Orc Harem Vol 4 Chapter 4

Chapter 4: It Was the Trait of Arrogant Elderly to Put Down the Youngster, So It Couldn’t be Helped

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After that we stayed in the palace for around ten days before the day we would leave finally arrived.

We stayed for ten days because it was necessary to do various arrangements in the aftermath so that war wouldn’t occur between human and monster.

It was convenient for me who was well known among the monster side to be here. I was confident that I had played quite a big part during the process.

……The offensive of 『As I thought, shouldn’t you be the one who become the king?』 from the wise king Vareo during that was more tiring than the actual work.

I also spent a life of indulgence during those ten days, mainly with Rurine.

The reason for that was…….

「So everyone is really going. Rurine will be lonely.」

「You can also come with us.」

「I can’t do that. I’ll become the king after all.」

I couldn’t possibly stay forever in Forland Palace.

And with how Rurine had decided to become the king, she couldn’t possibly leave this place.

In other words we had to part.

That was exactly why I prioritized Rurine while we were together here.

「Too bad. I’ll frequently come here to play with Orc Car smashing the distance.」

With that it wouldn’t even take a day to come here.

I’m glad I made the Orc Car! After all using horse carriage it would take one week just for one-way trip.

「That’s a promise. I’ll cry if Ork-niisama doesn’t come visit.」

Rurine’s eyes became a bit tearful.

It wasn’t an act to attract my affection like what she did when we only first met, but a natural gesture.

「Then, we are going.」

「You are going to search for a new harem member again aren’t you?」

「Yeah, that’s right.」

Besides I was also concerned with my business in the city.

I often gave instruction to my subordinate through letter, but there were several things that couldn’t be done without my decision. Those things were being postponed right now.

「Also, carry this with you.」

「What is this? What a pretty jewel.」

「It’s my original magic tool. It’s a simple version of putting teleportation magic to practical use.」

Teleportation magic had the highest difficulty level for the user among all the confirmed magic.

It could only be used by fairy whose existence itself was bullshit or Merlin Enlight. Even I couldn’t use this magic.

But, I had learned the fundamental of this magic itself and analyzed it in my own way.

As the result, I realized this super simplified version of teleportation magic.

Although this magic tool couldn’t do material teleportation. It could only transmit information.

「It’s paired with the jewel in my possession. Originally they were a single big ore that U cut into these jewels. I made use of that resonance to grasp the position of both jewels, and through these jewels we can send our voice to each other although it will only last for twelve seconds. It doesn’t matter how far the distance is between us with this.」

There were three problems that acted as the biggest hurdle for teleportation magic. Designating the coordinate of the teleport destination, the immense amount of magic power that it would take to teleport physical matter, and how depending on the environment of the designated coordination, there would be considerable obstruction to the teleportation.

Using the resonance that the gems possessed due to coming from the same existence, the problem of coordinate was resolved. The other two problems were resolved by limiting the teleportation by sending only voice.

「Amazing, such thing, it’s just too amazing, to think that I can send my voice to someone else no matter how far away they are! The war, the economy, no, the world itself will change with this.」

In a world where information transmission was using physical method like letter the like, in other word a world where information flow was slow, a real time information transmission was something revolutionary.

With just a single one of this, the result of the war could be overturned, and you could rule the world with economy. It was also possible to do something greater than that.

「This isn’t something that good. I need a gem with high magic power affinity, furthermore it has to have a considerable size in order to engrave the magic formula onto it. It’s really difficult to obtain usable gem for this, and the price is expensive. I spent three days and nights just to make one of this, and it’s a single-use item……it’s convenient but it’s not something that can be used that easily. Use this when the situation is hopeless and I’m not at your side.」

By the way the price of the gem I used for this magic item this time was more than ten million gil.

In order to do a phone call just for twelve seconds, I had to make a disposable tool that took three days and three nights and cost ten million yen if it was converted to Japanese yen. The cost performance was hellish.

