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

"Amane, this is my next request, which one do you want?

Richay comes through the front door of the office with a bunch of letters.

He had also scored second in the design tournament at Joynesley, and underneath me, a request was coming in.

Although it was topical because it was rare to be a young Jianqiao family, it was highly regarded as having the corresponding power due to the achievements of the second largest design competition.

Joynesley, who hosted the design competition, has also criticized my design, and there is widespread appreciation that there is still a great deal of room for development and a lack of beauty when one looks at the architecture of something that demonstrates only young people's ability to use profitable spaces individually.

Although it's derogatory in the second half, my designs can't actually be described as beautiful.

But thanks to Joynesley of the skyscraper, who has only two in this world, who has given me a legitimate appreciation for my prowess, my client has also brought me a job with some understanding of my prowess.

Happy or unhappy, it seems that he has been on the construction site more often than in the office for four years after completing the design competition.

Looks like Richay left a letter on my desk with the requisition in it, and when I got back to my desk, I opened the books.

"We'll have the initial funds to start the village in a little while. If you clean up your next request, you can think of it as achieving your primary goal."

"The last job."

"Can we go on for more? There will be no trouble with the initial funds, no matter how much they cost."

Richay also has a point.

The skyscraper is set for the final goal, but the path to getting there is not specifically determined.

So much so that we haven't even decided where to make the village yet. Although I would like to choose a place where transport is somewhat convenient and it is possible to export agricultural products.

"It won't be my last job."

"I guess. We're only twenty-four, and let's just relax."

If you're too relaxed, you'll be a grandpa by the time you build the skyscraper.

I'll look at the sender of the letter. Sometimes it's because of mixed personal messages from people I know. Once I don't split it it up, I get confused.

"... from Kanes?

It was a letter from Kanes, who competed for an order for a development project on the fourth branch in the town of Haratra.

I keep in touch occasionally, but this letter is somehow formatted.

Are you going to emphasize that it is not a private letter?

Open inside and read the letter. As expected, it was a job request from me.

"Richay, I've decided on my next job"

"Where"

"South of the World Tree, still a village with no name and no shape."

Richay snaps his neck.

"What do you mean?

"Kanes is going to build a village there."

"... you've been crossed"

I'm not competing, but it's also true that I'm a little sorry. Yes.

"Let's wake up Melmie. I don't even need to contact the wooden cage shop this time, so I want to be ready and leave tomorrow."

"Okay. Still, I wonder how long Melmie's gonna be asleep."

"Yesterday, the girl across the street asked me to make a wooden doll."

Melmie with tea pieces, but occasionally she makes her sister wind.

Leaving the office at noon the following day, we boarded a coyote car headed from the east skyscraper, Joynesley, to the west skyscraper View Terrace.

The West Skyscraper View Terrace is the place I've wanted to take many trips to since I was born into this world.

I made plans and tried to go sightseeing after the design competition, but the sudden work was breaking in and I was way behind.

"Melmie was new to Beautellarm, too, wasn't she?

"That's right. Since the house is Yoinsley, you don't really get to come this way. It's far away."

East and west of the World Tree. It is also natural to be far away.

The itinerary is also quite a long journey of fifteen days and so on. A hundred years ago, they said it took four or fifty days, so this must have been a much easier journey.

It also takes time because there is no way around the trunk of the world tree to travel from branch to branch using a bridge to cross. Besides, pulling a car is a weaker coyote than a horse, so it travels really slowly.

Even if I had a horse, I don't know how useful it would be in this world with a fierce gradient.

While sleeping in villages and towns, we manage to arrive at Beauterrum.

"Is this the West Skyscraper View Terrace..."

It was another interesting skyscraper unlike the east skyscraper Joynesley.

If Joynesley is to be a virtual capital with honor for knowledge and academia, Beauterrum is a rainbow capital consisting of water and agriculture.

This massive skyscraper, with fourteen branches in the lower cloud no layer, ten in the middle cloud no layer and seven branches in the upper cloud no layer, has a population of 60,000. It is smaller in area than the inferior population of Joynesley of 63,000.

Although the view terrace is large in size, it is due to the small area available as a residential area.

