A Livid Lady's Guide to Getting Even: How I Crushed My Homeland with My Mighty Grimoires Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 5] by Hagure Metabo

Author:Hagure Metabo
Language: eng
Format: epub

“I see... Your soap-making process does not appear toxic or dangerous,” said Arte.

We sat in a room at the Merchant Guild’s headquarters, discussing the situation. Arte had requested one of the guild’s alchemists, to whom I explained our recipe, and they concluded our product was harmless.

On top of that, we’d never sold anything to the victims. None of our real customers had ever complained about experiencing adverse reactions. After checking our ledgers and confirming that our recorded transactions, remaining stocks, and raw material purchases matched up, Arte had to admit that we were unlikely to be involved in this affair.

“So this is the toxic soap,” I said, looking at the item Arte had brought out. She’d apparently gotten it from a victim. “The execution is unrefined.”

“Unrefined, you say?” inquired Arte.

“Well, yes... In fact...” I said, then paused briefly. “No way!”

“Did you figure something out?”

“My working theory is that the person who made this stole part of our recipe.”

Arte tilted her head to the side. “What do you mean?”

“Our soap recipe is so important to us that we separated it into two halves. The first half is inside a safe while the second is always on my person,” I explained. “Using only the first half of the recipe will lead to a toxic product. One must perform the detailed steps in the second half so it is safe.”

Arte nodded and said, “In other words, the culprit stole the recipe, failed to realize it was incomplete, and sold it under Traitre’s name.” She nodded again before addressing her subordinates. “Go question the victims and find out who sold them the toxic soap. The culprit is most likely pretending to sell Traitre’s products. Trace the materials while you’re at it.”

“At once!” affirmed the soldiers.

Once they’d left the room, Arte bowed to us in apology.

“While this case is still open, I believe we’ve established your innocence. If anything, Traître is another victim,” she said. “I’m terribly sorry for putting you through this”

“You were only doing your job,” I said. “The culprit should apologize, not you.”

“Thank you for understanding... I’ll contact you if new information comes to light.”

Arte prepared a carriage and had an escort take us back to our house. Mireille and I cleaned up our workshop and wrapped things up for the day, then went out for dinner a little earlier than usual.

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“Damn!” Gazaru groaned as he stood in his office. “What’s with those ridiculous charges?! This is bad... If they ask our customers, they’ll immediately figure out we were behind this! Still, we copied their recipe word for word. How could... Shit! Did these idiots steal a fake recipe?!”

Gazaru was shifting the blame to the people he’d tasked with stealing the recipe when an uproar began outside of his office.

“Please wait!” he heard. “The chair is currently out of the offi—”

“We know Gazaru is here, and we have a warrant. Get out of the way, or we will arrest you for obstruction of justice!”

A few seconds later, a group of men in armor barged into his office.

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