153 5.42 Revenge At Its Sweetest And Jiyu Residence aka Freedom

"You hear that grovelling pig said about those men? Treating them as if they were rubbish. We are all humans and we bled red on colour when we cut ourselves. This pufferfish ball thinks he is so damn mighty like a Lord is it? Looking down on others as if they were like dog shit at the side of the roads while he himself is much lower than the lowest he had looked upon."

"Even if we can't help everyone, but we could help some that would be better than none at all. You should know my character by now, Sensei... Why I never take action when the girls mentioned they were ill-treated by their employers. First is that I never knew who their employers were. And secondly, I do not judge others by means of hearsay."

"But if I were to hear from the mouth of the person, belittling other humans, I would take actions not now but when the right time comes. Just because he had the power to engage their services, so what? Does he think he's the Emperor? In my past life, I had mingled with people with the highest authority just like the Emperor but they were just and full of compassion with their people. Because when they take care of these people, they will stand before you and protect you, not standing behind you and pushing you towards the enemy."

"I don't know what my mission or task that I had to achieve in this series of this novel, but one thing for sure is that I had changed your life and you had changed mine too. If not, I would have joined the Imperialist in 4 years time, and goes against your principles of not gaining fame or profit or even upholding the law, by following others instructions into blindly killing, and not realising the actual reason of being the next heir of Hiko Seijuro the Thirteen."

"A twist of fate that had brought together as we believe in not for working for others but working for ourselves towards our goals and dreams and making a reality and not just following others blindly. That's why you quit the samurai shogunate and wanted to just retire, drink sake all day without getting drunk, and make pottery as you have an eye in that art."

"Hey, kid. Are you done talking? Look... Even Hiko is getting sleepy and entering his own Realm of Mind himself. Look, look, his eyes dropping Liao! Shut up and continue with the series and stop confusing the readers!"

A voice offscreen sounded as it directed to a fat mass of blob sitting on the Director's folding chair that seemed to grow out of his ass. Max was beside him and was shrugging his shoulders as he can't defend me in saying anything. I hate that fat blob for starting this series by half burying me in the snow.

"Sensei, you do understand what my heart and mind and my filthy mouth were saying right? I had made a solemn swear that I would not hurt anyone, animals or plants without just cause and u uphold it till today."

"Vavavoom... Hope you are able to absorb everything just like Sponge Bob Square Pants."

"Yes, I understand every single 500+ words you said the moment you started this chapter. You knew so much about me like as if you are my clone. You are my idiot disciple, my friend as well as my adopted son even though I'm just too young to have a kid your age. It's as if I started banging chicks and got them pregnant at the age of 11 or 12 to have a kid if your size. Hahahahahaha."

"So what you gonna do next? Any plans for now till before the end of the workers working hours?" Let's buy a barrel of coconut and olive oil plus lye and make a batch of Detergent. I will show how it is done. Let's go to our Realm of Mind and find peace there." as soon as I've said that we entered the bedroom and checked the time. We should be able to have 2 hours of fun in the Realm of Mind.

Soon we entered our meditative state and arrived at our Realm of Mind. There I showed how the process of the Detergent and my plan to cake the Scented Soap in square drying trays 1mx1m with a depth of 3mm. I explained how the process of caking it and Hiko-sama understood. The shallow tray allows the hardening process for the Scented Soap to ready within 72 hours.

I showed him the conventional oven that I had to visualise from my world and showed the end results for the baking powder that had been removed of some molecular structure when they are heated at a certain temperature and at a certain duration. I explained that this process takes 5 minutes only.

Lastly, I just explained to Hiko-sama that we would distil the lemon by squeezing them first and lay the skin that would be sliced thinly on top of the cloth. There won't need to have so much water, just a quarter would do of the glass bowl.

I told him the whole process would be to blend the thin rolled out soap that had been Scented and mix with the baking soda that had turned into washing soda and make them if possible to be fine or just coarse grain like the one that I had made yesterday.

The powders would then be evenly mixed and be brought up by using the lye's gunny sacks which were 5kg each and then a few girls would weight 250 grams while a few would seal the onion skin papers.

The modern scales here are meant to be used in the Realm of Mind and cannot be brought up to the real world. If it could, definitely it would save a lot of our time. Now we need to look for 3 scales so that 3 will work on weighing and 3 will work on packaging them.

Hiko-sama nodded and said present-day scales of the Edo period were being sold to those pharmaceutical establishments that sell opium, herbal medicines as well as gold.

