to me, or shows stray.

"Lutz, we made it together, so sit here this time"

Benno nodded lightly, too, as he slapped Pessipesi and the next chair and called Lutz. Lutz sat next to me and laughed small.

"So, what do you want me to show you?

"Bye! This is it! Bible Picture Books for Kids"

"... did you do it"

Leaking an incredible grunt, Benno took the picture book I offered him. Look alternately at the back and the table, stare at the yarn that is spelled and narrow your eyes.

"Is this fastened only by yarn? You didn't use the paste?

"I haven't gotten any glue yet. I thought about starch paste a little bit, but the cost went up even further, and the kids at the orphanage gave it up because the flour was wasted."

She told me she wanted to eat as much as paste it. I know how hungry they are. I couldn't make paste out of flour.

Benno strokes the watermark on the cover, saying, "Hmm.

"Still, that's a rare cover that's not skinned. This is the same flower watermark I got before, isn't it?

"Yes. Once it's the cover, I put my hands on it a little bit. If I could color it, I think I could be a little cuter. I also thought about picking dyes from nuts, but the kids in the orphanage are really going to have an appetite priority."

These are the children who started working because they wanted to eat their stomach full. Naturally, food is more important to them than books. This time we must consider picking dyes from nuts, grass, stones and tree skins that we have made it a priority to complete but cannot eat when we have time. This is the challenge ahead.

"How far could you go with just white and black?

With that said, Benno wraps the cover around the page. One of the most impressive things to look like when you open the page is Vilma's painting. Benno opened his eyes and saw them in the painting.

"... this painting is amazing. What the hell is this?

"Ugh, I can do it if I cut the thick paper with a cutter and imprint it with ink from the top. Uh, stencils? Cut painting? Like that. Even the new method, Vilma worked hard for me. Isn't that amazing?"

When I bragged about my side service and stretched my chest, Benno held his head with a sigh.

"A new method...... You don't talk to me again, you're on your own... next to next."

"Well, well, don't hold your head so much. The book of vegetable paper itself is a new object, so what is it now, doesn't it feel?

Although there are books that use parchment paper, books that use vegetable paper will be my first attempt. As much as a picture of a new method has been added there, it's troubling when people complain.

"Now it's you..."

"Because this is the first biblical picture book for children that has been printed on newly-made botanical paper with a new method of making ink, painting a new method, and printing a book with a new technique called printing, just a thread called Japanese spelling. Existing parts don't exist."

With the kind of eyes Benno looked at the creepy object, he stared at the picture book and scratched Gashi's head.

"My head hurts.... So, what's the price?

"If you're thinking about recovering your initial investment, you're about to have one small gold coin and five large silver coins. If we make more and more picture books, the initial investment will be dispersed, so will we eventually settle for about 8 large silver coins"

Although we have been scratching coal ourselves this time, if we were to actually make coal and make ink, the cost of raw materials would be high. If we normally calculate the costs and raw materials, labor and fees we used for our initial investment, that should be about the price.

In fact, we make the paper ourselves, and we buy everything straight through Lutz at the orphanage, so for not paying Benno a fee, though it was cheap.

"Ho..."

"If the Follin paper were to circulate a little more, we'd be able to lower the price, too, right? If you do, can you also lower the price of the book a little more? But you don't have ink. If the linseed oil doesn't get cheaper, there's nothing I can do about all this. It's really expensive."

I said to you, Benno shook his head loosely.

"I would buy 4-5 large gold coins for books like nobles, so it's cheaper than that. You can call it cheap. The content is easy, so it's also suitable for children to learn to write."

"If you want to be extravagant, if you want to just skin the cover, you can't. I'd rather have the amount of contents than stick to the cover."

The act of buying a book is impossible if you cannot live like an aristocrat. But if you can get your hands on it a little cheaper, I think someone wants it as a status. If you're a stunning millionaire, you must eat up if you make the cover a little extravagant.

"I see. Sure, if you're around a millionaire, you'll get your hands on it.... You don't plan on making another book?

"I'm going to make some pictures like this for a while. I want to keep the text short because it's hard to cut through the letters. Besides, our painters have only a few things to draw. She's a boxed girl who's never been out of the temple, so she can't paint anything common."

Lately I started making soup, a little better, but even food, many things I don't know the prototype, and many things I don't have enough tools for living and orphanages. It is also evident from the fact that there were no tools, sewing tools, knives or even cages to go to the woods.

