Ascendance of a Bookworm

Vilma who did not leave the orphanage’s girls’ wing appeared in the workshop, causing a terrible roar.

“Wow! It’s Vilma!”

“Vilma has come!”

Children start cheering and gathering in Vilma to explain to their mouth what they are doing and what they can do.

There is no chance for the gray priest to approach the child barrier. And there is no turn to me who decided to protect Vilma.

“… Then let’s print”

¡I no longer need to protect Virma, so I dropped my shoulders and headed to Lutz. Vilma follows me behind the child barrier.

“Lutz, please print the door and imprint first? I want to check if the ink is applied evenly with this roller.”

“I understand”

Lutz puts the paper on the stand for printing and puts the paper on top of it. The printing stand is generally A4 size, and the printing paper is A5 size.

In this picture book, the picture and sentence plates will be separated at the top and bottom. There is now a door on the top and an imprinted paper on the bottom.

“Is this correct?”

“Yes, it’s okay”

Lutz, after confirming with me, gently lowered the wooden frame with the net, and then took out the ink. Combined with a little oil on a marble table, kneaded with a pate spatula. Then apply it to the roller and stretch it to apply ink evenly.

Ready Lutz glanced at me. When I whisper, Lutz slowly rolls the roller on the net. It turned a few times vertically and horizontally, and once placed the roller on the marble.

Gently raising the wooden frame, the paper was stuck to the net with ink, and only the printed paper remained on the table.

Characters are printed firmly on white paper. Neither drowning nor bleeding.

“Good!”

“No problem. Put this on the drying table.”

After confirming the printed door and imprint, I handed the paper to a gray priest. The gray priest puts paper on the shelf. Lutz then sets a new paper and prints it. This is because the cardboard plate is not something that can be used many times, so it will be printed at once.

30 copies will be printed this time. I will dedicate my take home, the temple room, Lutz, Benno, and the priest, and the rest in the orphanage. When the temple classroom is opened, it will be a textbook.

“Next, I will print the text and picture. Please prepare.”

Tension runs on Virma’s face when she hears my instructions.

Lutz replaces the paper. I removed the door and the imprinted paper, and instead placed it carefully so that it would look like a sentence on the left side and a picture on the right side to make it easier to see in a spread. In the middle, there is a wider space to sew together during bookbinding.

Vilma and Lutz, I felt that their eyes were looking at me, and I looked at their faces and then slowly sang.

Lutz is tense enough to lose to Vilma and uses a roller to apply ink evenly in all directions.

The heart beats at the same speed as Lutz moves the roller.

Is it finished properly?

Is it possible that Vilma is finished in a satisfactory picture?

While gazing at the feeling of praying, Lutz puts a roller and gently raises the wooden frame. I felt that not only me but also the people watching around me could hear the sound of breath and breath.

“… Wow!”

“Wow!”

The children who first spoke out were the children around Vilma.

The scene where the god of darkness met the goddess of light was beautifully expressed only in black and white. I thought it would be great from the time I saw the plate, but I knew it well when the ink came in and the color was clear.

The dark god trying to envelop the goddess in a black cloak like a night sky, and the goddess of light that illuminates the dark god who had spent a long and lonely time seemed to emerge vividly. Fine hair shadows and costume wrinkles that could not be seen just by looking at the cut-in version were drawn with the subtlety of Burma.

“It’s so great!”

When I looked back on Vilma, Vilma stared at the printed picture with tears and tears.

“Vilma !?”

“Sorry, this is a relief, I’m happy …”

Vilma softly wiped her tears while saying so. The children are struggling to comfort Virma, stroking their backs and comforting “Don’t cry”.

The figure of Vilma who can’t hide the joyful tears and the comforting children looked like a religious painting to me.

…… Vilma, Serious Saint.

The surrounding line of sight naturally goes to Vilma, where his cheeks are dyed in rose to shed beautiful tears.

Virma, who noticed that it was attracting attention, embarrassedly dyed the earlobe in red, and turned her back and forth.

