Parallel World Pharmacy

August 1, 1152.

The temperature in the Imperial Capital was expected to rise early in the morning, and it was expected to be a hot day.

There is a long line of snakes in the head office of a pharmacy in another world.

They're looking for medicine... but it's an in-store air conditioner.

Otherworld pharmacies employ water-cooled air conditioners that use groundwater without using any magic.

He taught me the principles and asked the Francine sisters to make it while I was busy.

The same thing was installed in the palace in the rooms and conference rooms of the emperor, and it is said to be popular in the imperial capital during the heat of the day.

Unlike cooling in the Ice Divine Magic circle, it also has the advantage of lowering humidity.

It's especially lined up today, isn't it?

Farma looks down from the pharmacy's third-floor window. Ellen was also looking at it from next to Pharma.

"I wonder if it's hot..."

Well then, let's get this meeting done early and open for business.

DG was replaced by Ellen, but the owner of the pharmacy head office in another world is still Pharma, so Pharma handles the meetings.

"Well, Ameri-san hasn't arrived yet... I'll keep the minutes, okay?"

"When I have a meeting, I always go to bed." What do you mean? I don't understand it even though it's a meeting related to an important business. ”

Ralph Shelter, who joined the company in the morning, unlocks the door and, by the time the Pharmas arrive, cleans up. I'm not saying I don't like it, I'm saying the facts. He had a habit of saying what he thought without wrapping it up in Oblates.

“If I think I have to wake up, I might be under pressure. That's how it is, isn't it?"

Ellen followed Ameri with a bitter smile.

I don't have any. It's not normal. ”

Ralph shook his head in an unbelievable manner.

Pharma sees Amelia's usual behavior and thinks she may have attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Nevertheless, as long as you work at a pharmacy in another world, you can be considerate of your surroundings so that late arrivals are not a problem.

If the person is not in trouble and there is no problem in living a social life, there is no need for treatment and it cannot be said to be a disability.

Farma thinks so, but she also knows how dissatisfied Ralph, who works twice as hard, feels.

Ellen turns back to Ralph, thinking it was a bad situation.

"It's not a good idea to say that normally. Ralph, who will wake you up in the morning?"

"I'm a servant."

It is only natural for the nobility to have their servants prepare for the morning from day to day. Because it is everyday, I don't even feel that you are doing anything in particular.

"I'm a night type, so I'm weak in the morning." I can get my servant to literally wake me up and come to work because I can get dressed from meals. If you live alone, you won't be able to wake up on your own, and you might get sloppy. I think the person's abilities will change depending on the environment. Amelia will be up all by herself, washing and eating all by herself. We must be many times more tired than the aristocrats. That's why it might be a little difficult in the morning. "

The Ameri are civilians, living apart from their families, and there is no one to wake them up.

He has an alarm clock, but he doesn't even notice it ringing.

Pharma also thinks that there is nothing that can be done with her efforts.

And I think that science and technology can overcome them.

Maybe so.

Ralph decided to swallow Ellen's words, but he wasn't convinced.

Even if there are civilians out there, I'm just saying I wouldn't be late.

In order not to struggle with Ellen and Amelia, it can be said that they took a reluctant and adult response.

Ladies and gentlemen! Speaking of morning, would you like to raise your blood sugar level?

Lotte reads the air and puts out fruit juices in the morning.

"Thank you, Lotte."

Farma is also hard to get.

While everyone was taking a short break, Ameri rushed in after changing her blood profile.

Good morning!

“Good morning, we've just begun our meeting.”

Ellen urges Amelie to sit down and move on with the agenda. Whether Ralph decides not to pursue it or not, Ralph has a sad look on his face.

At the meeting, where no one blamed her, Ameri narrowed down at the end of the table.

Amelia-san.

Farma calls out to Amelie after the meeting. Seeing Farma's face, Ameri apologizes to Farma with a pale face.

"I'm sorry I'm late today. You're already fired, aren't you?

