'Til Kingdom Comes - The Banished Prince Vol 3: The Prophecy

Demonstrations

"Come on, Durham boys, be careful now. We already had done several tests on this blender machine and we have yet to how Our Majesty on this fine contraption that we had created. Hahaha. You had done a fine job, my boys. I could retire in peace and become a herbalist like my old lady soon. Hahaha."

Old Jack followed the Durham Boys that had packed the blender machine once it was tested to make the peanut butter according to what His Majesty had required along with the various fruit jams that had been 'mugged' accordingly.

It was meant to be bottled but the containers all looked like a mug with a perfectly shaped lifting handle at the sides.

The only difference is the imprint of the flavours of the contents that had been hard-pressed at the sides of the mug near the lifting handle to represent its flavours.

Old Kayla was walking by Old Jack as she carried several containers with her along with some of the assorted toothbrushes for the adult and children.

She was satisfied with how the outcome of the products went and today, there would be others who would be doing a demonstration and lastly to evaluate how the product would be like.

When they had reached the domain, several of the senior members of the board had already arrived and already had seated themselves as they waited for the others to arrive.

"Good morrow, everyone...! Your Majesty, shall I get this blender machine to be unpacked since it had already been used to do a test for several samples earlier? It worked perfectly and Kayla is here too with all the samples as well."

Old Jack greeted everyone and asked me if I wanted the blender machine to be unpacked. The machine looked smaller than the one that I saw in my images when Ceres had shown me much earlier but the most important thing is that the machine worked perfectly...!

"Yes, Old Jack. Please do unpack the blender machine so everyone can see how it looked like. Besides, I want to compare how the end products would be like. There are 2 types of peanut butter am I right? The crunchy ones and the smooth butter types, am I right, Old Kayla?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. There are two types of peanut butter here with me along with 5 types of fruit jams as well. Jennings, my child, you did bring some sliced loaves of bread with you, right? We all would do a bit of tasting today."

"Yes, Mama Kayla... We do bring several loaves of bread that had been sliced earlier. It is fresh and I too can't wait to taste the peanut butter that had been churned out by the blender machine."

"The rest of the fruit jams ate quite common since we also had made them manually but this time, with the planned distribution of these fruit jams out to the public, I guess I would be striking some of the variety of bread, buns and bagels that is being filled with these fruity jams. Don't you think so, Mama Kayla?"

Old Kayla later advises that the decision would be made by Our Majesty since he would like to know how the arrangements would be like if Jennings were to strike off some of the varieties of bread and planned to replace it with other flavours.

I was seated with the twins and minding then as Heather had instructed the Durham boys where to unpack the blender machine and also place all the samples they had been produced to be before me.

"Dear, these are the facial cleansers and toothpaste, could you get our domain helpers to prepare some buckets of water and empty ones along with some face cloths to let our subjects test out the products?"

"We would be getting the members of the public to test our products so at least they would give us unbiased results and answers."

Heather came up to me as she inspected the items that were before me and find that there are more varieties for each product.

Since there would be members of the public who killed around in the town square, it would be ideal to pull them in to be our test subjects.

"These facial cleansers smelled so fresh...! I wonder how many varieties could we have for this facial cleanser, Mama Kayla?"

Heather was opening the top cover of the facial cleanser as she placed her finger in to test the texture and felt it was a little gritty but felt good between her fingers.

It won't be too gritty that it would literally tear someone's skin when they apply it on their faces et cetera.

When she looked closely at the list of ingredients that was reproduced back then during their meetings, she discovered a new word called body scrub beside the facial cleanser.

So this facial cleanser could also be used as a body scrub as well...!

Strongbow and several engineers were there as well and it seemed that all the senior members of the board had already arrived and seated themselves while waiting for the meeting to commence.

"Good morrow everyone. We had requested a meeting to show us what you had done and we are very satisfied with what we had seen. Hmm... Could I have a small spoon and a slice of bread so I could test these 2 varieties of peanut butter?"