The had a long handle and a dish at the end and a weight that would be adjusted accordingly to the grooves and it would be mounted on two stands on both ends of the stick.

Hiko-sama said that the scales may be maxed out at 100g at most since he was not sure and just bullshit his way around. That's fine, no one is perfect.

We stepped back and I swiped the background and it went to the Blacksmithing part. I showed him and explained that there were no other changes except when it's time to do [Purified Iron].

Another furnace would be added at a lower height. I showed the example of 1st taking the slag out and pouring the top smelting pot into the other smelting of the same size just like aerating it and removing the slag once more.

This would remove the impurities to about 99% and the same moulds would be used, and then the other type of prodder would be pressed to leave an imprint of [FJKPI99%].

Once we had made a piece, Hiko-sama would bring it to be patented and at the same time to bring and introduce it to Kuro-san whether he interested in an investment of a one-time purchase of maybe, 500 pieces?

Price is set to 15 gold coins and they one-time purchase would cover a total of 7,500 gold coins or the export business would acquire them at a reduced tax rate for 6,750 gold coins which are still a profit since the material is FREE!

Actually just by doing the plates would make us little tycoons but then there is no purpose having so much money so that's why I explained to Hiko-sama that we expanded the horizon and diversify our trade. We win some and lose some.

I reminded Hiko-sama that the minimum order purchase from the export business department would be raised to 5,000 pieces. So in this way, it would psychological impression that we are a major player that could commit up to 5,000 plates. I decided to change the payment to 30/60 while the 10 is to pay tax on it. On this way, the government is the one that owes money BIG Time.

So the changes would be 5,000 for [Refined Iron] and 1,500 for [Purified Iron] while steel would be projected at 1,500 for [Ordinary Steel] 1,000 for [Refined Steel] and 500 for [Purified Steel] that would be priced at 15/25/35 gold pieces respectively.

"Hopefully, before the end of this fine series, we would be earning as much as 500,000 gold coins and my wish is to run for Mayor and you to be my Vice Mayor."

"And we turn this economy upside down by abolishing the high export tax where 10% already had gone to the funds and maybe they add another 10% to their profit. Not fair right?"

"Thinking about themselves but not helping others and we build a welfare system to help the poor and teach them some livelihood where in turn, they would be helping us in the production of Karada Soap, Kurin Detergent, Pafekuto Cleaning Agent and Hea Shanpu."

Alright, time to head back to the real world as we logged off from our meditative state and arrived. We had been gone for about 2 hours and I went to the kitchen to boil water while

Hiko-sama went to the garden and hugged his jar of yumeshu. I returned a while later to put the kettle of green tea in the garden. "Come, let see what they did to the new house." and we walked eager and entered the house.

"Ojama shimasu!" Hiko-sama said as he opened up the main sliding door and he was surprised at the size of the 3 bedroom house. The floor was waxed and shiny, the rooms were equally sized and were larger than mine that could fit 2 people inside comfortably.

The house was fully furnished and everything was in place as what kayu-san had noted for the kitchenette, bathroom and the three rooms. At least from what we saw, the girls would be happily settled in when they see this.

The house smelt fresh and very welcoming and entering the house was like entering another era. I guess the moment the girls saw these room they would be climbing all over us.

We closed the door and walked to the ground that they were working on and even though at 4:45 pm, the basic skeletal structure was already settled and even the ventilation roofing had been installed.

The foreman met us and explained the next procedures for tomorrow. "Have you seen the house yet, Senior and Young Master? Are you satisfied with the house?"

"Yes, you can collect the payment afterwards" even though I was smiling outside but I was spouting those words filled with poison.

"That's good Senior and Young Masters, come we discuss on what's going to happen tomorrow. Considered that tomorrow is the first day for the construction of the warehouse."

We went to the garden and sat while I held the sketch pad in my hands ready for my onslaught of the brutal murderous intent on this fat little pig.

"Senior Master, could you bring the blueprint for the STM, the 24 newly acquired Karada Soap, the printed Detergent paper and the full payment for the house? Thank you so much and I'm sorry to trouble you."

Hiko-sama nodded and knew I'm going to make this little pig squeal on delight and pain at the same time.

"OK now, tell me your plan for tomorrow." I just wish they I am deaf so that I won't hear him talk so much bullshit at this moment.

"Tomorrow, the workers would resume on the building of the reed bamboo roof, then another some workers would be doing the panelling of the 4 walls and some workers would be putting up the staging area at an elevated height of 2m with a platform width of 1.6m."

