Chapter 56
When I go outside, I’m stunned by the snow that’s piled up. During the winter it is basically a withdrawal, so I rarely go out. If you look at the snow that is higher than your height, you will end up with a poker.
Snow is being scraped to the narrow alley that goes out to the main street, and there is a road that people can pass through somehow, but the snow that is piled up next is likely to fall down.
“Mine, see”
“ Because my father bent over and spread his hands, I was gently lifted and clung to my father’s neck. If I walked in this snow, my father would not be able to get to the gate by the time of turn.
When I was picked up by my father, my face appeared above the snow. When the cold wind blew, I could see the white sparkle spreading all over like a sea.
“Dad, are you also snowing the avenue?”
“I can pass the carriage of the nobility”
“… I don’t have to move in this snow”
Since there was so much snow, I thought that there were few people going on and off the main street, but there were more people going fast than expected.
“There are so many people out there when there is so much snow”
“Maybe it’s a time when the snowstorm has stopped? It’s really less when it’s snowing.”
My father started to hurry a little because the snow started to flicker during the conversation.
“I started getting down. Hurry, Mine. Grasp me!”
“Fuchaa! Falling frog!”
Wow, I arrived at the gate while making noise. After paying snow and snow, head straight to the hotel room.
When I knocked lightly and opened the door, there was a desk in front of the fireplace, and there was an Otto figure to calculate while accumulating a large amount of materials.
“Otto, brought a long-awaited assistant. Open in front of the fireplace”
“Thank you, Team Leader! I’ve been waiting for you, Maine”
Otto gives me the space to work while clearing the materials on the desk. Considering that she was welcomed with a terrific smile, her work must have been considerably accumulated.
I took a slab and a brush from my tote bag and sat down in a slightly tall chair.
“Now, Maine. I’ll ask you to confirm that this department’s calculations are correct.”
“Yes”
First of all, it seems that there is no point in consultation unless this mountain is cleared. Looking at the material stacked with Don, I set up a stylus.
Calculating silently for a while. Only the sound of Otto playing the calculator and the sound of moving my pen brush sounded.
A young soldier came in after the sound of a konkon and knocked.
“I’m sorry. Otto has a question …”
“Mine-chan, even the question”
Otto nominated me, keeping an eye on the calculator and the materials.
“Eh? I am? Wait a minute. Only this calculation …”
When I finished the calculation, I marked my answer and raised my face.
The young soldier compared me to Otto, who was moving the calculator with a screaming force, and then sighed lightly and took out the parchment.
“Please give me this”
“What? … Oh, this is a noble introduction. Is there a chief now?”
“No, today was night …”
“Now, get the seal of the director and arrange to go to the rampart early. If you are traveling long in the snow, you might be tempted by a warm nobility. So processing is quick. ”
“Ha!”
“If you want to make you wait, you may want to get into the waiting room where you can catch fire immediately and have a cup of hot tea.”
“I understand”
Saluting, a young soldier jumped out of the room. If I return salute, I will continue the calculation.
“I’m really used to it”
Otto said, without resting the hand to calculate. I also answer while moving the stone brush.
“The way to deal with is the same”
The gate work is a government office job. The basic countermeasures are the same. Once you have learned the manual, you can handle it unless it is an exceptional exception.
I’m getting a little tired after calculating for a while. After summarizing the amount of calculation confirmation, and extending his back greatly, Otto seems to have been cut off and began to summarize the materials.
“I’m really tired. Would you like to take a break?”
“Yes”
Otto got hot tea from the cafeteria. I began to consult Otto, drinking it little by little.
“… When I was talking about that, my mother said. While taking care of Mine, the position of apprenticeship is not so sweet that I can take care of Mine. I’m halfway through my work. “
tweeted in the face of my mother saying Otto was natural.
“That’s right? An apprentice less than half a half is taking care of others … just halfway. If Lutz really wants to be a merchant, you can’t look after Mine-chan.
“… I think so, right?”
Since I am not an apprentice now, there is no work to do in the store, just bringing in the goods. So Lutz can act together while looking at my physical condition.
