Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, Vol. 9: The Silver Sugar Master and the Rainbow Successors by Miri Mikawa and Aki

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

Keith was impressed as he watched Noah knead his silver sugar. Not even a year had passed since Noah first touched the stuff. And yet the way he handled it was smooth and nimble, without any wasted movement. It seemed like fairies intuitively grasped the texture changes in the sugar that Keith and other humans learned to spot through experience.

Across from Noah, Emere kneaded her silver sugar with uncertain hands. She had only started working with it several days earlier, but she was engaging with the work earnestly. However, she did not have as keen an intuition for the sugar as Noah did.

Noah abruptly looked up and glanced around, his hands still kneading. It seemed he was searching for something. When he did—

“Here, water.”

—Mithril deftly offered him some water that he’d ladled into a stone bowl.

“Thank you.” Noah took it with a smile and added the cold water to his silver sugar.

Mithril didn’t have the talent to become a candy crafter, but he did a good job as a crafters’ assistant.

“Mithril Lid Pod, you’re a wonderful helper.”

Keith spontaneously praised him, and Mithril rubbed the underside of his nose pompously.

“Did you only just notice, Keith? The great Mithril Lid Pod is the world’s number one crafters’ assistant! With me around, they’re one hundred times more productive!”

“It’s strange, you know. There aren’t many people so efficient they can practically hear the crafters’ voices before they speak. Not even those who know the candy crafting process well can do that.”

Unusually, Mithril pondered for a moment before answering:

“It’s not that I’m hearing the crafters’ voices, exactly. If I had to say, it’s more like the voice of the silver sugar. When I look at it, I can more or less tell what’s needed next and what to bring the crafter.”

Keith was astonished by the fairy’s answer.

The voice of the silver sugar?

Mithril had the ability to observe the state of the silver sugar and determine what was necessary. His intuition as a fairy made that possible.

Mithril was not inclined toward crafting silver sugar. However, it was possible he’d manifested an entirely different talent for making sugar candy.

Keith wondered if it might be possible that other fairies besides silver sugar fairies had abilities related to the various stages of creating sugar candy. If that was the case, then fairies could take on even more roles. Perhaps humans and fairies could work toward something better, with sugar candy at the heart of their endeavors.

I’d love to see what making sugar candy looks like with the help of the fairies’ unique talents. And I’d love to see the results, too.

He had thought the workshop Anne always spoke of, where fairies and humans worked together, was a distant dream that only someone with a tender, girlish nature like her could believe was feasible.

But maybe he was wrong. Maybe Anne had instinctively picked up on the fairies’ talents, and that was the root of her belief.

Her human and fairy workshop wasn’t a childish dream, but the place where sugar candy would one day reach new heights.

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