A Cozy Life in the Woods with the White Witch: Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 8] by MOJIKAKIYA

Author:MOJIKAKIYA
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, magic, fantasy, adventure, slice of life, cooking, monsters, dungeons, Dungeons, cleaning, witches
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

8. Senynoma

There was now a pile of bricks in the yard. Tori picked one up; it was reddish-brown and lighter in weight than he’d expected. These were bricks brought by Euphemia’s familiars from the underworld, and according to Subaru, not even phoenix flame could penetrate them.

“I got all these in exchange for lighting furnaces!” Subaru said proudly. Apparently she’d gone to a brick craftsman and used her flames to light their furnaces.

“These, huh?” Tori inspected the brick with skepticism. Bricks baked in phoenix flame would never burn even when subjected to phoenix flames. Tori thought this was complete hogwash, but he couldn’t deny that they seemed quite sturdy. “If I bake something in the oven made of these bricks, it won’t get cursed or something, right?”

“It won’t! These are made by an artisan from the underworld, after all. These are bricks used to construct castles down there. Their insulating properties are top class, I assure you,” Cecilia said.

Well, I suppose they have no reason to lie about that, Tori thought. The familiars were also invested in the completion of the oven. He could sense just how excited they all were. They might have different concepts of normal, but they would never bring anything that would make their food taste terrible.

In any case, the materials for the oven arrived earlier than he could obtain schematics for it. Tori didn’t want the bricks to remain exposed to the elements for long, so it’d be best to start construction as soon as possible, but without a schematic to follow, it was going to be something of an experiment.

To start off, Tori drew a general outline of the oven’s structure, then wrote in the measurements for each side. However, as he proceeded, the oven’s form began to look more and more distorted, and the more he tried to fill in the details, the more twisted the image became. He wasn’t progressing at all. Tori had observed the ovens in the city closely, but now that he was actually trying to design one himself, he couldn’t even visualize how to line the bricks to form the exhaust. The details all escaped him.

“Hmm... Doing this by myself is gonna be a lot harder than I thought...” he muttered.

Tori had no idea how to lay the bricks to create a dome-shaped ceiling. He knew the idea was to shave each one at an angle and use mortar to hold them together, but he balked at actually putting the idea into practice. And with bricks, a flat ceiling wouldn’t work either. He couldn’t make a brick oven that had a flat ceiling.

“What if I adjust the bricks one by one... No, that won’t work. It’ll stack too high...”

Tori was staring at his schematics spread over the dining table, discarding ideas one after the other. As he was working, Euphemia peered over his shoulder.

“How’s it going?” she asked.

“Hey. Well, not very well at all,” Tori replied, leaning back in his chair.

At this point, it would be much faster to

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