Orc Harem Vol 1 Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Ork’s Business

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I turned the table on the thugs that tried to extort me and obtained an incidental income. Then I used that money to pay for a hustle……I mean, for training fee in a brothel for the sake of the females who I would encounter in the future.

「Woman, amazing, feel good.」

That time was like a dream. I wanted to receive that lesson every day in order to make the women who I would encounter in the future to be happy.

Yes, in the end this was just a training, an investment. This wasn’t a waste of money.

But, I messed up a bit.

Because I also asked for time extension, the sky outside had turned completely dark. I was unable to sell the goods that I had with me.

I couldn’t pay for inn like this.

It couldn’t be helped, guess I’d do that.

I walked randomly, then when I found a stable I sneaked inside and crawled into the hay.

The air was cold because it would be winter soon, but the inside of the hay felt unexpectedly warm. And most of all, it was safe here. There were unexpectedly few places to sleep safely inside the city.

And if you also looked for a place that could block the cold, it would be hard to find any other place than this.

I wouldn’t be found out if I slipped out at the morning before the horse caretaker came.

Let’s sleep soundly today. I would wake up early tomorrow.

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I woke up early in the morning. I disguised myself to look like human with magic. It wasn’t like I would immediately get attacked if I looked like orc, but it would be better for me to look like human if I was going to do business.

I quickly slipped out before the horse caretaker came. Then I sold my mushrooms, herbs, and gems at a morning market to secure some fund.

It really helped that the gems were sold with higher price than I expected. Borrowing earth spirits’ power to remove the impurity was effective.

Thanks to that not only I secured the fund for my livelihood for the time being, I also had enough money in hand to start a business.

I would make this city my base and created a harem. I needed money to buy a mansion and to provide for my harem. I had to start some kind of business for that.

I walked while observing the inside of the city.

I looked at the market price of every item and the trend of the city.

If you looked attentively, you would be able to grasp the whole picture just by making a round in the city like this.

Business was about supply and demand. It wasn’t about what you wanted to sell, what was important was what kind of thing was in demand.

No matter how good your product was, your business wouldn’t succeed if you ignored the demand.

Especially now when I didn’t have much fund in hand.

What I could do was limited. I also wasn’t allowed to fail. It was important for me to carefully do preliminary investigation.

……I recalled my graduation test as a merchant.

At that time I needed to double the ten million gil that I had within three months.

When doing business, the more fund you had the easier it would be. My situation right now could be said as worse than that time.

But, I had also grown up.

I would surely manage somehow.

「I have grasped the economy of the city in general. As I thought, what I can do right now with the fund that I have is food business.」

I didn’t only observe the market price, but also the trend of the popular shops.

For the first stage, I made the conclusion that I could create a restaurant in the beginning in order to gather more money.

I immediately began to prepare.

Now, let’s give it my all. I would obtain the financial strength to build my palace in this city and support a lot of girls in a magnificent mansion.

Without such foundation, I wouldn’t be able to create a harem without worry.

I decided what to make, how I would promote my shop, and how to earn income effectively from the information I gathered and the skills that I had.

Yosh, let’s make my move now.

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What was important to profit was to procure ingredients cheaply.

My earning would get bigger the higher my profit ratio was. The fund that I had in hand was small, so I needed to procure cheaper ingredients than usual.

The cheapest way to obtain ingredients was to gather them myself.

That was why I was running around in the nearest mountain.

I had confidence in my survival skill.

I ran between the trees with speed that surpassed 100 km/hour while not overlooking any traces of my preys and learning the ecosystem of the mountain.

I got the gist.

Even if I captured the animal in the amount that I needed to continue my business for a while, the ecosystem here wouldn’t be thrown into disorder. The prey that would become the ingredients of the business in my imagination was boar.

From the mapping in my brain, I chose the going home route with high encounter rate with boar and started running.

Midway, I slit the neck of the boar that I passed by and carried it on my shoulder.

I finished removing the blood and dismantling it while running.

This was my ingredient. I obtained meat of a whole boar for free.

I also collected a lot of mushrooms and herbs. I would use them for my trump card seasoning.

I also secured a honeybee nest. I wrapped the nest I plucked with wind magic to make it floated while rapidly heightening the concentration of carbon dioxide to knock the bees unconscious.

I would be able to create something interesting with this much.

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When I returned back to the city, I sold the mushrooms that had expensive price to increase my fund more, then I bought up spices at the marketplace.

And then I handed my remaining money to an uncle who looked really worn out.

I bought his stand and the stand’s right from him.

When I gathered information of the city, I also picked up a stand that looked like it was in the red.

I negotiated with the owner of a stand that was placed at a location where I could put up a fight with my business and made him sold his stand and his stand’s right to me.

My knowledge also included the law and the business practice of this city.

