After being transferred to another world I became a magical

Chapter 55 Sugar and Atmospheric Pressure

Now, the Maple Chamber of Commerce.

I ordered the ship on my own, but it was not just for me to get the sugar in the first place, but for the Chamber of Commerce.

If you rely on me for the foundations of the Chamber of Commerce, I won't be able to move freely.

That's why I came to Maple Chamber of Commerce.

Unlike the Catherine Magic Equipment Store, this one looks like an ordinary shop in the city.

It looks like the store is already finished, and there are usually customers in it.

Well, the dried meat from the ingredients I brought is not finished yet, so the taste is not particularly relevant.

"Is Mercia here?

It's faster to ask directly than to observe, so I'll talk to the clerk right away.

The clerk is familiar, and it's no wonder he remembers my face.

I'm the owner.

"Ah, yes. I think the store manager is at the warehouse."

Ah, I'll go then.

I remember the location of the warehouse.

I was able to follow the same route the other day and get there without hesitation.

Ain showed a lot of directional tone obsession, but I'm not directional tone obsessed enough to go to the wrong place once, maybe.

In the warehouse, two employees (two men and one woman) are dismantling Garden and Mercia sees it.

Are you overseeing it?

"Hey, Mercia, how's the store doing?

"Yes, it's not bad to have customers in, and it's as expected."

Mercia turns around and replies.

I wonder if you realized that I was actually here when you suddenly spoke to me from out of sight and answered me accurately.

"Isn't that good?

I think the store has a slight deficit so far. I just buy and sell things that other stores can buy at a normal price, so there's no way I can beat the stores that have been doing business here for a long time. "

That won't win.

"Since I started selling the meat that I brought, it's been a contest."

"Yes, the profits from the sale are small now, but it's no use letting the prepared employees play, and we also sell the purchases through education as a clerk."

Yeah, it's a very common sense store operation.

We have advantages in terms of purchasing and so on, so we don't have to compete weirdly in other ways.

Everyone lives their lives in business, so it's not like this is going to happen if you make a strange plan.

Tactics such as crushing other stores at cheap prices and making money have success stories, but they also have inexpensive procurement routes and a huge scale.

You may have to do it at my place, but you will buy a grudge, and it's best to do it normally.

As meat is forcibly supplied from the monster realm, it is unlikely to succeed.

"Things are going well as planned. By the way, I found sugar cane on an island I stopped by the other day, so I thought I'd grow it. Do you know anyone?

Are you growing sugar cane? First of all, I don't think you have permission, but do you have permission?

You don't have permission?

Did you ever find sugar because there was no farmland, but because it was forbidden?

"Do I need permission to grow sugarcane? What do you mean by that?

"Although sugarcane does not produce monsters, it is generally not permitted to grow them by increasing the occurrence of monsters from nearby monster regions."

"I'm trying to grow it on the island, but can you handle it?

"On the island? That might be possible, but there's no island with just the right amount of farmland.

"I'm going to make it now. If you magically destroy the trees of an island with a flat forest in the realm of monsters, you will complete a fertile island without monsters."

They say flying monsters are rare in decibatteres, and it would be safer if they were made in shelters.

"What ships and harbours lead to the island of the Monster Realm?

"The ship carrying people has already placed an order with the shipyard. There is no port, but I use a small flying ship instead. And I'll carry the supplies."

After listening to my words, Mercia nodded a little.

"Then maybe we can handle it. But that will require a lot of initial costs, and if it fails, it will be a big deficit. Weren't you just going to stay a small business association to minimize the risk?

"It's about meat, which has always been an important industry here. I have the money, and if you give me permission, I'll take the blame, so do what you can."

"Ok! Do you want to apply now?

Pretty quick, I feel like my eyes are sparkling without a heart.

Speaking of which, I think Mercia came here because she wanted to do business.

If something big and interesting were brought in there all of a sudden, this might be the reaction.

"Do you like dried meat?

"It's a job I can manage without originally, but I just saw that you should know. Some of you have the experience."

"Is the store manager an unexpected person?

"If it's a regular shop, the manager will also serve as a clerk, so my job is small. But thinking about the future, I'm hiring a full-time employee because I want to retain some educated employees."

