31 Hwadeuddeud.
Purr.
Ten horses entered McLane territory, leading a cart and wagon the size of a house.
Wheel marks were clearly engraved on the ground, as if to prove its heavy weight.
The direction of the unfamiliar mercenaries and objects guarding the area was clear, but no one came close.
“Wow, the smell. It’s so far away.”
“It smells a bit strong.”
“Can dried meat smell this bad?”
“It’s called monster meat.”
“That’s that…”
“The Archduke’s misfortune?”
“There is a rumor that he gained strength by drinking monster blood…”
“Shut up, you crazy person!”
“Sounds like a big problem!”
Murmur.
Amidst murmuring glances, the largest quantity of Karok meat since the transaction arrived at the warehouse.
“It’s a revelation from God that now is the right time.”
“yes?”
Rick, who had been covering his nose from the foul smell, looked up as if to ask what was happening.
“I’m thinking of using the things I made yesterday here.”
“Yes?!”
“Hold that barrel… you can’t lift it. I’ll carry it so you get ready.”
“Ready for what? I didn’t hear anything like that?”
“You’re doing it now!”
“Oh, do I really have to go too?”
“of course!”
“Ugh. I hate it, I really hate it!”
Logan hadn’t visited the warehouse once since he started collecting Karok meat, so he didn’t know what was causing Rick’s strong rejection.
However, the moment I opened the door to the warehouse where Karok’s meat was stored, I could clearly feel the reason.
An incredible stench that needed no explanation passed through his nose and hit his brain.
It was a foul smell that could not be compared to the smell from the wagon.
“Uweeeek!”
If it hadn’t been for Rick, who was vomiting one step behind him, he might have vomited on the floor right away.
‘Ouch.’
When I controlled the force and paralyzed my sense of smell, I calmed down a little.
Even though he was preparing by covering his nose, Rick, who couldn’t stand it and vomited, was looking at him with a look of resentment.
“Kuhm! Now, spray this ‘neutralizer’ on Karok’s meat. If you spray just a little, you will see the color turn white, so just spray enough to make the entire skin look white. The black stuff is toxic residue. Be careful.”
“Ugh. I really have to do that…”
“Am I going to do it too?”
“Sigh.”
I held Rick down forcibly, who was almost on the verge of crying, and first turned about 100kg of beef jerky into pure white.
“Now grind this and make it round.”
Rick seemed to have given up everything and said nothing more.
However, when hundreds of round pills the size of a thumbnail were made, he couldn’t help but wonder about the purpose of the work he had worked so hard on.
“Why did you make it like this?”
“Does it look like medicine?”
“…yes.”
“Thank goodness. They’ll sell it as medicine.”
“Yeh?!”
Rick’s eyes widened in horror, but unfortunately that was not the end of his surprise.
“Do you remember everything we made today?”
“No. I! I don’t remember. What did we do? Haha. Ha. Ha.”
Rick, feeling an ominous premonition, smiled even more awkwardly with an awkward expression.
“You look like you remembered it clearly.”
“Ugh!”
However, he could not deceive the eyes of the bamboo horse master, or rather the bamboo horse master, who had seen him for over ten years.
And in the end, I ended up hearing the sound I wanted to avoid.
“This is what you have to do from now on.”
“…I don’t like it.”
Rick, a confidant who could not refuse any unpleasant task in his previous life and was eventually executed, resolutely refused orders.
“Rick. There’s no one I can trust but you.”
“…I absolutely hate it!”
“Rick! Don’t you trust me?”
“I don’t want to believe it!!”
Rick runs away, screaming as if he’s lost his mind.
In the end, Logan was barely able to entrust the work to his confidant, whom he thought would be forced to work without pay, after promising a bonus of 100 gold per week.
Of course, that wasn’t the end of everything.
“I need to do an experiment first…”
“You’d rather kill me. I can’t do that. I’d rather just die.”
Rick shouted decisively with a desperate expression, wondering what he was thinking.
But unfortunately or fortunately, Rick was not the test subject Logan was looking for.
“You have nowhere to use it. There won’t be any in the future. Of course not.”
