Parallel World Pharmacy
Chapter 6: 1: The Darkness of Thanksgiving
November 1147 came.
Farma is also used to going back and forth between college and pharmacy, and lectures, internships and patient visits are doing well with Ellen and the students.
Farma was a college lecture that day, and the pharmacy was held by Ellen and a part-time pharmacist.
"Wow, let's take a break"
Ellen, stretched out, asked Lotte, who was breaking the medicine bag at best.
"Speaking of which, next week's Thanksgiving, Lotte's coming, right? Hey, why don't we meet up locally, too?
When Ellen shows Lotte her handheld Thanksgiving brochure, Lotte begins to seriously read the overview of the event.
"Huh? It's my first ear. Thanksgiving in 1147? In college, is it?
"Yes. My college, it's conservative, so I do Thanksgiving every three years. Looks like we'll do it again this year. Farma, haven't you invited me?
Thanksgiving is a celebration of gratitude to the patron saint, held every three years for nearly a week on a global scale.
This period can be like a masquerade ball, parades, and events are held around the world, believing in the patron saints. The event was also held at Imperial Pharmaceutical University.
"I haven't been invited..............."
Lotte replied more depressingly.
"What? That's crazy. Hey, I guess I forgot to ask you out. Anyone is supposed to come, family and friends. Your father and mother are coming, and I'm going to take Sophie with me. Lotte, come on, hey, why don't you guys come when you're free too?
Selst and Rebecca were interested when Ellen invited the part-time pharmacists as well.
"I think the kids will love it! Absolutely."
And, when Celst answers, Rebecca says,
"I want to go because I'm always free..."
And he said he was going to hang up, so I want to tap Rebecca's shoulder so Ellen can encourage him.
"Oh, Rebecca. No, I can't believe I'm always free. You should keep your plans for a little while."
"Like the store owner, is it?
Rebecca uttered a far-fetched word.
"Uh, no, Farma, you're too tight. I don't plan on getting in, I plan on playing."
Pharma is playing like a boy his age, Ellen says she wonders.
"Wow, take me too, Master Eleonor! Is Sophie coming, too? How's Sophie doing? Have you grown?
Lately, I don't see her face because Ellen doesn't bring Sophie to the pharmacy because she's busy.
"I'm not going to grow up that fast. But I'm so energetic. Okay, I think Sophie would be happy to see Lotte, too! It's getting cuter and cuter. Thanksgiving is fun, there's going to be a mountain bike and there's going to be a ball."
Lotte looks at the brochure, her eyes shining and asks Ellen.
"What is this, a confectionery shop or a dining room?
"I knew Lotte would have eyes on you! Farma, I heard you said at the professor's club," Why don't you open the store? "Then the idea gathers the support of the students. It's settled."
"That's Farma, when it comes to festivals, he's a confectioner! Doesn't Master Rebecca agree?
"Wow, I don't really..."
Rebecca couldn't agree.
"Already, if Lotte. I mean, could Thanksgiving have been such an event... the main event is the masquerade?
Ellen snapped her neck.
Thanksgiving Day quickly arrived.
On the day of the festival, Farma left for the university in the early morning with Bruno, either because he is an executive committee member of the Thanksgiving Festival.
At Saint-Fluve Imperial College of Medicine, the lively music played by the in-school orchestra rang on the university campus, and the university buildings were ornamentally decorated.
Thousands of out-of-school guests walk around the Saint-Fluve Imperial Pharmaceutical University, reborn this year, familiar with the grand in-school events.
Students and visitors wearing colorful masks began to gather around the main venue and special stages. Those who float and dance at the triennial festival and take off their wings are also out.
"Where is it, Master Eleonor?
In such a gorgeous atmosphere, Lotte came to the meeting place with Ellen.
And soon, I found Ellen ridiculing with them, thinking she was surrounded by godchildren and students. Ellen wears a mask, but the long silver hair and outstanding style made Lotte distinguishable.
Besides, she was pushing a gorgeously decorated stroller.
"That's Lotte, isn't it? I didn't know. Where'd you sell that mask?
Ellen notices and speaks to Lotte.
