Ascendance of a Bookworm

Now, by the time the Blue Cleric gets back, let's finish the stinking job at once.

The next day after pork processing, Lutz said he would also make cheese, mainly glue and candles.

Although in my house I've only made cutlet cheese made with vinegar in the milk I bought from a house that keeps cattle, Rutz's house sometimes gets good milk by exchanging it for eggs, and they also make natural cheeses to ferment and mature.

"The orphanage is better that way because we're going to save it, right?

"... I'm not sure what it is, but I think it's good to have more food in the winter"

I see Lutz and Gill doing their work today while they talk like that. I had fesh peel practice until 3 bells rang, so my arrival at the workshop was late, but the work seems to be well underway.

There are clerics and apprentices who share various tasks in the workshop that have followed Fran. I usually go help the clergyman, so I don't really look around the workshop, so it's a little fresh and fun.

"Lutz, Gil, how's it going?

"Master Mine!?

"It's going great. The pork skin is here, the candle making is over there, and the meat shavings are removed by dissolving and filtering once. Enseki? I haven't said that yet"

In the pan in front of Rutz and Gill, I could already see the exfoliated endothelium drifting in lime water. You're just starting to put it on lime water, it's far from bubbly. In those Lutz pointed to, the gray cleric had filtered the molten cow fat for three.

"You're leaving the skin a little more alone. 'Salt analysis' may be a little cumbersome, but I hope you do your best because the smell will be pretty much better and the quality will be good oil"

They don't bother to do salt analysis or anything at Lutz's house. It doesn't seem very common around here because even we started to get hired out of my mouth and the smell was really reduced.

Maybe it's because salt is never cheaper, even though the surroundings I know are basically slums and better than other spices.

"Later, the Diemb and Lumoser herbs will turn off the smell if they are finely chopped and mixed with melted wax. But you can't use Guiery and Sarcolero. The smell will double. Be careful."

When I taught him how to reduce the beast odor of the candle at all, Lutz shook his shoulders cookly and leaked a laugh after turning his eyes slightly round.

"Oh, Mine's a failure."

"Ugh...... Because failure is the mother of success. Success comes from so many failures."

"Heh, I see. Wow, Master Mine."

In my words Gil is making his eyes shine and nodding honestly. Our side service is adorable. I want you to grow up honest like this.

"By the way, Master Mine. What's Enseki? Is that hard?

"It's more hassle and hassle, but it's not difficult. Simply put, put in salt water, simmer over low heat for a while, and remove the garbage several times. If you let it go that way, then it'll get cold, so it's just oil on top and salt water on the bottom that feels divided and solidified, right? When it hardens to white, drain the water underneath and use only the supernatant oil."

When I briefly explain the procedure, Gil is nodding humphung. Lutz nodded too, listening, but blinking his eyes.

"Hey, Mine. Don't you have to think about the soap here?

"I'm coming with the grace of God, so I can spin it all over the candle."

In our house we make soap in the spring, so we keep some of the oil, but here the soap is given as God's grace. Since it was important for gray clerics to purify their clothes and bodies, soap was given quite sparingly. I want more food than soap, but the priorities for blue clerics seem different.

"Oh, yeah. Gil, there's probably a lot of small solidification of meat on the oil in the cloth I'm wearing right now, so it'll taste good when I put it in the soup tonight. Teach the gray clergy."

Gill nods loudly and runs to the cleric who was filtering. Once he opened the cloth and peered inside, the cleric said, "Meat!," I found myself happily raising my voice. Me and Lutz look at each other and smile little by little.

"Well, meat matters"

Yeah, I nodded, and then I looked around in the workshop. In tasks other than glue and candles, one can also see gray clerics and apprentices squeezing nut oil in a pressing machine to squeeze paper moisture. I want a lot of lamp oil because of course it can be used in cooking. Although I don't use it for cooking because I basically only make soup in the orphanage.

And the usual protagonist was dropped by the corner of the workshop today. The paper in the middle of squeezing moisture and the white and black skins in the middle of drying can be seen at the end. I stopped my gaze on the paper that was finished and piled up.

"What's up, Mine?

"Hey, Lutz. How much paper in the workshop do you have right now?

Lutz looked at the same place as me and narrowed his eyes.

"In the meantime, I just printed a picture book, and now I don't think I had 300. You don't know the exact number until you dry what you're cutting off. Are you there?

"Yeah, I'd like to print the second edition of the Children's Bible, but I'd like to print quantities at once so that the edition paper doesn't go bad. So I want a ton of paper.... How much can you make now?

We need a ton of paper and ink to avoid wasting the paper. The ink is also used by hand in winter, so I have ordered the addition of linseed oil from Benno. There's still a lot of coal left, so there's no problem.

