117 Episode 117: Shopping is the scent of your own home.txt (1/2)

Not a bad way to make money on Netflix.

Good - let's just say it's good.

I sold some lace a while ago and it turned out to be a lot of money and I've been able to save some money.

Hand-woven cloths like bedsheets are selling consistently and miscellaneous items are popular. Occasionally, there are some items that go unbid, but if you turn the bidding around a few weeks, you usually win the auction.

However, it's just a level of making money at the internet auction. My monthly income is over 200,000 yen, but that's about it. Considering the overwhelming advantage of being in a different world, it's a pretty small scale.

It's a bit late to say this, but I'm still a solid - or rather, petty - guy. Well, if I go with a bang, I'm sure I'll be in big trouble.

Anyway, let's keep it at this scale for a while, until I start my online shop.

I left the store to Etois, Deanna and the others and went out to shop.

I didn't do any shopping at Elishe, but rather at Earth ......, or rather Japan. The reason for this is because Aeon is living in a new mansion and needs to get some additional things.

After all, the guy is a girl and a princess.

And it's a real one.

It's not a forgery or an imitation, like a pseudo-princess or an Otasaa princess. It's a true work. A true work of art.

I don't know what I'm talking about.

”We'll start with the bed.

Ion is currently sleeping with Deanna and Marina.

Although it's a king-sized bed, it's just three women. I haven't (unfortunately) peeked at the circumstances under which they are sleeping, but I'm sure it's cramped. I have an image of Deanna, who seems to sleep in a large figure without restraint. There's even a suggestion of Marina sleeping on the floor.

So anyway, it's imperative that we buy a bed.

When I think of a princess bed, I think of that thing with a canopy.

But I can't afford it, so I'll just buy an ordinary, cheap folding bed.

It's just like the one Orica uses. It's my sister's hand-me-down, but it should be enough for the time being. When things settle down a bit, we can switch to the otherworldly luxury bed that Deanna and Marina are using. That's a good thing, too.

After buying the bed at the furniture store, I bought a mattress, comforter, and pillows at Ni**lis.

I also bought a set of mattresses and a futon for Shamash. The mattresses made in other worlds are made of natural materials, which is a good thing, but from a practical point of view, modern Japanese mattresses are probably better than the ones made in Japan, because they're made of chemicals.

And I also bought various sundries. I bought a lot of sundries because they were cheap.

The next step is to buy clothes ...... or rather underwear.

The place to head is Yucclo.

This is the Yu`ukuro in times of trouble. However, you don't have to buy so many things.

First of all, underwear. The quality of underwear is certainly better in Japan than in other worlds. And yet, they are cheap.

Men tend to think that buying women's underwear is a high hurdle for them, but once you get used to it, it's nothing to worry about. Shopping is shopping, no matter what you buy. As long as you pay for it, it's OK.

By the way, I'm using the size that Marina measured for me.

It's about the size of Deanna's hair. I'm hoping that she'll grow out of it.

The underwear from Yucclo is cheap but simple. They don't look very pretty, but they're good for that. And I don't feel too much fetishism when it comes to underwear either.

As far as quality goes, I think it's a product that even a princess would appreciate ....... I'm not sure how good or bad women's underwear is.

Other than underwear, I'd pick socks, pajamas, loungewear, and a random t-shirt or something else.

Even though it was cheap, I picked the one with further discounts and bought it.

In the end, I bought too much of this and that and ended up spending more than 30,000 yen, but I'll consider it a necessary expense.

Well, as for the clothes, there are some that I bought for Deanna. I'm sure they'll fit in, so you can get some second-hand.

Marina's might be a little big for me.

After I finished shopping at Aeon, I headed to my usual fabric store.

We use the fabric store to stock up on items to sell at Elishe's market, or to check the texture of the actual items that we can't find on the internet.

It's a fairly large store, so the prices are reasonable, and the frequency of use is high.

I entered the parking lot and got out of the car.

A banner that said ”SALE” fluttered in front of the store.

Once inside the store, there are many ”Sale” flyers all over the store.

It seemed to mean that they were having a sale, which everyone loved.

Oh, yeah,” I said. I was just going to take a look at it, but it was a great opportunity to buy in bulk!

The mini-car was already stuffed with luggage, but there was still plenty of room for as much cloth as possible.

I quickly looked through the sale items.

A glittering red bill. The words ”50% off” loomed over my chest.

In most cases, the sale items are mainly unpopular patterns. The other items are bad inventory, items that we stocked a lot of but didn't sell as well as we expected.

But that doesn't matter. Sale is just precious.

I'm the one who chooses the cloths I buy when I'm crazy about them.

At the moment, the main items I deal in at the store in the other world are plain cloths.

It's just cotton cloth, but it sells consistently well. That's because I'm the only one in Elishe that deals in ”machine-ponge yarn and machine-woven cloth”, which only exists in ”hand-spun yarn and hand-woven cloth”.

The material itself is the same cotton. However, only the weaving method, or the manufacturing method is a secret.

To begin with, most of the people who buy cloth in such a market are local women. In that sense, I can say that I've been able to make a very low-profile profit.