"That's the rainbow for 10,000 years. Beautiful."

Melmie squeaks when she sees a rainbow that is considered the biggest feature of Beautellarm.

It has a lake in two branches that are present in this beauty terrace, the cloud-no-layer, and the water that flows down creates rainbows throughout the year.

The amount of water accumulated in the middle of the cloud, in other words, in the contours of its branches that sink into the clouds, is enormous, and no dwelling is built on the branches with lakes. The water, however, travelled widely to Beautellam and was utilized as domestic, agricultural water.

"You've been made to think about the placement of fields."

Richay looks over the field of Beautellam and crushes.

In addition to the corn-like corn, the farmland, which spreads from the lake on the branches of the cloudy Nolan layer, is planted with a variety of vegetables, adding to the view seen from the entrance to the skyscraper. Though I think of the pastoral landscape when it comes to sprawling farmland, it has become a geometrically arranged farmland against the backdrop of several rainbows constantly depicted in the universe in Beauterrum, and it was even somewhere fantastically interesting.

Probably the arrangement by calculating the view from the entrance. If this is an acceptable way to show it, I might be able to visit the village or something with something like paddy art.

"You can't just stand there at the entrance forever, let's go inside"

Encourage Richay and Melmie, who seem to be watching all the time when left alone, to get inside the view terrace.

"The same skyscraper doesn't have the same architectural style as Joynesley."

"Humidity issues, I guess."

Richay and Melmie exchange views as they sight the building across the street.

"The buildings have developed independently because of the constant exposure to high humidity due to the zero drop of water from the lake."

Show Richay and the others the preliminary knowledge you've been putting in to come sightseeing one day.

One of the ideas would be to improve ventilation so as not to allow air in the building. In addition, there is a shuttered vent called a gallery in the upstairs area. The roof consisted of a gentle slope and was painted in a soft warm colour system.

The aerial corridor was supported by several struts, which, from the side, allowed to enjoy a beautiful horseshoe-shaped arch that stretched continuously from left to right.

This skyscraper looks interesting just for a stroll. It can also be said that Kanes, who has a reputation for architectural beauty, qualified for the Building Bridger Qualification Exam from this beauty terrace.

"You're going to suffer from mold. I'm also convinced you can't build a library."

"Richay, this isn't the place to let it out, it's the place to be touched."

It seems to be a skyscraper where the inconvenience comes to the attention of Richay, who was so immersed in the library that he could call out that he would not work as a clerk apprentice.

However, it seems true for residents to suffer from mold, and many preservatives, mildew removers, dehumidifiers, etc. were sold on the market. In the context of the beautiful skyscraper, there is the effort of the inhabitants. I even admire it there.

This time the client, Kanes, is a seller who doesn't know anything about me. Come on. You'll be making money, and the office at the rendezvous place will be big and splendid.

What a time I had in mind too.

"... could it be here?

"The address fits right here."

From what I imagined, Kanes' office was stubborn. There are larger windows in the architectural style of the view terrace, and upstairs, which would be living spaces, have tipped arched windows. There was a small space in front of the window to call it a balcony, with anti-fall railings.

Knock on the front door. The two open doors were made of wood, with two vertical lines on both left and right sides, with a staircase of center and Arabesque sculpture.

Overall, it's a small building, but in detail, it's a pure office.

"Yes, please wait while I open it now"

The door opens when I wonder if I have heard a calm and ringing woman from inside.

It was Kanes' partner, Mr. Calaria, who showed his face. The red hair is carefully braided and feminine. As always, she cared about her eyes, and she wore glasses and stretched her forehead a little.

"With Mr. Amane and Mr. Richay... who's there?

"My name is Melmie"

Peppered and bowed his head, Melmie introduced herself in a leeway voice. Me and Kanes know the face, but since we came here on a request this time, it looks like Melmie decided to come with an attitude towards her work partner so she wouldn't be rude either. When you first met me, you were so borrowed that you wanted to ask me where you went.

Mr. Calaria greeted Mermie unaware of her nature and invited us inside.

"Mr. Amane is here."

When Calaria calls out the back, Kanes comes out of the back room. I could see how many sketches were arranged on the work desk so I was probably at work.