If you become an apprentice and get to work, you can’t really care about my physical condition, and you can’t carry such a burden.
When I was thinking about what to do, Otto asked me with a quiet eye.
“Nah, Maine. Are you seriously going to be a merchant?”
“For now, that’s the plan. There are a few things that are likely to become products …”
Since I can’t buy or sell unless I belong to a commercial guild, it’s only my decision to get involved in business.
“Apart from buying and selling goods, you should stop entering Benno’s store.”
My apprenticeship was decided by Benno. I’m worried about working now, but I want to know why Otto tells Benno to stop.
“Why is it?”
“That store is a fast-growing store. Everyone has been working hard. I do n’t think I can do it with Mine’s physical strength.”
The reason I mentioned with a light shoulder was that I was worried and that was recently pointed out by Benno.
“… In fact, Mr. Benno told me. Can you really work?”
“There are jobs that only do calculations and document checks, but merchants’ work is due to delivery, so it’s hard to leave it to a child who doesn’t know when to get sick.”
“That’s true”
Benno understands that I don’t want to go to another store, considering how to commercialize the information I have and how to make a profit. However, considering the fact that I work in a store, my lack of physical strength and strength is fatal.
Employees who are worried about their health condition that they don’t know whether they can come to work every day will not be hired in Japan. Even if I am a manager, I don’t need such an employee.
“I think it’s a tough opinion that’s not something you would normally say to a child, but do you want to hear it?”
Otto tilts his head slightly and listens to my reaction. The reason I consulted Otto was because I wanted an objective opinion that would not come out of someone who was overprotective.
As I could say anything, I grabbed my hands under the desk and I nodded slowly.
“Please, please”
“The main reason I think it would be better for Mine to not enter the store is human relations. The relationships in the store are messed up. If you just think of it as a work that is physically easy, how will other people dissatisfy? ”
“… Yes”
Even though there is a problem with physical fitness, it is not interesting to see such a trap, and it will definitely be a problem even if it does not appear immediately.
Because I was desperate to decide to get a job at Lutz, I didn’t really think about what happened after I became an apprentice.
“And … do you think there will be problems with salary?”
“Hey? Is it a salary?”
Since I had never thought about the salary issue, I heard a strange voice.
Otto sighed lightly as I tilted my head.
“Isn’t it possible to hire an apprentice for the same amount with Mine, who knows it will bring huge profits to the store?”
“The salary is the same, but I think you’ll get a different profit for the product.”
I have a contract that won’t give me paper profits for job security, but I’m going to take profits for the products that come out later. I’m not going to give you all the information for free.
“Even if you give profits in another frame, if you are just an apprentice who is less than a veteran of ten years of service, your salary will be higher. I think it will be troublesome.”
“Ah!”
Certainly, human relations are easily broken when money is involved. Otto pointed out. And if human relationships break down, there is a high possibility that the store itself will not stand. It ’s people who make a store after all.
“Sure, no matter what direction you think I should not be in the store.”
Otto’s opinion is the best, and there is no room for objection. I felt that entering the Benno store as an apprentice was only a seed of a bean.
“I have one more concern,”
“What is it?”
When I arranged various things so far, I felt like I could do anything afterwards.
«Otto opens his mouth with a little face-to-face, whispering his voice.
“Is Mine’s illness ate after all?”
“Did you know Otto-san?”
When I open my eyes, Otto lightly shakes my head and denies it.
“No, I didn’t know, but maybe I heard the story from Benno. The only thing I really knew was Corinna, who ate and knew the illness?”
“What is Corinna-san?”
“Benno, who was unusually disturbed during this time, was saying that. He was dying and was killed by falling down in the store?” With the attitude of the team leader, it was determined that you were the one who ate and fell down. “
“… That section caused concern and inconvenience.”
Talk seems to have spread more widely than expected. It must have been quite noticeable because it fell to Benno’s store and was taken to the guild chief’s house.
“The team leader seems to have healed, but Benno’s story seems to eat and not heal?”
“… Yes”
I reduced the heat of eating with magical tools, but this will increase again. It is said that it is about a year before it seems to overflow again from Frida.
