>>5534461>>5534729<span class="mu-i">Reasonable observation. Suggestion agreeable, although one should do their best to retain existing knowledge.</span> Kinzou smiles. <span class="mu-i">With your newly acquired free time, perhaps you can find work utilizing your ability to read and write. It will provide additional funds, and serve as a good use of your time.</span> You feel a great many hopes of Kinzou's being dashed, like a cluster of eggs bursting.
「I... uh... maybe in a few years. I should wait to work...」 Takigi catches onto the situation immediately and latches onto the opportunity to make you the bad guy for this. "You should listen to Hops. Other kids are still doing their apprenticeships, but since you're done with all that, it shouldn't be any trouble at all to start working! He has a point!"
After a short back and forth, whatever Kinzou thought he might be done with his newly founded time is now gone from his mind. All that is left is disappointment. And acceptance that there is no easy way out of this. 「Fine. Jerks. At least it's less boring than Wang's place.」Takigi returns to cutting wood as Kinzou tries to think of how to continue things.
「You write at your job, right dad? Does Kanekatsu need someone else to do that?」 Takigi immediately stops what he's doing and practically jogs over to Kinzou, crouching down and looking him in the eyes. He puts his hands on Kinzou's shoulders. "You will not work for Kanekatsu. You cannot work for Kanekatsu. It's best if you don't even talk to him, not even to say hello. Got it?"「Dad... it hurts...」Takigi seems to snap back to reality and takes his hands off of Kinzou's shoulders. "Sorry, I was pressing down a little hard there. Anyways, don't get involved with him. Find work somewhere else." Takigi returns to cutting wood without saying anything further.
「Work, huh? Who would even hire me?」
>"Perhaps the apothecary has some use for your skills. She seemed to be on decent terms with your father.">"The caravan should always have need for another bookkeeper. Given your age you won't be able to leave the village, but perhaps you'll see something of interest.">"Perhaps the farms are in need of an extra hand to track harvests, taxes, things like that. Not the most interesting of jobs, but unlikely to be stressful either.">Write-In 