“Oh, that’s a relief. Thank you… Ah?”
I don’t know what he’s talking about, but for some reason I felt very uncomfortable, so I glanced at the owner, but Logan changed the subject.
“Is there anyone around us having trouble working at night?”
“Yes? What night is it?”
“Why are there things like that? Like he doesn’t have any children. He’s married to a public wife. Or he’s a married man with slumped shoulders every morning.”
“…What do you mean?”
“Ah. This, man! This!”
Logan ended up having to explain the night’s events using the vulgar hand gestures he learned during his days as a mercenary.
And Rick, who managed to figure it out right away, set up the test subjects very easily.
“Administrator Dwayne doesn’t have any children yet. He’s been married for 10 years… He used to like it when he stayed up late with his young bride, but these days he’s always working overtime.”
“ah…?”
There were sad circumstances that did not suit that sturdy physique.
That’s how Logan decided on test subject No. 1.
* * *
“yes?”
“That’s really good for a man.”
“Yes?”
“Do you really not understand what I’m saying? This is this.”
“Ah…”
How can civilized people only understand hand gestures instead of language?
Dwayne, with a puzzled expression, looked alternately at the unknown pill in his hand and Logan’s face.
“…Is that true?”
“Yes. It only takes one shot and it’s effective? It’s a patented product from Philip Santang, who is now famous in Kyle.”
Although it was planned to be a product, not a patented product that would become famous, not exactly famous, Logan was proud.
‘Because it’s a proven fact anyway.’
However, Logan was trying to ignore why he was trying to experiment on Dwayne.
‘…but I’m sure! I just heard it too. ‘Because I haven’t tried it.’
It was quite a prick of conscience, but at least I was sure that the monster’s toxicity had been neutralized.
‘It would be great if dogs could talk.’
In addition, it also underwent its own animal testing. That was Logan’s final conscience.
“Are you really sure?”
“Okay! If it doesn’t work, I’ll donate 1,000 gold to Dwayne, or 10,000 gold to the family.”
“Oh! You’re really donating?”
In the meantime, I felt even more guilty when I saw that he liked talking about his family more than giving me money.
‘It’s a good thing for both of us.’
In fact, it wasn’t a wrong idea, so Logan tried to console himself.
The evening is already getting late.
Why do I feel so sorry for the big man who was alone in his office, where he couldn’t even see the writing unless the lamp was on?
okay. All of this is because I feel sorry for Dwayne.
“You may have presbyopia, so go home quickly.”
“Ahaha. I have some work left to do.”
“Uh-huh! I’ll do the rest later. That’s really expensive. You won’t be able to get it even if you pay for it later!”
To be exact, this too would be expensive and you would not be able to get it even if you paid money.
“Is that so…”
The confident expression on his face seemed to have helped Dwayne a little.
And the next day.
“Gongjaniyyyim!”
Seeing Dwayne with a bright complexion running towards him in broad daylight, Logan was confident of success.
“How much does that medicine cost?! How much does it cost?! …Yo!”
In response to a much stronger reaction than expected, Logan handed over a set of 10 to express his apologies for the human experiment(?).
Dwayne knelt down and accepted the small box, like a legendary warrior accepting a holy sword.
It was a cross section that showed how difficult the delicate history accumulated within that large body was.
His reaction alone seemed like a good possibility, but Logan conducted two more experiments to be cautious.
Surprisingly, Heinkel, who was another man with his head down, smiled and raised his thumb every time he saw him the day after he gave him the medicine.
And finally….
“What is this?”
“It’s a good tonic for men.”
“Hmm?”
It was the first gift I gave to my father in my two lives, including my past lives.
And the effect was immediately visible in just three days.
“Hmm, Logan.”
“yes?”
“…It was good.”
A hand tapping his shoulder while looking somewhere else awkwardly.
Looking at his father’s slightly red face, Logan felt proud.
‘If I do well, I might have a younger sibling.’
With a happy smile, Logan was convinced of the value of the product and called someone who could utilize it properly.
* * *
However, the golden insect from the previous life was shocked when he heard the price Logan called.
[How much do you want to sell it for?]
