The Novice Alchemist’s Store

"Welcome!

When I put my face in the store area to replenish the product, Lorea was just smiling at the gatherer who came.

I've been hiring Lorea for less than a week.

She was better than I expected.

Of course I have no problems selling the product because I can calculate it, but I remember it well, so I was already able to leave it to some extent when it comes to buying it.

So far, the range of collectors' exploration has not changed much, so the materials that are brought in are generally fixed seasonally, and if you remember how to evaluate them, you can value them.

Of course, the material I wouldn't be able to judge unless I was an alchemist would be leaving, but that's infrequent and I was able to get some time to work slowly on alchemy.

Thanks to this, the alchemy daiichi can ripen at once, and now the four volumes are almost over.

Of course, I was able to do that because I had all kinds of materials that my master had given me as a goodbye.

Because when it comes to four volumes, I also need materials that I can't buy a little with my possession.

Even more capable Lorea tried to make me even my meal... she's still in the kitchen, carapo, isn't she?

Maybe it's time to enrich it, because Lorea has also turned her gaze at me like, "Mr. Sarasa, this is just..."

"What do you say, Lorea? You used to work?

"Yes! I'm fine. … although I'm a little worried about the larger amount of money we handle compared to ours"

Lorea smiles and nods, then clouds her expression just a little.

Certainly alchemy related items are expensive, right? I need a lot of big cash when I buy it.

But because it's such a store, we have the right measures.

"Haha, I'm fine. You remember how to use security equipment, don't you? Because if someone is strange, you can use it without hesitation. - It looks like it hurts so much, but I'm not gonna die."

A few collectors in the store gave me a ghoulish look at the words I uttered as I stroked Lorea's head.

I smile at those people, too.

If you don't do something nasty, you'll have no problem with it.

"Call me if you have any problems."

"Yes!"

Yeah, good reply.

I don't think a decent gatherer would cause any problems.

If the villagers turn to me like that, I won't even be able to eat at the place to stay.

Bad rumors spread in an instant that this is such a small village.

"Well, nice to meet you."

When I finished replenishing the product and I said so and tried to go back to the workshop.

"Ha, help me!

With that voice, it was one woman in two men and one woman in charge of it who came in with the impetus that could have broken the store door.

"Hi-!!"

I can't help but think of Lorea breathing.

Simply put, "full of creativity" is what those four look like.

The worst was the woman in charge, who had a rash all over her body, blood from her face, and her right arm was torn from her roots.

Though it is the stopping of the bleeding, there are still traces of blood on the ground that fall slightly.

"Put me down on the floor! Lorea, ask the customers to go outside!

"Yes!

Lorea blued her face and replied with a slight tremor but with a temperament, moving instantly.

I also immediately approach and observe the woman who was put down on the floor.

I manage to breathe, but I'm pretty weak.

He also seems to have a terrible wound to his stomach, and a strongly wrapped cloth is stained bright red with blood.

The left arm is then burnt black and a red rash can be seen on the skin in the non-injured area.

"This is... not only injuries, but poisons too."

"Please! Help Iris!

It's another woman who tells me to say that and beg.

The person who put the woman down on the floor and the other man stand a little apart, out of place.

"What about your right arm?

"I do!

That said, a woman offers a broken arm wrapped in a cape.

It's in pretty bad shape, like it was pulled off a thousand forcefully.

But it's better than none.

"I can help you."

"True!? Then -"

Against a woman whose face shines in my words, I raise my hand to block the words, look at their faces and confirm.

"Except! Is that good? It'll cost you a lot of money, won't it?

The situation is bad.

But you can't miss confirmation, as an alchemist.

"You! Money for emergencies."

"Amateurs shut up!!"

To the man who had pinched his mouth, the woman slapped her words hard.

"We're amateurs!"

"Iris got hurt because you guys went in on your own!

………

Kicked and stared at by the woman, the men looked away at her uncomfortably and mouthed.

I see, does it feel like these four, two and two, put together temporarily?

"Please, help me"

"Yeah. There are two ways. Save only lives. Completely heal. I think you do."

"I'll definitely pay for it! So as completely as you can!

"Got it. Well, first of all, you..."

