Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne? Chapter 153

Once Again to the Fairy Village

Year 7444, Month 8, Day 29

..However you know.

"You're about as much of a child as Ralpha huh? It's fine. You don't need to force yourself to say it. I can imagine after all."

"..So you can already imagine it..Was I that easy to read.."

What is she getting depressed over?

"It's fine already at this point. I realized your feelings long in the past. It's already fine if you don't show reservation for anyone anymore."

"But, the madam is.."

"Idiot, you, think about it more carefully. It's certainly true that even now I like her. It's not like we got a divorce after all. But it's already been over 16 years since I hadn't met her and if you look from her point of view, it was in the units of hundreds of years. Even you were 30 when you died. Didn't you have a boyfriend you dated in middle and high school?

Before I noticed Miduchi had faced me.

"But, the person that I came to like, was married from a long time ago and I thought I had no choice but to give up, whenever I went to the company saw their face I couldn't give up and..the only thing I could do is somehow match the circumstances up, go drinking together, and say round about things...In the first place, recently every time you would ask me if I hadn't made a boyfriend yet..It was sexual harassment."

Ah sexual harassment huh? That's no good. But, as expected, the only person I said stuff like that to was you.

"Recenly you, that was already over 16 years ago."

"It was just a few months ago to me! Since I only remembered it the other day. That's why inside of me Kawasaki-san is a 45 year old man!"

"..Is that so."

Now that I've seen your current appearance I can't even remember your face from the past.

"..In any case, during a time like if you suddenly bring up the topic of people you dated in the past, anyone would want to compete with it."

I wonder if they would?

"Isn't it a cute lie. I think it's generosity to just laugh and let things like that slide."

"Don't say that yourself.."

"That's why, up until now I haven't even once properly dated a man."

"Isee"

"That's why you're my first person."

"Thatsright..and, I already get it. It's already fine, how bothersome~"

"So I'm, a bothersome woman..."

She asked with a uneasy expression. Yeah.

"..Ffu...I have no interest in the contents of what you were told by Ralpha and replied. You're by my side right now. Isn't that fine."

"..Yes. It is."

Don't get bashful. With that creepy looking skin color. You'll make me want to bully you.

"Ralpha you know, she's one of the people in the party that I've know the longest but she doesn't particularly have any interest in me. Since her head turns reasonably well she most likely is just thinking about her future while trying to leave an impression on me. Isn't it just her trying to compete with Toris and Bel who are aiming for Marquis? She's a good fellow and she has power but she's still a child after all. I think of her as a precious friend as well though while her looks are reasonably good I don't feel like I would want to date or marry her at all.

If possible it's best in a place that's as far away from the current farms as possible. The flowers smell quite a bit after all, and they aren't particularly good on top of being difficult to eat unless you turn them into a powder but they're strong so if you just leave them alone for 20 years or so even without maintenance they should grow all on their own. They should be of use if there's ever a drought. Next up try to get your hands on some seeds of sorghum. Scatter these around near the side of the river. I haven't heard much about them but if you can find them then it's a bonus. If you can get your hands on them then don't hold back in using money. It's fine no matter how much they cost. The only companies that might be dealing in them are Type-1 companies. In order to avoid being sold some fakes make sure you definitely meet with someone higher up. If you can't get an appointment then ask sister or someone from the first knight group."

The measurements of Miduchi's foot size should be done pretty soon. When I went downstairs it was just as a customer entered the store. Anna is carrying some tea out to the reception table in the center of the store for serving customers. I guess they must have just entered the store. The customer is a male gnome who seems wealthy. I wonder if he's a noble? Since there's only Wendy, Yotlen, and Dianne in the store right now and Dianne is taking Miduchi's measurements in the corner so it's all women. Since the only male staff Rozural came up to the second floor with me.

After seeing the restless face of the male customer who's expression suddenly got cheerful after seeing Rozural. Ah, this guy...

"Rozural, you go take care of it."

"Yes."

Rozural probably already gets it as well. He was just about to proceed over but Anna brought out some tea first.

"Welcome to our store, dear customer."

The 10 year old Anna smiled and slid the tea in front of the customer. She immediately brought the plate back to her chest and withdrew before Yotlen sat down across from the customer. I put my hand on the shoulder of Rozural who was about to step out and decided to watch over. The customers face was dyed in despair.

"Dear customer, what are you looking for today?"

Yotlen smiled humbly while talking to the customer.

"Ah, that is..uh, no..Fro..from my friend, I, I heard the reputation was good so."

