I Shall Survive Using Potions!

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After I drove those two back, I explained to everyone how it was, and I said, 'Mislead me safely, everything is solved!' When I said it, I was seen with my jito eyes by Roland and Francette. Emile and Bell are snorting at me.

"... is there a reason..."

Roland groaned in a small voice, and Francette nodded yeah.

Why not?

Ah.

"Francette," Longevity Dan, "what?

Yeah, you know, the meds an old pharmacist named Oredeim used to say. Because he said it was about himself in this city that he could make it, or something, maybe it's a precious drug. And that old man, you mean quite skilled? I don't know how much this city is just a local city, but if it's a pharmacist competing for one or two in the city, I guess it is. Even from that great attitude.

"Caorle, I don't even know that...... so what can I do? It has nothing to do with the goddess, and if 'Tears of the Goddess' can be created, it's not necessary, Caorle, you're not the goddess of this world in the first place..."

Yeah, yeah, I can't help it.

And Fransette stretched her spine and explained it to me with a serious face. Apparently, the word earlier was' normal mode 'and the explanation was' work mode '.

"'Longevity Dan' is literally a medicine that is said to prolong life. Manufacturing is conveyed in oral communication (kuden) from master to disciple among very few pharmacists, and it often appears in old stories.

Using a variety of rare materials, it works for all diseases and prolongs life… "

"It's just a regular pill, they say"

That's what Roland said in the words of Fransette.

"" Eh... "

Fransette's surprised, too!

"Sure, it's not like it won't work. Some illnesses have considerable effects, and if you give the person too much of a border between dying or helping, the chances of being helped are only slightly higher. So, in some people, life was saved thanks to 'Longevity Dan', life expectancy is never a lie, and I know what it's like to spend a fortune on it but ask for it. That is by no means a stupid act.

But that doesn't mean 'It works for all diseases, magic medicine', 'divine medicine'. It's just an expensive, highly effective drug. It's not like Caorle's potion.

Around here, the story of the potion will only be passed on to those in the upper echelons, so still speaking of 'the best medicine', I guess it refers to Longevity Dan "

So much so that it's like "Gao Li Ginseng" from the Edo period? Later it could be bought by wealthy civilians, but in the beginning, in China and South Korea, emperors, nobles, royalty, etc., in Japan, only about generals, daimyo, and luxury people could buy, Gao Li ginseng. Then it's not surprising that it's worth millions of yen.

But it's by no means a magic panacea, a special effect that works the moment you take it, but that it will make you a little healthier and restore your medical condition by taking it for a long time...

Yes, not 'the medical condition recovers, becomes healthy', but 'the medical condition recovers because it becomes healthy'. Nourishing, he said.

"So, of the essential ingredients for it, those are the three plants that are hard to come by and the big reason the price jumps. It can only be harvested in distant countries and cannot be cultivated, so it has to be relied upon for harvesting, rarely found, and whatever the hemolt seeds, the maltoglu fruit and the krkol leaves are limited in season to be harvested, and those dried are significantly less effective.

... That means Caorle sold the freshly picked one for six small silver coins combined.

By the way, it's not the kind of season where malt guru fruit can be picked. Maybe I don't have enough hemolt seeds to look around, it can't be in a store like this, but it also seems to sell plant materials for once, and if I asked originally at no cost, what a 'yes' I would have thought, and I would have asked if it was meant to be half a joke, with malt guru fruit and krkol leaves. Perhaps the one in hand was of poor quality that was dried.

That's who you are... "

Guha!

Well, no. I misheard "Six Small Silver Coins" as "Six Holy Silver Coins," I can't get mad about Taona. That's what it sounds like when you assume from the start that you can 'blow an awesome high'. I have a similar experience.

Besides, there was no way that a doctor like Oredeim would yell and scold his apprentice Taona. Because if Taona hadn't misheard and knowingly paid six small silver coins, nothing would have happened. Maybe Taona couldn't help but make a mistake.

Well, even if that were done this time, I would have checked the market price later in case of next time, so I would have exposed the real price one of these days.

So only this time I can just as well buy it, and next time I'm angry that I kept quiet knowing my mistakes, rather than reflecting on selling something outrageous, I'm pretty sure I took that kind of thing off my product list. In the end, the results are the same.

... but.

"How can Roland know so much about Longevity Dan? From material to what......

Didn't you know only a handful of pharmacists?

Yes, why are you so familiar with it? Well, then, Roland, you're going to be able to formulate your own longevity dan.

"Because they were drinking. When my arm stopped moving because of an injury, for quite a while.

I said it was useless because I wasn't sick and weak, but my parents and ministers wouldn't listen to me. That, how many national budgets have you wasted......

So I thoroughly questioned the pharmacists to convince everyone that it was no use drinking Dan for long lives for my injuries. "

Wow. I heard something bad. Maybe it was unacceptable for me to waste the budget I should spend for the people. I wish I reminded you of something unpleasant.

"... sorry"

To my words of apology, Roland waved me gently, never mind.

But now I know that I can dispel my doubts, and that Longevity Dan is not a big pill.

Now, settle down!

Much better than throwing everything away again and running away, though I was bored.

Making a lot of money for a lot of customers. And then, as long as we meet! As long as we meet!!

Well, I'm not in too much of a hurry. If the flesh doesn't age, it doesn't matter at the right age or anything. The francettes will think I'm tens of thousands of years old or something anyway, so even if some years are added here, there's nothing to it: 50,000 and 19, but 50,000 and 24, but it won't make a big difference.

After some journey, once you get back to the Kingdom of Balmore, marry Francette and Roland, and then also Emile and Bell, and let Layette out as your daughter-in-law, and then you travel alone again, because...

No, no, I think it's better than that, Layette and I go on a journey together. Then, don't wait too long, I can leave right away. Besides, being alone is a little lonely.

When I return to the Kingdom of Balmore, let me take a ride when I find the ship of the Arigo Empire in some port town...

Or the times I was thinking about, I had them too.

"This is where you're selling Longevity Dan materials!

Here he comes. Ahhh!

Why come! I made it clear to that pharmacist that it would not arrive again. Besides, there would be no merit in purposefully teaching others about it. Yeah, no, take extra care...

"No, you don't. Please hit another store."

"But this would be a 'convenient store bell'!

Uh-huh, a middle-aged man who feels like he saw it, a noble minister or a rich merchant's child, but where and what have you heard...

If we don't check that, we don't have a policy of explanation. If you don't see how far you know and what you don't, give them extra information and they can be snakes. And before that.

Knock, knock.

Gently pull the string under the counter a few times. In a pattern.

Yes, it's neat upstairs, it's a Francet calling string.

Pull this and the bell in everyone's room rings and the lights go on. That number of lights and intervals allow some information to be communicated.

And now the signal is' Urgency 4 Threat 4 Person 1 '. This isn't like flying three stairs or anything, go down normally...,

Until then!

No, it's nothing.

Now Emile and Bell are going hunter training and making money, and are absent. The money I earn is something that tries to give me the full amount, so I just take half the amount and put it in a piggy bank in the item box for when the two of them get married.

And Roland, he's out somewhere, and he's also absent. That doesn't mean I'm caged in my room every day, all day. Sometimes when Emile and Bell are around, they hang out with Francette.

So, in the end, I'm here now...

"You're ready!

Yeah, it's just Francette.

"Francette, the signal was 4 for urgency, 4 for threat..."

Well, for Francette, that doesn't matter.

Is it harmless or at all dangerous to me?

Fransette's judgment is only one of them, and against the latter, he stands up to it with all his might. There, there is no such concept as' hands-down 'or' at ease '.

... Yeah, I knew.