"No, it's not." Don't worry about it because it's a contract to come slowly. Let's have a meeting in the afternoon, I didn't have enough consideration. I should have noticed earlier. ”

"I'm sorry if I let the shopkeeper say that... even though I'm the one to blame"

Farma has no choice but to beat the shrinking ameri.

“Everyone can do different things, so do what you can.”

"It's nothing to you guys." I must be sweet. ”

I don't know how Farma can call out to Ameri with tears in her eyes.

She feels guilty for thinking that she is sweet.

"Um, Master Farma, I'd like to ask you a question." at the end of this month.... "

That was when Amelia made some serious confession.

"Amelia, let's dispense and order the stock together." I want to do it today. "

"Ah, yes! I'm home!"

Oh, did you get involved with Farma-kun?

No, I don't mind later.

At the perfect time, Ellen was distracted and invited Amelia.

Farma watches off the two of them as if they were in trouble.

Ellen could still be saved from sheltering her, but if Ellen hadn't intervened, Ameri would have offered to retire at the end of this month. Farma didn't know that.

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"Eleonor-sama, I..."

“Will you clean up after this? I'm going to make a mistake."

The two of them confirm the inventory and order the drug substance and stock.

Ellen checked them one by one against the list. However, Ameri writes the expiration date on the list without looking at the display.

"Hey, Amelia." Why don't you look at it? "

"I remember once I saw it."

No way, do you remember all the deadlines?

How surprised you are that Ellen's glasses are almost dizzy.

“Yes, I remember Lot too.”

"It's a lot of memory, but please check it against the real thing one by one." Don't overconfide your memory. Besides, other pharmacists might be replacing them. "

"Excuse me."

Everything is idle. It doesn't work. I feel like I'm out of line with what I'm doing. Amelia felt uncomfortable.

Finalize the inventory and go out to the store.

Handle each and every one of the patients who are pushed in unexpectedly.

Ameri is not good at multitasking. I get distracted immediately, and I panic when I have more work.

It was the turn of a young woman dressed like a merchant's daughter.

Her face seems to be red and hot.

(I wonder if it is because it is hot outside. Or do you have a fever?)

Amelia pays a little attention and looks at her. Wearing her hat in the depths of her eyes, she squinted to escape Amelia's gaze.

“Give me this medicine.”

She asks Amelie to listen.

Amelia cuts the envelope she was offered and looks at the contents.

"This medicine..."

"Please don't speak up."

"I understand." Let me tell you a story. ”

Amelie let her through the private booth and locked the door.

The private booth, which is divided into two rooms by an alternate world pharmacy, becomes a private room if locked.

It used to be a simple divider, but it was not suitable for delicate consultation, so it was renovated to become a private room.

"I understand what you need." Let me ask you more about it. I will create a medical record, so can you give me your name? "

Some patients who visit pharmacies in other worlds do not write because of literacy problems, so it is a system that pharmacists can hear and write about.

When she called her name, Ameri's pen came to a halt.

Amelia glances at her face, calmly speaking, as she does not try to take off her hat again.

"Um... I'm so sorry if I made a mistake. You are Queen Rosalinde of Prospect."

Amelia has only seen her once.

Five years ago, during a tribute visit to the Emperor of Saint-Fleuve, King Prosen, the figure of the queen was seen for a moment through the carriage window.

But Amelia, with her full memory, never forgot her face.

When she was discovered, she looked blue and hid her face with a fan.

"Well... why? I've only been to Saint-Flouve once."

"I was confident in the goodness of my eyes and my memory. Five years ago, at a parade from the street, I saw it over the racing curtain of a carriage. The costume at that time was a scarlet dress and a white hat. It looks like your hair color is different, but your face is just the way it is.”

"You... I'm afraid. My name is Rosalinde, Queen of Prospects, indeed."

Rosalinde seemed to think too clearly of Ameri.

I started talking like a squeeze.

