The sounds of excited giggling and splashing echoed through the hot springs. It sounded like the maids were having a lot of fun relaxing and joshing around in the rejuvenating hot water.
Michael wouldn’t know, of course. He remained on the sidelines of the pool, with his eyes covered by his hands.
“Young master, come join us!” they teased.
But the adorable young master simply shook his head. From their perspective, he just looked like an embarrassed kid.
“The young master is so cute!”
Michael used all his willpower to suppress his inner manly desires. But the maids weren’t making it easy.
“My skin is so smooth now! Look, touch me.”
“Kya! Don’t touch me there!”
“Hehehe, I never knew you were so blessed with those huge—”
“Shush! You’re one to talk. I can’t believe you’re able to sit with that large behind!”
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A few hours later, everyone was out of the hot springs wearing a robe around their bodies. They had an otherworldly expression on their face, as if they had just experienced nirvana. They had never felt so relaxed and clean in their life.
“Young master, the milk you’ve requested is here!” a butler said as he got out of the carriage carrying a big barrel of milk.
Of course, one of the essential things to do after relaxing in the hot springs was to drink milk! Drinking this would help replenish all the lost sweat they shed due to the hot temperatures of the bath.
He even showed them the proper stance: one hand gulping down milk, and the other posted on their waist.
“Ahhhh!”
“It’s so good, I might melt!”
“So this is what relaxing feels like…”
There was nothing but praise for the hot springs. These maids and butlers started work even when they were a child, which meant that they had never experienced something like this before. It was as if they became ten years younger, with their cheeks smooth and reddish.
Michael felt satisfied. He sat on his chair and watched them talk and enjoy the night under the stars.
He taught them how comfortable life could be.
He didn’t want to stop. He hoped that he could show it to this world as well.
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The next morning, the clock bell rang, signaling the start of the new day.
The maids and butlers woke up early and got to work. All the relaxing yesterday re-energized their bodies to the fullest, allowing them to work with 200 percent efficiency.
They pumped up water to refill the tank, they cleaned the mansion, they changed the sheets, and they tended to the garden in record time. The bell for noon hadn’t even rang yet, but every chore in the mansion was already done.
They immediately went to work on the soaps, taking the dried molds out of the sun and into the mansion for safekeeping.
By helping the young master with the soap and shampoo, they were hoping that they could repay all the good he’d given them.
Finally, after a few days of work, Michael finally had a good stock of soaps and shampoo with different variations each.
The mansion was filled with crates carrying stacks and stacks of soap, and on top of those were vials of soap by the hundreds.
“I’ll be delivering the product to the Madames,” said Castelle.
There were already some pre-orders from the madames who witnessed first-hand how soap and shampoo could be even more fragrant than some perfume.
Those few people already ordered about a box worth of soap and shampoo for themselves, and not only that, because of the word-of-mouth gossip, there were some Madames who personally approached Castelle to buy one for themselves.
“That’s great,” said Michael.
The butlers loaded the crates onto the carriage to be delivered personally by Castelle. But before she left to go to the next town, she turned back to Michael to ask him an important question.
“Young master…if they ask me where I got this from? What shall I tell them?”
The maids and butlers kept a careful silence about the young master and his inventions. When they wrote to his parents, they even lied to them and said that nothing eventful happened in the mansion during their trip. This was a crime worthy of termination, but for the young master, it was worth it.
Hmmm…if I want to keep this business a secret from my parents, then I need to go under a different name…or better yet, why not a company?
“Tell them that you got them from a company called: Reborn.”
Castelle took Michael’s words and nodded to herself.
“Reborn…Reborn soap…Reborn shampoo…That is a very good name for a company, young master. After all, ladies would feel like they were reborn once they tried your product!”
“Uhh yeah…”
She didn’t know that Atlan only thought about that name because he was literally reborn from another world.
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Castelle personally traveled through the town and delivered the boxes of soap and shampoo to the mansions of their very first customers.
The Madames and daughters excitedly opened their boxes of goodies and smelled it for themselves. And just as it was promised, it smelled as amazing as Castelle said it would be.
They didn’t even waste any more time and ordered their own maids to prepare a bath for them. They wanted to try out the soap and shampoo at this instant.
“Apologies. The Madame had been waiting for these…soaps and shampoo…for quite a while now that she’s been moody lately. This is the promised compensation, and a couple more for your troubles.”
The madam’s butler handed Castelle a purse, hefty with gold coins. Just from weight alone, she knew that it was far more than what she expected.
And just when she was about to leave, the butler waved down her carriage.
“Ahem…if we were to acquire more of these goods, can we count on you to deliver them?”
Castelle couldn’t help but smile. “Yes, please.”
“Oh, can we know the name of the man I have to thank for making my madam happy?”
Even though Castelle wanted to brag about her young master, she kept her quiet.
“This is brought to you by a company called Reborn. Unfortunately, that is all I can say.”
“Reborn…very well.”
Castelle finished her deliveries for the night, and the reactions from their customers were as ecstatic as the first madame.
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A day later, their husbands immediately noticed the difference, earning the madames a lot of love and attention just from their smell alone.
Not only that, as they paraded themselves throughout the town, all the other ladies got envious of how their skin and hair were so smooth and fragrant.
Of course, as those madames started bragging, the name Reborn soap and Reborn shampoo imprinted in the minds of the rich people in Kingsbridge as the must-buy premier soap and shampoo brand in the market!