I Reincarnated as a Losing Heroine, the Hero’s Childhood Friend Who Lost to the Main Heroine, so I Switched Jobs to Alchemist

Consciousness arose to the signs of human movement.

Open your eyes and Malta, a brown-haired woman, laughs at you.

Ohayo

"Malta....."

Looking around blurrily at the head of a sleeping man.I saw Julius standing behind Malta with a dark face.

Looking left and right, Lukash and Arnold still closed their eyes and left themselves on the sofa.You seem to be sleeping soundly.

Malta takes out her dagger and slaps them in the head.

"I'm gonna cut the rope, so wake up both of you."

Lukash, yeah, rubs his eyes and Arnold wrinkles between his eyebrows.

Often blinking, Lukash opened his eyes when he noticed Malta.

"Oh, Malta! Did you do this, Malta?"

"No! It's him, it's him."

Malta raised her shoulders and pointed to Julius, who stood behind her.Lukash sighed loudly at Julius as he narrowed his eyes and approached us.

"Julius...."

"Oh, my goodness. Did you make up a little bit?"

Julius looks at each of us.When he and I met, he apologized simply for his mouth movements.

Malta starts cutting the rope that ties our wrists with a dagger.Your shoulders relaxed to your wrist as you gradually freed up.

While waiting for the rope to break, Arnold said to Julius in a pungent voice.

"Don't make me feel any better."

"Why, the three of you slept together."

"... thank you for this, but get permission in advance from now on"

Looking at the results alone, it's Julius's fine play.However, it is possible that Lukash's relationship with Arnold has deteriorated.This time it went well, but not necessarily the next time, Arnold quietly stabbed Julius with a nail.

Julius smiled vaguely at Haha and stared at Arnold.After a few seconds of awkward silence, I heard a vivid sound of the rope breaking.

Yes, it's gone ~

Thank you, Malta.

Check your free wrist for the first time in a few hours.It had been tied for so long, but it didn't leave much trace.Is it due to Julius's tech?

Gu, it stretches. My body solidified to the boulder.

"What is it? What about the Spirit of Water?"

Malta asked me where I was stretching and looked around.

--Speaking of which, I haven't seen him since last night.

"Eh? What? Speaking of which, since last night...."

I'm here!

I was shouted from behind and looked back.There was a green ball of light, Wentor, and a water spirit in the form of a puppy.

The Spirit of Water rushed to my feet, so I lifted it up.Her eyes were dull and she looked tired.

I've been practicing hiding from Oira.Because I looked busy.But one night is the limit. "

"Hide yourself?" What is that?

Oilers aren't always there, are they?

I nodded to Wentor-sama's words.

Certainly, the Spirit does not always float around Lukash in the form of a ball of light.Only show up when you need to.I wonder where he is a little bit, but the Spirit of Water was practicing to hide himself in the same way.You can escape the eyes of the demon king temporarily, or as a spiritual figure.

I'm convinced that you're tired because you were practicing with the Spirit of Water, and I'll stroke your head.Then I snorted my nose happily and closed my eyes. You look sleepy.

--Suddenly, the front door opens loudly.It was a strange boy who showed up.

Brothers!

Lukash points to the bedroom for a breathtaking boy.

--Perhaps he went looking for medicinal herbs for his sister and realized that he was a missing boy, Nike.

"Nike, my sister Nana is sleeping in her bedroom. It's okay."

"Thank you! Thank you so much."

The nike boy lowers his head many times.Then I thought I rushed to the cupboard and took out some bags from inside.

Give the bag to Lukash.--Charlene, I heard a coin.

"There aren't many of these..."

"I don't need it. Use it for my mom and sister."

Lukash pushes the handed bag back towards the nickel-boy.The boy then bit his lower lip tightly and lowered his head again.Then he ran towards the bedroom.

After I saw him off, I asked Lukash.

"He's my missing brother...."

"Yes, it was protected in the cave."

"Protection?... to whom?"

