
After arriving at the gate, "Wait, where's the carriage!"
"What train?" ask Artex.
"The train I ride with the man I'm looking for."
"Try asking the gatekeeper."
But before I moved, Nena had already run first into the city. He looks excited. I also walked over to the guard post behind the gate. Instead of standing guard at his post, the gatekeeper was nowhere to go. Before I didn't look towards this post when I first came here. So I don't know if anyone's really looking after me or not.
Then I decided to find Nena. I don't know where he ran.
"Hey, Artex." After a long search, I decided to ask Artex. "Did you see where Nena went?"
"Of course."The answer. "I didn't look at him at all either. I focused on looking out of town."
"Huh." I can only sigh. "Where did the boy go anyway." But after a while, "Oh, that's it!" but it looks like he's talking to someone—long-haired woman."
Unexpectedly after his face glanced at me, I found Virie's anxious face. He immediately approached me and slapped me seriously.
"Where were you last night?!" lirih.
"I'm sorry. I just want to do my duty well." Reply with guilt
"You mean to leave me to harm myself?!" she was crying sobbing. "Just think about how worried I am about losing you."
At the wrong time, Nena cut the conversation. "Please don't be angry with my master. Even if he harms himself, he has helped me out of my misery."
"I understand what you're saying, little girl. But still, I didn't let this man act as he wished just to lay down his life on someone else." Virie's cries are getting louder.
"What if I die?" instead of calming her down, I made things worse. "You can take Zack with you if I'm not around. This world won't end just because I don't exist."
"That's not the problem! I don't want to lose my source of happiness in the future! *hix*"
"That's it. I'm sorry then. I won't risk myself too far anymore. It's a good thing that Artex saved me before I left you."
"Don't mind me. I'll just shut up for now." Artex from behind.
Virie released her embrace while wiping her tears. "I apologize for my attitude. I was too carried away by emotions when I saw you again."
"By the way, where's Zono?"
"He's returning to the village to pass on some information and won't be returning."
"Then what about a trip to another village?"
"We will continue on foot. It would be too conspicuous if a train was running on an unusual route."
"Who will see us?"
"The bandits." Artex Sahut. "They always realized that the one riding the horse-drawn carriage was a rich man. Not only valuable items, even lives they dare to take to erase their tracks."
"Indeed the crime in this world is the same as the 18s." Even though I said so, I'm not sure the year I said it was true.
"Then, I'll go buy preparations for our trip. You can wait here with your friend or go around town." Virie turned. "I'll be back in the afternoon. Make sure you're here by then." Seeing Nena in shabby clothes, Virie invites her to go together.
Artex stood up "I'd better go straight to his place."
"Where are you going?"
"Medicine shop."
"I've been with you instead of keeping silent, no entertainment."
Finally we also went from this public place.Go to the warehouse of science.
...~Π~...
Arriving there I was amazed to see some compounds on display, maybe they call it more to the herb. Even though I can make it myself, who knows the potions here use ingredients that are different from those on earth.
"I'm the usual message." Say Artex to someone—bodied stocky?!
"Ready!" the man took out a few bottles of potion behind him.
I'm approaching the cashier's place "It's weird."
"What's up, son?" ask the cashier.
"Usually only heavy work is done by people with fertile bodies. Examples such as blacksmiths or building porters. But you work here."
"Heh," his tone seemed like an understatement, "do you think that kind of work requires a lot of energy? You're wrong big time. Take a look at the potion I've been displaying all over the shelf. Many of them are the same color, right?"
"If you look around again, that's right. Even they were labeled with the same image."
"Well, fine, I understand the whole thing." Cut me.
"So today only three bottles ya." Said Artex while putting some gold coins.
"I'm afraid Modenna's population will decline because of me. I let them pollinate him first."
"All right then." Artex Response. "Is there anything you want to buy, Den? I'll wait."
"Ah, no need. I don't even have a penny."
"You can pay anything as long as it has a price." Sahut the man.
I was surprised to hear that. If so, I could manipulate the buying and selling system here. "What is it?!"
"I won't lie for valuables."
"Then, how about this." I opened my bag and acted as if I was taking things from inside the bag. But in reality I was hiding my strength in front of him. I took out a piece of gold. "Can I use this instead of money?"
"Of course you can!" it seems my offer is quite tempting.
The Artex who realized my strength could only laugh a little at my cheating.
"Do you have the tools to cut this thing?" my many. "I thought I'd buy only a few things."
"Wait a minute, I'll take it." He went to the back door to get something to cut this gold.
Artex whispered to me "Is it okay to use your power for these moments? Are there no side effects?"
I replied with a whisper as well "Just calm down. I'm doing this to shut down the possible rules of my power."
"What is that, anyway?"
"I need to damage the thing I created to maintain its existence."
"So you want to say it's gonna disappear?"
"Yes, if it's only been quieted for thirty minutes and the shape of the thing doesn't change."
"Then good luck. I won't help you if your plan fails."
Soon, the burly man returned with a chisel with a hammer. "Okay, here's the chisel. Just break your gold on the floor. I don't want to risk doing it on my desk."
I broke his golden chunk with all my might. The gold I split into two parts with a ratio of one to three. I lifted a small chunk "Is this enough?"
"What do you want to buy?" ask the man.
"All the potion recipes you have."
"Wow, wow." He looks panicked. "I can't hand over the valuables of a potion salesman just for the sake of a lump of gold."
"In that case, I'll give you a big size. How's it?"
"You will not always be able to get what you want just by adding a nominal amount to your offer. I'll approve it if you give me something more interesting."
I sighed, "Huh.... It's also hard to negotiate. All right, then. I'll just take some recipes from you."
"Permissed. But you'll only get ten recipes from me. You can choose from all the recipes I have."
"But before that, I want to make sure no one else knows your recipe."
"Just calm down" said Artex. "I guarantee only he knows the recipe. I've also asked the potions he has to all the alchemists in other cities."
"How, do you agree?" ask the burly man.
"All right, then. I accept your offer."
After some negotiation action, I decided to buy ten recipes from the potion the burly man had. Some of the gold I stored with dust and small fragments. Among the recipes I bought, one of them was one that could relieve pain like the one Artex bought. Although I don't know what it's for and why Artex bought the potion.
...~Π~...
"See you later, Warimo." Artex.
After visiting the alchemy shop, we returned to our meeting point with Virie. On the way, we chatted a little about the potion that Artex bought.
"Hey, Artex. Why did you buy that potion?"
Artex sighed. "Although I can regenerate, I can still feel pain. Therefore I drank this potion in order to focus on the pain lost during the fight"
"Oh, so yes. If it's like that, there's no point in me buying the recipe."
Artex only smiled faintly after hearing me.