Lucia and the Loom: Weaving Her Way to Happiness Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 4] by Hisaya Amagishi

Author:Hisaya Amagishi
Language: eng
Format: epub

However, there was one thing Fortunato had said that caught Lucia’s attention. “The toe sock, did you say?” she asked to clarify, as it was something that Dahlia had asked her to make.

Dahlia’s father Carlo had despised wearing leather shoes in the summer, so he had asked his daughter if she had any ideas to fight sweaty feet. What she had come up with were socks with toes like the fingers of a glove. Lucia had split her sides at how goofy they looked even as she used both the sock-knitting machine and glove-knitting machine to make ten pairs for her friend, who would then enchant them with a fire crystal to create socks with a mild drying effect. When Dahlia had finally gotten her hands on them, she’d cackled like a kid about to play a prank on someone. Unfortunately, Carlo had suddenly passed away without ever having tried them on, and that left Lucia with the questions of why the toe socks were making a reappearance and why the Tailors’ guildmaster would come to her family’s factory.

“That is correct. We have recently received an urgent order for large numbers of toe socks, you see, and so I’ve come to beseech Mr. Fano to accompany me to the Merchants’ Guild to see to this matter.”

“Sorry, I, uh—ooh, I don’t feel so good...” Rubert turned even paler as he oozed into his seat like a blue slime. He did not look as though he would get up any time soon.

Mrs. Fano smiled at Rubert, then shouted at Grandpa Fano, who was in the same room, “Father! Please take his place.”

“Well, I, erm, oh, my memory is as limited as the years ahead of me, I’m afraid... Say, what was I doing just now?”

Who was it that had just been spinning thread three times as fast as the young’uns? Lucia stared at her grandfather, who quickly averted his gaze.

Mrs. Fano called up Lucia’s brother next. “Massimo!”

“I’ve got deliveries to make today, and, uh...oh! A shipment of thread is coming later today, and you know how heavy those get...”

Lucia looked towards her brother as his voice trailed off into nothingness, but he didn’t dare to meet her eyes either. She could’ve sworn that just thirty minutes ago, Max had said that it was rare to have a day with so few deliveries to make and suggested that the whole family goes out for dinner—unless she had been hit with rapid-onset memory loss, just like her grandpa? And that case of thread that was coming in later today was something even Lucia could have carried from the doorway to the shelf.

“Lucia,” her mother began with eyes unusually clear and blue and a troubling serenity in her voice, “you’ve just been promoted to assistant manager. You are the one who originally made those socks for Dahlia, so I’m sure you’re the most familiar with them.”

“Whuh?” Assistant manager of what, their family workshop of five? It wasn’t as though this promotion would come with a pay raise either.

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