I Shall Survive Using Potions!

(Roland & Francette)

I explained the details to everyone after driving away those two. When I told them Deceive them safely and everything will be solved!, Roland and Francette looked at me with scornful eyes. Emile and Bell were only nodding to my explanation, though.

(Roland)so that thing exists here, huh

Roland muttered in a small voice and Francette also nodded.

Whats wrong?

Ah.

(Kaoru)Francette, whats Long-lived Red Soil?

Yes, the medicine that Oldham or something, healing sage gramps was talking about. Its probably a valuable medicine, as he said that the one who could make it are someone like him in this town. And he also said that he is quite proficient with it, huh?

It may be like that, as this town is no more than just a provincial town and theres probably only one or two healing sages that competewith each other. Even if he has that kind of attitude.

(Francette)Kaoru-chan, you dont know aboutah well, it cant be helped, huh Its unrelated to the goddess after all and you dont even need it if you can create Goddess tears too. In the first place, Kaoru-chan is not a goddess from this world, right

Yup, it cant be helped.

Then, Francette stretched her spine and explained with a serious face. Apparently, her previous talk is in her Normal mode and seems like the explanation will be in her Work mode.

(Francette)Long-lived Red Soil is literally a drug that is said could extend ones own lifespan. Its recipe is passed on via oral instruction among the healing sages from the master to his/her apprentice. It also came out frequently in old stories.

The medicine uses various rare materials, hence its effective for all diseases and the patients lifespan will also be extended

(Roland)Simply put, its just an ordinary medicine.

Roland put it bluntly after Francette said so.

(Kaoru & Francette)Eh?

Francette, why are you surprised too!?

(Roland)Certainly, it doesnt mean that it doesnt work. Its quite effective for some illnesses and when given to those who are in the border of life and death, the chance to save them is also slightly increased. Hence, its not a lie for some people to say that his/her lifespan was extended thanks to Long-lived Red Soil, therefore it wont be a foolish act if they ask for even a large sum of money.

However, it does not mean that its a magic drug that can work against all diseases or to put it differently, God medicine. Its just an expensive, powerful medicine. The story is different if its Kaorus Potion, though.

In this area, the story about Potion is probably transmitted only to those in the upper class. Thus, even for now, the best medicine would probably be the Long-lived Red Soil.

I see, Is it similar to Panax ginseng in the Edo period? At first, it was available only to the emperors, nobles, royals, and such in China and South Korea, and shoguns, daimyos, and powerful clans in Japan, but later it became available to wealthy commoners too. In that case, its not strange that the price is equivalent to several million yen.

However, it is by no means certain that itll work the moment you drink it just like a wonder drug. It will gradually improve your health and cure your condition by taking it for a long time

Yes, its not the patients condition gets better, thus he become healthy, but its the patient become healthy, thus his condition gets better. Its like a strong nourishment.

(Roland)And, because the essential ingredients are hard to get, it became the main reason for those three ingredients price to rise sharply. As it can rarely be found in distant kingdoms and cannot be cultivated, therefore we can only rely on collecting it. In addition, apart from hemalt seeds, maltger fruits and kurkol leaves are available in limited seasons and those which are dried are significantly less effective.

and they found out that Kaoru had sold those three of the freshly picked items with just six small silver coins.

By the way, its currently not the season where you could get maltger fruits. Theres a possibility that they dont have enough hemalt seeds so theysearch around the town and thought that they couldnt find them in this kind of shop at first. However, the shop seems to be selling plant materials in a glance, so theres nothing wrong to try asking for it and surprisingly its there. She probably wondered and half-jokingly asked if there are also maltger fruits and kurkol leaves too. She perhaps thought that the ones we have are of poor quality.

And then, you of all people

Guhaa!!

Thats not good indeed. I cannot get angry with Taona who misjudged 6 small silver coins as 6 sacred silver coins, which she thought that I forced an unreasonably high price from the beginning. I also have similar experiences like that.

In addition, there was no situation where that healing sage, Oldham or something yelled at his disciple, Taona. If Taona didnt make a mistake and they just paid with six small silver coins, they will done it without any problem. Perhaps he thought that Taona could not make a mistake about it.

