Chapter 199 - 197 The Prosperity of the Rira Trading Company and the Altz Trading Company
I returned to the territory capital together with Herpes.
When I headed to the Altz Trading Company, the head clerk said, "Thank goodness you're safe...!" but he ended up staring in amazement.
She was wearing a black mini dress and high heels.
Her hair was wavy, she had applied a dark shade of rouge, and she wore a choker around her neck. From the choker, something like a chain extended down toward her two breasts.
"Young lady... you've changed quite a bit... More importantly, your father and your older brother are in a terrible state!"
The head clerk hurriedly guided Herpes. Her father, Heimer, had aged considerably, and with a vacant expression, he stared blankly at the ceiling, looking as if he had dementia.
Her older brother, Gan, was scratching all over his body while crying, "It itches! It itches!"
(The old man is a caregiving case, and the idiot monkey bought a worthless woman and caught a disease.)
Herpes sighed.
"We have no choice but to rely on you now, young lady..."
Apparently, everyone knew that the underworld they had counted on had been destroyed, and they conveyed that story to Herpes as well.
"This is a problem..."
Just being a front for a magic stone and mineral trading business would be a losing game.
Herpes looked up at me with eyes begging for salvation.
"I'll do something about it."
Herpes rejoiced at my words and hugged me.
What I thought to make was a mixer. The power source was a magic stone imbued with the Wind magic spell 'Air Cutter'. I tried imbuing the inside and lid of the mixer with 'Anti-Magic'.
"What... is this, Master?"
"It's called a mixer. It can chop up all sorts of things."
When you put in vegetables and fruit, it turns into juice in an instant.
"If you add honey or ice to taste, even kids who hate vegetables can drink it, right?"
"Ah! That's true!"
"Also, if you put in meat, it becomes minced, right?"
"What would you use that for?"
"Even elderly people who have trouble chewing or swallowing can enjoy the flavor of meat."
Then, when I showed them how to make hamburger steak, the head clerk praised it highly, saying, "Young lady! And it's delicious! This will sell!"
Pesu had magical power and could already use basic life magic. When I taught Pesu how to imbue 'Wind Magic' into unaspected magic stones, she was overjoyed.
Also, true to their nature as mineral merchants, I stored iron ore, iron refined through alchemy, and coal in a Magic Box-spec warehouse. I also made them a coal stove.
Seeing this, the head clerk and others were overjoyed, but the one who was happiest, saying "With this, we can keep this store going!" was Herpes.
"But right now, we don't have enough money to pay you..."
The head clerk said sadly.
"It's fine! I became Shivans-sama's woman♡ No need to worry about payment!"
Everyone understood she meant paying with her body, and they wept.
"Young lady... we are so sorry. With the master and the young master being the way they are..."
"Don't worry about it! I became his woman because I wanted to♡ Come on! Come to my room♡"
Cuddling, we headed to the second floor.
Once inside the room, she quickly took off her clothes and undressed me.
"Just from having your ass touched, you're dripping this much love juice and soaking wet, aren't you?"
"But♡ I'm a female dog♡ I want Master to fuck me already!"
Then, like a drinker would, she brought her face close to my dick, stuck out her tongue, and started giving me fellatio.
(This one isn't so much in love with me as she is in love with my dick. And her true nature is a hardcore masochist.)
Even after she drank down my sperm, she kept it in her mouth until it got big again. When I took off the chain and squeezed her breasts, she dripped love juice and craved my dick.
The 17-year-old wrapped her dick in the fleshy folds of her vagina as if savoring it, had her G-spot stimulated, came from her P-spot, sucked up my sperm with her womb, and writhed in ecstasy, squirting with joy.
"What a truly lewd body you have!"
"Aahn♡ Saying things like that gets me excited! Because I'm a pervert who gets happy being called a female dog♡"
After finishing the cleaning fellatio, she collapsed and started sleeping as if she had fallen over. Thinking about it, I realized I had barely let her sleep for these past four days.
(She'll probably sleep until around noon.)
Thinking that, I returned to the annex of the lord's manor. When I went back to Kuro and Shiro, they were completely naked, spreading their legs and waiting.
"We were thinking it was about time you wanted to fuck us♡"
"Good work out there♡ Get refreshed with Shiro's pussy!"
Kuro and Shiro healed me.
The next morning
I brought Wesson along and used Instant Movement to return to the imperial capital.
We went to the Cielo Trading Company. I had Wesson explain to Cielo about the peach nectar, peach compote, and other items, while I headed to the palace to present the peaches to His Majesty and Klaus.
"These are certainly delicious peaches, but what is the point?"
His Majesty looked puzzled, so I decided to serve various products made from the peaches.
"May I borrow the kitchen?"
Empress Victoria and the other ladies, having heard that I had come and would be making something, also came and occupied the dining hall.
