“Kashar, when did you come?”

“Just now. You’ve been scurrying around like a squirrel lately, so I was curious what you were up to behind my back.”

I scratched my head, wondering if that’s how it seemed.

“It’s not really behind your back. Want to hear about it?”

“……Alright.”

Kashar’s smile deepened.

‘He gets lonely in strange ways.’

That point was quite cute, wasn’t it?

He was indeed my man.

“This is glass cleaner. We’ll put it in the premium line. The baby wrap and hoe will be in the regular line. The business plan is ‘Things every household has one of’.”

In other words, one item per household.

“That’s all well and good, but could you explain what they’re used for? What’s this piece of cloth?”

Jeiana picked up the white baby wrap between her thumb and index finger.

“That’s called a baby wrap. It’s used for carrying or wearing a baby.”

If you don’t know, it might just look like a small blanket, but knowing how to use it changes everything.

‘It’s a must-have item for babies – you wouldn’t even notice if one disappeared while sleeping together.’

It was a top-quality domestic product, recognized abroad as an excellent product of our country.

“You can carry a baby with this?”

“Yes. I’ll show you how to wear it.”

I took the wrap and tied it around Jeiana’s body.

“There, that’s how you wear it on your back. You can also wear it in front. Here… let’s put a teddy bear in instead of a baby.”

“……It really holds it?”

Jeiana looked down at the teddy bear with a dumbfounded expression.

“It won’t come loose, will it?”

“Absolutely not. I tied it very securely.”

I’ve never heard of an accident caused by a baby wrap coming loose.

She still looked dubious, but I was certain that mothers would recognize its true value.

“You’ll need to promote the baby wrap and glass cleaner, Jeiana. It’s important to get word-of-mouth going by having people try them out first.”

The plan was to promote the baby wrap to commoners and orphanages, and the glass cleaner to nobles.

“We’ll start by giving everything away for free.”

“For free?”

“Yes. Everyone will be unfamiliar with these new items. Things change when they’re free.”

It was the so-called free trial strategy.

While I was explaining the baby wrap to Jeiana, Kashar was holding the hoe.

“What’s this used for? Is it a weapon?”

“That’s called a hoe. It’s used for harvesting crops. Speed is crucial in harvesting.”

It varies by university, but some places have activities to help with crop harvesting.

‘That’s where I experienced divine hoe skills.’

Once you get used to using a hoe, you can achieve the feat of harvesting produce at an incredible speed.

“We need to spread the word about this too, but I haven’t decided where to showcase it yet.”

At my words, he rubbed his chin.

“Hmm. There are a lot of potatoes in the north.”

“Are you offering to help?”

When my eyes lit up, Kashar gave a deep smile.

“As my fiancée commands.”

The business was about to begin in earnest.

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Less than a month after releasing the items.

The duke’s mansion was bustling with visitors.

The first to arrive was Baron Rusman, the lord of the Galapao region.

He was currently holding forth in the reception room of the mansion.

“The harvesting speed has increased tremendously!”

We had already distributed 30 hoes to Galapao.

It wasn’t just Baron Rusman.

Letters were pouring in endlessly from all the territories where we had given out free hoes.

“We’ll pay whatever price necessary. Please supply our territory first.”

“There’s no pre-supply.”

Kashar cut off the baron’s request.

I thought it might be too harsh, but it couldn’t be helped.

“We plan to start with the north and distribute to all territories. Please wait your turn.”

This time, the price wasn’t the important thing.

The key point in producing magic power was how much the items from that world permeated life here.

We invited the baron knowing he would propose pre-supply, for the sake of the promotional effect.

‘You could call it the duke’s business acumen.’

The Bladis family was involved in various businesses, but this was the first time expanding across the entire empire.

This time, Kashar had agreed to help me.

‘In exchange, we had to decide on the company name together.’

Ailisha.

We named the company after both our names.

‘I wanted to call it something like “We Have Everything”.’

No matter how you looked at it, the name Kashar came up with sounded much better.

After the baron left, Jeiana came in next.

Jeiana was on her way back from a charity tea party, one of the social events.

“How was it?”

“……It’s ridiculous.”

Just as I tensed up wondering what had gone wrong, Jeiana laughed with an exasperated expression.

“It’s ridiculously popular. Everyone’s only asking about the baby wraps and glass cleaner.”

This was Jeiana’s area of activity.

She participated in various charity-related social events and gifted glass cleaner to the members there.

‘Your kindness is as beautiful as sparkling glass.’

While revealing plans to use 50% of the post-launch product price for donations.

It was a gift befitting the party’s purpose.

But no matter how good the intentions, if people didn’t like the product, no one would seek it out again.

“They say the sky is reflected in the windows after cleaning with this.”

Reviews of the glass cleaner were pouring in from high society.

The ladies of the mansions were particularly concerned about their windows.

Glass was an expensive luxury item, and the windows or mirrors of a mansion were like the face of the lady of the house, so they drove their servants to clean them as thoroughly as possible.

‘That’s why it worked.’

Once they used the glass cleaner after steaming and polishing to a shine, they’d never go back to their original cleaning methods.