All you need is paper.

"Follin isn't much of a firewood tree, but it's time for the skin to harden. I'll check with the lumberjack. Isn't it 750 if we use all the white and black skins we have here now?

"Yeah, well, do me as much as you can."

"Leave it to me."

Let's leave the paper matter to Lutz because Lutz has undertaken it for us.

"Mine, if you still have time to skin it, why don't you go see who makes the cheese?

I nod at Rutz's words and move with Fran to the basement of the women's building.

"Are you making cheese in the women's building?

"Oh, there's a pot.... just another pot that makes paper and cheese is better, right?

"Right."

Although I think that I would like to stop cooking preserved food in a pan that simmers ash and wood skins, there are many people around here who say that if you wash it, it's fine. They can eat it where there was a little bit of ash crossing. I think I can eat but I don't like it.

However, children in orphanages are usually eating leftovers of nobility, so it's easier to divide them if you have as many pots as you can divide them.

"I got it!

"Dry this next time."

When I went to the women's building, the children were drying the fruits and mushrooms they had picked in the woods, and the witches and witch apprentices were making cheese and soup, and they were putting out the essence to make jams that boiled and made the fruits and honey they had picked up in the woods. It smells sweet and completely different from the beast smell in the men's building.

"If you make all this, it won't be over for lunch."

"I wish the harvest festival was over soon. It's hard to make so much soup over and over again in a day."

During the harvest festival, which has little divine grace to be lowered from the blue clergy, the cook seems very busy and seems to have to make nearly double the usual amount of soup. My cheeks loose on the appearance of the girls cutting vegetables with their lips pointy or stirring the pan with a bitter smile.

"Well, Master Mine!?

The children who found me rushed to stop my hand, crossing my hands in front of my chest and sitting back.

When I say, "Keep working," I resume my work in a different, too tense motion.

... It scares me so much.

The clerics working in the workshop are sometimes in and out to meet with Lutz and see new work, so tensions are still breaking down. However, I find myself nervous about bees because I never show my face in making soup for the women's building.

"Lutz told me you're making cheese, and I'm just here to see it. How's it going?

"The milk is just finally warming up."

The girl giggles as she slowly stirs the pan in a slightly larger wooden slab as she twirls. Lutz peered into the pan and nodded lightly.

"You can warm it up slowly, so call me when you start to get a little bumpy bubble on the edge of the pan."

"Yes."

If you look at the pan and the fire, can you calculate the approximate amount of time, Lutz mutters, "This looks fine," then speaks to the kids who are drying the fruit.

"Hey, little ones. I'm gonna go pick up my stuff at the store, so come to the workshop."

"Yes!"

The children stopped their fruit-drying hands and began to clear the cage to the basement of the women's building.

"One package after another is coming, so we need to get it while we can. Mine, go back to your room. 'Cause I get nervous around you."

"Yeah, okay"

I return to my room exhaled with relief that the work is going well. For this minute, important work is likely to be done by the time the Blue Cleric returns. If you've even finished the smell work, you can do it slowly later.

In the kitchen of our room, in parallel with the usual meal making, it also seems that a large amount of pork that was thinly sliced and not smoked yesterday is being salted or confined, and the cook is very busy.

Looking sideways at the fluttering kitchen, as she went upstairs, Delia encouraged herself to practice the letters as she looked at the children's scriptures, and Rosina was facing the challenges that Fran had left behind.

"Shall we make a continuation of the paper?

When I was thinking about working with the two of them, too, Fran laughed nicely and brought a wooden plaque. shook his head at me, offering him a wooden plaque.

"No, Master Mine. Review your prayer complaint so that you can deal with the Knights' requests whenever you need them before they do."

The Knights are naturally a gathering of nobles, so they can't even make minor mistakes when they make a request and go out. What worries Fran most is the convocation from the Knights rather than the winter support of the orphanage.

"... When will the Knights' request come?

"It hasn't been decided clearly. But once or twice a year before winter, they'll be here in a little while."

"Yes..."

Originally, apprenticeships do not appear in rituals. No one should want an immature apprentice to perform an important ritual. That is why I did not participate as a blue witch in baptisms, mitzvahs, star knot rituals, etc. which take place in the temple.

Naturally, requests from the Knights are also usually rituals to which adult blue clerics turn, Fran says. The Knights become a bunch of men, so it seems the Blue Witch doesn't even come close to avoiding bad rumors.

But now that there are no blue clerics with enough magic to perform the ritual, they say that I, the blue apprentice witch, was supposed to be the furthest from my role in the temple to assume that role.