Well, that's why I've been building my business on that basis, but it's time for me to expand my business with the knights.

It's time to try out new products.

Most of the cloths sold in other worlds are ordered online these days.

After all, the basis of business is to buy cheaply and sell at a high price. That's why we want to stock up on cheap fabrics, our core merchandise.

At the cheapest store on the Internet, you can buy it really cheaply for about 150 yen per meter. I sell this at about 10 times the price, so I can make a very stable profit.

However, even in this age of overabundance, there is still a limit to the types of cloth you can buy for 150 yen per meter. I can stock a large quantity of cloth because I use it in my business, so this price is realized, but it is usually impossible.

Of course, you may see a price of 100 yen per meter on sale. However, you can't choose the type of fabric you want to use, so you can stock them, but it's hard to make them the main item. Even if a customer likes it, it's not good enough for the next shipment.

So, when we stock up on these things, we traditionally sell them to our regular customers for a reasonable price.

By the way, it was quite cheap this time, too.

The fact that it's on sale means that it's a one-off item. The fact that it was on sale means that it was a one-off item, which means that there is no plan for the next shipment of the product at the store: .......

That's why I wouldn't have stocked up on this stuff until now, but...

Tartan checkered fabric.

Weird cat character print fabric.

Navy blue thin polyester fabric.

Black felt.

Bright red corduroy.

30 balls of yarn.

Three rolls of ribbons.

Embroidery thread and sewing thread.

I took the plunge and bought various things.

They were all discounted by 50% to 70%. That's quite a discount.

By the way, after I bought a few things, I realized that cloth is very expensive, even in Japan.

Cheap cloth can be sold for 100 yen a meter or so, but those are the exception.

Normally, cloth is sold in units of 10 centimeters, so in that case, the smallest unit would be 10 yen cloth. This is either too cheap or it's the lowest priced cloth (although very cheap cloth is actually sold in longer units).

So how much does a typical piece of fabric cost? It's about 5 to 10 times the price.

50 to 100 yen per 10 cm.

500 to 1000 yen per meter. You'd think that's a realistic amount of money.

Above this price range, the cloth becomes a bit more expensive.

200 yen for 10 centimeters is plenty expensive enough. 2,000 yen for one meter.

At this level, it's a bit of an adventure to stock up on fabric to sell in another world. If you are selling it as if it were a cheap cloth, you would be selling it for 20,000 yen per meter. It's quite a luxury fabric.

In fact, it is not too expensive for those who are extravagant and easy to wear.

What is the most famous luxury fabric in Japan?

There are many, but the most famous one that comes to mind is ”cashmere”.

Cashmere is a kind of goat's hair from the mountainous region, but it is sold at a very high price because of its low production and high quality.

By the way, this cashmere costs about 40,000 yen per meter in Japan (although it varies).

In another world, it would be 400,000 yen for a meter of cashmere. It's almost a treasure.

If I were to make a coat as well, I would use about 4 meters of it. The fabric alone would cost 1.6 million yen. It was truly a dress for the nobility.

However, he had no intention of selling 400,000 yen worth of cloth.

However, it is a fact that 40,000 yen worth of cloth exists in Japan if it is of high quality and good quality.

If that's the case, then of course it would be the case in other worlds, and the trend should be rather strong.

Now it's just a matter of whether I'm prepared to handle high quality cloth or not.

However, I don't want to make the same mistake as I did with velvet. If I'm going to sell luxury cloth, I'll see if I can talk to someone around Rebecca. It might be just as well to prepare some samples and choose a safe one from them.

Speaking of velvet, what happened to the chubby merchant after that?

There was supposed to be something about being Deanna's support person in place of the Solo family, but I haven't seen her at all since she announced that she was going to visit Lakeside Street. There's nothing wrong with not being there, but there's also a sense of what's going on with the job.

Hetty-san said she was going back to the imperial capital to find out where her parents live, so I wonder if we'll find out when she gets back?

Or is it normal to spend this long at a summer resort in the sense of a vacation in that world? I've heard that even the earth is a bit weird in Japan.

Anyway.

I'll sell the new cloth I bought this time, at a reasonable price.

Or maybe it's time to get out of the street market and rent a real shop and sell them there.

The number of people who can work properly hasn't increased yet, but we're also going to have a knight squad, and we want a shop that can be our base of operations as well.

Suddenly, it occurred to me that now might actually be the time to start a new shop.

Thanks to the battle in Luclaera the other day, I have a mountain of magical crystals.

There isn't much demand for them in Elishe, so they won't sell for that high a price, but they are originally worth a good amount of money. With that much money, it's enough to rent a store.

As for the products, there is no problem. The advantage of a mirror is an absolute advantage, and I want to sell the work that I made in collaboration with the grand master of the blacksmith shop.

The only problem is the lack of shopkeepers, but in the process of growing the knightly corps from now on, we should be able to hire a knightly woman .......

If not, I can take another new apprentice.

Also, all you really need is my resolve.

Well, even if you're sober, you've already made a fair amount of acquaintances in Elishe, and you should be able to afford to rent a small shop .......

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I came home with a plan for this and that new store. I brought my stuff into the mansion and set up the bed.