Orc Harem Vol 4 Chapter 6

Chapter 6: There Were a Lot of OOParts That Were Created at Edo Era

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I returned home and visited the workshop that I created for Kururu.

「I finished-, it’s the prototype of color printing machine-」

「You’re fast.」

「Because, Ork-san had practically given me the complete blueprint of it.」

The project this time was also an assignment for Kururu, so the design that I gave her had hole in it. After I taught her the principle of the machine, I gave her a design that I created half-heartedly and asked her to finish the rest.

To think that it would result in something like this.

「Let’s test it.」

「I hope it can work well.」

This color printing machine was fundamentally a complicated wood-block printing machine.

Four wood-blocks were set on an iron device.

It was created by calculating from a single wood-block.

Different ink was poured into each of those four wood-blocks.

First I pulled the lever, then the part where the four blocks were contained was shrunk.

And then when Kururu pulled the metal fitting with all her strength, the roller rotated, the part where the wood-blocks were kept slid, and the picture was printed.

This method itself was primitive, but by doing a primitive work with efficiency that was taken to the extreme, the time needed to finish a single poster could be greatly reduced.

「The colors are properly printed. I’m astonished. Why is the four colors that are used becoming different colors like this!?」

「Color can change when it’s mixed with other color. For example, there are these red and blue inks. If you mix them……」

「It becomes purple.」

「If you have the colors that are called the three primary colors and black, you can create any kind of color other than white with calculation.」

The three primary colors.

Basically the four wooden blocks were each poured with the three primary colors and black. When printing colors were mixed and the color we wished was created and printed.

This was said to be the oldest color printer of mankind. A technology that was born in Edo period, Nishiki-e.

Originally when printing you would also need considerable skill to do it, but this device was designed so that anyone who operated it could do it accurately within a short time.

The calculation was troublesome, but once it had been set up, next you just needed to set the four wood-blocks, poured the color inks into the device, pushed the lever, and pulled the metal fitting, and it was done.

「It’s a good poster. The design is really good-」

「No, this is the sample. According to the artist it seems that it’s just something improvised that he whipped up sloppily. The actual poster will be given to us next week.」

I was astonished by that artist.

He received the work and made this sample in just thirty minutes with this quality. To be honest, I even thought that perhaps this was good enough already.

「This is just a sample!? What kind of genius created this?」

「I asked the number one young artist who is currently rising in popularity in this city after all.」

「I’m amazed that he accepted the job.」

The more popular an artist was, the more he would be swamped by work and became unable to accept any new job. That fact was the same no matter the world.

「Well, I paid him with money that he can use to play around for a year, and I also used my connection to obtain a rare brush that cannot possibly be obtained with just money for him after all.」

「Uwaa, how forceful. So much so that it feels refreshing instead.」

If you had money and authority and connection, you could even do something unreasonable most of the time.

「I wouldn’t choose my method in order to obtain a good illustration. What’s left is to use this device to print a ton of the poster. Well, we can just leave the rest to a part-time worker. After all even monkey can operate this.」

Pour the inks, push the lever, pull the metal fitting.

The process took one minute, and then it would take ten minutes to wait for the ink to dry. The rest of this work could be left to some guy with free time.

「Fuu, looks like we will manage somehow.」

「Well yeah. Those guys think that it will be impossible for us to even just prepare some normal posters. They will surely get struck dumb when they see us prepared 2000 posters with first class design, and furthermore all of them are in color.」

Fufufu. I’d show those doddering old men.

After that I had to coat the finished posters with water repellant.

Let’s prepare that after I returned.

「Ah, it looks like Tita-san is returning back.」

Footsteps were approaching.

「I’m home, fuu, I found the carpenters who will accept the job. When the 2000 posters get sent to them next month, they will take care of the rest. They won’t just take care of the city, but also in other cities where they have branch shop too. They will do all that as service, and they say that they will take care of everything else like getting the permission to put up poster or other adjustment.」

「That’s great.」

Not only the labor was taken care of with this, the troublesome matters of applying for various permissions were also gone. This was really good.

「The boss was really kind.」

「I’m sure that the boss is a good person, but it’s also because Tita did good job in negotiating.」

Perhaps the boss’s kindness had ulterior motive behind it. It was really advantageous to be beautiful huh.

I didn’t say it out loud though I was thinking it.

It was better for Tita if she did what she did naturally.

I felt deeply emotional seeing my pupil had become able to negotiate by herself.

「That’s not true at all. After all I also have a lot of budget.」

I looked at the written contract, but the price was well within the appropriate range. And considering all the services that Tita received, this price was relatively cheap.