"Don't ask me for details, I got pregnant unwanted." Will you give me an abortion pill? If I was at the head office of a pharmacy in another world, I would definitely expect to have abortifacients. ”

I won't pry, but I will ask about the health of the mother.

Ameri will ask about the number of weeks of pregnancy, menstrual history, number of deliveries, births, abortion status, current physical condition, allergies, etc.

(The fact that I came to the general headquarters of Saint-Fleuve alone in disguise rather than at a branch in the Kingdom of Prospectorate... I wonder if I was expecting my face not to be cracked.)

The number of weeks of gestation is 9 weeks. Early pregnancy. I already had three children with King Prosen.

If you give birth safely, you will be the fourth person.

“When can I get my medicine? I wonder when I'll be able to put it down if I drink it today."

"Um... unfortunately, abortion pills are not easy to give out. Abortion in the temple is a felony."

Abortion drugs are not easily accessible, even by first-class pharmacists of other world pharmacies.

It is not sold in any of the stores of the other world pharmacy series, including the head office. There were no stockpiles.

You need to report it to Pharma in order to dispense it.

"I know." Still, we have to do what we didn't do. ”

"... do you have any special circumstances?"

Amelia asks fearfully to Rosalinde, who is a wolf.

Naturally, I would like to congratulate my wife, the Queen, on her pregnancy.

And yet, it's a big deal because you want to get an abortion in disguise.

In the temple doctrine, abortion is associated with "sacrifice" and is an unforgivable felony. The Queen's infidelity could be an exile from the royal palace.

Pharmacists have a duty of confidentiality, and we can't afford to commit a crime.

"If you don't put it down... I'll be killed."

I'll tell you what I've offered you, but you're the king, right?

"No...... the Chancellor, who had one-sided feelings for me, threatened me and forced me to......"

The Chancellor has a distinctive hair and eye color, and the divine magic attributes and patron saint are completely different from the king's, so it can be seen that he is not the king's son when a child is born.

There is no evidence that the Prime Minister threatened me.

Fearing the discovery of infidelity, the Queen, with the hand of the Prime Minister, seems to be placing abortifacients in everything that enters her mouth. It is probably a symptom of poisoning, and she has also had convulsions several times.

The court pharmacist with the king has strengthened his view of the poison, so it seems that abortion pills are no longer available... but the situation is still the worst, and if abortion is not possible, the queen may be assassinated before she gives birth.

If the abortion succeeds, it is as the Prime Minister intended, but nothing happened.

"How awful..."

Amelia feels sympathy for the queen as she bites off her mouth.

"Please... if you're the same woman, you know how I feel." Please grate it. "

"Thank you for your understanding. However, there are only two pharmacists who can handle abortion drugs. And it's not me.”

"Are those two noble pharmacists?" The rest of you are noble pharmacists, right? "

"Yes, sir."

"Then I can only ask you." I wonder if I can do something about it.

Among the pharmacists of the otherworldly pharmacy, only Ameri had a cane inserted into her waist, so she must have found out that she was a civilian pharmacist.

Through the aristocratic information network, Amelia thinks, are you afraid that things will come to light?

(It is true that Pharma-sama is a court pharmacist...... I can't dye my hands on sin in connection with the abortion of the queen of another country, the Prosen Kingdom. Eleonor-sama is also noble... "I'm the only civilian pharmacist in the Alien Pharmacy. But... I can't handle abortion medicine, what should I do?)

Pharma was concerned about the clandestine spread of abortion herbs, saying that "there are safe oral abortions", but the otherworldly pharmacy of Holy Emperor Elizabeth had not yet been visited by a woman who wanted to have an abortion and had never used it.

To want an abortion is to dye your hands on sin.

Abortion drugs can only be used legally in countries under the influence of the temple for the purpose of maternity protection or in the case of "indiscriminate abortion".

(If we can't use Farmer's modern medicine... traditional medicine?)