"There would be 2 staircases at both sides and one before the room that you had sketched out before and one staircase in the centre. A horizontal beam in the centre while 2 more beams would run the whole width of the warehouse."

"The single horizontal beam would have 2 rollers on each side with a pulley system that would run within the beam so that it can be pulled along it. The safe workload for the pulley is the weight of 8 men so you can hoist goods from any point and just slide the beam left or right, forward or backwards."

"The staging area would be as a close fit built with 2-inch planks so that it won't snag when you drag anything heavy on it. There will also be 10 sets of 3 tiered shelvings and 24 pieces of wooden pallets measuring 1.2mx1.2m."

"Once the main structure has been completed, the pouring of cement and curing would take place for 24 and it would be polished cement instead of the usual rough ones."

"As agreed, I will loan you 1 horse-drawn wagon, without the horse of course with full contents of the junk from my warehouse for an infinite period of time. Once you had depleted the junk, just send me a note and I will do a one to one exchange and deliver you a full load. "

"By the time the curing of the cement is complete, all the 10 men would be at your disposal, which means another 2 days from now."

All the while I was nodding my head as I had plugged my earphones and was listening full blast of music from System of A Down of Chopsuey and Toxicity. After I noticed his lips had stopped spewing all those shit that I don't want to hear, I unplugged my earphones and smiled to him and said "Perfect!". I hardly noticed Hiko-sama was sitting beside me as he was playing air drums and headbanging to the music that I was listening.

"Now back to business. Come smell this and cleanse your soul. This would make a fine collection for your wife and mistress, right? You are a Lord why not have another 4 more mistresses?"

"You could have them on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. You can also name your whites after those days! Plus everywhere you go soldiers will gun salute you and people will kowtow to you being a Lord God! Really, it's going to be the highest honour."

"To show how much wealth a Lord God has, you can buy all these 29 Scented soaps at 20 pieces for every scent and give it to all your mistresses! You will be showered by them every day!"

"Also, you can buy these STM contraptions so that they no longer need to scrub their clothes to wash every time. Look at this design, just turn this crank and the washing would be done inside the barrel and people say 150 gold pieces for one of these is very cheap!"

"The fingernails will never get cracked and their hands will remain smooth and silky and when they bathe together with you..... Ooooooo the sensation is so nice and tingling, right? You want that do you? 6 STM for 5 bitches and your wife? How that sounds?"

"Not only that, you could buy the hair shampoo for them and the Detergent to wash their clothes for 2 gold pieces pop and I have orders that they bought 10 bottles from each of our scent and 20 Detergent packs."

"You lie beside them and their hair playing sensuously on your face, body and legs and the sweet smell of fruits would make you go on and on and on and she will be satisfied and so do you!"

"So let me take the order for you first but before that, I want to congratulate you for being a Lord God with 5 bitches to call upon every night! I salute to you! Come, drink up!"

With that, I served him a cup and hope he gets poisoned and dies right after he passes his money to us!

"Kanpai...!!!"

With that, we clinked our cups and drank. I took my sketch pad and made the orders of Karada Soap at 580 pieces for 580 gold coins, 6 STM at 150 golds coins each for 900 gold coins, 10 bottles of shampoo at 10 of its scents at 2 gold coins each for 200 gold coins, 10 Detergent packs for each machine at 2 gold coins for a total of 100 gold coins.

Everything would be for a total of 1,780 gold coins.

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I quickly made an agreement while Hiko-sama had fed 3 cups of sake and I ran through the orders and the amount he needs to pay when the product is ready. He cannot breach this order or have to pay a 50% penalty fee.

He was drunk then sober and drunk again for a few times because Hiko-sama kept getting him to smell the various scents and I gotten him to read it before he sign.

Furthermore, he had his company and name stamp that he just stamped it on both of the sales contracts and I passed to him. Hiko-sama cheered again and he took another cup and we both let him be drunk like a dumb fuck as he slipped the contract in his briefcase and staggered as he slurred the sentence that "he was leaving".

"Thank you, fat little fucking pig, I had you dancing on my little pinkie. Your fucking coins are useless to me but would prove meaningful for other people." I spoke through my gritted teeth as I had taken my drastic revenge on him.