"But, Fran, that's crazy. Isn't the Chief Cleric a lot of magic?

Even if it's not me, there are the right people. The chief cleric should have jumped through and had a lot of magic among the blue clerics now remaining in the temple.

"... Yes. But the chief clergyman must sometimes give precedence to his work as a priest over his work as a priest."

It seems that it is not only the temples that lack the number of aristocrats, but the Knights are in the same condition. If you are a good knight, Fran secretly told me that many have been pulled out to the center as well as the temple, and that the current situation is such that there are so many nobles in the Knights that, given the amount of magic they are inherently incapable of joining the Order.

In the meantime, the clergyman, a fine nobleman who is graduating from the House of Lords, says Fran that I am required to work precisely as a witch because I may have to follow the Knights.

... Is it possible that a witchy first assignment is not responsible for the Knights' request?

With a cold sweat on his impending request, he raised his face as Fran hacked as he complained of his prayers.

"... Dear Mine, what happened to the costume for the ritual?

"Though I think I can wait now because I'm done with the temporary sewing and I'm in the book sewing?

After the tentative stitching, Corinna tells me that if I am in good health, I can do it for four days, worse or less than ten days. When I told Fran so, Fran stroked his chest down like a relief.

"Really? Now bring it to the temple as soon as possible so that you can leave as soon as you request"

That's how Gil came back to the room with a box when me and Fran were reviewing the prayer complaint. Apparently the package from the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce arrived.

"Fran, can you help me? I've got some big bags."

"Okay. I'll go now. Delia, Rosina, open it, please. Master Mine, don't move. Please review here."

Following Fran, who stood up to answer Gill's request, Rosina and Delia also head downstairs. Delia and Rosina will unpack the luggage to be placed in the small hall, and Fran and Gill will go to the workshop to pick up the luggage.

"Well! The rug has arrived!

Delia's bounced voice echoed from downstairs, who liked to re-pattern and decorate the room.

"Now you can support this room in the winter, too. Quickly..."

"Delia, it's already lunch. Let's get back to work from lunch."

The words of Rosina, who stopped Delia's rampage, seem to have decided to clean and re-pattern the room after lunch.

"Come on, Master Mine won't even go out to the workshop with Gil"

After lunch I was thrown out of my room with a smile from Delia.

Because the chief cleric is absent at the harvest festival, I cannot enter the library even if Fran is with me. I can't go to the library. I have to go to the workshop when I can't stay in my room.

And since Fran is a valuable man, Delia told me that she would have trouble being taken, so her companion to the workshop is Gill.

"The skin is getting pretty swollen, so Lutz also said he wanted you to see it. Master Mine, let's go to the workshop together."

"Gil's sweet."

When I go to the workshop, I don't know if I've finished eating at the orphanage yet, or if there are no people and it's gallant. Since there was no one to stop, I did not hesitate to approach the pan and peer inside.

"It looks good already. Wash well to remove the lime and simmer the guts."

"Okay."

"... that? Mine, were you here?

Look at me with Lutz in the workshop who finished his lunch and report at Benno's and round his eyes. Essentially, you shouldn't work. It's unusual for me to take you to the workshop many times a day.

"The rug arrived, didn't it? Delia said she was going to remodel the room, so she strained it... I got kicked out because I was in the way."

"Heh. So was it just right?

"Huh?"

As I leaned my neck, Lutz glanced lightly over his shoulder.

"My husband asked me to send a message to Mine asking me to go to Master Corinna when I had time because I had a costume for the ritual. If you can't stay in your room, why don't you go to Master Corinna? I'll pick you up when I get home."

I nodded cocklessly at Rutz's suggestion. It is dangerous for me to be standing outside on a fall day that is getting cold. If you have somewhere you can evacuate, you should go.

"I will. I'll take Rosina to Mr. Corinna, so bring Fran with me when Lutz picks her up. Rosina, you can't go home alone."

"Okay."

"Lutz, wash the skin first. I'm sending Master Mine."

When I returned to my room with Gil, I said to Delia, who had begun to leave the big furniture, "No!" He was angry. They can't show you a rough room, so the Lord shouldn't come back until the cleaning is done.

"He said he had a ritual costume. Go to the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce and go straight home today. Let me just get dressed. Then, may I leave it to Rosina to accompany you to Master Corinna?

"Yes, sir."

Rosina went to get dressed for the outing, and Delia quickly let me get dressed as she said pleasantly, "I'll have my room ready by tomorrow".

I go down to the ground floor with Rosina, who put her sleeve through a piece of fat that I just bought.

