243 6.37 First Unsuccessful Bid. (1/2)
The lady boss of the cosmetic arrived and bowed and greeted me and was welcomed by Hiko-sama. She smiled at me and I saw it was pearlescent white and not the last time I had seen. ”You have beautiful teeth, Boss...!” I remarked and she was surprised that I called her boss. She told me to call her by her instead and of course, she was still single despite her age.
”Please don't call me boss, Your Excellency... Just call me Shu Uemura instead. Thank you for taking the time to invite me to meet you. Why don't you stay at the Castle with His Majesty like the rest of the nobles?”
”Hahahahaha. First thing, don't call me as 'Your Excellency', I'd prefer 'Yours Truly' instead. I am not born as a noble and I am here just like Sensei, Uemura-san.”
”Furthermore, I'd prefer to be here close to my people. Just because I was promoted as Mayor and Governor of Fukushima, I'd blow up my head and look down on those who helped build this Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha?”
”That's so humble of you, Yours Truly. I never expected someone so young to be so mature. And call me Shu by my first name. It'll be alright by me, is that right, Hiko?”
Hiko-sama that was sitting across her looked sheepishly and I think I saw him blush a bit. In Wikipedia and Fandom, Hiko Seijuro is a person that would avoid such situation at all cost and have no intention to meddle in such trivial matters like falling in love or being socially involved with the opposite sex.
But in this series, however... he turned out to be totally different in many ways except for the way he wears his clothes and his drinking manner, which doesn't even make him drunk. And now he got his hots for the lady boss.
”Hahahahaha...it seems months before I knew of your name, Uemura-san... It is not good for me to call someone who is older than me by their names, even if I'm a Mayor or Governor. It is disrespectful. By the way, I summoned you here because I want to find out certain things from you and your industry.”
”Sure...what is it that you wish to seek my advice for?”
”Do you carry any other cosmetic and beauty products besides ours like lipstick, makeup kit and so on?”
”In fact I do, Yours Truly. They were all named after me and I had a full range of products. I have rogue, which you called lipstick, foundation, blushers, eyeliners, except for nail polish. I find it a hassle to find the right ingredients and also the right storage bottles.”
”The process to make one would also be less profitable to be placed under the Shu Uemura cosmetic line. Why do you ask, Yours Truly? You intend to produce your own range?”
”Well, since there's a competitor, it's best to leave you with the monopoly. But since you do not make the nail polish range, I would like to monopolise on that. I use to dabble with it before, there was something called 'Hard as Nails'. Basically, once the polish is being applied, the fingernails won't be easily chipped at all.”
”Never heard of it before... But I would be glad to purchase those if its readily available.” Shu Uemura explained. But after some time, I decided not to increase any more range of products and decided to shelf it first.
We've got 36 warehouses running at 80% capacity right now, a jump of 5% since the last count. Right now, with just that we had a weekly sales income of 12-25 million gold coins now with the total production of Refined Steel and the whole range of cosmetics, beauty and food products.