In the early hours of the morning, the first snow was falling on the streets of Manumit. Winter has officially begun. Manumit was filled with adventurers from the north. And one of the things adventurers did in the winter was to rest and have fun and spend the money they earned fighting monsters and bandits in the north during the summer.

In the years when Manumit was first established, there was a big fight between drunken adventurers. Inspired by this, the city administrators decided to organize a winter tournament every year. Thus, the manumit's winter tournament was born.

Although those staying at old mike's inn shouldn't have much to do with this tournament, but there was no one as excited as them for the tournament in manumit.

Almost a week had passed since they became partners with Lady Elise. And tomorrow was the first day of the tournament.

Arthur had talked in detail about this with lady Elise over the past week about how they would promote Coffee. Also, Lady Elise had become addicted to coffee in the past week. Arthur was sure she was also collecting the remaining coffee beans with his own money. Now they had the market in their palms. The only problem was that there was no market.

When the clock showed 12, a horse carriage approached in front of the old wolf's inn. Lady Elise got out and walked towards the inn. There was a guard standing at the door next to her.

The guard next to him pushed the door of the inn lobby and they entered. Lady Elise didn't understand why a team that started a business worth about 1000 gold was stuck in such a neglected inn.

There was no one else in the lobby except the Old man behind the bar counter. Lady Elise walked slowly towards the man. The Old Man lifted his head when he heard footsteps.

"How can I help you, ma'am," he said.

"Hello, I'm Elise, I'm here to meet with Mr. Arthur," said Lady Elise.

“Oh, you came to see the Architect huh”

“Architect?” Lady Elise knew Arthur as an adventurer.

“Yes, I was surprised when I heard it. I knew that Mefzar was a dream of building a city, but he found a real architect hahaha,” said the old man.

Lady Elise realized that she had never asked Arthur about his profession. This man, an adventurer, and architect with such a deep knowledge of the trade, was getting more and more interesting.

When Lady Elise noticed that he was looking at her, the old man pointed to the door.

"He's practicing in the back." said

Lady Elise went to the door indicated and opened the door and went out.

Outside, she noticed a stone staircase rising in the middle of the courtyard. Her mouth opened in surprise. This spiral staircase was a work of art. Statues of several animals were carved on the central stone pillar of the staircase. He saw Arthur 3m above the ground shaping the ladder with stone manipulation. Arthur, who had heard the sound of the door opening, raised his head and looked at who had come.

“Oh Lady Elise”

Arthur came down the stairs as Lady Elise studied the stairs in front of her.

"You didn't say that your profession is architecture," he said.

“I guess it was never brought up,” he said as he took a towel from her pouch and wiped his sweat.

“This is beautiful,” she said, still unable to shake off the scene before her.

“We're planning to build a city next summer, so let's say I'm practicing,” he said.

“I think I finally understand why I couldn't convince you,” said lady Elise, who had noticed over the past week that Arthur was excellent at Trading. So she had offered a high-paying position, but Arthur had kindly turned them down.

"It's cold my lady, let's go inside and talk or I may get sick", he opened the door with his hand and they went inside and sat at a table in the lobby.

After asking Old Mike for a coffee, they started talking. After Arthur had stockpiled the beans, he was quite happy to finally be able to drink coffee. When they came to Manumit, they had decided not to drink in case someone saw it.

“How are the preparations going?” said Arthur, sipping his coffee.

“We have set up a stand at the entrance of the arena, 2 tons of coffee is ready to be distributed. Did you choose who will participate in the tournament?” said Lady Elise.

While talking with Lady Elise about how we can make a better impression, Arthur had the idea ‘why we don't participate in the tournament and advertise it there.’ And they had decided that a few people from the team would participate in the tournament. Bill immediately volunteered. The idea of joining the tournament was suddenly tempting when Askar learned that if he did not participate, he would help at the stand.

“Yes, Askar and Bill are pretty excited about it,” he said.

“How's the roasting and grinding going?” said Arthur.

“Your idea to sell about 5 tons of ready-made powder at a high price was ingenious, Mr.Arthur”

Arthur shyly accepted the compliment.

After thoroughly discussing tomorrow's action plan.

“I think everything is ready then,” said Lady Elise. After finishing her coffee, she stood up.

"See you tomorrow morning in front of the arena," she said.

