Chapter 21 Ink Making and Mokkan: The Conclusion
“Gaaah! I solved my paper problem, but now I have to get ink, too! Why meee!”
No store in this area sells anything like the ballpoint pens and mechanical pencils I’m used to. There are no regular pencils, no fountain pens, and, of course, there’s neither liquid nor block ink. If ink were freely available, then I wouldn’t need anything more than a sharp stick to write with, but ink is so expensive that I can’t obtain it at all. I know how much the slate pencils I get paid in cost, but I don’t know what my special wages will be during bonus season, so I can’t use Otto’s three-year estimate to calculate how much it actually costs.
It’s three years’ worth of work, you know?
My options here are: buy it, find it, be given it, steal it, and mak
