The Novice Alchemist’s Store

"Chi, because you're not, are you? I'm not going to be violent that easily, am I? It's a basic discussion, isn't it?

- Except for a bandit or something.

Bandits must not die, and there is no mercy.

"Um, even if I know. Killing an aristocratic private soldier is a bad idea!

"Wow, even I can do better than that! - Chi, no! I won't get my hands on it or anything easily!

"The other day, I thought a broken door was knocked out of the store."

"Oh, that's because I heard Lorea screaming..."

You can't help getting your hands up on a girl or getting beat up, can you?

You deserve it, don't you? It's a no-can, right?

"I mean, that doesn't mean if you get your hands on Lorea, she'll be pretty. Even if it doesn't work, it might fail. Look, lava lizards and stuff."

"Ugh!"

My neck fell off...

The sword cut was better than I expected, huh?

I mean, bare hands don't worry about that either... No, you can't bare hands!

Two disobediences!

"They fled on my wheel!

"... for now, thank you, I'll tell you. - Although the engagement was my first ear. We used to talk about that, but you don't remember agreeing to it, do you?

While thanking Iris on Doya's face, if you add a tickle and sarcasm, Iris and Kate look at each other and lower their brow butts like a little trouble.

"I'm sorry. But in addition to the debt shoulder, they would have helped us where we were in distress the other day, wouldn't they? Until it takes a lot of work and money."

"Yet we haven't been able to return anything. So his wife also said, 'It's still not enough to iron Iris and offer him. The only other thing I can give you is the housekeeper.'"

No, that's not a good thing to give, is it?

Isn't that the most important thing to the nobility?

- I'm not even talking about Mr. Iris making it easier.

"As far as I'm concerned, the presence of Mr. Iris is quite helpful."

Ask them to collect the materials they need, or help them when they need manpower.

Even in terms of crime prevention, I believe that having collectors, Iris and Kate, has a better impact than just the two of me who have just grown up with underage Lorea.

In fact, I can fight too, and it may not be much different in terms of the level of danger if attacked because of the stamps on the crime prevention, but the large number of people makes the opponent wary, and it's so much better not to be in that situation.

"I appreciate you saying that, but I need to thank you in a clear and objective way."

"Because even the weak aristocrats have trouble being seen as ungrateful"

"That's... I kind of get it..."

If you are seen as not giving back, you will not be able to get help even at times, and it will be very difficult to live in an aristocratic society where reputation is important.

But whatever it takes, the housekeeper is too heavy.

Maybe that's all you owe me... but honestly, I'm a little in trouble.

"Ugh..."

Lorea just exhaled as impressed, against me confused as to what was going on.

"Huh, Mr. Sarasa, are you going to be a nobleman? Awesome, isn't it?

"Awesome, isn't it? Because there aren't many more aristocrats in this country"

Some countries can buy aristocratic status as long as they have money, but in this Laprosian kingdom they cannot even join the aristocracy's last seat without extra merit.

That's why even if I wanted to put up a martial arts medal in the war, I don't have the opportunity to do so because high is known, such as a martial arts medal that civilians can put up, and this country hasn't had a war in a while.

For once, as a way out, there are ways to son-in-law, dowry and essentially buy a title to a nobleman whose neck has stopped spinning because of debt, as the Rotze family was set up, but this does not increase the total number of nobles.

But from the country, this is also natural.

Even though there isn't more territory, it's cheaply reciting, it just increases the burden on the treasury.

Once you make it aristocratic, you can't drop it so easily on civilians, so there's no way you can do that, such as increase aristocracy so easily when you think about the future.

"But nobility isn't just easy, is it? I have responsibilities and work to do."

Not if you are a decent nobleman. If you do poorly, like the Rotze family, it can even happen to carry a lot of debt for the people.

Of course, there are benefits to gaining a different degree of trust from the civilian population, namely social status.

"If there's a generation of lords who can't inherit, it's possible."

"It's really just honor, some titles don't even get a pension, so how much is it worth... it's a little subtle though"

"Well, thinking about it, what about Mr. Iris' Rotze family, actually?

"No, it still doesn't make any difference that we're a junior nobleman."

"But you can inherit, right? That's where Mr. Sarasa gets involved... as a Rozze family, is that good?

"I trust the character of the manager. Exactly. It would be difficult for the Store Manager to marry someone else and that child would inherit the Rozze family, but if it was a child with me, it would be fine. If marriage or working as a lord annoys you, just form it. That's what you get."

"No, it's not (...) Ke (...) So! Because the tea-down hurdle is expensive!!"

In many ways, it's a paradigm shift, isn't it?

Unlike Mr. Iris, who, as a nobleman, was also thinking of marrying against his will, I thought, like your father and mother, that one day I would meet a nice man and be attracted to each other and marry him.

Well, in this year, I also understand that that's hard and that there are many marriages where the loss comes first.

Love is dessert. Even if it's just love without staple food, it's just drowning and dying.

"If you really can't, Mr. Store Manager, there are ways to adopt a child born of Wisteria or Cattleya, so feel free to think about it, okay?

"Even if they say it's easy... uh, it was Mr. Iris's sister, wasn't it?

"Uhm! They're both pretty cute! When you come to us, make sure you let me introduce you! I'm sure you'll get along with the manager."

I've never seen you before, but to Wisteria, who is still ten years old but active resembling Mr. Iris, a ladylike Caterea under those two.

Master Adelbert's immediate line has those two, so even if he can't have a child between Mr. Iris and me, he doesn't have a problem as a Rotze family lineage.

However, if I marry Mr. Iris just in form, I find it harder to marry a man!

status as a nobleman and a normal marriage.

If you hang on the scale, as a merchant I lean on the former, and as a girl I lean on the latter.

Mmmm...... shaking.

"... I get it. I'll swallow it for now."

It would be undesirable to strongly disagree if we also consider the face of the Rozze family, which requires gratitude in a visible way, and we are not talking about how to do this now.

Things will change if debt repayment proceeds, and for one thing, it's good to shelf it, right?

I myself, for a while, am going to focus on my work as an alchemist, because at the moment there is no one who likes me.

"That's it, and what was that one earlier? The Marquis Films, was it?

"Oh, that? The current head of the Marquis Films family is married to a woman."

""... Huh?

Even if I know it as knowledge, I'm not familiar with aristocratic society, and I don't know anyone like that.

So me and Lorea all turned a blind eye to the fact that there are aristocrats who are actually same-sex marriages, and that is in the high status of Marquis.