Category: Friendship Fluff, Humor. Fandom: Haikyuu!! Characters: Takahiro Hanamaki, Issei Matsukawa, Hajime Iwaizumi, Tooru Oikawa. The bar reverberated with the clinks and clanks of glasses, the pleasant rumbles of conversation, the deep bass of the music pumping through the speakers, and the occasional howls of the drunk men screaming at the soccer game playing on the flat. Money Is Still Flowing. First off, get comfortable talking about money. Everyone is afraid that there is no more money, but that is definitely not true. Zoom has a ton of money right now. Amazon has more than they know what to do with. Remember that money is a tool for doing good. It’s okay to ask for money in exchange for your help.

There is nothing much I can do with my resolve to help the orphans while I’m at home. I had a discussion with Lutz and Fran, then after agreeing “life is precious”, we started our secret work.

Since I have no idea what, if anything, the kids over there are able to safely digest at this point, we decided that we’ll be soaking crumbled bread in soup to make a bread porridge, and Gil will bring it to them via the secret entrance. With Fran bringing the gods’ blessings in from the front, and Gil sneaking the porridge in from behind, we’ll most likely be able to be able to let the orphans eat without anyone noticing, or so Fran says.

“Gil was the most interested in this,” he continues, “so I believe he should be willing to take the initiative.”
“If Gil’s doing it,” adds Lutz, “then tell him I can lend him a set of clothes so he can do that kind of dirty work.”

That’s all we could do today, but it’s only because I can tell myself that none of those kids are going to starve to death literally tonight that I’m able to relax a little bit. I let my face slacken, breathing a sigh of relief, but Fran’s face remains tense as he looks at me.

“Sister Maïne, it is very likely that the temple master will disapprove of your plan to save the orphans, so please be very wary of Delia,” he says.
“…You think the head priest will be okay with it?”

I thought that it wasn’t just the temple master who disapproved, but the head priest as well, but I wonder what Fran thinks?

“I shall convey your thoughts to him. You are most assuredly not alone in being chagrined by the state of the orphanage and the treatment of the priests and priestesses there.”
“Huh?” I say, tilting my head doubtfully. “I got the exact opposite impression, though?”

Fran’s eyes widen momentarily in mild shock, then, with an expression of resignation, casts his eyes downward.

“Were you not listening to what Delia was saying? The temple master has more power than the head priest does. In addition, the Father keeps his true intentions deeply concealed so that the temple master cannot nitpick his every move, which makes him very difficult to read, but I feel that he is indeed irritated at the current state of the temple.”
“…I had no idea at all.”

Where in that conversation had the head priest conveyed his irritation? Is Fran just able to hear his inner thoughts as well as the words he’s saying?

As I wrack my brain, trying and failing to understand, Lutz just shrugs his shoulders.

“You should probably tell the head priest that Maïne didn’t get his meaning,” he tells Fran.
“As you say. And it will be very necessary, Sister, for you to learn the particular euphemisms that the nobility cloaks their words in.”

The way that they look at me with their tepid eyes, like I’m a useless little child, really hurts.

Over the next few days, as Gil secretly sneaks food in, Fran and I discuss the easiest way to convey our requests to the head priest. We ask Lutz’s opinion as well, and since this involves Maïne’s Workshop, Benno gets involved as well, grumbling about how he’s being dragged into another pain in the ass.

I originally wanted to get permission from the head priest as soon as possible and get my orphanage improvement plans started by force, but Benno got angry again, yelling about what a thoughtless little girl I am.

“Don’t just force your way through! When you’re dealing with the nobility, no matter how much you hate all the extra effort to take a roundabout path, you absolutely have to lay all the groundwork first! Rather, you need to have everything decided in advance. If you just suddenly show up, you can’t even be sure if they’ll talk to you to begin with!”
“It is exactly as Master Benno says,” adds Fran. “I know that you typically begin to act the moment you decide on your goals, but when you need to have a conversation, you must first in advance convey to them the relevant information and your requests and then request the meeting. In a meeting with the nobility, you cannot be hasty. You must take as much time as you need to quietly make your preparations and ensure that the outcome will be advantageous for you.”

When I, in my shock over seeing the state of the orphanage, kept begging the head priest for help, asking “isn’t there something you can do?”, I was committing a grave breach of manners, Fran tells me. The head priest was unable to make the proper preparations to meet with me, nor had he been able to gather any relevant information.

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“This time is an excellent opportunity for learning, Sister Maïne. Please watch carefully as we arrange this meeting and make the necessary preparations, and then make sure to learn from the experience. This will be important to know going forward.”

After all of our various discussions, we determine that, to start, I’ll be taking on the role of orphanage director, then use my funds from Maïne’s Workshop to reform the orphanage under the pretext of establishing a workshop in it.

We’ll bathe the orphans and thoroughly clean out the orphanage. From there, we’ll set up the workshop in the basement of the boys’ dormitory, then in order to both cook and make paper, we’ll install stoves and bring in the necessary tools.

We’ll divide the people living in the orphanage into teams―the forest gathering and paper-making team, the orphanage housework team, and the temple work team―and then rotate them through each one in one-month intervals until they have experienced everything. Then, we’ll ask everyone their preference and assign them to that team. They’ll be able to freely chose what they want to do.

As we discover the kinds of clothing and tools we’ll be needing, we’ll have to go through Benno to acquire them. In order to acquire the funds we need to do that, I asked Lutz and Ralph to make wooden clothes hangers. Specifically, the kind of clothes hangers I’m familiar with, built to mimic the roundness of human shoulders. “These will keep clothes looking nicer than the cross-shaped hangars I saw at the used clothing store,” I told Benno, and with glimmering eyes he immediately pounced on it.

Thank you, come again.

“What is the ultimate goal of the orphanage branch of Maïne’s Workshop?” Benno asks, looking at me. I know that if I can’t answer him now, he’ll get mad at me for being thoughtless again.
“To make sure the orphanage can cover its living expenses. When the gods’ blessings are insufficient, I think it would be good for them to be able to earn the money they need in order to buy enough food to make up for it.”
“Just food?”
“The temple generally provides the bare necessities of what they need to live, so I think it’ll be fine if they’re able to earn enough to pay for food.”

As I answer Benno’s question, Lutz starts working through the calculations for the price of the paper and the cost of the necessary amount of food.

“…If it’s just food, then it’s way easier to make that happen that I thought.”

Lutz had originally said that if the orphans didn’t have money, then they could gather food in the forest, but when you think of how large the orphanage actually is, there’s no way that they’d be able to sustainably gather all that they need. But, if you consider that they’d be able to earn enough money through the workshop, then if things go according to plan they’ll be able to feed themselves out of the workshop’s funds.

“If you’re providing funds,” says Benno, “is there any point