"My God, Himura Kenshin... You are the most blackhearted, cold-blooded Hitokiri that I had met that can slice a person in a thousand pieces just by holding that reed pen! You are so vicious and brutal Hitokiri I had ever seen and I praise you and your mighty reed pen for teaching that bastard for looking down on people. Hahahahahaha!"

"Who is that Hitokiri that is so brutal that you are praising about, Hiko Seijuro?! And you look like a woman wearing that ridiculous looking medallion on your neck!"

Hiko-sama and I turned to the direction of the gruff voice and found that 5 samurai shogunate had appeared before us wearing full armour with their face masks and holding to the handle of the katana, ready to draw at a split second's notice.

I was taken by surprise and I stood in front of Hiko-sama in a protective manner and already in my "white crane spreading its wings" low stance and I summoned Kamehameha onto the beak positioned hands and a small ball of fire formed immediately on my two hands and was waiting for them to make their move.

"HAHAHAHA... you finally came!" Hiko-sama mentioned in his loud voice. I take it a cue that he would be joining me in this battle, when suddenly a voice sounded amidst the masked men, "Himura-kun, it is us. I'm Miroku!" as the armoured man behind the mask suddenly raised his hand to his face and revealed his face and smiled.

"OMAGAI.....!!! It is you guys!!! When I realised its Hiko-sama's Comrades, I quickly flicked the Kamehameha and bowed to them. "Hahahaha... I finally saw how and what you did to my forearm gauntlet, Himura-kun." and one by one removed their mask and Hiko-sama came forward and tapped everyone on their shoulders.

I finally relaxed and asked everyone how they are and Kami-sama introduced the new team member, whose name is Neko-sama. Yes, he is named after a cat. When he removed his mask, I knew why he was called Neko because he has whiskers on his upper lips just like a cat!

"We have been gone for like 10 days and now your plot of land looked like this? Are you running for Mayor now or are you now already a Mayor? What's going on and what's the deal with the medallion on both of your necks?"

Seeing that we have surprise guests coming over, I went to the house and carried the jars of sake and 5 cups while I took the one mine and the pig had drunk from and placed it over in the kitchenette to be washed later.

Hide was holding the medallion on Hiko-sama neck and discovered that it was not a medallion that they thought but it was a pocket watch he had worn around the neck.

"Wah Hiko, how much did you spend on this? You splurge your retirement gold coins on this the new house and what's that behind the house? A barn? You keeping horses or farm animals now?"

All 6 of them sat at the garden area and listened to what Hiko-sama was telling them from start to midway about what I had done for their houses, and what he does with the scrap metal to produce [Refined Iron] and how just a meeting with a Blacksmith within one hour or so earned me a 200 gold coins just for my presence. And he kept the secret of the Realm of Mind from them.

They saw the blueprint and also taken a look at my sketchpad and Hiko-sama told them about retirement and joining him in the business as partners.

Everyone showed interest except for Cat Man especially when he had just recently joined the shogunate a few months earlier and just had his second expedition. I guess the moment he opened up his mask, everyone gave him tidbits to eat instead.

"So kid, Hiko was telling us that you are a Blacksmith and had surpassed the forge master level and you had forged yourself your own Odachi? Come, let me see it."

Toshi whose father was also a Blacksmith had taught him a thing or two on how to appreciate fine weapons.

I went on and showed him the Odachi that I had forged and I said Hiko-sama was the one that had asked the Blacksmith to make the sheath for me secretly and that's how it started when I received 200 gold coins just to appear at the shop.

Toshi removed the Odachi and was immediately dazzled with its sheen. He held the weapon and felt it was perfectly balanced and from the sheen itself everyone was awed, even Cat Man.

Get me a metal scrap and I see what Hiko said earlier was true. I then went to the handcart and choose a heavy halberd that had a broken tip but a full-size axe in the centre.

"Held it up for me, and as I raised the broken handle higher, Toshi brought the blade down and strike the axe part and it sliced through like a knife through hot butter. He used just a bit of strength and the blade's weight and it just sliced through like it was made of paper!

"This is a very high-quality blade that you forged, it's made of iron but had the strength and hardness like steel. People would easily want to own this Odachi for 80-120 good coins. You forged this at the Blacksmith?"

Toshi asked while he sheathed the Odachi and gave it back to me.

"Yes, Toshi-sama. It was made in the Blacksmith and was offered 100 gold when Hiko-sama brought it there to make the sheath."

I lied of course, and I had the best poker face in town and no one could tell whether I'm telling the truth or a lie.

"Then why the need for this house? Who would be staying here?