I produced a large quantity of nectar, jelly, pudding, Type A Shochu—so-called peach wine made by steeping peaches in white liquor instead of plum wine—as well as liqueurs and jellies made with syrup.
Empress Victoria immediately ordered the cooks, "Acquire peaches and serve them starting tomorrow!" but no one could make them.
"Useless lot! What should I do?"
When she asked me, I smiled and bowed, saying, "The Cielo Trading Company plans to put them on the market," and she summoned the head steward.
"Buy up all the peaches at the Cielo Trading Company!"
A strict order was given immediately.
Around that time, at the Cielo Trading Company...
"I see! So Wesson, was it good for you to go on the journey with Shivans-sama? If I could, I'd like to go on a journey with him myself! Ahahaha!"
As the cheerful Cielo and Wesson were chatting, a messenger arrived from the palace.
"Please let us buy all the peaches! And all the desserts and liquors too!"
The peach compote, which they had planned to sell for 2000 G each including the container, sold out in an instant. This story would become a big topic in the newspapers the next day.
When Wesson and I returned via Instant Movement and Wesson joyfully reported, "The peach compote... all sold out! His Majesty and Her Majesty the Empress liked it. They bought it all up!" Arina's parents, the Rira couple, fainted.
"Dear... there were a thousand of them..."
"Ah! We have to hurry and make more! No sleeping in!"
Hearing that report, Prince Richard was also dancing with joy.
"We have to think about exporting too! Hurry up and build a factory! Get it finished before summer comes!"
I also ended up being busy manufacturing the compote containers.
Rumors that the farmers would buy even poor-quality peaches spread from mouth to mouth, and farming families mobilized everyone to bring peaches to the Rira Trading Company.
I asked Rira's wife to give the children some bekkou ame as a gift.
"We'll bring more peaches tomorrow!"
The children also got enthusiastic.
"I see! You saw that the children were bringing them reluctantly, didn't you?"
When Rira said this admiringly to his wife, she replied, "I wonder if that man is really 18 years old. He notices and sees all sorts of things, doesn't he? Arina needs to shape up too!" and she decided to write a letter to her daughter.
I headed to the Altz Trading Company, which was showing signs of decline. Remembering the time with the bicycles, I tried making a cool air blower using a magic stone imbued with 'Wind' and a magic stone imbued with 'Cold'. Surprisingly, it was well-received by the head clerk and the assistants. If you only use 'Wind', it can also be used as an air blower.
In winter, if you set a magic stone imbued with 'Warm', it quickly transforms into a warm air blower.
(While I'm at it, let's have them sell the quicklime that hasn't been selling well at my place too!)
"This is! Amazing! Please let us sell it all!"
The head clerk, assistants, and apprentices immediately went around the territory to advertise, and it seemed like it would become a viable business.
Pesu, who woke up at noon, was also surprised. She took a bath, changed into the lewd underwear and the seductive, alluring dress I had given her as a gift, fixed her hair, put on a little makeup, and stood in the shop.
She received high praise from the male customers who had gathered.
"Ain't she a super hot babe!"
"I'll be coming here every day!"
The iron, coal, and cool air blowers were hugely popular with blacksmiths. The air blowers were also well-received by restaurants that produced smoke, and the Altz Trading Company quickly became famous. But merchants wanting mixers, and people wanting cool air blowers or air blowers, also flooded in. However, most of the men were there for Herpes.
"Hasn't she, like, become kinda sexy?"
"I know what you mean! That wild feeling is gone, and she's got this mature woman vibe!"
Herpes had also become famous as the shop's poster girl.
'Disasters come when forgotten.'
This saying fit the 'Dark Poison Spider' perfectly.
On the highway connecting the Western Margrave and the Northern Margrave, there was a small post town. This was located southwest of Prince Richard's territory capital.
The 'Dark Poison Spider' had settled in this post town that 1 and 2 had found.
After attacking the village where Nadja lived, the 'Dark Poison Spider' attacked a small town.
They attacked and killed the magistrates, and the 'Dark Poison Spider' kidnapped many women and stole gold, food, and alcohol, but the 'Dark Poison Spider' also suffered heavy casualties.
"Boss! There's a hot spring resort in the village to the northwest!"
"Seems like a good place to lie low for a while!"
This happened nine years ago. They had many injured people, had gold and food, and hid in a remote hot spring village with many elderly people, women, and children.
At that time, Margrave Shinbu was secretly expanding his military with support from the Duchy of Walujava. Because he was gathering young people from his own territory and training them as soldiers, there were no young people in the village.
The 'Dark Poison Spider' visited the village without knowing about that situation.
Should the village chief accept the suspicious group?
He hesitated, but decided, "At this rate, the village will perish. Even if they are bad people, we have nothing left to lose in this village," and accepted the 'Dark Poison Spider'.
