Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 207: Festival

With the help of Doganbo-san and the Dwarves, we made all sorts of stalls.

「Looks interesting. I would be delighted if you sold alcohol as well, but do the Sanctuary inhabitants have any money?」

Undine made me remember a huge thing while the preparations were ongoing.

「O-oh yeah. I forgot such a fundamental thing. What should I do?」

「If you don’t invite outsiders, then wouldn’t it be fine to do this free of charge this time?」

Money started trickling in when trade with Valkyra Kingdom, Lomaria Kingdom, and Yggurle Kingdom began, so more and more people are earning money for their work in the Sanctuary.

「Oh. Should I distribute money to everyone sooner?」

「We have money stocked up from selling Spirit Tree materials and rare medicinal plants, don’t we?」

「Yup. How much money can they spend in stalls? No way a person can use 1 gold, right?」

Should I distribute 10 silver to each person, from the adults to the children? Deciding so, I immediately asked Sophia and Maria.

Up until now, I’ve been stocking up on daily necessities from the Papeck Company and handing it out to the people of the Sanctuary, but I can’t keep doing this forever.

It’ll soon be possible to shop at the stores Papeck-san requested to set up, and the citizens can spend their extra money there. The Elves working in the orchard and the mermaids fishing in the sea will be absorbed into the monetary economy when they sell their goods in shops.

「Please leave it to us.」

「We’ll distribute this to everyone right away then.」

I asked the two to distribute the money, then I went into training the people who’ll help with the stalls.

There are two kinds of magic devices created for the cotton candy and kakigoori.

Since there’s nothing but our mansions, the Genesis church, and music-related buildings at center of the Sanctuary, there was a lot of space. After setting up the stalls there, I made the stall volunteers practice.

The people helping were Cat Sith, Beastkin, Elven, and Human women. Most of the stalls would serve food, so the women used to cooking offered to help.

Since there were more people than I thought, so I got carried away and increased the variety of stalls.

Hot iron plate:

Okonomiyaki ・ Takoyaki ・ Ikayaki ・ Yakisoba

Char-grilled:

Yakitori (Grilled Skewered Chicken) ・ Yakitomorokoshi (Grilled Corn) ・ Kushiyaki (Grilled Skewers)

Sweets:

Cotton Candy ・ Candied Apples ・ Baby Castella ・ Kakigoori (Shaved Ice)

Others will also sell juices and ale.

We practiced repeatedly, and when everyone got used to it, I decorated the open space lined with stalls with Lamp MDs. From the very beginning, streetlights were installed in the Sanctuary. It’s a magic device that lights up when it senses darkness around it, and it works by replenishing magic power from the mana in the surroundings, so its selling point is that it doesn’t need much maintenance. This was something that doesn’t exist even in the royal capitals, so there was a rush of bulk orders from the three countries.

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When the sun sank, offerings were placed on a simple altar prepared ahead of time, and Yggurle Kingdom’s third princess, Mimir, recited a ritual prayer dedicated to Norn-sama, the Great Spirits, and the Spirit Tree.

The Sanctuary inhabitants watched this attentively. When Princess Mimir turned around, indicating the end of the ceremony, the impatiently waiting children ran to the stalls.

「It looks like everyone’s pleased.」

「Of course, the adults and the children are all in high spirits.」

I bought all sorts of food and enjoyed eating them as I sat down in the area where the chairs and tables were lined up. I had set it up with the image of the food court of a large supermarket in my old world.

A shift rotation had been set up so that even the people manning the stalls could enjoy the festival, so I’ll be subbing in later.

「These glittering light magic devices are lovely too.」

Sophia smiled as she gazed at the decorative lights. Maybe slightly drunk on wine, the faintly reddened amorous Sophia was not bad either.

The adults lined their tables with the stall food they bought and were enjoying wine and ale from similar stalls.

Although the Sanctuary had begun making alcohol, it hasn’t reached the point where the inhabitants drink alcohol on a daily basis. But thanks to the Dwarves, Gnome, and Salamander for arranging the increase in production, we’re freely able to enjoy alcohol.

Then Undine and Sylph came with glasses in hand.

「Takumi, it’s a huge success. Our familial spirits are overjoyed as well.」

「Once a year, let’s make it an annual event.」

「Yup, definitely, if we can see the smiles on everyone’s faces then it’s fine even if we do it every year, wouldn’t it?」

The lively Sanctuary evening wore into the night with the smiles and laughter of everyone.

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