Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, Vol. 4: The Silver Sugar Master and the Green Workshop by Miri Mikawa and Aki

Author:Miri Mikawa and Aki
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On

Anne felt like she had finally figured out what she was supposed to be doing. Once Marcus and Keith had left, she headed straight for Glen’s room. Elliott was still there.

“Glen, I have a request,” Anne said.

He looked confused by her announcement.

“What is it?”

“I’d like the Paige Workshop to participate in this year’s Selection for the First Holy Festival.”

“That we cannot do. The Paige Workshop will not participate.”

Glen rejected the idea immediately.

“Why not?! I’m sure it’s our opportunity to revive the workshop.”

“We will not participate. My predecessor decided that.”

“Why did he decide such a thing? Especially when the other two factions always participate?”

“Originally, ever since the Millsland royal family united the kingdom, the candies for the First Holy Festival were always made by the Paige Workshop.”

“Oh, really? Wait, but the Selection—”

“There was no such thing. But the previous monarch, King Edmond I, changed course and started choosing from among the three factions. That was a slight against the Paige Workshop, which the Millsland family had employed since before the unification. What’s more, after the Selection was instituted, the Paige Workshop was never chosen even once. Unable to endure the humiliation, our previous maestro, my father, stopped participating in the Selection altogether. It was my father’s way of standing up to the royal family and the state church, which had insulted the Paige Workshop. I cannot change it now.”

“You were never selected?”

As far as Anne could tell, the skills of the candy crafters currently affiliated with the Paige Workshop seemed to compare favorably to those of the other workshops. If anything, Orlando and King had considerable talent. Despite dwindling to only five candy crafters, the workshop employed one Silver Sugar Master, as well as two other artisans with incredible skill. The crafters at the Paige Workshop were still top-notch.

So why had the sugar candy from such a workshop never once been chosen at the Selection?

And why had the king introduced the new system in the first place?

Both the monarch and the church demanded the best. They were the ones who desired good fortune above all. Which meant that as a way of finding the best candy, they had introduced the Selection. Then they had stopped choosing the Paige Workshop.

“There’s got to be a reason; I’m sure of it,” Anne said. “There’s something that the Paige Workshop needs in order to be selected by the king, the church, and the masses. If I don’t know what that is, I can’t revive the workshop. That’s why I think it’s necessary for us to participate, so that I can figure it out.”

“I cannot change my father’s policy,” Glen repeated. “The same way that I can’t change three hundred years of tradition. I cannot change the things that I inherited from my predecessors. That’s a rule that I must uphold in order to continue protecting our traditions.”

“But what would you do if one of your predecessors made the wrong decision? If the maestro a hundred years ago or two hundred years ago made a mistake,

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