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

Episode 57: Delivery

Inspect the aerial corridor of the fourth branch of the sub-cloud no layer.

Today is the day I've been waiting for. It finally arrives. That item I ordered from the clothes store finally.

It's been a long time, but I can finally worship it.

"It's a great day"

The end of the job approaches momentarily. I can't help but look forward to it.

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It's a delivery thing. Teten keeps his back away from the wall in response to the call.

Home in the cloudy no-layer. I was sneaking into Amane's work room and writing hobby novels the way I usually spend my holidays, so there was a scatter of paper with ciphertext in front of me.

It was a teten towards the door cursorily, but I stop moving when I hear the footsteps going from the hallway outside the door to the front door.

"Yes, to whom?

The sound of opening the door with an inquiry because there are four members of the family. It would be Richay.

Continue. The footsteps coming down from the second floor will be Melmie.

It's too late to leave the room, Teten said, going back to the wall to follow his previous movements in reverse.

"- Richay, what's the delivery thing?

Listening to the conversation heard across the door at all costs, Teten left his back on the wall and took the pen again.

"I want to send it to Amane."

"Oh! What's this packaging? It's so luxurious. I wonder what's in there?

"When Amane gets back, you can ask."

"This store name is a garment store in the clouds."

He saw the deliveries and the sender they wrote about. Melmie's voice.

Teten jumps up and stands up with his gaze about to drop on the paper.

We have to make sure. Teten rushed to the door of the work room, moved by a sense of purpose he had never felt in a long time, and grabbed the door knob and walked out into the hallway.

"... not here"

Shake your head to the left and right to check the deserted hallway, and Teten heads to the poke behind the hallway.

Soon I could hear Richay and Melmie blooming out of the living room in a relaxing conversation.

And apparently, the prey was brought into the living room.

Teten ponders how to recover his prey and looks back at the front door.

We still have half a day before Amane gets back. Even though you said this morning that you would inspect the air corridor in the fourth branch of the cloudless layer today, it is hard to imagine that you will temporarily return home to pick up lunch. Because the air corridors of the fourth branch also go extensively in conjunction with the air market.

So how about having fun first instead of collecting prey?

"... Zama"

Teten imagines a repentant amane, with a bad grin. You'll be rubbing your cheeks off of a repentant amane, but it's not a minor problem.

After enjoying it for a moment, I peek into the living room with a plan to just reflect it in the novel I'm writing and let it roll into Amane's room this evening to read.

"Oh, Teten, halo loin. Where were you? Well, no, look at this. I've got a package for Amane that looks expensive."

"Pretty big baggage, huh? I know it's clothes, but it's rare for Amane to buy something this expensive alone"

"I'm guessing what's in it. Come on, Teten."

"... the contents, I know"

Totetote and rushed over. Teten sees the package that it has arrived.

The wrap placed on the table was wrapped in a band embroidered to indicate it was a luxury item. Should boulders be called garment shops? The embroidery of the belt is stunning, with a realistic depiction of butterflies and flowers. Mutant lip peakles were used as early as possible in the flower drawings, and I knew immediately that they were objects wrapped in tacks. In other words, they were not ordered externally, such as hedgeways famous for their wool textiles.

Teten deepened his confidence in the contents and nodded.

Melmie and Richay stare intriguingly at Teten.

"How does Teten know what's inside?

"A gift from Amane to Teten? That's unusual."

"... to your sisters, a gift"

"To us - say, teten!?

Nor did he hear the halt to Richay speaking out of a rare and hasty voice, and Teten unwraps the embroidery belt and removes the wrapped cloth.

What emerged from inside was another stunning box of compositional craftsmanship. A wintery lid scattered in thumb size with a pattern of snow crystals drawn in combination with rhombus shapes. The contents visible from the gaps in the composition were the very objects that Teten had in mind.

"... this is a good job"

This design has been bothering Amane for more than ten days at night. I just felt like I could honor Amane with the tip of my pinky finger.

"Here, Teten, it's for Amane, so you can open it on your own - something amazing came out!

"Don't flatten your hands to Melmie."

"If we open this far, it's too late, isn't it?

"So is that..."

He was a roundabout Richay, but ended up sighing in agreement with Melmie.

"I don't care what you think, she's a woman, and I'm pretty sure she was going to send it to one of us."

"I mean, what is this?

