Is the Institute giving you grant money for this? If not, you're gonna have to sink your money into supplies. Might as well plan to make it back.

[Knowledge for the sake of knowledge? That's a pretty thought, but Aoi's had to struggle to keep himself and his sister fed growing up, and wasting an opportunity to make a profit sounds like a dumb-ass idea in his book.]

But if you don't think your stuff is good enough to sell, then whatever.

[It's some obvious as hell reverse psychology, Aoi will be the first to admit that.]