Lotte wore a full mask, a mask with cat-shaped ears. The colourful glass decorative motifs are elaborate.
"Eh heh, I designed it and the friendly court craftsmen made it for me. What do you say?
"It's cute, that's good. Nice pink dress, too."
Ellen's mask is the only eye mask type around her eyes, and the design with butterflies is contemporary and luscious.
"Sophie's asleep now. I don't think I'll be awake for a while."
When Ellen took the nanny holo, there was Sophie inside who would sleep in the afternoon with an easy and serene sleeping face.
I'm losing my baby look and I'm loving you more and more.
"Wow! Sophie! You've grown."
"By the way, Lotte, Farma, did you say anything this morning?
"No, you seem busy. Dear Eleonor, listen, I didn't end up being invited by Master Pharma...... could I have come to Thanksgiving?
"Yeah? I asked you, Farma, but you said you asked me out about Lotte at the pharmacy. I wonder if I'm mistaken. Oh, look, look, there."
Farma was on a special stage, attending Thanksgiving ceremonies with the Director-General, Bruno, and the professors.
"Ah, Master Pharma!
Even as Lotte waved, Farma seemed unaware.
"Farma, you are a member of the Thanksgiving Executive Committee. Maybe you're too busy running and don't have time to slow down with us. Let's go around."
"Ha!"
Stores are lined up around the main venue, with good food aromas and alcohol on sale.
Usually, it's forbidden to drink outdoors, but all this seems rude.
Lotte buys around the treats she's looking for, and Ellen turns to show Lotte around the school as she speaks to the students.
I also ran into Admiral Jean in patience mode.
Melody was also invited as a guest, who was guided by Bruno and seated at the guest table.
The special stage also featured a dance of service to each patron saint named after the Thanksgiving Festival, as well as mini theatre, talk shows and tricks, and the two received a fervent cheer from the audience.
"It's a fun festival! I've never seen anything like it."
Lotte enjoyed the air of the festival full of her body as she refrained from waking up Sofi.
"Farma, you've been suggesting a lot of interesting things. She looks serious and has quite an unusual idea, and she seems to love the festival."
"Master Eleonor, would you like something to drink? Me, I'm thirsty, so I'll buy it!
"Really? Then a refreshing juice, please"
Lotte disappeared with pleasure.
"Ellen, you were here!
At the time Lotte went to buy a drink, Pharma, who brought the girl, called out to Ellen in the audience.
"Mr. Farma!? Oh, what about you?
The girl also wears a mask, so Ellen doesn't know who she's been walking with.
"Oh, that snare. It's me."
Taking the full mask, Emerich's younger sister appeared.
Pharma looks at her and is surprised, blushing and squeaking.
"That, what about Lotte?
"Huh?"
Ellen missed one of his far-fetched words.
I immediately wondered why Pharma had said that. She ears at Pharma so that she could not hear Emerich's sister.
"So you, Farma, could you be wrong about Lotte... you invited her at the pharmacy?
What a sister after Emerich, not Lotte, that Pharma had invited to Thanksgiving beforehand.
"What are you doing now? Didn't you properly look at Lotte's face and invite her?!? I can't believe I can't tell your sister from Lotte. Lotte, I was a little depressed."
"Uh... I messed with it"
Pharma was also slightly depressed as he excused whether it was the sky above.
Lotte came back to buy a drink there.
Listening to Ellen, Lotte opened her eyes wide.
"What, did I make a mistake? - Huh!? Voice or face? Which one is it? I serve you all the time, but not really. Aww!
Farma exasperates at the mistake of Lotte and Emerich's sister just because they are similar.
"No, because you guys really look alike... your voice and your face. Um, sorry."
Afterwards, Pharma had been asked by Lotte and Emerich's sister which would be the more vocal quiz.
"Sorry, I don't know either. Farma, I can't talk about you."
Both Pharma and Ellen would have taken off about one question out of three if they hadn't seen the two faces.
"Dear Farma, Eleonor! On purpose? It was on purpose, wasn't it?
"Sorry."
