Parallel World Pharmacy

A dubious night club hosted by Alchemist Hermes.

The Alchemy Study Group continued with the performance of alchemy, and a spectacle of Homunculus began.

On a large glass flask brought to you by an assistant is a black cloth.

Summarizing Hermes' explanation, Homunculus is the artificial life obtained by culturing human semen and blood in a distilled bottle and mixing the artificial life that emerged from it with human blood for about forty weeks at the horse's body temperature.

"There's no evidence that it came from there... I need you to photograph the process of growth."

And Ellen was stuck with a small voice.

"That flask, I mean, you want to try to recreate the mother."

Pharma says that to relax.

Assuming it's an attempt to create an artificial uterus, an artificial placenta, etc., and raise people from sperm, Pharma can't even understand. However, it is wrong to try to culture only sperm, not fertilized eggs.

That, too, should be a world where the thing called human eggs is unknown.

It's a story that makes me suspicious of my ears when the Earthlings hear it, but women were thought to be the same things that put sperm out of their vaginas as men.

"Speaking of which, does Master Hermes say he can have human children? Or an uninhabited organism called Homncrus?

Pharma asks Pierre.

"dwarf," I hear.

Pierre doesn't know much about it either. Anyway, from the audience, expectations increase in the contents of the flask.

"I'm going to ask you one thing, Farma, and your theory is that if we don't have all the eggs and the sperm, we can't have life, can we?

Ellen, first and foremost an avid reader of Pharma's medical and pharmaceutical textbooks, though not as good as Palle, knows that.

At first, Ellen was half-hearted about the existence of eggs, but after visiting the autopsy started by Samurai Claude, inspired by Farma's textbook, and seeing the actual follicles and egg hills, she had to believe in the existence of eggs.

And I was to think again of the functional importance as a reproductive organ of the ovaries and testicles. Knowing that there was a fierce struggle of hundreds of millions of sperm around one egg, and that it was human beings who were finally born miraculously from the chosen one, Ellen seemed to feel mysterious about something different from the patron saint's blessing: the birth of life.

While Ellen knew and was moved by such a mysterious tale of life occurrence and birth,

"Yeah, I'm not saying I can't, but I can't do it in that state,"

And so on, Pharma crosses.

"You're not saying you can't?

"Sort of. If you use reproductive engineering, someday."

To Farma's profound words, Ellen looked afraid, "Farma, I wonder what's going on with your world view".

As he did so, Hermes' uptight voice echoed into the venue.

"Come on, this is homunculus. And look at that."

"Finally."

Behind Ellen's expectations, a distracted voice leaked from Pharma, who saw a blackcloth-excluded flask.

"Um, come on, that would be against the rules"

Farma thinks it's this state of affairs.

What was inside the flask, at first glance, looked like a dwarf dressed in clothes about the size of a single finger. But from Pharma's eyes, it's not, actually.

"Ooh... the dwarf does move..."

I don't know. The audience is thriving.

"Seems like a human..."

Hermes cautioned the bewildering audience.

"I'm nervous, so I hate being seen. Don't get too close."

"You were alive. Mmm, this was unexpected."

Pierre, who suspected it was a trick using a corpse, also had to admit he was alive, seeing the dwarf's behavior moving around a little.

"It's not a fetal corpse, is it? Farma, what do you think?

Ellen asked for Pharma.

"I'm going to be disappointed."

Pharma prefaced them once before letting them down.

"Alopecia or a hairless monkey wearing special makeup and rashes"

Ellen and Pierre nearly screamed.

"Such a little monkey, there's no way he's here! About the size of a finger? And your hands and your face are human beings?

"I don't have any hair!

To Ellen's words, Pierre nodded and shut his mouth.

"I guess they just don't know it yet"

On Earth, it is annotated that a monkey named Pygmy Marmoset is only about the size of a finger. Animals in this world don't seem to be known as far as the mistletoe of the world, so it would be easy to make them believe if you used a little monkey that is not yet commonly known that is unique to different worlds.