The 'Dark Poison Spider' had come to the village prepared to be rejected, but they were unexpectedly welcomed, which put them in a good mood. They shared food and developed close relationships.
Then, they built a hot spring inn next to the hot spring, turned the women they had kidnapped into prostitutes, and earned foreign currency. The boss and executives lived in the brothel, while the lower-ranking members helped with farming, became popular, and even started families.
When Margrave Shinbu and Margrave Egghardt began cooperating and a highway was built, the post town started to develop as a transportation hub.
Then, banditry started to feel ridiculous to them, and they effectively ended up going straight. Because they interacted amicably with neighboring villages, even if the women in the brothel were sold, poor people from neighboring villages would come to sell their daughters.
(I see. So that's why they couldn't be found.)
I brought Nadja and came to that post town.
The adventurers also said, "We want to go!" but I think they just want to change into their Black Knight costumes. However, I thought it was perfect for surrounding the village and intimidating them, so we came using a magic circle.
The village chief hurried out and asked us about the situation.
"I am a baron named Shivans von O'Brien. I've come to capture the 'Dark Poison Spider' gang you're hiding. Aren't there people here with spider tattoos?"
"They certainly have spider tattoos, but they have never harmed us!"
When the village chief stubbornly tried to protect them, the other villagers also agreed and criticized us.
I had Nadja's tattoo, which had been erased once, reappear, and showed the villagers the tattoo that covered her from her face to her back.
"This girl is Nadja. Nadja's village was attacked by the 'Dark Poison Spider', and she is the sole survivor."
The villagers fell silent and listened to my story.
"She was attacked ten years ago. Nadja was seven years old at the time. As if mocking her, they tattooed a seven-year-old girl, as if she were one of their comrades. How much has she suffered in these ten years? Can you imagine that?"
The villagers looked at each other with troubled expressions when ten thugs appeared. I could imagine they were probably hired by the brothel, but they didn't seem to be in a mood for discussion.
"So what?"
"They got attacked because they were weak. That's all there is to it."
"You seem to have brought soldiers, but we'll make you regret showing up before us with just two people."
They laughed coarsely and vulgarly.
"I'll give you some advice. If you refuse to negotiate and try to settle this by force, I can only think you're idiots. Don't move."
The thugs didn't know I had spread my Mind Threads.
They mocked my advice and rushed at me.
The ten thugs were cut by the invisible threads and turned into pieces of flesh.
"Kyaa!"
"Eek!"
The villagers couldn't understand what had happened. Just seeing the neatly cut corpses of the thugs, some people fainted.
A woman of a certain age performed a dogeza.
"I apologize for my husband's terrible deeds! You apologize too! How could you do such a horrible thing to a child the same age as our daughter! But even so, this husband is still my husband now! Please... forgive us!"
"We did kill your family. It's not something an apology can fix. But it was the bosses who tattooed you! We lower-ranking guys were just made to carry luggage! We're living honestly now! It's the truth! Please forgive us!"
With the thugs turned into pieces of flesh, the villagers lost their will to fight.
The people who had been lower-ranking members of the 'Dark Poison Spider' had become farmers, had families, and were performing dogeza together with their children.
Nadja seemed to want to forgive them. She whispered to me.
"Shivans-sama. I don't want to make those children go through the same thing I did. I don't want them to know the pain of losing their family..."
The bandits' children, while denouncing their fathers, apologized to Nadja. They seemed to understand that they didn't want their fathers to become pieces of flesh.
I read the thoughts of the 'Dark Poison Spider' members.
Then I made a proposal.
"If you can truly repent from the bottom of your hearts for taking the lives of Nadja's family and other innocent people, Nadja says she will forgive you."
The families of the lower-ranking members said, "Of course! We'll build a grave! We'll make sure they visit and pay their respects every single day, together with us! Right, dear?" When the wife said this sternly, the husband replied, "Of course! I promise."
The bosses and executives, who truly needed to repent, only pretended to bow their heads on the surface.
(I'll slowly torture these guys.)
People who had tried to escape from the village were also caught by the 'Shinobi' men and 'Kunoichi' women and had given up.
I cast 'Nightmare' on them, and we returned to the territory capital where Prince Richard was waiting.
The bosses and executives on whom I had cast 'Nightmare' were tormented every night. The dead thugs became ghosts and truly came to attack them with resentment.
"Stop it! Stop!"
They attacked whenever they slept. Eventually, rumors spread that 'the ghosts of the chopped-up thugs appear' at the brothel, and both customers and prostitutes fled.
Even the lower-ranking members who hadn't repented had dreams of being chased by the ghosts of the villagers they had attacked and screamed.
"I'm truly sorry... I'll build a grave too and hold memorial services until I die. And I swear I'll never do anything bad again..."
