Milly's room was tidy and very girlish.
　The pillars are hung with dried flowers and the shelves are lined with populis. Small bottles of oil filled with something are on the shelf and very colorful. Is it aroma oil?

"Well... well, don't look at it..."
"Sniff! Sniff! Sniff! Sniff!"
`Oh, my! Don't smell it!'

　Milly pushes me on the stomach with a "Yes, yes, yes.
　Oh, do you want me to leave or not? sit down

　Let's stop joking.

"It's a pretty room,"
`Oh, oh, oh, I suppose?'
"Oh, it's kind of like "Millie's room."
"Why...Mily's room, huh?"

　That's true, but it's just as I imagined it would be, it's not disappointing.
　It's like the embodiment of a girl's room where boys in junior high school who don't have brothers and sisters seem to be delusional.

"Millie's hobby is making sweets, right?"
"What? Uh, yes. Well... candy, though."

　What?
　Milly doesn't disappoint.
　Oh, you were here, real idol. It's not a fake profile written by an office for business purposes, but a girl who's doing a real thing.

"Millie is a girl,"
"What... Milly, girl, what?"

　Milly looks as if she doesn't understand.
　That's all right. If only Milly would stay.

"Jillo, if you don't mind, I'll pick you out."

　Next to Jeanette laying dishes on the table, Estella gives me a cold stare.
　Hmmm, a guy who seems difficult to even pick is arrogant.

"I'll pick you back,"
"Why, when you open your mouth, that's all!"

　Because you're pretending to be a joke, right now?
　You know, I'm relatively good-natured, right?

"I'm ready. First of all, eat it. I made it with all my heart to cheer you up."
"I'll have a good smell.........it'll be fine."

　Sitting well, remembering to pray for the Spirit, Milly carries Jeanette's special soup to her mouth.

"Hmm.........it tastes like yodamari-tei..."

　Milly sniffs, perhaps impressed by the deliciousness.

"Are you okay? I still have a lot. Please eat slowly."
"Well... thank you, Mr. Jinet." Mr. Lepidoptera, and Mr. Esthera."
"Eat it, all right. You're busy after this, aren't you?"
"Well, then I'll eat it."

　Drink the soup deliciously and pick fried chicken and salmon flakes onigiri in between.
　The Jeanette guy seems to have brought quite a few items.

　We were looking at Milly eating deliciously, picking whatever we wanted.
　Let's wait until Milly finishes her meal.

"Oh, yes," This is from Magda."
"Oh, what?"

　I'll give you what Magda has left me before I leave the hotel.

"Oh, popcorn".
"It's honey popcorn."
"Well, Milly, honey popcorn is my favorite. Both salt and caramel are delicious, but honey is the best."

　Milly would be.
　It's like a relative of a flower fairy.

　Open the bag and inhale the sweet scent to your heart's content.
　Breathing out, Milly smiles happily.

　But it suddenly clouded over.

　Grabbing a bag of popcorn, I lean... and drop a few words.

"Dear... angry, maybe...?"

　Words not directed at us, not addressed to anyone.
　Popcorn must have suddenly reminded you of it.
　After muttering, Milly looked up and shook her eyes with anxiety.

　His eyes are bewildered as he doesn't know what to do.
　I thought I'd wait until Milly finished her meal, but... it's a different story if she's too anxious to eat.
　And Estella seemed to have the same idea as me.

"Well, Milly,"

　Estella gives me strength on Milly's shoulders.

"Will you tell me?" What happened with Delia?"
"Ah......."

　I guess Milly understood that we knew about the quarrel between Delia and Milly.
　In a vanishing voice, Milly says yes.

"... well, listen..."

　an altercation between Milly and Delia reportedly witnessed by Jeanette
　Milly seems to regret it when she pretends to be worried about Delia.

