The Economics of Prophecy

Back from the village, I came to the meat processing plant in Craftsmanship. When I went to the poison question that worked for the birds, they brought me to Dulgan's workshop.

"Does that mean you want to use honey instead of sugar"

"Oh, I have to use a lot of salt to store meat. But if I use it too much, I can't eat it without draining the salt. So luxury products use as much sugar as salt. If it's Vinder's honey, it's the same price as sugar."

D'Argan brings in business talks. Using sugar would be like ham, not dried meat. Beyond the absence of a refrigerator, the preservation of meat has to be carried out at osmotic pressure. In the first place, honey, a mass of sugar that is the bait of bacteria, does not rot, thanks to osmotic pressure.

Sugar is overwhelmingly less costly for nature to make sugar and honey. As surprising as it may sound, sugar is the lowest cost of the three major nutrients. It's sugar that plants make directly from water, carbon dioxide, and solar energy. Both protein and fat are deliberately created using the energy of that sugar.

Plants make the sugar they make into an easy-to-store form called starch. This is the cereal. Or connect the sugar to make sturdy fiber and make it an ingredient for your body. For plants, I can see how common an object called sugar is.

Conversely, it is difficult to obtain a cohesive amount of sugar in a pure state.

Humans also spend a huge amount of time and effort growing sugarcane-like plants in the field and extracting sugar in this world. In the original world style, it means labor and land costs.

Meanwhile, how about honey? Simply put, honey is a thinly distributed sugar concentrate called nectar. If you calculate the effort you need, it's not sugar, it's not the eye. It's expensive.

The point is to make most of that effort a bee. Honey obtained from land that is a low-cost workforce called beech, but extends outside the field, constitutes a bonus treatment for the village.

By the way, livestock is basically the same structure, because it's about turning sugar in the form of dietary fiber that humans can't nourish by eating into meat using an animal called a cow.

In this country's environment, if we use our beekeeping technology, we can make it cheaper if it's not as good as sugar.

"Besides, you might be able to make a new product with a different flavor than sugar."

"Was it there too?"

The difference between sugar and honey is whether it remains sucrose or broken down into fructose. Fructose, which is often found in honey, has the properties of being cold and sweet. This is why it is used for refreshing drinks.

Incidentally, on the modern planet there was the technique of returning starch to sugar, plus the technique of breaking sugar down into glucose and fructose like honey. As a result, sober drinks were overflowing enough to cause health problems.

At all, knowing only the principles does not extend to experts in application. It's the first time I've remembered what I'm talking about.

"Right, honey production will go up even further in the future. But there's one problem..."

"What?"

I told Dalgan about honey mixed with poisonous grass pollen.

"Do you normally care about that extent? You won't be eating anything."

"I know,"

"As a business partner, that idiot. Honestly, it's not bad. So what do you want me to do?"

"Yeah, actually, I want small birds, uh, small birds, as an experimental sample to examine the toxicity of pollen."

I was listening to my words with a frightened face, Dulgan, but he undertook to prepare a bird like a quail. After that, if you finish marking those flowers you keep with the curator, you'll be able to experiment.

"Then the business talks are over.... No, Vinder. Who is your destiny?"

Suddenly I lurked my voice and Dalgan heard me.

"Huh?"

"No, it's a hell of a bunch of beauties around you."

"No, no, it's more like a bloom on a cloud than a flower on a high ridge."

"Don't hide it. I know we dated last week."

"That's, uh, yeah, part of employee education,"

"Employees are the most expensive of the high ridge flowers, that's awesome"

Dargan made fun of me with his translation face, should I say shareholder?

I looked across the street. Beyond the boulevard is a form I went to see.

"That's an enviable story. Claudia was with you."

"In short, are you resenting the fact that you didn't invite me, no, no, it's not a classmate gathering"

"Ha, besides that... Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

A little girl came running shaking her brunette's lowering. You picked me up on purpose? No, wait, it's weird that Meer's in such a hurry.

"Seniors... Dear Alfina......... and the news came to the store that he had fallen..."

I was bloody drawn to the words that came out of Meer, who ran out of breath.

"That's important. What's going on here?"

"Ah, no, consciousness is proper..."

Turned into a hardened me, and Dalgan asked. Breathed Meer explains. He collapsed when he was on his way to the crystal in the diocese and was abruptly returned to the Grand Duke's residence.

"I'm talking about it being overworked. He said the Grand Duke was stopping him in an attempt to return to the diocese because he was fine."

"Until last week, you were fine. Besides, the image of the crystal has already been confirmed..."

I was just a little relieved by Meer's words, but the next thing I knew, I felt bad about it.

It's only been four days since I shopped for the form. Only then, I heard about the prophecy. If the situation is that tough..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

"Can't you rely so much..."

"Take it easy. Something tells me you came all the way here."

Yes, what do you do when you restrain yourself to a seemingly unpleasant stupor? Be cool.

"Oh, yeah. First we need to gather information."

"Hey, what the hell are you talking about?"

"Maybe, but I'm fine because I'm telling you I'm going to visit. Senior D'Argan."

"Oh, no, that's what I'm saying..."

"You're going to have to choose that word."

I wondered about the current one. You translated well, Meer.

"Anyway, I figured out the situation. Go quickly. I'll make sure the birds are properly prepared. Eat as good as you like."

"Oh, yeah, please"

Speaking of which, we were talking about a pollen toxicity test. You can leave it to me, even that delicious grilled chicken in the form, he said he bought it from Dalgan.

Form? Something caught me like a stung in the throat. No, it's not about the grilled chicken. After that, the two of us went to buy fruit water, and then Alfina...

"Senior, let's hurry"

"Oh, yeah, but there's something I need to check first"

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"This relief."

The stalls are not the same arrangement and type as they were four days ago, but you can't go wrong with the biggest tablet in the wider form. I stopped in front of it. Meer is still decent.

I watched the brilliant emerge.

About a dozen men and women line up in old costumes. It is a structure like the Olympus gods of Greek mythology, or the Twelve Apostles of Christianity......

"Right..."

I remember the ancient Roman form. There were relief depicting the group gods in the same way. However, it was the emperor clan of the time that was perceived by the gods. Then it is depicted here….

"In short, is this a royal family photo..."

"Seniors? Yes, this square was shared and made by the great nobles, headed by the King and the Grand Duke, by Lilka.... Ah!

"... what's so artistic about it? It's blank."

Blank near center. When it was done, there must have been a single person painted here. They cut it off after that. That's why it's unnatural.

Here's another confirmation. I headed for the second largest tablet in the form. There are two, but naturally they are placed in the west.

"Senior?"

"... a record write-off sentence?"

I slapped the stone bench. I'm angry at my idiocy addition and subtraction. We should have gathered more information about Alfina's situation.