“Mine-sama, I, I will draw the next picture”

From then on, every time the Vilma picture was completed, it was decided to print it. Meanwhile, the children make paper and the gray priests work hard to make ink.

At the same time, we began to dry fruits and mushrooms harvested in the forest, and started buying strawberries as a winter preparation. The amount needed for the orphanage is large, so I thought it would be better to get ready early.

“Mine, printing is over today. What are you going to do next?”

Lutz said on the way home one day when autumn deepened. Finally, it seems that all pages have been printed.

“Next is bookbinding! I will definitely go to the workshop tomorrow!”

“You don’t have to come, so explain”

“I want to participate because I can do it only at the beginning, and I want to see it with my own eyes. After confirming that everything is going smoothly, I will not enter the same way as when printing. Lutz.

I can’t work with a blue priest apprentice. When I’m in the workshop, the gray priests are worried and difficult to move, so it seems to be very disturbing. However, the feelings I want to get involved in the production of the book cannot be suppressed. Especially when entering new work.

“… Because it’s only the beginning”

“Ufufu. I did it!”

[Lutz begins to walk, pulling my arms that rejoice while spinning around on the spot. When I started walking with Lutz, keeping my smiling face, Lutz released his hand and took the writing board out of the luggage.

“Let’s explain. Is it bookbinding?”

“Yes, it’s binding! When the printed paper is properly dried, carefully fold it in half. Align the edges so that the two-sided spread of the picture and sentence becomes a valley. Fold it neatly, because it needs a table, you might want to work in the orphanage cafeteria. ”

Lutz writes down my explanation on the writing board. While watching the speed, I kept explaining slowly.

“When you break, make sure to create a mountain by aligning the orientation of each page. Be careful not to mix it with other pages, or to turn it upside down. Oh, yes, cut the door and the imprint page in the morning with a cutter. “

“… I understand”

On the afternoon of the next day, printed papers were brought one after another into the orphanage cafeteria where I waited. Every table is beautifully polished so that the paper does not stain.

I sighed in excitement in a stack of paper stacked vertically and horizontally in front of me. Be mesmerized by the smell of new paper and ink. You can make a book now.

“Then please come to pick up the team”

It seems that there is a grouping in the workshop to make it easier to work, and this time, each group is supposed to fold the page. The gray priest is watching the apprentices as the team leader.

There is an advice from Gil that it is better to stop young children with less than apprentices who do not know whether to break properly or not, and now they are making soup with Vilma Yes.

Take great care not to slip the edges. Pay attention to the folding direction. When everything was broken, Lutz stated the precautions such as getting my check, and then the paper folding work began.

“Please align the edges more carefully. Press here and here first, and then …”

I slowly look around each table and teach how to fold. In this town, where paper was expensive and was not familiar, of course, I had never made origami. For this reason, even adult gray priests do not end up neatly. It seems like a clumsy foreigner made origami for the first time.

… Oh. A special book! The page will be skewed! ?

While holding my head to the reality I had to face, I returned to my seat and sneaked into Lutz.

“Lutz, this isn’t good if I fold it?”

“Please be patient now”

“Ugu ……”

I should have been practicing origami with failed paper. Failure.

While I’m waiting for the final result, the pages folded in half are piled up. Check to see if something too terrible hits you as a redo. It ’s ridiculous to become a book as it is.

Once all the pages are broken, add the door and imprint and place them in order on the table. If you take it in order, the pages of the book should be in line.

This is the work that was done when an excursion bookmark was made during school days. It’s nothing unusual for me. Other people who actually work are the first experience.

“Let’s take the imprinted page like this, shift it to the side, take one from the next page pile, stack it as it is, and repeat it again. Please be careful not to repeat or take two sheets while they overlap. “

While saying so, I take the page quickly. If you can staple it now, the story is fast, but there are no such useful goods here.

When I took all the paper and returned to my seat, Franc sighed with a bitter face.

“… Mine-sama”

“I want to take this home. I’m sorry for doing it arbitrarily.”