Normally when the Ryogu family isn't in the store, she should be taking care of things herself. I wanted to see how she deals with customers who've come to buy condoms.

"It seems that it's your first time buying here. Thank you very much. It's alright. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. Just in case please me confirm it but do you yourself intend to use it?"

"Eh? Ah, yes.."

"We sell them in packs of 10. The price is 15,000 Z per pack. How many are you in need of?"

"U, ah, o, on, no, two."

While he still had 1 finger held up it seems he desires two packs.

"Then, please wait just a moment. Hanna, bring two of number 25."

Yotlen turned around for a moment and then returned her gaze to the customer before smiling.

"Yeth"

Hanna replied with a lisp.

"Now, please have some bean tea."

"Uh, ah..Yeah."

After sipping the warm bean tea it seems the customer calmed down a bit.

"Are you newly married?"

"N, yeah, last month."

"I see, that's great. Our companies "Saya" have an extremely good reputation in the capital and we even sell them to the royal family. The quality is guaranteed."

"Yeah, it seems that's the case. I've heard that. My wife doesn't like the pi.. pig's bowels so.."

"Is that so? It's a honor that we can be of use then."

The 8 year old Hannah brought along a small wooden box.

"Hea~"

She bit her tongue.

Hmn, Yotlen sure has some backbone put into her treatment of the customers. By the way, what's number 25?

"Yeah, since that customer was a gnome. I thought that SS size was good."

Right now we're producing five types of sizes, SS, S, M, L, and XL but I guess just saying them like that can be embarrassing. Though, how did she see through that he was newly married?

"Eh? I didn't know. However, customers of that age range often try to cover things right?"

Is that so~

But, well, I guess that's a relief. The timing she brought out the tea for the customer was good as well and with that I'm sure that customer was able to release the tension in their shoulders as well. Come to think of it we're selling 20,000 of them, 2,000 packs every quarter? I thought that the majority of them were being sold to brothels like "Emerald Duke Club Reception Hall" but if the account book just now is correct "Emerald Duke Club Reception Hall" only makes up about 30% of the numbers. Even if you include the other brothels it still only totals up to around 20%. There were 400 sets that we're selling at a price 2,000 Z higher than the ones we sell to the stores. This cat-people widow raised an extra 800,000 Z in profits. I'll have to take another look at her wages during the end of the year assessment.

I handed Rozural one silver coin and five large copper coins and,

"Since I don't know the number give me M."

said that and without waiting for a reply grabbed one from the shelf and put it into my pocket.

"...i~wa~o~to~na~rite~ ko~ ke~ no~ mu~ u~ su~ u~ma~ ade~

Miduchi and I the two of us are singing the Japanese national anthem while holding on to the teleport crystal rod right after we teleported from the 2nd floor to the 3rd floor. Somehow it has an extremely surreal feeling to it. It's still 10 pm after all and a bit too early in terms of time. If it's no good unless it's a teleport crystal that's in the center then we'll have to start aiming for the teleport room on the 3rd floor from now, and in that case we might end up having to sing under the eyes of the public so we're testing it here.

Normally there's no way you could teleport with this sort of method. The incantation floating in the crystal rod to return to the 2nd floor is "midotto".

However, we were properly able to teleport. The thing that differed from up until now was that even after we teleported there's no teleport crystal in front of us. I see, even if you somehow managed to make it to this area with that method, if you can't clear past the {Snake Generator} into the fairy area then you'll just end up drying up and dying.

Miduchi and I, the two of us wait close to the entrance of the fairy village for the date to change.

"Ryogu-san and the others were quite good people weren't they."

Miduchi said looking into the air while sitting on a rock lined up on my left side.

"Yeah, their loyalty towards the Greed family is high. Their personalities are good as well."

"They lowered their heads to me, saying to take good care of you."

"Is that so.. That's getting quite ahead of things."

Miduchi looked in my direction while tilting her head and smiled while saying.

"Oh? you won't deny it."

"Did you want me to?"

"Not really...that's not..fufu."

Ah, come to think of it she has black hair as well. I wonder if it would be good to have her dye it as well?

"Let's eat lunch while we can now."

I took some sandwiches out my bag while saying.

"You tried to cover it up."

"Don't think you can eat some of the dried fish. I'm giving them all of them after all."

"You covered it up."

"Eat while you still can, here."

"You covered it up~!"

I shoved a sandwich into Miduchi's mouth and leaned back against the wall.

Chapter end