Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
XI. White Snake Fairy Part II
While wondering what it meant, the cat and cat went back to their seats.
There are cheers happening around. You're all drunk, your voices are cheerful.
Only Mr. Nong and the others were still waiting for the cat and cat to come back.
"Hey, what was that?
"Whatever they say."
What I was intrigued to hear was horse flashes.
"You, maybe they grabbed you for some money?
Cats and cats thought it would be rude to leave things out. Immediately, the horse flashes silently as the fist bones in high order have fallen.
"They didn't bring anything."
The cat and cat open their palms and also show their sleeves upside down.
"Has anyone seen you?
"No."
There were only white daughters and a helping man on sandalwood. You wouldn't even have seen the letters, and you shouldn't know which cylinder you were in because you covered the cloth from the top.
(Maybe...)
Cats and cats look at sandalwood. The lanterns were hanging on the ceiling, and the red room swayed.
I thought if I had a mirror, I could also see the letters written by cats and cats, but not. It seems difficult to stick those things up on the ceiling, and more importantly, we need a mirror that matches it. That's all it takes, and the mirror clouds in the dim vision. Even if you use a luxury mirror of immigration rather than a bronze mirror, you won't see it.
More importantly, those white daughters seemed to have bad eyes.
You'll only see a blur a foot away.
Then what do you think? The next event was starting.
There is a new desk on sandalwood and all kinds of equipment on it.
The white daughters grab a small thin piece of metal in it with chopsticks. Apart from that, I will also prepare a plate.
The man helping receives a piece of metal and a plate, puts it on a basin and goes around the theater. Metal pieces only look like polished out copper pieces. The inside of the plate was deep enough not to spill with liquid.
I just don't seem to have time to go around upstairs, and I can hear dissatisfaction from the top. This is a difference in seating, so let's have it given up.
White daughters receive metal pieces and plates from the returning man. And pieces of metal went into the dish, and the dish was set on fire, which was somehow ready.
When the white daughters put it in, they start dancing, starting to chant something nasty. In the dimly lit room, her whole body looked radiant.
When the dance is over, the daughters take the chopsticks and take the metal pieces inside to show them.
(color is changing)
It is silver from the reddish colour of copper.
Something nearby said, "Whoa!," he cheers.
"We've gone from copper to silver!
"Is that true!?
I don't see anything far away, but I still see the reaction of the others and start to move forward and closer. All you have to do to get up on the stage is be stopped by the escort's stuff but you'll know if you get that close.
My daughters wash it with liquid and wipe it with cloth. And now put it directly on fire.
The cheer gets even louder.
"Silver has become gold!
Silver turned to gold that just glowed this time.
The daughters pretend it with chopsticks and place it on the plate as they fly the heat. I go around making the golden shining boards look good to all the men.
"... can you explain this?
Mr Nong said as he put his arms together.
"Later. Would you like to enjoy the pastime now?
said the cat cat, blinking her eyes. Honestly, because I thought it would be a waste to keep an eye out.
Even if she wasn't a fairy, it was all worth it.
Then some white daughters did an interesting show for me.
Put the wet stone on the paper. If you keep it to yourself, there will often be a fire.
I wonder if I let a butterfly out of nowhere, and it flies, and burns up and disappears into ash.
All cheered by the audience. And finally.
My daughters bring glowing silver liquid.
While everyone was paying attention to the strange liquid, her daughter drank it in a small cup.
Unexpectedly cats and cats are about to get up.
But half-hip up, I look at it stubbornly.
"Did you have fun tonight?
The daughters smiled and went down from the sandalwood.
The audience is happy to talk about what they have just done in the hot, air-cooled theater. Some had a flame in their eyes, and some had seen where there was a fairy to worship.
Only four people, including cats and cats, were just never that excited.
"Don't feel like crap"
Mr Nong finally reached for the glass.
"Mr. Nong."
The cat and cat did not think, and stopped the hand.
"You're being rude."
Horse flashes look grumpy.
"Is that poison?
Mr Nong put the cup down.
"Yes."
