BXBX NOVEL Chapter 42: Innovation Association
「Young Master, may I ask where are you planning to go today?」
「My residence. I want to take a look at Eve\'s condition. She\'s there, right?」
Unexpectedly, Tesh shook his head to the sides.
「No, that girl is now in the Innovation Association\'s main building.」
「In the Innovation Association?」
The Innovation Association was an organization established for me by Father. It was like a state-owned enterprise… No, I guess it should be called a territory-owned enterprise. It was an organization that Father formed because it was inefficient to assemble commoners every time I would create some useful things using the knowledge from my previous world.
The organization existed mainly to realize my ideas, and its job was mostly the development of new products as well as the establishment of their production site. The organization was named "Innovation Association" since it was responsible for the creation of new business in the territory.
「Yes. We couldn\'t let a newly bought slave copy Quordentz family\'s important documents right away, so I thought that we should see things first by entrusting her with some work in the Innovation Association.」
Then, Tesh lowered his head. He was probably apologizing for moving my slave without getting my permission.
Indeed, it wouldn\'t be reassuring to immediately let her touch the valuable documents in the castle\'s warehouse. It was said that she could write, but we didn\'t know how good she really was, so letting her work in the Innovation Association was a good idea.
「I don\'t mind. It\'s only natural that you\'re concerned about it. Well then, I\'ll go to the association.」
The main building was established in the castle town partly because civilians worked there. In that respect, it was like my mansion. The only difference was that my mansion was in the high-class residential area, while the Innovation Association\'s main building was in the commercial district. Going to my residence or to the association seemed to need different preparations, and the servants were all very busy preparing.
I walked along the commercial district while taking a sideglance at Nyuneri City\'s morning bustle. As long as I didn\'t ride on a horse or put my family\'s crest, there was practically no citizen who would notice that I was the eldest son of Quordentz family.
Aside from the guards standing at the side, there was also another team of guards in the surroundings. That said, only a skilled assassin would probably notice them.
I passed through the civilians and entered the Innovation Association\'s main building.
「President, I\'m glad to see you come.」
It seemed that they were informed in advance, and when I entered the building, the employees welcomed me altogether. I had the highest status here, so I was treated as the president.
Father and Grandfather were usually positioned above me, so it was rare for me to be in the top position. The only places where I would be treated as the big boss was probably here since I was the president, and in Nambonan as their mayor.
「Good job welcoming me here. You can all return to your work.」
I waved my hand to make them go back to their work and then I proceed towards the president\'s office.
The room appeared carefully cleaned, and there was no dust even though I hadn\'t been able to come here for a while.
「Do you have anything to report?」
I didn\'t want to ask about my sex slave right away, so I started by briefly asking the employees in the room about work. The employees here were the management staff.
「Things are doing good for the most part. Only, there\'s not enough food for the silkworms.」
「I see.」
The Innovation Association had their arms around many things, but the biggest source of profit were the soap and silk. The soaps were produced using the knowledge from my previous world, while the silk by magic experiment.
Silk was a high-class good, and not a long time ago none of the territories in the Levios Kingdom could produce them. However, there was a civil war in Mamshred Federation around 30 to 40 years ago, causing a large number of refugees. Some of the refugees took refuge in Levios Kingdom\'s land, and one of the things they brought with them was silkworm. Apparently, Levios Kingdom\'s silkworm culture had started there.
During the time I reincarnated and could move my body to some extent, I obtained a silkworm by moving behind the scenes. I didn\'t know how many species of silkworm existed in my previous world, but in this world, there were many closely-related species. The silkworm that the refugees brought with them produced light green silk and not a beautiful white one. Although a high-class good, the silkworm couldn\'t produce the highest quality of silk. At present, Mamshred Federation had a monopoly on the production of the highest quality pure white silk.
At that time, I was thinking about trying to improve the silkworm\'s production and fiddled with it with my newly learned magic. Using my tremendous magic power, I did many things such as flooding it with healing magic, casting a physical strength enhancement, and applying pressure by releasing pure magic power. I still remembered that the servants at that time were relieved that my target was a worm and not a civilian.
And then after several years of fiddling with the silkworm, its silk production had increased and reproductive power improved. Unfortunately, the color of the silk remained light green. That time was also the period when I was making money with my soap business, so I also decided to start a business with silk. Nowadays, Nyuneri\'s silk had some popularity. There was a demand for silk from the nobles and the ordinary people, so the market for it was considerable, so much that even the dress that Kohali had been wearing was made from that silk.
The people working in Mamshred Federation\'s sericulture industry were most likely feeling bitter about it. Well, Mamshred Federation wasn\'t close to Quordentz\'s territory, so for them to start a war immediately was unlikely.
「A few days ago, one of the travelers who returned from Mamshred Federation brought back a strange plant. The traveler said that the plant could be seen growing in every village that\'s engaging in silkworms.」
「Hoh. If that can be used as a food for the silkworms, then the food problem would be solved, and we can expect some production.」
I recalled the silkworm on Earth ate only mulberry leaves, but the silkworms in this world weren\'t picky eaters, and they would grow when fed with different kinds of food. There was a problem with raising the silkworms with only the plants provided nearby Nyuneri. The spies sent in Mamshred Federation seemed like they\'d been doing their job well, so everything was good.
Afterward, they continued their report, and I gave them directions when necessary. As for the inspection of the production sites including the soap factory and silkworm shop which were located in the city\'s agricultural area, I decided to do it on another day.
Finishing with the initial reports, I asked them the main reason why I came here.
「By the way, where is Eve?」
When I asked them that, the employees all wore a confused look.
「Eve…? I\'m sorry, who is that?」
Surprisingly, they didn\'t know the name of that outstanding beautiful elf girl. Were the men working here all impotent?
「I\'m talking about my slave, an elf girl. I heard from Tesh that she\'s working here.」
Then, one of the employee\'s clapped his hands.
「Oh, so that girl is Eve. Tesh-sama told us to call her slave, so we weren\'t aware of her name.」
Apparently, all of the employees were referring to Eve as "slave".
That reminded me, I gave Tesh the instruction to make things difficult for Eve. It was quite nasty of him to prepare an environment where no one would call her by her name and instead call her a slave. If she\'d changed her attitude and become obedient, I would treat her gently.
「We\'ve been informed that she is president\'s slave. No one tried to make a move on her…」
「Then good.」
Once I finished asking them about Eve, I let the employees leave.
Letting out a breathe, I moved my lower half. It\'s condition was looking good.
「Go and call Eve.」
When I gave that order, a servant at the side immediately left the room.
I slowly looked around the room. There were only a large sofa and a table and no bed. Well, there was no way there would be a bed in the president\'s office. It was also troublesome to take her to my mansion. While I was thinking, someone knocked on the door.
「Enter.」
The door opened quietly, and a single girl entered the room.
Her amber hair hung down to her waist, and her deep green eyes gave the image of a deep forest. Her elf ears pointed to the side, and her skin pale white. She was wearing the kind of clothes that girls in the castle town would wear, and had ample breasts that didn\'t match her age.
At the same time as my lower half got larger, her well-featured face turned into a grimace.
Her expression was filled with surprise and terror.