With winter and its lack of customers behind her, Sarasa finds the spring tax season just around the corner! Marrying Iris has earned her status as a noble, so it’s going to be smooth sailing for the business from here on...or it was supposed to be. When Sarasa visits the capital for the first time in a while, she’s ordered to take care of a bandit problem as part of her duties as a noble.
On top of that, with an introduction from her own master Ophelia, Sarasa is reunited with Misty, her junior from the academy, who begs her, “Hire me, Senpai!” Though Misty is still a novice, Sarasa, with her new duties as a noble, would genuinely benefit from having her around...
So, with a new companion on board, Sarasa’s shop management moves on to the next stage!
The series remains an entertain read about cute girls doing cute things in a fantasy world, although at least their is progress in the world and to some extent the characters. I mean, the author calls it a newly wed romantic chapter of our MC's life, although I am not sure why. I mean, yes, she is married, but that was (and feels like) a business contract between good friends more than anything romantical. Than again, that is more than we usually get in stories like this, so in that light the author is probably right. And tbf alchemy components gathering and bandit fighting is certainly something they do together. Regardless, it fitted expectations and I enjoyed the volume.