“Did you talk to the team leader that he won’t heal?”
“No, it’s not yet. It’s hard to say to a family who is happy that he’s cured …”
The price of magical tools and the deadlines of life are full of things that are hard to say. I also have a strange heat in my body, and I know only enough to die when it overflows, so it is difficult to talk in detail.
Otto shook his head slowly with a severe face.
“It’s better to report properly. I think the team leader thinks he’s cured, so I think he’s okay to get a job. It’s better to talk about the job after being aware of the current situation.” If you act appropriately, it can be a nuisance to many places. ”
“I understand”
As I have come up with the idea, I acted around the line and disturbed others, but I could only receive Otto’s words.
“And if you need magical tools to live and want to go over to the nobility, Mine should go to the guildmaster’s store. Benno’s store is big but still emerging. Benno. But no matter how hard you try, history and tradition are heavy and not as easy to flip over. “
“That’s right …”
Otto lightly raised his eyebrows when I became muddy.
“Do you have any problems if it’s not a Benno store?”
“I don’t want to be troubled if it isn’t Benno-san’s shop, but I’m not good at it. The strength of the guild’s push and the way of being a merchant”
Forcibly may be a necessary quality as a merchant, but I don’t like the act of trying to despise the price of a magic tool that is alive. I’m grateful, but I don’t want to be close.
“Is that Benno the same?”
“Well, Benno has some compelling things, he clings to money and tries to test people immediately, but he notices my bad places and tries to grow I can see that. “
“Hey”
I sighed in a small sigh with a grinning smile. I’m sure that this conversation would be a breakthrough for Benno.
“And I still haven’t decided if I want to live while being killed by a nobleman”
Finally, I started thinking that I wanted to live with my family, but even if I was killed by an aristocrat who doesn’t know what to do, I can’t think of living.
As Frieda said, if you choose to live with your family or die or be killed by an aristocrat, you will want to choose a family at this point.
“First of all, it’s not a story unless Mine-chan decides how to live. If you don’t want to enter the store in search of a connection with the nobility, you should think about other options than entering the store. I honestly think that if Mine-chan thinks and Rutz makes it, Mine-chan doesn’t have to enter the store if only the right and profit arrangements are met. “
I uttered the words of Otto. Sure, I was only thinking about acting and working together, but if I just think of what I can do, I might not need to enter the store.
Otto smiled to me who was so small and refreshed that it seemed to be too refreshing.
“That’s right. Why don’t you just develop a product while working like writing a letter or documents that can be tailored to your physical condition at home? Selling the product to Benno, you feel good I think that it is better for the body to work in the same way as in the past, sometimes helping with the work here. “
“… Think about it”
Although maintaining the status quo would be the best for my body, I am very interested in the meaning of that stinky smile.
“Well, talk with your family often.”
“I do so”
“The rest is over. Let’s continue.”
¡I cleared the cup by Otto and I took out the stone board and checked for errors in the calculation.
Talk with family … ka. If you know that your life is one year away, you’re scared that your father is going crazy.
“Mine, I’m going home”
When my father, who had finished changing, came to pick me up in the hotel room, I was too dizzy and I was so confused. Numbers come to my head one after another even with my eyes closed.
“I was saved, Maine”
Otto, who has been using computers for a long time, is really fine, and I have to think that it may be impossible for me to do office work that only calculates.
“Dad, aren’t you cold?”
On the way home with a little snowstorm, my father holds me up and wears a coat, so I’m warm, but I think my father is very cold.
However, my father just shakes his head with a smile.
“It’s not cold because I have Mine.
“Yes”
What kind of reaction would you have if you talked to your father who loves your family and was a idiot? I feel like this smile freezes.
It’s scary, but it’s a topic that cannot be avoided any more.
“What’s mine? Something dark?”
“… Dad, I have a story about my illness.”
With that word alone, my father’s smile and feet were frozen. Tighten my mouth and look into me with a serious face I have never seen.
After turning his eyes lightly, my father walked quickly to escape from something.
“Let me go home and listen to my mom”
“n”
My father’s arm that was holding me tightly was full of energy so that I couldn’t escape what I had foreseen.