Unlike an official shop, in the case of a stand, the amount of money needed to open up one was small, but unfortunately the city government had to inspect the stand’s business and location first before they gave permission. That would take time.

That was why buying the stand along with the right was the quickest method. Besides I had the knowledge of mind reading. I estimated that if I negotiated with stand owners whose stand wasn’t popular and their business was in the red one by one, I would be able to buy stand and its right for cheap.

My reading was right. My negotiation with the third stand owner succeeded.

The location of the stand that I purchased wasn’t that good.

It was one street away from the main street that had a lot of passerby. The stand also wasn’t so visible.

Even so that was fine.

After all if the crowded main street was one street away, I could just call the customers from there.

It would be best to buy the stand that had permission to set up shop at the main street, but the money I needed for that would be five times bigger. And in the first place the owner wouldn’t sell it.

For the current me, this stand could be said as my best option.

「Now then, let’s attract the customers.」

What was important when calling out customers in food business was advertisement and word of mouth, and most of all scent.

I fished inside my rucksack. I had prepared various kinds of seasoning that I brought from the orc village. Most of them were handmade by me.

Through trials and errors I created various things like the taste of shoyu so that I wouldn’t forget the taste of my homeland.

I didn’t know when I would my ideal woman. So I always brought them with me so that I wouldn’t miss the chance to make woman fall in love with me using my specialty cooking.

I asked the water spirits to gather water and cleaned my cookware and ingredients.

Finally I began cooking.

I minced the boar’s meat.

There I put in the powder that was made from spices, herbs, and mushrooms.

The spice was a mixed spice from twelve types of spices that I bought from the market and mixed to be my original blend. The powder came from multiple types of herbs and mushrooms that I picked up from the mountain before this. I extracted their components, altered them, and compounded them using magic, and then turned them into fine powder.

The meat of boar was hard and smelly. It would be hard to make it popular if I cooked it normally.

That was why I minced it to make it soft, then erased the smell and also improved the taste at the same time with the spices. Spices were magic. It could draw out the good flavor of the ingredients by several times with the right mix.

And then, the powder that I created using herbs and mushrooms became the key of my business this time.

When this powder was licked, the inside of the brain would be filled with chemical substances. It had the effect of making the consumer felt euphoria and excitement.

That made it sounded like a narcotic, but it was more like medicinal cooking.

It wouldn’t make people become dependent to the substance, but it would produce overwhelming deliciousness scientifically. If a food that contained this powder was eaten, the eater would become addicted. They would be able to feel pleasure, to feel deeply moved that absolutely couldn’t be obtained from normal food.

Customers who ate this would surely become repeater that kept coming to the stand many times.

According to my information gathering, this city had a lot of young laborer. From there I understood that food that was popular here tended to be greasy, voluminous, and had thick taste.

Anything new that still kept to those fundamentals would become popular.

I kneaded the boar minced meat that had been mixed with various things, covered it with coating, and fried it.

What I created was menchi katsu(fried cake of minced meat). Fried food still wasn’t common in this city was also a factor for my prospects of victory. It was a godsend that sesame oil was sold for cheap at the market.

I created the sauce while frying the meat at the same time.

I put original seasoning that was similar to shoyu inside a pot. I also added various spices and the honey from the crushed bee nest I got in the forest.

I heated the pot and the sauce was completed.

I filled a cup with that completed sauce and put it into a different pot.

I threw a lot of boar fat into it, then I also added spices with strong aroma, turned on the fire, and boiled it continuously. The thing couldn’t be used as sauce anymore after it got boiled down this much.

But that was fine. I didn’t intend to use that cup of sauce as merchandise from the start.

My objective was to produce an aroma. The aroma of the boiled down sauce was violent. It also powered up from the additional spices and a lot of fat.

Anyone must have the experience of getting drawn by scorched sauce at a temple festival.

This was something like that, but it had been strengthened by many times over. I intentionally made it like that.

I had grasped the taste of this city’s citizens. The scent of meat and salty sweet aroma would be the most effective.

There was no way they could endure this aroma.

It could drag customers from the main street to this stand that was located one street away from there.

When the crispy menchi katsu had finished frying and lined up, one by one customers who were lured by the aroma of the boiled sauce came.

They made an ecstatic expression just from the scent.

「Lad, the smell here is really good. Give me that.」

「Give me two.」

「I’ll also have one.」

「Thanks for your business!」

What was important to call customers was advertisement and word of mouth……and most of all scent.

It would take time for advertisement and word of mouth to show effect, that was why I chose to use aroma as weapon to draw in customers.

My victory was already half assured by the time I created a stand in a location where the aroma could reach the main street.

The menchi katsu got sold in droves.

「This thing is tastyyyyyyy」

「It feels like I can keep eating it forever. Lad, give me one more.」

「Yummy, yummy, hafuh, hafu hafu, hafuh, yummy, I can’t stop, one more, no, give me three more!」

「Please wait a bit okay」

The menchi katsu itself was really well made from my cooking skill.

