Chapter 246 – Land of Craftsmen (3)
Are you buying the dye yourself?
I pondered Fran’s suggestion. This is a world where there is magic, but even that magic moves according to the law and the resource called mana.
Didn’t Veronica, who used to wear clothes made of magic in her dreams before, become naked with one gesture of my hand? People from another world also have problems with dyeing with magic, so they must buy dye and use it.
In order to dye clothes without fading, a decent dye was needed.
‘Rather than that, since Veronica is also my wife now, I can think of it without hesitation and get an erection.’
– Erection. At that thought, Juzidra cheered and roared.
To be honest, she’s the second woman I’ve ever seen naked, so there’s no way she’d be calm. Even if he pretended to be a man who only knew his wife, men were hard to lie to their instincts.
Anyway, the thing to worry about now is the dye. I nodded.
“Yes. First of all, we said we would try to find it, and if we can’t find it, we’ll buy it with money.”
It was nothing to worry about.
If you spend a lot of money right away, you will be fucked up later. As soon as I bought my newlywed house, I would repeat the days of being a beggar. If there is an Audumla guild here, let’s find something that can be duplicated in the guild quest for the first time in a while.
─Kik.
When she returned to the consultation room, she communicated that to that effect. The dwarf receptionist replied with a smile.
“Yes, please. In fact, like you said, adventurers often come to find materials.”
The receptionist readily accepted and deducted the cost of the dye from the production cost. Then he guided us to the location of the Alchemy Guild.
Could it be the intention of the guild that they don’t want to take charge of dye production even though they can’t even get a commission? When I was a research student, I also really hated the work that professors gave me with both jobs, so I understood that feeling.
I placed an order as per the procedure and moved to the Alchemy Guild.
“Maybe it’s because it’s a big city, so the alchemy guild has branched out.”
“Alchemy is simple because it is simple, and there are many things to do.”
It is.
The school of alchemy ranged from pharmaceuticals such as potions to metal processing. It was natural for the alchemy guild to be independent in the big cities. The quality will be different too.
Roughly the difference between Daiso, which is part of a large mart, and the Daiso building.
By the way, in the past, when I said alchemist, I first thought of a cartoon character with arms and legs, but these days, Tyrsi comes to mind.
‘I don’t know what Tirshi is doing these days.’
Guild work wouldn’t be too busy in winter.
The adventurer’s job would be leisurely if you think about what he said when he went to catch the ogre.
‘Let’s buy some presents before we go back.’
Sprinkling presents to acquaintances who have lost their face due to work on the way back from a business trip! It was a tip to make social life easier. It’s my first time doing it, too.
“The most popular black dye these days is ‘kiln oak’ charcoal.”
At the Alchemy Guild, I heard about black dye. He was asking for a dye that could be quickly obtained around here.
Oak tree. I’m hearing this for the first time.
“Which tree is the charcoal from?”
“It is a kind of oak tree. The sap and leaves are black, and it grows quickly, so it is a dye that has been used a lot lately. This is the color dyed with that dye.”
A tree that is not green, they say, photosynthesis without chlorophyll.
Thinking about it would be useless, so I looked at the catalogue. My elite-large gall bladder is fueled by meat-derived protein and the love of my wife.
This is because I don’t want to be tired of other people’s work.
“Mmm.”
Anyway, I don’t like the color.
It was a catalog of round cuts of dyed cloth, like samples of dyed colors at a beauty salon. However, the color of that something tree had a cheap feeling.
‘At best I got a good leather, but this is a bit.’
I’m a forager who doesn’t care about how I dress, but I couldn’t get my wives to criticize me.
It would be the same when dealing with VIPs later.
Wealthy people pay attention to how other people dress. Everything from the stitching of the clothes to the finish.
But am I meeting such people wearing clothes dyed with cheap dye?
If it wasn’t for someone who knew my skills, the evaluation would have been cut before I could shake my mouth. Because other people won’t decide YES/NO with a straight fight like Ursilla did.
I picked black as my favorite color from the catalog.
“How much would it cost to dye it with the war color here?”
“It’s 3 serpes and 1 silver.”
That’s the kind of pricing I remember hearing about.
Is this the expensive dye the guild receptionist said? I wrote down the names of only two candidates, including that dye, in a notebook.
The dyes that can be obtained around here are in the form of kiln oak charcoal and warp. Now, that wort grass that turns black when matured has become rare, so they dye it with ground charcoal.
Having figured out what to find out, we looked around the alchemy guild and then headed to the Audumla guild Hremar branch.
In any country, anywhere, we are relieved to be relieved because we are as big as a dick, and in front of the bulletin board.