I mean, it's pretty stupid.

It doesn't seem like I'm skipping anything else.

Well, shall we apply?

"Yes"

Well, that's why I applied to the Commercial Guild.

Apparently, it won't be decided by the Commercial Guild alone, and it will take time to ask the Mayor of Decibatole.

To be precise, the Commercial Guild cannot grant permission, but it seems to ask somewhere else to avoid problems, but the result remains the same.

"Permission to get off?"

Mercia murmured with anxiety.

"I'll ask the mayor directly, so maybe it'll be all right. Proceed with securing people and whatever else you need, on the assumption that the application goes through."

"What if I don't get through?

"There may be some damage, but there's a lot of money in logging. I'll give you about 100 million via the Commercial Alliance, so stay within that range."

"I see. Workers are slaves?

"That's the best part, the average worker seems to have a lot of trouble."

Speaking of sugarcane, I'm a slave.

I'm not going to turn it into a black company, but I don't know if they want to take it back to the island.

I think the permission has been completely passed, but I can't help it because I feel like I am going through.

"So the final challenge today is to make sugar from sugar cane."

That's what I'm going to do to get out the cane.

"That's important, I don't know if I can make sugar, but I'm not ready for that."

"Exactly. Do you have any tools for sugar?

"I don't know. That's because it's been about 100 years since sugar was almost no longer produced..."

"If so, does it still exist?... hmm? Almost?"

"Yes, very few and far away, but in Merclen sugar is made for nobles and the like."

A distant country.....

We can't go to a distant country at a time when we have refrained from broken tactics with boulders.

Considering the construction of the exterior wall, it will be necessary to stay somewhere close to here for a while.

"Just knowing you can make sugar is enough. I'll try a lot later. Do you have a big pot?

"There is a warehouse for boiling dried meat ingredients."

"Then we're going back to the warehouse!

Return to the warehouse and start making sugar.

Let's start by crushing the cane and taking out the juice.

While Mercia is watching, place a cloth that Mercia brought from somewhere in a 60cm diameter pan and slice and pour about five canes into it.

Then, magically add water and heat it so that the sugarcane is properly soaked.

The cloth is for later removal of sugarcane.

"Will it work...."

"Well, if you can't, I'll try something else."

Waiting for the temperature to rise while talking like that.

Heating using a stove like a magic stone is not low in thermal power, but heating takes time because of the amount of water.

After about 20 minutes, I finally got hot water.

Next, use magic to squeeze the juice.

All right, let's go.

"Yes"

Inside the pan, two pressure magic happens facing each other, pinching the sugarcane in between.

Since the pot is securely fixed, it will not fall if the internal water moves due to pressure magic.

Looking inside, the sugarcane is crushing.

"Okay, now I can probably take out the sugar-containing juice. Let's pull it up."

Yes!

Grab the ends of the cloth and take out the cane while squeezing.

I somehow held it bare with my bare hands, but I didn't get a burn so I kept it.

Place the squeezed sugar cane on the lid of the pan and simmer for a second.

But...

"It's been a long time...."

Exactly.

With a diameter of about 60 cm, the height is such that all the water in the measuring pan is evaporated or the length is such that it cannot be done.

Do you want to heat it up magically all at once?

But if that happens, sugar can burn, and if it goes bad, the pan will break.

No, there was another way to evaporate water quickly.

Okay, let's lower the pressure.

All you have to do is lower the boiling point.

"Kiahh... what is that?

"Atmospheric pressure. Well, I hope you're watching."

That's how you use magic with the image of putting a boundary magic on the inside of the pot and pulling air out of its interior.

Then, the water decreases in time.

"Amazing! This is the power!

"Well, that's it. Now finish it. Stop the fire."

Yes!

Confirming that the fire had stopped and further lowering the atmospheric pressure, the liquid finally ran out of pot and a black lump remained.

Take it out, crush it and put it in your mouth.

"Oh, it's sweet, eat it."

"... yeah! Sweet!

Sugar production seems to have succeeded.

This amount of boiled sugar is less than 300 grams, and it's not white, but it's a success.

Now that we've separated the sugar, let's go finish what's left of the bombing in Decibatole.