"Fran, I'm sorry, but I think Lutz will come and get you when he gets back to the store, so could you come with me to the store? Exactly what I can't leave Rosina alone after sundown"

"Yes, I did. Welcome aboard, Master Mine. We look forward to your return soon."

Dropped off by Fran, Rosina and I walk down the city's boulevard, where the sun is warm but the wind is getting cold. Unlike Gil, who walks with me to the store or even goes out to Fran or the woods to pick me up and drop me off at home, there's not much opportunity for Rosina to walk outside. She looks adorable looking around at Rosina.

"If Vilma and I could walk outside like this, I think there would be more to paint..."

"In time, you might be interested in going out. At first, when making soup in the basement, a gray cleric can help carry water, but Vilma, who was freaking out in the distance, is now able to give instructions."

Burma, who has been entrusted with the orphanage and the children, seems to be getting a little stronger. I was delighted to see a slight change in Burma in the report from Rosina.

"Hello, Mr. Marc. Mr. Benno called me, so I came quickly."

"My husband is in business right now, so I'm going to ask Mr. Corinna directly. Please wait here."

When Marc recommends me and I sit in the chair, Rosina stands softly behind me. The apprenticeship Marc instructed me to carry the tea. I sipped the tea and sighed.

"Master Mine, this way please"

Because of Rosina's presence and the fact that I am Corinna's guest today, Marc called me on his behalf. Exit the store and go up the stairs on the table to the third floor.

"Dear Corinna, Dear Mine,"

"There you are, Mine"

Corinna greets me with a quiet smile when Marc knocks. And then I stopped looking at Rosina and looked lightly at her.

"You have side service today, don't you? Should I call you Master Mine?

"As far as I'm concerned, either, but given Rosina's testimony, that might be better."

"Pfft. Okay, Master Mine. This way, please."

When I walked into the usual reception room where I was guided, I usually used the furniture I used as a hanger rack as a kimono garment digit (like this), and the ceremonial costume was spreading wide on the front.

"Wow!"

It appears to be installed in a position where the light coming in through the window strikes, with flowing watermarks embroidered with yarns of the same colour and flowers representative of the season floating and visible. The way the yarn seemed to shine slightly white with light was really like water, and I lost my word for a moment.

"... that's brilliant"

I am also hacked by the caged voice of Rosina's admiration.

"Mr. Corinna, it's really nice. Thank you."

"Thank you very much. I know."

Try to hold the tummy where the fluffy laughed Corinna is getting a little bigger and gently remove the costume with a polite trick.

"Will you try it on? I'm sorry, but I have this tummy, so may I ask you to help me?

"Yes, of course."

Rosina clothes me with the blue clothes she receives from Corinna. There is no stray whatsoever in Rosina's hands who was serving the Blue Witch Apprentice.

The costume is dyed blue monochrome, embroidered in the same colour, silver thread with sleeves and hem at the edges and gold thread at the neck. And with embroidery around the neck, the Mine Workshop crest is embroidered with gold thread in the position you can see just in the middle when you see it from the front.

... nervous.

It's like being dressed in a bar mitzvah shaker. I have to be sober. Do not defile. I'm driven by such obsessive ideas.

"Here's your belt."

Apparently, the belt that fits the ritual costume is set as silver embroidery on white and gold embroidery on white when adults. Corinna explained to me that this embroidery was also a sewn in Biblical prayer complaint.

"Um, the cloth feels a lot thicker...?

I looked up at Corinna as Rosina, who was dressed, adjusted her belt. Corinna explains the fried pieces incorporated into her costume for the ritual, without breaking her nickely smile.

"This way you can fold the fabric in advance and sew it in so that it grows larger.... Master Mine originally asked me to take this form. Rare, but rarely used ritual costumes would make sense?

"... Master Mine always surprises me."

Rosina exhaled convincingly when it was explained that it was not Corinna's original, but my suggestion. And Rosina, who had finished dressing, rose up, and looked at me in costume from various angles, and nodded one with cockroach.

"It's a very good costume, Master Mine. Embroidery of water and flowers will float as you move, attracting the gaze of those around you."

By getting a heartbeat from Rosina, who was serving Master Christine, she was stroking her chest down like Corinna was relieved to incorporate something new into her ritual costume.

Ritual costumes are investigated, rooms are reprogrammed to winter specifications, and conserved food is created one after the other. Candles are made and transported with firewood into their respective cellars. The glue was poured into the crate and placed where the cool wind would pass and began to dry.

In order to print for the second time in the workshop, a large amount of paper is made and ink is made. And the number of tools needed for winter handiwork was confirmed, and the missing ones were bought enough.

Thus the winter support of the orphanage, to which I have to relate, is almost over.