Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Planting

At Earl Rockford’s request, I had to plant 10 cherry blossom trees.
At any rate, because he disliked the idea of being similar to Margrave Volton, he increased the number of trees.

「Plating 10 trees is fine, but please don’t boast about it to the other nobles and merchants.」
「Ha, ha ha ha ha ha! Don’t worry about it. I’ll only gloat about it to Godwin.」
「No, please stop it!」
「I refuse!」
「Haa~」

Since I brought more cherry blossom sprigs for planting, even ten trees was no problem. Though I dread Margrave Volton’s reaction once he finds out about this.

(No, it’ fine. More isn’t always better when it comes to cherry blossoms. Our place only has one, but that was already more than enough.)

I felt nothing but anxiety as Earl Rockford laughed loudly, but it won’t end if I don’t do what I have to do, so I planted the cherry blossom sprigs in the places Earl Rockford indicated.
Let’s just not think about it too much anymore. Surely Earl Rockford doesn’t have another person he competes with aside from Margrave Volton, right……? Yeah, let’s think about it like that.

◇

While Takumi was planting the cherry blossom trees, inside the mansion, Madam Rose and the maids were gathering around Maria and Kaede.
Emilia was perplexed, but perhaps because Madam Rose and the maids were excited, she could tell that tensions were strangely high.

On the table surrounded by those women, flowery underwear of various colors unlike the cherry blossoms were blooming.

「M-mother, t-these are underwear?」
「Fufu, I think it’s almost time for you to be wearing these sorts of underwear.」
「Urk…………」

Emilia-chan was dyed red in the face from embarrassment at the sight of all the colorful underwear on the table.

It has only been in recent years that women were becoming stylish with their underwear.
Yes, Valkyra Kingdom’s women’s underwear fashion began here in the Rockford Earldom.
Of course, the origin of this was Takumi. Takumi, who could not stand the state of this world’s lousy women’s underwear had begun to work on his own version of it with Kaede’s cooperation.
And on the way to the Royal Capital with Margrave Volton, they stopped by at Earl Rockford’s mansion.
There, Madam Rose and the maids did not fail to notice how Sophia and Maria’s shapely endowments had nice form, even over their clothing.

After that, the Papeck Company were involved, and it didn’t take long for all sorts of designs of underwear to sweep the continent.

「Rose-sama, what do you think of these? I think these will be beyond Earl Rockford’s wildest dreams.」
「Oh my, how nice. These are incredibly sexy.」
「M-mother, the bottom is completely visible.」

What Maria recommended to Madam Rose was a thin strong for the back end. It was an underwear known as the T-back.
It had changed completely these recent years, but until then, they usually wore drawstring underwear that were no different to those used by men, so it was only natural that Emilia was surprised at the sight of the T-back.

「But Maria-san, would this be alright if I wear it? I am old, wouldn’t it be unsightly with my droopy rear?」
「Madam Rose, it’s alright. I had learned this from Takumi-sama, and I’ll teach you how to do hip up exercises.」
「Hip up exercises?! Please tell us!」

The first to react to the words “Hip up”, was the Head Maid.

「Fufu, if I do my best with this hip up, I wonder if my husband would be happy.」
「If so, then maybe Miss Emilia will have a younger brother or sister.」
「Fufu, that will be good too.」

Leaving Emilia out of the conversation, Madam Rose and the maids picked up the garments on the table and stated their opinions.

「This half-cup bra is sexy, isn’t it?」
「It’s nice. But for everyday use, this full cup bra would be better.」
「Black doesn’t suit me.」
「You are still young. Won’t white and light colors be better?」

Madam rose and the maids clamored and gave their comments on the underwear.

Once they’ve assessed each one, Madam Rose ordered the underwear designs she likes from Maria.
All of the garments displayed here were design and color samples, so the women each have to make a order form so the actual product fits their size.

「Ah, oh right. Kaede-chan, do you have some stockings?」
「I do~~!」
「Perfect. Then I’d like 10 white and black stockings please.」
「Ah, I’d also like two please!」
「Me too!」

Kaede’s special translucent elastic threads weaved into stockings was very popular. Recently, it had become possible to get a similar elastic string from caterpillar-type monsters, and that was being sold in high class lingerie stores, but compared to Kaede’s special threads, the feel of the material and its durability was vastly inferior.
Only during these times were the women of the Rockford Earldom able to buy in bulk.

「Fufu, I wonder if this would hustle up my husband.」

At that time, Earl Rockford, who was in the garden, felt a chill run down his spine for some reason.