It was already the season of autumn when I met with the three men of Fletcher, Corneille. The confusion and aftermath of a series of events in the summer have finally come to a close, around that time.
In a qualitative reception room at Wangdu's city mansion, which turned gallant just to leave a minimum of personnel, me and him greeted each other with few words, swallowed tea and then got to the point.
"... the one they were saying, does this fit?
cream-colored chunks, which he took out with a nervous face. I take it and give it to Latka with the veil on her back.
Latka touched my right shoulder when she confirmed the smell of it. No doubt, that's the signal.
"It doesn't seem to be a problem. Thank you for your hard work, Corneille Fletcher. Now we're done dealing with you."
"... good. I feel like my shoulder's loaded."
He strokes down his ho and then looks anxiously at that chunk in Latka's hand.
"Um, are you sure you're okay? 'Cause that would be... That would be it, making a scene in Wang Du..."
"Dependent drug beeswax, that's right"
"I knew..."
When I nodded, he blued his face. I shake my head, saying there's nothing wrong with that.
"Starting tomorrow, this beeswax will be accepted for purchase and possession as a 'designated medicine'."
"Designation, pharmaceuticals?
"That's right. A prescription instruction form for a national licensed physician is required, but anyone who is aristocratic will be able to purchase and possess the required number. Treat side effect dependency symptoms as medicines according to your doctor's instructions after having them accepted as your own responsibility. The state designated and controlled those drugs."
From the outset, Arxia had laws and systems in place to control dangerous poisons, but all drugs considered dangerous were uniformly prohibited from being manufactured, sold and used, even when used as medicines. Even though there is also a system in place for testing and licensing corner doctors, it is because of the low level of progress and high morbidity and mortality rates with regard to medicines. … although the average life expectancy in this country is higher than anywhere else in the neighbouring countries.
Aristocratic children often went down the path of doctors, and everyone would have liked to have a head for lack of drug types and lack of research. Whatever the special effects of the disease are subject to regulation at a time when harmful toxicity to the human body is found in any way. Medicines and poisons are all in one place, and in such circumstances they will not continue to progress as late as technical developments.
... I didn't make a big deal of it. I just talked to the adults around me about a bit of institutional relaxation at the end of the season ball. I also feel like I had a lot of opportunities to chat with aristocrats who lost their families because of the regulation of special effects and those in the realm where the cultivation of medicinal herbs flourished.
"Lembian flowers - especially resins - do have dependencies, but they are mild among regulated objects. It doesn't have that much effect unless it is used more frequently as a daily beeswax. And it has a history of being treated as a medicine for forest syndrome as a private medical drug"
"Forest syndrome?
"... oh, a disease you don't hear much about in the south. Forest syndrome is a disease caused by inhalation of scaly powder from demons and cotton butterflies symbiotically related to trees in the Shipleys family, causing respiratory failure due to inflammation in the bronchi. In the north there are many forests of Shipleys, where cotton butterflies live in considerable numbers. The scent of Lembia avoids its cotton butterfly, and smoke appears to have a gentle anti-inflammatory effect. The effects of the medicine were more detailed in the materials prepared in advance, so when I gave it to your father, it was first certified as a designated medicine."
Uh, ah, and Corneille showed confusion and moved her gaze busily and finely. When I tilt my neck, he lowers his gaze terribly awkwardly.
"I'm sorry. There were so many words I couldn't hear, I didn't know what half meant."
"... Oh, no. I was the one who lacked consideration."
As medicine and medicine are expert knowledge in this world, terminology is also not so commonly known. Even words like those commonly known in the memory of my previous life are often not included in the upbringing of aristocracy here.
I've been talking to all the nobles who are familiar with medicine and medicine lately, so I've lost track of it.... I'm sorry about that now.
"In short, Lembia is useful as a medicine for some local diseases in the north. Even easier to use if processed as wax"
"You've simplified the conversation a long time."
"You should ask your father for more information. Because in the future, you will be deeply involved."
In any case, it is a business that becomes the main industry of the land inherited by the woman who becomes his daughter-in-law. No one else, it is Corneille who should let Count Fletcher learn that knowledge.
"Is that true, too? ─ ─ So, this is it. Thank you for your help, Viscount Cardia"
"No, this way."