Episode 6.7-8-9-10-11 (2/2)
The abilities he got put on the ring by paying a hefty amount of money to an enchanter seem to be treated as Graces here in this world.
He took more items from <Storage> and appraised them all.
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Two days later, they finished making antidote. This took an entire day.
The antidote is made of 10 kinds of herbs, two kinds of moss, and one kind of leaf bud as raw materials, then two kinds of minerals are added to combat deterioration, the antidote is in the form of pills and works on seven types of poisons. These pills aren't sold over the counter at pharmacies, but only to special customers. Lecan got some himself.
The next day, they finished making a medicine that suppresses all kinds of cold symptoms. It's pills again.
This one took two days, next they would complete cure-all.
Cure-all is a pill-shaped medicine that works on a wide range of internal organ illnesses. It has a pain relief effect and even a weak detoxifying effect. As this one is always on demand at every store, they made a lot of it. After kneading, kneading, and kneading on pills all day long, Lecan even started to hallucinate himself becoming a pill.
Two days after that, while they were busy working in the basement, Shira suddenly had a dubious look on her face.
”Oh ho? Someone's here. Doesn't seem to be the lord's messenger though. I wonder who.”
Lecan has detected the visitor as well.
”Weird. Think I know this person. But there's no way she'd get to this place.”
The two paused working and went above ground.
”Open up! Open uuuup. I beg you, please open this door.”
”Might be better to leave her be.”
”You know her right? Don't you think that's too cold.”
”Guess she'd knock the door down if we leave her alone.”
”Go open it up.”
Eda was standing outside when Lecan opened the door.
”Finally meet you!”
”What do you want.”
”Let me inside please.”
”This isn't my house.”
”It's the apothecary Shira-san's right?”
”...What are you here for.”
”No well, I wanted to see you, see. So I went to Aira at the Adventurer Association and then she said I'd find out if I went to apothecary Shira-san's house. She even drew me a map.”
”I'm amazed you managed to make your way here.”
”Took me two days.”
”I see. Must have been hard. Well then.”
”Stop! Don't close the door.”
”Oh let her inside. I'll go get tea ready.”
”T-thank you very much ssu.”
”You.”
”W-what now.”
”So you can talk like that.”
”So you were looking for me to teach you magic.”
”I want you to teach me how to learn magic. This tea is really good ssu. Shira-san, you're really good at making tea ssune.”
”Oh is that true. I'm glad to hear that.”
”I have no clue how to teach someone magic, nor can I point you to someone who can. Go home.”
”How about you try teaching her.”
”Shira-san, I'm really happy ssu.”
”Lecan. You can learn many things by teaching others. You will obtain many new magic from here on. But that's only on the surface. By teaching others, you will notice things you cannot notice on your own. It may look like a waste of time in a roundabout way, but doing so will ultimately pave a shortcut toward bigger meaningful things.”
Shira ordered Lecan to teach Eda magic.
Lecan had no choice but to reluctantly agree to it.
”So, Eda-chan. You must be mainly taking service quests, aren't you.”
”How'd you know?”
”Which means, you must be busy in daytime. Come here in the evening every day.”
”Here? Again? Wonder if I could manage...”
”You must not practice magic in any other place than here. And you must not tell anyone that you're learning magic. This is something far bigger than you could ever imagine. Things would turn messy if people found out about it.”
It was Lecan who told Eda to learn magic.
However, this girl looks like she's got an extremely low learning capacity.
There's no way she could learn magic, such was his hunch.
They finished with the medicine-making for that day and thus, Lecan began teaching Eda magic.
He had to verbalize the sensation he felt into words when it came down to the actual teaching. And it was more difficult than he had ever expected.
While recalling how and what Shira did and said when she was teaching him, Lecan made an attempt to convey how it felt to cast magic.
Eda was desperately trying as well, but there was absolutely no hint of magic getting activated to the end of the day.
However, there was one thing that Eda managed to instantly pull off.
When Lecan climbed up the stakes on his way back, Eda imitated him in no time at all. Climbing up stakes hammered in a wall using only your feet may look simple, but it's actually not. Even Lecan had to borrow the power of <Gust> at the last spurt when he first did it. The fact that she pulled it off without any problem on her first try means that she's got an extremely agile body.
The next day, Eda came slightly earlier than the agreed time, before evening.
When Lecan and Shira were done with their work and went to Jericho's room, the two were playing together in harmony.
”I brought Jericho's favorite fruits. And Jericho shared his special snacks for me in return.”
Eda was full of motivation, but she couldn't cast magic either that day.
They finally finished preparing cure-all that day.
From tomorrow on, they would begin making preparation works for later time instead of making medicines.
In other words, in preparation for when they got other ingredients, they would be turning herbs into powder or liquid and put it into pots. The work of dividing and putting the exact amount into small pots needed quite the patience.
On the fifth day after Eda started learning magic.
Poof, <Lamplight> was cast.
Eda stared at the light at her fingertip like she couldn't believe what she saw.
That light fizzled out, she chanted the spell again.
A light lit up once again.
Eda burst into tears. Jericho held her shoulder while patting her back. Eda hugged Jericho and bawled out.
”I-I. The first time. This is the first time I succeeded at something someone taught me. And, and it's magic. Magic! I-I'm not a good-for-nothing. I-I'm a mage!”
She was pushing her tears and snot filled face against Jericho, but Jericho gently hugged Eda back without looking disgusted in the slightest.