chapter 58

Thinking about it very very carefully, they have been moving, coming to wake me up, sleeping with me on Ketorami-san’s tummy even though I haven’t been controlling them .

What is this, what is going on!

……and so, I tried asking .

“Ladies, why are you moving even though I’m not moving you?”

The maid-san puppets made expressions like ‘Oh no!’, but that’s not enough . It’s cute but it’s not enough . Explain properly .

Then while making troubled expressions, they brought out a small bottle .

……ah~, this is? The mint extract that had no use after I made it!

I tried sniffing the maid-san puppets, kind of as expected, they had the refreshing smell of mint .

Hm, when I tried [appraising] the mint extract, it had [MP Recovery (Large)} .

When I tried licking just a single drop, my empty MP felt like it fully recovered .

Hmmmm, this, it’s performance is quite good, It might be a good idea to mass produce it .

But, there is something curious .

This mint extract, there was only a few ml……should have been, but for some reason, it increased .

It, increased, so, that, means .

“Could you guys have been, making this every night?”

They made faces like ‘yep!’ . Aah, what’s with these puppets!

Basically, these puppets have been dosing (?) themselves with this mint extract while I was sleeping, moving with the MP gained from that then setting up the soxhlet extractor and extracting the mint, then packing it all up and pretending like nothing happened!

Wh, why go that far……ha! I see! It was all to reduce the burden on my MP! These children have been extracting mint every night for that……

Su, such good children . But this is not something that you need to hide, so please do it openly .

cuteness level up

And so the soxhlet extractor is now permanently set up in the corner of the chemistry lab and mint is always being grown in large flowerpots .

When the maid-san puppets are starting to lose the MP to move, they can soak their bodies with just a little of the mint extract .

And when they have time, they can harvest mint, extract it with the soxhlet extractor and store it .

When there is not enough mint in the flowerpots, I can just grow them with [Growth] .

Honestly, it is more efficient to [grow] mint with MP than move the maid-san puppets . This is very helpful .

……goodbye conservation of energy

But still, it was a great discovery that the puppets can move with external sources of MP .

I would have liked for them to report this earlier, but it seems they felt guilty for using the mint extract without permission and couldn’t say it .

I told them to report immediately in the future .

The maid-san puppets were very happy after knowing that they can move more freely in the future .

Mhm mhm, I’ll be in your care .

free!

And after doing all that, I prepared dinner .

Today is a meal for 18 again so it’s fried bird .

Please turn them over and eat on your own when they are ready .

The rest of the menu was rice, miso soup, boiled vegetables and pickled vegetables . I went easy on it, forgive me .

18 is too many

And everyone came back .

“We’re back . ”

“Welcome back army of masters . ”

The return of 17 people is really grand . It was just 3 at the start .

We’ve made amazing progress compared to then .

“We tried going to the underground auction . But……it’s bad, a lot of things will be overlapping tomorrow, so we need a lot of money by tomorrow . ”

I listened as we ate, it is quite horrible, a classroom and 2 foreign slaves are on display tomorrow night .

“The minimum bid for the classroom is 30 platinum, the price for the foreign slaves start from 80 platinum . ”

……

Okay~ okayokayokay, let’s think .

First, 2 foreign slaves are 160 platinum at a minimum .

Then 30 platinum is the minimum for the classroom, so it will be at least twice that . Let’s consider it to be five times .

So……310 platinum, which means 31000 silver, so in dresses……62 sets!

Wawawawait, I, I’ve made, that many, err, 29 sets . Me, meaning……33 more sets!

I’ll die! This will kill me!

And this is the minimum estimated price . I would like twice of it .

Die! I’ll die! I’ll definitely die!

Aaaaaaah! What to do what to do!

lilililililike this, there’s no choice, last resort!

deep breath

“Lend me your dog tags, please!”

I’ve never done it, but it should be doable . After all, I can receive . Then can’t I give? It’s [sharing] after all .

“First Suzumoto . [Textile Alchemy] [Thread Spinning] [Weaving] [Dyeing]……dammit, missed!”

How could it be, I couldn’t share any of them with Suzumoto .

