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86 - The difference of love is paper-thin, huh?

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The holiday of the next day.
It was around the time when yesterday’s downpour turned into fine weather as if it was a lie, Midia's condition hadn't changed.

...I ended up completing it.
It's not like it was easy... but I was able to survive in A Empire by randomly accumulating trivia and pharmaceutical knowledge until my lifespan was shortened. That’s why I can immerse myself in compounding medicine using [Cycle] that only I could use.

It's a dangerous concoction with a lot of problems, like side effects and stuff.
And I eliminate those side effects with [Cycle].
A little process of elimination. Using what the world I used to live in would call a [cheat]. Even if there are other means to make this concoction possible, it’s too much of a pain, so I just used a shortcut called [Cycle].

One problem I had was that I ran out of medicine ingredients that I cultivated and carried with me.
I don’t have the ingredients for the crucial part of being able to regularly drink the completed medicine.
It's not like I can’t secure materials at the botanical garden managed by Basili, but... this is for personal use after all.
Let’s just honestly order it from somewhere else. I have more money than I can use anyway.

And so.
I confirm the information on the new medicine with [Scan].
Its color is quite translucent, and when held up to the light, it shines in seven colors... It's a viscous liquid that looks like it’ll taste unpleasant when it goes around the body.
I steel my mind and drink it――

“........................Ugh.”

It doesn't taste bad, but. What’s this? It has no taste. Tasteless and odorless. That just makes it harder to swallow.
Anyway, first I have to swallow it... I thought there would be no immediate effect, but then my hair reflected in the mirror gradually turned black. My vision is also somehow turned clearer.
There were quite a few dramatic changes, but――if I don't regularly take the medicine, the effects won't accumulate in my body. It all depends on future observations.

First of all, I guess I should ask the guild for the medicinal herbs to be used in this medicine and the ingredients for the medicine I will test next.

Aah, right.
I didn’t complete only one medicine. I made several, including new medicines. This time, I only drank one of them.
From now on, I plan to continue to develop new medicines while killing time.

For now, seeing that it's a good time, I’ll head to where Midia is.
But then, I heard a knock on my room.
When I heard Midia's voice, “Senpai,” coming through the door, I couldn't help but sigh.
Checking with the wand flower, I see that Midia has the same unmoving facial expression as usual while going out of her way to carry my wand flower.

Reluctantly, I open the door, and Midia hands me the wand flower and says,

“Senpai... I'm really sorry about what happened this time.”

“...That’s for sure.”

“Huh? your hair...”

“I said I'd try a lot of things, didn't I.... Ah, yes. As an apology fee for this time, send the materials on this list to me.”

“Yeah... Senpai. I thought about it a little.”

What. Just go home now. There's no need to say anything unnecessary.

“I... about senpai.”

Aah, how troublesome, really――

“I might think of you like family.”

――The hell?
I relaxed my tense muscles a little.
No, but... well, this girl. Certainly. There's no doubt that she declared that she didn't see me as a romantic interest.
It means she was talking about how I pulled her out of being a vagrant and raised her up.
...Is that what she feels? From this girl's point of view, in a way, didn’t I become her foster parent?
It’s not like I weirdly make light of it either, but even if I did, I would only think it would be a shit load of trouble.

I push the list of materials toward Midia who looks puzzled, and say.

“Then, all the more so, don't repeat what you did this time. Understand?”

Midia nods with a blank expression, but she seems to be convinced in her own way.
Her footsteps as she walked away were light.
Now that the trouble is over, I take a break and check on the trends of I Confederacy, referring to newspaper articles and other sources.

As a result of checking the latest situation with Nyanna.
It seems the situation in I Confederacy as a whole has calmed down, but now the political situation is the one that’s in chaos.
Like hiring bandits to attack, and hiring adventurers as escorts to counter them.
It makes me want to wrap my head around what kind of era we are talking about.

However, if Randy were trying to intervene here, he would probably publish the scandals of respected politicians like a chivalrous thief would.
...Depending on the time and situation.
At the very least, the politicians of I Confederacy are trash. They’re the kind who would make you say ‘choose the right trash among the trash’.
Therefore, if a worthless piece of trash stands out even more than the scandalized piece of trash, they’d lose everything.

It’d be fine if he made the right decision about that, but...

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