3 - CASE 2: The Case of Marianne
When I asked a friend if TS and yuri are actually yuri, I was introduced to the TSF community and felt like I had touched the abyss of humanity. Why is it so subdivided, I wondered. But my character is an old man on the inside...
The soul who used "boku" as a first-person pronoun was reincarnated as Marianne Romanette. As the name suggests, it was a reincarnation into a woman. This was not a mistake, but the individual's own wish. It was an unexpected TS.
The granddaughter of Reed Romanette, the chairman of the Leonesta Empire's great merchant guild, she was a genius of invention at a young age... or so others evaluated her. Of course, in reality, it was different.
Like Geoglyph, Marianne had heard that magic power could be strengthened if trained from childhood, so she had trained to some extent. Once she reached the toddler stage where she could move around, she felt despair toward the other world.
"What is this stench?"
It was only natural. After all, it was the Middle Ages. Everyone's favorite Middle Ages European fantasy. However, in reality, there was no concept of hygiene, and as one can find by researching, it was extremely unsanitary. Moreover, as long as one lived in the crowded Imperial Capital, it was inevitable. They say dreams are ephemeral, and he... or rather, she, who had placed expectations on the other world, had those dreams shattered. Shattered by a massive sense of discomfort, waking up to the smell.
Deciding that this was unacceptable, she cut her magic training short. She had found something that needed to be done. At the very least, she had to improve the environment around her.
That said, she had no money, no track record, and was a toddler who barely had a body she could move, so the things she could do were limited. While wondering what to do, an idea struck her immediately. She just had to use the wisdom of her predecessors. In other words, modern knowledge cheat.
The world is a funny thing, and if there is a demand, information will sprout even if it is niche. It is like mushrooms (information) growing in the vast forest of the internet, so normally it would be hard to find, but this is the internet. If you put it into a search engine, lo and behold. You can instantly find the necessary mushrooms (information).
In her previous life, she enjoyed randomly mushroom hunting (surfing) this kind of net, and in the process, she encountered a certain book.
It claimed to be a book one should read "now" so as not to regret it when the time comes.
Within that, under the science cheat section, was soap. Yes, she would make soap. Soap already existed in this world, but it was primitive and used animal fat, so it smelled. Moreover, it was soft soap, not solid. In such a situation, what would happen if solid soap appeared that didn't smell, but rather smelled good?
It would sell. Especially to the upper class. Since it is a consumable, it would sell forever as long as humans didn't go extinct.
So she made it. She asked the housemaids to procure raw materials and equipment, and worked bit by bit in her own room. Then, she revealed the finished product to her mother. Her mother was deeply moved by the advanced soap and marched to her own father's place with the soap in hand.
Yes. To her father, and Marianne's grandfather... Reed Romanette, the chairman of the Romanette Great Merchant Guild of the Leonesta Empire. He was an old man with the skill to grow a business from a private merchant to a great guild in a single generation in the world of merchants who would pluck the eyes out of a living horse. He immediately judged that this would sell and tried to pry the production method out of his granddaughter.
However, Marianne was no ordinary toddler. She was originally an old man who worked for a trading company. She would not hand over a money tree so easily. However, she couldn't be too stubborn. If she just threw a tantrum like a child, it wouldn't lead to anything further.
So she negotiated.
"Grandpa. Please give me money for as much as the soap sells."
A beautiful young girl with silver hair and green eyes, looking up at him as his granddaughter. This had high attack power. However, Reed was also a man who had lived a turbulent life. Not so easily...
"I understand, Marie. You are so clever. And cute too, is my granddaughter perhaps an angel?"
His face broke into a smile, and he nodded.
It was an unexpected conclusion of a license agreement. The royalty was 40 percent, which would be virtually impossible by modern standards. She decided that if it became popular among the upper class, she would release a cheap version for the commoners, and 10 percent would be fine for that. The only problem was the factions currently selling soap, but they were ruthlessly driven out using the authority of the great guild and groundwork within the upper class. Since she absorbed the laborers who lamented the closure of their businesses after the negotiations, they weren't hated that much. It was a sense of balance unique to a great merchant.
Now, having obtained great capital through these means, Marianne used it to conduct further product development. Since it started from a concept of hygiene, it led from toilets to air fresheners, perfume, shampoo, and conditioner, and since she had come this far, she gradually moved toward beauty and clothing. When she ran out of hands midway, she mastered summoning arts using her trained magic power. She increased her workforce and even built her own atelier. Since her nickname is Marie, it is somewhat dangerous.
Thanks to this, by the time she was twelve, even though she was a commoner albeit a wealthy one, she could enter social circles among the nobility without being shunned, and was often surrounded by women interested in beauty and clothing.
While she played with the women, giggling and laughing, the inside of her heart was...
(Ah, the garden of yuri is the best...)
This former man was a yuri fanatic.
He was the type of fundamentalist who would troll by saying, "Don't let a man enter between a harmonious yuri pair!" He liked Kira Jump. He had publicly declared that he hated it when even the fathers of the characters seemed like they would become the "pole" role. Even in his previous life, he loved gazing at such a beautiful girl zoo. If anything, he wanted to be inside it. But alas. Because he was a man, and a middle-aged old man at that, it was unforgivable as a conviction of a yuri pig to intrude, and rather, he had given up, thinking that in reality, just approaching such an environment would lead to being reported as an incident.
In the midst of that, this reincarnation happened. He was inspired by Refill's line, "There is no character creation per se, but I'll let you choose between male and female." Yes, he was inspired.
If I want to be inside the yuri, wouldn't it be fine if I just became a woman?
Thus, the former he, who executed "I myself will become a woman" in earnest and not as a joke, became a woman who could appear in a yuri story without any problem, fulfilling his long-cherished wish.
(For now, there are three years left until the promise. I'll save up funds, create a base, and set up an environment that's easy to move in. ...What is that yuri-ish couple...! Oho!!)
Furthermore, unfortunately, there are no netizens in this world to ship pigs.