“Next is you,Hagasaki-kun! [Textile Alchemy]……ooh! [Thread Spinning] [Weaving] [Sewing] [Dyeing]……aaah, but it’s fine! Just make the fiber! Take care of that thanks . ”

“Eh, Wai, eh, what? I’m making fiber?”

“Of course . ”

“I don’t know how to make it though . ”

But your dog tag has [Textile Alchemy] engraved on it . Give up and make it .

“It’ll work out somehow, here wood . ”

“……[Textile Alchemy] . ”

Hagasaki-kun gave up and started making fiber but……

“Wait, time out . ”

“What?”

“You, that thing, what fiber are you making?”

“Eh? Can’t I just make fiber-like thing from the wood?”

……I see . They don’t have the concept of extracting the cellulose, changing the arrangement and creating fiber .

“OK, that was my bad . Err, make cupra . ”

“What’s that? Cupra?”

……it was mentioned in class! In both home economics and chemistry!

bad student

After digging out the chemistry textbook and explaining about cupra for 5 minutes, Hagasaki-kun became able to make wonderful cupra . He became able to but……for some reason, unlike when I make it, there is waste . Basically, the residue from making fiber comes out .

Why . Mhm~……well, it’s not particularly a problem right now .

ignore for now~

Then after trying to [Share] with everyone else, Katori somehow managed to learn [Dyeing] .

……but, there was also differences here, unless the original plant had an effect on its own, there is no special effect . And the colour……it’s different from when I do it .

Well, this is something I’m rather thankful for, so I had him keep [dyeing] with random flowers Hanamura-san grew!

variety

And so I became a machine that just kept cutting and sewing .

It is a lot easier now that my work has been simplified . The maid-san puppets also spin and weave for no cost, so that’s easy as well .

Also it was discovered that by increasing the amount of MP the maid-san puppets consume, they can make cloth faster, so President is now producing mint extract .

And being able to leave the work that consumes a lot of MP to Hagasaki-kun and Katori makes it extremely easy .

distrubution of labour, work the masters

So we somehow managed to succeed in producing 24 sets of clothes in the 2 hours before sleeping! Like this there is only 9 sets remaining to the minimum goal! Ooh, like this it seems we can make it for the auction tomorrow night with plenty of money .

why is the maid producing money instead of getting paid

Then I once again gave up on Ketorami-san and slept in my futon, then woke up .

When I woke up I was back to my usual approximately 5 o’clock .

It’s not very efficient to go back to sleep twice like yesterday, so I had Hanamura-san, Utagawa-san and Umino-san sleep in the broadcast room .

See, the floor of the broadcast room is neither wood nor linoleum, it’s carpets, so it’s not cold .

So today I can start preparing breakfast early in the morning, so let’s go with rice for breakfast .

After buying eggs by the box I’m able to make fried eggs and am very satisfied .

If I can be greedy, I want a frying pan for the fried eggs .

Let’s get Toriumi to make one next time .

equipment pls

After eating breakfast, become a cutting, sewing machine and start work today!

“I’ve seen it quite a lot, but no matter how many times I see it Maito-san’s sewing speed is absurd……”

Hahahahaha, that’s all thanks to skills . I don’t even know how I’m sewing at this speed myself .

Next to me the maid-san puppets are diligently making fiber into thread, thread into cloth then next to them Hagasaki-kun is making wood into fiber and waste .

Then outside, Suzumoto, Kadomi-kun and Aira-kun’s group is collecting wood, then the girls are blooming and picking and blooming and picking flowers and rinse and repeat . All thanks to Hanamura-san . Amazing efficiency, amazing speed .

The other people without work went to gather food .

We are starting to run out of meat .

I am now able to [Germinate] and [Grow] vegetables so they’re fine, but I can’t grow meat……

… . . am I bad for thinking of that ss?

So we continued that work until noon, and made 40 sets of clothes . Fast!

Like this err, we have made 93 sets of dresses, ceremonial clothes, occasionally messed around and made nurse clothing and waitress uniforms, since yesterday . Ah, I didn’t make maid uniforms . Just didn’t feel like it .

must maintain unique identity

Then everyone carried that and [teleport] to the uncle’s pawnshop in Deichemoore .

Ah, about this [Teleport], apparently they already got permission from the uncle . Basically, we have permission to directly barge into the back of the store where no one will see us .

