“I'll leave that to you, then, I'll go get Nfirea.”
“That's more like it! A capital idea! Ane-san, let me go with you.”
Although this would leave the house empty, Enri wasn't bothered by it. After all, there had never been any issues with thieves breaking in before.
Together with Kaijali, Enri left the house just after Nemu did.
The wind blew in Enri’s face, carrying with it the scent of the grass and warmed by the gentle light of the morning sun. Enri took a deep breath, and when she turned to look at Kaijali, he was breathing in the scent as well. Enri couldn’t resist laughing at the sight, and Kaijali scowled, trying to regain his lost dignity with a fierce expression. Perhaps the Enri of the past would have been afraid, but Enri was used to life with the goblins now, and she knew this was just how he smiled.
On this refreshing, cool and clear day, Enri proceeded to the house next to hers.
It had been left ownerless from the tragedy that had befallen their village recently, and had become the home of the alchemists from E-Rantel, the Bareares.
The house was occupied by two people, Lizzie Bareare, the wizened old woman and her grandson, Enri’s good friend Nfirea Bareare. The two of them spent their days cooped up in the house, processing herbs to make potions and other medicines.
Not working closely with other villagers was a good reason to be isolated, and in the worst case scenario, to be kicked out of the village. But it was different for those two.
In every village, an apothecary ― someone who could prepare medicines in case of disease or injury ― was indispensable. They could be said to be important enough that the villagers would plead, “you don’t need to do anything except make medicine for us”.
This went double for a place like Carne Village, which had no access to priests who could use healing magic. For larger villages, priests would double as the village apothecary.
Priests would charge an appropriate fee for their healing magic. Or rather, it might be better to say that they would need to charge the fee. If the villagers could not afford to pay, then they would offer up their labour instead. For those who lacked the ability to even do that, the priests would use medicines compounded from herbs, since herbal cures were less expensive than magical healing.
One of the goblins in the village was a cleric, and he could heal minor wounds with ease, but the villagers had come together with the opinion that he should save up his power for an emergency, unless someone was very badly hurt . Not to mention, the cleric’s healing spells were very limited and lacked the ability to heal diseases or neutralize poisons.
Even so, despite the vital job they performed, the villagers didn’t dare to go near them.
The reason for this was abundantly clear as one approached the Bareares’ residence.
Enri scrunched up her nose, as did Kaijali. The house they were approaching was wreathed in an acrid odor. All things considered, it wasn’t actually that bad, but it still felt awful. The smell released from crushing up herbs might be off-putting, but ultimately it was only the scent of plants, and was not dangerous in itself.
Breathing through her mouth, Enri knocked on the door.
She knocked quite a few times, but nobody answered the door. Just when she thought nobody was home, the sound of someone approaching came from the other side, and after a lock was hastily fumbled with, the door opened.
ー!?
She did not want to react with her expression or words, but the smell coming from inside the house was truly horrific.
It was painful.
A harsh, stinging pain seared her eyes, nose and mouth. Worse still, the vile stench from inside the house suggested that the miasma around the house was nothing more than what had leaked out from inside.
“Good morning, Enri!”
Nfirea’s eyes, which were visible from between the gaps in his long hair, were wide open and blood-shot. He must have stayed up all night for alchemical experiments again.
She did not want to open her mouth to speak when she was enveloped by the eye-watering gas, but it would be rude not to return a greeting.
“G-good morning, Enfi.”
She felt her throat dry out as she said that.
“Morning, Ani-san.”
“Ah, good morning, Kai… Kaijali-san… Huh, it’s morning already? I was working so hard I didn’t notice. Seeing the sun makes me realize how the time just flew by… ahhh, I’ve been doing so many experiments recently, I need to get out of the house.”
Nfirea stretched like a cat and yawned.
“Looks like you’ve been burning the midnight oil, huh―”
Enri was about to add “breakfast’s ready, come over with your Obaa-chan”, but Nfirea interrupted. Or rather, instead of saying he interrupted her, it might be better to say that she was overwhelmed by his boyish enthusiasm.
“It’s amazing, Enri!”
Nfirea rushed up to her. His work clothes reeked of that same stinging odor which filled the rest of the house. Although Enri wanted very much to back away from him, she forced herself to endure it, because Nfirea was her dear friend.
“What, what happened, Enfi?”
“You’ve got to hear this! We finally managed to perfect the procedure for brewing a new type of potion. This is going to change the world! Even though all we did was to mix the herbs that we gathered into the solution, we managed to produce a purple potion!”
The only reply he received was a “Hah?”
Enri had no idea how this was amazing. Was the potion purple because they infused purple cabbage into it?
“And it can cure wounds! The healing speed’s on par with alchemically-refined potions!”
