79 CHAPTER XIII -- Chairman Elsie (1/2)

Now I was standing in front of dozens of people.

”Good to meet you, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Leons Forster. It's a pleasure to meet you.

We're finally open for business today. Well, maybe reopening might be more accurate for you guys.

We'll be working together to help each other out.

Yes, I'm at the new Elsie's.

Just a little pre-opening meeting.

It's a big one for the first time today.

Elsie, Master, Colt, and Moran are with you.

Elsie doesn't have a collar on her neck anymore.

I went to the slavers about two weeks ago and had them take it off me.

I went with her and was surprised that the collar came off a lot easier than I thought it would.

They just had to cut it off and be done with it.

Why did you need to come to the slavers?

But it seems it's illegal for a civilian to break a slave's collar.

Also, if you don't have the slave trader to lift your slave magic, your relationship with your master will continue even if you break the collar.

Well, this is how Elsie was no longer a slave.

She's not sure if she's happy about the sudden development.

Yeah, it's kind of sudden.

You could have told me sooner.

Thinking about that, I snapped my mind back to reality.

”Nice to meet you!　Well, I've been seeing the artisan group for two weeks now.

I'm talking about Master.

The day after Miss Elsie decided to follow in Miss Colt's footsteps, he started training Fermat's workers.

I was forced to attend the master's classes.

Every day I practiced alongside Fermat's craftsmen.

As a result, I became very close to the craftsmen.

Now I'm called ”Leobo” and the old craftsmen buy me dinner after the class.

It was quite a fun two weeks for me.

At the same time, Elsie was teaching Mr. Colt and Mr. Moran how to run a trading company.

It looked like a lot of work, but she was having fun, so I guess it was all right.

And I'm going to be behind the chamber of commerce.

And apparently, when it gets big, it's customary to have a nobleman at your back.

So basically, it's a battle for aristocratic control.

They use it as a political bargaining chip.

The merchants get support from the noblemen.

And I've heard that when you have a big family behind you, that's how you attract customers.

By the way, it seems that Fermat was originally backed by the Philibert family.

Philibert is, I believe, ...... the chubby house or something like that. ......?

And so, my first job as a nobleman was to back Elsie's shop.

Well, there's not much work for me to do as a backer.

My main job was to provide ideas.

This time I've been told not to make something as hard to make as a magic sword.

So this time we've got something practical.

We've got a vacuum cleaner, a washing machine, and a refrigerator.

It was practical and would definitely sell.

But it was all rejected.

It seems the fridge was already there.

And I was told I couldn't sell the vacuum cleaner because of the holy magic of cleanliness.

Same goes for the washing machine upstairs.

Thus, I sank the ship.

I kept thinking about it.

A practical, marketable item in this world: ......

Mmmm. ...... That's a tough one. .......

This world is basically too convenient for magic!

It's very hard to find that hole: .......

Yeah ...... what to do about it. .......

I think I'd be more likely to sell the stuff I don't use in real life: .......