"There's a big pond by the woods."
"It's a big pond used for the management of the forest. It's so deep in the woods that you may not have seen him."
`Well... the water there has run down a lot already.'
"There is a waterway leading to a river in a large pond, but the water level of the river has dropped and the water has stopped flowing into the waterway. Mormat was suing me for the same thing."Estella annotates Milly's story here and there.
　When I heard it, I sorted out the information I had and Jeanette was just anxiously watching the developments.

"And they go back and forth to the river every day to fetch water -- with a big water bottle -- and water the flowers of the forest."

　There is a great distance between the river and the forest.
　I wonder how many times you've been there every day to water the flowers in the big forest... well, you must be so busy that you can't relax.

"It's not all the plants in the forest, so it's a good thing... but if this goes on like that, Mr. Guild, or he might fall down... I don't know."

　Milly's hand is strained and the popcorn makes a dry sound.

"Well, I've never seen a guild-master of a flower-flower guild,"
"He's a very kind man," She's a human, old woman, but she's smart enough to understand other people's feelings."

　It's a rave compliment.
　Milly is a man of complete confidence. I'm sure the old woman is as good as a picture.

"I think I'd like to see you,"
"Oh... what!"

　What's going on?
　When I see her, Milly visibly begins to get upset.

"Oh, you know, it doesn't mean anything strange at all... ...when Milly introduced him to a boy... ...maybe he would make a big fuss... ...because Milly had never had a boyfriend before..."　

　Boyfriend?
　Well, that's an old‐fashioned name.
　I guess it just means being an ordinary friend, but when you call me a boyfriend... it's kind of annoying.

"When you think of boyfriends, didn't you have Aliquis brothers?"
"Ah... neck and tick... you know, my childhood friend... so."

　No?
　After all, are ordinary friends and boyfriends subtly different from each other?

"The neck and ticks are well known to all the flower guilds... and I don't think there will be any strange disturbances."

　Am I going to have a strange disturbance?"

"Well, but one day... ...let me introduce you to you properly..."
"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

　What's that?
　Am I introduced to Milly's parents? Are you the boss at work? Are you so arrogant?

"I'd like to see you, too.
"Well, I'm sure you'll get along with Jinet. Mr. Guild, you said you were a good man."

　What about me?
　I don't think we'll get along well? Is it because we're not good people?
　Well, I'm not a good person, though.

"Oh, I'm sorry... ...and I went to ask you... ...dear."

　Really, Milly comes back with a lovely cough.
　Drawing water was hard work, and I started to push myself too hard, so I went to Delia for advice... maybe it was about the waterway.

"They want the surface of the river to be higher than the waterway..."
"Well..."

　Jeanette raises her hand nervously in the middle of the conversation.

"Maybe it's not common sense to ask this question... but are waterways built in places where the river doesn't flow in?"

　They seem to have questioned the fact that the water level of the river has fallen below the waterway.
　Why don't you keep the water flowing all the time?

"The channel connects directly to the river. but there is a well above the bottom of the river where the water flows in."
"Why is that? Wouldn't it be possible to prevent this from happening in the event of a water shortage if we kept it at the same level as the bottom of the river?"

　Jeanette's question is justified.
　But Jeanette is really simple and overlooks something very important.

"Genet, how many times have you run out of water?"
"What? Well... as far as I know, this year is the first time..."
"Yes, that's it, Jeanette."

　The 42 wards were plagued by floods every year until last year.
　Every year in the rainy season, so much water had fallen from the twenty-ninth leg, and all had been submerged in the rain.

"The flood damage every year would be worse if the water inlet was adjusted to the height of the river bed. It's easy to dig in the ground, but it's hard to fill in a channel once it's dug."

　Once the soil is dug up and reclaimed, it becomes softer than it was.
　If we continue to be exposed to a river as fast as this one, we will one day collapse.
　There may be a simple sluice gate, but... we can't make such drastic changes because of the sudden shortage of water this year.
　It's also a rainy season, so we don't know when we'll have another heavy rain like last year.
　It's no joke that deepening the waterway resulted in serious flood damage.