“Of course,” said Arthur.

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Arthur woke up early in the morning as if awakened by an alarm. The big day had come. He Crawled to the side of his bed and sat and put his hands between his head and thought about the day before he came into this world. For some reason, this day was more exciting than graduation day.

This world had changed him. If he was in his old world, he would have started a job at an architectural firm. But now he was running a major marketing operation. How long had it been since he came here 1.5 months? 2 months?

The urge to get ready pulled him out of deep thoughts. And he stood up.

“Hey rook wake up buddy it's the big day,” he said with a laugh.

At Arthur's shout, the goblin started and woke up. He got out of bed and started to get dressed like Arthur. When they were both ready, they left the room and went out into the corridor.

Mefzar, Askar, and Bill were staying in their right rooms. To their left were Darkis and Elda.

After knocking on Elda and darkis's door, he waited. But the answer came from the room he hadn't expected. The room where the other men of the team were staying opened and Askar came out.

“They've already landed in the lobby,” Askar said.

When Bill and Mefzar came out after Askar, they went downstairs to have breakfast.

Elda and darkis were sitting at a table waiting for them.

Everyone sat down at the table and soon their breakfast arrived. Normally there wouldn't be breakfast this early, but Mike had asked the Dwarf woman because he knew they had to leave early.

Mefzar looked up from the meal and looked at Arthur.

“Arthur.”

“Yes, captain”

“Thanks, Although you are a foreigner, you have taken great responsibility for the team You have run almost the entire coffee operation You have established a partnership I am starting to think that as a captain I have not been able to help you enough”

Arthur was touched. When he first came up with his coffee plan, he did not expect that he would take so much responsibility, but the knowledge he gained from the other world inevitably pushed him into this position. It was a good thing that this responsibility was recognized by the Captain.

“Captain, you and your team saved me from death in the north, you gave me a permanent place on the team I joined temporarily. What I've done is nothing compared to what you've done to me,” said Arthur.

"Oow Stop kiss each other ass and let's get some gold," said Askar

The entire team burst into laughter. Arthur even caught rook smiling. After the meals were over, they greeted old Mike and left the inn, and started walking towards the arena.

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Arthur was examining the materials to be used in making coffee behind the stand, which was set up with the permission of Lady Elise from the city administrators. Next to him was Elda and rook. Darkis and the Mefzar were keeping Bill and Askar ready for fights.Lady Elise stopped by and after she checked everything, she entered the Arena and went to check on Askar and Bill.

After Arthur had made the final checks, he looked around and noticed that a dragon-man passing by was trying to read the writing on the sign.

"Hello," said Arthur

“Oh- hello”

“Would you like to try it completely free”

"Is it free? Why are you giving it for free? “This was a pretty normal reaction, hadn't seen anything given out for free before.

“Actually, we're giving away this Red Roses guild's new product for free during the tournament so people can taste it before they buy it.”

The dragon-man nodded, though he didn't quite understand.

“I might try one,” he said.

“Do you like sugary things?” said Arthur.

“No, I don't really like it”

After Arthur nodded.

"Come in"

He prepared a coffee with unsweetened milk and handed it to the man with a cardboard cup. Preparing these cardboard cups was a total ass pain. Since the plastic normally used does not exist in this world, they had to write a very low-level enchantment on the papers. Arthur's first enchantment experience was with these cups.

The dragon-man took the Cardboard cup that Arthur was holding out, then sniffed the steaming drink and timidly took the first sip.

Realizing that the man likes the taste of coffee, Arthur immediately spoke up.” This beverage is formed by grinding coffee seeds, you may know these seeds as bitter seeds.”

The man was taken aback by Arthur's words. Bitter seeds were often used by city guards on guard at night.

“Is the effect the same?” he said.

“Of course, if you have trouble waking up in the morning or if you have to stay focus on something this is your beverage,” he said.

"Who did you say was selling," said the man at last.

“You can find Red Roses from the trade guild, we are thinking of selling it to the inns, if you tell them you want coffee, they will definitely buy it,” said Arthur.

Overhearing Arthur's speech, the crowd slowly began to gather in front of the booth.

“Can ı get free as well”

Arthur nodded to the man who asked questions and shouted crowd in front of him.

“COME, COME TO THE FREE COFFEE.”