After I Stopped Sponsoring, the Female Leads Began Obsessing Over Me chapter 115

115 – Capitalism is cold.

“But Ian.”

“Huh?”

“Didn’t I buy too much? It seems like too much to eat at once.”

Danya tilted her head.

Well. Since he followed me without any explanation, it was natural to be curious.

Danya is a key figure in the ‘Ice Sugar Fruit Project’. She needed to explain a little bit more to her.

“Danya, do you remember eating [Ice Grape] In the North?”

Ice Grape.

Among the nobility, it is a fruit enjoyed by at least counts, dukes, and bourgeois equivalents. Commoners and lower-ranking nobles are lucky if they have the opportunity to eat it at least once in their lives.

Sweet ice wraps around a large bunch of grapes, making it a symbolic luxury product that is the ultimate in sour and sweet.

The characteristic feature is that it is quite expensive because it is only produced in certain areas beyond the northern border.

It was my first time eating what Sylvia gave me, and after that, all I ate was at the Northern Grand Duke’s social church.

“Yes. It was so delicious!”

Danya must have remembered that fact and immediately burst into laughter.

“I’m thinking of selling something similar to that within the academy.”

“But isn’t that a very, very expensive fruit?”

“That’s right.”

“You have to be as big as Sylvia to be able to eat it!”

“No. He can’t eat anymore either.”

“?”

“That kind of thing happens.”

The image of Sylvia shivering in her office, wearing her fluffy rabbit slippers, came to mind.

Anyway.

I cleared her throat and corrected Danya’s misunderstanding.

“I’m not selling that. I’m thinking of making something similar.”

“How?

“With these fruits.”

Snowflakes made of sugar water are coated on the surface of fresh fruits.

I was able to get a intuition because I already had experience making similar foods.

Even if it is not at the level of [Ice Grape], It is possible to produce ‘ice sugar fruits’ that are comparable to it.

As I walk around, I realize once again that not only the Academy but also these markets do not sell desserts that can be enjoyed easily.

Starting to release ‘Ice Sugar Fruit’ in a place like this?

You’ll probably need to buy a scale to count your money.

Because so much money will be made that it will be impossible to count them all.

Since the cost of raw materials won’t be much, the net profit will be huge, right?

“Ugh.”

“Ian from earlier, you were smiling like a villain…”

“I’m sorry.”

Hmm.

It was difficult to suppress laughter at the flower road that unfolded for the first time in a while.

As I was compiling my expression, Danya whined next to me.

“Ugh. It’s heavy…”

Danya cried.

Danya’s left hand is full of fruit for ingredients.

In my other hand, I was holding a bunch of tomatoes that I had bought for my trouble.

What can I do to help? My hands are already full.

“It doesn’t seem like using mana is a bad idea.”

Efficiency varies depending on element properties, but most elements can strengthen the body.

Danya’s grass attribute strengthens the arms as if adding stems.

“If you had a hard time responding to the grass element in the past, you might be able to do it now, right?”

“Yes! I can do it now!”

Danya immediately shrugs her shoulders and raises her sassy nose.

“But, if you rely on magical power, you won’t be strong!”

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“Power?”

“Yes. I realized that muscles are just as important as mana!”

…Ah.

Come to think of it, Lina and Danya were stuck with Yergina in the north.

It seems that while I was training with the teacher, Danya was also influenced by Yergina.

“Physical training must be done in daily life! Hand me your bag too, Ian!”

I hurriedly ran ahead.

“Why are you running away!”

I like soft flesh more than muscles.

So we naturally entered the streets of magic engineering.

“But how do you make ice?”

Danya asks a sharp question.

It is a worldview in which the concept of ‘freezing’ something is rare in the first place. There is something called a magic engineering refrigerator, but it only keeps things cold and is expensive.

Ice is the exclusive property of frost-type abilities.

“I will live.”

“…What?”

“A huge refrigerator.”

“?”

Big and small stores lined up on both sides.

Besides, it was like an electronics store where magic engineering equipment was on display, catching the attention of passers-by.

“Refridges are the cheapest at my house!”

“Buy one, get one free!”

“Lowest price guaranteed! If you sell it for cheaper somewhere else, we’ll refund you that much!”

I walked straight into the alley with Danya, who was distracted by the fierce competition for customers.

Because there is a store here that only I know about.

【 Magic Engineering Research Institute 】

Like any hidden restaurant, the shabby appearance of the store creates a sense of trust.

A familiar place because quests related to magic engineering often occur.

A squirming sound is heard inside, then the sliding door opens and a woman comes out.

Long brown hair that covers the eyes.

Rumpy clothes that cannot be distinguished as pajamas or sweats.

Dizzy glasses that make it difficult to tell how high the prescription is.

The identity of the gloomy woman at first glance is Ami, a genius magic engineer.