A domain helper came and placed a slice of bread and a small wooden spoon before me as I reached out the chunky peanut butter type, scooped a dollop from the mug after I nod my head approvingly at the product design and spread it on the slice of bread.

The twins saw me scoop the contents and they thought that it was for them but instead it was for me to test. The young ones would be able to test the creamy ones though.

After a dollop of chunky peanut butter was placed in the slice of bread, I took a bite and let the peanut butter and the bread to be in my mouth temporarily.

I could feel my mouth salivate furiously within as my taste buds were able to detect the sweetness and saltiness of the peanut butter before I start to munch the food while closing my eyes.

I don't know what others were thinking but somehow I had missed the taste of this peanut butter and it was as if it was part of my staple kind of spread that accompanies me almost daily in my previous life.

"Twis twastes pwerfect...! My Gawd... Hwa Hwa Hwa...!" I tried to speak but I had my mouth full with some bread and the dollop of peanut butter that I had greedily placed onto the slice of bread.

I slowly bite the food in my mouth as the twins all held their hands on my arms and wanted a taste as well. After some time, I finally swallowed the food and smacked my lips in satisfaction.

"Excuse me earlier, this peanut butter is perfect and now my twins can test the creamy ones. Can't let them test the chunky ones because it might be a choking hazard to them."

Heather then took the remaining slice of bread and spread a thin layer of the creamy peanut butter before she fed a pinch of bread with the spread to the twins.

The twins were literally overjoyed when they received the food and was munching noisily since the spread had stuck at the top of their mouths and they had to use their own fingers to get them unstuck.

"Well, my little darlings, I guessed this peanut butter is not for you yet. You may try to have the fruity jams instead, yes?"

Heather was helping the twins to dislodged the piece of bread with the spread still on them from the twin's mouth as she wiped the dripping saliva off their mouths.

No more peanut butter of any kind as long as the twins don't have a complete set of teeth to bite into this glorious and simple spread...!

When the blender machine was unpacked and everyone had gathered around to watch the whole setup after the spindle and gears had been fixed, I saw that this was much better than the ones I had seen in the production plants in the Japan era, managed by my former self.

I tested the blender machine and felt that their movements were clockwork and very precise. It had been used to make the peanut butter and also the varieties of fruit jam and after it was cleaned, it had been repacked to bring it up for me to inspect.

I discovered that a single rotation of the spindle would make the blades turn around nearly 5 times inside the drums. The blades are partly sharp on some edges and blunt on the rest of the part and it was made by the metals that Priest Michael had conjured up. It had its distinctive wavy watery design on it.

I slowly nodded my head as Old Jack, Durham boys and some engineers looked at me with anticipation. "A perfectly job well done, gentlemen. You may proceed to make these blender machines accordingly to the demand for each production industry. I will give you the exact amount to produce the blender machines, yes?"

I told them and they were ecstatic that their project had once again met my expectations. They were elated and hoped for more projects in the future since they would be more involved with the development of the towns and its economy.

"Hahaha. Its time for the test subjects... Hmm... Who shall we pick eh?" I slowly tapped my finger to my lips as I let Heather pick some of the kitchen helpers and also those workers who had just about to have their lunch break.

The people whom Heather had picked were brought to the domain and some were literally shivering in fear while I laughed at them. They were thinking that they had done a grievous mistake and was about to be punished by us.

When Heather explained to them the purpose of being picked from the streets, the test subjects managed to heave a long sigh of relief.

A look on their faces shows that they were filled with some expectation of the new products that Old Kayla had produced with the help of Jennings and others.

"Alright ladies, this is a facial cleanser, so the three of you would need to wash your faces first and make it wet before you dab a little bit of this onto your forehead, cheeks and chin."

Heather instructed the ladies she had chosen to wet their faces with the buckets of water available. After they had wet their faces, the took a dab of the facial cleanser and placed it on their T zones.

"Now spread the facial cleanser evenly over your face and use a little bit of force to rub it in. You will feel its grittiness due to the sugar and once you had scrubbed it all over your face, you may clean it off."

