*For the time being, the engineers for building the wooden ship.*It will be difficult to gather many and firing them when the ship is done is a bit awful.*It would be more reasonable to first hire a single specialist and then get the villagers to help.***So that’s why I came to Kunz-san of the woodworking shop.*No, I have to make the most of my connections and networking.*……If only I did so last time.***“Excu~se me, do you have an extra craftsman~?”*“Suddenly coming, I wondered who it was gonna be, but isn’t it the goddess…?”*Kunz-san came out from the back with an amazed face.***“Is it a rush job again? If you are fine with me and 2 ~ 3 greener ones, I can quickly prepare them…”*“No, this time I looking for people to come and stay in our territory. I’m looking for someone with good enough arms to make anything from farm tools and accessories to fishing boats and buildings.”*“Huh……”*Kunz-san makes an awkward, yet troubled expression.***“No, indeed that’s a bit much…… moving from the capital to the over there will be quite hard for those with families, and young talents are mostly those who want to hone their skills in a town and earn a name for themselves. Besides, most of them are trying to become professional craftsmen in a specific department, not a jack of all trades.*Even if it’s a request from the goddess, this is no less than a matter affecting someone and their family entire lives…”(いくら女神様からのお話でも、こればっかりは、本人や家族の一生の問題ですからねぇ…)***It’s hopeless…….*******“Excu~se me, do you have an extra cook~?”*“Suddenly coming, I wondered who it was gonna be, but isn’t it Mitsuha-san…?”*Bernt-san came out from the back with an amazed face.*Somehow, I have a sense of déjà vu, I have a bad feeling…… about this conversation.**\n
*This place is, no need to say, Paradise Pavilion(Rakuentei).*No, you wouldn’t know if I didn’t say I guess……*Anyway, if talking about if chefs that I know, there’s no option but here.***“Do you have any idea of someone who might want to be a cook in my territory?”*“We~ll, youngins often come wanting to learn Yamano cooking by training at my place. But I’ll be darned, they didn’t want to train seriously and just want to learn Yamano cooking to use it as an asset for making easy money. After learning Yamano cooking, they’ll quit right away.”*……That’ll be a problem.***“Besides, it would still be better if it was a noble’s residence in the capital or a territory close to the capital, but a skilled cook for Mitsuha’s territory, somewhere on the very edge of the country, and even more, it’s a dead end rural place that leads to nowhere right….*No, there’ll still some who would want to go even then, but they’re, well… ”*“What? Is there something about them?”***Bernt-san says hatefully and informed her.*That Mitsuha is thought of quite enthusiastically by some men.*If whether a young woman can put the food made by a man with abnormal goodwill, affection and obsession towards her in her mouth with peace of mind.***“Ahhhhh~ ~ ~ !!!”***“… … right?”*“……un”*Having given up, Mitsuha hurried home.*******Oh, I have to look into food carts…*The “spread the specialty products in the capital tactic”, that I devised as part of developing the territory.*No, I do think the tactic’s name is exactly what it is, but my family doesn’t have any naming sense.***So, anyway, spread it in the capital, Yamano Viscounty being the only supplier, that one.* \nThe first step in it is the shiitake mission, the second is the popcorn plan.*For shiitake mushrooms, I have instructed for dried shiitake mushrooms to be sent to capital at Petz-san’s convenience as soon as they are done. Then we supply them for the dishes at Paradise Pavilion.*At the same time, General Store Mitsuha will make offers to supply things for making dishes at noble parties. No one can resist! …For a fee of course.(併せて、貴族のパーティーに雑貨屋ミツハから料理を数品提供すると申し出る。まさか断る者は居るまい！ …もちろん有料ね。)*Fuhaha, now, it’s only a matter of time before the capital is under my control!!***So, though we’re waiting for the harvest with the shiitake mushrooms, I’m thinking of going ahead toward sales with the popcorn.*Since there’s still time before the planted explosive species of corn in the territory can be harvested, I cheated a little with the dried explosive species brought from Earth, as in, the tactic in where a cooking show says, “we have prepared the completed thing here”, the “already in demand by the time of the harvest plan.”***That the popcorn corn is a different breed in the first place is exposed and other territories get their hands on it and start growing it, all that should buy quite a lot of time before the imitation stores come out. Until then, it can be kept as a Yamano territory branded name product…*Fortunately, salt and cooking oil can be covered by the territory. Added value by being completely made in Yamano territory…(幸い、塩も食用油も領内で賄える。完全ヤマノ領産で、付加価値を…。)***So, that’s why I’m going looking for vendors for a food cart for the time being. To the orphanage.*****“Ah, it’s himemiko-sama! Me! This time it’ll definitely be me who’ll get the job!”*The small children rush over in full force. Umumu, I’m as popular as usual. If only it was with stern uncles…….***“Today, I came to make a long-term contract. if it goes well, I’ll keep making requests for a long time. Is the director here?”*The children didn’t understand very well but seemed to have sensed a good deal, they ran to call the director. He seems to be in the field apparently.*****I had a meeting at the director’s office with the director returning after having wiped off his sweat. Maybe running the place is hard, it’s a plain room with no accessories. No, if you say that, the whole orphanage’s the same though.*For the time being, I’ll pass over the food I brought as provisions.*****The food that Mitsuha brings over when she makes requests at the orphanage were at both extremes.*Sometimes, real food like potatoes, large Kanya biscuits, rice balls, etc.; refugees from somewhere kind of the・food.*And other times, sweets, chocolate, shortcake, etc.; a lineup the managing adults would want to say if they saw it, “if you have the money to buy this then please buy something that’ll stay in their stomachs”.*It wasn’t alternating, totally random.* \nThe boy and the director were staring blankly with open mouths when I suddenly came to.