Bidet’s Completion
It’s probably about time the menstrual product’s prototype has made progress. I want to check on the state of it once beforehand.
Let’s try going to Gloriosa Boutique. I teleported to the store’s platform with Teleportation.
Whoosh!
“Kyaーh!”
When I suddenly appeared, the two employees who were standing at the entranceway as guides shouted. Immediately realising it’s me upon seeing my face, one of them runs inside in a hurry, and the other leads my way.
“Tsukuyomi-sama. Welcome”
Ariana appeared right away.
“My! Tsukuyomi-sama. Welcome”
“Ariana. Good afternoon. I came today for the menstrual product’s prototype matter”
“Understood. I shall go and call Jemma and Sandra then; please wait in the reception room”
“Thank you”
I was promptly served tea, and right when I took a sip, Jemma and company appeared.
“Tsukuyomi-sama. The prototype made progress and more or less took shape. Please have a look”
The prototype product Jemma placed on a plate and showed me was, so well made that you could already say it was a completed product.
“This is, not merely just wrapping it with a cotton fabric huh”
“Yes. It not only ended up becoming too thick, but it ended up becoming too stiff as well when we wrapped too many layers. Over there, we decided to insert multi-folded fabric only on the surface that contacts the skin and make it so that it has a soft touch”
“How about the absorbency?”
“Yes. If one remains seated with no huge movements like us, it seems it will last a maximum of about 2 hours. However, it does not last that long on the second day though”
“I think it is plenty useable as a product if that is the case. It is nice how it has a hygienic look as well huh”
“Tsukuyomi-sama. How should we proceed with the manufacturing after this?”
“Yes. We first have to aim for the production of the Jales inside. The cost price will be determined based on how much that will be and roughly how many can be made in a month. There is no point in making it if the selling price becomes expensive and only nobles can use it because this Jales is expensive. I will go and do the negotiations for that as well”
“Jemma, Sandra. How many of these do you have to be able to buy with 1 copper coin for you to consider buying and using them every month?”
“Yeah……for me, if it is 10 pieces for 1 copper coin”
“Since this is very much better than the stuff thus far, I will want to buy it if it is 10 pieces as well”
“What does Ariana think about this pricing?”
“Yeah. I think if it is those working at stores or factories, they will be able to buy it. But I believe it might be difficult for farmers and servants of mansions. It’s just that, it feels difficult to make it cheaper than this”
“Jales is a weed that is not used in anything in the first place after all, and since it is just peeling the leaf’s exterior skin and drying it, let’s assume we can purchase it at 1 copper coin for every 1000 pieces”
“Also, since this is not clothes or undergarments, if we make a specialised factory and designate the job to just cutting and wrapping the cotton fabric instead of making it at the boutique, we will be able to keep the wages down as well since specialised techniques will not be required, won’t we”
“And then we will also make the profit 20% since the amount we sell is incomparable to clothes and undergarments, and do away with the proposer fee as well. Would we not be able to make it about 30 pieces per copper coin if we do this?”
“If it is at that price, I think anybody who knows the greatness of this menstrual product will want to buy it”
“Ariana. I feel bad for not making it at this boutique despite having you go all the way to make the prototype though……”
“We do not mind as long as we can be of help to Tsukuyomi-sama. Right? Jemma, Sandra”
“Yes. Of course!”
“Yeah. Truth be told, I want Ariana to concentrate on manufacturing the undergarments. I think we can make it cheaper and more if we let the southern countries where you can collect tons of Jales make this menstrual product”
“We do not mind you doing that. I will hand you the document recorded with how to wrap the cotton fabric”
“Thank you. Well then, Ariana, as a thanks from me, I will gift two of the brassieres made with the same specifications as the samples I brought back to every female employee working in this store”
“Eeh! Tsukuyomi-sama. That is something aimed at the royalties and nobles, and they are 1 gold coin each. For you to gift 2 of that!”
“1 gold coin huh. It costs a whole 10 times more than the commoner-use huh. But it is fine. I want everybody to wear that and work comfortably. Besides, you can just deduct the bill of that from my proposer fee”
“I-, is it really alright?”
“Eeh, in exchange, please work with everybody and quickly become capable of supplying tons of undergarments”
“Thank you! Tsukuyomi-sama!”
“Thank you”
“Is there still more of the prototype product you made?”
“Yes. We received tons of Jales from Tsukuyomi-sama after all”
“Well then, I want to bring them to the other countries as samples”
“Yes. We will put them together right away”
“Thanks”
I then brought the samples and teleported to the shrine.
Immediately after returning to the palace, I started getting to work. I verified whether Jales grows naturally in the countries situated in the south with Otou-san’s name and received responses. Immediately after, information that they have Jales arrived from the five countries, Gladiolus, Edelweiss, Ranunculus, Phlox, and Plumeria.
I put in the request from getting them to cultivate Jales up to finishing them up into menstrual products and selling them to the world to these countries. Since it’ll be a negotiation between countries this time around, I explained the details to Ojii-san and asked him to tag along. Ojii-san accepted it readily. If it’s Ojii-san, he’ll be able to use Teleportation after all.
We informed the five countries of the time we’d visit and that both of us would go with Teleportation ahead of time, and the next day, we teleported with the two of us after breakfast. First, it’s the Gladiolus Kingdom with no time difference.
The King, the Queen, the Chancellor, the Prince, and the Princess had already gathered in the parlour.