"And if we deepen the waterway, the water from the river will flow out, so we have to be careful."

　If the river level drops, it will have a negative effect on river fish.
　It is extremely difficult to restore a broken ecosystem. You'd better avoid making any minor alteration as much as much as possible.

"Really... I'm sorry, I made such a short-sighted remark."
"No, that's the first thing anyone thinks about, so don't worry. for I, too, was pointed out by Natalia for such a suggestion."

　Estella and Jeanette are not so different in age. This year, then, will be the first time Estella has experienced a shortage of water shortages.
　It's no shame that you don't have knowledge. If you don't know, you can learn.
　It is much more embarrassing to leave ignorance alone and not even aware of it.

"And Milly, by any chance, did you do the same?"
`Well... but they don't want the channel deepened.'

　Then Milly's eyes swayed.
　Small, cherry-like lips snap together.

　Milly looked like she was about to cry, perhaps remembering what Delia told her to do.
　I manage to hold back my tears and slowly put the time into words.

"Mr. Guild said he would decide after consulting with other guilds who use the waterway... ...but Milly... ...that he was going to collapse... ...so scared..."

　I'm sure Milly acted on her own initiative.
　And I regret it.

"Mily... she's so kind, and I thought she'd understand if I asked her to be sincere."

　I had expected the privilege of being acquainted with him.
　It's a double‐edged sword that seems easy to use.

Because I'm an acquaintance, I have to draw a clearer line than any other guy.

　If we are both professionals, we can't do anything about it. That's more common.

　Jeanette would be happy to make it if Milly asked her to "let me eat."
　Then, "Gild people, please give me three meals every day." What if they say, "Well, that's the way to go?"Perhaps Jeanette would not accept it and would have to say no. It's rather a refusal.
　If we take this courtesy for granted, our profits will be eaten up unilaterally.
　You must make sure you understand that other people's 'courtesy' is not free.
　Things that aren't free are being made free.--that we must never forget.

"...Mirin, I told Mr. Delia... 'I'm in trouble because there's no water in the waterway, so I want you to raise the water level.'"

　Milly clenches her fist.
　in an unforgivable way

"... I want you to stop the river temporarily to raise the water level."
"Is it to stop...?"

　Jeanette looks at me and Estella alternately.
　Estella answered the stare.

"Actually, that's what Mormat was pleading for... 'I want you to pile rocks up on the bottom of the river and temporarily restrain the flow of the river.'"

　pile rocks downstream to narrow the river's
　This would reduce the amount of water flowing into the sea and temporarily raise the water level in the middle of the abdomen.

　But it's -- it's the way to make Delia the most angry.

"Well... Mily said the same thing... ...and she got so angry... ...that I've never seen her before... ...so scared..."
"Well... but it's not completely blocked, is it? If it's temporary, you're going to put it back in place someday, right? ... Is there something wrong?"

　Well, Jeanette may not know.
　Milly, maybe Estella doesn't know either.

　Stopping the flow of the river means...

"The salmon won't be able to come back."

　Jeanette opened her eyes wide and Milly looked down at my words.
　Milly's reaction... Did Milly know, or maybe she talked to Delia about that?
　Anyway, I'll give you an explanation to make the situation easier to understand.
　for Jeanette is turning her eager eyes to learn more.

"Salmon, as I may have told you, is a fish that goes out to sea and back to the river. If the salmon blocks the mouth of the river through which it passes, the salmon will not be able to return."

　Salmon in this town seems to be going up year round and year round, and I still wonder how many salmon are coming up the river.

"The fewer salmon you return, the fewer eggs you lay in the river. The fewer eggs, the fewer salmon themselves... well, that's what it is."

　Salmon returns to the river from which it was born.
　The fewer salmon are born in rivers in the 42 wards, the fewer they return to the 42 wards.
　In the worst case scenario, it could be gone.

