Unfortunately, I did not find any bottles that resembled a Dragon's Fortune in our storage room so we were kind of out of luck in that department.
To be honest, I'm surprised by that, but then I figured that for something that precious, Mother probably had it stored somewhere else assuming we even have it.
Oh well... I guess I'll just ask Mother when she comes back to visit.
I left the storage room and found one of our maids waiting outside.
"Young Mistress, Miss Emilia is looking for you in your room."
I tilted my head, "Emilia is? Did she say what she needed me for?"
"My apologies but she did not say."
"Mmm... I guess I'll go and see what she needs then."
I left the alchemy room with Katsuki following behind me.
I found Emilia standing near the window of my room when I entered, presumably waiting for me.
"Emilia? You were looking for me?"
She turned around when she heard my voice, "Oh, hello Boss. I needed to ask you for a... A favour?"
I blinked at her.
Emilia needs a favour from me? That's unexpected.
"What favour do you need?"
She hesitated and started poking her fingers together, as though she was trying to consider her words before saying it.
I waited patiently for her and she hesitated for a minute or two before she finally said it.
"Could I suck your cock?"
... What?
"I'm sorry, what?"
Emilia exhaled before inhaling deeply, "Ok... I guess that was not enough... Alright then... Let's do it."
I raised my hands, "Wait, wait, wait... What is this about?"
"What do you mean?"
"What do you mean 'what do you mean'? I think this is the first time you're actually coming on to me like... Ever? Aside from that day where you and Lisa had that sex battle or whatever of course."
"Well... I need some of the dragon parts from you! Why else do you think I'm doing this?!"
I gave her an incredulous look, "What does you needing them have anything to do with having sex with me?"
She blinked at me for a few seconds before her brows furrowed, "Did Lisa not tell you about our arrangement with the dragon materials?"
"You're being really casual about this I see..."
She shrugged, "I need to do this to get the dragon parts so yeah."
See? I knew it... She sees sex with me as nothing but just a business transaction. I bet Lisa also knew this that's why she put her up to it as well.
To be honest... I'm not gonna say no to having sex with Emilia because seriously... Who would say no to that?
But before that...
"Could I just ask what you want the dragon parts for?"
She actually smiled at me, "You want to hear about my business plans, boss?"
"If you want to share it, sure? I'm actually quite curious."
Her demeanour changed immediately as she rubbed her hands together, "Before you showed me the dragon materials, I was looking at the market and I found that there isn't exactly a brand on general goods. I've travelled around the World and the ship sold everything anyone could want from everywhere but for someone to get different things in this city, they would need to go to different stores.
That's why... We could make a business based on that!"
"Oh, so something like a general store then? Don't those already exist?"
"They do, but they aren't branded! We can just start our own brand of it and aggressively market it to the commoners before we branch out to different markets once our brand is known!"
I tilted my head, "But why would people get their goods from us when they can get it from the general stores they would usually shop at? And what's the dragon parts for?"
"Oh, here comes the best part. The general store isn't the main business but a front. Instead, I would be looking for the gangs and thugs around the city and rounding them up to work for me. Then I'll organise them into a group and take over the rest of the gangs and their businesses too.
We'll then use their network to force our products on their circle and these people will have no choice but to be our customers if they don't want... Ahem... Bad things to happen to them~ And I need the parts to bribe someone right now."
I blinked at her, "You... Wanna take over those gangs?"
"Yes! That's literally an untapped market that we could capitalise on! The gangs here aren't even that organised and they're more like ruffians if I had to put a term on them! I could lead them as a more organised group and with Boss's Shadow Corps, there's no way we would lose!"
I blinked again, "So... You want to start a mafia or like a yakuza?"
"What are those? Is that something from your original World?"
I nodded and briefly explained to her about those types of gangs and how they operated in my old World.
Her eyes sparkled, "That's exactly what I had in mind!! Boss! You've got to tell me everything you know about that!!"
"Err... I would think you would know more... Because to be honest... You kind of ran your ship like one... It was the first thing I thought when I went on your ship."
She practically pounced on me while sparkles glowed all around her, "Really?! I need to know more! Tell me how did they organise their groups? How did they deal with the guards? What kind of business did they run? How did they deal with conflicts?
Do they get into turf wars? How did they hide from the public? I must know!"
Oh geez... What did I just create?
Ah fuck it... Let's just tell her everything...
I mean... I already know she's pretty much going to start an underground criminal organisation anyway so might as well make sure that she makes it a functional one right?
What's the worst that could happen?