It's Kate.

"Mr. Kate, get some water. Because there are wells in the backyard. Lorea, show him around."

"Got it!

Lorea and Kate, who finished kicking out customers, headed back, and I went to the warehouse to pick up the smelting drug Potion.

It's not just the injury this time, so it's a bit of a hassle.

You will first need an arm together, a smelter potion to regenerate the missing parts, then a smelter potion to restore strength to the smelter potion to prevent the disease, and finally a smelter potion to eliminate the poison.

The fact that you are losing a lot of health due to a combination of injuries and poison is particularly poor.

If it's one of them, I'll just need one or two of the smelting drugs Potion......

Back in the bag with the smelting drug Potion and tools you'll need, Mr. Kate and Lorea were pumping water back into the bucket.

Transfer half the water from that bucket to the newly brought bucket.

"Mr. Kate, wash that chiseled arm, nearby the incision, nicely. Can you?"

"Yes! I'll do it"

I think it's a pretty tough task for someone unfamiliar with it, but Mr. Kate nodded at her temperament and took her broken arm. The manual is well guided.

In the meantime I cut the clothes on the part of the woman - Mr. Iris' shattered arm - and wash them near it.

Even with that work, Mr. Iris has hardly responded.

- Your vitals aren't a bit good. We have to hurry.

I receive an arm from Mr. Kate, sprinkle about half of the smelting drug Potion on both cuts, and let him drink the rest by mouth transfer.

Then, as I saw it, my broken arm connected beautifully.

This level of healing, it's the third time I've seen it, but it's still weird. While I made my own smelting drug, Potion.

Additionally, I will take Potion, a smelter for poisoning, and take some time to include Potion, a smelter for restoring health, in my mouth.

"Shit! Do you usually take money in situations where your life is at stake?

"The Golden Deceased. This is why the Alchemist."

Something's out loud.

If it doesn't help, I wish I could go somewhere.

"You little shit! Just kidding -"

Raise your voice, restrain Mr. Kate from trying to grab him, and I point to the man.

"Man there, next time you should bring us everything we collect in the Great Tree Sea. Because I'll use it all to help people. Sure, for free, right? Because my life is at stake."

"Behold! That would be a different story than this!

"Yes, they do! There's no way I can do what I've taken for free!

"What's the difference? If my life were in danger, I'd treat you for free, how many people do you think would come together if there were such rumors? First of all, you collectors go into the Great Tree Sea because alchemists buy it at a fair price, right? Are you convinced they said, 'I used it to help people, so I won't pay for it this time'?

The men cease to speak in my words.

Do these people think alchemists have endless amounts of money?

The material used in the potion, the smelting drug I used this time, is not what I can buy right now, if it were meant to be.

I just happened to be able to make it because my master gave me a goodbye, and normally it's not the kind of smelting drug "potion" that I always have in store.

"I'm sorry. Those are stupid guys. Forgive me because I apologize."

"There's no need for Mr. Kate to apologize... but it doesn't help to be there, and I guess I should just leave?

That said, when I pointed out the exit, it was two guys with some disgruntled look on their face, but when Mr. Kate glared at me, he dispersed awfully.

Really, you're selfish, aren't you?

You complain to me, because we don't give Kate any money and we don't tell her we're going to bear it.

"Lorea, lock the entrance, close it, pull the window curtain too"

"Yes."

Lorea moves quickly and closes the keys and curtains.

And magically lights a slightly dimmer store, cleaves Mr. Iris' clothes with a knife, and also removes the cloth that was wrapped around his stomach.

"Is this a nail mark?

"Yes, like a bear, it was a beast with four arms. Spit up to the flames..."

"Four arms, poisonous, flaming...... Hell Flame Grizzly?

I'm not the kind of person I'd meet around here.

With all that doubt, I wash away my belly wounds beautifully.

Is your health recovering somewhat, Mr. Iris, who returns a slight reaction every time you wash your wound?

"But that's pretty bad. Do I have to use another bottle?"

Looks like he's recovering a lot thanks to the potion, the first regenerating drug he used, but still, seeing as the scratches aren't blocked, he's getting scratches at a level where he's almost out of his stomach...?

