Chapter 220: Way to Wealth? (1/2)

Thursday finally arrived and Calvin received a mail from the Department of Justice stating that he had to report at the 3rd District Police Station located at the southern tip of the Southern Borough.

Just like how the lands of Joselian were divided with their own region governors and city mayors, the lands of Ashmelion were also divided into smaller districts...

Each Borough has seven districts with equal land distribution.

Of course, the amount of wealth concentrated in a particular district wouldn't always be equal due to how wealth was divided among the wealthy and the commoners. But in terms of land, the districts were roughly equal to each other.

The 3rd District of the Southern Borough was quite far away, but it wasn't a problem to the well-off Calvin.

He was tasked to report to the police station by noon for a medical examination along with other recruited auxiliary police trainees in preparation for the commencement of the special training program.

This special training program would last for three months, and it would be based entirely on police training.

All activities would be carried out inside the barracks prepared by the Government of Ashmelion beforehand, and thus...

The trainees would be completely isolated from the outside world.

Calvin let out a sigh seeing the letter of invitation.

”Is that it?” Charlotte asked with worry on her face.

”Yeah... It seems that today is really the day that I'll be gone again.” Calvin quickly put away the letter. He had informed Charlotte that he was about to join yet again another business caravan. The only difference was that his trip this time was longer than the previous.

”With how you've improved so far, I am confident that you'll be able to make it far without me supporting you, Charlotte.” Calvin smiled.

Charlotte shook her head, ”Don't say that, dear. Meeting you is my luck. If not for you, would I be able to reach where am I today?”

”Silly...” Calvin chuckled, ”You should try to treasure your efforts more. I only showed you the way, I didn't hold your hands all the way there.”

”Hehehe...” Charlotte felt good while Calvin was rubbing the crown of her head.

At first, she found it awkward that someone who was supposedly younger than her was rubbing her head. But now that she knew that both of them were roughly at the same age.

The awkwardness seemed to have disappeared as Charlotte became more open and bolder.

”Take care of Cecilia while I'm gone... When I return, we'll go out and take a long vacation with her together.”

Calvin smiled and he got off the bed.

He looked down for he seemed to have stepped on something.

It was Charlotte's corset.

”Oh, your clothes... I stepped on it, I'm sorry.” Calvin quickly handed her the corset.

”Ah! It's okay...”

Charlotte was swift to snatch the corset away from him as a furious blush spread on her face.

”Say, don't you feel very uncomfortable wearing something so tight like that?” Calvin couldn't help but ask.

”Yeah... But I can't afford to not wear this, since I don't want to be arrested...” Charlotte revealed a bitter smile.

Calvin nodded.

Indeed, a law that didn't make sense existed in Ashmelion. Women weren't allowed to go out without a corset, but prostitutes were legal as long as there was consent and they were paying their taxes. Furthermore, the law was only focused on a woman's upper body.

As long as the woman had something to cover her jugs, she could go commando underneath which didn't make sense to Calvin.

”Would you like something that's not as restricting as that?” Calvin mused for a moment before he proposed.

”Something that's not as restricting as the corset? Does something like that even exist?”

Charlotte stared at Calvin in intrigue.

”Yup... Do you want me to draw it up for you? Here's what it looks like...” Calvin nodded.

He took a pen and paper from a nearby cabinet as his hands danced on the piece of paper. In just three minutes, the design of underwear for the ladies was completed—it was none other than the bra!

”Interesting... So this bowl-like contraption covers it? And the strap, why is it so thin? Will it really be able to hold them down together?”

”Yeah... Wait, why do you look like you can make this?”

”Because I can!” Charlotte proudly declared, ”I've always made the clothes that Cecilia and I were using back then at the Northern Borough. I couldn't really afford proper clothes back then, so I have to make do with sewing rags together and make sure that they resemble something similar to clothes in looks...”

”But this one looks easy enough, I can probably copy it!”

”Really?” Calvin looked at Charlotte in astonishment, ”Well feel free to try and create this thing. You can probably turn this into a hefty sideline once you master its creation. Do you like a capital? I can give you some money for you to start a clothing line.”

A smile spread on Calvin's face as he beamed in excitement. How did he forget that the world of Las Felipinas was still an archaic civilization compared to Earth?

If he ”invented” some of the convenient tools from Earth to Las Felipinas, then he could probably sell them like pancakes here...

What's more, since it has not even been a decade since the world of Las Felipinas was discovered. The Earthlings still hadn't started their cultural revolution.

If Calvin ”invented” these things in Las Felipinas and got ahead of them, he could probably become the richest man in Las Felipas and Earth at the same time!

Well, there was a bit of an exaggeration there.

But if Calvin did all of these, then he could guarantee his retirement in the future.

Smiling in Charlotte's direction, he instructed, ”All right, dear... I'll give you a capital that you can use to start a clothing line. Then, I'll create the designs for us. Once I'm back from my business trip, we can go and start our own company together!”