Miroku asked me when he looked at the splendour of the house and its furnishings. He saw three rooms and the furnishings looked brand new and was wondering how much the house and everything were worth for.

"This house was our idea, Miroku. It was to shelter 6 girls who had escaped from the slave traders when the latter was attacked by bandits and were killed. Thus they ran away and ended here in this village and their lives were rather being ill-treated and we decided to provide shelter and work here in this house."

"Girls? This is the first time I heard you are helping girls. You are not running a chicken farm do you, and Live off their earning?"

Kami asked while he eyed Hiko-sama from head to toe and was trying to figure out if he had been influenced and blinded by greed or had been influenced by the kid he saved.

"Don't worry, the answers you may be seeking for would arrive shortly before dinner as they would be here and then most probably they would be staying here from this day onwards."

"The sketchpad here, have so many tasks and some of them had been strike off. What corporate account of the business trade name and beneficiaries? You want to explain more of this or had been bewitched by this kid?"

Hide asked in concern because the moment Hiko left the shogunate and retired, they were somewhat afraid that Hiko was bewitched and be taken advantage.

"Wait a while, I show you proof. This boy didn't cheat me of my money at all."

Hiko went up to get his savings account book and showed his account to them. Then he showed the corporate account name of Fasuto Japan KabushikiGaisha and the beneficiaries were both Hiko-sama and my name while the former was the top while mine is at the bottom.

He even showed the corporation name and the statuses of the Director and Vice Director. By this time, all the men believed and were astounded and when they heard the lovely chatter and shrieks of joys of some girls heading this way, the guys were filled with more surprise when what they saw were true and 6 girls were sauntering towards the house and were heading this way.

Seeing Hiko-sama had some guests, they behaved themselves immediately and went forward and bowed deeply to us and then to the 5 other guests. Seeing men in full armour and weapons, they thought that Hiko-sama or I had run into some trouble. They looked down at their feet and never said anything.

Looking at the way the girls dressed, acted and even in their poor clothing conditions, the 5 men knew they both Hiko-sama and I have good intentions. Hiko-sama introduced the girls to the 5 men and everyone greeted the men individually.

"Izumi, do you remember what we had discussed the 1st time you are here about the rules of the 2 houses?"

"Yes, Senpai. No males are to enter this house without supervision, and we are not allowed to enter your domain AT ALL TIMES."

"Girls, your house is ready and you may enter and make this house as your home, and name it as "Jiyu" Residence or Freedom from now on."

"You may take up residence by today, live and work here as one big family. If you have any possessions that you need to take or salary you need to clear from your employers, please do so. Go on, go ahead and take a look at your new domain."

"Thank you, Sensei and Senpai. Please allow us to take a look at our new home that you had called "Jiyu Residence"." Hanna said and lead the rest of the girls.

The moment they reached the door, screams of delight were heard as they take turns and shouted "Tadaima" and "Okaeri" jokingly and soon the girls were inspecting the rooms, their furnishings and setup and couldn't believe their eyes on the turn of events that would change their lives forever.

The 5 men were silent for a while as they too were struck by the girls emotions and the 6 girls ran outside and bowed deeply to us and cried tears of joy and appreciation as they thanked us and promised to work hard and never disappoint us and that we had finally released them of their unknown fate and pave their future with us as guides.

They explained that they had no worldly possessions and what's on their backs are what they own right now. They were denied their salaries and had been denied any food since the employers knew that the girls would be off somewhere better and decided to deal cruelty to them one last time.

I took my coin pouch and took 2 gold coins each and pressed into their hands and tell them to take care of dinner and supper today by themselves as they had guests today to entertain.

Kami saw me generously took gold coins and handed to the girls without even batting an eyelid and was really taken aback because a week ago, I was looking for help to earn silvers for my own needs and now, they saw it is my turn to return the favour to others.

"You've got a heart of gold, boy," Kami spoke up and wiped a tear that had somehow jerked at the corner of his eye.

The girls looked at their hands and realised that this is the first time they held a gold coin for themselves, and a slight drizzle seemed to fall within Jiyu Residence as the girls grouped up and hugged each other.

The 5 men including Cat Man were also overwhelmed by emotions and now fully understand the changes of humanity that had transformed Hiko as well as the great plans for the community for the less fortunate.

They fully understood the motto on the sketchpad that I had written,

"NEVER Leave A Stone Unturned" and "Don't WAIT For Things To Happen, Go MAKE it Happen!"