Some traditional medicines also have prescriptions that induce abortion.

Amelia, who was a tertiary pharmacist before joining Saint-Fleuve Imperial Pharmaceutical University, knows how to do that, of course.

My mother, Ameri, a civilian pharmacist who ran a small pharmacy on the periphery, taught me the prescriptions that have been passed down from generation to generation as a way to save the poor prostitutes who once existed in the Empire, or to control the number of children in the event of a food crisis.

Penny Royal Mint and Tansy are famous and have been secretly used since ancient times.

Others are dog hacka, sage, lavender...

Iron sulfate, iron chloride, mercury, opium, crushed ants, camel saliva.

In a radical way that is said to work in the second trimester of pregnancy, it is a way to repeat the jump.

However, all of them are ineffective, some of them addictive, and all of them are banned in Pharma textbooks because they are dangerous to the mother.

Because of the risk of poisoning death, it is not something that can be used by a person in the position of queen like Rosalinde.

"Mifepristone" and "misoprostol" are the first choices in Pharma textbooks.

Mifepristone, which inhibits the action of progesterone necessary to maintain pregnancy, is administered in advance, and misoprostol, which causes uterine contractions, is administered 24 to 48 hours later.

Concomitant use of these two drugs has a ≥ 90% chance of causing a pregnancy abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. The longer the gestation period, the greater the probability that the abortion will be incomplete, requiring additional action.

(If you're in the ninth week of pregnancy... you should be able to abort with a second dose)

However, the two drugs cannot be synthesized in Ameri.

There are also contraindications. In the case of ectopic pregnancy, there is a risk of rupture of the fallopian tube if used. A place where there is a kidney disorder. If you have a drug allergy, etc.

Ameri cannot tell if she has an ectopic pregnancy.

When I told her that I couldn't get it out today, she told me to think of a way, and the queen left the store to run away, saying, "I'll be back tomorrow."

(By now, the Queen has disappeared in the Prospect Kingdom and is in serious trouble.)

Although it has not yet been reported in the newspapers, the undercover life will not last long.

I don't think I can keep you waiting.

After seeing her off, Amelia runs a Pharma textbook in the dispensing room as an obscure ocean.

"Earlier, you looked like you had a fever, how was it?"

Farma softly called out to Amelia, who was desperately looking at the textbook.

"Master Pharma... oh, um. No problem, I can handle it by myself. He'll be back tomorrow."

Ameri shrivels.

Before Amelia can say anything, whether she noticed something in such a hurry, Pharma advises.

“Basically, two pharmacists are required for prescription and drug audits. Ameri-san cannot dispense the medicine by herself, so please share the information. If you have a gynecologic condition and the patient is refusing to see a male pharmacist or have an audit, ask an Eleonorian pharmacist for an audit. That's why I always put a female pharmacist on the same shift.”

(No. I can't spoil Eleonor-sama. But I can't hold on to this secret....)

I don't know what to do with Ameri.

(I'm sorry for the Queen, but....)

It's better to turn it down.

There is nothing good about the abortion of a queen of another country.

You may be able to save the Queen's position and life, but in return for Amelia, you may lose your hard-earned First Class Pharmacist qualification.

But what if I refuse...? Perhaps the Chancellor will kill her, as she feared.

Or will she try to abort herself in a dangerous way?

Or perhaps you take a fraudulent medicine with a mysterious pharmacist in your arm.

Amelia is troubled.

I see.

Farma nodded as she looked at the pages of the textbooks that Amelie had set aside.

"Is that so?" You need an oral abortion drug, don't you? "

"Um..."

Farma swallows up Amelia's concerns.

"I have to see you once and check things out, but I can do it, Mifepristone and Misoprostol."

"...... ah"

Amelia explained her story to Pharma in a thoughtful manner.

