The Otherworld Conquest Method of a Reincarnated Porter Chapter 14 Part 1
Shopping at Hinomoto Trading Company
The cold weather has eased up a bit. Starting from today, it is March.
It is now March of the year 1721 in the history of the descent of God. Year 1721 since God gave us various powers to stand against monsters. By the way, the calendar is exactly the same as that of the earth, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. Even the leap year is exactly the same. The positions of the sun and moon are also the same. However, the position of the stars is completely different. I don’t know what this means, and I don’t care. After all, even if I knew, there would be nothing I could do about it.
The same is true for weights and measures. However, this was something spread by a hero from another world, so grandpas and grannies in the countryside may not understand it.
Today, I am taking Lily, Alma, and Mion to Hinomoto Trading Company for shopping. I am looking forward to it.
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「Here I come, Onii-sama.」
Lily, with a step that is unthinkable from a nine-year-old child, comes at me while drawing a slash diagonally from her shoulder. The slash is easy to read as it has a straightforward sword streak, so I can properly block it, but one after another, she continues to send me slashes in rapid succession. She is still young and low in level, so her strength is weak, but she will surely become stronger than me in the future.
Blocking every one of Lily’s attacks, I lock my sword to hers and then fling her away. Well, as of right now, this is how it is.
「Ugh, so frustrating~.」
It seems that her fighting spirit has not yet waned. Falling to her knees, Lily is looking at me. Hm? What is it? I can feel a flow of magical energy from Lily.
「Hyaa!」
Lily slashes at me at a speed way faster than ever before. It is so fast that I can only ward it off.
「Kya!」
The speed seems to be faster than she herself had expected, and as she cannot control her body well, she ends up falling down.
「Are you all right, Lily?」
「Uu, I am fine. Onii-sama.」
Don’t tell me, with such a thought in mind, I appraise Lily. Body Manipulation 1, Body Enhancement 1, and Instant Step 1 have emerged on her skill list. She is probably unaware that she is using skills by herself, but as I thought, Lily is a genius. I cast healing magic on Lily, who has scraped her knees.
「That’s admirable of you to not cry, Lily. This afternoon, you’re going shopping with me.」
「Yay. I love you, Onii-sama.」
Lily comes to me and hugs me. Ah~, I’m being healed. She truly is an angel.
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「Kars-sama, Lilicia-sama, the carriage is ready.」
「Yes. We’ll be in your care.」
「Yay! Ah~, I’m looking forward to it.」
Lily and I, as well as Alma and Mion, get into the carriage. The escort knights are six in number. Today we are going to the Hinomoto Trading Company, which we were not able to visit last time. Since the Hinomoto Trading Company is also frequented by commoners, I am a little concerned about whether or not there would be ill-behaved adventurers.
After leaving the noble district by carriage, we soon come to a street lined with high-class stores. Hinomoto Trading Company is located a short distance from there, surprisingly close. The building is a three-story one and is slightly larger than Zipangu Trading Company. The first floor contains a grocery store and a coffee shop, the second floor is cosmetics and sundries sections, and the third floor is mainly women’s clothing and underwear.
There is nothing particularly worth seeing on the first floor, but I make sure to check out the rice. There is only one kind of rice, and as opposed to the japonica rice that Japanese people mainly eat, it is something more similar to the long and thin indica rice. Incidentally, I have no that much fixation on rice. I eat tasty bread, meat, and vegetable salads every day, and I am satisfied with my diet, after all.
When we head to the second floor, I see a place where a line has formed.
「Alma, what are those people lining up over there looking for?」
「The drugstore I see. I believe it is most likely birth control pills. Hinomoto Trading Company’s birth control pills are, simply put, low in price yet high in effectiveness, so they are very popular. And as there a limit to the number of pills available, there seems to even be traders who line up every day to buy the pills and resell them.」
「Hmm~. True enough, if you look closely, you can see that they are all ladies who seem to be working in the night business. Do other trading companies not deal in birth control pills?」
「The only one that deals in birth control pills is Hinomoto Trading Company. I heard that the production method has been made public, so it is expected to spread more and more in the future. In the past, it was common for prostitutes and women with unwanted pregnancies to abandon their children in front of churches after giving birth to them. Orphanages were overflowing with children, and with their food and sanitation conditions being terrible, orphans usually became bandits or prostitutes, and as an even larger number of orphans were born, the public order seemed to be terrible as well. Witnessing that disastrous scene, Sage-sama, who came from another world, developed birth control pills and sold it at a low price, and the number of orphans seemed to have decreased considerably.」
Alma tells me in my ear so that Mion, who is from an orphanage, can’t hear her. Truly a capable woman.
I see, it is great that the transmigrators from another world seem to be doing their best to improve the standard of living in this world. Well, thinking about it from the perspective of Japanese common sense, this world is in the state of being lagging behind in every aspect, but I think the provision of inexpensive contraceptives is very effective. Even if you carelessly cry out for human rights and the separation of powers, you will only be thought of as a person with dangerous thoughts. It is difficult to improve everything at once.
「Onii-sama~, what are birth control pills?」
「Ahem, birth control pills are, well, medicines that make it impossible to have a baby.」
「Eh~, no way, for you to be unable to have a baby, we have no need for such a thing. I am going to bear Onii-sama’s wonderful baby in the future.」
Ugh, Lily, you truly are an angel. Sigh, to no longer be able to see such a cute little sister after I come of age, that is just too heart-breaking. I wonder if there is something I can do about it.
「Alright, Lily, now it’s finally time to go to the women’s clothing section. I’ll pick one out for you. Follow me.」
The third floor is 40% women’s wear, 40% women’s underwear, and the rest men’s wear. As for the designs, those with elaborate lace like the ones at Zipangu Trading Company are few in number, but since they are simple and sophisticated, the prices are about one-tenth to one-third of that of Zipangu Trading Company, I guess.
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