‘There are many requests to obtain black dye.’
There were about 4 or 5 in all, but this alone was a lot. Usually, this is because there are few cases where requests for the same purpose overlap.
“——Ah.”
It was the time when I was looking around for a request to find a dye other than oak. Fran suddenly had her eyes fixed on a certain request.
“What’s the matter?”
“Ah, yes. I have a name I know…”
“A name you know?”
Fran nodded and pointed to a certain request form.
[Looking for an adventurer to escort you while collecting the dye – Hella Deldornen.]
“Hella Del Dornen? Are you a woman?”
“That’s right. Well, back in the day, I had a short stint at the tailor’s guild here to earn money for the passage from Nidavellir to Britannia. Ms. Hella said she was a good aunt to me back then.”
Oh, I bet.
When you think about it, it was natural. The small country of Nidavellir had few ports. It wouldn’t be strange if Franc had come here to find a ship to Britannia.
“If you know someone, would you like to do this request? The content of the request is also perfect.”
Saying that, she picked up her request.
Go to harvest In other words, isn’t it about knowing where this grass grows? It would have been better than wandering around aimlessly.
“Yes, then.”
“Whoop whoop. Is it harvesting? It reminds me of the days when I was in Iron Class, and I miss it☆!”
“What? It’s a cheeky subject.”
We received the commission as agreed. Entering the country by boat, I presented my residence permit and ID with a stamp. The difficulty level of the request was Bronze class, but I was able to accept it even though I was a limp.
─Kong-Kong-Kong!
The request said to come to the house, so I visited the house as it was. When I knocked on the door, I heard footsteps and the door opened.
【Yes… Are you an adventurer who received a request… Uh?】
The eyes of the dwarf woman who opened the door widened. He recognized her francs.
Her equipment has changed a bit from when we first met, but her cute face and those tits can’t be mistaken. By the way, the lady who was supposed to be Hella didn’t have a beard either.
On top of that, as my body dried up, I made up my mind to completely throw away my prejudices about dwarves in the trash.
“Oh my God! Are you Fran?! He said he wanted to become an adventurer in Britannia! How have you been doing?!”
“Lol. Long time no see, Hella. Oh, this is a gift.”
Fran held out the bag of fruit I had purchased as per my request.
Fruits and drinks are presented when seeing each other after a long time. It was a habit of Koreans in a Confucian country.
The reaction was good in Britannia, but what about Nidavellir?
“Oh, why are you so grateful! Seeing that you are smiling, it seems that you are not starving like before?”
I was so worried, but luckily, Mrs. Hella happily accepted the fruit basket.
You might be familiar with the culture from the fact that you speak Britannia. Because dwarves go abroad a lot.
“Yeah. I met and married her good husband. This time, I came to work together and came after seeing the request from Hella.”
“Oh my, my God! OMG, OMG!”
It was Ms. Hella who was excited by clapping her hands after walking her francs with me.
She has severe dark circles around her eyes. Did she stay up all night?
She works all night, and when she passes the sleepy time period, there comes a time of excitement as her mood is lifted for no reason. Miss Hella seems to have entered that state now. Even though she was a chatty lady, her excitement level was unusual.
“Oh, look at my mind! Come on in!”
“Yes. Excuse me.”
We didn’t decline and were ushered into the living room. Ms. Hella washed her gift of fruit.
“Sorry. Things are out of her hands these days, so she can’t come to her senses. I don’t know what to say to a welcome guest, but he’s been having trouble sleeping at night.”
Saying that, Mr. Hella cuts her fruit like a machine like a pure-blooded dwarf.
─Shasha shak. She took turns peeling her skin and placing it in the palm of her hand, she cut it to the same size. In 10 seconds, one fruit became a good size to eat and went up to the bowl.
“You can’t sleep at night… For the cost of the dye?”
“Yes. A fight that broke out at her pier not long ago spread to the flower garden where the dye was grown. The sewing guild also had a hard time because the cost of materials was similar to the price supplied to the guild.”
At the end of her francs, Mr. Hella cut her third fruit, she said. Even this lady has big hands. She doesn’t think she can eat them all, but she’s thinking of cutting some.
“It’s gotten a little better because merchants and sailors with boats bring dyes and sell them. But they didn’t buy black dye because there was an alternative.”
“A substitute? Oh, are you talking about the kiln oaks?”
“Yes, pretty girl. Charcoal made from that tree is very cheap. After the fire, only black clothes were dyed with the charcoal.”
“Wow, that is terrible. How different are the same colors?”
Lalilura said as if she was really sorry.
