"Mr. President, can't you think of something?" Ankato, who had succeeded Heinz as director of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Domestic Magic Machinery Production Workshop, pointed at the open ground outside the factory with a troubled expression. "These people block our factory gates solid every day. Now all the materials for our workshop have to be inspected by them before they can come in. It's really holding up production."
"That's right, President. Our Magic Machine Tool Workshop has been badly affected too. If this keeps up, never mind filling the orders from the Falkor Merchant Guild and the Amli Merchant Guild-we might even fall behind on the Agriculture Bureau's orders for agricultural magic machine tools." Beside him, Canby looked equally exasperated. "I really don't understand what you humans are thinking. She's just an elf. Is that really worth having so many people come here to gawk every single day?"
"You don't understand. This is called chasing celebrities." Xu Yi sighed helplessly and glanced at the dense crowd filling nearly every bit of open ground outside the factory. He felt a headache coming on too.
Ever since Anise had appeared at the Product Launch, she had sparked a frenzy. Countless people had flocked to the Xinfei Merchant Guild just to catch a glimpse of her.
At first, the news had only spread through Bunta City, so only its residents had come.
But a few days later, after newspapers in the surrounding cities published this sensational news, countless spectators poured in from nearby Sartan City and Karma City. Even the more distant Canberra City and Norton City sent plenty of visitors.
Quite a few people had even rushed over after hearing the news in the farther-flung Karamay City and the Kingdom's capital, Anvilmar City.
Now there might well have been a full ten