The three ladies were scrubbing their faces with vigour and were pleasantly surprised to smell the lemon scent as well as feel a bit if grittiness on their faces as they scrubbed thoroughly. After a while, the grittiness was gone and the face seemed to be exfoliated.

While the ladies were scrubbing their faces, Jennings informed me that the production for the peanut butter and fruit jams could be underway already. We discussed shortly and decided to use Strawberry, Orange marmalade, Pineapple, Apple, Blackberry, Blueberry, Cranberry, Mango, Peach and lastly Watermelon.

There are 10 basic flavours and it could add some spices to it to make another 10 more flavours and even use two different types of fruits to make one type of flavour. In the end, there was a total of 25 types of fruit jams and 2 types of peanut butter...!

Surely we do not need 27 blender machines, right?

The three ladies had done scrubbing their faces when they were asked to wash them off.

After their faces had been washed and a dry face towel was handed to them, the first thing they felt was the tightness of their skins.

The dead cells and dry skins had been exfoliated away by the active ingredients of the facial scrub and they could feel that their faces and a springy type of sensation.

The three ladies were extremely delighted as they touched each other's faces and exclaimed that their skins had a 'boing boing' sensation. Their faces had a cleaner complexion right after the wash.

Without asking, the three ladies said that their faces were a kind of heavy and dull since they just emerged from work, but right now, after their wash, the faces were feeling like a baby's bottom...!

The next would be the Pomade and the best person to test them out would be the Old Jack since he was the only one that sports a moustache and a beard.

He was ushered close to us as everyone gathered around. A wooden comb was brought forward as his moustache was combed neatly by his wife. Then a small dollop of Pomade was rolled between the fingers and applied to the ends of the moustache.

After a while, Old Kayla had fashioned a nice curl to the ends of the moustache and frankly, it made Old Jack more smashing. The Durham Boys were all giving their thumb up at him as Old Jack was smiling gaily and he wished to see for himself.

He reaches out and twirled the ends of his moustache upwards and from his excites movements, he was equally excited as he felt the for the first time he may have a better sporting moustache.

He laughed gaily as I explained that the pomade could also be used on the hair itself and combed back neatly. It would hold and stay there until the hair had been washed by our hair shampoo.

"This is a man's product after all and Ladies would not want a hair to be combed back and looking all stiff like a wooden board, would they? Hahaha.

Concurrently the toothpaste was handed around to the three ladies and after a quick gargle, they placed a bit of the toothpaste on their toothbrush and began to brush their teeth.

With the assorted flavours and with the stiff bristles that were made from horsetail, the 3 test subject ladies were happily brushing their teeth and were taking a lot of time doing it.

"Ladies, don't eat those toothpastes you know. Once you are done cleaning the insides of the teeth, gargle and then spit out in the empty bucket over there. Once you are done, gargle with freshwater and tell us how you feel..!"

I knew the ladies were tempted to swallow the sweet fruity toothpaste that they had been brushing their teeth and since they were warned by me, they were tempted to do so since it felt so good and delicious inside their mouths.

Reluctantly, the ladies gargled and cleaned the remaining toothpaste inside their mouths and cleaned the toothbrushes as well. Since they had used the toothbrushes, they were advised to keep them for themselves for hygiene purposes. Surely we won't want someone else's mouth inside ours, right?

"Your Majesty, these toothpaste and toothbrush are perfect...! We could feel the gritty stuff and after brushing the teeth, it felt very clean and when we run our tongue against our teeth and gums. Highly recommended, Your Majesty...!"

The 3 ladies were simply ecstatic when they had experimented with the facial cleanser and the toothbrush and toothpaste and would simply to have these additions to their toilet accessories among the body soap and hair shampoo as well.

At least these 3 ladies would spread what they had experimented in the domain in front of the senior members of the board to all the curious citizens that would approach them to ask why they were summoned to the domain and before Their Majesty.

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