Chapter 281: Magic Girls and Flying Brooms Belong Together!
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The store would have three Ryokus as guards. One of them would be the personal guard of Bennyboy’s sister. After all, she’d be the prime target of any potential attacks. Of course, the horbs are going to act as guards as well.
The contracted slaves would be used for cleaning. Not just for the drainage, but also for cleaning the employee’s home and the store.
Naturally, the employees would also clean, but since they had many other tasks to cover on top of that, it’d be the slaves’ task to do the thorough cleaning.
I mean, that makes sense since cleaning is quite a lot of work.
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After arriving, the employees lined up the merchandise while being deeply impressed about their new store. Bennyboy would apparently entrust the liquors to his most trusted friend. In the past they made a promise to run the store together whenever one of them would open one.
Moreover, they decided to hire the youth of a lower noble as support to deal with nobles.
The one visiting first to do some shopping would be Duke Chaudgal! With that guy, it’s only reasonable to be slightly worried! I doubt he’ll do anything weird since Sword is backing the store…no wait, in a certain sense that might actually spur him into some weird tangent, but I don’t think he’d act like some high and mighty lord, clamoring, “How dare you! You shall be punished for your rudeness!” Definitely not!
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As I was thinking about such things, the preparations inside the store reached their climax in no time. Plana and Sahad provided a steady flow of decorations, the employees placed the merchandise, I added the locations of goods to the shop’s map before putting the finished map up, and then I decorated the store with flying brooms at the end.
Seeing the floating brooms, Bennyboy asked me, “Can you ride those?”
I shrugged my shoulders, “I can ride them, and so can Sword. If other people are going to ride them, it’d be best if they do it after putting on the same protective gear as when you ride a Bronko. Things won’t end nicely if they fall down.”
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――When I made those flying brooms while having a lighthearted, fun chat with Plana and Sahad, Sword stared at us with such a greedy face that it was pretty clear what he was thinking.
This guy is tru――――――ly incorrigible whenever a new toy is around the corner!
As a result of us going through trial and errors while ignoring Sword loitering around, we succeeded in building a broom that could fly without a hitch! As a test run, I got on the broom first since I wouldn’t die from it, even if something happened.
In the end, I found no problems with the broom’s performance. Therefore I asked Plana and Sahad to get on as well, but Plana told me that she couldn’t do it because her motor reflexes sucked, and although Sahad got on the broom for me, he immediately dismounted it while stating that it was too scary.
――So, Sword had been stalking me all the time while I held the broom. At first I was able to ignore him, but as he was quite persistent with his tailing, I became unable to endure it any longer and let Sword ride the broom.
He had a real blast with it.
Anyway, enough of this digression.
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“Want me to show you?” Sword butted in and jumped on one of the brooms.
Right after, he flew around inside the store. While looking up to him, my chest was filled with nothing but disappointment.
“Isn’t it meaningless for a guy to ride a magic broom? I mean, a magic broom is predestined to be ridden by magic girls… How about you, Damsel Scarlet?”
Once I offered a flight to her, Damsel Scarlet clearly shook her head at me.
Boooh! It’d definitely be cute, though.
Okay, let’s see about the other girls then…
When I looked at the female employees around me, they all quickly shook their heads.
Gaaah!
Damsel Scarlet told me with a blaming voice, “Won’t it be fine for you to ride one yourself, Lady Indra?”
“When it comes to magic girls, it’s pretty much set to ride a broom while wearing a skirt! I’m wearing pants, so it won’t work!”
As soon as I shouted that, I got a cold stare from everyone present. And Damsel Scarlet added with even more blame coloring her voice, “…I am well aware that you do not harbor any ill thoughts, Lady Indra, but if a girl flies around with her skirt fluttering in the wind, everyone will be able to peek in below.”
Oh, she’s got a point.
“In that case, I’ll lend you tiered breeches that can be seen without any problems. Come on! Once you put these on, it won’t be any problem…”
As soon as I took them out, and showed the breeches to everyone by unfolding them, it earned me frosty glares… Bennyboy guffawed at that.
“Lady Indra, you’re such a lost case! Carrying around panties for women and trying to get other girls to wear them…that’s the very definition of a pervert!”
“You sure love to run that mouth of yours, don’t you?” I retorted and pulled on Bennyboy’s cheeks.
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Afterwards, 【Pale Moon of Dawn】 volunteered to ride the brooms, so I let their two women have a go at it. It was regrettable that they didn’t wear skirts though…
Given that they panicked as they lost control midway, I used the remote controller to have them land safely.
Bennyboy looked at my hands with surprise written all over his face, “You can control them from afar!?”
“I built them as such a sort of toy. I think the number of people capable of riding them will be rather low. If someone insists on buying one, tell them that the owner decided the rental fee to be 1000 platinum coins for three days. After all, these are display items for the shop.
They’re decorations to engender the feeling of a fantasy world’s store.
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After Damsel Scarlet and I finished teaching the employees a simple lesson on how to serve customers, we invited the Chaudgal couple and their friends over as very first customers. This was yet another part of the lesson on serving customers.
“High-ranking nobles right off the bat…”
Bennyboy and his employees became disheartened.
“You want to build a store that’s much bigger than the store in the city, where you lived before, and the store of the woman who took your sister’s fiancé, right? You want the name of your store to be known not only in the capital, but reverberate all they way to your previous town, don’t you? Then, shape up. Or how do you plan to do all that when you falter from something so trivial?”
Once I persuaded him like that, Bennyboy immediately straightened his back.
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We had the employees’ uniforms made by Ys’s tailor. After all, it would have been too expensive in the capital. As for Bennyboy, I gave him a suit made by me as a present.
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