Farma apologized, but Lotte regained her energy when she found it to have been a misunderstanding. Later, he also met Rebecca, a part-time pharmacist who apparently had some free time. Ellen exchanges words with Rebecca.
"Rebecca, I knew you were here. We talked about not coming when we had plans."
"Uh, I invited someone I care about... well, I'm free"
Everyone guessed it was a story you shouldn't hear in depth.
"Oh, you are."
Rebecca noticed that she was concerned about her surroundings and looked blushed and embarrassed.
"Speaking of which, how's Mr. Oygen doing?
Farma asks Emerich's sister how her brother is.
"If you're my brother, over there"
When Pharma and the others saw who showed her sister, there was a young man dancing in a dance space and drawing attention.
"Yeah? Is that Mr. Oygen?
Ellen puts her glasses back on. I misjudged you.
Oigen, who was genetically treated and restored the peace of everyday life, goes where the introverted personality was, totally bright and cheerful, his sister says happily.
"Humans don't change."
"Hehe, exactly. My brother said he seemed reborn. Then I said I wanted to exude that joy."
"You're exploding."
Pharma calmly adds a word.
"Genetically, it's like being reborn. If it's fun in person, it's good."
"Thank you for today, I'm going home with my brother"
"See you later!
Soon after Oigen, the sweaty one, and his sister took him home, smoke began to fill the area.
"That, what is it? You smell burnt, some smoke."
The nosy lotte quickly notices the anomaly.
The tent at the store where I was dealing with the fire seemed to be on fire.
"Somebody! No water attribute magicians!
I can hear you calling for help.
"It's Boya. I'm coming."
"Oh, my God! I'm gonna go extinguish the fire, too, 'cause I'll be right back, Lotte. Hey, look at Sophie."
Pharma runs to the source of the fire, Ellen also deposits Sophie and runs out of her wand.
And Lotte and Rebecca kept Sophie's riding stroller.
"Master Rebecca was a wind attribute."
"I'm not very good at theology. I respect those two of you who can leave right at a time like this."
As Rebecca and Rotte were exchanging words, Rebecca was attacked by something from behind, thrust and fell to the ground.
"Yikes!
Lotte tried to scream, but was beaten on the flank, his mouth blocked and he was circled behind his back and strangled with wings. The raiders are a threesome of men, and Sophie is also held by one of the big men.
"If you make a scene, I'll kill you all!
"Hey, who are you! Shame on you!
Rebecca rose up and shook and pulled out her wand. But Sophie and Lotte are being held hostage and can't attack.
The frightened Rebecca was forced by a stormy attack from one of the men, the audience being distracted by Boya, but a few began to notice strangely. One man emitted a smokescreen where the noise was getting louder, and when Rebecca paid for the smoke with the art of wind divinity, the men were on the run in the meantime.
"Ha, my God!
Rebecca, who was left behind, was going to be blue and relieved.
"Lotte! What's wrong!?
Back there, Ellen wakes up Lotte, nodding down her flank.
"Ah, Master Eleonor. Sophie... sorry, what happened"
Rebecca also apologized when Lotte reported in confusion.
"Dear Eleonor, The men attacked me from behind. It's a threesome of men, I'm sorry, while I'm on."
Lotte and Rebecca talk about the raid and the men's outfits.
"Okay. You're not supposed to be that far away, I'll get Sophie back and punish you, Farma, so tell her when you get back, and contact the guards. You're going home, don't look around."
Ellen gently took the two hands and ran out saying so to include and make them listen.
"Ah! Wait! Dear Eleonor!"
"Master Eleonor is strong, so aren't you afraid of even the three of them? What shall we do?"
As Lotte and Rebecca wandered around, Pharma, who apparently finished Boya, returned.
"Dear Farma! Oh my God! Sophie and Master Eleonor......!
…━━…━━…━━…
Ellen pinpointed the abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of Teito.
"I wish I hadn't come alone. But I can't help it... waiting for the guards to find something Sophie might not be able to help."
Hold your breath and stand your cane in front of the iron door. Ellen was tracking using something called a divine power probe needle.
It's like an azimuthal magnetic needle that applies divine power, and when you make the probe needle remember the divine power of the human being you want to explore, it shows where that divine power is.