Cats and cats hold the liquor cup in front of them. Smell it and put just one drop on your skin. When I see that reaction, I put it in my mouth to lick it with my tongue tip.
"... I don't know for sure, but I feel it works a little more exciting"
Alcohol is low. Easy to drink in a way close to fruit water, but it tasted faintly other complex apart from it. There are several kinds of mixtures. I can see it contains a little salt.
"I don't think it's poison"
However, for the sake of alcohol intensity, I try to make it more effective. That's all.
Besides...
Every swinging light.
Dim indoors.
Strange twilight and fantastic fairy.
Incredible phenomenon that occurs in front of you.
(This is this)
Isn't that enough reason to blind yourself to someone?
And what percentage of this theater would be like that?
Thinking about it, the cat and cat gave the liquor a chiseled mouth.
(I knew it was a little soggy)
Salt, it's better not to put it in, it was the moment I thought.
The cat and cat stuck their fingers in the liquor cup. And smooth the fruit liquor on the table like ink.
"What are you doing?
"Is this what happened?"
Shortly after answering Mr Nong's question, the cat and cat look around.
(If that's the case, there's some species (trick) there too)
I regretted I should have looked around more when I stood on stage if I could. What would have happened over there?
It was thicker than the rest, it was hot, I had a headache, and that strangely interrupted my concentration.
(Pfft...)
Maybe that's hot air. Is it steaming from behind the scenes?
Then I know why it's hot.
So, what's with the headache?
It was like a mosquito beeping.
What was that?
(Hmm?)
Maybe, when I thought, I saw the white daughters in the back of the stage.
The cat put his finger on his mouth and breathed as he blurred his lips.
"What, he's whistling?"
Horseflashes narrow their eyes and look at the cat and cat.
The sound is not that loud. There were eventually May flies around, which shouldn't have been something you could hear so far away.
Yet the white daughters seemed to shake their shoulders and look around.
(Oh. You mean that)
When the cat and cat laughed, he suggested to Mr. Nong that he go outside.
It's cold out there. Hopefully, I'd like to go into a restaurant nearby and talk to you, but it's hard to get in there with the mask on. I had no choice but to talk in the carriage.
We can talk there when we get back to Green Blue Hall, but Mr. Nong and the three of them seemed to want to know something right away.
Cats and cats first decided to explain how they turned copper into silver and gold.
"That's a lot like yellow and white."
Would it be easier to understand when it comes to alchemy? Gunpowder is also a substitute for it.
The yellow and white technique refers to what turns a low metal into a metal.
Alchemy is a technique to prolong a person's life, but there are actually many frowning spits. It is on record that emperors of old times are losing their lives in the wrong way, too, in search of immortality.
It does look alike, but one way or the other.
"I feel closer to something called alchemy in the West."
"Western?
"Yes."
Cats and cats nod to Mr Nong's question.
"I just heard about my adoptive father and this is the first time I've actually seen him. However, my adoptive father saw it straight several times and understood how it worked. That didn't turn into silver, that didn't turn into gold. They just plated it around and burned the fire to change it into something different."
I also wanted to try cats and cats, but my uncle didn't tell me what the key ingredients were. Even if you told me, it wouldn't have been that ingredient at the pharmacy.
"If you want to know more, ask Luo Men. And I'm glad you told me that."
And I glare at you.
It is possible if other paper burned naturally, using by-products that can be done in the process, and if the butterfly came with a piece of paper that was well made, it is convincing.
Those who were there had sight and sight, yet were drunk. Even Mr Nong, who is not drinking, would not notice because he had been deceived.
By the way, butterflies made of paper should have had something similar to a kind of oddity transmitted to the island nations of the East.
"So what made you see through your mind?
"About that, too."
Cats and cats ask in high order to lend them two pockets of pocket paper and a handheld writing device. Then, overlay two sheets of paper and write 'seven' with a brush with plenty of ink on it. Of the paper I wrote, I show Mr Nong and the others what I put behind him.
"What do you say?
"Thank you. You're lying."
It's too much there, but it's firmly attached to 'Seven'.
"Yes, that's what I mean"
"Even if they say so, if there's a piece of paper that you wrote, it'll be fine."