"Are you here? Long time no see. I wonder if this is how we meet each other since the development plan for the town of Haratra."

"Yes, you will."

We had exchanged letters, but we had no opportunity to face each other in relation to having offices east and west of the World Tree.

With his hips down on the couch, Kanes has barely changed his appearance. I became a Jianqiao family, and I was wondering if there was a Pierce Lock attached to it, but when I think about it, I'm not connected to Pierce Lock either.

"As I wrote in my letter, I intend to build a village next time. So I want Amane's opinion."

"Oh, I read the letter. But when I take it, it's hard to say in front of me that I gave you a reply, but how helpful is my opinion?

Kanes is a bridge builder just like me. Moreover, its strength is widely appreciated. I don't think you need to ask for my opinion.

I don't care what kind of village Kanes makes me out of work, so I don't know which way I've been going. Still, you better make it clear whether I'm useful or not and what you want from me.

Kanes stepped out and stared directly at me.

"I have a low self-esteem. I have a glimpse of Amane. [M] I don't have a realistic view of what makes those Joynesley stubborn people practical or sensible."

"In other words, a request to give a realistic opinion on the village you are going to make, based on its location and future prospects?

"Boulders talk fast. Is it economically viable or, if possible, what industry is appropriate, and how is it good to develop a transport network with nearby villages, towns and cities to develop trade? That's what I want to hear, realistic opinions for the future. I tend to be sweet when I try to do this. [M] I called Amane because if it was a village I would make, I would see it with colored glasses."

Let's just go, and Kanes gets up.

"What's your job?

"That was a comparison of the Desane I'd written before, thinking about what I'd do with the house I'd build in the village. There's no job in there."

I'll stand up, too, and follow after Kanes. Three of them, Richay, Melmie and Mr. Calaria, also followed from behind.

Line up next to Kanes and wait for the Tsuji-Koyo.

"How long does it take to get from here to the planned place?

"The first candidate has five days, the second candidate has one day ahead, and the third candidate has two more days ahead."

"That's a long way off."

From this view terrace to the west from the world tree, it is said that there is a candidate location to the southeast.

"I wasn't sure if it was north or south. There's already a skyscraper to the east and west, so if you're going to build it, it's either way."

"... the way I put it, it sounds like he wants to build a third skyscraper"

"That's what I'm saying."

Kanes laughed invincibly.

"I build a third skyscraper to the south. This time the village we're going to build will be the foundation."

Listen to Kanes and look at me the way Richay said it was unexpected.

"Besides Amane, there are other people who say this."

"I thought it was no surprise we were here, but I didn't think we'd meet"

If you build a skyscraper, you'll have as many other people as you want to talk about your dreams. But no one is moving exactly now to make it happen.

Kanes, like me, is a rare beast.

Kanes, a rare beast, hears Richay and I have a conversation and snaps his neck.

"Maybe Amane's going to build a skyscraper too?

"That's why I became a bridge-builder. Initial funding is also on the way."

"Fast!?

"I'm going to go pick a place to set up a village. Is Caines going to say it"

I don't mean to rush you, but I'm still carrying the feeling of being crossed.

I guess I'll build it north of the world tree. If you don't have a good spot, you can build it east while keeping it away from Joynesley. I hope you can eat mushrooms.

Tsuki-Koyo cars are separated and boarded by men and women, aiming for a destination.

"I didn't know anyone but me was thinking absurdly about building a skyscraper."

Looking out the window with Kanes smiling bitterly.

I saw the same view, me, but the look reflecting on the window laughed at some point.

"I'll give it back exactly as it is. You can build a village, but you're no different."

"Oh, my God, you treated me like a good enemy."

Be an architect. Be a bridgebuilder. Even if you say you're a good enemy because you can't quite come across things like sticking together. Direct confrontation is about as good as previous order competition.

Still, the favorite enemies are what Kanes said, and even the letter deliberately tightened the end of the sentence with the words "to my favorite enemy".

Kanes deepens his bitter laugh about whether the grievance was on his face.

"Calaria used to tell me I was alone. He also stabbed me with a nail saying he didn't like it when it bothered him too much. It's so exciting inside. Especially since I became a bridgebuilder."