Sophie would soon walk around the mansion and hide, so Ellen was picking up that expensive tool to help her with her daily search.
"le gros marteau de l 'eau"
She confirms that Sophie's signs are far from the door, destroying the door once and for all with divine art and stepping inside. The floor of the warehouse is flooded with Ellen's divine art. Ellen screams at the men inside.
"I found it, people! Give her back!
"How did you know it was here?"
The men suddenly look upset or surprised to be exposed to advanced divinity.
"You know what you know!
When Ellen walks into the warehouse and looks at every corner, the wide indoor is littered with waste material. On the abandoned platform at the corner, a blanket was laid and Sophie seemed to sleep on it.
Next to Sophie, another abducted boy is shackled and rolled over the floor.
"Sophie! Are you all right? Answer me!
Ellen calls on Sophie, but Sophie is unresponsive. The boy seemed to be asleep, too.
"Is that what wakes you up? Obal, I let you drink grass."
"Obal grass?
It is a traditional medicine that is used for a long time to fry sleeping grass.
However, since Pharma found the drug ingredients in it to be toxic, it has been banned from use in the Imperial City, and all of them have been disposed of by the Empress's decree.
In the Empire, it's not easy to get anymore.
But if you're out of the country, it's not a story.
"You're not the nobles of the Empire, then."
"Hmm, you've given me extra information. I don't owe it to you, but I can't give it back alive!
Nor do the men seem to be going to miss Ellen, pulling out the wand.
It's going to be a divine battle on a one-on-three basis.
"What country are you from? I don't know why I bothered to kill you!
"There are as many of you as you would value a child with a rare attribute."
"You've recently found several unattributed orphans in Imperial City."
Another man continues.
"It's a dump, you can grab what you dumped."
When Ellen listens, apparently, it's a dark group of junior aristocrats who take children with rare theological attributes and traffick in human beings.
"I won't tolerate that! Sophie is my precious sister, I'll put them all together and deal with them!
"Does everyone mean this one's in the accounts, too?
The door on the other side of the warehouse opened and several more men came in from behind. Everyone has a cane.
Confronting as many as ten rogues, Ellen hits the defense ahead of time.
"Sanctuaire de l 'eau"
It's like a water junction, losing the power of divine art within a specified range.
Large enclosures around Ellen in the sanctuary prevent attacks on Ellen.
Ellen used divine moves, so the men have set it up too.
Ellen can't hear the language of the activated chanting of the men's divine moves. We just have to look at the first moves and discern them and deal with them.
” ”
When a man chants an activated chant in a language that doesn't make sense, a flaming arrow strikes Ellen from front to back.
” × × × × × ”
Next is the wind. Those attacks were painfully deactivated in Ellen's water sanctuary, but the power is considerable.
"What is it?!
Activated chanting can be as many words as the system of art is firm, so Ellen cannot discern divine moves and is forced to struggle.
"" Water Play "(JEUX D 'EAU)"
Ellen deploys a shell of water in all directions, giving direction with one swing of the wand. Some of the attacks fired hit the men, who were knocked against the warehouse walls and lost consciousness.
”△△△△△ △△”
But the flamethrower unfolded the flame wall and the second shot diminished its power.
Ellen suffered a vacuum blade attack on her leg and there was blood flowing from the lacerations.
Ellen loses her balance to too much pain and kneels on the floor.
"Not yet..."
Suspicious objects jumped into Ellen's sight as she raised her face to stand up.
Gunshot.
"Become..."
Ellen's face falters into despair.
The sniper is aiming for Ellen perfectly. The moment I chant the activation chant, I end up being shot.
Even a god like Ellen can't beat the speed of a bullet.
"I can't believe someone with a cane is a gun... no shame...?
"Whatever. No, it's over. Take the trouble and die before we make a scene."
It was when a man was trying to pull the trigger.
"Wait!"
In a large warehouse, a voice echoed.
Through the doors of the destroyed warehouse, one boy enters.
"Eh... Mr. Farma..."
"What is this kid, where did he come from?"
Some of the men point their canes at Pharma and are in a state of battle.