"Yeah, that's right"
There was a black underlay under the paper written by the cat and cat. You won't see me lying behind that.
"But I did."
The cat and cat had plenty of ink on them when they got the brush. I remember squirming with strangely cheap ink.
"If that contained anything other than ink,"
Is it salt, for example? That was dissolved in ink. Suppose you wrote that on paper. Ink smudged from thin soft paper stains the black underlay. What happens when you dry it?
The salt that was dissolved in the ink emerges dry.
Of course, that's an analogy to salt, but then you'll know what you wrote.
"So what did you find out which cylinder had the paper in it?
"That's a sound."
"Sound?"
There were ringing bells and copper tongues in that theater.
But there was another important sound hidden in it.
"I had a very headache staying there. Perhaps there was a high sound in the unnoticed range."
The high noise hurts my ears. Apparently cats and cats were unconsciously uncomfortable, even if they didn't recognize it as sound.
"High noise?
"Yes."
Cats and cats whistle.
"This sounds familiar to you."
"Not a bad ear, dude."
"So, this is..."
Adjust the sound as high as you can. Mr. Nong and Horseflash look normal, but Gaoshun tilted his neck for a moment.
"I can hear you."
"I can hear you."
"... I can hear you."
The reply in high order was a little slow.
"That's good. Because it's something that gets harder to hear every time you get older."
High order accumulated.
I'm still going to be young, but my body still gets old.
"People hear sounds at different heights."
That makes a difference even in the same age. There is also good and evil in the ears, as there is good and evil in the eye.
And I can't be sure, but he said that sometimes things with bad eyes have good ears to make up for it.
"Those fairy ears would be very sensitive"
From afar, as that murmur sounded, I reacted to the whistle of a cat and cat.
Aren't you training to hear the whistle every day?
Therefore, there was no such thing as a whistle in the instruments in that theater.
Both vertical and horizontal whistles have holes in the cylinder, and by dampening them, they change the height of the sound. Let's say the hundred cylinders stabbed in that box were making a whistle hole change. If the cat and cat had stuffed the gyoza with paper in the cylinder, it would be the same as even the holes in the whistle.
"I mean, you heard hundreds of sounds and you said you figured out how many? And how do you blow that box instead of the whistle?"
"It's possible, but there's a surer way than that"
The sound of copper and bells. What if, as a signal, you blew the whistle ten times? The cloth is covered from the top, so there was no problem with a guy nearby to help. If a man was next to a box, manipulating where to get air in.
Even if you don't remember a hundred sounds, it's fine if you can hear ten.
"And I can explain how I blew it with that"
Let's say the water is boiling water from somewhere.
Why don't you try to get that steam under your desk. Everybody just pays attention on the desk and doesn't even look at the structure of the desk beneath it.
"Is this convincing?
"Oh."
Mr Nong and the others are nodding.
Only high order has distant eyes while rubbing his own ears.
"Finally..."
Cats and cats describe the last silver liquid the white daughters gave them to drink.
"That's fierce poison. Why don't you create an opportunity to explain it to the senior officials so that no one can imitate it?
The cat and cat said to Mr. Nong in a serious manner.
Even if I say ten, two or three are competent to the extent possible.
Still, they seemed a few good ones.
The white daughters' stage disappeared a few days later.
What remained instead was a mysterious case of food poisoning dying among the merchants in the capital.
What did you want to do?
That white snake-like fairy.
I left that mystery behind and disappeared.
Once upon a time, the powerful sought the medicine of immortality. At that time, silver like water, which is metal but liquid, was taken as the medicine.
Without ever expecting it to reduce your life as a result.
Silver like that water is called mercury as it is.
At that time, cats and cats wonder what would have happened to the white daughters who drank mercury as it was. Mercury will not be severely poisoned if it remains that liquid and drained into the body. If it becomes steam and smokes, or if it sticks with other things and changes shape, it becomes a heavy poison.
Sometimes it is also used as a medicine. Depends on how you use the poison and medicine.
The cat and cat gently cleaned it up into the medicine cabinet as they saw the bright peach color of Dansand (Tansha).