Why don't you build a village on top of the world tree

Episode Four: Commitment to Building a Library

"So why don't we go ahead with the gunwork, gentlemen?"

When Melmie took the head in a playful tone, the craftsmen responded with a bitter smile.

The site is a warehouse district near the experimental farm of the second branch.

The construction of the aerial corridor to Shop Street has already been completed and what we are about to begin is the construction of the school.

The warehouses stand across a wide road so that coyote cars can come and go, and of course no one lives there. Naturally because it is a place for storing crops taken from the fields of the second branch.

The warehouse is sturdy.

Since the second branch was originally a residential area, higher-rise was considered from the beginning. For this reason, the buildings are all designed to be strong enough to act as pillars supporting the air corridors.

This time the school will be built on an aerial corridor with a warehouse as its backbone.

"The construction scope will take the form of almost filling directly above the warehouse district. Be very careful of accidents, as there is also a lot of work at height. Let's start with the pillars."

Assign the craftsmen and set up columns near the warehouse walls. It is in the form of a half adhesion to the wall, and it is also in the form of supporting columns with the walls of the warehouse.

Columns are undecorated cylindrical objects. Although not even sculpted, it is lacquered for added durability.

Because decorative columns do not reconcile with boneless warehouses, I dare to choose this rustic column.

"Amane, I'm done installing the pillars. Let's have lunch."

The pillars end up standing in the morning and go into lunch breaks with the craftsmen because there are no complicated tasks.

I picked up the lunch Melmie put in your handmade basket. Of course the cook is a Melmie.

"Mayor and Mr. Melmie, don't follow me"

"Hiuuuuu"

"I'm a newlywed couple, I'm sorry!

"Mayor, you don't have to reopen it. There's a lot of singles, right?

"It's not terrible that only irresistible is allowed!?

Speaking with the craftsmen, have lunch alter art. It is a dish similar to tortillas, wrapped in thin fabrics made of tom.

It seems that the slightly salty sauce was made using only the egg yellow, which is very intense, and I'm happy at this time of year when I sweat in the summer. It looks good with plenty of vegetables.

Construction will resume after lunch.

The work of connecting columns and columns erected near the warehouse walls with pointed arches. This creates an aerial corridor that forms the basis for setting up schools higher than the roof of the warehouse. It is also conveyed by successfully dispersing the weight into the column by arching it.

The two columns are connected by a pointed arch and four squarely arranged columns in the form of rib-vaults.

Once that's done, the task is to put a ceiling on top. Most importantly, this ceiling will be the floor for the school you are going to build.

"That's it for today's work, and tomorrow morning I'm working on the field, so take your time off"

I told the craftsmen about the dissolution and I took Melmie back to the office after the final inspection of the site.

The next morning, construction begins in the early morning.

Give the following instructions to the craftsmen who have finished putting up the ceiling:

"Build a school. Let's start with the front entrance to the back garden and experimental building, the hallway leading to the simplified theatre."

When I gave the instructions, one of the craftsmen raised his hand and asked the question.

"What are the connections to the air corridors and the stairs to the experimental farm?

"That's the factory that's sending me from Cateo Town to take over. Everybody, you have to put all your energy into building the school."

Copy that, sir.

Explain the process and ask the craftsmen to enter the construction work.

"It's a thoughtful design, isn't it?"

Melmie points to the front door in the exterior image and says it seems unusual.

"Are you sure it's okay without the door?

"Oh, this is only a gate that separates me from the school grounds, so I don't need a door"

The shape is a lot different, but it's like the Etoile Arc de Triomphe.

The main entrance to this school is a pointed arch two meters and fifty centimeters high. Take the Ribvault directly to the garden behind you. From the whole view, it's the hallway through the middle of the school building.

This design was designed in an attempt to distinguish the entire school building from the left and right in an understandable way because I wanted to make a complete distinction between classrooms in basic education courses and training schools such as genetics.

A spire is built to the left and right of the front entrance. Inside the spire, a spiral staircase is installed, a mechanism that allows you to go upstairs.

If I could hear the footsteps from behind and turn around, Richay would almost walk in with a light wave.

He said he wanted me to let him know when school supplies arrived, but it would be a separate matter because it was too early for boulders.

"Here comes a messenger from Joynesley."

"Yoinsley? After all, the library?

"Yeah, it's the library. Can you take it off now?

"I don't know if I can do it right now. I'm free for lunch, so can you show me around the city?

"Okay."

Richay returns to the office.

Melmie tilted her neck as she was listening on my side.

"You're building a library?

"I haven't even decided whether to make it"

As I've always been told before I got into takakus, Yoinsley is working to build libraries in every town and city.

Previously, even at a design tournament hosted by Joynesley, which I also attended, the first prize was for the design of a village with an underground library.

As for Yoinsley, he wants to make reproductions and enrich the storage system while distributing a collection of swollen, fictitious libraries.

And this is the construction of a school in Takax City. The story is that if you are a student, why don't you set up a library?

Even in previous life, the school had a library or library. The same is true in this world, where we sometimes create libraries that contain various research materials, including textbooks.

I think there was also a library at the Training School for Heat Source Managers in the city of Kattera.

"If you want to make it into a garden with an experimental building or a simple theater, you can make it."

"Later, I thought I was going to make it, so I just made the place."