Not as expensive as the first thing I used, but I wound Potion, a rather expensive smelter.

"I don't really want to use it because it drains my health."

It is a potion, an alchemy that has a tremendous effect, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't matter how much you spend.

Using potion, a powerful smelter of many kinds at once, is inherently a very dangerous act.

Each effect interferes with each other, and there is also the risk of side effects that you didn't think would occur.

That's why if you don't use it, you die, you have to use it.

All you can do is adjust that side effect to be as little as possible.

After I hang the potion, the smelter for the treatment of my injuries, I again place a little potion of the smelter for physical recovery in Mr. Iris's mouth.

With that, Mr. Iris's rash has healed and his complexion is getting better and better.

Kate finally relieved herself of the way it was, and she took a whopping breath and bowed her head to me.

"Like they're amateurs. You made me sick, didn't you?

"No, because I don't think I can help but think the smelting drug Potion is expensive"

I shake my head to Kate, who asks me with a sorry look on her face.

Honestly, I'm pissed, but the items the alchemist actually sells are quite unit expensive, and the profit margin is high.

But you can't discount it cheaply.

Like I said earlier, if someone sells cheap, people concentrate there, and there's pressure on other alchemists to discount it.

That's how discounting results in a lower profit margin and a shredded willingness to be an alchemist until you have a hard time.

That is unacceptable as a country that wants to increase the number of alchemists, and naturally there is no way an alchemist can be allowed to make such a discount.

Besides, the materials used for alchemy are basically expensive in the first place.

Why is it expensive, because it may be necessary to collect in dangerous places like the Great Tree Sea, which is why collectors are setting high prices as motivation to enter there.

I've spoken to Lorea before, but the "high profit margin" is also "if you look at the product alone”, and if you count the materials lost due to the failure of smelting, it's not really that much.

A critical profit line with a seventy or eighty percent success rate, considering the surplus and inventory.

If you want to deal with Artifacts, a high-difficulty smelter that uses expensive materials, if you don't save a lot of money, you'll be bankrupt just because you failed to smelt once.

So the more serious the alchemist is, the tougher the kitchen situation can be.

Unfortunately, it's hard for the average person to understand.

I myself, until I got into school and studied, said, 'Alchemists make a lot of money!' I only had the image.

There are few people who can calculate themselves, so you can't even say profit margins.

"Aren't those people at the party?

"This is the first person I've met today. Me and Iris are in pairs, and this is the first time I've dived into the sea of trees, so I worked with them who said I was used to it... and it was totally on my feet."

"Lorea, have you seen those two men?

"No, this is the first face I've ever seen. Maybe he's new here."

"Right."

I don't recognize him either.

It's almost impossible for a collector to be diving in the Great Tree Sea and not come to our store, so the word "used to" would be a lie.

At least, you never dived from this village into the Great Tree Sea.

"I knew it, did I?

"At least, you're not a veteran. You pulled it off."

"Ha... I should have turned back when the move looked amateur"

Ms. Kate holds her forehead by her hand and sighs loudly.

"Well, it's better if you just abandoned me and didn't run away"

While we were talking about that, I finished taking Potion, an alchemist for physical recovery, so now I'm taking out Potion, an alchemist for disease prevention.

I don't have a problem getting this to drink at once, so I let it drink again with a mouth shift and wipe my mouth gently.

Although Mr. Iris was the one who blocked the wound, I guess he still doesn't have enough blood. I'm still slightly pale.

Still, the rash that was out all over my body has already healed and my breath is calming down a lot.

Pulses and breathing too...... do you manage a normal range?

It's a little less magical, but to no extent problematic.

I magically checked lightly to make sure there was no abnormality, and I lowered my chest.

"Phew... I think this will do fine for now"

"Thanks! I really don't think I can do this anymore..."

As a matter of fact, I'm practicing, but I've never been in such a terrible situation myself.

But he was desperately pretending to be calm, according to the principle that "no one who treats him should look anxious or anxious”.

- It was done, wasn't it? I'm sure. Yeah, it should be fine.

"For one thing, clean your body and let it sleep. Get dressed, do you have any?

"Uh, in the inn..."

