Next holiday.

I'm supposed to meet Mr. Franz and the others at the Royal Palace.

I originally intended to go to the Chamber of Commerce, because I contacted Mr. Franz and he told me he wanted to see me at the Royal Palace.

I'm sorry because I wanted to see how the Chamber of Commerce was too, but I had no choice because it was strongly hoped for.

As we headed to one of the Royal Palace rooms, Mr. Franz and Mr. Oscar were waiting.

I came on time as I specified, but I feel sorry for making you wait a little.

Nevertheless, given my position, I have no choice because I have to come later.

I'm still not used to it though.

"Is this Zaydera's botanical atlas?

"Yes."

After a gentle greeting to each other, we sit on the couch.

What I told him after a little chat about the recent state of the Chamber of Commerce was the real deal.

When asked to pick up Zaydera's botanical drawings, Ms. Franz dropped her gaze on the table.

"What do you use Zaidella's botanical drawings for? To find out what Zaidella's ingredients are?

"I've got that, too, but I need to know a little bit about the herbs."

"Herbs?"

"Yeah, I have a visitor from Zaidella at the Royal Palace right now."

"Uh, I hear there's a prince coming."

"Yes, yes. So..."

Mr. Oscar called me while Mr. Franz was thinking about it.

He asked me why I wanted to pick up the botanical atlas, so I told him how it went.

That I had the opportunity to talk to the prince at the institute, that I heard from the prince at that time about potions made with Zaidella-specific ingredients, and that I was therefore interested in Zaidella's medicinal herbs.

Speaking of that briefly and in an orderly fashion, further questions flew out as to whether it had caught Mr. Oscar's interest.

"Master Sai was familiar with the potion, wasn't he? Was the prince familiar with the potion enough to attract such a sei's interest?

"I think that's pretty familiar. Not just for potions, but also for herbs. Seems like he was having a tough conversation with someone other than me."

"Heh. What did Master Sei tell you?

"You didn't tell me that from me. As much as I returned the question."

"What kind of questions?

"Right...... For example, can you make advanced potions, or don't you make potions other than HP or MP potions?"

"Hmm."

"So we talked about the abnormal potion, and from there we talked about Zaidella's herbs."

"It is."

Remembering what he had spoken to His Highness Tenyuu, telling Mr. Oscar, Mr. Oscar took his gripping hand to his mouth and dropped his gaze to the table.

I think I even thought of Mr. Oscar, not just Mr. Franz.

Something bothering you?

"What's going on?

"Hmm, was the prince familiar with the abnormal potion?

"You're familiar. Every symptom of disarming an abnormal potion has a different material, but I knew a good variety of potion materials."

Talking that far, Mr. Oscar and Mr. Franz look at each other.

Then when they both looked at me, Mr. Franz slowly spoke out.

"Actually, I was just wondering."

"Is that a concern?

"Yes, and I've decided to see you today at the Royal Palace."

I feel just a little anxious for Franz, who has erased the gentle grin that is always floating.

What do you care?

Encouraging him to continue, Mr. Oscar started talking.

"Master Sei remembers Captain Seiran we met in Morgenhafen?

"Captain Seylan? I remember, what's wrong with him?

"Now he's coming to this country, too. Hey, it's like you're looking for a medic."

"Pharmacist…"

I accidentally wrinkled between my eyebrows at the word "pharmacist".

If I recall what happened in Morgenhafen, I immediately come to think of why Captain Seylan is looking for a medic.

"Is that because of the potion I gave you?

"Exactly."

To Mr. Oscar's powerful affirmation, he drips with his head.

In Morgenhafen, the potion I gave Mr. Seylan was the potion I made.

That too, advanced HP potion.

I was worried they would notice that it was more effective than the commercially available potion, but if they did, I was going to insist that it was because it was an advanced potion.

That's also because Morgenhafen had only intermediate potions.

You wouldn't know the difference between the effects of advanced potions, so you thought you could push it through for that reason.

But they had a pit there.

"Captain Seylan, you must have been mistaken."

"Mistake?"

"Yes, I thought there was someone in this country who could make advanced potions in Ichii"

"Huh?

When I met Mr. Seylan, I was dressed as the merchant's daughter.

Mr. Oscar's story says that was what caused the mistake.

That's what they say, and they give me an indescribable look.

With such a bitter laugh at me, Mr. Oscar explained further to me what was going on with Mr. Seylan.

Mr. Seylan said he was looking for a good medic before he met him in Morgenhafen.

They've been looking for a doctor of considerable skill, and until now they haven't found a suitable one for your glasses.

That would be so.

When you become a pharmacist enough to make an advanced potion, it's mostly because the country has it.

That's where it came out, that potion.

Besides, it was the common people who had it.

It is not surprising that Mr Seylan should decide that the medicines he was looking for are all over the city, adding that he is still not guided to this country.

Maybe the circumstances that I couldn't find inside gave me a boost to my judgment.

I don't know the details, but anyway, it looks like Mr. Seylan, who found hope, started looking for the pharmacist who made that potion.

However, I still couldn't find it on my own.

I can't help it.

In fact, there are few pharmacists in the Kingdom of Surantania who can make advanced potions in the city well.

Moreover, those who can make it are embraced and kept secret by the state or major chambers of commerce.

Still, Mr. Seylan didn't give up.

As a last resort, I contacted Mr. Oscar directly.

"Of course, I didn't tell you."

"Thank you. So, maybe that's why Mr. Franz said to see you at the Royal Palace today?

"No, there's that, too, for other reasons."

"Anything else?

