Chapter 618 – [Cultural Festival]

Preparations for the cultural festival were progressing to the extent that you could see them here and there.

Booth installation, performance hall installation, and other various facilities installation, etc. It was full of things to build, but I was used to it and was building it quickly.

The economic revitalization that comes from this itself will not be a joke. After working hard, I would be hungry and thirsty, so only the nearby restaurants were exciting.

After all, no customer turnover is as fast as a man at work… They come quickly, eat, and leave quickly. I don’t even make a claim in a dizzying manner.

Just one thing, if you don’t like it, it’s such a guest who won’t come again without saying anything. So don’t ignore food service workers and try your best!!

Ah, the words leaked elsewhere. Anyway, I also went to Ruri to apply for a booth separately.

“I have to ask the student department. I do the final payment, but it’s better to go through the process and pay for what’s coming up after you apply.”

“Student records? No, something like a school here?”

“Ishmael is treated as a club activity, and the building was lent to me, so I was able to handle it, but after all, the school festival is supervised by the student department.

“I didn’t even know why”

“Isn’t it because you didn’t have an accident?”

“Ah, that’s right”

The one I usually get along with is Ruri, the owner of this academy, and since Ruri always fulfills pretty much any request, I have nothing to do with the student department.

Besides, even if it’s something to do, it won’t come to me unless it’s a dizzying deal. As the prince of the Ten Continents, I am truly the pinnacle of power. No matter how much the academy doesn’t care about the difference in status, it’s hard to find someone who has the guts to do that to me, who is not a local aristocrat.

Of course, if you come to me and say something, I’m willing to listen to you, but… I’m not that obsessive either.

Anyway, I went to the student council. The student council, which is in the best position among the main buildings of the academy, felt that the amount of support from the academy itself was quite sufficient.

Oh, when I think of the student council, I think of the member who is the most promiscuous.

“What?! Your Highness!!!!”

“Today, as a student, I came to apply for a cultural festival booth…”

“Now, wait a moment. I’ll serve you something to drink right now!!!!”

The reaction to this was the same.

I write, because this is why it is difficult to meet people. Is there no one other than the heterogeneous people who can treat me normally?

A male student who seems to be a member of the student council… Looking at it, he may be older than me, but in terms of position, he treats me like a comfort. Not a very good feeling.

He gave me a ride and sat down with a nervous expression on his face.

“Hey, here you are”

“I’ll drink well”

It’s black tea, but it still tasted good. Just like working at a company only improves your ability to adjust the water for instant coffee, it seems that this is the same.

I asked him about renting the cultural festival site. As the story progressed in a familiar direction, he relaxed a little and started explaining naturally.

“First of all, the booth assignment is randomly assigned by the student council after receiving the proposal.”

“Okay?”

“Yes, in general, we seek equal allocation, but if you submit recommendation letters from professors or performance records of sub-divisions along with the proposal, you will be assigned to a booth in a better position.”

“Hoo”

On the one hand, I don’t think it’s a favoritism, but it’s a good system. Treating all students equally means treating even the best students below their ability.

Unless the professor is an idiot, he won’t write a letter of recommendation for a student who has no motivation and lacks ability.

In addition, when it comes to club activity performance, our side is at the top. Even if you do it as a hobby, there will be no students at the academy who don’t know about it.

…….. However, the registered sub-activity is in the name of Cafe Ismael, and what I am trying to do is something else.

“What if I apply for a booth to do something different from the club activities?”

“Hmm… I won’t be able to write a record of club activity results, so I’ll be assigned to a booth with a lower level. Is that okay?”

“Then…….”

It’s a bit like getting a bad seat.

I’m confident that I can do business well wherever I sit, but if I’m in the corner, it’s uncomfortable for the customer. Besides, if you can do it, it’s more fun and better to work in a good position.

If you don’t have any performance in club activities, you have no choice but to get a letter of recommendation. And I know a professor who can be sure of getting a letter of recommendation.

The professor of the cooking class I am taking.

I don’t know anything else, but the cooking class was an A+. The other one was an A in a B+, the only one.