"Then bring it.... If so, do you want to stay with us? The room is empty."

"Are you sure? Honestly, I'd like to save money to pay for it, but I appreciate it."

"Yep. I think you should look at Mr. Iris for a while."

Probably fine, but there are side effects.

It's safer for me to be nearby.

"Got it. Luggage, I'll get it!

That's what I say. No, Mr. Kate jumps out of the store.

That's when I saw Chirali and two guys waiting outside the store, but Kate completely ignored them, and they'd have trouble coming in, so tight doors again.

"Lorea, will you wash this bucket?

"Understood."

By the time Lorea gets back, let Mr. Iris take his clothes off and bare them.

Check your whole body for any other injuries.

If you have a normal injury, you should be recovering from the smelting drug Potion, but if you have a poison needle or anything else that says so, you should be aware that it doesn't even have the effect of detoxifying it there.

The poison you healed will be injected from there again.

Hell Flame Grizzly's poison is a nail, so I know it's okay but I need confirmation.

"... yeah. No problem. But quite a proposition, okay?

I couldn't afford to care less earlier, but he's quite beautiful.

Only the gatherer has a tight body and a neat face. Blonde with dirty blood now, but beautiful hair too. Speaking of which, Mr. Kate was also beautiful.

- Guys, you spoke up for absolute appearance earlier.

"Mr. Sarasa, I've been washing it"

"Thanks. Put it here."

Lorea brought it to me in a bucket, and now she magically serves hot water.

Wet the cloth with that hot water and wipe the whole body clean.

If it's true, I'd love to take a bath, Mr. Iris, but it's pretty big, isn't it?

Muscularly, I can manage with physical strengthening, but I don't like the difference in physique.

So let's have patience until we can move ourselves.

Clean your bloodstained hair as much as possible, and use Lorea's hand to put her to bed upstairs.

"Phew. Thank you for your help, Lorea."

"No, it couldn't be a big deal and..."

Lorea's complexion, which I tend to lay low for a little while, was only a little worse.

If you think about it, you don't usually get to see a major injury like that. Nonetheless, it was just awesome because there was no confusion, no noise, and you helped me out properly.

"It was a little irritating for Lorea, wasn't it?

"Yes, I'm surprised. - Alchemists can handle that, too."

"Well, sometimes they ask for treatment. I have an internship. I've never been that bad before."

"Really? He seemed calm."

I smiled bitterly at Lorea, who said strangely.

If that's what you looked like to Lorea, it looks like my vanity was going well, too.

"It was one drink at a time. - But I'm glad you told me that Mr. Kate would pay. I didn't want to abandon you either."

"... If Mr. Kate doesn't pay, didn't Mr. Sarasa treat you?

I'm stuck in words for a moment to Lorea's words asking me to peek into my complexion.

"- That's a tough question. But as an alchemist, that's what you need. to help more people."

Even if we can help one now, more people will suffer if the mechanism of alchemist and gatherer is lost.

To do so, you may have to choose not to help even if you have the means to help.

Unless that “means” is inexhaustible.

"Have I been disillusioned?

I give a little thought to Lorea, and I hang up.

I'm not going to change policy, and I can't change it, but I want Lorea to understand if she can. To stay close in the future.

But my anxiety elsewhere, Lorea shook her head lightly and nodded.

"Oh, no. I understand what Mr Sarasa is saying. 'Cause my life is on the line,' because I think it's just an excuse, too. Instead, Sarasa, who uses all that smelting drug Potion just for promises, is amazing... expensive, isn't it?

"Huh? Oh, yeah. That's expensive. Lorea said... I can't buy it without working desperately for about a decade, can I?

In fact, collecting all the salaries for ten years doesn't even reach the price of the material.

"Right. You know, using that smelting drug Potion on someone you've never met before... don't you think they'll step down?

"Uh-huh, wouldn't those guys have used it if they were dealing with you? But I think I can trust Kate, because I thought so."

Just intuition.

But for Mr. Iris, I nodded without hesitation.

I'm sure Mr. Iris is an important person for Mr. Kate.

"If this is going down, it's just that I didn't have the eyes to see it."

That's what I said to Lorea, and I laughed.