"If they say so, I can't argue... but if it was a monkey, what about the hair? Skin and fingertips are tight? I don't even feel like I'm shaving."

"No matter how human you look, you don't have white eyes, do you? Monkeys and other wildlife, not humans."

(The tare in this trick was soggy...)

Pharma was still distracted when she thought it was fake.

"There must be a tail under the skirt. Even if it was cut, there are still traces. Um, skirt, I was wondering if you could do something about it."

I want to turn my skirt, etc., and it is Pharma who finally started making kinky remarks.

Pharma was impressed by the legend that said Homunculus can't leave because he dies when he puts it outside the container, well thought out. I can't even touch my hand to make sure.

But it was then.

…… ……

(Hmm?)

The mouth of a cosplay monkey supposedly homunculus was moving.

It's a mouth movement as if you speak the language. And... did you realize that you couldn't get a voice out of the flask, breathe on the flask wall and start writing something that looked like a letter?

”Help me, this man..."

Pharma went to war.

"Oh.... that's enough"

Hermes masterminded it by trying to block it.

He then handed the flask with homunculus to his assistant alchemist and had it lowered.

"Now...... I was writing something!?

Pharma raised her voice to quarrel, but she vanished into the audience's enthusiasm.

"Homncrus says it solves humanities...... it just looked like graffiti. What did it say?

That's what Pierre seemed like.

"No, it made sense"

Pharma, who saw an ape equal in intelligence to a human being, is a thought that common sense has disintegrated. Hermes didn't let Homunculus write until the end, as if he had known to write a humanistic language.

(The monkey wanted to say Hermes did something to him. And I was looking for help. So Hermes insignificantly interrupted me from telling it)

Farma still doesn't know monkeys who write meaningful letters on Earth.

Even on Earth, the "Infinite Monkey Theorem" existed that if we used infinite time to let monkeys randomly (with keyboards) make sentences, there would be a chance that someday we would always be able to have meaningful words.

But it just takes a dozen characters to write meaningful words, but it takes so long that the universe is over.

In other words, the words written by monkeys dressed as homunculus are not coincidental products.

(I knew it was weird!

"Haven't you written anything like a letter right now?

Aside from Pharma, he noticed that the audience had fallen apart.

"Let me see it again!

Other guests who were curious when they heard it spoke in tune.

"Unfortunately, I can't show it for long. It's a fragile creature, so if you stay in front of a lot of people for a long time, you'll hurt yourself."

Hermes doesn't try to show it for the most apparent reason.

"What can I say instead, let me show you another interesting thing. Here is the rose seed. Put the sage stone in there. From the seeds, let us blossom in ten seconds."

Show a crate with flower seeds laid on one side and close the lid.

Shaking that box, Hermes pretends to apply his powers and casts a spell.

And when you finish the exaggerated spell and open the box...... Until it was stunning, the stump of a flowering rose was laid inside.

"Whoa!?

It is a round of applause.

There is nothing to turn the story of Homunculus back on earlier.

"What's going on!? You have the power to blossom from seeds!? What's that supposed to mean?

Ellen is surprised, not the exception, and wears her glasses back.

"You were swinging. I'm a kid about this."

Pharma didn't miss Hermes' trivial move either.

Hermes didn't touch it inside, but he was waving the box.

"I was swinging... if I was swinging, how could it be a flower?

"On the stump, the seeds were stunningly laid. When the container was shaken, the Brazilian nut effect caused the powdered granules to twist the large particles on top. You'll find out when you actually try."

Shaking particles of different sizes inside a container is the phenomenon of collecting the largest particles at the top.

I called it the Brazilian nut effect on Earth.

"Brazil? What does that mean?

(Oh, there's no Brazil in this world, so there's no Brazilian nuts.)

Anyway, it does.

And, Pharma deceived appropriately.

"That's how you end up selling in sage stones to make them buy."

Pierre nearly caught on dangerously, wiping a cold sweat.

There were a number of other spectacles, none of which, if taken from Pharma, fell outside the scope of the manoeuvres that could be expected of Tane.

