After presenting my new future project to everyone the days went by, in this time all I did was meet with the others to finish some unfinished details, Aria and Bernard would take care of all the construction process and purchase of land to build the mall, by our estimates the mall should be ready within a year and a half, besides the normal products that I already sell in my store I also intend to sell several other things, from candy and food stores that only existed in my old world to clothes using materials that people here have never seen, but even if I wanted to do this it will probably take some time.
First for the clothes we will have the material problems, my plan was to make clothes out of cotton but unfortunately as the country of Solaris is a country that is cold most of the time this will make it very difficult to grow them, although there is a simple method to get around this which would be by building greenhouses the problem still persists for one simple fact, I am not a nobleman.
The fact is, I don't have land that I can handle the way I want to, so I decided to postpone for the time being the plan of making cotton, about the food and sweets although I want to make sweets would be easier, the main reason for this is that sweets in general take ingredients that are relatively easy to access in this world.
"Haaa, I wonder if there isn't an easier way to solve this problem"
I said as I walked through the streets of the capital, I was heading to the academy to start the entrance ceremony, originally everyone tried to make me take a carriage to the academy but I managed to convince them that I wanted to walk, as I couldn't go to school in my past life, I am quite excited this time, after a few minutes walking I finally arrived at the academy's facilities, it was an extremely large place with a beautiful garden as far as the eye could see.
At the end of this garden, you could see a huge building extremely beautiful, the windows were all with the glass I made so that made me happy, several carriages were arriving and dropping off several noble children who would also be attending the academy, there were also some children walking, which I interpreted to be commoners just like me, all without exception were wearing the clothes provided by the academy, the boys consisting of black pants, with a shirt and vest, while the girls the only difference being the skirt instead of pants.
Getting these thoughts out of my head I finally entered the academy premises, everyone must have received a note along with their uniform, the note said that as soon as we arrived, we should go to the auditorium where the entrance ceremony would take place, so I assumed that everyone was going to the same place, while walking through the academy's facilities I looked at the place with admiration, it was a truly beautiful place, without realizing I arrived in front of a huge building, there were several students entering so I assumed that was the auditorium, following the flow I decided to enter too.
As soon as I entered, I noticed that almost all the seats were occupied, the front seats seemed to be filled by the nobles while the commoners were sitting in the back, going with the flow I sat in the back in one of the chairs that were available.
"Is the seat next to you available?"
As I was sitting down a voice coming from behind me catches my attention, as soon as I turned my face, I saw a young man with orange hair and black eyes standing behind me.
"It's vacant, you can sit down if you like"
I said, with that the young man sat down next to me and then turned to me.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Eric, my family owns a flower shop here in the capital"
Eric said introducing himself.
"And a pleasure, my name is Ren, my family lives a little far from here but we also run a store here in the capital"
Hearing my words Eric looked a little surprised.
"Hoo, it's rare for a family to have a store in the capital even if they live far away, well, you must have your reasons"
Said Eric, honestly, I was glad he didn't go deeper into it, it would be a pain in the ass to explain everything, while we were thinking about it again a voice came from behind us.
"Eric, I can't believe you didn't really wait for me"
Hearing this voice Eric and I turned around, behind us was a girl with black hair and eyes.
"Geh, Flora"
From my side Eric made a strange noise as he contorted his face in a funny way, while wondering what their relationship could be the conversation suddenly turned to me.
"Hello, my name is Flora, I am the childhood friend of this idiot here"
Said Flora while pointing at Eric.
"Hey, who's the idiot?"
"Who else seriously? As far as I know I wasn't the one who got into school with scraping grades"
"What, you didn't do so well either, we both got almost the same grade"
"D-Don't compare me to you"
Looking at Eric and Flora's funny situation I remember that we actually took a test before we were officially accepted into the academy, although they didn't announce the results, I wonder how they know their grades, ignoring this fact and possible to hear several people mumbling things around.
"Hey, did you hear? I heard that Princess Emi and Prince Eric will be attending the academy this year too"
"That and true? that will be wonderful, surely we need to be friends with the princess and the prince"
"Speaking of which, I wonder who will be chosen to be her highness' fiancé"
"I'm curious about that too, but surely it will be a prince from some neighboring country"
I am puzzled when the conversation stops at a part I didn't expect to hear.
(Fiancé? is Princess Emi getting married? I mean, I know this is normal at this time of year but isn't it a bit early?)
With this in mind I am lost in thought, meanwhile a man walks on stage starting the entrance ceremony.