Published: August 2, 2025
Today, ten chapters are updated simultaneously.
This story is chapter eight.
The next morning.
“Manager, there’s a customer here.”
“A customer?”
As soon as I showed my face at the shop, I was told a customer was waiting.
“Miya-sama wants to talk about the experiment.”
I see. That makes sense. I headed to the reception room and...
“Excuse me.”
“Ryoma! I’ve been waiting, nya!”
“Good morning. Sorry to keep you waiting.”
“No, no, sorry for the sudden visit, nya. But I really want a replacement for this deodorizing liquid, nya.”
“So, does that mean the effect has already worn off?”
I asked for details, and she explained that the duration was from when it was set up around noon the day before yesterday until it was no longer noticeable by the night of the following day. So about a day or so?
“Was it effective in the morning?”
“That’s certain, nya. This liquid is amazing, nya. It completely erased the smell of the garbage dump, and it was so refreshing that I ended up taking a deep breath... but the neighbors who came to throw out garbage looked at me strangely, nya...”
“Well...”
Imagining that, I can definitely see how she might have looked odd.
“But when we actually got close to the dump, those neighbors realized there was no smell and understood properly, nya. Since they also felt the effect, it’s definite the effect lasted until morning.”
“I see. But a duration of just one day... it’s still short.”
“Nya? You knew that already, nya?”
“To some extent.”
It was something identified in the early stages of experimentation right after it was created — the deodorant’s spit liquid has a limit to its effect. For example, when you appraise a bag of deodorizing liquid that’s lost its effect...
Deodorizing Liquid Bag
A bag filled with deodorant slime’s deodorizing liquid.
The internal deodorizing liquid has absorbed odor components to its limit, so it has lost effectiveness.
It’s like this.
As you can see, it has absorbed odor components to the limit and cannot absorb any more. And it was understood that the capacity to absorb was relatively small for the deodorizing liquid. So although it lasts longer than cleaner’s deodorizing liquid, it’s at most about a week. Long-lasting effects aren’t expected.
“However, that experiment was carried out using the powerful stench of scavengers, so it was unclear how long it would last under normal household conditions. So we asked Miya to investigate that.”
“I see, nya~... so is there nothing that lasts longer?”
“Then could you try the deodorizing liquid next?”
In an experiment where the same amount of liquid was placed in scavenger stench, the deodorizing liquid lost effect in minutes, but the deodorizing liquid maintained its effect for nearly an hour. But it was also found that the deodorizing liquid has a weaker ability to gather odor components from the surroundings.
It has strong lasting power but is less effective over a wide area. That’s the characteristic of deodorizing liquid.
“Got it, nya. So just put it in the same place as before, right?”
“Please do.”
“Leave it to me, nya. I personally want it finished quickly, so I’ll gladly cooperate!”
Saying that, Miya took the bag of deodorizing liquid and left.
“Completion, huh...”
Actually, the form of completion is already visible. Not just a hint, the answer is right in front of me.
When I looked at the deodorant who spat out the answer — or rather, the deodorizing liquid — it trembled.
It goes without saying about deodorant slime, but it can synthesize deodorizing and deodorizing liquids inside its body. And it has the same abilities as the liquids it spits out. Also, unlike cleaners’ liquids, the spat-out liquids can be mixed or diluted.
So, what if we mixed them?
The deodorizing liquid strongly gathers odor components from the surroundings. The deodorizing liquid can store many odor components and even take them from others. If these two liquids are mixed, it might compensate for each other’s weaknesses. They might also be usable as material for something else.