Enri raised his hands, showing off his delicate, slender arms that were unmarred by injury. Enri thought, “I have bigger biceps than he does”, but Nfirea didn’t stop there.
“Which is to say!”
“Yes, yes, that’s wonderful, tell us about it later.”
Kaijali spoke as he took a step forward.
“Ani-san here looks like he’s been sleeping too little and partying too hard. Maybe he’s high or something? Ane-san, let me take care of this. Why don’t you go back first?”
“Will it be all right?”
“Sure it will. I’ll splash some cold water on his face and when he calms down, I’ll bring him over. If you take too long, others will get worried. Say, what about Obaa-chan?”
“Obaa-chan’s still got her head buried in her research… I don’t think she’ll be coming for breakfast. I’m sorry, you went through all this trouble to prepare breakfast for us…”
“Ah, don’t worry about it. I was thinking that Lizzie-sama would probably be doing that.”
Situations like these had come up quite a few times already, so that wasn’t a surprise.
“Then, Ane-san, you should head back first.”
With that said, there was nothing to do but leave.
“Then, I’ll leave him to you.”
As he watched Enri leave, Kaijali turned a cold stare on Nfirea.
“Do you know what you just did? The only time a girl listens to a man talking about what he likes is if she likes the person. If she doesn’t like that person, then that blabbering’s only going to turn her off!”
“…I’m sorry, I just thought that since we made that amazing discovery… but it was really amazing! Revolutionary, even!”
Kaijali interrupted the motor-mouthed rant with a chopping motion. Clearly, Nfirea had not gotten the message he was trying to convey.
“Look, Ani-san. Are you alright with this? You’re in love with Ane-san, aren’t you?”
Nfirea replied with an “Mm,” and nodded his head vigorously.
“Then you have to make her the most important person in your heart. More important than your potions.”
“…I get it. I’ll try.”
“Do, or do not. There is no try. You need to win her heart. Me and the rest of the lads will do our best to support you. Plus, it’s not just us, even imouto-san agreed to help you out. I hope you get yourself together and do your part, Ani-san.”
“Mmm…”
“If you’re just waiting for her to say “I like you” first, then more likely than not, someone else is going to snatch her away! You’ve got to work up the courage to tell her how you really feel.”
That line pierced Nfirea’s heart like a dagger between the ribs.
“Still, despite everything I said, looks like you’ve been doing pretty well on that front yourself, Ani-san. Used to be you couldn’t even say a word in front of her. Now you can carry on a normal conversation, right?”
“That was because I didn’t have much chance to talk with Enri unless I came around to gather herbs… Now that I’ve moved into the village, I’m around her a lot more.”
“That’s it, that’s the spirit. All that’s left is to gather your courage and step up to the plate. Maybe you should show off your strength first. According to the villagers, strong men are still the most popular. Well, for the forty-nine year old women in the village, anyways.”
“I’m not too confident in my arm strength. Maybe I should do more farm work or something?”
“Nah, what you should be using is this, Ani-san,” Kaijali spoke while gently knocking on his head.
“Settle things with this. And then work your magic. If me or one of the lads think what you said was good, we’ll pose like this. That’s when you’re going to say or do something that’ll make her fall for you instantly.”
Kaijali posed to show off his shoulder muscles. They bulged mightily under his skin.
“Kinda like that. And if you need a more impressive demonstration…”
Next, Kaijali flexed his pectorals. Although he was quite short, his athletic, muscular body attested to the fact that he was a born warrior.
Nfirea wondered Why these kind of poses? But he couldn’t actually say that, because he’d already accepted Kaijali’s goodwill. Still, there was one question he wanted to ask.