Come to think of it, my ex-girlfriend said something similar at a cosmetics store.
She puts a lot of the same color lipstick on the back of her hand and asks what looks prettier, but I’m not a fucking Mabinogi user, how can I tell those things apart.
Perhaps not even to the extent of Rari Lu, but she seemed to be sensitive to color. Women are all the same no matter where they are in the world.
‘No, that’s true of men too.’
Aren’t we creatures ruled by Juji? Just as a man gets serious in front of a porn collection, a woman becomes a hawk’s eye when choosing colors for clothes and cosmetics.
‘I wouldn’t be too obsessed with the color unless leather armor was used as a suit.’
Maybe that’s why.
People like me who compromised on the price and bought the clothes I liked would not have bought war full clothes with great cost-effectiveness. That’s why oak charcoal dyes dominated the market.
“Young lady knows very well! Yes. I’m also dyeing with charcoal now, but our sewing guild is having a contest soon. It is a contest to make clothes for the winner of Bijofest.”
Ms. Hella complained as she cut her fruit for the sixth time.
Hey, okay, stop peeling the fruit. I bought 8 of them, but are you going to ship them all to us? Why are you telling me why you bought this?
-Shashak. Shashak. Ms. Hella’s hands speed up when shears fruit. She couldn’t sleep and her eyes were a little bloodshot.
“Anyway, money-mad people are the problem. If you reduce the range of dyes just because they are not selling, you won’t be able to preserve the tradition. Worlpool is better because it is available, Chelsea Beans or Antonio Fruits… Awesome!”
Her knife slightly cut the tip of Mr. Hella’s finger. It’s because she’s thinking about something else with a knife. I pulled out a tissue from the table and handed it to him.
“Are you okay?”
“Oh, thank you. Fran has chosen her husband well.”
Mister Hella, shy and evasive, looked at her francs and said:
“Then can I ask for an escort request even tomorrow?”
“We are fine, but Hella looks very tired… “
“Whoops. Thank you for your concern. But I’ll take care of it. There are two weeks left until the deadline for the competition, so we have to work hard.”
It was Mr. Hella who showed off his professional spirit.
10 days before the deadline, I would be very nervous, but he was a great person to be able to talk about it with a smile. I get a sour taste in my mouth thinking that the project is only 10 days away. Ugh.
In that way, Mr. Hella shared her franc and how she had been, making her smile bloom, and she saw us off shortly thereafter.
“Come back to my house at 9:00 tomorrow. See you then.”
“Yeah. Good night.”
We greeted the client and set out on the road to find an inn. For some reason, I felt as if I had briefly glimpsed Fran’s past.
“Franc. Have you ever worked while starving?”
“Oh, that? Wait a minute. I skipped lunch because it wasn’t hard work. Ms. Hella. Then she packed me something to eat sometimes.”
Fran said shyly, perhaps ashamed of talking about her poor days.
Certainly, this can be a bit of an unpleasant topic. Because I also want to tell Fran about her good looks and her proud memories.
“Hehe. It must be that our Franc is very popular with her grown-ups.”
“Lol. Don’t be shy.”
Fran smiled and was delighted with my caressing hand, but I was able to find some shade in that smile.
“… Nidavellir, did you not want to come?”
There are people who are happy to return to their hometown, and there are people who are not.
World affairs are as complex as Hremar’s dye situation. I waited for my wives to tell me about themselves first, so I might have unknowingly forced her patience on Fran.
“Uh? Oh. It’s not like that.”
As if she had noticed my thoughts, Fran slapped her hand.
“Just, that… I thought of her mother for a moment and did it. If Nord is sorry again, I’m sorry too, so I don’t care. Got it?”
“Yes.”
If Fran wanted that, it wouldn’t be good for her to just make things awkward.
“Somehow, the atmosphere has become sultry~? After all, watching, playing, and having fun at times like this is the best, right?”
It was Lalilura who flexibly intervened in the brief quiet time.
The youngest in our party winked at himself as the mood maker.
“Let’s go quickly and find a good place to stay! And eat out♡! Seafood dishes are good, but let’s enjoy dishes you can’t eat on a boat today☆!”
“Hehe. Who pays?”
“Yeah? Of course, you have to shoot, right?”
“My wallet is mortgaged to my wives, so I can’t.”
“I can’t either~? I’m going to give the money I’ve saved so far to my husband as a betrothal when we get married☆!”
“Isn’t it usually the woman who receives it?”
“Cuck-cuck-cuck.”
It was a nonsensical joke, but Fran laughed quickly thanks to it. It also fits our mood.
That’s how we got lodging for the two wives who were waiting.