“Gyougetsu-sama, Tsukuyomi-sama. We are pleased to have you here. What can we do for you today”
“Umu. My grandson, Tsukuyomi, is thinking of convening everybody 3 months later, but it seems there is something he wants to request the Gladiolus Kingdom before that. Will you hear him out?”
“Of course. If it is someone Gyougetsu-sama nominates, we will undertake anything”
“My apologies for the sudden request. I would like you to make this with the Jales that grow naturally in this country”
First, I showed them the disassembling of the Jales leaf and explained how to make the sample’s menstrual product. Naturally, including the menstrual product’s necessity and how to use it as well.
Initially, they were making faces that wanted to say, ‘what are you on about all of a sudden’, but it was gradually accepted starting from the ladies, and as I took on their questions, it looked like I managed to get them to understand.
Lastly, I explained the selling price, cost price, production expenses, and profit as well. When it came to these parts, I emphasised that it’d be meaningless if it got expensive and drove the point of not getting caught up with earning money with this business. Of course, I also notified them that I turned down the proposer fee.
I finished the discussion by saying that since it will develop into an industry that will continue producing for a long time to come, I want them to work on it proactively. I had a good feeling that it was generally well-received and that they were passionate about it.
We then took into consideration the respective country’s time difference and went around from the east, and after we finished the discussion at about an hour for each country, we returned to Ojii-san’s mansion before dusk and had tea.
“Nevertheless, Tsukuyomi’s negotiation power sure is amazing huh. I was thinking that if there was anybody who wouldn’t listen to what you say, I would shout at them, but you steadily pulled them into your conversation and successfully got them motivated”
“Yeah. A ‘doctor’ speaks with scientific reasoning for everything, so the other party might have ended up with nowhere to escape. There are times that I, too, wonder if I sometimes corner the other party when I speak after all”
“I see. It’s a doctor’s way of thinking huh. I wonder if Tsukuyomi is more suitable to be a Chancellor of a country than a God. Furthermore, a pretty excellent Chancellor”
“I am honoured to have your praise”
“That’s right, Tsukuyomi. It seems you got Merina and Lucia pregnant?”
“Ojii-sama, it is like I was the one who got them pregnant if you put it that way, is it not. It is Otou-sama who got them pregnant!”
“Un. You’re right. Under Tsukuyomi’s instructions. That is”
“Tsukuyomi. Thank you so much. Please let me give you my thanks as well”
“Dahlia-obaa-sama. Yeah. It went very well this time around”
“I hear the other wives are also going for it again? Even though they are over 30 years old”
“Carmina-obaa-sama. That is a wrong knowledge. Let alone 30 years old, a woman who has given birth in her 20s can give birth even if she is 40 or 50″
“M-, my! Is that for real?”
“Eeh, it is. The Okaa-samas can easily still give birth. I suppose they will surely not give up until they give birth to a son each huh”
“Is something like that for real?”
“Eeh, it is”
“Ooh, thank God!”
“Dahlia-obaa-sama! You are exaggerating”
The two Obaa-sans thanked me while crying. The two of them must have also suffered because of that huh.
In less than a month after putting in the request for the bidet’s manufacture, we received contact saying that it was completed.
Today is the day Pablo the carpenter comes to the palace. They will enter the shrine once. A ship from here will go to the shrine to fetch and bring them up into the sky. The ship then arrived at the back of the mansion.
“Pablo. It seems the bidet is completed huh”
“Yes. Olivia-sama. We have kept you waiting”
“I shall carry the bidet”
I floated the heavy-looking bidet in the air with Telekinesis. Pablo and others were stunned for a moment, but it turned into smiles right away.
“Tsukuyomi-sama. What tremendous power”
“It is no big deal; I shall carry it to the toilet like this. Over here please”
Pablo carried the parts like the water pipes and tubes, and Rola and others carried the tools.
It comes to mind again when I enter the toilet and look over it in its entirety. The common sense of this world’s toilet is slightly different from Earth’s to begin with; the toilet bowl itself has been combined with the heating appliance. I was initially confused as well.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say the toilet seat is warm; it’s like there’s a heater at the back of the toilet bowl. The unnecessarily spacious toilet in its entirety is being warmed up to the extent that it’s not cold. What you flush the toilet with is also not just water but hot water. It seems it’s difficult for it to get dirty since it dissolves while flushing. It’s very well made.
They’re doing something so extravagant for a single toilet bowl because they’re not paying the electrical bills individually; the country is paying us, Gods, as tax. I suppose it’s a device born from the perception that electricity is all-you-can-use from the civilian’s perspective. Well, it seems it’s not called electricity but ‘light’ in this world though……
But thanks to that, the bidet’s seat is warm, and we can wash our butts with warm water as well. This is a really good thing.
And then the bidet that arrived was, exactly as I requested, a beautiful cherry blossom colour. The installation was completed in about 2 hours.
Immediately, the Okaa-samas and the Onee-samas took turns trying it. It then received tremendously great reviews from everybody. I would think so.
The decision that we would install bidets in every toilet of this palace came naturally. At the same time, it will be installed at the shrine as well, and it was decided that we will also make a public toilet where you can use the toilet and bidet outside the shrine.
Furthermore, I put in a request for them to make a number of it beforehand because the Royal Family will also definitely want it after all, and I also requested the installation of two at Gloriosa Boutique under my tab while I’m at it.
If the bidet spreads, this world’s hygiene circumstances will improve for certain.