“I… I’m curious, why are you guys doing this? I mean, I know you’re Enri’s subordinates and you’re loyal to her, but I don’t unders
"ฉันจะปล่อยให้ที่ให้คุณ นั้น ฉันจะไปรับ Nfirea""ก็เหมือนมัน ความคิดเงินทุน Ane ซัง ให้ฉันไปกับคุณ"แม้ว่านี้จะปล่อยบ้านว่าง Enri ไม่ได้ใส่ใจจากมัน หลังจากทั้งหมด ไม่มีเคยปัญหาใด ๆ กับการขโมยทำลายในก่อนร่วมกับ Kaijali, Enri จากบ้านหลังจากไม่ได้คุโรซึลมได้พัดหน้าของ Enri การดำเนินการกับกลิ่นหญ้า และ warmed โดยแสงที่อ่อนโยนของพระอาทิตย์ยามเช้า Enri เอาลมหายใจ และเมื่อเธอหันไปมอง Kaijali เขาได้หายใจในกลิ่นเช่น Enri ไม่สามารถต้านทานการหัวเราะที่สายตา และ Kaijali scowled พยายามฟื้นศักดิ์ศรีของเขาหายไปกับนิพจน์ที่มีความรุนแรง บางที Enri ในอดีตจะได้กลัว แต่ Enri ใช้ชีวิตกับผีมังกรขณะนี้ และเธอรู้ว่า นี้เป็นเพียงวิธีการที่เขายิ้มในวันนี้สดชื่น เย็น และชัดเจน Enri ครอบครัวบ้านติดกับเธอมันได้ถูกทิ้ง ownerless จากโศกนาฏกรรมที่มี befallen หมู่บ้านนักล่า และกลายเป็น บ้านของ alchemists จาก E-Rantel, Barearesบ้านถูกครอบครอง โดยคนสองคน Lizzie Bareare เฒ่า wizened และหลานของเธอ เพื่อนที่ดีของ Enri Nfirea Bareare เขาทั้งสองใช้วันของพวกเขา cooped ขึ้นในบ้าน การแปรรูปสมุนไพรให้ potions และยาอื่น ๆไม่ทำงานอย่างใกล้ชิดกับชาวบ้านอื่น ๆ เป็นเหตุผลที่ดีจะแยก และ ใน สถานการณ์กรณีเลวร้ายที่สุด การถูกเตะออกจากหมู่บ้าน แต่ก็แตกต่างกันสำหรับสองคนในทุกหมู่บ้าน ข้อ apothecary คนสามารถเตรียมยาในกรณีบาดเจ็บหรือโรคข้อนั้นสำคัญ ได้กล่าวว่า พวกเขาจะสำคัญพอที่ชาวบ้านจะยอมรับ "คุณไม่ต้องทำอะไรยกเว้นทำยาสำหรับเรา"พอคู่สำหรับสถานที่เช่น Carne วิลเลจ ซึ่งไม่สามารถเข้าถึงพระสงฆ์ที่สามารถใช้เวทมนตร์รักษา สำหรับหมู่บ้านขนาดใหญ่ ปุโรหิตจะคู่เป็น apothecary วิลเลจพระสงฆ์จะคิดค่าธรรมเนียมเพิ่มที่เหมาะสมสำหรับมายากลการรักษา หรือค่อนข้าง มันอาจจะดีกว่าที่จะพูดว่า พวกเขาจะต้องคิดค่าธรรมเนียม ถ้าชาวบ้านไม่สามารถจ่ายชำระ แล้วจะมีค่าแรงงานของพวกเขาแทน สำหรับผู้ที่ขาดความสามารถในการทำแม้ ปุโรหิตจะใช้ยาเพิ่มจากสมุนไพร เนื่องจากสมุนไพรรักษาได้จ่ายน้อยกว่าการรักษาที่มหัศจรรย์ผีมังกรในหมู่บ้านหนึ่งเป็น cleric และเขาสามารถรักษาบาดแผลเล็กน้อยอย่างง่ายดาย แต่ชาวบ้านได้มาร่วมแสดงความคิดเห็นที่เขาควรบันทึกค่าอำนาจสำหรับฉุกเฉิน เว้นแต่คนที่เจ็บไม่มาก ไม่ต้องพูดถึง spells รักษาของ cleric นั้นค่อนข้างจำกัด และขาดความสามารถในการรักษาโรค หรือแก้ poisonsดังนั้นแม้ แม้ มีงานสำคัญที่จะทำ ชาวบ้านไม่กล้าไปใกล้พวกเขาเหตุผลชัดเจนที่อุดมสมบูรณ์เป็นหนึ่งประดับ Bareares' เรสซิเดนซ์Enri scrunched up her nose, as did Kaijali. The house they were approaching was wreathed in an acrid odor. All things considered, it wasn’t actually that bad, but it still felt awful. The smell released from crushing up herbs might be off-putting, but ultimately it was only the scent of plants, and was not dangerous in itself.Breathing through her mouth, Enri knocked on the door.She knocked quite a few times, but nobody answered the door. Just when she thought nobody was home, the sound of someone approaching came from the other side, and after a lock was hastily fumbled with, the door opened.ー!?She did not want to react with her expression or words, but the smell coming from inside the house was truly horrific.It was painful. A harsh, stinging pain seared her eyes, nose and mouth. Worse still, the vile stench from inside the house suggested that the miasma around the house was nothing more than what had leaked out from inside.“Good morning, Enri!”Nfirea’s eyes, which were visible from between the gaps in his long hair, were wide open and blood-shot. He must have stayed up all night for alchemical experiments again.She did not want to open her mouth to speak when she was enveloped by the eye-watering gas, but it would be rude not to return a greeting.“G-good morning, Enfi.”She felt her throat dry out as she said that.“Morning, Ani-san.”“Ah, good morning, Kai… Kaijali-san… Huh, it’s morning already? I was working so hard I didn’t notice. Seeing the sun makes me realize how the time just flew by… ahhh, I’ve been doing so many experiments recently, I need to get out of the house.”Nfirea stretched like a cat and yawned.“Looks like you’ve been burning the midnight oil, huh―”Enri was about to add “breakfast’s ready, come over with your Obaa-chan”, but Nfirea interrupted. Or rather, instead of saying he interrupted her, it might be better to say that she was overwhelmed by his boyish enthusiasm.“It’s amazing, Enri!”Nfirea rushed up to her. His work clothes reeked of that same stinging odor which filled the rest of the house. Although Enri wanted very much to back away from him, she forced herself to endure it, because Nfirea was her dear friend.“What, what happened, Enfi?”“You’ve got to hear this! We finally managed to perfect the procedure for brewing a new type of potion. This is going to change the world! Even though all we did was to mix the herbs that we gathered into the solution, we managed to produce a purple potion!”The only reply he received was a “Hah?”Enri had no idea how this was amazing. Was the potion purple because they infused purple cabbage into it?“And it can cure wounds! The healing speed’s on par with alchemically-refined potions!”Enri raised his hands, showing off his delicate, slender arms that were unmarred by injury. Enri thought, “I have bigger biceps than he does”, but Nfirea didn’t stop there.
