Frontier Magic Pharmacist

Chapter 61-Continued: Tea Party at the Margrave Heine House

Miss Fabienne seemed to enjoy gardening as usual. And it seemed that Nathalie is Miss Fabienne’s gardening companion. She seemed to know a lot about flowers and herbs.

Of course, I, with my reputation for creating medicinal herb gardens, joined them. When I introduced her to a new type of herbal tea, she took a liking to it.

“Oh, that’s right. I was just about to show off my recently developed magic tool.”

“Julius-sama, what kind of Magic tool have you created this time?”

Billy and Plato were looking at me with shining eyes. Edward also leaned forward. A servant immediately brought the “cold/warm air blower” that had been warming the room for a long time.

“This is it. It’s a Magic tool named ‘Cold and Warm air Blower’.”

“I thought it was an interior decoration in the shape of a tree, but I was wrong.”

Miss Fabienne was staring intently at a magic tool that looked like a wooden object.

“‘This is a magical tool that sends out warm or cold air.”

“I see, so it is a magic tool that can change the temperature of the room.”

Edward-kun nodded with a look of understanding.

“Well, is that the half of it?”

“Half?”

This time Mistress Natalie tilted her head. Natalie’s appearance reminds me of a rabbit.

“I made this magic tool for the purpose of drying hair.”

“”“It’s able to dry hair!”””

Miss Fabienne, Miss Nathalie, and Melissa-chan all screamed. Apparently, the women of the world have had hair problems for a long time.

This is good. This looks like just the thing to sell.

“Right now it sends out air at a reasonably high temperature to warm up the room, but it can send out air at a much lower temperature.”

As I said this, I turned the knob, and a warmer breeze blew out, just right for drying hair. The women leaned forward. Their eyes were shining like shiitake mushrooms as they varied the air flow.

“This is how I always dry my hair.”

Saying this, Rosalia made a gesture of drying her hair in front of the cold/warm blower. She had been using it for several days, so she was indeed very skillful.

“I made several of the same things with my brother, and the servants use them too.”

When Rosalia spoke proudly, the men were surprised at Rosalia’s “we made them together” remark. Then they took an interest out of the cold/warm air blower magic tool.

“Julius-sama, I would like to make one myself…”

Edward, you and the others are looking at me with a twinkle in your eyes. It’s not even patented, so I guess it won’t be a problem to show my friends how to make one.

“That’s fine. I’ll give you a copy of the blueprints, but I need some time.”

“Julius-sama, I too would like to have a  cold and warm air blower…”

This time, Miss Fabienne and her friends were looking at me with wide-eyed amazement. Yeah. It’s good, right? If word spreads about this magical tool from everyone, the demand for it in the territory will increase.

If that happens, the magic tool masters planning to sell the blueprints will make a lot of them, and they will make more and more profits.

The tax money would then come back to the Heine family. There is no need for me to go to the trouble of making them by hand. In the long run, it would be more profitable.

“Alright . I’ll make one for everyone. However, is it okay if it’s for one person at a time?”

“Of course.”.

The three of them said in unison. Rosalia should be able to help me make the Magic tool, then I wouldn’t keep them waiting that long.

After that, when we were talking about trendy shops in the capital, Melissa-chan noticed.

“A little while ago, Rosaria-sama gave off a nice scent. Is it perfume?”

“No, it’s not. It’s probably the scent of soap.”

Rosalia took out a small bag from her pocket. Inside was a small bar of rose-scented soap. It was not a whole piece, as one would expect, but a small piece. I see. So this is one way to use it.

“It smells so good. I have never seen soap like this before.”

“Of course. This soap was made by me and my brother.”

“What?　You made the soap?!”

From that point on, the ladies were all over the soap-making process. When I showed them how to make it, they said they would make it as soon as they got home. Since it was not that difficult to make, I gave them the recipe as well. If soap-making spreads throughout the territory, the habit of hand-washing may spread.

If the demand for soap increases in the territory, merchants will bring in large quantities of soap. If this were to happen, the unit price of soap would drop, and people would be able to buy it without making it themselves.

“Um, Julius-sama, is it all right for you to teach me so many things?　I feel like I could make money if I sold any of them. ……”

“Don’t worry about it, Miss Fabienne. If they are sold and bought in the territory and money is moved around, that money will come into the Margrave Heine household  in the form of taxes.”

Even though she’s eight years old like me, Miss Fabienne is really strong. I didn’t expect her to worry about money.

I thought she was an innocent child bragging about her new toy, but perhaps I should think a little more carefully before providing information.

“I’m surprised to hear that. That’s a relief.”

The horse racing business is quite lucrative now, and even without it, the business would have been profitable to begin with.

After all, Grandma is a high-ranking magic pharmacist. Even just the profits from the sale of the magic potions she made should be making a lot of money.

After the conversation about the soap was settled, today’s tea party was over. After seeing everyone off at the entrance, I set to work on duplicating the blueprints and creating an additional cold/warm air blower.

I left the salon to the servants to clean up, and asked for additional materials for the magic tools.

Rosalia immediately began to make the magical tools with the materials she had on hand. With that by my side, I ran a pen on a piece of paper.