Parallel World Pharmacy

6: 17. Josephine's hypothesis and the price of the spirit drug

"Return of Emperor Saint Fluve and Holy Nation High Priest Elizabeth -

After about a half-month stay in the Holy Nation, the Holy Emperor returned to the Empire of Saint Fluve with Juliana and Clara and key pivotal clerics, as well as Pharma.

When the Holy Emperor's carriage line entered the Imperial Capital, the citizens were surrounded with enthusiasm and in great disturbance. The people who were devastated during the Empress's absence were awaiting her return.

For the citizens plunged from tranquillity, they realized that her presence was the patron saint of the Empire itself.

People follow after her later.

Like a child waiting for my mother to return.

"Your Majesty Elizabeth... Your Holiness Elizabeth! Are you finally back?"

"The Empire was tough!

"We look forward to your return. If only you'd come back a little sooner..."

If the carriage queue runs down the avenue, the voices of the people go after the Holy Emperor.

"If Your Majesty returns, the evil spirits will not be afraid!

"You think you're going to serve both the high priest and the emperor? As an emperor, it's a noble thing."

Pharma burned the sight in his eyes as he refrained from waving beside the empress in a flamboyant manner at the people along the way. Because she was an emperor, I think the empire must have held up.

And to the emperor of Saint Fluve in history, Farma came to think that the firm belief that the world's most powerful use of divinity would reign would have attracted people in this world so easily invaded by evil spirits.

There was no rest in Elizabeth, the Holy Emperor, who returned to the Empire City.

He took victims by evil spirits to the affected areas, directed the reconstruction of cities destroyed by evil spirits and major facilities with nail marks of vivid catastrophe, and executed a massive special budget for the citizens.

The Temple of Imperial Capital, which is a key to the safety of Imperial Capital, is home to multiple treasures of its origins, and his staff ID, which Farma had placed as treasure in the Temple until then, could be recovered.

"Mother, stay away."

"Damn, he's a sweet, helpless one"

"I don't care what you say."

When I had some time to rest my hands, I also showed my face as a mother, such as playing with a prince who had bent his navel out of loneliness and anxiety because of the prolonged itinerary and reading picture books.

An empire that begins to reclaim its routine with the return of Elizabeth, but some of the citizens who seem to have felt uneasy about the temple of the Imperial Capital have not returned from being alienated to the city of Lambue.

The residence of de Medicis had also extended its evacuation schedule until it had completed repair work to a state where people could live, with significant destruction caused by a curse.

At Imperial College of Medicine, cell cultures were underway in top secret to remove only a fraction of the Holy Emperor's skin cells, sheeting them and increasing them, in order to overcome the curse of the melting formation.

It was Emerich Bauer, who is totally becoming his most apprentice, who was entrusted with development directly by Pharma.

Emerich continues to develop with pure pleasure, without complaining about the magnitude of his responsibilities. Back at Imperial Pharmaceutical University, Pharma speaks out to Emerich and students, as well as technical staff, who continue their work.

"Good day. Emerich, how are you?

"Hello Professor! Look, it's in great shape!

"How much more since then?

"Right, we'll reach our goal area in a few days. Bacterial and viral infection tests are also negative!

As Pharma enters the culture chamber, Emerich shows Pharma a sheet of cells growing in a thermostatic incubator applied by the divine arts, whilst obviously twisting Emerich on his face to praise him.

Special culture instruments, etc. were not disposable, and Melody was asked to produce them.

"I'm impressed, you reproduced it!

Pharma and Emerich microscopically check and count it and estimate cell counts.

"You're doing well. I'm glad that the nutritional cells that help cultivate the epidermal cells under the Holy See and the sterile environment in which they can be cultivated are safe."

"It's true... if the evil spirits had contaminated you, decontamination would have been tough"

Because the students and faculty who stayed at the university came together and defended the university with their lives. Among them are Emerich and Josephine, including Bruno, and Professor Casper, who lost his divine power.

"And because you were passionate about doing research for me."

"I'm coming."

When he returns to the student-room in the lab, Josephine joins him, apparently after finishing his veterinary duties. She was also, voluntarily, beginning to help Emerich experiment.

"Hello, Professor! You were here."

"I have time for today. Well, I'll explain my plans for the future."

When this cell is ready, transcribe the melting formation on the queen's back into the cell and analyze the nature of the cell. Here's how to transcribe the melting squad, which we already know is an infection.