“Which is to say!”
“Yes, yes, that’s wonderful, tell us about it later.”
Kaijali spoke as he took a step forward.
“Ani-san here looks like he’s been sleeping too little and partying too hard. Maybe he’s high or something? Ane-san, let me take care of this. Why don’t you go back first?”
“Will it be all right?”
“Sure it will. I’ll splash some cold water on his face and when he calms down, I’ll bring him over. If you take too long, others will get worried. Say, what about Obaa-chan?”
“Obaa-chan’s still got her head buried in her research… I don’t think she’ll be coming for breakfast. I’m sorry, you went through all this trouble to prepare breakfast for us…”
“Ah, don’t worry about it. I was thinking that Lizzie-sama would probably be doing that.”
Situations like these had come up quite a few times already, so that wasn’t a surprise.
“Then, Ane-san, you should head back first.”
With that said, there was nothing to do but leave.
“Then, I’ll leave him to you.”
As he watched Enri leave, Kaijali turned a cold stare on Nfirea.
“Do you know what you just did? The only time a girl listens to a man talking about what he likes is if she likes the person. If she doesn’t like that person, then that blabbering’s only going to turn her off!”
“…I’m sorry, I just thought that since we made that amazing discovery… but it was really amazing! Revolutionary, even!”
Kaijali interrupted the motor-mouthed rant with a chopping motion. Clearly, Nfirea had not gotten the message he was trying to convey.
“Look, Ani-san. Are you alright with this? You’re in love with Ane-san, aren’t you?”
Nfirea replied with an “Mm,” and nodded his head vigorously.
“Then you have to make her the most important person in your heart. More important than your potions.”
“…I get it. I’ll try.”
“Do, or do not. There is no try. You need to win her heart. Me and the rest of the lads will do our best to support you. Plus, it’s not just us, even imouto-san agreed to help you out. I hope you get yourself together and do your part, Ani-san.”
“Mmm…”
“If you’re just waiting for her to say “I like you” first, then more likely than not, someone else is going to snatch her away! You’ve got to work up the courage to tell her how you really feel.”
That line pierced Nfirea’s heart like a dagger between the ribs.
“Still, despite everything I said, looks like you’ve been doing pretty well on that front yourself, Ani-san. Used to be you couldn’t even say a word in front of her. Now you can carry on a normal conversation, right?”
“That was because I didn’t have much chance to talk with Enri unless I came around to gather herbs… Now that I’ve moved into the village, I’m around her a lot more.”
“That’s it, that’s the spirit. All that’s left is to gather your courage and step up to the plate. Maybe you should show off your strength first. According to the villagers, strong men are still the most popular. Well, for the forty-nine year old women in the village, anyways.”
“I’m not too confident in my arm strength. Maybe I should do more farm work or something?”
“Nah, what you should be using is this, Ani-san,” Kaijali spoke while gently knocking on his head.
“Settle things with this. And then work your magic. If me or one of the lads think what you said was good, we’ll pose like this. That’s when you’re going to say or do something that’ll make her fall for you instantly.”
Kaijali posed to show off his shoulder muscles. They bulged mightily under his skin.
“Kinda like that. And if you need a more impressive demonstration…”
Next, Kaijali flexed his pectorals. Although he was quite short, his athletic, muscular body attested to the fact that he was a born warrior.
Nfirea wondered Why these kind of poses? But he couldn’t actually say that, because he’d already accepted Kaijali’s goodwill. Still, there was one question he wanted to ask.
“I… I’m curious, why are you guys doing this? I mean, I know you’re Enri’s subordinates and you’re loyal to her, but I don’t unders
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