episode_0186

“Well… shall we begin the transaction in earnest?”

“I look forward to working with you.”

After roughly finishing the tedious paperwork like contracts, I immediately took the elf named Nadezhda to the atelier.

The reason I only brought Nadezhda was because the rest were more incompetent than Marie in sewing, so it was meaningless.

The leather skills they had were closer to tanning, so they didn’t have anything I could gain from them. I just told them to play on their own and left them alone.

“Ms. Nadezhda, can you read these kinds of blueprints?”

“Unfortunately, we don’t draw pictures when we make clothes; we fit the fabric to the person to check the measurements and use the sense of our hands and eyes to cut.”

“I see.”

I tried to freeload with the blueprint from the start, but I failed right away.

If she could read the blueprint, I could have just handed it over and been done, but it’s a shame.

“Hmm…”

Since freeloading failed, the problem is how to convey this.

If I show her the way I make clothes as is, she won’t be able to follow it 100%.

I measure the dimensions tightly and then draw the blueprint in detail to fit the body line perfectly, but how can she follow this if she doesn’t draw?

That means I have to give advice while proceeding with the work so that they can follow…

Still, thankfully, seeing that there is a process of measuring dimensions when making clothes, it didn’t seem like they used a terrible method of making things haphazardly and just tightening them with strings.

If they made it that way, I would have been at a loss for how to teach them.

Leather jackets and jeans only look cool when the fit is perfect, and it’s usually difficult to estimate sizes roughly by eye with just experience and talent.

While I welcome the creation of various feels of fit, I reject those created haphazardly.

“You said you check the dimensions with fabric, but how exactly do you do it?”

“We cut the fabric largely, then wrap it around the part we want to check to see the shape and size, and then mark it with pins or needles and cut according to that.”

“Ah~”

A method of tracing the shape of a person’s body on the fabric and cutting it.

Rather than measuring dimensions, it was a method closer to tracing a pattern with fabric.

The reason they do it in such a complicated way is probably because paper and writing tools are precious in the grasslands, and they can’t systematically pass on blueprints, so they chose a method that is intuitive and uses fewer resources.

Good.

I liked it very much.

“Then I will make it from start to finish in your way.”

“Hmm… you won’t be familiar with it, are you okay?”

Nadezhda frowned slightly and expressed concern, but I returned a confident smile and took out a large piece of fabric.

“I personally prefer this method; I use the blueprint method because I can’t call people whenever I need them.”

“Oh… you like a pretty barbaric method.”

“But it’s effective.”

There’s nothing more certain than trying it directly on the body.

However, this method, although cumbersome, is a method that guarantees ‘perfect fit’ for sure.

“By the way, which of the three should we use as a model?”

“Please use me, I can’t let those freeloaders who can’t even make clothes wear this outfit first.”

“Ooh…”

Without hesitation, Nadezhda chose herself while criticizing the other elves.

Seeing her smile and call them freeloaders, it seems like the three of them are very close.

“Okay, then please take off your coat and wear something a little thinner to make it easier to measure.”

“Yes.”

I told Nadezhda to take off her clothes and gestured to Emily.

“How can I help you?”

“I can’t measure a woman myself, so please help me with the measuring part.”

“How should I do it?”

“Like wrapping a gift, wrap the fabric around the body like this, and mark the part where it starts to overlap.”

“Yes.”

After roughly showing her how to do it by wrapping the fabric around Emily’s arm, Emily immediately nodded and took the fabric.

“Now, Ms. Nadezhda, as soon as you’re ready… Oh…?”

“I’m ready.”

Turning my head towards Nadezhda, who was taking off her thick coat, after taking my eyes off Emily, I couldn’t help but be flustered by the scene of cognitive dissonance.

The beautiful face unique to elves and the slender upper body.

And the lower body with very clearly split muscles grotesquely exposed.

Her thighs were thicker than mine, and a very clear heart-shaped muscle was raised on her calf.

“Wow shi…”

I couldn’t say anything properly at the muscles that I was confident I would lose to in 3 seconds even if I took away all the magic and mana.

Come to think of it, they are the elves who rode reindeer and traversed the grasslands to the imperial capital.

Female cyclist’s legs are like that, and if you’re riding a reindeer without a proper saddle, you can’t not have muscles.

Since women also have those muscles, is that why they were able to compete with the empire even with fewer numbers?

The spirit of the grassland is indeed different.