"I understand the situation." Under current law, abortion is a felony, isn't it? It is based on the doctrine of the temple. Three days later, there will be a regular meeting of the temple, and I will go to the temple and under Saint Elizabeth to legalize the abortion. After that, you can legally have an abortion all over the world. If something like this happens in the future, the pharmacists at the Prospect Kingdom branch will be able to help. ”

While looking at her medical record, Pharma describes her plans for the future.

Amelia finds light in Farma's words, but questions arise.

"It's ridiculous to change the temple law!" It hasn't changed for hundreds of years. It's not going to be this year or next, but in the meantime, the baby will grow up... and we won't be able to make it. ”

The prohibition of abortion is a traditional commandment that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years in the doctrine of the temple.

Just suggesting an amendment could lead to a heretical inquisition.

“I can change. If I can't change the irrational law, there's no point in me being in this position.”

Is it a position? Is it a position of a court pharmacist?

Ameri feels very good. Farma did not answer that and smiled vaguely.

"Well, please wait a moment." How many weeks are you pregnant? ”

"Nine weeks."

Well then, I'll ask for an order in three days.

As Farma had predicted, three days later there was a revision of the Great Temple Law.

It included provisions for the legalization of contraception and abortion, along with a number of amendments.

The section on abortion was less prominent, as the amendments varied over a hundred places.

Amélie was terrified of Farma, who told Amélie that she had changed, with a cool face.

"Why... do you have the power to change the law of the temple?"

"Well, don't worry too much. Now you can prescribe in the Prospect Kingdom.”

How do you approach the Queen?

“Next week, there will be a joint pharmaceutical research meeting between the court physicians and pharmacists of Saint-Fleuve and the Kingdom of Prospect. My brother was scheduled to participate as the head court pharmacist, but he could take over as a substitute, so I'll go and give the Queen an abortion instead. Ameri-san is not allowed in the court, so I will take over the handling."

"Well... that's right. Thank you."

Pharma is a 17-year-old boy who still has a weakness, but for Ameri, he was a reliable teacher and boss. I talked to Farma and never managed.

"I know you tried to protect the Queen, but the healthcare professional has a duty of confidentiality, so I won't tell anyone." Don't be too skeptical. At the very least, it's not in the patient's interest to deal with it alone. ”

Farma's tone is gentle, but she still pushes firmly.

"Yes, yes... but it was unexpected. Master Farma will tolerate abortion.”

“Yes, do you think Amelia should respect her mother's right to self-determination or her fetal life?”

"This time... I think the princess has the right to make her own decision."

Amelia made a decision even though she was lost.

“It's a tricky question to choose between the priority of choice and the priority of life. I'm sure it won't be the answer forever. However, in this case, the continued pregnancy threatens the life of the queen and the pregnancy caused by rape, so it seems reasonable to abort."

Farma went to the Prosen Kingdom on behalf of Pare, and came back doing what she told Amelia to do.

The Queen was given medication and an abortion occurred within 4 hours of misoprostol administration.

Neither the king nor the bodyguard noticed it. The queen was relieved.

A few days later, the queen sent me a letter from her father.

At the time of the abortion, the prime minister was suddenly shut down one day, losing his divine powers and dropping questions to civilians. The prime minister cried out to the guru to open the divine vein, but it didn't matter if he used the magic of the temple.

The Queen's relationship with the King was as good as ever, her bleeding subsided, and her health seemed to be recovering.

It seemed that the queen was prepared to receive divine punishment for performing an abortion, but it seemed that it was the Prime Minister who received the divine punishment.

As a favor, the Queen enclosed a check for a substantial amount of money. There is also a silence fee, right?

"When I talked to Farma, everything went well." The patron saint is watching, isn't he? "

Amelia grabbed the letter she had received and looked up from the garden of the pharmacy.

I don't know.

Farma stretched greatly with the words of Ameri.

“By the way, Amelia said she needed to talk to me about something.”

"It's nothing!" Just a little more... I decided to try my best. "

"Whenever something happens again."

Yes.

The story of Ameri's retirement has been blank for now.