I Own A Brothel In Another World (Ch. 1-196)

Chapter 109 - The Forest Is Feeling

According to the maps, it shouldn't take us more than a day or two to reach the vicinity of Ghilerie's settlement. She's already starting to recognize some parts of the terrain here and there. It would be weird if she didn't. She has lived around here for quite some time, even if she actively avoided unnecessarily getting in touch with Humans.

If she manages to stumble on a track leading to the place where she was captured, we plan to visit it first to check if that was just an unlucky encounter with some bandits or if there's something bigger going on. There's always the possibility that she wasn't the only one kidnapped. Or that these people started doing it actively after that unfortunate day.

Ghilerie and Teffith take the front and lead us forward. Most of the time, we travel by the roads but stray away once in a while to let our Elf friend examine the surroundings. The atmosphere in our party is quite good. That's in huge part thanks to Marcia and her very social nature. It's been a fun ride so far. I thought it would be much worse.

We'll see about the journey back. I better get in touch with Cornelia and have her ask Ross if there's something we could possibly do for him while we make the returning trip. It should be nice to have some kind of objective in mind.

From what I know, thanks to the mental exchanges with my wives and other girls, the business is doing fine. More than just fine. It's starting to get more and more recognition. Elea said they even had some guests that have travelled to Evaneheim to check Utopia out.

That certainly gives us hope. After we deal with the charmed women and the whole situation caused by Jericho's son, we need to step up our game a little bit and gradually start pushing more of our agenda onto the public. I will have to talk with Ross about what he can do. I already have a few ideas.

As for the research itself, it's progressing decently well. Jericho kept his promise and took care of our lab in a flash. Dhosk told me it required two underground chambers to set up so they had to get rid of one of the walls. It was worth it, from what she said.

The Court Alchemist is leading the project from his own mansion while they support him and exchange their findings and notes. He often sends them various samples with detailed descriptions about everything so they can pitch in with their own comments here and there.

I think that's pretty smart. He is clearly the better alchemist there—not taking away anything from the ladies at our home, full respect to them—so doing things like this instead of just trying to 'work together' at the same level makes it much more effective. I'm kind of sad I'm not there to witness our team tackling the task.

Additionally, this research aimed at producing a cure brings us quite some information about me. Specifically, on the special liquid that has been left in the care of Jericho and the girls. What it means is that they have pretty much scientifically confirmed it to be extremely nutritious, possessing regenerative qualities, expiring at a much, much slower rate, and I don't even have to mention the potency. There will be an extensive and detailed report on my swimmers waiting for me back at home when we finally return.

I guess I should have expected that. Especially since Cornelia had quickly picked up on it and pretty much forced Jericho to spare some time and effort to research as much about it as he can. Which clearly wasn't that hard to achieve with the man already willing to do everything to achieve results.

Elise contacted me a handful of times too. Mostly to mention how she is doing and how her very mature accountant friend is feeling at her new job. From what she told me, Ria was super quick to fit in. I'm not even surprised she befriended Elea in a flash. It honestly feels like something I should have anticipated.

And she's as much of a workaholic freak as Elisa made of her. Cornelia can't stop raining praises at our new accountant every time we have a little chat through our connection. They pretty much gave Ria free reins over that part of our business after the few first days.