“First of all, do you have a proposal form? I’ll attach a letter of recommendation and submit it later.”

“Ah! The form is here. And you can take your time as we will receive submissions in two weeks.”

“Thank you, it helped me a lot”

Thanks for the kind explanation, I understood quickly.

Once I received the form, I returned to the dormitory and filled out the plan.

Booth name……. To be honest, I sell sweets, I sell alcohol, but this is inconsistent. Should I just make it a simple restaurant?

The personnel are me, Shion, Suni, Luminous, Asterope, Korma, and Zeon. Among them, except for Shion and Seonyi, the rest of the members participate in events hosted by their respective departments, but it’s not like that every day, and they’ve already accepted it.

Since Shion is appearing as a support pitcher, I think a lot of people will flock to him thanks to his good looks. It’s a bit like selling your face instead of cooking, though.

“Yayayayayayaya! Me too!!! Me too!!!!”

“What”

I was in the middle of writing a plan, but Rubys came in.

Come to think of it, this is a general department and has no club activities. It would have been a lot of time… If it was a store job, I would be able to do at least soliciting customers during the cultural festival.

“This time they say they’re doing a cultural festival, but I have nothing to do. There are no club activities. I’m bored, so I came here to do something!!!!!

“With that personality, it would be good to invite strangers. At least, people seeing it for the first time will find it strange or interesting.”

Besides, Ruby is a fairy. Even though the Great Forest is their main territory, even elves are a hard-to-see race.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve been in the Great Forest, but is this the first time a fairy has come here and seen Ruby?

He is the perfect person to attract people’s attention.

“Okay, Ruby, put your name in too?”

“Az!”

“I’ll give you some pocket money later, so you can look around and eat this and that… Huh? Come to think of it, it’s taking a while?”

Rubys can now transform into a giant, as well as humanoid size.

Of course, without my help, a very large giant like the last time would be impossible, but at least the shape of a building 2 or 3 stories tall is possible.

Even without that, if she ate something while in human form… It would only be a few bites at most, but that would be hundreds of times the capacity of Ruby’s stomach when she was a fairy.

What happens when you have food in your stomach? Are you just as small? Or is it not possible to get smaller?

“Oh, right. That’s what I mean.”

“How is it?”

“Everything except the food I can digest is converted into imagination!!!!!!”

“No, fuck?!”

“So I’m eating a lot and gathering my imagination power. There are still some leftovers from what you gave me a lot of imagination power last time, and maybe thanks to what you gave me, the maximum capacity has increased and I’m just charging!!!!!”

If it simply grows to a human level, consumption is small. If you remember what Ruby said before, he said that even with his own ability, he could walk around in human form for several days.

If that’s the case, if you grow into a humanoid and eat a lot, then become smaller and accumulate more than the amount of fantasy power consumed… You’ll be able to stock up like an animal sleeping in hibernation.

Without my help, only with my own ability.

…………The next Continental Ten River is right.

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I went to get a letter of recommendation from my culinary professor. The conversation ended fairly easily, but he already knew I was coming and even wrote a letter of recommendation in advance.

“Your Highness really loves cooking. He’s a very promising talent who reveals that aspect during class, so of course I knew he would come.”

“Thank you professor”

“I’ll stop by at least once during the event. Hmm…If they sell alcohol, it wouldn’t be bad to go with a fellow professor.”

He readily gave me a letter of recommendation.

And right away, I submitted a letter of recommendation to the student council along with the proposal. The student from the student council I saw the other day took the documents I submitted and gave me an explanation of what happened next.

“Through this, we will assign booths and notify you later.”

“Do you need anything else?”

“Yes…… Actually, I would like to take care of more, but the location of the booth is a matter that can only be determined by performance and ability. I’m sorry.”

“I didn’t even want special treatment anyway.

“Thank you very much for your understanding”

If you work in the middle, not the top, there often comes a time when you have to do things you don’t want to do.

Among the things I don’t want to do, there are also different fields, and it was the kind of work that was difficult to do, beliefs, or things that made me bend my pride.