"We can't block the estuary without a definite commitment. Delia would have thought so."
"...it makes me sick every day to think, 'There's a salmon that couldn't come home today.'"

　Jeanette imagines Delia's thoughts and shares the same suffering.
　Delia likes salmon, but her love goes beyond the realm of 'likes' to the extent of being a special being we grew up together in this river from an early age. Delia has a lot to think of.
　He sometimes swims with salmon.

"Salmon is a single‐minded fish," Even if the estuary is blocked for some reason, they'll work hard to get back home. Even if the water level is so low that it hits the bottom of the river and is covered with scars, even if it runs out of water and is washed ashore, it continues to go back towards the river where it was born."

　It's a common occurrence in the past that unplanned weirs reduce the number of river creatures. As expected, it's not very common in modern Japan, but...
　If the mouth of the river is blocked indiscriminately in the 42 wards, something similar could happen.

"If the salmon were a bright creature, and they would come up in a well-behaved line at the mouth of the stream, that would be easy to talk about it."

　Nature's creatures don't tell you the way you want.

"Millies desperately cared for the flowers and trees in the forest, watched with excitement, and every time something happened, they took steps... the same thing is happening in the river."
`...well,'

　Milly's voice choked with tears.
　I don't mean to blame you, but... it might not be good to talk about it badly here.

"In the event of a disaster, human beings can survive because of their wisdom. Those who don't have it must be kept by men. You know what I mean?"
`Well... Milly, I was so desperate that I could only see myself,'
"It's all right, Milly," It's the same for everyone to be desperate at times like this."

　Estella touches Milly's drooping hair.
　Small antennae shake and hang quietly.

"It's my job as a lord to desperately guide people who can only see the front so that they don't bump into each other properly. Wouldn't you leave it to us from here?"

　that?
　I feel like I've just been put in by the name of "Tachi."

"And Jillo didn't mean to blame Milly said.
"Well, I know that... because you're kind..."

　Still slightly bent, Milly turned her head.
　The hair ornament of a large ladybug on her head swings.

"I think she gave me the courage to apologize... and she's always wanted to go apologize... but she couldn't..."

　It takes courage to apologize to others.
　It's not good mentally to drag someone without knowing the trigger.

　Milly's exhaustion may be due to that kind of mental fatigue.

"Our excellent employee also prepared popcorn for Delia."
"...Magda-chan?"
"Oh, Loretta, you've been ruled out for 'excellent'."
"Huh!? No, I don't think so. If I say popcorn, I wonder if it's a maggie ... oh, oh, Lolita, you're doing your best, aren't you?"

　a flustered millimeter
　Yeah. I think this is a little better than being depressed.

"We'll go with you,"
"...what?"
"Well, I was going to talk to Mr. Delia, and Milly, would you like to come with me?"
"Wouldn't you have the courage to meet us with us.

　I'll extend the break a little longer, and let Milly see Delia, if necessary, after I step into the woods.

　It's my hunch... Delia must be concerned.
　When I first met her, she created a solitary guild of women who tied up river fishing guilds, but recently she has become remarkably curled up and has been playing with someone.
　I've come to visit Yodamari-tei a lot, and it seems that he goes to New Town and plays with the hamsters.
　Bertina says she wanders into the church to help with her hard work.

　Delia is talking more about herself to people than before.
　Help someone or spoil someone. That's what we're getting at.

　But this time, I haven't consulted anyone... either me or Estella.That's probably why Delia is reflecting on herself now.
　I can't come to consult you because I feel guilty.
　Perhaps Delia was full of them and made a harsh remark to Milly.

"Delia's man must be quite dented,"
"What? Aren't you mad?"

　Estella is still a shallow reader.
　Delia likes salmon, but... more than that, she loves the inhabitants of 42 wards, especially us.

"Well, Mr. Jiro," I'll take some sweets and go to comfort you."