「You did well. You too Kururu. Thanks to you two we have a lot of breathing room now.」

Negotiation and the creation of the prototype.

It would be hard to do them all by myself within the time limit.

「I’ll help you out even more than this from now on Ork.」

「Fufun, just leave it to me.」

「Yeah, I’m looking forward to it……also, I have reward for you two who have worked hard. We’re going to an overseas trip! Let’s cross the sea for sightseeing in another continent. Everything there will be different from here, whether it’s the culture, weather, sight, everything. There should be a lot of delicious things and fun things too.」

「I can’t wait for that. Perhaps there will be something delicious like mango there.」

「There might be material that I don’t know there. If the culture is different, there might also be new blacksmithing technique there.」

I was glad the two of them were really interested.

It would be meaningless if they didn’t have fun.

「We will go right away tomorrow, so go pack your things.」

「That’s, so sudden.」

「For Ork-san to be this rushed……it must be about woman.」

Scary, Kururu’s smile was scary.

「Ahaha, that’s, you know?」

「Ah, it must be something like this. You want to cross the sea to look for girls.」

「Ork-san, even though you are like an iron wall when in merchant mode, why are you really loose like this when talking with us?」

「Uh」

Because that was my true nature after all.

I wasn’t good with lying.

What Kururu meant by merchant mode was when I put on the mask as the ideal merchant and acted like a different person.

The way to talk, the way of thinking, and even habit, I established them all in detail and completely became a different person. This was also my technique that the god of merchant had beaten up into me.

I didn’t use that kind of technique when in front of Tita and Kururu.

I had also created a personality that would be greatly received by female, but I didn’t use it in front of them.

I wanted to be the normal me in front of them.

「Cough, no, certainly I also have that intention. No, Tita, Kurur, and Rurine are too pretty that it makes me think that perhaps there is no more beautiful girl in this continent that can rival you three……then perhaps I should try going to across the sea for that.」

The two of them directed an exasperated gaze at me.

「Uwaa, what an amazing persistence.」

「You are going that far Ork?」

「I’m going that far.」

I wasn’t aiming to be harem king just for show or a whim.

「Well, but I think it will be fine. Because you know, Ork said the other side of the sea so easily, but it’s a really big place out there.」

「Certainly, that’s true. It’s impossible to be able to encounter beautiful girl or woman so conveniently just from going to overseas trip for several days.」

「……No, if it’s Ork, perhaps he has researched it beforehand? Like asking for help from the overseas branch of Zacharic Company for example.」

「No, I don’t. Or rather, the place where I’m going might be a place that even Zacharic Company hasn’t gone to yet. If they know about that place, they should be procuring the same spice like what I’m using.」

Due to the sea current, it would be impossible for anyone to reach the place as long as they were still using manual labor and wind to move the ship. You had to go through a very special route to reach it.

From a glance, the route looked unbelievable with how roundabout it was, but there was the fierce sea current giving the voyage a boost so it unexpectedly didn’t take that much time.

Conversely you could use the shortest sea route for the way home, so if you “were in the know”then you could easily come and go from the place.

「You are really leaving everything to luck aren’t you?」

Statistically speaking that was right.

But, I knew from experience.

「Yeah, that’s right. I’m leaving everything to destiny!」

I noticed recently.

I didn’t know why, but even if I tried searching for beautiful girls and women by myself, at best I would only find first rate female.

For some reason I only encountered super first rate female like Tita and the others through the natural flow of fate.

In that case, I wouldn’t try searching.

Yes, I’d leave it to fate to have a natural encounter.

……Well, at the same time my acquaintance who I was going to meet was an outrageous beauty. So at the very least I would be able to meet one beautiful woman in this trip. I was going to meet her also because some other small business.

「Ahaha, right, umm, do your best.」(Tita)

「But, for some reason I got the hunch that a new girl will come instead like that.」

「And, will an incident that can destroy the world also come a set this time too?」

「Ahaha, there is no way that will happen.」

Tita and Kururu laughed, but their laugh sounded somewhat dry.

Now then, I should also pack up.

I had to properly prepare the Orc Brand’s seven tools to make woman fall in love.

Fufufuh, beautiful women of another continent.

I wonder just what kind of girl they would be.

I hoped it would be a big sister type. Tita was a childhood friend character, Kururu was a kouhai(junior) character, Rurine was a little sister character, then the next one should be the big sister character!

It absolutely would be a lot more fun to have various types of girls!

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