Although the prices were slightly expensive, everybody thirsted to buy rare articles with their money. Because of that they diligently scrutinized before purchase.
Even if we were in a rural area, we were still able to read and write to a minimal extent.
That was because the priest-sama who could drop dead now at any time, taught us at the church.
Even so, it was only the common letters of hiragana and katakana. Kanji was too difficult after all.
“Wendelin-sama? That lazy person?”
“Do you believe in such rumors? It was the fellows from the original settlement who came and talked about it!”