"... that's extreme again"

"It's a difference in the living environment, so there's nothing you can do about it. It is best to have Vilma paint a picture that is suitable for Vilma. You just have to think about that material story. There are so many stories about God."

"But it's all about God..."

"It's a little tight, isn't it?

I laughed bitterly at Rutz's words. Easiest and most edible story for orphanage kids, but doesn't seem to take it at all in the city.

"Besides, if you're going to make a book full of letters, there's something you want to make first, aimed at efficiency and mass production."

"What?"

"One is the original paper of the Gali edition printing. I mixed wax and pine yani with the botanical paper that was so thin and uniform that it was clear over there, and applied it very thinly, but honestly, you can't do both without being as skilled at craftsmanship. I don't have a machine... At least I don't think we can do this without the Wax Workshop."

I honestly don't think it will be easy to succeed. You must be exhausted with a massive amount of vegetable paper failures, repeated trials and errors where you think about wax formulas, and you can't quite apply them thinly. But once it's done, the text can be carved with the instructions of writing letters, so it should be very easy.

"Wax.... you can't do it this season, can you? The workshop is too busy."

"Right? The other is typographical printing. Now I'm thinking which one to make the original paper or start typesetting for typography printing."

"What's the problem?

Benno tilts his neck. Lutz leaned his neck the same way.

"If Johann from the blacksmith factory can be secured, typesetting is not that difficult. But typographical printing can be powerful enough to handle compressors. It's a little tough on the orphanage kids."

It is said that newspapers are also said to come from the point of printing under pressure. If you want to print hard copy here, that will be a pretty tough hard job.

"And even though Gali edition printing is difficult to make original paper, as long as the original paper is available, printing itself can be done by children."

"Mmm, that's hard."

Both Benno and Lutz frowned and thought.

"Isn't it? Well, either way, I have to save money. I don't know what to do. I used it quite a bit this time. This picture book is going to be an orphanage textbook, so there's no profit..."

"Ha!? You're not selling it!? Mine, what the hell are you thinking!?

I wondered if I could take back the winter handiwork in the orphanage if it sold widely. Benno's thunder fell on me. I blink my eyes several times, shaking my shoulders in freckles.

"Huh? Huh? Mr. Benno, what are you talking about? If you sell it, you'll lose your textbooks."

"What do you do with making things that aren't for sale!? It's going to sell, sell it!

"I don't like it! Make it a textbook! Besides, isn't it a fine initial investment to increase your literacy rate! Explore the future of purchasing."

I have decided to experiment this winter to see if I can have a temple class in an orphanage. I would never sell textbooks. Rather, he wants to buy in a number of calculators like stone slabs and Sorban.

I tried so hard to appeal, but Benno shook his head with a tired look.

I don't understand what you're thinking.

"... By and large, you don't know how much this picture book is acceptable to the children of the city, do you? I think that's due to the fact that I've just listened to you in the temple so far, and it's not very pervasive. That's about it, I'll make a new picture book that's going to be accepted by the masses and put it up for sale. That's better."

If you can cover enough textbooks, you'd better make a new picture book that's going to sell.

"You think it's a new picture book?

"Are you already thinking about the next story?

Both Benno and Lutz look very surprised, but even if you don't think about it so much, the stock of stories is as much. It's just that when you match the paintings that Vilma can draw, the number just drops.

"If you're talking about a princess, you think you can also paint Vilma, who was serving a noble princess. When I write my crude muscles, the sheriff will look at it and I'm going to make it a picture book."

I think a picture book based on Cinderella can do it. If you had the princess portrayed on the model of Master Christine, it would be like that. The prince... doesn't know what will happen, but at the time of the star festival, all his sidekicks should have gone to the aristocratic city with his lord, and maybe he'll be fine.

"Well, whether you want to sell it or not, it's a story after you make it. So, how much should I pay for this picture book?

"I don't need money because this is a dedication to those who took care of me..."

When I clouded my words and looked at Benno, Benno gently raised the edge of his lips.

"... what favor now?

"I want to buy winter clothes for my next holiday in Touri, so take me to the used clothes store that took me before"

"Oh, okay. Let's make sure it's me or Marc. Anything else?

When Benno prompted me, I took out the calligraphy and opened it. Look down at the book board that says what Benno should hear.

"It's a consultation about pork processing in the orphanage, but we also need salt and spices, right? How much to prepare for what? I was generally asleep when processing pork, and I can barely remember. It's the first time I've done this in an orphanage, so I think I need to have everything, including tools..."