　Jeanette might be more sensitive about those things.
　Estella tends to judge things based on her interests as a guild and her thoughts as a person in charge, perhaps because she is a lord.
　Jeanette, on the other hand, simply judges by "good, bad," "fun, hard," and "likes, dislikes."
I'm a little optimistic, but I think I'll be happy if I do this, and I'm going to focus on the other person's mind and feelings.

　I can do both, though.

　You can make the target game buy the product, or you can give satisfaction by buying the product.
　Fraudsters are required to have the skills to provide both.

　Profit and emotion are never considered separate.

"Mr. Jiro,"

　Profit‐deprecating emotional supremacists smile.

"I want to cook osekosuke again."

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"Well, let's go," I'll send you the "materials of energy."

　I'll say that and show you a bag of honey popcorn.

"Yes, I'll send you the 'materials of energy'."

　Jeanette lifts her cheeks with her forefinger.
　What you say is a smile, isn't it?" is a smile.

"If you meet your friends, Delia will feel better."

　......d*mn it!
　For the time being, I avoided making it clear with popcorn.

　that's right
　Delia will probably feel better when she sees us. I mean, I'm just thinking, "It's hard to see you," but I'm not thinking, "I don't want to see you." Rather, he must be thinking, "I miss you, but it's hard to come and see you."
　So if you go over here, you'll be saved. It's easier to talk about a lot of things you've accumulated.

　So to deliver the "materials of energy," I mean -- we're going to go see them.

　I was too shy to mislead myself with popcorn, but I was able to see right through.
　This is why natural insensibility...

`Oh, oh, oh, oh, my dear lady!

　Just as the conversation is coming to an end, Milly exclaims.
　The strong, willful eyes that I showed at the flower garden in the thirty-five wards are staring at me.

"May I go after you, Milly?"
"Why don't you come with me?"
"We don't mind waiting?"

　After shaking her head and breathing deeply at Estella and Jeanette's words, Milly says with a firm heart.

"Mily, I want to apologize to you properly... oh, I want to give you something."

　It will take some time to get ready for it.

"Then I'll go first,"
`Well... I hope you'll help her soon, too... like Mary said Alice.
"We haven't done anything yet,"
"Well, just coming to see me like this... Milly, it's been a great help..."

　Delia, who will still be worried about the ongoing situation.
　I want you to save Delia as soon as possible. I hear that's the case.

"See you later,"
"Well, let's see. Mr. Tento-mushi... Mr. Tento-san and Mr. Estella-san."
"That's all right when it's all over,"
`I'm just a meddler,'

　As we chuckle, three girls smile.
　Meanwhile, Milly suddenly claps her hands.

"And then, Milly, I'll stop by the woods once and then... late, maybe..."
"I'll be waiting till Milly comes." Jillo,"
"Ah,"
"Then we must stop by the Yodamari-tei, too." If it's too late, I'll put Magda and Loretta to worry about."
"Well, let's hurry out," Milly, I'm sorry I couldn't relax very much."
"Well, all right,"

　Jeanette's food was still available, but it was decided to be offered free of charge, saying, "We still have a lot, so if you like, everyone who works hard in the woods should eat it."
　The container will be delivered at a later date. So there was an excuse for Milly to come to the Yodamari-tei.
　They must want to feed them properly.

　So we left Milly's private room as each of us braced for it.

　Milly, who came to see me off in front of the shop, finally whispered to me????

"Come and see me again..."

　--looking down shyly, turning his back round, and looking at his running back... his back was itching.

　I'd like to take it home.

　I happened to find a pretty plate hanging from the entrance of the florist.
　It was a perfect plate for Milly's, with the sweet and sour design of her first love, where two birds were facing each other and eating cherries tied to branches.
　While Milly seemed to like this kind of thing, she also thought that the person who made this plate was probably a girl who didn't know all the dirt and fell in love.

"Yasilo, let's go~"
"""Yasilo, sir. Here we go!"
"Oh,"

　There was not a single cloud in the sky I looked up at... the sunlight shining on the world was too bright.