Although I knew that it was a sigh that I wanted to say that I didn’t work, I diverted my eyes. This is to show everyone an example. And it is also to ensure a part in my hand.

While people are hugging, while they are layering, I carefully fold the page and fold the crease with nails. You should have prepared a spatula and a ruler. No, it may have been better not to be able to fold it with a spatula, considering that it can still be folded.

Since there were only 30 copies, the contents of the book were quickly assembled and stacked 10 by 10 vertically and horizontally. Be careful not to break it and have it go to the workshop.

“Because tools will be needed for the future work, that’s it for today. Thank you everyone.”

Today, I will go home and continue the bookbinding work. I put a part I secure in my bag. Lutz brought me a sheet of paper with a watermark to make it a cover.

“If you go home and continue, I’ll help you. It’s easier to see than to hear”

“Thank you”

Still Glue ( Nika ) Can’t be used as glue There are few in my hand. Therefore, this time I would like to bind with the fourth stitch, which is the basic of Japanese binding.

“Now!”

“Welcome back, Mine. It was fast. That? Today, together with Lutz?”

When I got home, Turi was already back from the forest. I show Turi a bunch of pages from the bag that I brought back today for binding.

“Turi, take a look. Look, the children’s scriptures! I was able to print”

“Wow, this picture book is wonderful!”

Turi slammed paper and raised his voice. I couldn’t understand the black-and-white picture book I made. Aside from that.

“… But it’s inconsistent. Isn’t this difficult to read?”

“I’m going to bookbinding now … Can Turi help me?” So it’s helpful if you come to the workshop and tell me. I don’t work there. “

When I took out the paper from the bag and placed it on the table, I asked Turi, and Turi leaned slightly.

“But can I do it?”

“Since I sew with a needle and thread, I think that Turi is better than me.”

“Well … Well then, I’ll help you, so give me a book. I want to learn the letters too.”

‘Turi said that ’s a little embarrassing. It seems that Turi wants to learn the letters as I and Lutz are writing on the writing board and stone board and watching Korinna taking notes at the time of ordering.

That’s cheap. I can be a tutor for Turi.

“I will leave this book, one at home, so let’s read it together. I’ll lend you a slab. I can’t sew, but I can teach you the letters. Orphans this winter. I’m going to teach the children of the hospital and I hope to learn Turi together because it’s faster to learn when there are competitors. “

I find out the tools necessary for bookbinding from my father’s tool set and arrange them on the table. A ruler, an awl, a tongue and a board.

“First of all, make sure that the edges of the paper are aligned. This is the only thing you can fix. Once you have confirmed, prepare a spatula and a ruler and arrange the fold mountain properly …. Feeling “

When I showed a model and moved the ruler along the fold mountain, Lutz and Turi tried to do the same with my own paper.

“If all the creases are tight, make sure that the top and bottom and left and right are aligned, and the throat side. I’ll make a hole in it. “

I placed them on a board, measured the size with a ruler, and made three small marks with a pencil.

“Lutz, I want you to make a hole here. If you stand straight and hit with a tonker, a straight hole will open.”

“Oh, here it is”

When I aligned and pressed the edges, Lutz hit a thousand pieces on the mark and struck from the top with the contest.

“Turi, thread through the needle, thread through the front and back of the middle hole”

“Yes”

Threading is easy for me because Turi is used to work. The thread passed through the hole in the middle.

“Put the needle from the back through the top hole and put the needle out of the front into the bottom hole. Pass the needle from the back of the bottom hole through the middle hole”

So I had Turi cut the thread, and I tied the thread as if I sandwiched the thread passed up and down. Cut the end of the thread short, and let Lutz lightly tap the knot with a tonkerchief.

“Why are you hitting me?”

“If you break the knot, the surface will be beautiful.”

After hitting with a tonkachi, Lutz writes the work order on the writing board. In the meantime, I put a ruler against my back and forehead and cut it off with a cutter so that the edges were aligned.