I'd be fine if I'd been missing in the cave for a few days.The injury was probably due to healing magic, but the cheeks didn't stick.

Lukash's words that he was therefore protected were convincing, but if so, the question remains as to who.I don't suppose it's a monster who lives in a cave.

"The little spirits who lived in the cave.Looks like he was hiding from the monster, but he saw the boy twisting his leg and couldn't move, and he was protecting him. "

Lukash's explanation somehow revealed the full story of the incident.

In the first place, the cave would have been a safe place for a girl to come alone to pick flowers, thanks to being protected by spirits.But with the resurrection of the Demon King, the monsters entered the cave, and the spirits hid and the cave was taken over by the monsters - is that so?

I'm sure Lukash has exterminated the monsters in the cave.It will be difficult right now, but we will eventually be able to sell our specialty flowers and make a living as before.

Arnold called out as he exhaled relief.

Ampere, do you have any extra antidote?

"Ah, yes, I have more ingredients..."

Thanks to the many herbs brought by Lucas, there was not much antidote or ingredient.

Pointing at the surplus on the desk, Arnold glances at it and tells Lukash.

Lukash, give it to him.

"Arnold should go, not me.You think of each other, don't you? "

You're scared of me.

A few seconds of silence. Then Pu and Lukash spilled their laughter.I bite a laugh next to it.

Looking at Arnold for laughing, Lukash went to the bedroom with the rest of the antidote and ingredients.

On Arnold's remaining shoulders, Julius rested his elbows on his weight.

"If you're aware, you can laugh."

Arnold answered with Julius's elbow.

"You don't have to."

"Sure! How much would you get if you were good at it?"

"No, thanks."

Julius dropped his shoulders on Arnold, who had no island to attach.

Lukash and Arnold have narrowed their distance in this case, but the two of them are still struggling to narrow their distance.

Julius turned to me for help, but I couldn't help it.I deceived myself with a vague smile.

Hah, almost as Julius sighed, the door to the bedroom opened.Looks like Lucas returned with the antidote and ingredients.

"I gave it to you. If there's anything I can do, I can count on the town's blender."

The town's blender. The word reminded me of last night when I was away and couldn't meet the town's concoctor.

Nana is probably fine now, but it's possible.Just in case, I wanted to tell you how to prepare it.

"Ah, yes! I'll tell the city's blender how to prepare the antidote this time.Please rest. "

Left behind, he left the house alone, and Lukash lined up next door.

He says with a refreshing smile.

"I'll go out with you, Laura."

Thank you, Luca.



Lukash and I visited a small house that we stopped by last night.I talked to the townspeople and they told me this was the house of the town's blender.

I rang the bell, and I heard a rattling noise from inside the house.I wonder if he's back.

I thought the sound had stopped in front of the door.

"Who is it...?"

I was asked through the door with a small voice.It's a woman's voice. It's young, too.

After I coughed up one thing, I revealed who I was and why I visited.

"Nice to meet you, Laura Ampere.I was a King's Concoctor who came to town on a trip, but about Nana-chan's antidote, the girl in this town... "

Once that is explained, the door is opened with momentum.What appeared was a brown-haired woman with round glasses.I look a few years older than I am.Probably in his late teens.

The light blue eyes are wide open.A dark neighborhood in front of its eyes.Last night, I felt faint because I was away, but I'm sure I'm busy.

"Why is the King's Concoctor in this town...!?"

She tightens the distance with the momentum she can't hold on to while fixing the glasses that fell off her hands.Overwhelmed by momentum, I opened my mouth with a smile to show a friendly attitude.

― ― When I heard about the town's blender, I remembered it at the Fralia branch.At that time, I was clearly hostile as a "Crown Concoctor who brought in trouble".

"There was a lot going on.So, what about Nana's antidote? "

I went to the cave and collected certain herbs, so I was able to formulate the antidote safely.I have already prescribed it and Nana is on her way to recovering.And I have left the surplus antidote and the surplus ingredients with my brother's nickel, so if there's anything else, just like this note, I want you to reconstitute the antidote -

Hand over the recipe memo to the town's blender with a variety of minimal explanations.That way she moisturized her eyes over the glasses and lowered her head to me.