「But, such price will be really worth it depending on the situation. I will use it without reservation depending on the time and situation.」

「Yeah, do so.」

「But, is it alright for me to be the only one receiving something like this?」

「No, it’s not like I’m giving that to Rurine only.」

After I said that, Tita and Kururu each took out a gem that was connected to a chain from their chest.

The two of them turned their gem into necklace to make it easy to carry around.

「We also have it.」

「Yes, Ork-san said that this thing is for when the situation is really bad. He is really overprotective.」

It was something that I created to protect my women on my own way.

It was to prevent me losing them without even noticing that they were in a pinch.

It was a disposable communicator that cost ten million yen, but that was cheap if it could protect them.

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I drove Orc Car and arrived at my home that I had missed……I was astonished seeing the bunch of paperwork waiting for me.

It surpassed my imagination.

When I took a look at the paperwork, it seemed the information that I was behind the coffee and cheap sugar that Zacharic Company sold had leaked out from somewhere.

Because of that, proposal from some rabbles until even famous companies stormed me to inquire for having a talk, or wanting to work together, or asking me if I had any interesting idea.

「This is amazing. You are really popular Ork.」

「Aren’t you super popular Ork-san.」

Tita and Kururu who were helping me with the paperwork were teasing me.

They had become able to understand the content of the paperwork in general while helping me with my work.

「If only all of these are love letters from beautiful girls and women.」

To be honest, my income from sugar and coffee was already too mindblowing that right now I wasn’t that ravenous for money anymore.

The margin from the sales of those two was stable that the money would keep coming in even without me doing anything.

The popularity of cheap sugar was just as expected, but the explosive hit of coffee was a bit unexpected.

I thought that it would take a bit more time until it pervaded into the society. According to the report from Zacharic Company, selling the coffee in the form of instant coffee right from the start seemed to bring great effect. As for the coffee that wasn’t instant, its sale was apparently struggling because of its high hurdle.

「There are a lot of request coming but, are you going to accept these new works Ork?」

「Hmmm, I don’t think so. It’ll be a different story if there is interesting proposal among them though.」

From here on Ork Company intended to refuse any request except for interesting work or perhaps if it was related with merchandise that was precious in an aspect other than monetary aspect.

「I see. I’m glad. I don’t want Ork-san getting too busy after all.」

「Oh, are you going to feel lonely if I’m not with you?」

「That’s not it. I just don’t want Ork-san not having any time to teach me about blacksmithing.」

Kururu became a tsundere sometimes.

That side of her was also adorable.

I didn’t really like tsundere before my reincarnation. Dealing with someone like that would only pile up stress.

But, I understood the goodness of such trait when I was actually facing it directly like this.

I was mistaken. My premise was wrong from the start.

The goodness of tsundere could only be tasted for the first time only when you completely believed that the other side really loved you.

「You are really cute Kururu.」

「G-geez, please don’t treat me like a kid.」

Yosh yosh, I’ll teach you a lot from here on too.

I’ll teach you various things. Orc orc orc orc orc-.

「Ah, the report from Zacharic Company is also accompanied with a missive asking to have a talk.」

「I can’t refuse that.」

Zacharic Company was one of the two biggest companies in this continent.

It was also the rival of one of my teachers, the god of merchant Helf Randall.

He was an important partner that worked together with me in the business of expanding coffee and sugar commodity.

「Can you write a reply that I’ll go there to visit three days later?」

「Eh, is it alright for me to write the reply letter?」

「There won’t be any problem if it’s the current you Tita.」

There were several rules in writing letter among merchants. Such task couldn’t be entrusted to somebody else unless they could be trusted to some degree.

Tita had also grown a lot. I’d rapidly entrust what could be entrusted to her.

「I’ll do my best-」

During that time I’d take care of the work that had piled up into a mountain.

……Even so, writing by hand was really troublesome.

No, let’s took care of this with magic. The copying skill using the image in mind. Using that way would be faster than writing by hand.

