City Of Witches 460

Chapter 460 – #97_Perfume

#459

One.
Amelia and Siu woke up early in the morning and returned to Gehenna after checking out of the hotel.
Sophia, who had been contacted in advance, was waiting for them at her immigration office.

A witch who naturally digests purple hair that cannot exist naturally.
While Amelia briefly went to see her superintendent, she was able to talk to Sophia.

“Chiu Manager… Isn’t it? It must have been called that way for so long that it got stuck in your mouth.”
“Call me whatever is convenient for you.”
“So, Siwoo-kun. How was your trip?”
“Enjoyed.”

In fact, Sofia owes Shiu a heart.
Even though her intentions were good, she neglected Amelia’s awkwardness even though she knew about it, and as a result, it caused great damage to Siwoo.
Even Sophia, who knew that, was always full of regret when dealing with him.

However, as she claims to be Amelia’s close friend, there is a question she cannot help asking.

“Okay? How was it?”
“Ah….”

What Siwoo remembers is Sophia, who has a lustful side like her body.
I realized the meaning of her question as I looked at her coming to throw her coy glance at her.

“Um, nothing happened.”
“Ugh, that’s right too.”

As if guessing, Sophia nodded her head.
Whatever the intention of her question, Siwoo had a lot of questions about Sophia.

It was because she seemed more streetwise than the other witches and seemed to be able to get more honest answers than her party.
Now that Amelia had been away for a while was an opportunity.

“Rather than that, I have something to ask about Amelia-sama’s reparation money. Amelia is planning to sell her perfume….”
“I already prepared it.”

The purpose of Siwoo’s saying this was to continue the question, ‘Can I pay it back in 10 years?’
Sophia’s answer was too calm.
It was as if he hadn’t even reconsidered the doubts Siu had.

“We have prepared manufacturing equipment, workshops and shops. The shop is in a corner of the Malkuth Gallery, but there shouldn’t be much of a problem. I also ordered the ingredients…. I’ve even saved clients from the salon.”

Sophia took out the documents of the jusomjusom.
Even at first glance, her thickness was unusual.

“This… Is this all a customer list?”
“Yeah, to be precise, it’s a reservation list. I will come to the store myself later. It was generously packed, mainly for rich witches. Even now, inquiries are still flooding in, so I’ll organize them as soon as they come in and send them to the store.”

Siu was a little bewildered.
The time Amelia and Shiu spent outside was less than two full days.
In that short space of time, hundreds of witches made reservations.

“You are amazing.”

Sophia shrugged her shoulders and handed over the list to Siu, who admired his skill.

“Even if you recruited, you wouldn’t have gathered this much?”
“Is it just perfume?”

He vaguely knew that Amelia’s perfume was popular among witches.
In fact, Flora Arabesque, who was extremely picky, suddenly changed as soon as she received the ‘Perfume of Fatigue’ and made clothes for Siwoo.

“It’s just perfume. Perfume is fashion. Even witches who study magic are mostly aristocratic girls who like to decorate. Even just me right now. Amelia’s perfume is famous for its beautiful scent, aside from its magical effect.”

Sophia explained with a proud expression as if she were with her pupil.

“But Amelia rarely made perfume except for her when I pushed her back. Because of that, the supply has grown far short of her demand.
However, Marigold, the most outstanding perfumer in Gehenna, makes the perfume custom-made. Who would want to miss this opportunity.”

It seems like that, but there is something puzzling about it.

“They say that in order to pay off the debt, we need to release a large amount…. If scarcity goes down, doesn’t the price go down too?”

Items that are usually called limited items are not traded at a higher price for nothing.
Now that Amelia has been selling out bottle by bottle like beans sprouting in the drought, she may have been selling at a high price, but when it reaches hundreds and thousands of bottles….

“I know what you are worried about. That’s something I don’t know.”

Seeing Siwoo seriously worried about Amelia, Sophia smiled admirably and lit her cigarette.

“I told you it was made to order. At least there won’t be a terrible catastrophe of meeting you at a ball wearing the same necklace and dress.”
“That’s right.”
“Also, Amelia’s perfume is hundreds of years old in her storage organ. At least with time, she said, the fragrance does not change during storage.”

Only then did Siu realize that she was still trying to understand her witch from a human perspective.

She is a witch never gets old
She could live hundreds of years if she wanted to.
It is to understand that even if demand and supply are temporarily aligned due to the release of a flash, it will eventually become scarce in the long run.

“In the end, the value of the brand determines the price of luxury goods in this world, but witches look at the product itself.”
“It feels like a work of art.”
“Right. So, all the customers on this list want to buy as many perfumes as possible.
There’s also the calculation that once Amelia pays off all her debts, she won’t be making perfume for a while. So…. If I work hard for a few months, won’t she pay it off?”
“Wait. How many months… ?”

