CH 94

I managed to escape from the battle of the extreme wives without honor and humanity, and I ran away to the seniors who were watching the situation while creating magic potions.

The seniors were doing mysterious work to cool and heat the liquid in a flask or a mysterious machine with a glass tube. At the end of the long work table, some were packing the finished magic potions in bottles.

I approached them and spoke to the seniors in the closest working group.

“I’m sorry. I’m planning to enter the alchemy department since I entered this year, but may I watch the work of my seniors?”

“Eh. . . Ah, that’s good. Well, now, in the final stage, I’m removing the impurities in the finished potion, and if you don’t do this properly, the potion deteriorates faster. . . . . . Ah, rather than looking at it from such a final stage, watching it from the beginning might be better. Do you want to see it from the beginning?”

The senior suggested it halfway through as if he had just thought of it.

“Is that okay?”

“”It’s fine. You’re going to enter the alchemy department, right? Potions are always created at the beginning, no matter which field you go into as an alchemist. It’s being mass-produced now, so the amount of materials is more than usual, and the work and tools are slightly different, but the process is roughly the same, so it’s not a loss to look at it.”

“Wah!! Thank you!!”

Actually, even if you say alchemy department, the fields are divided. Just as the level of the workshop is different, even the same alchemy has different fields, such as chemicals, daily magic tools and magic items, weapons-based magic items, and large magic tools and magic items for moving. In a way, can I say it’s the industrial department?

Ursch-kun is almighty, but at the academy, he seems to be learning two things: portable magic items and moving magic items. Both are because they are useful for peddling with me.

Even when I listened to the explanation of the magic tools and magic items created by Ursch-kun, it was so difficult that I couldn’t understand it at all, so I plan to proceed to the chemical system such as blending. If I can collect magical herbs while peddling, can I make them on the move? That’s what I thought.

That’s why I was really happy with my senior’s offer. It means that I can prepare by looking at the work of my seniors.

“Well, first of all, there is a room next to the medical herb storage, so let’s go there.”

“Is it for preparing?”

“Yes. It’s a room that cuts and crushes medical herbs and ingredients. Creating magic potions is the same as cooking in a way, and it’s important because if you prepare it properly, the quality of the finished product will improve.”

Creating magic potions is the same as cooking. . .

Wait, I haven’t identified the cause of my cooking turning into sludge yet, and it hasn’t been solved. If it’s the same as cooking, all the magic potions I make might become sloppy!!

Even though I was attacked by anxiety, I followed my senior, and when I entered the preparation room, there were seniors who sat around the stone mill and were out of breath. The stone mill is not a grinding mill, but a mortar type, and there are crushed medical herbs inside. The seniors sitting had a club with a thin handle in the middle, and apparently they were working on crushing the medical herbs in the stone mill until just before we came into the room.

The senior who showed me to the room approached the seniors who were sitting down and called out to them.

“I’m sorry to bother you during the break, but can you let the new students watch the potion making? I want to explain and guide her in order from here. So I’m going to bother you for a moment. By the way, she’s the fiancée of Ursch Schneiver of Schneiver & Co.”

The seniors were sitting on the floor and looking up silently, but as soon as they heard that I was Ursch-kun’s fiancée, they all looked at me at once. The seniors who were doing other work in the same room also looked back at us all at once. If I get so much attention, I’m scared. When I thought about it, the seniors who were sitting on the floor moved with rustling like insects and surrounded me.

Huh?! No, What?! I’m really scared!!

“The young wife of Schneiver & Co. . . . ”

“Ursch-sama’s wife of Schneiver & Co.!!”

No, we’re not married yet. . . I’m happy to be called his wife, but I’m afraid of that intense gaze. Really, what the hell is it?

“Young wife-san!! Wah, I want to work at the factory of the Kiikei City Branch of Schneiver & Co.!!”

“Yes! Yes!! I want to get a job at a magic potion factory in Cinere City!!”

“I want to enter the Schneiver Herb Research Institute in the dungeon city of Lambert territory ‘Zelbandam’!!”

Following that voice, the seniors who were working elsewhere also began to talk about their desired job.

Ahhh. I see, job hunting. The seniors are graduating in a year or two, so they’re desperate because they have to find a job. I heard that Schneiver Company has branches at key points on the Gulfa continent. I’m sure the area they want is a branch in a local or a famous place. I don’t really know.

However, there is nothing I can do if you say that to me. I don’t have the authority to hire people, and Ursch-kun and I are going to peddle independently in the first place. For the time being, I’m sorry for my desperate seniors, but you have to understand if I say, ‘There’s nothing I can do about it even if you tell me.’

“Um. That kind of authority on employment, I don’t have it. . .”

“I want to keep up with young wife-san and Ursch-sama’s peddling!!”

“Yes! Yes! Me too!! Please let me join the world dominating company!!”

I haven’t heard about it. Moreover, they even got information that Ursch-kun and I are going to be peddling, so it’s kind of scary. And what is the world dominating company? I don’t plan to form such a dangerous thing. Where is the information that we’ll go around the world coming from? I wonder what it is, considering the ability to gather information of Schneiver & Co., can’t merchants in this world do it if they can’t gather that much information?

While the seniors who were desperate for job hunting were making a fuss, the senior who guided me here clapped their hands and calmed them down.

“Yes, she’s troubled, so let’s stop it soon. The appeal is too obvious, it’s a little unsightly, everyone. Let her watch the creation of the magic potion.”

Saying that, Senpai drove away the seniors who were gathering. I’m glad that the senior guide was a solid person. While thinking so, when I looked up at my senior, I realized something. . . . Senpai, your ears are stretching. Did you have side-effect symptoms because you’ve been dealing with drugs for a long time?

I will be indebted to him until Ursch-kun comes back, such as being guided and responding like now, so I thought I should do something in return, so I held my hand over senpai’s ear and applied healing magic.

But no matter how much healing magic I applied, his extended ears wouldn’t shrink. I was wondering, and when I tilted my head, the seniors who were watching us also shook their heads strangely. Senpai, who was under healing magic, was also looking down at me with a strange expression. Why didn’t it get better? It’s strange.

When I thought so, one of the seniors who was watching approached me and called out strangely.

“Hey, why are you putting healing magic on Daryan?”

Because you can tell by looking at it. It’s a treatment for the ears that are growing due to side effects.

“No, because his ears are stretched and sharp due to the side effect of the medicine. . .”

The moment I answered, he senior who asked collapsed on the spot. What’s wrong?! Is it a sudden illness?! When I supported my senior who collapsed in a hurry, he was laughing so much that he couldn’t even speak.

What’s wrong?! Why are you laughing?! When I was rubbing the back of my senior who was laughing too much and having difficulty breathing, the senpai with extended ears tapped me on the shoulder with a puzzled face.

“Um. Because I’m an elf. I’ve had these ears from the beginning.”

It was from the beginning!! I’ve really done it!!

I can’t believe Isabella thought his ears were the side-effect of being around potions too long. Wouldn’t it be more common to assume that he was an elf? As always, Isabella’s thinking is out of the norm. I’m kind of shocked that everyone is so interested in Ursch and Isabella peddling though. But I’m still really worried about Isabella’s ability to make potions. And we still can’t figure out why her cooking goes wrong!