"Please miss her. I'm guessing you're looking for a divine use of rare attributes, huh?
Pharma approaches the men, appealing to them to be round hips.
"Huh? What can a kid like you do? Can you even use it in unusual attribute divinity?
The men laugh.
"Available"
"Show me proof."
Pharma seems to have caught the men's attention when he let them discharge using a trick between his fingers.
"It's conditional on her release. If I don't drink, I'll never use divinity again."
"Fine."
Slowly walked over by the men, Pharma was handcuffed in steel.
Ellen is released. Pharma is tied to a wrap around with a curse that seals divine art from above the handcuffs. Ellen was similarly tied up and kicked over the floor.
Farma was then pulled away in front of a ready carriage outside the warehouse and pushed into a steel box placed on the carrier. The kidnapped Sophie and the boy are with him.
"Mr. Farma, Sofi......!
Ellen screams when she sees the carriage that puts the two of them away.
"Don't scream! Be quiet!
Ellen was hit in the head with a blunt instrument and fell and lay down on the spot.
The Imperial Guard found an unconscious Ellen in the warehouse and transported her to the pharmacy by carriage only after it was evening.
"Are you all right, Master Eleonor"
Rebecca and Roger, who did Ellen's first aid, peek into Ellen's face.
Ellen is blind without glasses and has no vision.
Lotte was also in tears, accompanying Ellen perfectly.
"I'm fine, Sophie and Pharma, there were other kids who got caught... an exotic criminal organization!
The gendarmerie and the Imperial Knights, who received a report from Imperial Medical University, have sealed off the entire Imperial capital and said they are in the process of searching for missing persons and kidnappers in a position of hundreds. During that investigation, Ellen was discovered.
"Dear Farma -!"
Lotte's tragic screams echo all the way outside the pharmacy.
Then Lotte saw a shadow walking from across the avenue.
"Did you call?
With such a voice, Pharma walked back.
On both of those arms, holding Sophie asleep in peace.
"Huh? How did you get back!?
As if nothing had happened, Farma came back on foot with Sofi.
From the walk I hung around, as if I were coming back.
Pharmacy staff rush down the stairs to welcome Pharma, filled with joyful voices.
"Great......! You're safe!
"Yeah, we got a lot of kids at the kidnapping site, so we let them all go."
Everyone on the spot had an open mouth unblocked.
"How did you get out of that steel cage? He was shackled, and the spell was a geese."
"Well, the cage, the shackles, the cloth, the material was simple, so you disappear."
Pharma duly clouded the story before the part-time pharmacists.
"To?"
With Pharma's ability to eliminate substances, being put in multiple cages equals not being present.
Erase the iron, the copper, and the cellulose, and he'll be free at all times.
"Because normal material doesn't bind me. Don't worry about getting caught next time."
Pharma looks cool and explains to Ellen.
"What's going on?
Pharma deliberately pretended to be caught and took the back of the unattributed divine human trafficking route involving dozens of divine users and obtained a list of human trafficking customers.
So he went out of the cage without difficulty, defeated and detained all the executioners, and further sealed off their divine veins and protruded them back into the gendarmerie.
The children who had been abducted said they had returned safely to the orphanage in Imperial City.
"Yes, it's Sophie. I didn't get hurt."
Ellen took Sophie out of Pharma's hand and hugged her softly.
"Oh, Sophie. I'm glad you're safe. Thank you, Farma. You're in danger, too."
"I'm really, really glad..."
Neither can Lotte stop crying over the safe survival of the two of us.
"It's Ellen's important family, even if the blood isn't connected."
Pharma adds treatment for Ellen's injury.
Since the burns were beginning to have heat, he poured divine power on Ellen and treated her to improve her wound healing ability.
"By the way, what about the kidnappers?
"I've only punished you a little so you can never use divinity again."
Pharma laughed innocently.
I wonder what the hell you did, nobody stuck with it.
The following day, remnants of an exotic group of criminals were arrested at all costs by the gendarmerie of the Imperial capital by information provided by Pharma.
On this occasion, the orphan of the divine use of unusual attributes was to be even more generously protected by the Empress's order.