"... it's gonna cost you money. Are you okay?"

Benno looked at me. I nodded heavily in retrospect of Benno's reddish-brown eyes.

"I'm ready enough to blow all Trombe's profits"

Mine Workshop Orphanage Branch was built to allow orphanage children to lead independent lives. Most of the money they take as a gain on the labor costs they worked for and as a gain on the workshop is fine to spend for the orphanage.

"Okay. Let's get them all together. Instead, the guy's gonna do it, right? We don't have enough men."

"Okay.... and then what's going on dressed for the ritual? I'd like you to check with Mr. Corinna."

When I dropped my gaze on the calligraphy board and stated another matter of concern, Benno also struck his hand like a hack.

"Oh, you certainly said Corinna, too. You, if you have time, come to Corinna today. He said he wanted to do a temporary stitch."

Benno stood up and headed to the desk, ringing the bell and calling for the woman to work down. Ask for Corinna's plans and tell her I'm here. The woman who traveled back and forth through the stairs said she wanted Corinna to wait a little while until she was ready and went back up again.

"Mr. Benno, if you want to work, you can. Because we're done talking."

"Sorry."

With the winter season approaching, logistics is thriving and Benno, the big shop husband, is busy. It's bad to arrive at Benno forever when we're done talking.

While I wait, I write the text of the picture book as I tell Lutz about Cinderella.

The bell sounded from somewhere. Benno, with his face up, just says, "Lutz, take Mine to Corinna," and lays down his face again.

Guided by Lutz, I went up the stairs from the back door to Corinna's house.

"Dear Corinna, it's Lutz. I brought mine."

"There you are, Mine. Lutz, you can go back now."

Unlike anything I've ever seen, Corinna didn't tighten her stomach, she wore loose clothes. Is it because of that, he looked a little bigger in the stomach? It seems to be going well and above all.

"It would be nicely embroidered, wouldn't it?

The blue fabric spreading by Corinna draws a rough line for cutting, with a loose stream of water and embroidered spring, summer, autumn and winter flowers from top to bottom.

"Beautiful..."

"Come on, this is the costume for the temporary sewing. Try it on. I want to make sure there's nothing wrong with the length."

Sleeve through a costume for temporary sewing made of a different cloth from the production. It was just measured and made exactly, and it was almost perfect. Once tailored with this dimension, it's going to be unusable soon.

Look, I'm growing up. Ugh.

"Mr. Corinna, for a longer dough, it would help if you could fry it"

"Fried?"

"I want it to be tailored in advance so that I can wear it even when I grow up. Fold and sew inside like this, take a strand..."

As I picked up the dough around my waist and folded it, Corinna leaned over her neck.

"Do you mean like clothes at baptism? But you don't need an extra strand for your ritual costume, do you?

"Those clothes... they just fit so you can wear Thuri's, but they're the same thing. If you put scissors in it and cut the cloth, you can't inherit it and spread it later, can you? I hope this is how you keep it folded on your hips, shoulders and cuffs that tighten your belt instead of making a strand..."

When I picked the sleeves and shoulders and said so, Corinna tilted her neck, blinking wonderfully.

"If you can't wear it, why don't you tailor the next one? It's fashionable, and if your clothes don't match your body, you're not going to get any cleaner, are you?

Kimonos should be fried and shouldered so that they can be used even when growing up when tailoring for children. However, there seems to be no focus when it comes to wearing them too long, in the style of selling clothes that can no longer be worn here and buying the next one.

"Mr. Corinna, that's a noble story, isn't it? Because of how much you've grown, you just can't tailor it again and again. Such expensive clothes."

Even this time, because there happened to be Benno's gift, it was good because it would be finished with the cost of dyeing and tailoring, but if it were to be made from cloth, it would cost the yarn, the cost of weaving, and it would swell more than double. I don't have the money to tailor such a fancy cloth over and over again.

"So is that. It seemed a little paralyzed because it was all upscale aristocratic costumes to tailor with such a fancy cloth. Mine is not a nobleman."

"I don't even think there's so much fashion in costumes for rituals where making is simple, and with emphasis on being worn long, make it"

"Okay."

Corinna nodded as she was convinced.

"So, can you tell me how you tailor it, Mine? You know how I fold it and it's beautiful from the outside?

"Uh, first the shoulder..."

Afterwards, we discussed how wide the fries would be and how they would be tailored, finishing the temporary stitching.

... Ah! If I told you I was done with the temporary sewing, would Thuri cry?