At least, if you invest manpower and time, you can do something that is difficult to do, but in the case of the latter, you bend it once or twice and wear it out, and eventually your conscience wears out.

…….. I also have that kind of humanity on the one hand, so I can understand their hard work a little bit. Let’s take care of it when you come to our store later.

“I’ve done all the paperwork, so the rest is ready now.”

First of all, even if vegetables are omitted from the ingredients to be fried, seafood is difficult to store and it is better to use living things. I think it’s better to secure a partner in advance than to save it in advance.

And the other thing is sugar…

“Wouldn’t it be better to invest in one than to prepare so messily?”

“Since the customer base will be diverse, it’s good to prepare a variety of things. There’s no way that people who come to buy snacks and snacks are always the same.”

“It is, but it is.”

If you go to the market, there will be a few stores that sell it, but if you look inside the store, most of them are men wearing a cup of makgeolli. It is safe to say that there are no children.

However, on the contrary, it looks like a street vendor, selling snacks. If you look at the people standing in front of you, most of the customers are children. Of course, there are adults in that case, but it’s to buy for the kids.

Sales are successful only when the customer base is accurately sold through market research. If I made it myself, there would be no need for such a thing, but there would be crowds of customers, but honestly, that’s against the rules.

“Shall I make one for you?”

“Please make something that you already made.”

“Really only one?”

“…….Only 10”

“I know that my wife likes sweets.”

Yongsudang is a honey skein, a 500-year-old traditional Korean royal snack sold in Insa-dong.

In reality, it’s all crap. The origin of the honey skein is a Turkish snack called Fismaniye, but it was only passed on to Korea after going to China.

Just hearing the name Yongsudang itself, doesn’t it sound like it was named in China?

Still, it’s perfect for performance. The way he shows a lump of sugar syrup in front of people and then stretches it out to make it into a thread of more than 10,000 strands has a charm that you must see when you see it on the road.

And that’s enough to make a guest without doing anything special. Besides, it tastes even better.

I thought of various variations while preparing to make honey skeins for Shion in the kitchen.

The prototype is good, but it had to be adapted to the localization. You have to consider the tastes of the people here.

“Shall we mix syrup with fruit juice? If it’s a fruit juice with a bitter taste like grapefruit, I think it’ll be delicious even if you eat it as it is, thanks to the sweetness.”

“I don’t think it’s bad”

“I’ll think about that later…… Let’s make it first.”

How to make Yongsudang!!!!

Add sugar and starch syrup to boiling water. Then mix well to make syrup, cool and harden.

If you want to be moderately hardened, you did half. The only thing left is that everyone who has seen making a skein of honey knows it.

“Seeing that, I suddenly wanted to eat hand-made noodles. That’s with jjambbong.”

“I’ll do it later in the evening. I’m suddenly craving it too.”

Stretch the syrup lump while applying the starch so that it stretches well. 2 strands, 4 strands, 8 strands, 16 strands, 32 strands… So 2 multiplied by 14. 16384 strands.

Occasionally, the salesman would ask for the number, and if someone could guess, he would give one as a service. I remember being like that a long time ago.

“But won’t it grow more than that?”

“This is because it has the best balance. The grains of sugar are fine, and if you have skills like mine, you can make it thinner, but honestly, it takes effort and it’s annoying. There’s not much difference in taste.”

Anyway, if Yongsudang is complete, the only thing left is the contents, soda to go inside.

First of all, I took out the nuts at home, ground them finely, and put them in the stuffing. Nothing else was suitable.

I was wondering if I could put some kind of fruit in it, but it seemed like it would be difficult if it wasn’t something similar to grapes. Strawberries are so large that it is difficult to enter.

“Okay, it’s done. It’s a lump of sugar, so it’s very sweet, so I like the tea to be bitter without adding sugar.”

“I’m going to Americano today”

“I thought the espresso wouldn’t come out”

Me and Shion had a tea time like that.

It wasn’t long before the cultural festival opened, and until it reached a kingdom.