Chapter 284: Liquors and Beauty Products Are the Highlights in any World!
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Sakura opened the door leading to the basement.
“Please take the stairs to get down while making sure to watch your steps.”
At once Duke Chaudgaul noticed the shining floor feature and got all excited about it. The duchess probably wanted to rebuke him, but was so knocked out of her wits that she overlooked her husband’s tomfoolery. Meanwhile, Damsel Scarlet covered her face, feeling embarrassed over the childish behavior of her father.
But I can totally understand that! I mean, I’m okay with the duke as a friend, but it’d be hard to cope if he were my father! He’s a funny guy, but probably quite a burden on his family!
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“Damsel Scarlet, do you wish Sebastian or me to escort you?”
“…Lady Indra, please…” She requested with a quivering voice as she had apparently suffered quite a blow to her mental state.
After I grabbed her hand and slowly led her downstairs, she finally calmed down.
“This must be a sight just like you would find depicted in CG of shojo games,” she suggested.
However, that’d make it a yuri game, wouldn’t it?
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Everyone was deeply impressed by the SciFi-like liquor sales room. It was also more popular with the women than I’d expected.
I told them that I’d sell the liquor at a friendship discount and asked them to keep this fact confidential. The women seemed to like the elaborate designs of the bottles and bought sweet fruit liquors filled into small, stylish bottles while the men aimed for the stuff with high alcohol content.
Overall, the acrylic-like magic stone cellar with the bottles apparently floating because of the high transparency of the material was highly popular. But, since it was magic building material, fingerprint recognition or stuff like that couldn’t be added! For no obvious reason on top of that!
“I wonder whether you can make a table out of this material?” The duke asked excitedly.
But, when I answered with a serious look, “It’d be dangerous as you’d keep running into it,” he consented to my point and gave up on the idea.
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Next we used the elevator to reach the third floor, and then went down to the second floor. The women among our guests immediately cheered up. After all, the shop was selling toilet articles and vivid tableware up here.
The maids and I researched the skin-care products and had been producing the ones with outstanding effect at a low price in our base. The production output was still quite low, but since they were fairly expensive products to begin with, they probably won’t sell as much. …I hope.
“The skin-care products also work for men to visibly improve the skin. Of course, they’ll make the skin of women even more beautiful, too. We had the effect tested by asking adventurers to act as testers, but all of them unanimously confirmed the efficiency.”
The members of 【Pale Moon of Dawn】 lined up as live samples,
“…Certainly their skin does look very pretty.”
“It’s not just because they’re young, right?”
“All of us are above twenty in age.”
“”””I’m going to buy it!!””””
The noble women jumped at it.
“I shall guide those, who finished checking the products here, to another place. We will take a rest at the floor we passed earlier before coming here. You are expected to buy one drink there at least, but please feel free to take a break over there.”
After listening to my explanation, the duke approached me and asked in a whisper, “…Does Sword’s rejuvenation possibly stem from these skin-care products?”
I answered also in a whisper, “…That’s not all, but…since I ended up being slightly rude to him, I tried various means to fix it. Given that adventurers expose their skin to sunlight quite often, their skin aging is quite intense. I wrongly guessed his age to be around twenty years older…nowadays I think his appearance mostly aligns with his real age.”
“No, that makes him actually look ten years younger than he is. He now looks like a boy, you know?”
We intended to talk in whispers, but apparently the noble women had heard all of it, and after staring this way with super scary eyes, their shopping spree became even fiercer.
The men got frightened by the frenzied women and looked elsewhere. We had them split up into two groups, one that wanted to take another slow look around the store and one that wanted to rest, and guided each group appropriately.
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As for me, I got seized by the duchess. She swiftly drew close to me and whispered, “…I think now would be a good time to ride one of those brooms?”
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“…I understand.”
I think this person would definitely get along with Sword.
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I had the duchess put elbow, knee, and shin protectors, which I got from 【Pale Moon of Dawn】 , on a spare employee uniform. In the meantime, I got a broom from the display.
…At that point, Sword came out of his hiding.
“I thought you wouldn’t rent these out?”
“Lady Ally insisted…”
Sword looked at me with an appalled expression, “You’re even weak to married women? You’ve got not integrity whatsoever, do you?”
Don’t phrase it in such a despicable way!
“Sword, don’t be so jealous,” the duchess said while appearing in full equipment.
Ooohh, how cool! She’s the prime example of a lady knight. She’s tall and would be a great fit for the male roles in Takarazuka Revue. Ah, wait. Her boobs are big, so it might be impossible.
Sword looked at the duchess, furrowed his eyebrows, and asked, “Why would you bring up jealousy here?”
The duchess chuckled in response, “If you weren’t jealous, you wouldn’t have described listening to my request as 『not having integrity』. It sounds like you’re actually saying, 『Please only treat me specially』.”
Sword became speechless.
I threw out my chest, “Sword is harsh on women after all. I’m normal. My generosity is incomparably huge!”
“Yeah, yeah, show that generosity of yours to men as well.”
Hearing our bantering, the duchess laughed. After stopping, she clearly declared, “Okay, please instruct me.”
Seeing her like that, I thought that this woman is truly cool.
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