Chapter 343 Preparatory Meeting (2/2)

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Reverting his tone back to normal, Jin started speaking to Lishia. He pointed out the culprit to make Lishia feel less guilty.

“…I understand. We should prioritize restraining the spreading of the disease, right?”

After calming down a bit, Lishia understood what Jin was going on about.

“Yes. As also written in that letter, it seems like Deus Ex Machina is also investigating the disease at this moment…… Ms. Lishia, what do you think would be best to do, going forward?”

Jin thought Lishia might have a good opinion on the matter as she was on the relief knights’ squad.

After thinking for a bit, Lishia opened her mouth.

“Of course, it is vital to get rid of the disease. And the only way to do that is, I think, trace back our path and examine and cure the people along the way.”

Lishia said that but her expression didn’t clear up. And reason behind that would be clear after what she said next.

“But, the area in most danger is Rakham, isn’t it? It has been days since the contagion there.”

From the info he got from An and Elena, he knew that the period needed for the disease to infect was from about 2 to 5 days. Judging from the fact that Earl Walter passed away, the people in the mansion are also probably in danger now. The people of Rakham might still have a bit of a grace period.

“Moreover, we don’t know how to cure it.”

And there, Jin asked Lishia,

“What is the healing magic you use, Ms. Lishia?”

“I can use ‘cure’ and ‘recovery’.”

Both are surgical methods of healing.

“….I am sorry, I can’t cure the disease.”

Saying that, she hung her head in depression. But this was also within expectations.

“That’s fine. I have a magic crystal here with the ‘medicare’ magic in it. You can activate it if you apply a bit mana to it.”

Jin took out 2 magic crystals from his pocket and put them on the desk.

“Eh? Eh?”

It is true that there are magic tools which have magic formulas needed to activate a magic embedded in them. However, that isn’t something so common that you would pull them out of your pocket whenever you feel like it……… Thinking that, Lishia was dumbfounded for a moment.

“As such, I am guessing we will receive some new information from Deus Ex Machina by tomorrow morning. Let’s decide on our final course of action based on that.”

Like this, the talk proceeded exactly as they thought it would.

After going about half way through the discussion, the 3 took another sip of the now lukewarm tea and took a breather.

“….Haa, as I thought, you are an acquaintance of Machina, aren’t you, Mr. Jin? I had been meaning to ask you since my sword was delivered to me.”

“Well, yes…… Although, it seems like he doesn’t like being tied down and so he prefers not to come in front of people.”

“Fufu, actually, I had also been thinking that maybe Mr. Jin is actually Mr. Machina.”

That’s quite perceptive of her…… Or rather, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it would be weird for her to not think that.

“………….”

Lishia just smiled as Jin remained silent.

“No, it’s fine either way, even if you are Mr. Machina or not. What’s important now is to stop the disease from spreading.”

“Right. And I think, as you people are nobles, Ms. Lishia and Mr. Pascaud, you have more leeway in moving about helping people.”

After having come that far, Pascaud finally opened his mouth again. Seems like he came to terms with himself.

“….Mr. Jin, I promise you, I will put forth every effort. However, I still don’t believe that the Earl was behind all this.”

Jin replied with ‘that’s fine’. After all, it’s important to block off the disease now.

“And so, what will you be doing, Mr. Jin? Don’t tell me you will stay here and not work?”

Pascaud said, half glaring. Well, although, it isn’t that impactful even if he glares as the corners of his eyes are drooping.

“First, I will prepare the medicine.”

Saying that, he took a healing medicine from the shelf and put it on the table.

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“This medicine has the ‘medicare’ effect. However, I have a limited amount of them, so I need to create more.”

Pascaud looked at that ampoule with great interest and Lishia became stiff.

“M-Mr. Jin, y-you said it has the, effect of ‘medicare’?”

“Yes. What about it?”

“What about it?! Isn’t that a very rare magic medicine?! These would cost 1 gold coin each in the kingdom!”

10,000 toll, about 100,000 yen. That is how precious a highly effective healing medicine was. Jin and Laojun didn’t think about its worth that much.

However, here, the results of reading that alchemy book came to play.

“That’s because alchemy hasn’t developed much. It can be made more easily if you were to use the newest alchemist, Eschenbach’s method.”

That was half true. As far as Jin read about Toa Eschenbach, Shouro empire’s alchemist, he had guessed that ‘there is a chance of creating a highly effective medicine if one applies magic to a dense, ether liquid’. Jin was impressed when he read that.

“…..Is, that… so……”

Lishia also withdrew, as it was Jin saying that. After all, it’s always better to have more medicine.