Well, even though I did it this time, I will check the market price next time so that I could know the real price.

Therefore, its possible to buy those goods just this once. Next time, I will reflect on having sold something ridiculous rather than getting angry at someone who said nothing while knowing my mistake. Theres no doubt that those kind of things will be removed from the product list and the result will be the same in the end.

However.

(Kaoru)Why is Roland so familiar with this Long-lived Red Soil? Even to the material itself Didnt you said that the ones who know it are only the healing sages?

Yup, how could you know that much? Then, Roland, you could compound the Long-lived Red Soil by yourself, right?

(Roland)Because I have drank it for quite a while when my arm stopped working because of an injury, that is.

Because I am neither ill nor physically weak, I said that it was useless, but my parents and retainers wont listen to me. How much of the kingdoms budget was wasted on me

Thus, I asked a healing sage thoroughly and researched it to convince everyone that it was no use for me to drink Long-lived Red Soil.

Yikes. I just heard something bad

Perhaps he could not afford to waste the kingdoms budget for the people. It reminded me of something that I didnt like.

(Kaoru)sorry

I apologized to Roland and he just waved lightly while saying dont think about it.

But with this, I was able to solve the question, and also found out that it was not that great deal of a drug.

Well then, case closed!!

I got very bored with the explanation, but its much better than throwing all of it and running away from it.

Going for modest customers and earning modestly. And, if I find someone for me, I will find him!!

Well, its not too much of a trouble. As my body does not age, it got nothing to do with marriageable age. Francette and the others think that I am tens of thousands years old, so theres nothing wrong with staying here for who knows how many years will it be. I might be 50,019 years old or 50,024 years old, but it would make no big difference.

After traveling to a certain extent, I might as well return to Balmore kingdom, get Francette to marry Roland, then get Emile to marry Bell as well, and send off Riette-chan to be someones bride, and then go on a trip alone again

No no, it would probably be better for Riette-chan to go on a trip with me. Then we could leave immediately without waiting too much. Besides, being alone is a little lonely.

When I return to Balmore Kingdom, I will take advantage of an Arigo Empires ship in some port town

There was a time when I thought so.

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(???)Is this the place which sells Long-lived Red Soil materials?

It caaaaaaammeeee!!

Why have you come!? I have clearly told that healing sage that I would no longer receive those goods. In addition, theres no benefit to tell others about it again. Eeeeeii! Such an unnecessary trouble

(Kaoru)No, youre wrong. Please find another store.

(???)But this place is Convenience Store Bell, right!?

Hmm, when I saw the middle-aged man, he looks like a noblemans retainer or a rich merchants son, but from where did he hear this kind of story?

If I dont confirm it, the explanation objective cannot be achieved. I could make a grave mistake by giving extra information if I dont know how much does he know and what he doesnt know. And before that,

*Kuii kuii*

I lightly pull the string under the counter several times in a certain pattern.

Yes, its a calling string for Francette who is currently chilling on the second floor.

When the string is pulled, the bell in everyones room rings and the light comes on. Some information can be transmitted by the light frequency and intervals.

And the present signal is Urgency 4, Threat 4, People 1. With this, she wont go so far to skip 3 steps on the stairs, and go down normally, rig-,

*ZUDODODODODODO!*

No, its nothing

Right now, Emile and Bell are absent as they have gone to hunter training and earning some money. Theyre trying to give all of the money theyre making to me, but I only took half of the money from them and put it in the item box to save it for the time when those two got married.

And Roland is also went out for some reason. I mean, its not like hes staying in his room all day every day. When Emile and Bell are present, he sometimes go out with Francette.

In conclusion, the one whos here now is

(Francette)You bastard! Prepare yourself!

Yup, its only Francette.

(Kaoru)Francette, the signal was Threat 4, its only Threat 4, okay

Well, for Francette, that doesnt matter.

Even if its harmless to me or theres a little danger.

She will oppose every one of them with her own judgment. There is no such thing as going easy on someone or peacefully.

Yup, I knew that.