Hermes also flaunted what would become a chimeric animal, making up an interesting and strange story about his struggles until he developed it.

"Look, Farma, you're the chimera with your feet stuck to the snake?! There's also a two-headed snake. Wow, he's alive."

"You're a snake with legs and a two-headed snake. I wasn't born with a chimera. I was. It's a form of malformation that happens occasionally."

Pharma answers without changing his complexion. Comment on the obvious as the obvious.

"You're not surprised."

"Because it's a malformation I've seen. Snakes used to have legs."

(Maybe he's collecting freaky animals... he seems to have some knowledge as a breeder)

The fact that Hermes is such a capable and knowledgeable person was a glimpse from previous spectacles.

"Mr. Farma! It's human floating!?

The next time the curtain opened, a female alchemist was floating horizontally that she had been hypnotized in front of Hermes' body. Let the audience reveal themselves around the female alchemist to show that they are not offered yarn or wire from the ceiling.

"Are you sure it's floating!?

"You're supporting the bent metal rod from around Hermes' abdomen to the underside of the woman's body. With the same trick, Ellen should be able to do it."

After all, it's a known trick of Tane. Pharma explains in a bar reading.

"Maybe it's really floating, isn't it? Even you, Farma, can fly."

Initially, Hermes was top notch as a fraud around making Ellen half-heartedly suspicious of Hermes.

At this rate, fraud victims will swell up.

That's how the rally, named the Alchemy Study Group, ended in a big day.

"Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for enjoying this evening to the end. Come again."

Around Hermes, who closed with that, there was a swarm of alchemists wanting to buy secret art.

(You can also see that there will be more participants in the rally every time)

When viewed purely as a spectacle, it was objectively satisfactory.

He only took a high entrance fee, plus Hermes' masterful discourse, and was excellent entertaining. Guests seem more or less satisfied.

"Looks like this is the end of the spectacle, Master Farma. You looked familiar."

To Pierre's words, Pharma nods. There were six spectacles in total.

"It was unconsciously funny. I didn't know it was all there, even when they told me there was a spring, and how do you know it all, Farma?"

It seems Ellen regrets that Tane can't see through.

"I know, but I think it's hard for everyone to understand."

"So you're saying that all these spectacles from Master Pharma were incensed?

Pierre sums it up.

"Are you just taking preconceived notions backwards to mean alchemy, a phenomenon that tricks and the average person don't know about?"

One thing I can say about Pharma is that Hermes would rather be an illusionist or an entertainer than a con man, and that he would make more dignified and disappointing money during the day.

But... Pharma thought and frowned.

"Only the homunculus... monkey, but it wasn't just a monkey"

As far as homunculus was concerned, suspicion remained, not just a trick.

Instead, as far as Pharma is concerned, I'd like to see him buy up Homunculus or show him again, and let him write the text that just broke off.

Farma didn't want to obscure whether that was just a coincidence or what.

"What do we do? Are you going to go get a bucket of skin? I don't mind."

Ellen put her hand on the wand. Apparently, he's motivated.

Pharma, by contrast, has a round back. Sometimes I didn't bring it with me at night because when I had the medicine wand, he would glow himself in the dark.

Even if he had bare hands, he doesn't feel particularly dangerous.

"I guess I'll figure out who Homunculus is before I go home"

"I have to."

As they waited for the guests to pull back, Pharma and the others were called out from behind.

"Good evening. Would you be interested in any of the secrets?"

If you think of anyone, you are the female alchemist who was an assistant.

"Master Hermes has asked me to escort you to a separate room if you need me."

"Make us special, is it?

Insurance mixes with Pierre's voice and reveals vigilance. But Pharma didn't mind a blatantly suspicious invitation, and he got on with the other guy's story.

"I was impressed with tonight's secret surgery. Again, I'd like you to show me the homunculus. We are considering purchasing secret art"

"... homunculus, is it"

There was a brief silence, but the female alchemist accepted.

"Okay, here it is. Let me show you."

"Thank you!