First, antibodies that label the source of infection constituting the melting formation are made and bound. The antibody is copied into a cell sheet of the epidermis by applying voltage from the outside, causing the source of infection to switch from the in vivo to the in vitro environment. You will sever the curse from the Empress's body.

Emerich, who was organizing cell information along with Pharma and Josephine, was frowning with difficulty.

"What's the matter, Emerich, you look weird"

"Um. There's nothing different about that strategy, but I'm worried about one thing."

"What?"

"It may be an amateur question, when and how did the melting formation under the Holy See express itself?

"Because my predecessors died, it hasn't been the answer, but that's all I know, as it stands. I know that the trigger was the death of an earlier generation, and that's an infection."

Pharma has laid down a decree telling some students involved in cell culture how Elizabeth is doing. They are two people burning with a sense of purpose to save the life of the Holy Emperor, but Emerich sometimes doesn't fall to anything.

"Your Majesty wasn't in contact with the Grand Priest, was he? Is it something that gets infected with air infections or something?

"Right. By the death of the high priest, the melting party was infected and expressed under Elizabeth's Holiness."

"How did the melting party perceive the death of its predecessors and move on to the back of His Holiness?"

"That's a tough question."

"Besides, we're going to transcribe that source of infection into a cell sheet and culture it, but no infection to us?

"I'm going to do the post-infection work. Luckily, I wasn't infected."

"You don't have to develop, maybe you have a latent infection, right?

Emerich's sharp protrusion is cracked, but Pharma was also the part there that he left on hold.

It's easy to blame the tomb guard for the beginning of the infection, but it doesn't really fall.

It was the words of Josephine, a veterinarian and Pharma godson, who was touring the work of the Pharmas that soaked up the thought that was stuck in Pharma's trail.

"Um, sorry if I'm wrong"

"What, say it"

Pharma encourages free opinion.

"I don't think it resembles a bee or ant, this phenomenon."

"What do you mean?

"When queen ants and queen bees die, it's where we can have a new queen. When you find out you're dead, you try to hit the next queen."

It is precisely the perspective of a different world veterinarian.

Farma, who was a pharmacist, had forgotten this phenomenon because she had in mind that it was an infection. Not to mention him unfamiliar with this otherworldly zoology. Knowledge around that, needless to say, Josephine was better up there. Even on Earth, there are not only insects but also a few species in mammals with a fertility class and a "true sociality” consisting of a limited population of social animals of breeding individuals.

I don't know if Pharma is in another world, but on Earth there are truly social animals such as hadakadebana rats. In his previous life, Pharma has been involved in genetic analysis in aging studies with regard to this rat.

Hadakadebana mice live ten times longer than normal mice, are highly resistant to cancer, and tolerate oxygen free, a research animal familiar to pharmacists.

Hadakadebana mice also have a true social lifestyle like bees and ants, but if a breeding female equivalent to a queen bee or queen ant dies, there is a common part with bees and ants in that only one female in the same nest becomes a female for breeding and prevents the sexual maturation of other females with pheromones as long as the breeding female is able to reproduce. Josephine's reasoning continues.

"Isn't that how it works to be chosen by the melting squad? In that case, the stimulus that His Majesty saw the death of the Great Cleric may have affected the activation of the Fusion Formation."

"Well...... sure"

Pharma struck his hand impressively.

Josephine seems happy because her opinion was acknowledged.

"A bee or an ant system..."

If we force him to apply this phenomenon, it would mean that the death of Pius interrupted the pheromone or something he was emitting and that the empress, who recognized the interruption of that intervening substance, bore the next melting formation.

In other words, neither bees, ants, nor hadakadebana mice are aware of the death of breeding females, not vision, but pheromones, and receptors.

"No wait, this idea doesn't explain why only one person in the whole world bears the melting squad...... oh well. So those of qualities were gathered in advance under the high priest as pivotal priests of the Holy Nation? But chemically accepting pheromone molecules is not an infection..."

I've already got the answer that it's an infection.

The story that goes with it stares Emerich and Josephine in the face and alternately at Pharma, who began to think of it as a bump.

"Then it would mean that His Majesty had a receptor for Substance X or was infected with something that would make the receptor express itself. Pius, I'm going to find out from that perspective what was coming out of the Holy See and what the Holy See is emitting right now."

If we compare the Holy Emperor's genomic information to that of a very common theological user, we may be able to pinpoint the existence of receptors for Matter X. It narrows your horizons to jump on this hypothesis, but it's not a bad idea to make sure. Josephine floats her hips.

"We'll look into the literature too! You're going to list animals with that kind of sociality."