“A hundred gold each. I plan to sell it as a set of ten for a thousand gold.”
[…You don’t really think of nobles as just bigots who don’t know anything, right?]
“No way. I’m just confident that it will sell.”
Even in the conservative Kingdom of Grandia, nobles who had some money to spare often had separate mistresses or lovers.
There were quite a few nobles who were sophisticated and enjoyed all kinds of promiscuous private lives.
If you move to the more free-thinking Ares Empire, there were many nobles whose walls went beyond that and bordered on eccentricity.
And naturally, there were many people who developed problems with their sexual function due to such promiscuous lifestyles.
Considering that the biggest pleasure in these people’s lives is sex life, if Karok’s meat works properly, they could make a huge amount of money.
‘Even in my previous life, it became so expensive because of the nobles.’
Of course, the price of 100 gold per 30g pill that Logan wants to sell now is more expensive than the highest price in his previous life just before the extinction of Karok.
But….
“If you say it’s limited production and supply only a small quantity, they’ll buy it at a higher price.”
[…If the effect is certain, then yes.]
“I’m sure. So, you should find your first target well.”
[Goal…?]
“Okay. Someone who will take this medicine first and prove its effectiveness.”
[Ah… Then it would be clear if someone like Viscount Maximilian proves it.]
“That playboy?”
[After all, he is the most famous person in his field.]
When the name of the most famous playboy in the kingdom’s capital was mentioned, Logan immediately shook his head.
“No, no. I need to find someone who is not a playboy, but the opposite. Someone who really needs this medicine.”
[yes? Ah… Now that I think about it….]
“This medicine is not only an aphrodisiac, but it is also a treatment for erectile dysfunction. In fact, its effect is greater. So, it will only be effective if you are someone who really needs it.”
[…But Logan. Would a nobleman with such a secret situation reveal it and advertise it? I was disabled, but I got better after taking this?]
Philip’s point wasn’t really wrong, but Logan shook his head.
“There’s no need to advertise.”
[Yes?]
“You don’t have to advertise and you don’t have to buy it yourself. Do you think there are one or two nobles in the capital who have had problems there?”
[As if you had been to the capital…]
A bitter smile appeared on Logan’s lips at Philip’s words.
capital? Of course I went. Even though it was my past life.
“If even a secret rumor spreads, they will come like a swarm of bees. Playboys will buy it and eat it on their own. Then we can compete on price.”
[…wait a minute. ‘Us’?]
“Yes, because you will be selling it.”
[If there were a problem with that medicine, I would die. [If you’re talking about someone else’s life…] Since
it was a business that involved touching the private lives of nobles, there was definitely a risk involved.
But that was only a story of failure.
“Don’t worry. It’s effective and has no side effects.”
[I’m too confident since they said they only experimented three times… Sigh. Well, he was the one who was like that.]
Logan wanted to ask what exactly ‘the one who was like that’ meant, but he couldn’t.
Fortunately, Philip agreed without further ado.
[great. I will believe that. But how much is there?]
“It’s probably a lot more than you think.”
[You say it’s a miraculous medicine, but the ingredients must be common, right?]
At least that was the case in the warehouse of the southern villa in McLane’s estate.
“Would you be surprised if you found out?”
[Oh, I see. As expected, I guess the herbs and Karok meat sent this time are the ingredients, right?]
Tsk.
Philip was too quick-witted.
“…sharp guy.”
[It’s a natural inference that we keep sending absurd items, but even more absurd items pop up.]
“Of course you know it’s a secret, right?”
[…Sure. If the nobles found out, they would be suspicious and wouldn’t buy it.]
Contrary to Philip’s thoughts, in his past life, nobles ate steak in chunks.
“…Well, more than that, I don’t want the recipe to be leaked.”
[ha. Anyway, I feel pathetic as I was thinking about starting a new business. How did you come to know about such an item?]
“That’s a secret.”
[Wow. Logan is also an amazing person.]
“Kkeke. Don’t worry. If this goes well, I can support you no matter what business you do.”
[…Thank you.]
“Then think about it first.”
[yes? What?]
“How should I sell this? To the nobles of the capital.”
[…yes?]
