"Why are you here, called the Blue Virgin?
"It's for these kids. These kids are just kids who lost their parents and lost their place. I take care of them."
"In here?
"No, I just come to the site of this holy capital at night. It's a little further away from here."
"Really? So he picks up a plant called salt grass and sells it."
"Exactly. This salt grass is a miracle plant that grows even on land where crops are no longer grown by salt. We take the salt out of the salt grass, we sell it to the merchants, and we take care of the orphans with that profit."
The Blue Virgin Myriah will answer my question.
Little children lean against her body perfectly, clutching to her clothes.
Apparently, it's true that the children here admire you.
Somehow, she was a woman who made me feel motherly even though she was still young.
"I see. That was tough. But you mustn't lie, Virgin. If possible, I want you to tell me everything without hiding anything from me"
"What is it about? I'm not hiding anything."
"Salt grass is a miracle plant that can take salt, was it? No, isn't it a little different? Maybe it's true that salt grass is a miracle plant. And the fact is that salt can be taken from its roots. But it's not called a miracle plant because you can take salt from this plant, is it?
"... what are you trying to say?
"Earlier, when I received the salt grass from the boy, I found out. This is the ingredient for the poison. Perhaps the toxicity itself is not strong if it remains intact, but it affects the human body at all when collecting it. Therefore, children are allowed to collect"
"... I'm not sure what you're talking about"
"They are orphans. But not a child without any power, is it? From what I've seen, all the children here are children around the time they are finishing their baptisms, and I wonder if anyone has a name yet. I mean, they can all use magic. Besides, that magic is called the Blue Virgin, a magic you can't even use."
"... these kids are just normal kids"
"Maybe you brought orphans from old Kyle territory or old Gizanian territory? I expect these children to be children of the land that was once occupied by Naja of the Marshall Mercenaries. It was also already baptized by that priest when the priest of the church, who had jurisdiction over the land at the time, was killed by Naja"
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"These kids should be able to use it. [Deactivate Poison] Spell. With its [poison deactivation], salt grass can be collected that can be the raw material of the poison without affecting the human body. No matter how powerful the miracle plant is. But you can't [deactivate the poison] yourself. So you're using children."
"Salt grass is a more ancient plant. It has a history of being used to regenerate land with particularly severe salt damage. What the hell is the basis for poisoning it and saying that?
"You'll see. [Poison deactivation] is a magic I made. It was with all the poisonous grass applied to my body and drinks out of my mouth that I magically sublimated myself to endure that suffering. As a result, you know. Whether the plant is toxic or not. Perhaps it would still be microtoxic if it were just to be harvested, but I wonder if purification could produce a fairly strong acting drug, no?
"Stay away from me for a little while. I'd like to speak with this person for a moment."
On my way to Migliaria, I was observing the salt grass the boy gave me.
That's when I realized.
That this salt grass is toxic.
My body had become a poison discovery sensor by repeating experiments with memes.
At that time, I created the magic of [poison deactivation] using the drugs available for memes in my own flesh.
The magic has served me as a spell that can cope with the unknown poison ever since.
The same is true, for example, of the poison in Fox Valley, where the nine tails were once supposedly inhabited.
It was also because of this [poison deactivation] that we went to a place full of poison that supposedly kept no one close and we were able to recover the flame ore.
Others also helped me eat unknown foods in the western seas and jungles.
That means I'm fine with poisons that I've never experienced before, and will have roughly all the resistance to poisons.
What's more, I myself have a body that can handle poison without having to use magic.
Your body will almost unconsciously respond when you touch the poison without using [Poison Deactivation].
And I can tell by that sensibly.
This salt grass is not just a plant, he said.
That's why I told the boy to fit in with the leader this way, knowing that he was letting the children collect this stuff by saying, "Pick up salt, etc."
I never thought I'd catch a big guy like this.
Blue Virgin Miriah.
I've heard stories of people with beautiful, long blue hair and very popular.
I didn't know such a person was collecting poison raw materials here.
I didn't know, I won't let you say.
It would be unlikely that she would be utterly ignorant of the potency of salt grass, even said to be the next pope.
To hear what the hell we were thinking and doing this from our mouths, we decided to move the place so that we wouldn't be heard from the boys walking away worried.