Vol 2 Chapter 107 (2/2)
Although its appearance was far off fro filled with a vitality that it would turn into their uratively and literally, Ilya smiled wryly
“Please note that your ballot will be invalid if there are not three written down on it Ah, if you get eood daht? Ilya worked on it, so that would be sacrilege”
“Then what about the ones not touched by Kami-sama…?”
Hearing the man’s words, several people didn’t speak and nodded to each other in agreement
(What did that mean?)
Ilya, still s, looked around for the owner of that voice
Right now, if she cancelled the repair radation of the entries, so, ‘The snow sculpture in this spot just collapsed!’
Be the manufacturers or residents of the towns, that would be unbearable and h for retaliations
“The time limit is until noon There will be a new dish at the branch office to treat everyone, but since your exa it with you alright?”
Cheers of joy that hadn’t been heard thus far broke out
They were so delighted about it that soht confuse that for the ination
“Then, Hector-san Please declare the examination’s commencement!”
Elizah abruptly stepped aside,Hector in front of the microphone
“Good luck to everyone today… well, today stiff formalities are unnecessary, aren’t they I ad fun And so… begin the examination!”
With that, a cheerful atmosphere broke out and the spectators bustled about
Ilya, who had watched it all, changed places with Elizah on the platform and went to the table of four
“The ones selected by everyone as the best will each receive special prizes There is the possibility of second or third place coher votes, but since they have all received public acknowledge constrained”
Three of them nodded obediently
However, the last one snorted with an expression that seemed derisive
“You’re an optialities will be performed as soon as you can’t see them?”
“Illegalities?”
“These standard papers are no trouble to mass produce People will also threaten others to vote for their sculptures Well, they wouldn’t even need to threaten them if they paid money”
The branch viceon and on
(Now then, what to do?)
As Ilya spoke to herself in thought, Annabelle, as single-handily responsible for things like assessing the raw materials submitted to the branch, spoke up
“The paper used is the same type as is used for the branch’s commission charts, so it’s not possible to reproduce It would also be easy to figure out if so it”
Even though she said it would be easy, that was only feasible for people who held the high level skill [Appraisal] There wasn’t even a person with both [Appraisal] and [assessment] at each of the branches and headquarters
When Ilya, knowing that, smiled wryly, Rachelle started to speak in order to follow up and stop the branch vice
“Whether or not so, a receptionist will know If the person the it they won’t be able to eat their dish, so that won’t happen, right? Ilya”
Ilya responded to Rachelle’s question with a nod
There were other things, like people sticking around just to get a free meal, but they didn’t think it was much of a problem since the entries were free
“And I don’t think we need to stop things related to money When you think about the number of people involved and the number of works there are, someone would need to use no less than 500 Gils per person for them to have made a profit, so I can’t think that someone would participate in that Besides, even if they could take first place, there is no compensation other than the prize If they wanted to boast about the exquisiteness of their sculpture, I think they would have rather gone to the industry guild instead”
Even if that weren’t so, there were currently a lot of people in Lunéville that held loans
The prizeany capital or expenses, but there’d likely be noany money on it
The problem he’d raised should be settled with that
Judging that, Ilya clapped once and inquired the branch vice er
“Are you satisfied?”
“… Hmph!”
With the branch vice , everyone’s expressions obviously calmed
Everyone seemed to have eased up a little with that out of the way
This was so meant to ease stress in the first place, there was no point in dragging anything like that out
As though to tell everyone to end the subject there, Ilya spoke towards everyone
“Alright then, let’s begin our preparations”
“”” Yeah! “””
With everyone’s moods switched back to their usual ones, the branch staff an their preparations for the tally and lunch