The woman stopped collecting the seed bags, and telling something that she just remembered
Although Kazura though that she just wasted a chance to sell her goods by saying those words, but judging by her expression she plainly said it without any intention behind it.[7]
「Hmm....I still want to buy the seeds, and I’ll buy seedlings at the Home Center later.」(Kazura)
「Oh, thank you very much. This is just a memo that I wrote in about the methods of raising my herbs, I will be glad if you could use it.」
The woman smiled delightfully as she put a copy of the illustrated memo of methods of raising herbs and several herb seed bags into a larger paper bag.
The illustrations inside the memo were all hand drawn.
Like this, Kazura purchased pots and seed herbs. To buy herb seedlings and the other daily necessities, he went towards the usual Home Center.
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Kazura arrived at the Home Center[8], at which he was a regular customer, and went towards the Gardening Corner.
At that Gardening Corner there were many flower and fruit seedlings. They also sold the herb seedlings that Kazura was looking for.
Whilst Kazura was still browsing the herb seedlings, one of the clerks half-running towards him.
On his chest was a nametag that spell 「Manager」.
「Shino-sama[9], what goods do you need for today?」(Manager)
「Eh? I want to buy herb seedlings....」 (Kazura)
Although Kazura was surprised for a moment since his name was being called by the manager, he thought that the manager remembered his name since he had purchased large amount of farming tools and fertilizer.
Because he didn’t plan to purchase any large amount of goods, he was somewhat troubled by the manager’s expectation.
「Herbs, is it? The only ones that are ready to purchase are the herbs that are lined up in here, however.... If it’s necessary, it’s possible to order it in a large amount by the end of tomorrow」(Manager)
「No, I don’t need that large of an amount. Two or three pots will be enough.」(Kazura)
Although the manager’s expression showed a little disappointment because of Kazura’s words, he immediately recovered and began explaining the displayed herbs in detail.
Because Kazura wasn’t raising the herbs with the intention to turn them into herbal tea and drink it, he questioned the manager about what kind of herbs seedlings would be easy to raise and had the Manager recommend seedlings for him.
As the result of explanation about this and that, he decided to buy peppermint and lemongrass both being sturdy and having strong fertility.
Additionally, he also purchased flowerpots to grow the seed in, and also bags of soil for growing the herbs.
And although these things are unnecessary for growing herbs, the next thing he wanted to purchase was incense stick and sake.
Though the incense stick could be bought at Home Center, it didn’t sell any sake. Because of this, he went to the supermarket where he had previously purchased large amount of rice.
When he arrived at that store, he went towards the alcoholic section, and put 2 bottles of not-so-famous sake into the basket.
From the 2 bottles inside basket, Kazura thought to bring 1 bottle to the village’s chief[10] as a souvenir and also as an experiment.
Even if he had never seen any alcoholic drink in that world, but he thought that it might exist.
He would be troubled if the human in that world suffered terrible effect if they intake alcohol, so for the time being he decided to only bring 1 bottle.
If they couldn’t consume alcoholic drink, then he would give both bottles as grave offerings.
He also put incense sticks in the basket, and with this he believe that it was time to pay for it at the register when he incidentally happened to catch a sight of the Medicine Corner.
After hearing the villagers’ story this morning, he had thought about the medicine a bit. Maybe just like Lipo-D, the medicine might exhibit amazing efficiency, so if he had some close at hand there wouldn’t be any drawback.
If he was really careful on the drug dosage, it seemed there wouldn’t really be any problem with carrying it.
For this time, he decided that he would test their effect in curing diseases. For that reason he tossed several common cold medicine and herbal medicine into the basket while confirming their efficacy description.
Additionally, he put 3 pure white teacups, ointment for injury, bandage, and gauze into the basket. To pay for the goods he went towards the register.
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