She opened her mouth in a crawling voice.

“W-what’s going on?”

“I heard they sell high-performance refrigerators here.”

“Ah. Uhehehehe…”

Ami grinned, went inside, rustled around, and came out holding something the size of a box.

“Well, well, but this is expensive…”

Do you have thoughts or not?

“How much?”

“5, 5 Gold.”

If converted to modern standards, this is the price of one decent foreign car.

It is natural that even a refrigerator at that price cannot be sold, no matter how much engineering.

“The price…”

“Oh, no. I can’t sell it for less than that!”

Dori Dori.

Ami looks at the floor and shakes her head.

Her head fluttered like a propeller, as if she were headbanging.

“Hey, I’m selling this for a high price, right? The material cost was a lot. I made a circuit with 99.9999% Purity epitite ore and coated it with Raynonium… Ugh. It’s so cold. It’s the coldest in the world. Because I wanted to make a cold refrigerator… Uhehehehe.”

… If you are selling something like a refrigerator, do you think people will buy it?

Actually, this is a more valuable item than a refrigerator.

Unlike magic refrigerators that, at best, cool the inside with cold wind, this is a product with the concept of creating frost elements to keep the inside even colder.

If you think about it carefully, the core of the device is not ‘refrigeration’.

A device that consumes other elements and changes them into ‘frost elements’.

This gloomy magic engineer thinks of this device, which is almost an ‘item’ level device, as nothing more than a ‘refrigerator that is cooler than other refrigerators.’

This was possible because we were focused on the goal from the beginning: ‘We will create the coldest refrigerator in the world!’

He is a magician who carries out his eccentricities like any other genius.

5 Gold?

Material costs will also be a huge loss.

I guess I didn’t pay for the materials I picked up here and there.

This is an item that can be sold for 500 gold, not just 5 gold.

… That’s why.

I paid a fair price.

— Czar!

Coins pouring into Army’s hands.

Ami’s eyes grew bigger as she looked at the scene blankly, and she eventually began to tremble from side to side.

One, two.

The woman who was counting her coins opens her mouth in a trembling voice.

“Hey, over there…”

“Yes?”

“Woah, you gave me ten more…”

“…….”

“You gave me 10, 10 more silver…”

The money I paid was 5 gold and 10 silver.

“Please deliver it to my house. I have my hands full.”

“I-I really… Thank you… I can’t believe you bought me this… hehehe! Please, please come again…!”

The added 10 silver is also a delivery fee.

‘Because capitalism is cold.’

Anyway.

So I was able to get my hands on all the ingredients.

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Returned to accommodation.

I held a wooden skewer with large green grapes on it and closed my eyes.

“I’m sorry, Master, for using the Snow Flower Sword Technique in a place like this.”

That’s how I finished my apology.

I stood in front of the ‘refrigerator’.

The prepared sugar water is brought up through extraction.

At the same time.

— Shoot!

Sugar flowers blooming in the shape of snowflakes.

As it passes through the refrigerator, it turns into frost and blooms.

Pure white sugar ice snowflakes are flying.

I waved my hand and put sugar ice snowflakes on the fruit.

“Whew.”

That’s how we created [Ice Sugar Snowflake Fruit] Snowflake fruit for short.

I handed out the snowflake fruit to Danya.

“Try it.”

“Yum.”

Danya’s eyes widen after swallowing a single pill.

Her tail also rose and fluttered as if in surprise.

It is a success.

“Drink…Drink!”

Would you like to have a bite too?

— Crunchy!

The soft falling ice snowflakes give off a crunchy and sweet texture without sticking too much to the teeth.

The flesh that explodes inside has a sour taste that goes well with your mouth.

… This works.

I was confident without any worries.

This is enough to make me think that I should open a dental office at the same time.

“I…Ian!”

Danya, who has already finished her second skewer, comes back with a bunch of cherry tomatoes in her hands.

“Make it with tomatoes too!”

I did it.

… The result.

“Ugh, I can’t move.”

Danya fell to the floor, clutching her stomach.

She is stroking her protruding belly.

I put her snowflake fruits in her ice bag and gave her some advice.

“… Lie down in bed.”

“Well, is that okay?”

That’s because I think the neighbors will misunderstand if they see Danya leaving the house holding her stomach.

— Oh my bachelor! Congratulations ohhoho! You seem to have good energy at night! The bride looks a bit young. Is that okay?

I feel dizzy just imagining it.

“Yes. No matter what happens, digest it all and get out.”

Without an answer, he had already slipped into the bed.

“Sniff.”

“… What are you doing?”

“Ehehehehe.”

Danya sticks her head out of the blanket and asks.

“Ian, where are you going?”

I answered while carrying an ice bag full of snow fruit.

“Academy.”