「There is also other troublesome thing. There is a demand for us to be in charge of publicity for the commerce guild’s harvest festival. It looks like it will be bad for us somehow if we don’t do something proportional to the scale of Ork-san’s company’s sales.」

「Gufuh. Well, I guess that’s true.」

Commerce guild. It was an organization of mutual aid that almost all companies were affiliated with.

Naturally my Ork Company was also affiliated with it.

A company that didn’t join the guild couldn’t do any business with the company that was a member of the guild. ……To be more precise, it wasn’t impossible to do so, but the company in question would receive quite a lot of restriction in exchange.

Members fundamentally only had to show up at the monthly meeting or contributing to the budget, but members had also to cooperate with things like the city’s large event.

The harvest festival was an event that was held once every year. It was the biggest festival of this city. Naturally Ork Company had also to help out with it. The burden that was assigned to each company would be proportional to each company’s sales.

「But for them to assign publicity duty to us of all things……that’s nasty.」

Publicity work was advertising the festival to make it became well-known to the surrounding.

Specifically, it would be works like creating posters, distributing them, and then sending written invitation to influential people, and also sending posters and other form of advertisement to other cities to promote this festival.

It sounded easy, but the works were actually extremely laborious and money-consuming.

「Uwah, it looks like we have to prepare 2000 advertisement posters here……just how many months it will take to prepare that many? Besides, we have to send invitation letters to influential people of various cities, uwah, the list of the people who we have to send the letters to have a thousand names. It’s going to be really tiresome if we have to write a thousand letters for this.」(Kururu)

「The bottleneck is the printing technology that is like that.」

Come to think of it, the printing technology in this world was still using wood-block printing.

Putting it simply, it was a primitive tool using carved wood block that was smeared with ink and then pressed on paper, done.

The wood block printing was one-of-a-kind item where you would have to create a new one each time you wanted to print something else, and then you would have to do the work with only one machine if you didn’t have more than one of that wood block printing.

Using wood block printing, you would have to cover the wood block with ink every time for each paper, so it took hella long printing in this way.

And it would become even more troublesome depending on the poster size.

「But, this is not a problem at all for you Ork isn’t it? Because, you could make a 500 page book in just one hour using magic. You should be able to finish this easily in four hours.」

「Well, it’s possible to finish this work by brute forcing it with magic. But that method also has its own weakness. It can only print in black and white color you see.」

To be more accurate, that magic burned the image on the paper’s surface. So to speak it was like a laser printer.

I couldn’t prepare color pigment from nothing so the color inevitably became black and white. Magic fundamentally was categorized into the four elements of earth, fire, wind, and water, or the intangible kinetic energy or concept reinforcement.

「Please wait a second. Are you planning to make the two thousand posters all in color!?」(Kururu)

「That will be better right?」

「Just how many drawers you will need for that!? If you want to make poster in color, it’s doubtful whether you can even finish one poster per day. Making it in black and white is good enough already.」(Kururu)

「Well, it won’t be a problem to make it black and white, or rather the posters in the past were all black and white too……but you see, if we are doing this work anyway then don’t you want to go further to flabbergast those guys?」

I was the type of man who liked to show off.

It seemed proper to entrust the advertising for the festival this time to me if you only considered the scale of my company’s sales, but the people in the guild knew that Ork Company was mainly running with my one man show. They knew that my company only had few employees and I didn’t have any connection with any printing shop. But they still pushed this job to me knowing that.

In short those guys wanted to rake the cheeky newcomer over the coals. Right now they were waiting eagerly to run crying asking them for help.

In that case, I’d show them up by producing result that was even better than perfect.

「Yosh, let’s make a color printing machine.」

「Color you say, err, don’t tell me」(Tita)

「Even for you Ork-san, there is no way you can create a printing machine that can do color you know-」

「No, it’s not impossible.」

Actually the prototype of color printing machine was created in the Edo period of Japan. It was called Nishiki-e.

It seemed interesting.

Those arrogant old men in the commerce guild thought that I wouldn’t be able to prepare 2000 posters in time. What would they think when they saw 2000 posters in vivid color then?

Yosh, I’m fired up. Let’s do this.

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