I also asked Jeiana about the progress of the other items I had entrusted to her.

“How about the baby wraps?”

“Those are getting an explosive response from orphanages and commoner households too. They say it couldn’t be more convenient.”

For commoners who had to work while caring for children, the baby wrap was a ray of light.

It was the same even in situations that didn’t involve labor. There was nothing better than a baby wrap for soothing a fussy child.

“I even heard people asking if we’d put sleeping medicine on the fabric.”

Jeiana burst into laughter several times before finally acknowledging it.

“I thought I might have backed the wrong horse, but I underestimated the Oloje winner. It’s absolutely perfect.”

With inquiries flooding in, the business would be a huge success once we officially launched.

‘We plan to sell at low prices, but who cares about the price if demand is enormous.’

From the beginning, profit wasn’t the issue.

“With the flood of orders, will you be able to handle it? Where are you even supplying these from?”

“Don’t worry about that.”

Now that we’d proven the effectiveness, it was time to spread them widely.

Behind the magic tower, there was a magic warehouse I had commissioned from Frigia.

Inside were piles of items from the subspace mart with stickers attached.

‘So the stickers allow for infinite replication.’

The item name itself included the word ‘infinite’, and truly, if you took a hundred, a hundred remained.

“There are so many inquiries, we’ll have to move up the schedule a bit.”

I was in the middle of discussing the related schedule with Jeiana.

There was a knock, and Ashtra came in.

“A guest is waiting outside the mist barrier.”

“A guest? We don’t have anyone else scheduled today.”

“There was an emblem of the goddess Shaina on the carriage.”

Suddenly, the high priest of the First Temple came to mind.

‘What could this be about?’

We had already paid the temple for that information back then.

“Tell them to come in. Jeiana, I’ll be back after dealing with this guest for a bit.”

“Alright.”

Jeiana withdrew obediently.

Only Kashar and I remained in the reception room.

The guest who entered from the temple was High Priest Perberoff.

Perberoff paused for a moment upon seeing Kashar beside me, then put on a friendly face.

“I greet Duke Bladis and his fiancée. You’re together today as well, I see.”

It meant that news of my engagement to Kashar had spread even to the temple.

“Is there a reason you’ve come so far without an appointment?”

Somehow, it didn’t seem like it would be pleasant news.

“As a matter of fact, I heard you’re conducting a donation project.”

“And?”

“……Well, when undertaking large projects, there are bound to be more things to worry about. If you make your donations through the Shaina Temple, we can help process things more easily and quickly in the name of the goddess.”

It was unclear how much research he had done, but Perberoff seemed to know all the details of the donation recipients I had selected.

“Most of the organizations you’ve chosen overlap with our temple. If you hand over the donations to us, you’ll be able to carry out your project more conveniently.”

“Hmm, is that so?”

When Kashar showed interest, relief flashed in Perberoff’s eyes.

“You know the reputation of the Shaina Temple well.”

“There’s no one who doesn’t know the name of the goddess. We did need some help, so this works out well. Leave the statement and we’ll review it.”

“Thank you for your cooperation. May the goddess’s blessing be upon you both.”

Perberoff left behind the materials he had prepared.

At that level, he was a thief using the goddess’s name.

The documents he left behind were donation statements and related expenditure reports. Each page bore the high priest’s seal.

“Still, something seems suspicious.”

“I know.”

“Kashar knows too… Huh?”

He was smiling with his mouth, but his eyes scanning the documents were very cold.

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Three days later, glass cleaner, the main item for donations, began to be supplied to the demand sites.

Since half the profits were going to donations, the sales records were transparently disclosed.

The next day.

News of corruption in the temple broke.

[Shaina Temple’s donation expenditure reports fabricated. Documents forged… Where did the remaining funds go?]

It was the headline on the front page.

The content was even more outrageous.

‘Not even 10% of the total amount was actually donated?’

At the bottom of the article were the temple’s donation list, donation statements, and expenditure reports.

But there were two of each.

One was fabricated, and the other was a secret ledger managed within the temple.

“Why didn’t anyone know until now? I was even making donations.”

“Maybe because it’s the goddess of light, no one suspected anything?”

The Shaina Temple was famous for its strong divine power.

As part of their relief efforts, they seemed to focus on using divine power on people in refugee camps to spread awareness of the goddess.

But in reality, only nobles could receive divine power; the price was unthinkable for ordinary commoners.

I listened to Jeiana grumbling while unable to take my eyes off the newspaper.

‘This document looks very familiar… No way.’

The documents Perberoff had left behind recently and the surface ledger in the newspaper were identical.

I slowly turned around.

There was Kashar, resting his chin on his hand, looking at me.

“……Don’t tell me, Kashar?”

“That unsightly thing kept lingering in front of you.”

He said nonchalantly that he had removed what was bothering him.

‘Wait, is it okay to mess with the temple?’

Perhaps what the temple feared most was disbelief.

The Shaina Temple side struggled to hold onto fleeing believers.

Several weeks later, in winter.

[The Holy Maiden of Goddess Shaina has appeared.]

The temple issued an official announcement.