Ascendance of a Bookworm - Chapter 40 - Freida’s Hairpins

... did was eat sweets and chat a little, but why am I more exhausted than when I go to the forest?

“Ah, have you finished your negotitions?”

“Mister Mark?”

As we pass Benno’s shop on our way home, Mark calls out to us. We’d previously been told that we should come by the shop tomorrow afternoon to deliver our report, so we were planning on heading home for the day, but Mark waves to us, smilingly beckoning us inside.

“I know that we had planned to discuss this tomor ...