The Novice Alchemist’s Store

"Uh-huh, the truth is, people my age aren't that strict..."

The Alchemist Training School entrance exam is supposed to be taken when you are ten, but age verification can be less demanding.

Basically, the age at the time of the exam is self-declared.

Nobles still don't know the age of a civilian, or a child living in a rural area, so it's impossible to check strictly.

Therefore, if it is the first exam, it may not be a problem even if the actual age is somewhat over.

It's just... I look at Lorea's body and shake her head.

"Lorea, I don't know if I can,"

Even though, I was well developed for my age, Lorea.

He has grown well since he got to know me and is almost fourteen years old. Now he is at a level where there is no problem when it comes to being an adult.

In the first place, the Alchemist Training School entrance exam is a difficult exam that you won't take unless you study desperately for years.

So the only place I can enroll in civilian is in a family that is wealthy enough for my kids to just punch into studying, or mostly from an orphanage where there is no aftermath like me and there is room for other kids to help.

Intermediate layers of civilians do not have to be as desperate as orphans because time is difficult to take with the help of their homes, so they are considerably less likely to take the exams.

If you want to pass so many exams, even a well-grounded Lorea will need the time to do so, and by the time you get the knowledge you need, it will be tough looking to insist on being just ten.

And that seems to know Lorea herself, and unfortunately, she just sighs when she has no choice.

"I knew you were..."

"But if you can't be an alchemist... it's not impossible"

"Really?

Brighten your expression to my words as if Lorea seemed a little surprised and found hope.

"Yeah. Actually, yeah."

Typically, if you want to get an "Alchemy's License," you have nothing but to enroll in the Alchemist Training School, pass all the exams and graduate.

However, the aim of the State's creation of this school is to ensure the quality and number of alchemists, the former anyway, which, as far as the latter is concerned, would be counterproductive if the other gateways were completely closed.

The remedy set up there is to grant an "Alchemy's License" if it is recommended by a high-ranking alchemist (an alchemist at least intermediate, usually senior or higher) and passes an exam that takes place every few years.

However, this is considerably tougher than entering an alchemist training school.

Because none of them equals an alchemist who puts a civilian who has no knowledge whatsoever in his apprenticeship and trains him until he can pass the exam.

In school, you have to repeat your studies, traineeships, and exams for five years, from morning to evening.

How much time and cost would it cost to try to teach you the same things you learn there.

If you're an alchemist who's retired and has extra time, you're still a regular alchemist, you can't just work on educating your disciples, and you'd still be better off if your education took ten years to double.

In addition to that, the difficulty of being extrapolated is the educational content that the master imposes on his disciples.

Though it may seem surprising, little exists, such as an alchemist who can teach his disciples everything that is taught in school.

The professors and lecturers at the school each teach their specialty, and how hard it would be if one alchemist, the master, tried to take charge of it all.

Besides, the difficulty of obtaining the "Alchemy's License" test exceeds the regular exams and graduation exams held in schools due to the lack of evaluation points for regular classes.

At the level of 'do not manage to fall' on school performance criteria, passing is first and foremost impossible.

A nobleman or a rich man who really wants to make his child an alchemist hires multiple alchemists and other tutors, and spends years with the big money, he sees the possibility.

If you dare, it would be like that.

Explaining that to Lorea, the brightened look becomes once again a mixed dark look of giving up.

"... I mean, practically impossible, what is it"

"No, it's not, is it?

"Huh?"

"Could it be possible for me? Not right now, but in the long run."

Still, I, my school grades are almost chief.

He scores close to the top in all subjects.

I mean, I have as much knowledge as I can mentor...... I'm going to.

"Bye!"

"But I, rather than coaching, have almost zero experience of teaching people,"

I've lived an almost unbridled life, teaching each other things to friends!

I don't care if you've ever done anything study group, I'm not proud of you, but we were basically good, so we were just surrounding our desks together.

Even if we teach each other what we don't understand, it doesn't feel like 'teaching' because we can just say one word, two words, give advice, and solve ourselves.

Of course, none of them have ever coached beginners.

I don't know if I can raise myself to a level where I can pass the alchemist's qualification exam for making Lorea an apprentice like this...... honestly, I'm not sure.

"One more thing. Lorea doesn't have that much magic power, so if everything goes well, it's pretty unlikely she'll be able to grow up as an alchemist, right?

Even though the Alchemist needs' precision in magic manipulation 'most, if the absolute amount of magic is low, there is a limit to the number of times he can perform the smelting, and he can't make anything that requires a lot of magic.

In other words, there is also the possibility that you can't make what is on the alchemy daiichi, and if you get caught up in it, you won't be able to increase the level, and that's where you hit the head.

I'm still a minor, and I don't have a zero chance of growing up, but the amount of magic is a big part of what I was born with, so I can't expect much.

Most importantly, until all five volumes of Alchemy, or intermediate alchemists, you don't need that much magic, so if you're going to be an average alchemist, then the amount of magic isn't much of an obstacle.

"Still, I don't mind. Either way, because it's more important that you be able to work and want to be of more use to Sarasa."

"Oh, my God."

I am frankly glad to be said, my face unwittingly looses.

I don't mind anything, but maybe I care a lot about just sitting on the counter after all.

"But... studying alchemists is pretty tough, huh? Hard work encouragement. Those who pass the entrance exam, which is a difficulty, study for years, practice, and still more than half disappear frustrated. Such a world. Still do it?

In Lorea's case, even though she can work as a clerk in my store even if she can't be an alchemist, for a long time - more than ten years if she sucks - she studied and took the exam, and I think the shock would be enormous if she fell.

And the odds of that are never low.

Rather, there may be little chance of passing.

But Lorea snorts firmly.

"Yes. I can't say I know how hard it is, but I swear I won't throw it out on the way. Mr. Sarasa, will you make me your apprentice?

To Lorea, who stares at me with a serious face, I decide to be ready too.

"Got it. I can't guarantee you'll ever be an alchemist, but I accept you as a disciple."

"Thank you!

Lorea thanked me happily, looked at my face again and loosened her mouth a little.

"Uh, Mr. Sarasa"

"What?"

"Master, should I call you?

"That's Yamate. Because it's a little too heavy."

I shook my head instantly to Lorea, who says it sounds a bit like a prank.

Even when it comes to the alchemist's apprentice, it's not in a public capacity, and there's no restriction on taking the apprentice, but in my first year of graduation, I don't care what you think about the paper's making me call a 'master'.

If my master asks me that... I don't think he'll be mad at me, but laugh a lot, huh?

Yeah, you don't.

"As good as ever, as always"

"Yes, I understand. Sarasa, thank you very much."

"Welcome. Let's do our best!