There is a common saying.
No matter how small the pie is, if you eat the top of the industry, you can become rich enough.
It is not strange that Amelia, who took the Tower of Steering in Gehenna, full of witches who are interested in her extravagance, can get her big money.
Even so, the calculation that she can repay the debt of 100 billion won in a few months….

“I wonder how much Amelia’s perfume is?”
“Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve been curious like this.”

Sophia took something out of her arms.
It was a pretty, blue bottle the size of her thumb.
I remember having several of them on the desk of Amelia’s office in the past.

“This is the 0.5 fl.Oz perfume that Amelia often sells. If you spray it every day, it lasts for about two months…. All items were auctioned, so there is no fixed price, but this amount was usually sold for around 20 gold coins.”
“Yes?”
“The empty bottle I ordered this time has a capacity of 2.5 fl.Oz and is made to order, so if you add extra money depending on the ingredients, um… Wouldn’t it be okay to take at least £100?”

Surprisingly, it may not have been difficult to escape from Gehenna.
If she had stolen her perfume from her office and brought it to the smuggler, she might have let her escape….

“I don’t know, but if Amelia had opened her perfume shop long ago, she would have made as much money as Flora’s dressmaker?”

Along with Sophia’s leisurely guess, she saw Amelia, a money copier walking far away.
It may be because of her mood, but something like a brilliant glow from a gold coin bloomed behind her shoulder.

80 million won for a bottle of perfume….
From somewhere, it seemed as if Sharon was hitting the ground and heard a grievous sound.

2.
Siu announced to Amelia that he would help make her perfume.

She didn’t mean to sympathize and help her in a difficult situation, but because she felt that she was deeply involved in the cause of Amelia’s huge reparation.
Amelia was delighted that she could be with Siu more, and she moved on to the studio that Sofia had arranged for her.

Originally, Amelia made perfume using small equipment attached to the research building, but production facilities are essential for large-scale production.
The purchase, construction cost, and production of various manufacturing equipment were all paid for by Sofia.

Seeing the scale of the workshop standing tall on an empty site about 5km away from Malkoot Gallery in Lenormand Town, Siu opened his mouth.
It was a building almost as wide as a football field.

No matter how much magic was used, and the structure is as simple as a temporary building, I would have thought that such a building could be erected in a short period of time.
I have a small impression of a workshop, but this building is arguably more suitable to be called a factory.
If you feel otherwise.

“This…. It deserves to be demolished.”
“… Yes.”

It was this.
The appearance was not very good, perhaps because it was built quickly.
If you build a warehouse for a delivery distribution center out of wood on a large field, it will look just like that.

For reference, as soon as Sofia built the building, she received a recommendation from City Hall to demolish it.
However, since there is a grace period of 3 years from the administrative warning to the actual execution, it can be seen as using the weak Gehenna law.

“Let’s go in first.”
“I see.”

Siu and Amelia stepped into the building.
As soon as I stepped into the building, I felt quite warm and dry air as if I had divided the floors.

More disconcerting, however, was the fact that the echoingly large building was virtually empty.
It was empty except for about twenty sets of copper stills and a few utensils stacked in a corner.
In addition, there are at most hundreds of wooden crates piled up.
It barely occupies about 1/10 of the given space.

Seeing the exterior, Siu, who had expected a factory-like landscape, couldn’t help but be embarrassed.

“Are you making perfume here?”

Amelia shook her head.

“No, we only make essential oils here.”
“Essential oil… What is this?”
“The fragrance that is responsible for the scent of perfume. Perfume is made by blending various types of essential oils with high-purity alcohol.”

It was a question in the sense of Siu needing to be this wide to make perfume.
Amelia gave a rather radical answer, then added.

“There are some that Master left behind, but I think the oil that is used a lot is not enough.”
“Okay.”

Amelia did not give an exact answer.
However, it wasn’t long before Siwoo was able to find an answer to the question, “Why do we need such a large indoor space?”

“Are you there! Please pick up what you ordered!”
“Order?”
“Looks like a rose has arrived.”

Amelia signed the workman who stood sweating at the entrance.
After following her and looking out the door, Siu found that the covered wagon’s luggage compartment was filled with red roses from which the stems had been removed.
At this amount, there were enough to pick all the roses in the garden of the twin mansions.

Siwoo’s surprise did not stop there.
I saw it when I was intoxicated with the scent of roses that I could feel from afar.
A procession of dozens of wagons stretching all the way over the horizon was heading towards the workshop.