"... maids, clothes. Amane's Romance"

Yes, it's made-up clothes. Besides, this is the finest bespoke piece, featuring even frills on a long skirt that doesn't exist in this world. Not very much, but not something to wear to a servant.

White brim is a kachusha with lace. Below it is housed a piece of pink black long skirt with frills. The shoulders are embellished with frills and the overall black yet thin but bright blue ribbon around the neck claims.

Comes with a white apron, specifications to fasten with double bow ties around the hips on the back side.

The frills of the long skirt are also carefully colored, depicting a loose gradient towards the hem tip, with a high-format design to match the glamour of the lace.

As for the birth of this made-up garment, it dates back to the day when the garment store, which was located in the city of Kattella, relocated its headquarters to the cloud-no-tier of Tacax.

At midnight, Teten, suddenly pulled into the room by Amane, was mistaken for wondering if the servant Amane had also finally started writing a lily novel.

However, Teten, who was informed of the facts and slightly discouraged, was attracted to Amane's romance, who explained his enthusiastic thoughts on maid clothing, and Teten also decided to cooperate.

It was this made-up garment that Amane herself designed after an exchange of views over the past ten days.

"This is a bird eater spider drip yarn. I've never seen anything so thin. Was it for this that you were immediately tailoring the Bird Eater Spider during the construction of the Heavenly Tower Corridor?

"A dripping thread. Plus, you're dyeing it when it's dripping, not from yarn. How much does it cost to have the material in front of you?"

"... dripping yarn?

As Teten snapped his neck, Richay and Melmie sighed all together.

"I know Teten isn't really into clothes, but I don't think it's a good idea not to know the dripping yarn. So, Richay, please explain."

"Drop yarn is a special luxury yarn made using liquefied yarn, not a bird eater spider's nest. A good professional handles the liquefied yarn specially to create a very fine, undamaged yarn unlike the one taken from the nest. It is said that the hand of the cloth made of this is irresistible as a cloud, and it is all considered a luxury item. Well, if you dye in a liquefied yarn state, you can wash it many times and it won't fade, and you can still maintain a unique shine and touch on the yarn, so the value is even higher."

Listening to Richay's explanation, Teten turns his face toward made-up clothes in a poorly stood door-like motion.

I opened it up on my own, but the concern that I might have done something quite unsavory was bringing my head to bear.

"More to the point, dyeing in the state of liquefied yarn is not as difficult as dyeing on instillation. It's really trivial when you dye it when it drips, but it makes it look uneven."

"... at instillation, stained, so this is cheap?

"The other way around. It's almost double the price. When dyed in the state of liquefied yarn, the colour becomes too uniform and the industrial impression is stronger. Dyeing during instillation leaves the texture of natural products, so they become familiar with the colour of the wearer's skin when dressed."

"Amane gets elaborate when you mean it, right? This is pretty extreme, though. This is the man's maroon."

"Isn't it romantic?

Teten drips cold sweat with a lid that has been opened to Melmie's words.

However, because the contents of the box were a shocking substitute, it would not make sense to close the lid and repackage it. Even if I open it again in front of Amane and show it, there's no way Richay or Melmie would react the same way they did earlier.

As I grated that I wasn't going to go this far, I heard the front door unlock.

"Oh, Amane's home."

"I knew you'd be eating outside for lunch. I wonder if he flew home when he heard this would arrive."

Teten walks to the front door with all his strength, with a right and left quote. He hasn't even noticed that he's in too much of a hurry to keep the lid.

Teten, who ran to the front door at an incredibly unparalleled rate by Richay and Melmie, posed for it before the door opened out.

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"- I'm home... Teten, why are you grounded, you?

I ask while I have a bad feeling about a sitting boy teasing a japanese geezer at the end of the door.

"... sorry, do"

"I'll be anxious early home. Welcome, but what have you done?

In other words, the lid of the assembly mechanic is the lid of a box dedicated to custom-made clothes used by a garment store in the middle of the cloud.

"You opened it?

"... opened. Sorry, it was."

You saw Richay and Melmie on holiday, didn't you?

"… not so much anymore"

"... ha"

I can't help what I've been seen. I just have to think that the gift surprise person just became me for whatever reason.

"If you punish this, don't open deliveries to others on your own. Even if you know what's inside."

"Yes... sorry, I did"

"Look, you've got one more thing to say."

"... welcome back, my lord"

"Nice."

It is regrettable that there is no recording device.