"Wow! Thank you! Thank you!"

"Wow, you don't have to lower your head like that...."

I didn't listen to her with my head down many times, so I grabbed her shoulder and forced her to stop moving.And he peered into his face and said, "Don't worry," and there was no tears from his cheeks.

He strokes his back as he suddenly bursts into tears, thinking he must have tried and mistakenly tried to help Nana.I may have been away last night because I was running day and night looking for new recipes and medicinal herbs.

"I can't do anything at all... I don't know what to do... thank you very much"

I wonder about the town's blender, who is choking with tears.I live in a small house, but isn't there another blender?

What about the other blenders?

"No, just me."

--I knew it, right?

Though it feels faint, when the person's mouth tells her that she is "alone", she feels a chest pain because of the hardship.Speaking of small towns, it must be a struggle for such a young woman to be a cook by herself.

In fact, what happened this time would have hunted her down.There is no one close to you, Master, Senpai, alone...

Naturally, my mouth was open when I thought so.

"Is there anything else you need?I'll be out of town in a little while, but until then... "

I want to help you.That may be a source of pride, but with unmistakable sincerity.

The town's concoctor raised his face to my words.And you tend to pull my arm.

"Ah, well, then, what's the point?"

After that, I stopped by her house and told her how to tell herbs from the recipe.

She was very enthusiastic, writing down my words one by one.There were no bookstores in this small town, and she didn't have that much income herself, so the literature on concoction seemed unsatisfactory.Of course I don't have the money to go to school.

To be honest, the environment in which you learn to mix is pretty bad.Medicinal herbs seem to be sourced all the way from nearby forests and caves, but there are repeated trials and mistakes in self-study due to the scarcity of literature.No matter how talented this is, it will take many times longer than others to make things happen.

"Thank you, Laura."

"No, I wish I could help."

I have to leave town now, and I can only teach you the minimum.As far as I'm concerned, the town's blender laughed very happy, "I've learned."

She will continue to work desperately to serve as a concoctor in this small town.If things were a little better, I'd be a great blender.

"Laura, what's wrong?"

On the way back to the inn, Lukash's voice recalled me, who had been bewildered by his thoughts.

I honestly revealed what I was thinking to my childhood acquaintance who looked at us worriedly.

"I thought I was learning in a privileged environment...."

"A blessed environment?"

"Yeah, we didn't have enough literature here either.There is no master. No matter how hard you try, there's a limit to it all by yourself..... "

That's where I get the feeling. How many other blenders are in these environments?

I wonder if there are a lot of other cooks in this town.

Is this sympathy?Is it the pity of a blessed man?

But when I saw the town's blender, who blinked his eyes and listened to my explanation, I thought.― ― I want to support a blender who works in a town that is not equipped for this environment.

Towns and villages without a branch of the Crown Concoctor are poorly managed.Therefore, when I donate literature around these towns and villages, hold study groups, and my position as a concoctor has become solid after the demon king's crusade, can I go around the towns and villages everywhere with my own feet?

It was a dream that first sprouted, “after" defeating the Demon King.

Behind the ending roll. After that, I don't even know “I".

"When the world is at peace, I wonder if I can help those people.It might be difficult, but.... "

When traveling around the world, it's not just today's ideas that can be easily translated into action.In the first place, as a King's Concoctor, you won't be able to travel easily.

Still, someday.

Likes it

Lukash nods with a smile. That alone gives me some confidence.

"You may not be able to do it right away."

"Laura can do it, absolutely. I'll help you if you need anything."

Lukash always pushes his back with a smile.

I nodded and looked back and stared at the house of the town's cook.

"Yeah, thanks. I'd like to try my best."

I don't know how many years from now.But I'm sure, no, I'll definitely visit this house again.