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"Well, there's no bite."

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"What's the matter, Ars? Worried about your hair at such a young age?"

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"Who's bald? No, Dad. I'm not talking about hair. I'm talking about paper.

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　While proceeding with the land survey for the Barka knight's territory, we ran into a new problem.

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　We had just created a standard to determine the size of the land, and now we wanted to check it, but there was no paper to record it.

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　It is said that parchment paper has been used to keep records in this area for a long time.

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　But I didn't have that parchment with me.

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　I wonder if there are any sheep around here.

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　If there is Genghis Khan, I would like to eat it.

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　When I mention the word "paper," they all seem to think of parchment, or animal parchment.

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　When I ask for paper, most of them say, "Are you going to skin a Valkyrie?

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　But I can't do that.

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　Valkyrie can be a great asset for me.

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　I cannot skin Valkyrie.

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　However, it seems that parchment is not distributed in such large quantities, and I have calculated that the cost of paper would be quite ridiculous.

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　Frankly speaking, am I the only one who thinks this is a waste of money?

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　In addition, there is also the problem that parchment paper is too thick to make a book.

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　As a person who has experienced the paperless experience of e-books, I would rather not have a storage medium that takes up that much space.

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　So, I have decided to start making paper.

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　Well, I don't need so many at the moment.

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　I decided to make my own paper, even if it is only for my own use.

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　I have a lot of paper to make, but I don't need that much at the moment.

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　I make vegetable paper, not parchment, of course.

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　In fact, I have been cultivating the forest for some time now, and have found that the forest in the village of Barca is surprisingly diverse.

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　Some trees can be used as raw material for magic mushrooms, while others can be easily used as charcoal.

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　But there were also trees that were not suitable for either.

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　We will try to make paper from these trees.

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　We proceed with the work, referring to the memories of our previous lives.

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　First, the wood that will be the material for the paper is shaved into small pieces, and then pounded and crushed.

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　After the wood has been ground very finely, it is boiled down.

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　After trying various methods of boiling down the wood, I finally decided to use a potion for restoring magic power.

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　When the wood is boiled down, fibers are extracted from it, and the amount of fibers was very good when the wood was boiled down with the potion for restoring magic power.

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　The fibers are then mixed with glue.

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　For this, we decided to use a type of yam that grew wild in the forest.

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　It is said to be poisonous if eaten, and in the village people are told never to eat it even if it is picked up in the forest.

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　However, it has been known for a long time that the yam is very sticky when boiled and can be used as a simple adhesive.

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　The liquid is made by boiling the wood fibers with glue.

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　It is transferred into a container and scooped with a net fitted into a prepared wooden frame.

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　After a few days of drying, the paper was successfully made.

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　It took a lot of effort to make the paper from a combination of locally available materials, but we managed to complete it.

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　In particular, I think it was a good idea to use a potion to recover magic power.

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　Until then, it was difficult to remove the fibers, and even when they were removed, they were ragged and incompatible with the glue, but this improved at once.

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　I wondered if it would be a good idea to use a magic restorative that could be a strategic substance, but that's OK.

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　The result was a paper so smooth and comfortable to write on that I could hardly believe I had made it myself.

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　I quickly wrote the data of the cadastral survey on this plant paper.

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　I was so busy writing down the data of the cadastral survey on this plant paper.

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"Boy, please. Sell me this paper."

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"What's the matter, old man? When I started talking about making paper out of wood, didn't you say something about it being impossible?"

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"U......, no, my bad. I never thought I would make such a paper."

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"Good to be honest. So, what is it?　You want paper?"

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"Yes. I want to sell this paper. I've never seen paper this thin and easy to write on. I only wish I had some when I was peddling."

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"Yeah, when you're peddling, you want as much space for your goods as possible. Is it better to use thin paper for recording?

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"Oh, and if the paper is this beautiful, there will definitely be buyers on the street. This is going to sell, kid."

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"Great. Then I'll get a paper-maker to make it a new specialty of the Barka Knight's Domain.

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　By the way, some of the Fontanas were killed in battle when I fought against them.

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　Some of them were married, of course, and their families were left with few men to support them.

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　He had given them some money, but that would only be a temporary measure.

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　Then, we should gather some widows and have them make paper.

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　With this idea in mind, I began to produce paper in two villages after checking up on the war dead.

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　I used magic restoratives as materials, and plant paper is not cheap.

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　The resulting plant paper turned out to be a surprisingly good income, and as a result, the families of the soldiers who died in the war did not hold a grudge against me.

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