The Novice Alchemist’s Store

"... by the way, Mr. Store Manager, can I ever remember that magic?

"What, Mr. Kate, too? Even though you're a gatherer?

Listening to the conversation between me and Lorea, I overheard Kate's words, which I was thinking about, and let my gaze wander between Iris and Kate.

"Mr. Iris, are you going to be abandoned? Quit gatherer, pioneering wizard debut?

"Mmm, really? Kate?"

"That's not true. You think I'm abandoning Iris? How many years do you think we've been together?"

"Right. Kate's leaving me."

"So far, not yet. Isn't Iris unhappy?

He was Mr. Iris, who exhaled in a ho, but reached out to Mr. Kate with a hurried look to his added words.

"Ke, Kate, if you're unhappy, tell me! Because I will make a keen effort!

"Right? Then..."

Yes, there were a number of things that Kate mentioned with a grin, but they had nothing to do with the collector's work, all about his normal life.

It's like a wife who speaks out of dissatisfaction with her husband...?

The relationship between the two is peered at.

"Mr. Kate, are you not particularly dissatisfied with your debt? You still owe a lot to Mr. Sarasa, don't you?

To Lorea, who asked slightly strangely, Kate shook her head with a kick.

"That's not true. If you're ever dissatisfied, you haven't asked the manager for treatment."

"Kate......"

Iris, who was hectic because of various lifestyle attitudes, looks at Kate with a touching look on her face.

Yeah, this is the one called candy and whip.

For future reference.

"Besides, I was somewhat more prepared to get hurt than to be a gatherer. - Hey, it was more than I expected."

"Right. I didn't think I was going to die when I left home, either. Because I was confident in my arms."

"Right. It's more dangerous than I expected, isn't it, gatherer? - It's not a job that can last forever, is it? When I retired, I thought if there was anything else I could do, it would be good."

"Right, especially if it's a woman..."

If you think about marriage, the age of the two around 20 is somewhat behind schedule.

If you think in this village, there's probably no one who's not married.

- Oh, no, speaking of which, Mr. Erin's husband, I've never seen it.

Could...?

But Mr. Erin is probably an Alasser, and it's hard to ask directly.

Let's ask Lorea next time to avoid landmines.

"By the way, Mr. Kate. What are the qualities about magic?

"More than Iris, I guess? Because this is still me, the black elf half."

I look at Kate's face and nod at the information she tells me.

"... I knew you did"

"Oh, did the manager notice?

"Yes, my skin is a little darker, and my ears looked longer, so I thought,"

Even if it bothered me a little, it was only a little hard to ask face to face, so I've been through this before.

In Wang Capital and elsewhere, we sometimes saw something other than human race, and there was no particular prejudice, but in small settlements like here, it was often not.

That's why I didn't put it in my mouth, but Mr. Kate doesn't seem to care for it herself.

"Wow, I, a Fae, have never seen it before!

Even Lorea, who raised her voice, has no aversion whatsoever, but rather stares seriously at Kate's face just because she sees something rare.

"Half the time, I know it's a little subtle... but I don't really see the characteristics on that side."

With a little hair up, those ears you showed me, although they do differ from those of the human race, are only differences to such an extent that they do not deviate from personal differences when it comes to skin color.

"Kate is a father on the outside and a mother on the inside. Oh, it's an elf, because you're a mother, right? They're both pretty beautiful and dependable people."

"When you say that about your parents, it lights up a little."

To Iris, who boasts for some reason, Kate relieves her cheeks as if they were lit up as she put it.

"But is it a black elf? Is that why you have good bow arms?"

In general, elves are aware that they are good at bows and magic.

There is no difference between a black elf and a white elf.

By the way, I hear Black Elves used to be called “Dark Elves” back then.

But they said, "Dark as a little darker skin color, are you kidding me? If it was white, would it be lights? It's like, uh, walnuts, isn't it? 'And you said it, or you have to say it.

So in today's kingdom they are called elves regardless of skin color, and when they dare to distinguish, they are called white elves, black elves.

It is important to note that in other countries it is sometimes referred to as dark elf, and it does not necessarily have a negative image in itself, but in this country, which adopts a policy of multi-ethnic cohesion, it is angry to say dark elf in the public "Ooh".

Sometimes, basically, people are not discriminated against publicly because they are not human, but in rural villages, people are discriminated against before their race.

It's also inevitable in a way that you don't see other races in the countryside, in terms of ease of life.

"My mother seems to have used some magic, but I've never learned it properly."

"Kate was just practicing her bow."

Kate shook her head with a bitter smile to Iris, who told her to just chirp for a moment.

"There's that, too, but maybe my mother, she's fatally bad at teaching people, at least, when it comes to magic.... I've never learned anything from anyone else."

"Uh, that was some kind of sensory way of teaching. I learned a little bit about bows too, but I can't do that unless it fits."

Ms. Iris turned her gaze up to remind her of the matter and nodded 'Convinced'.

"A bow can still ask other people's opinions, and you can look at it and imitate it, because magic doesn't. Nobody else could have used magic." Feel it! 'Or so they say... "

"That's impossible. I'm pretty sure you need to 'feel' the magic..."

Well, except for "what you can use" and "what you can teach".

Especially magic, maybe there's something sensory about it.

The training school for alchemists was just the highest peak in this country, and it educated me very systematically and logically.

It was my master who raised my level as an alchemist by a step, but it was definitely the school instructors who built the foundation.

There aren't too many people personally taught to be swordsman or anything, but I'm sure they appreciate it.

"I understand. I'll teach you two, Lorea and Kate, little by little in your spare time. I can't guarantee you'll remember."

"Of course that's fine. I don't see any chance the wizard can teach me, because I don't. How much do you actually need if you hire an alchemist tutor..."

"Ah... it wasn't a good thing to ask for it easily, was it? Um... should I pay you? If it's about half the salary I'm getting..."

"I don't want it, I don't want it! I can't take money from my friends! It's easy and good, feel free. Instead, I can't take the time to teach you."

Sure, if you're going to hire an alchemist as a personal tutor, it's not enough to give away all the normal people's money, but myself, I'm still immature.

It's not like alchemy, which is the main business, and if I find out that I took money to this extent, will my master frighten me or piss me off...

"Yes, of course that's okay. That's what I want you to tell me, one by one, during your meal break."

"Yeah, on the other hand, maybe that's better? I don't know if I can use magic, because the influence of qualities is so great that stuffing too many roots doesn't lead to good results...... is that good for Kate too?

"Yeah, you can tell me for free, but the complaint is - I'm good for free, too, right?

A little worried, I grinned and nodded at Kate, who asked back so.