T/N: Two things:

1.) The Japanese language often uses gender neutral pronouns, and even throughout this novel, Sword has always been talking about Indra in a way allowing space for interpretation. On the other hand, English is pretty bad at neutral pronouns, and writing every sentence Indra (Indras) or they (their) would make this whole work sound super awkward. As such, Ive been using the female pronoun for her when Sword talks about her, when its clear the people know about her gender, or when it doesnt really matter. But in reality, you can assume that everyone besides those knowing about her gender assume that shes a boy.

2.) Bennyboy is a typical yankee/playboy type of character. The style youll find in many anime as hoodlums, troublemakers, or womanizers etc. I opted against adding a heavy slur or such. Ill try to make his tone sound as casual and slangy as possible, but my skills in that region are limited. xD

Leaving aside the restaurant, the liquor sale was the tiger in the room. According to Sword, it should apparently result in a sum where wed be able to swim in gold coins. He insisted that our liquor surpasses the quality of liquor drunk by nobles by leaps and bounds.

Using the nobles liquor as standard, Sword explained, Pretty sure the regular liquor would cost at the very least 1 gold per bottle while the liquor that rested for a while would go beyond 5 gold, as a wholesale price. As for the distilled liquor: your the only one who can produce it, so the cheapest price would start at 10 gold.

Hearing that, everyone involved in the brewing trembled furiously.

W-W-We have been drinking something so expensive without a care

Dont worry, its okay for the brewers. Were the ones investin the time, labor, and production expenses. The techniques and knowledge mightve been provided by Indra, but you guys studied all o it diligently, right? Ill provide the fundin, so dont pay it any attention and drink as much as you like for free!

Hes come up with some suitable theory, solely because he wants to drink himself.

But, I also waved it off with a hand, All of this only matters if Sword converts its value into money. Its not like we have to sell the liquor just because were producing something with rarity value. I dont mind if we only use it for ourselves either. I mean, its not like were using any valuable ingredients on this. Dont fret and just think of it as us palming off what we cant drink up ourselves for big cash.

I said while once again reaffirming how much of a hobby-like view I had taken on this.

At last, the liquor had filled up a third of our storage space. We had also brewed cheap liquor namely, cider and ale. I really wanted to brew unrefined sake, but without yeast cells Its probably a lost cause without researching yeast first.

In the first place, I havent found any rice so far. But, seeing how milk exists, maybe rice is growing somewhere as well?

One day, as I had been pondering such things, we had a visitor. He apparently had come for Sword, but I was called over as well.

Yo, man. Lon time no see.

A playboy

When I looked at Sword, Hey, long time no see. Sorry for callin you over on short term.

They seem to be old friends.

This here is my partner, Indra. Shes makin some incredible stuff, and we wanna sell some of it, but I dont know any merchants besides you. Wont you act as middleman for us?

What a super abbreviated explanation!

Eh? For real? Sure, why not.

And that was the end of it.

It sounds like the discussion is over, so Ill leave you two to catch up, okay?

As I turned on my heels, I was grabbed by Sword.

Waaait. Come on, dont be so hasty. We goin to need you here for whats to follow.

He said his name was Benjamin.

Ben for you. So, let me see the stuff thats up fo sale?

Huh? Is it really okay for a merchant to be so casual about business?

Here.

Once I took out a bottle, the playboy, now Bennyboy, froze on the spot.

Huh? Wait? Isnt this booze?

Yep, the liquor I consider the most delicious in this world. Sword nodded.

Bennyboy looked back and forth between the liquor and me.

Anyway, first have a taste of it. Sword has mostly decided on the price. For merchandise, you have to add your profit on top of that, right? On top of that, you see, this liquor is extremely difficult in its handling. If the temperature becomes too high, itll become unsellable. Well prepare some countermeasures from our side, but please decide whether youre going to sell it or not while taking these circumstances into account.

A maid immediately poured some of the liquor into a glass for testing.

Somehow, as might be expected, Sword was positively surprised by her conduct.

Just as I thought, the servants of nobles play in a different league, dont they?

Ah, man, no wonder, this is a nobles place. And here I was feeling all jittery ever since entering this place So how come youre living at a nobles place, Mr. Sword?

It aint no nobles mansion. Ive just become the landlord of a former noble and her former servants. Thats all.

Hahaha. S-Ranks are totally different from us ordinary folk, yeah.

He said otherwise, but I dont feel a shred of tension or admiration from his frivolous rambling.

Then allow me to test it Wai-! Awesome shit! The hells this stuff!?

Right? We wanna sell this. But, accordin to Indra, liquor is alive, makin quality control essential. She mentioned doin consignment sales, but the liquor will spoil in no time without a proper place to store it. Well, Indra said shed lend you a magic tool for that, but the issue is this. Sword made a money sign with his fingers. What price would you put on this? Assumin you wouldnt need to worry bout transportation n all the other stuff.

Bennyboy folded his arms.

Not beneath a gold coin. How about pawning it off at an auction? Itd be better to sell it after seeing the initial response.

Now I folded my arms.

I dont want to go too public with this. Our production capacities are limited.

Oh, all the more n argument for an auction. If you got only a small amount on hand, youd be in a bind if orders flooded in. cause of that, itd give you less trouble if you sell it off at an auction! Besides, if we dont do that, Id need to take it off you and go round selling it, or similar, right? If you say storage is a problem, itd be much easier to store it ere and just transport it over to the auction house when needed.

Makes sense. Lets go with that.

In the end, Im fine with anything as long as we sell it suitably. Even if you put together the costs for the raw materials, facilities, etc., its far away from one gold coin. Hence, most of it will be profit.

I guess Ill splurge on transportation then.

Ive been thinking about the means of transport. It wont be as simple to operate as a carriage, but Ill teach you how to drive it, so make sure to learn it.

Eh? Its gonna be a rock lizard or some such?

Rock lizard? You can use the thing I killed the other day as a substitute for a horse?

No. To put it simply, its going to be a magic tool, golemor whatever you name it.

Eehhh!? Just so you know, I cant use any magic, kay?

?

Even if you cant use magic, you can still use magic tools, cant you? Or maybe not?

I did it unconsciously, and everyone living in this mansion can use magic.

Normally you move these things with your own mana. Ive never seen magic tools that operate through magic elements like the ones you make.

Is that so?

Okay, well, itll require magic stones then. Ill change the propulsion system to be based on those. Leaving aside the quality, weve got plenty of them.

Oh, thatll be cool.

I see. Im glad to hear.

Alright, Ill build it then.

Sword pulled a super unhappy face. Even without you looking at me like that, Ill build a very normal, ordinary transport vehicle!