Seems like the uncle is already used to this kind of unusual phenomena . Well of course, he’s involved with 18 foreigners .

“Yo, welcome . ……uoh, that’s quite a lot again!”

“93 sets . ”

“93, 93 huh…… not just the nobles, I can slip them into other markets through underground routes then . Then I can rip them off again……uhihihihihi . ”

This uncle doesn’t even try to hide his intent to rip people off . We’re already kind of accomplices anyway .

“So, how much will you buy them for?”

“500 silver per set and 93 sets……so 46500 silver, but I will buy it for a little extra at 47000 . How’s that?”

47000 silver is 470 platinum . Hm, this much should work out somehow……maybe . No, it’s still quite uncertain though .

“Then that’s fine . So, next is this . ”

This? was there something else to sell?”

“This……is, isn’t this the prize of the gladiator tournament!?”

“Yeah, so?”

……ah, come to think of it, there was that, among the prizes for the gladiator tournament, there was mantles with a miserable [Increased Defense] . And 6 of them .

“Ar, are you serious!? You’re selling these!?”

Uncle, extremely excited . Are these really that, that amazing? It’s just a shame to me since I can make even better things very easily though .

“Well, there’s a lot of things we need to buy . So how much will you buy these?”

“Le, let’s, see……mhm, okay . How about 250 gold each!?”

250 gold=2500 silver .

……hm? That’s strange . They can be sold for 5 times the price of the clothes I made?

“Okay, sold~”

“Thanks for the business! Hehehehehe……I can sell these for a high prize~”

250 gold x 6 so 1500 gold=150 platinum .

Mhm~, easy money .

“Ah, then we’ll sell the rings we got too . ”

Yes, the rings that Aira-kun’s group got as prizes from the Nona section, those have misterably low [Increased Maximum HP] and [Increased Maximum MP], so it’s better for them to use the rings we got from the ruins .

So they will just be selling them .

“Are you serious!? These are also prizes from the gladiator tournament right!?”

“We have 9, how much will you buy it for?”

“Gunu……okay! How about 2500 gold for the 9 of them!?”

Oh wow, an amazing prize . 2500 gold=250 platinum .

It’s jumped quite a lot .

“Okay~, sold . ”

Like this in platinum……870? ……really easy money .

“Thanks for the business! ku~, I really am lucky, it’s like I have a patent on the equipment with [Lost Blessings] in this neighbourhood, it’s all profits . ”

“Won’t you draw attention from others selling that much?”

“Aah? It’s fine . they won’t dare to poke at the purveyor of foreign noble-samas, probably . ”

Is, is that okay? There were idiots that tried to steal a maid from those foreign noble-samas though .

As I was feeling uneasy, the uncle grinned and lowered his voice .

“This is only for your ears, it’s become a rumour in the capital . ……try to steal a slave from the foreign noble-sams and you will be frozen . ”

Ah, I see~ . Nice to see word of mouth had an effect .

Since the organisers of the gladiator tournament encountered the 3 men I left tied up in the hideout of those kidnappers, they probably interrogated them and things leaked out from there .

not just frozen, tortured too

“But isn’t that just a rumour? Then how about we take turns staying here and protect you, we wanted a place to sleep anyway . ”

Aira-kun seemed to still feel uneasy and suggested something amazing .

“Eh, eh!? Seriously!?”

The uncle is very welcoming of it . Well of course, foreigners are clumps of [Lost Blessings] .

“Ah, if the 9 of us can become nobles, we will protect this store . This store and you are our lifelines right now . ”

Well, I see~, without this store and uncle, we will lose any means to earn money . Since it’s Aira-kun’s group’s job to also watch the market in the capital and Deichemoore, making a base here is not a bad idea .

“Okay, got it . I have enough space to let 9 stay over . I can even shelter you all until you become nobles . How about it? Want to stay from today?”

Ooh, that’s a nice suggestion . Aira-kun’s group also agreed . They ended up deciding to come straight here after the auction today and start living here .

The pawnshop uncle seems to be extremely happy with 4 beautiful girls coming to stay .

But do not be mistaken, they are strong enough to take down that uncle with one punch .