160. Cause and effect 1
“His name is Pengrill Spencer. He was once Master’s disciple and my motivation for joining the company.”
“What motivated you to join the company?”
“Of course, skill is the difference between heaven and earth.”
Pengrill was from the Spencer family, the representative family of puppeteers in Tracotti.
5-6 puppet masters could only complete it by putting their heads together, making a magic golem by himself, and figuring out the cause of the problem just by looking at the broken doll with your own eyes.
“He was such a great guy that I couldn’t compare him to other puppeteers, let alone me.”
As a result, even though Pengril hadn’t been in the studio for a while.
I sat in the seat of Harvey Sarvan’s disciple, listening to the evaluation that ‘there is no next studio owner other than him’.
“I knew he was a disciple, but I didn’t know he was someone who listened to the owner of the next workshop.”
“It means the elite of the elite.”
“…”
“But even that pen grill was a novice compared to Master.”
No matter how excellent a puppeteer Pengril was, Harvey was a monster who was evaluated as having the most outstanding talent in the history of the workshop.
“Was he that great?”
“I can’t believe it, but it is.”
“I didn’t care about my talent until there was a point to put on my personality.”
Thanks to that, even when everyone thought Pengrill was great, Harvey disapproved of it, looked down on him, and ignored him just like the other students.
“If it wasn’t for the workshop owner, he would have been found drowned in Pitsta Lake.”
“Of course, he never gave me a single compliment, let alone special treatment.”
Of course, Pengril also came from a family of famous puppeteers, and although he was not as good as Harvey, he didn’t bend as easily as he had overwhelming skills.
Thanks to that, the two of them fought each other every day.
“Because he was the only one who could refute Master.”
“In a way, the priest is the same.”
The relationship between the two was not so good, but there was no doubt that Pengrill was the most talented of Harvey’s students.
Thanks to this, Harvey disapproved of Pengrill, but said,
‘If I have to hand over the workshop someday, there’s none other than this guy. The rest is just trash that’s not even worth considering.’
In that way, he was thinking of Pengrill as his successor.
“So I and the other puppeteers naturally assumed that Pengrill would take over as the next studio owner…”
It must have been about three months ago.
It is said that one day, Pengrill disappeared without a word and then appeared in the workshop after a month.
“Three months ago?”
“I wonder if he took a vacation to relieve the stress he received from his teacher.”
“Then they made a great doll.”
Upon returning, Pengrill crafted a golem.
On the outside, it was an ordinary ball-jointed doll, but it was a golem that was very similar to the special golem Harvey made, such as thinking and moving and being loyal and following the owner’s commands.
“Of course, compared to the golem Master made, the movements were simple and very weak, so it was a deteriorated version that could not be used commercially… Surprisingly, the golem had no magic at all.”
Pengrill developed a new type of golem that did not exist before.
“It didn’t contain magic power?”
“Is that possible?”
“Thanks to that, our studio was in an uproar.”
Although unfinished, a golem that, if studied well, could revolutionize the puppeteers industry.
– This is no ordinary achievement!
– Qualified as an official successor!
The studio puppet masters set this achievement high, confirmed Pen Grill as the official successor, and insisted on investing in technology research.
– Is it my company? You haven’t seen it for a while, so you’ve been researching something like this… It’s not something you’ll be able to use right away, but you’re interested.
-thank you.
– This won’t tarnish my name. When I retire, I’ll give you the next studio spot.
Harvey, who has a bad personality, praised Pengril for the first time at that time and declared that he would recognize him as the official successor.
-no. I would like you to take over the workshop owner right now.
However, Pengrill was not satisfied with the official successor.
He declared to Harvey to hand over the workshop to himself.
-What’s up?
-I wondered if it was necessary to wait until Master retired.
-Is this spinning now? Do you think you deserve to inherit the studio?
-Sure. I think I have enough qualifications to become the owner of the workshop because I have achieved achievements that even Master could not achieve.
Hearing Pengrill’s nonchalant reply, Harvey naturally foamed at the mouth and became enraged.
-You made something strange, but in the end, what you made is an unfinished and deteriorated version! How dare you give up the workshop owner’s position with such skills?
-I have talent, experience, and achievements, so there is no reason to stay under Master anymore.
Pengrill maintained a firm attitude without hesitation, and Harvey, who couldn’t hold back his anger, slapped Pengril on the cheek and shouted.
– A cheeky thing that doesn’t even know this topic! Get out of my workshop right now! You are my name!
-…Then I can’t.
As if he had been waiting for those words, Pengrill said with a smile.
-I didn’t want to end our workshop with my own hands, but if Master’s opinion is so.
-what?
– I will be independent from today.
-Does that mean you’re going to set up a workshop?
-yes. Temporary for now… Let’s call it the Spencer Doll Workshop.