The way I used spices was superb.

……And then it seemed the special powder also worked well to produce the narcotic inside their brain. The menchi katsu had completely occupied their mind. With this they were now menchi katsu lover(junkie).

Actually there was one more factor that could call for customers.

That was line.

If a lot of customers gathered, it would attract other people’s attention and they would also gather.

A line formed right from the first day. The great taste. The nice feeling from the powder. The astounding repeater ratio.

With this momentum, the word of mouth would immediately spread and this stand would quickly turn popular.

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Two months had passed since I came to this city.

「Yep, that’s a lot of profit. I guess it’s enough if I can earn this much in just two months.」

I rented a large house. As expected I couldn’t purchase it, but I had paid the rent for two years.

With this house, I would be able to bring women back. And there would be no worry even if I had some children. Two years later when the rent had to be renewed, I intended to buy a big mansion with the money that I would have gathered at that time.

By the way I already stopped working at the stand.

Even if I continued that stand, I wouldn’t be able to earn a lot. Even if I raised the turnover rate of the stand until the limit, the profit wouldn’t amount to much from just a single stand.

I had made it so that stand became thoroughly known with the name of 【Ork Brand’s Menchi Katsu】.

That was why, at the peak of its popularity, I sold the menchi katsu to a prominent company in this city.

I sold the permission to sell menchi katsu with the name of Ork Brand’s Menchi Katsu and the recipe.

That menchi katsu that had astounding satisfaction degree and repeater rate also attracted the attention of company. I could sell it for quite a lot of money.

There were countless people who saw the popularity of Ork Brand’s Menchi Katsu and tried to imitate the menchi katsu’s creation, and even that company also tried to make an imitation product, but their creation couldn’t become as popular as mine.

That was why the company bought the right with high price.

The reason why they couldn’t imitate it was simple. It was the spice’s mixing and the powder. Nobody was able to imitate that mixing.

Of course I wasn’t just selling the brand. That would only give me a one time earning.

That was why I made the agreement so that I was the one creating the secret spice and powder and the company would purchase them from me. ……In the recipe that I sold to them, I only wrote that they needed to add the secret spice and powder.

My menchi katsu would only be completed for the first time after the spice and powder were mixed.

The company opened a shop in quite a large scale, so not only they bought a lot of spice and powder from me, their cost was also on the high side, so I obtained a vast amount of money.

The company underestimated me thinking that they would be able to easily recreate the spice and powder if they had the actual item, so they accepted my asking price when finalizing the contract. Well, I was also leading them to reach that conclusion though.

In exchange of giving a high price for the spice and powder, I compromised with other thing, so the company also consented and signed the contract.

In fact, after that the company said that they would make the spice and powder themselves and stopped buying from me, but in the end their customer traffic dropped and they came back crying to me.

I was earning profit that was dozens of times greater than when I was operating the stand by myself.

I wouldn’t deny the value of working hard, but the earning from just that wouldn’t amount to much.

In the end, Ork Brand’s Menchi Katsu was just a tool for me to gather money, so that I could quickly choose another way that was more profitable.

This was the know-how that I learned from the god of merchant.

「Alright, I managed to gather money. I’ll be able to do even larger business with this.」

I had obtained funds and stable income. But, with this I was nothing more than a slightly rich person.

I was going to welcome the finest women one after another. Just this much was still not enough.

I wasn’t just taking care of the menchi katsu in these two months. I had also made the preparation to do even larger business.

「Oh, it’s already this time. I’m going to train too today.」

……Before that, I guess I would go out a little for my training to learn woman body.

I went to the brothel almost every day.

This too was solely for doing a pleasurable sex with the finest females.

Recently my technique had also become quite polished.

The teacher was important. I requested the top class prostitute in this city to seriously train me. I thoroughly learned about woman from her. This was a sublime training in its own way.

When I was unable to do it skillfully, I would be beaten up and got told 「It doesn’t feel good at all you pig!」 while I had to say 「Thank you very much buhiii!」 in respond. The training torn apart my pride into pieces.

Even so, I continued doing trial and error and became able to genuinely satisfy her majesty the queen instead of her simply acting to stroke the ego of her customer.

I had grown so much that even the shop would request me to take care of a newcomer girl after my training with teacher.

It seemed that prostitute wouldn’t grow up well if at first they didn’t get a kind and skilled customer.

Effort would surely bear fruit. That was my pet theory.

With this I would be able to welcome the finest women anytime.

I had grown up to be a man who could even make a virgin girl to feel good.

Everything was going well since I come to the city.

Though I also vaguely felt that I got a bit too absorbed with doing business and training that I lost sight of my objective……yosh, let’s do my best with the harem building too after this!

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