Those who repented were freed from the nightmares. But the bosses and executives couldn't wake from the nightmares, and due to lack of sleep, their complexions worsened day by day, and they grew weaker.
The villagers watched this.
"If you do bad things, divine punishment will fall!"
"Yeah! I think so too. We gotta make sure we don't get near those people..."
No one went near the bosses or executives anymore, and the brothel became like a ruin.
(This should have made Nadja feel a little better.)
The people who had become honest put their hands together in prayer at the graves every morning before working hard at their farming.
When I returned to the territory capital, it was bustling.
Wesson and his team, who were renting space from the Rira Trading Company, were doing business smoothly with the help of the adventurers.
The Rira Trading Company, run by Arina's parents, was enjoying unprecedented prosperity thanks to the peaches.
The wife had remodeled the shop and opened a 'Peach Café'. They sold nectar and peach wine as drinks, and pudding and jelly as desserts, bustling with many customers.
The husband, Rira, with the cooperation of Prince Richard, hired a large number of people at the factory, handling everything from harvesting peaches to making compote.
The local glass workshop also joined in.
They made bottles to preserve the peaches, but struggled with the packing parts and fasteners.
"Let's ask the tool shop too!"
Artisans who realized there was money to be made also started participating.
I returned to the imperial capital and collected all the bottles.
I cast 'Clean' on them to make them spotless and returned them to the factory.
While I was back in the imperial capital, I brought back the contract for the transaction between the Cielo Trading Company and the Rira Trading Company, and Rira happily signed it.
"I never imagined we'd be able to transport peaches! It's like a dream."
Rira was moved.
Prince Richard was also recruiting carriages and adventurers to secure a transportation system.
"The number of people working at the factory has increased too! I'm grateful!"
The income of the farmers who grew peaches also increased dramatically, and everyone's smiles multiplied.
"I'm glad I could be of use to Your Highness!"
"Yeah! Tax revenue looks like it will increase too! Thank you, Shivan!"
I shook hands with the prince.
Thanks to the peaches, many different people benefited.
The Altz Trading Company also shared in that benefit.
Mixers, cool air blowers, and air blowers were selling, and magic stones were doing well. Blacksmiths and glass workshops also came seeking coal.
(I have to return the money from Heimer's shady dealings to everyone.)
All the procurement costs for magic tools, magic stones, coal, quicklime, etc., came from the money obtained from Heimer.
That Heimer had lost the underworld and his subordinate Rappa tribe, had become like a completely senile old man, and was utterly useless.
His older brother Gan was the same, crying and screaming "It itches! It itches!" every day, having his whole body washed in a cold bath.
And then there was Herpes, reigning as the shop owner.
She swept back her long brown hair, wearing a dress with an open back. Her large breasts swayed because of the open bra. You could see the chain attached from the choker, but no one thought it was connected to her nipples and clit.
When this Herpes appeared, cheers erupted. Customers came even without any particular business, just to catch a glimpse of Herpes, who had transformed into a seductive beauty.
"That's the famous Herpes!"
"I'd love to fuck her just once!"
"As if a guy like you would get a chance!"
She smiled and let the men's gossip wash over her.
"Everyone. Welcome!"
Because her erect nipples and clit were connected by a body chain, she exuded sex appeal and greeted customers with a smile.
She made sure her lower body wasn't visible to customers or employees, but she wore an ultra-mini skirt. It seemed she changed into a long skirt when appearing in public.
When there was a lull in customers, she would come to the workshop in the back and it became her daily routine to be embraced by me.
When I slid the shoulder strap of her dress down, her large breasts were exposed. When I removed the nipple clamps attached to her nipples, she knelt before me, stuck out her tongue, and buried her face in my crotch.
"I get wet just from sucking Master's big dick! Look!"
She spread her legs, slid her string panties aside, and made her pussy twitch and drip love juice.
"You're the world's lewdest 17-year-old."
"Ufufu! Master's big dick made me into this kind of woman, you know? Please play with my nipples too♡"
"Getting them this hard and stiff, how lewd of you, Pesu."
"I... just from being touched... I'm gonna cum... ♡"
She gave me fellatio while trembling and twitching.
When it got big, she turned around and said, "Today, doggy style♡" and spread her legs, begging for standing doggy style.
As her tits were squeezed and she was rammed while turning her face back for a kiss, she squirted out streams of fluid.
"Aahn♡ I'm cumming, I'm cumming♡ I'm gonna cum! I'm gonna squirt so much♡ I want lots of sperm inside me♡ Please make this female dog Pesu pregnant♡"
When I came, Pesu, twitching, wore an ecstatic expression and said, "Ufufu... Master's sperm is soaking into my womb! I'm sure I'll get a baby!"
Until we left the territory capital, she was fucked every day and rejoiced in it.