"We're the only double-digit bridge-builders now."

He qualifies as a bridge-builder at around 400 and 500 years of age. Although some acquire at the age of two hundred, those who said so are a race who have been looking to build bridges straight from the beginning of their architectural credentials.

In most cases, architects succeed their parents in their villages, towns and cities of origin to engage in the maintenance of the village. I can't believe I'm too busy practicing to study for a bridge-building qualification.

Me and Kanes, who have been building bridges since the beginning, and who have been steadily preparing to build skyscrapers, are too special.

But the generation gap between us and the other bridge-builders, which is double-digit in age, is intense and can sometimes be a quarrel.

"Honestly, I'm in trouble without Kanes. Because there will be no more bullets when fighting with the last generation."

"That's terrible!? From now on, brother, shall I let you blow the wind?

"If a gap breeze blows out of the bullet, there's a use for it..."

"Amane, that's really terrible..."

Oh, it's dented.

When I was talking to Kanes about my life and work over the past few years, five days to the ground combined with a lying arrival in a short time.

Look around the branches considered as the first candidate and check the branching as they develop into the skyscraper and into perspective.

I'm just saying Kanes picked it, not bad. Though I have actually walked to neighboring villages and towns, it would be easier to get to town if maintained.

There was a puddle of water just large enough to be called a pond in two places: the lower cloud and middle cloud layers. It doesn't seem very deep, the water depth would be about two meters at best, or four meters even deep. It looks like rainwater has accumulated in an empty void at the top of the branch, and at the bottom you can see signs that the sap of the world tree has cooled and solidified.

"That's essential for agricultural water. Around here, there shouldn't be any villages growing Mippa, and it is huge that stable income can be expected from exporting Mippa from the village stage at no initial cost. The problem is the means of transport."

Mippa is a leafy vegetable that requires abundant water and has leaves shaped similar to horseradish and pine nuts. Supposed to contain a lot of iron and be good for anaemia, the west skyscraper View Terrace supplies this Mippa stably.

It is a vegetable that needs a water storage facility, so it cannot be grown in a village or in a town that cannot afford it, and it is a vegetable that has a slight value. If we can export this, we can expect a steady income from the beginning.

"Mippa starts hurting in about two days, right?

Kanes asks his partner, Mr. Calaria.

Mr. Calaria shook his head sideways.

"If it stays that way, it will hurt in two days, but I'll have five days by covering my stems with a damp cloth. Mippa, which Beautellarm exports, is expanding its sales channels this way. But unless a new means of transport is established, we won't be able to get the Beautellarm Mippa this far."

"You're excellent as a source of income. Where can I sell in five days..."

"Seven surrounding towns will be exporters, with Wallakis and Gamek cities as their main axes. The area is full of Takowka cultivation, and the main produce is somewhat in tune with each other. The construction of the bridge, which was part of the development of the transport network between towns, has also been frustrated without the cost being able to be twisted due to the effects of a discolouration of Takowka three years ago. You'll be glad to cry when there are more importers of new produce. Even more so if it's an anaemic mippa."

I'll explain, Kanes rounds his eyes. I guess I didn't think you were memorizing the surrounding cities and states.

But Richay is more awesome about this.

You understand my intent when I turn my gaze, Richay takes over after me.

"The city of Warakis, the city of Gamek, was developed about eight hundred years ago. It seems that eight hundred years ago, a clan of each other's founders had a quarrel, and the relationship was temporarily severed, and since it was something that developed the town as we interacted with each other, we relied on the surrounding villages to secure agricultural products to support the urban population, and began investing in the cultivation of Takowka as an export commodity for Beauterrum and Joynesley. It continued to develop as it was, but at last it could no longer support the urban population on the farmland of the surrounding villages, putting together a policy to review the industrial structure of the Takowka bias and eliminating the eighty-hundred-year-old rivalry. And the two cities agreed five years ago to build a bridge that would make it easier for them to get to and from the surrounding villages as a memorial to repair their relationship, but two years later, that is, three years ago from now, Takowka Chromosomatic Disease hit industry in both cities, and so on."