There's only one way to spread the garden space is when you're going to build a library one day.

"Well, why don't we make it?

"Not enough budget and manpower"

"It's boring."

"More importantly, there are few kinds of books to house. So I put it behind me."

For building a library, all you can fill a bookshelf is basic stuff among Richay's history books, school textbooks you're going to make, and later genetically related research materials.

But as far as book holdings are concerned, if Yoinsley gets involved, we'll be able to get a number of them right away.

In the midday discussion, we'll pull construction funds out of Yoinsley and have them pile up at the negotiating table.

I brought the story from the other side, so I can't say I don't like it. Even if I had secured the library's construction site in advance and was thinking of building it at some point.

Amane, you look bad.

"That's not true. Come on, let's get this over with."

Laughed and deluded, and resumed construction.

It was noon and I was meeting with a messenger from Yoinsley in the reception room at the office.

"Long time no see"

"Welcome, it's been a long time"

Joynesley's messenger was a fictional librarian. He is a big guy with no complaints.

Inside, it's cold sweat.

I made this guy wait till lunch, me.... What are you doing?

I see Richay sitting next to me wondering why he didn't tell me. But Richay seemed to have some thoughts, and he was smiling.

"I'm not going to build a library in this school."

To Richay, who said so clearly with a smile, the fictitious librarian purposefully surprised him by hiding his mouth.

"Really? This is how you made the time, so I thought the construction of the library was just a matter of policy."

Richay returned the words with a smile on his face to the words of the fictitious librarian who had included them out of the question, leaving him half a day to wait and there would be no such thing.

"Yeah, I'm very sorry about what I brought you. I didn't expect you to be a messenger to serve as a fictitious librarian, so I didn't have any plans. I can't believe I'm being rude in dealing with the heavy town of Yoinsley, the skyscraper."

Please specify it in the letter if you want me to respond accordingly. Even though he's busy and his plans are jammed, the fictional librarian changes his complexion to Richay's words with.

"... I'm sorry. The letter seems to have been flawed."

"Again, was it? This is the letter."

I took out the letter that Richay had prepared and handed it to the fictitious librarian.

The letter does not say in any way that the messenger is a fictitious librarian. That's why I left it to Richay to be at the construction site swallowed up, too.

Where we recognize each other's falling, Richay cuts out again with a smile.

"More than Yoinsley, Takakus is understaffed right now. In particular, there is an overwhelming shortage of accountants and clerks. I also had a hard time securing these reps at this school."

It is half a lie. The rep himself was quickly found.

The person in charge is an elderly person from the former village of Kidato.

Since the field work has become painful, I want to work with my head rather than move my body, so I introduced accounting and administrative work.

However, since only the elderly could be secured, the shortage of human resources is serious on a century-by-century basis.

He's also been recruiting through Teguruth, Mr. Calc, and Mr. Aleut's handouts, but he hasn't been very successful.

Accountants and clerical reps probably work locally, which is Richay's word we just met at Jonesley's fictional library, but they really seem to be right.

"I understand your story."

The fictitious librarian shrugs, often after thinking, and continues.

"If the city of Tacax can build a library for you, let me move forward and recruit an accountant or clerk. I have some idea, so I'm going to show you five people in two years, ready to fight."

I hold my fist all the time in a position where Richay can only see me. It's a sign that I've drawn favorable conditions.

In fact, I appreciate you looking out for instant combat power.

Because the format varies from municipality to municipality in this world, people who can become instant fighters do not want to leave the locality early.

Thinking about it, I was lucky enough to meet Richay just before I qualified as an architect, and I guess it's only natural that the emerging villages don't have Richay-class fighting power.

While securing talent, Richay shakes her neck sideways only to seem unwilling to ride.

"Even with human resources, we still can't build a library because we have funding issues."

"Regardless, Yoinsley will lend two jade coins as construction funds. I'll send a secretary."

"I have trouble being financed. There's no point in building things from the outside to borrowing funds that you can't feel the need for at the moment. Even though the emerging village problem is getting worse..."

The fictitious librarian nodded for a moment when Richay reluctantly said waste money could not be used on the grounds of another material of concern.

"Now let's make it an aid, not a loan"

You don't have to give it back.

By the way, did I need this place?

For the first time, Richay showed a forward-thinking look. I suppose you're thinking about finishing pulling out the conditions you can pull out and putting the benefits you present here on the story.

"Does Yoinsley want to do that and add more libraries?

"Of course it is. The history of Yoinsley is the history of knowledge. If so, now is the time to diffuse that knowledge that we have collected, to create new knowledge and technology, and to reflux it back to Yoinsley. We can't spare any more effort for the benefit and future of the entire world tree than Joynesley is a skyscraper."

The fictitious librarian even speaks with heat. It sounds like a heavy town in Yoinsley.

Villages and towns think about themselves, cities, surrounding areas, and skyscrapers think about the whole world tree.

No one has decided. I just understand my responsibilities and move individually.

Is it because I have knowledge of previous life that I find that very difficult?

I think the way of Yoinsley is respectable.

Richay looks at me. He says the negotiations are over and I'll take care of the rest.

I nod and show to the fictional librarian.

"Okay. Consider constructing a library positively. I think construction will start as early as next year."

"Thank you. We look forward to completing Amane's library."

The fictional librarian said happily and shook hands with me.