After being kicked out of the Tracotti doll workshop, Pengril left cheerfully, saying that he would set up his own workshop.
“Of course, Master said he would be ruined soon, so he didn’t even pay attention…
”
“As rumors spread that Pengrill had opened a new studio, many puppeteers moved there.”
There were some people who were interested in the new golem developed by Pengrill and transferred, but most of them were enduring Harvey’s dirty personality and were living their apprentice life.
‘Harvey bastard! This is an opportunity!’
‘Liberation!’
‘It was like X when we met and let’s never see each other again!’
Everyone moved to the Spencer studio without hesitation.
Although not as good as Harvey, Pengrill was also a puppeteer with great talent.
“As a result, in just a few days, there were less than 10 puppeteers left in the Tracotti doll studio.”
“I have nothing to say because this is Harvey’s fault from beginning to end.”
“Iknow, right.”
In this way, the Tracotti doll workshop, which boasted a history of hundreds of years, collapsed on the verge of closing overnight.
“Usually, when a studio closes, it happens when the owner’s skills decline or a successor cannot be found.”
However, in the case of Harvey, it was a strange situation where all of his disciples left because of his demeanor and personality, even though his skills remained the same.
“He’s a great guy in many ways.”
“If I had been a little nicer, it wouldn’t have been like that.”
Since the puppeteers all left for Spencer’s studio, the customers also flocked to Spencer’s studio.
To make matters worse, with the closure of Camar, it is impossible to deal with regular customers.
“Still, the only person who can make special golems is still Master, so the customers weren’t very cut off.”
“No, then you had that kind of personality even though the workshop was about to close?”
“At this point, you’re not a human, you’re a demon.”
Kang Seung-hyun thought he should have given Harvey a little more pain.
“Originally, the disciples brought soil from Tracotti, but now they can’t afford it, so they hired the adventurers.”
“It’s ridiculous.”
“And not too long ago, Pengril began to visit Master.”
– Exploiting adventurers because they couldn’t find materials. How did you get to this point? Master.
-get out!
– Of course it won’t last long. If this continues, the workshop will be closed, and Master will retire at the age of less than 50.
-I told you to get out!
-But now, only Master can make a special golem in Tracotti… If you come to our workshop, I will make you my apprentice.
– You damn bastard! Get out of my way right now!
Harvey, who was once the best puppeteer in Tracotti, has fallen into a position where he hears very humiliating remarks from his apprentice to come under him.
It is a truly miserable sight.
“I’ll have to learn from seeing the tremendous aggro.”
“As expected, the master and the disciple.”
Thanks to that, the Tracotti doll workshop was in the worst crisis in history.
“If this continues, the studio will be closed, but I don’t know what to do.”
It is a problem that jobs disappear overnight, but the big problem is that the Tracotti clay doll technology method, which has been passed down for hundreds of years, is lost.
“The people who are left now cannot pass on the skills they have learned because their skills are still immature. Even if Master dies, merging with the Spencer Workshop will be objectionable.”
Thanks to this, the remaining disciples in the workshop are in a situation where they wrap their heads every day.
“Come to think of it, why did Mr. Ziggs and the others stay?”
“that’s right. Like me, I would have transferred a long time ago.”
“Yes, Master’s humanity cannot be said to be good, but Master’s works are beautiful and valuable enough to withstand that humanity.”
Ziggs said with a bitter face.
It must have meant that Harvey’s skills were excellent.
‘This guy is also insane.’
‘I’m sure he’s crazier than Harvey.’
Kang Seung-hyeon and Kim Ho-jeong kept their distance behind them so that Ziggs would not notice.
“Anyway, that’s all I know.”
“thank you for telling me.”
“I don’t know why Pengril acted like that, so I guess you’ll have to ask Master for the details.”
“Do you need to ask? Anyone can see that Pengrill is pissed off at Harvey’s dirty personality.”
Kim Ho-jeong said in a tone that was absurd.
If there is a lesson to be learned from this story, it would be that people should also live kindly.
“Apart from that, thank you for saving Master.”
Ziggs politely bowed his head.
If Harvey had died, the Tracotti doll workshop would have been completely over.
“I never thought you’d be poisoned.”
“…Actually, there was something I wanted to say about it.”
Kang Seung-hyun, who had been silently listening to Ziggs’ story, opened his mouth.
“As I already said, lecacothecin is a synthetic poison, so it is a poison that is never poisoned naturally.”
However, the fact that Harvey is addicted to lecacothecin means that someone has decided to assassinate him.
‘At this point, if Harvey dies, the Tracotti Workshop will end, and the Tracotti Workshop is a representative anti-Wizmel force.’
In other words, the culprit aiming for Harvey’s life is the Church of Wismel.