“Haha, does it look a little ugly to the people of the empire?”

Seeing me and Emily staring at her thighs with wide eyes, Nadezhda smiled shyly and twisted her body this way and that, slightly hiding her legs.

“It’s not ugly, I just thought it was amazing, I apologize if it made you feel bad.”

“I don’t feel bad, I’m a bit of an oddball even in the grasslands.”

“Ah ha.”

So Nadezhda was just unusually strong.

Well, genetics are mysterious, so like a certain female weightlifter who defeated drug addicts without drugs, human monsters often show the miracle of being born.

If the grassland, where the species values are a bit strange, has a higher probability of that.

“You could call that talent.”

“Hehe, it feels good to hear you say that.”

Expressing reverence to Nadezhda, who created clear muscles naturally, Nadezhda lowered her head slightly as if she was embarrassed and subtly revealed her hidden legs again.

I should stop looking at her legs and start working.

“It seems like you’re all ready, so let’s start right away.”

“Yes.”

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Like an elf who has lived for a little over a hundred years, Nadezhda began to absorb the knowledge I gave her like a sponge and make cowboy clothes her own at an amazing speed.

“This is the denim fabric that will be used to make pants.”

“It’s quite rough and tough fabric?”

“Yes, that’s why I chose it.”

“… It seems like it will fray a lot when cutting, is it really okay?”

“That’s why you have to cut it generously and trim the ends.”

The first thing I taught her was jeans, and she hesitated a bit because it was her first time touching denim, but she quickly adapted, so it wasn’t a problem.

“What should we do in the case of people with very thick thighs? Young men who go out hunting often have thighs as thick as their waists.”

“In that case, we have no choice but to make the pants wider to fit the thighs; it’s better to have a looser fit than to narrow it down too drastically.”

“Ah ha.”

Once she adapted, she had enough leeway to ask questions about the fit first.

“For leather vests, the men’s version should be completely closed, and the women’s version should be made with a gap of about one or two finger widths to look good.”

“I see.”

“The jacket should come down to the navel line for women, and just barely cover the buttocks for men.”

“Isn’t the navel line too short?”

“You can lengthen it if you want, but for women, the legs should look long and the waist should look high to create a pretty fit.”

“I see, I’ll keep that in mind.”

The rest of the clothes were made of materials that Nadezhda had touched before, so I just gave her tips on taking measurements and pretty design tips and finished.

“Um? When making a jacket, it’s better to cut the leather this way than that way.”

“Uh… is there a reason?”

“This part is the spine of the cow, and this part is the shoulder of the cow, so you have to cut here and here so that the spine part comes to the spine and the butt or shoulder part comes to the arm or shoulder so that it can stretch well according to the person’s movement, the direction of the grain is a bit different for each part.”

Rather, she was better at handling leather than I was, so there were cases where I received help from her.

“Can you see it with your eyes without touching it?”

“If you look closely, you can see the wrinkles or grain, this one has grain stretched in this direction.”

“… That’s right.”

Finding the grain by glancing at it from farther away than I could was like watching a spectacle.

I can barely see it when I get close enough to stick my nose in it…

I was happy to meet a fresh monster after a long time.

“Um… I can only teach you this much, the rest is skill, so it’s better to learn through practice.”

After about four days, there was nothing more to teach.

“Huh? Didn’t it end too quickly…?”

“It’s because you understand quickly even if I explain it simply.”

I was a little surprised that it ended so quickly, but it was natural because the person learning was a seasoned player, so when I roughly moved and said, ‘You do it like this,’ she would answer, ‘Ah, I see!’

It’s not like she’s just good at answering, she’s really good at it when you make her do it.

“What should I do now…?”

Nadezhda seemed to feel that it was a loss that it ended too quickly, and she was quite cautious and showed that she had lingering feelings while looking at me.

“Well… would you like to practice once and go?”

“Can I?”

When I suggested practicing with a casual remark, Nadezhda grabbed it as if she had been waiting for it and expressed her desire to practice.

“Then the materials are over there, so do as much as you want.”

“Thank you.”

It could have been quite a troublesome task, but I provided the materials and prepared a practice place for Nadezhda.

She’s showing me how to handle leather without even asking, so I should naturally provide the materials and place.

“Hehe~”

Now that a seasoned player is showing off her flamboyant control in front of me, how can I stand it?

I have to work next to Nadezhda for a few days and suck it all up.

Ah, seriously, leather is all dead now.