The Novice Alchemist’s Store

"Is it a herb that grows in the winter? Not that I don't... it's tough, isn't it?

I can make it ready.

It's a kind that's hard to grow simply by sowing seeds, so you'll need to give them what I grew up to seedlings, but once rooted out, they won't wither even in winter if you don't neglect to take care of them.

But in a cold winter, it's pretty hard to get your hands on indispensable.

"I'll do my best! Hey, Michael?

"Ah, ah! Absolutely! Mr. Sarasa, can you handle this?

Michael, who was strongly asked to agree by Izu, nodded as forcefully as he panicked and bowed his head against me.

"Fine, I think it's hard... is there something?

"As a matter of fact, a child..."

"Huh? To Mr. Izu?

Izu nodded shyly as she dyed her cheeks at me as I rounded her eyes and listened back.

"Yes, I know it will be spring to be born"

"Congratulations! So...... But then, Mr. Michael, I know it's gonna be tough on your own, but are you gonna do it? If you just want to eat, you're okay, right?

"Well, if I'm a little bit too..."

To Izu, who almost told me to help, I shook my head kickingly.

"No. Winter farming cannot be allowed for pregnant women. If you need any help from Izu, I don't have this story."

"Izu, I'm fine. I'm not clever, but I'm good at tricks. I'll ripen the job well for one. So Izu give birth to a healthy child."

"Michael...... ok. Good luck. I'll wait at home!

Two people staring at each other with their hands together.

Congratulations, but it's eye poison, so I want you to do that at home.

And - Hey, here. Keep your face away from me!

"Oh ho! Then I'm with this. Keep up the good work."

Two people rushed away to my deliberate cough.

To those two, that's all I say and turn my back.

Around getting married without a quorum, I know you're passionate, but I want you to think about time and place.

I'll tell you one last time, 'Keep going' is about farming, right?

Don't get me wrong!

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Beside my regular job, having set up a backyard herbal field with a bee, I worked on a flower bed on the table of the store that was feeling a little left out next.

Its flower beds, where some flowers were blooming from spring to summer, and more recently, when autumn has deepened, all flowers are over and the leaves are starting to turn a little brown.

Just what I'm planting, naturally those flowers too, alchemy material.

Dig up the bulbs, half for next year, half for material.

For ornamental and practical use. I'm not wasting any space and effort.

In an empty flower bed, plant herbs that blossom from fall to winter.

Not a very gorgeous flower, but better than not, is it?

Note that for once flowers - that is, because the colour of the store is the purpose, the selection criteria are quite beautiful flowers.

The value as a herb is not so much valued.

"For once, it's a girl, so am I. Women's power, a little needed. Yeah."

Even a women's power appeal like the one I put on, probably, is better than not.

Because in many ways, you're losing to Lorea.

But I just want to think you're beating Mr. Iris.

- Other than the exterior aspect.

I don't want to compete with you already.

I want to like myself the way I am, the way my parents gave birth to me - deluding my mind that way, while getting to the next task.

"Next, make a nursery aid."

This is a plate-shaped smelter (artifact), with milky translucent colors, slightly larger demonic crystal stones arranged in four corners, and slightly smaller demonic crystal stones arranged in a row on one side of the plate.

Excellent thing that automatically manages water and temperature when you line up the pots you sow on this.

It's not as perfect as a complete nursery, but if you don't even cut off the magic, it germinates almost 100% and grows to seedlings that can be planted in the field.

I plan to use this to grow seedlings of medicinal herbs to be planted in the backyard and seedlings to be offered to Michael and the others, but those fields are still pre-harvest, so first the backyard.

If you just gently meditate on the cost side of over 100,000 rare, it's not as difficult to smelt (artifact), so make it right.

In the pot arranged above, I will plant a somewhat elevated seed of medicinal herbs that my master asked me to pick up the other day.

"This is Chileinove, this is Giverway and Charnilles, and this is Van Caro," he said.

It's hard to tell the species, so plant it in a pot stabbed with a name tag so you can't go wrong...... is that it?

"This kind...... what is it?

There was a seed divided into sachets for each type, a grain of seed not remembered by me rolled in the bottom of the sachet that had been put together with that sachet.

A seed a little bigger, a little more robust than the others.

It looks like a kind of wheat, and it's similar to apple seeds.

But I don't know for sure, such a species.

"... let's find out. Because of that, I bought a dictionary."

I stood up with the seed in my hand.

In store space, Lorea was sitting at the counter, as usual.

Next to it, the alchemy material dictionary has been expanded, and Lorea is running a pen on the paper, looking at it.

As I peeked softly into her face there, Lorea immediately noticed this way, looking at my face and checking her time wondering.

"Mr. Sarasa, what's wrong? Looks like it's still early for lunch..."

"It's not that way. I can do a little research. Can I borrow that?

"Yes, of course. Go ahead."

"Thanks."

Immediately receive the alchemy material dictionary given to you by Lorea and roll it apart.

At the same time, I turned my gaze to the paper that Lorea was writing.

"How's Lorea? Good?"

What I'm asking Lorea now is to load the alchemy material dictionary that arrived with the herb seeds the other day and remember the material on there, while at the same time copying the contents onto other paper.

Even so, I'm not talking about copying it all the time.

He tells collectors to pull out only the information they need when collecting it, compile it easily, and then write it down.

Its purpose is twofold.

One is to have it collected by informing collectors in this village about materials like they never knew before.

By doing so, we hope to increase the income of our collectors, as well as the variation of our products.

The other thing is to have Lorea's own understanding also deepened in the process of compiling the information.

This is quite important because alchemists also need as much knowledge as they can collect themselves.

If you move your hand and write, it must be easy to remember.

"What do you think? It's like this."

"Yeah, it's done right - no, you're pretty good, huh? Lorea."

Roll the bundle of paper that Lorea offers, and I blink.

A painting that, although different from the detailed depiction of the dictionary, captures the characteristics properly and the information required for collection is well incorporated. Pretty good.

This could be a bit of an unexpected talent.

In addition, the description of the herb is bulleted with only the necessary information so that even collectors who are not comfortable reading the text can grasp the main points.

It doesn't just say the buyout price, but this varies depending on the season and availability, so I plan to paste the items in a separate table.

"This is gonna be a lot to look forward to."

"Really? Thank you.... Did you find Sarasa's research?

"Uh-huh, no, hey..."

As a student, I have almost grasped the contents just for books I have read over and over again.

From those memories, I started rolling through the page again from the beginning, confirming the blurry material but there was no match.