“After this, Angular fissure ( Corner ) I don’t have anything to do, so this time I’ll skip it and put a cover on it, using clean paper with watermarks of flowers and leaves that everyone has taken in the forest. “

When you fold the cover with the florets and small leaves that are pressed into flowers, the Turi looks into you and makes your face shine.

“Wow, cute”

“Oh, right? Cut it in half and put it on the front and back. Then, put a ruler on the position of the main binding, and make a streak with a stirrer, and then the binding hole like in the case of temporary binding Decide the position and make a hole “

Measure me with a ruler, and this time I will press and mark a thousand sheets so that the cover will not get dirty. It’s a bit sad that my power doesn’t open the hole.

“That’s my turn.”

Lutz takes a tonka and opens a hole with a computer. Turi seems to know that if a hole is made, the thread will go through the needle.

“Put out the needle from the back of the second hole, turn around the back and pass the thread from the back to the front again … Yes, so leave the thread for the length of Turi’s index finger, Open the thread and pull out the thread that remains in the center of the page and push it in between the pages so that it is not visible. “

“Looks like this?”

“Push in with the needle a little. Yes, it feels good. When the rest of the thread has been processed, put out the needle from the front of the third hole and turn it back and back again. Through “

After that, put out the needle from the back to the front of the fourth hole, turn the back, and from the back to the front. Now turn the thread around the ground and pass the needle through the fourth hole. Then, sew so as to make up for the place where the thread does not cross so as to return from the ground to heaven.

“It’s pretty easy to try”

Shuryu and Turi whisper while passing the thread. Since you only pass through the holes in order, it is not difficult to bind them unless you forget only the order. All you have to do is bind it carefully so as not to loosen.

“Now, after turning the thread to the heavens, the next is the end of the last thread with the back cover up. In this way, tie here through the needle.”

“That ’s true.”

When I passed the needle as instructed by me, the Turi was small and leaked a surprised voice that the knot was made.

“After pulling this thread tightly and tying it, pass the needle through the second hole and drop the knot into the hole. This won’t break easily.”

“Oh, great!”

While Lutz is stunning, Turi pulls the thread and tries to drop the knot into the hole. Push in the knot that does not fall easily with a needle and pull it once more.

“Now, when I cut the thread … the book is done”

Completion was visible, and something hot in my chest came up. It seems that the whole body can be tightened, and the back of the throat is drawn.

“Mine, cut it out”

So, Lutz gave me a thread trimmer. While the Turi whirls small, the thread between the book and the needle is stretched. I pick up the thread trimmer with my trembling hand and hit it against the taut thread. With a little effort, the thread broke.

At the same time, the lacrimal gland is destroyed. Hot tears that couldn’t be stopped fell down the cheeks one after another.

“I did it … I did it, Lutz”

It wasn’t a clay board, it wasn’t a wooden letter, it wasn’t a bunch of notepads, it wasn’t a black-and-white picture book with no letters written on it.

“…… It was long”

About two years since my consciousness came to this world and decided to make a book. Finally, a book was completed. It ’s like a dream.

Lutz, who made it together, has been nurturing his eyes with the best smile full of accomplishment.

“I did it, Mine”

I hugged Lutz who spread my arms and asked me many times. I couldn’t do anything alone. It was completed because Lutz made it together.

“Thanks to Lutz and Turi. Thank you. I’m happy. I’m very happy. I’ve got a book. My book I’ve always wanted.”

I don’t want to mess with the book I just made and I can’t touch it with my hands wet with tears. Although it is a thin Japanese-style picture book, tears can’t stop when you think about the way to make it.

体 No physical strength, no strength, no money, no paper, no ink, no tools. The challenge that started with no end was finally realized.

Lutz laughs at a challenge to me, who is immersed in happiness when the book is completed.

“But it’s just one book. Are you going to make more ?? Read, read, make a book that won’t end. Mine?”

Lutz’s nephew eyes are already looking forward to the next goal. I have to keep trying one after another to achieve my ambitions.

While wiping the tears and tears, I laughed and screamed.

“Yes. Make as many libraries as you need. Promise, so.”