Kanes looks stunned at Richay for his history of both cities.

It's a compilation of the knowledge I gained from reading and fishing for books in a fictional large library in Joynesley, and the information and rumors I gathered beside running my office with me.

From an early age, Richay has regularly donated his own history books to fictitious libraries, and this hand thing is his specialty.

Kanes turns his attention to Mr. Calaria, who knows Richay from childhood. Mr. Calaria didn't look particularly surprised either.

"Mr. Richay deserves this much. There are five history books in Joynesley's fictional library that Mr. Richay has donated."

"It's seven now."

Melmie, you don't have to say anything extra.

"... two more books? I didn't know because I hadn't been to Yoinsley in a while."

Mr. Calaria looks east with regret for some reason.

Kanes smiled bitterly.

"Don't tell me you're taking a long vacation to read that history book. I haven't seen Calaria in over thirty days. I can't get around the office."

"Read Kanes, too. Joynesley History is a must-read book written in more detail than the books written by its founders and based on the surrounding conditions."

Were you a loved reader of Richay's history books?

Speaking of which, I think the man in the script who was soliciting Richay for a scribe apprenticeship also said he had a loved reader or something. Will there be any other readers besides Mr. Calaria?

I can't come into the conversation. Side by side Melmie is chewing up the stretch, stating his views on the first candidate and moving on to the other candidate.

Look around at the three candidates and rethink which one of the coyote cars on the way back to Beauterrum has the best location.

"Either the first candidate or the third candidate, I guess. A first candidate with a stable income in the early years or a third candidate with lots of land available with thicker branches overall. I think I'm a good candidate."

More importantly, stable income is attractive. It would make running the village a lot easier.

The third candidate also had water sources, but the surrounding cities and towns have become self-sufficient. I thought the Mippa itself would sell but the value would drop.

In other words, I am concerned that all three candidate sites have large and small ponds and lakes. If Mippa was meant to be the primary crop, Kanes is too dark for the farming situation around him.

"Hey, how come Kanes sticks to ponds and lakes?

It doesn't seem to be affected by the view tellerm, and I'm curious.

To my question, Kanes roared small with an answer.

"Oh, I don't know..."

"If you don't want to answer, I'm not going to force you to ask either."

"No, I'm not. I don't think you can understand what I'm saying. I thought you should actually have a look."

It bothers me when they say it that way.

When I finished my report summarizing the pros and cons for the three candidates, the coyote car that put us on arrived at Beauterrum.

When you go outside, the damp, cool wind characteristic of Beautellarm strokes your cheeks. I inhaled my breath heavily, greeted by water and rainbows falling from the branches of the glowing cloud-no-layer unchanged.

[incomprehensible]

"Come to my office. I'll give you the gratuity there too."

Kanes invites us into the beautellarm and we head to the office.

Naturally, the office keys were closed. But I don't see anything like a letter in the mailbox that's in my sight.

I was away for about thirty days for some reason, and even though one or two of the requests seemed like they were coming in.

"I left it to a guy I could trust to be away. She's going to settle in the village I'm going to make. I only come here at night because I'm familiar with people. I'm a cook."

A cook who works at night without showing up in public, almost a fairy.

Once inside the office, a thirty day letter had been placed at Caines' desk, apparently sorted out by what Caines called a familiar child. There seems to be about ten of them.

"Calaria, please get ready for the gratuity. I'm proud of Amane."

Caines speaks that way to Calaria.

I'll also leave Richay to pick up the gratuity and head upstairs in the office, beyond the living space, to the rooftops as Kanes guides me.

A small pond was provided on the rooftop that exited up the ladder next to the loft.

Lurking in the pond. Seeing that, I felt my heart bounce. I could immediately understand its identity from the memory of a previous life through the back of my brain.

"Hey, this"

"It may look disgusting, but it's these creatures. I can only live in the water. And it's delicious."

Really? It's a creature you don't normally see in this world that lives on top of a world tree.

So explaining it with your mouth won't convey it.

Kanes shows the creature in the pond with his hands.

"This is Ayuka, my hidden balls for building a skyscraper."

Caines' Hidden Ball - It was a freshwater fish resembling a fish.