Chapter 54 (1/2)
Translator: Mana
Editor: The Blacksmith & Anonymous_Neko
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Chapter 54 – The smell of deceptive business talk
”I bought 10 eous Too gorgeous It should be able to sell for quite a lot, but there's no one to sell it to… The only rich person I'm acquaintances with is the eous things like this… Other than that, there's Jephthah? It h Hetty too… Hmm…”
The black fabric I had purchased targeted for the upper class people flowed out of orgeous out there, the first one that would colimmered like the surface of water – velvet This was the product I had decided to take on the rich people
It was a bit of an exaggeration to say that, since the choice itself was based on a rather siine royalty froes was velvet after all So surely it h class and expensive here too! That was , anyway…
Well, there was also the fact that velvet was a fabric that had been around for a while, so there wasn't as ated
Since a lot of the latest fabrics would be difficult to sell in another world
For example—
Patterned fabric
The printing technology in this world was at best, woodblock printing That in itself had a certain flavour to it, whichdifferent about it when compared to the perfectly uniform print of japan That hy I didn't sell them
Breathable waterproof fabric
The latestwater vapour pass through A famous brand of which would be Gore-Tex Fabrics like that While its functions drew a line with norh-quality fabric ”It lets vapour through! You won't feel stuffy!” couldn't make much of a sales pitch in a place where plastic didn't even exist Plus, it was expensive That hy I decided against it
Enamel fabric
Similar to plastic, and too early for other-worlders Immediate rejection Or rather, I didn't even want to sell plastic
Well, the fabric shop didn't sell in with, so perhaps I could become a leader of non-patterned fabrics?
Speaking of fabrics I didn't sell, that included leather and synthetic leather too
To put it bluntly, the quality of leather in Erishe was as high as you would expect from another world and much cheaper than japan There were many varieties too, to the point that I wanted to import them to japan instead
Any other fabrics, I'll gradually start selling them over time
They say that winter will come once the ”Monster Wave” period passes, so the demand for warm clothes loves, leg warmers or beanies
The best option would be to bring heat packs over and just sell them as is
For now, the matter at hand was this velvet
In japanese, it would be written as heavenly goose cloth Read as tengajuu or biroudo or so of the Edo period, so there's no doubt it was made from natural materials
Well, it wasn't as though the customers inspected each and every material used, so it didn't really matter if there were any synthetic fibres such as polyester, nylon, acrylic, rayon and polyurethane
For the record, the velvet in my hand was 100 Cupro Yep, totally synthetic It felt wonderful to touch
”…And so, I'd like you to look at this fibre What do you think?”
”It's really… beautiful…”
I showed it to Diana while shopkeeping at the stall It seeap in values could be unexpected at tiood to check
…Though Diana's aesthetic sense wasn't entirely reliable either
”Are you putting this in the store? A lot of people would want this”
”This fabric… it's called velvet, and it's too gorgeous to sell like regular fabric It's not like I can price it the same as plain cotton either”
Right now, the main product of the store was plain fabric purchased at 500 yen per metre and sold at 10 el—in other words, 1500 yen The other products were also stocked at three times the cost, adjusted so that they didn't make too much profit…
The velvet was purchased for 2,850 yen per htly ht froain sale) Three times that would be 8,550 yen or 57 el
57 el In other words, five nickel coins and seven bronze coins If paid for with a silver coin, four nickel coins and three bronze coins would be needed as change…
If all 10 metres were sold at the converted cost price it would be 570 el Not even one gold coin
I don't really want to sell soeous at that price, to put it bluntly
I'd like one gold coin at the very least, reedy
”I'll keep selling here for now, then try selling it once I've made so, so there's no rush”
However, the buyer appeared later that day
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In the afternoon, Rebecca-san and Hetty-san came to help
Hetty-san was in Erishe doing backup work for Diana… or so the story goes, but there was no need for theether all the time, so she could move rather freely I don't knohat she nor with Hetty today~”, so shethe maid of the Solo family must be nice
”Oh, you two are just in time Have a look at this fabric What do you think?”
”…Oh my That's some fabric”
”…T-This shi+ne… it's a wonderful item, Jirou-sama An item like this can't be found around the imperial capital Is it from the mountains… or is it produced in Erishe? You can't underestimate the craftsmen around here…”
”That's right… can't see this in the ih…?”
Thank goodness Even to Rebecca-san and Hetty-san, it looks like a good item
If it was like this, then I could price it as I liked As long as I had someone to sell it to
”Coain soon?”
I asked Hetty-san
”Eh? Ehm… master will be here soon, I think Probably”
”That see been decided?”
”That's right He leaves everything to me”
Is that so?
That day, we decided to round up everything and close shop at 2 to go drinking
I sent Diana to uards, but acco with Marina when someone familiar approached
The usual jangly necklace and rings
A vest decorated with gold embroidery
Loose silk pants
The overwhel musky smell
Dragging along braarrior slaves
It was the chubby iuild before
I had already messed up his first i cheap business in the corner of the market…
Thinking that, I turned my back to hie made her purple hair stand out, or he had already decided on his path fro anyway
I'd never forget the Chubby that kept sending dirty glances at Marina
”Oh my oh my oh my, what do we have here? If it isn't the Turk tribe that ? Why is a Turk tribe on the roadside like this?”
What a fake guy This is a street stall, of course we'd be on the roadside!
Were this guy's parents killed by the Turk tribe? He was sure obsessed
”We're doing roadside sales, as you can see Do you have a problem with that?”
”No? No no no, I have no co Ah, do you know the word 'economy'? It's a word that used often in the imperial capital”
”…No, I know the word economy”