"Oh, thank you. It's a meaningful idea, it'll help."

"I don't have much time, so I'm going to focus on cells."

"Right. I hope so, Josephine. Nice to meet you."

"Ha!"

(I'm starting to get inspired by students. glad the interaction is no longer a one-way street)

When Pharma returned to the professor's office at the Pharmaceutical University, experiencing the growth of Josephine and Emerich, her godchildren, she encountered Zoe, who had been at work.

"Mr. Zoe, it's been a long time since you've opened your seat. I'm sorry."

"Ah, it's been a while, Professor! How long have you been here?

"It's been a while since you went to work during the day. I'm sorry I always acted like a correspondent."

Farma, who was returning to Imperial Capital at night, was sneaking into the late night teaching room, leaving notes at Zoe's desk to direct his work. Zoe looks happy to see Farma's face.

"I'd like you to schedule a meeting this afternoon, okay?"

"Yes, I did. To whom?"

Who Farma wanted to meet, that's Professor Casper.

Visiting Professor Casper's professor's office at the promised time, the old professor was indulging in nodding his books and glancing at the material.

"Come all the way, Professor Farma de Medicis."

"Sorry for taking the time"

The tone of Professor Casper's voice remains the same as usual.

But she's the same and not in the same condition as before.

Pharma handed him the tea confectionery he had chosen after familiarizing himself with the professor's preferences.

"Well, he's my favorite."

"I asked the secretary for the professor's preference. Now, can I get to the point? I heard my father was going to use a ban and deplete Professor Casper's divine powers. How's your body?

"Oh, my body's fine, I'm worried about you."

She has lost her divine power throughout her life to the price of Bruno's ban.

Bruno barely heard his divine vein crumble, but Casper was not safe. Farma, who was listening to the story, wanted to meet in person to see if she could not get her hands on her divine veins.

I wonder if you've been worried about that.

"That's the place. Let me take a look at the Divine Veins."

"You can do that, but there's no hope."

Having Professor Casper meditate his eyes, Pharma examined the divine vein, but certainly there were no more divine veins left in her body. The divine vein seems to have withered and closed completely.

Pharma has had his divine veins snagged closed, but now, even the closed marks are gone. In this state, even just Pharma can't get his hands off.

She had become a total civilian.

Professor Casper asks, as Farma is losing his word, a little off the hook.

"Looks like you couldn't?

"Yes, there seems to be no more divine veins"

"Hehe, don't look like that. I'm fine, and that's okay. I feel lighter now, too. I was a wind attribute theologian, but you don't like theology. Where training was also a hundred million robbers these days. So I'm sorry I lost my power. I broke my cane and threw it away."

Professor Casper, speaking pale, was no longer even caned to support his readiness to do so.

Because a professor who has lost his divine power doesn't need it. There will be no immediate difficulty with clothing and accommodation, but there is no doubt that property will be confiscated and nobles will be expelled.

"Um, if you have any inconvenience, please come to our house. You're welcome."

There is enough room in the de Medicis family to entertain the old scholar as a diner.

It may be cramped for Professor Casper, but she thought that her old age life should be the responsibility of the de Medicis family. But Professor Casper laughed as if to smile at Pharma's care, as if his shoulder strength had waned somewhere.

"You can't be a pain in the ass. Even if I'm no longer a nobleman, I'm a scholar. You don't have to rely on divinity to be ashamed of my academic path."

The old professor, shuddering, seemed to dislike sympathy.

"I will not forget the professor's wisdom and his achievements in saving so many people"

"Thank you. Please, if you think so, don't feel sorry for me. That's because I don't want to feel miserable about this one either"

"... I understand. Bye."

"It's cold in here, so you don't catch a cold."

Pharma backed off with a meeting as she swallowed the voiceless words.

When he tried to leave quietly, Professor Casper released a strong word, as I recall.

"Your father's curse is more serious than that, but I wonder what happened"

"I heard my father wasn't losing his divine power."

Professor Casper blued to Pharma, who had no idea what was going on.

"Yeah, but if you use divinity one more time, your body decays and dies, that's the kind of curse you had, Father."

Farma took a while to fully understand it with Professor Casper's words. Habaritour, the spirit medicine, was a medicine to protect citizens from evil spirits. In exchange for the forbidden formula, he was to dye his hands against the ban, which means.

"There's no such thing as a convenient ban without a price for an operator. If there's such a thing, it's not forbidden."

I mean, Bruno is practically, like, never going to be able to use divinity again.