I Shall Survive Using Potions!

"Do you have a manager?

A slightly fat middle-aged man came to the store and said so.

If you are a regular customer, you will first be asked to look at the products on the display shelf or how many are there. So this customer is "not an ordinary customer". It also smells like trouble.

But it won't be so important because it doesn't seem aristocratic. Any special medication questions or other errands......

"Oh yes, I am the shopkeeper..."

"No, I'm not hired to be a shopkeeper, I want to see a proprietor"

Well, if you do a little research, you'll soon find out that a child (looks like) store manager, but that's just being hired as a salesperson, apart from someone else who pays rent or buys drugs, it's normal to think.

"… so I am the proprietor, the owner"

"What!"

Yeah, I'm used to it.

"So you're paying the rent here, purchasing drugs, and selling them?

"Oh, yes, yes, but?

……

Well, I don't know what's going on, I shut up...

"Then tell me where to buy it"

... Also this.

"There's no way a merchant can easily talk about a supplier or product. What? Are you making fun of me for thinking I'm a little girl? Which nobleman is it?

I'm starting to get angry, so I want to treat you differently.

"Ki, it's not about nobility. I'm from the union."

Huh? There shouldn't be any organizations here that go across commercial industries in general, like commercial guilds...... Taxes are paid directly to the bureau.

Though there are gatherings by job title, it is only an optional group, like the "Blacksmith Friends Association" or the "Bakery Technical Drilling Conference," it should be an aspiring group. And this city should have only five other pharmacies, besides The Atelier of the Layette.

"What kind of union, what kind of organization, size, uh, how many members?

"Ugh..."

Why, there's a mouth cage!

"It's a pharmacist union! The majority of pharmacists outside of here are members!

"Huh..."

You mean, three members?

If it's four, it's probably "all but one," and if it's five, it's "all the pharmacists."

"... with dismissal"

I don't need to hear what the three houses have to say about the union that they built on their own. This one too.

Only union members can abide by that union's decision. It has nothing to do with the others, nor is it binding in any way.

"Why! This is a formal from the Union…"

"No, that only makes sense to unionists. And what's wrong with the other two houses?

Ah, if I join hands with the other two houses, three on three, the forces are in balance... "

"Nah..."

A rushing middle-aged man.

No, in the first place, how could such a meaningless rapport impose such a thing on its own?

"Well, then, I'll tell you all about your suppliers, your purchase values, the ratios and secrets of the formula, of course."

"Bullshit! You can't do that!

After I said that, I noticed Layette's gaze like she looked at the garbage, and the man leaned down a little bit just because he thought it was impossible for him to say so. It seems that the eyes of the innocent toddler have wandered away.

Hmm, did you still have the concept of 'shame'......

"But how come again... We don't have any medicines that can help with serious injuries or serious illnesses, and other than military disease medicines for eyeball products, only medicines that are everywhere, like anti-diarrhea and disinfectants..."

"Well, I guess there's a lot of medication for soldier's disease! Medicines that you don't normally buy unless you get injured or sick, can be sold continuously. Besides, I can start the army, connect to hunters, field workers, and some nobles, and sell other drugs. And..."

Oh, I'm not using Conne or selling hitchhikes. Oh, we'll do that ourselves.

"How can a regular drug work so well! Why, I don't know if our medication is a fig, or if you're deliberately trying not to heal for money! It's just slightly more water, if you drink a lot, it will work a little right!!

Ah......

I'm building it to work, so, yeah, it works.

But I don't make things like "Tears of the Goddess" or potions, where serious injuries and serious illnesses heal with kerosene. The abdominal pain just twitches and heals, the wound doesn't purify, very slightly… so if you use it again and again, or compare it to the medicine you bought at another store, you will soon know. The difference in its effectiveness, the certainty….

Say, uncle, what did you just say!

Hmmm, what should I do......

Of course, I can't teach you where to buy or how to make it.

... or you can't possibly do it.

Both of them, because they don't exist.

Mmmmmmmmmm......

That's right!

"Okay, I'll do it right. Please wait a few days."

"Uhm, see! Okay, get ready!

"Yes, now give the name of the store that is a member of the pharmacist union…"

He gave the names of the three stores, and "The Pharmacist's Union" and his uncle gently left. Perhaps imagine making a lot of money from a few days later, letting your chest bounce.

"... Caorle, are you okay?

I know you're creating potions with your abilities, Layette, but you said that to me with a worried face, but yeah, no problem.

Oh, speaking of which, Roland and Francette didn't come out this time.

You thought you were a regular customer because you were one of the merchant-looking uncles, you two went on a date..., no, you don't. There is no such thing. Absolutely, I'm staring from somewhere.

... I'm scared!

And when I left the store, I saw the sign posted in the house.

"Atelier of the Layette"

And underneath, on a different plate, the letter "I will prepare the medicine".

Mm-hmm.

And a few days later.

"Do you have a shopkeeper?"

"Ah, before this, of the pharmacist union..."

Yeah, it was that pharmacist uncle a few days ago who changed his blood phase and yelled at me.

"Yes, what the hell happened......, so, here, this is!

Lunch boxes arranged in the store, with more variety than before. Plus, it even added a system that picked out and packed the freaks I liked myself.

Other treats such as drinks, portable preserved meats such as dried meat and grilled bread, and cookies are arranged. Everything was not made out of ability, but was usually purchased from other stores, bought ingredients and made by ourselves. Some drinks can be brought into a container.

"Nah......, ku, the pills! Where are the pills!!

"Medicine? Once you get out there, take a good look at the sign."

"What?"

And what was in the eyes of the man who walked out of the store and looked up at the house.

"Atelier of the Layette"

"Lunch Box, Grocery Store"

That's what it said, it was two billboards large and small.

And on the sticky paper next to the entrance.

'We stopped selling drugs because of a complaint from the pharmacist union (Kurt Bar Pharmacy, Baylus Pharmacy, Pharmacist's Store Meltren) that they "have trouble selling drugs that work well". From now on, as a lunchmaker, thank you.'

"Become..."

He's got his mouth full, the pharmacist's uncle.

"I stopped selling drugs and narrowed it down to one lunchbox shop. Now the problem is gone, isn't it!

When I smiled and said so, my uncle turned his face bright red and yelled and scattered.

"It's huge! Complaints have arrived in three stores to make it into business, and all the customers are flowing into two stores that are not in the union!

Is that it?

I wasn't sticking to the pharmacy. I didn't put the money I saved up on the table, I just wanted a place where I could make money to normally live and interact with a lot of people. It was only a pharmacist that he could easily do for it, and even a lunchbox shop, which became an unexpected hit, could fully fulfil its purpose.

The drugstore, which has a lot of trouble, has become a little depressing, and I'm glad the lunchbox shop has a more direct reaction from the customers, and the planting is tough, but something "worked! I have a real sense of" fun. "

Besides, even a lunchbox shop's ability to get Ceres properly helps. It's not as busy as making large quantities of them when you have time and storing them in an item box that doesn't degrade over time, so they chase you to time every day.

I get a little bit of what I sell out of the item box to refill, so little waste comes out. And since all the products are handmade by ourselves, we get a full sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.

This is the vocation!

... but I wonder why this uncle is calling out annoyingly...