[The Virgin] has been revealed to the nobles, the surface has been broken, and she intends to disguise herself in the Chamber of Commerce.

Wear a brown hair wig and glasses for the disguise, as you did in Morgenhafen.

In doing so, Mr. Seylan will look familiar.

I've contacted the Chamber of Commerce about the pharmacist, Mr. Seylan.

There may be no medics in or out, or they may be keeping an eye on our Chamber of Commerce.

In the meantime, if I came to the store that I was the merchant's daughter, I might call her.

Sometimes Mr. Franz couldn't tell me about the pharmacist, and I think that's a good possibility.

That's what I could have expected, so I thought Mr. Franz suggested we meet at the Royal Palace...

If I missed my expectations and leaned my neck, Mr. Franz told me why there was more.

That was a totally inconceivable reason.

"The reason is about the captain's employer."

"Are you an employer?

"Yes, I was curious to see how the captain was looking for a pharmacist, and after a little research I found out..."

I missed it because I made a deal with Mr. Seylan in Morgenhafen, but Mr. Seylan had an employer.

The employer is Zaidella's chamber of commerce, the original business partner.

Like our chamber of commerce, they have a chairman in that chamber, and yet they have a back shield.

What Mr. Franz and the others seemed to care about was the shield behind it.

"Thank you. The back shield is like a prince currently in the palace."

"Huh?"

"Given the circumstances, it's probably definitive."

When I solidify into Mr. Franz's words, I even affirm Mr. Oscar as if he were wasting time.

Mr Oscar's reference to the situation referred to the entry of Mr Seylan's ship into the port of Morgenhafen at the same time as that of His Highness Tenyuu.

Furthermore, for my sake, which I do not understand, Mr. Oscar explained in detail.

This time His Highness Tenyuu came across the sea to the Kingdom of Slantania.

There's a lot of danger in the ocean, and it seems to be something that travels in a convoy packed with many ships.

The fleet consists of ships with key figures on board and ships that escort them, but they often add other ships.

Other ships are the ships of the people who are benevolent with the key people?

In this case, the main figure is His Highness Tenyuu, and the people who are being greeted are scholars or merchants.

In the light of all that, Mr Franz and the others derived that Mr Seylan's employer would be cordial with His Highness Tenyuu.

From there, they even found out that His Highness Tenyuu was behind the Chamber of Commerce.

"Back shield?

"You're in a position like Master Sai at our Chamber of Commerce. Although, the prince would not develop products like Sei."

Me?

Will I be the back shield?

Speaking of which, you were standing alone with His Majesty the King.

Mr. Oscar laughed funny when he saw through what he was thinking when he was convinced of one as he listened.

But there is His Highness Tenyuu behind Mr. Seylan, or...

Let's wrap this up a little bit.

First of all, Mr. Franz and the others decided to meet me at the Royal Palace because of something that bothered them.

One thing that bothers me is that Mr. Seylan is looking for a pharmacist.

However, the cut I started looking for in this country is the potion I gave it to you in Morgenhafen, but I've been looking for a good pharmacist for a long time.

And the other thing that bothers me is the presence of His Royal Highness Tenyuu behind Mr. Seylan.

When these two things are linked, one hypothesis comes to mind.

It is a hypothesis that Mr Seylan is looking for a pharmacist because His Royal Highness Tenyuu asked him to.

Moreover, the fact that His Highness Tenyuu was familiar with medicinal herbs and potions seemed to support the fact that this hypothesis was correct.

Considering that one of the reasons I decided to meet him at the Royal Palace was to mention Mr. Seylan's back shield, perhaps the Franz and the others thought the same thing.

"Maybe it's not Mr. Seylan who's looking for a pharmacist, it's the prince?

"We both wonder if that's the case."

When he checked to see if the guesswork was correct, Mr. Franz nodded with a strange face.

I knew it, right?

It's half-eyed that I've hit a bad feeling.

Nevertheless, why is His Highness Tenyuu looking for a pharmacist?

Thinking so far, I don't just feel like I'm looking for someone who's good.

Skipping his thoughts that way, Mr. Oscar continued his conversation.

"We talked about stopping Sai from coming to the Chamber for a while."

"It is."

"Yeah. If the opponent is Captain Seylan, he still has to be the prince. I don't think you can delude me..."

"Falsify?"

Listening to the story, it was the Chamber of Commerce that Mr. Oscar misled.

When dealing with Mr. Seylan and the others in Morgenhafen, Mr. Oscar apparently made a deal between them across another chamber of commerce.

He said he made the deal because he felt he should do so somehow because it was after he gave Mr. Seylan the potion.

Later, this played a role.

Mr. Seylan seemed to think of me or Mr. Oscar as someone from the Chamber of Commerce who went in between them.

Did you also come to the Chamber to inquire about the pharmacist?

However, the items bought from Mr. Seylan and the others have eventually been delivered to the [Virgin] Chamber of Commerce.

If they were tracking the luggage, the Chamber of Commerce connection might be found out.

And even though I'm disguised there, what would you think if I went out with a scarecrow...

"I don't know if I can tie the disguised Sai to the [Virgin], just in case."

"Right..."

Even if we couldn't tie it together, if we could see where we were going in and out of the Chamber of Commerce, the source of the potion would almost be confirmed.

It may be a wasted scratch, but I want to avoid that, so I'm off to the Chamber of Commerce for a while.

But hey.

Considering everything, I think His Royal Highness Tenyuu already found out his identity.

So far, the workings from the other side are as much as being asked about medicinal herbs and potions.

Doesn't look harmful, but can we just keep doing this...

I was to break up with Mr. Franz and the others that day with no answers.