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88 - I just wanted to create a rejuvenation medicine, I don't need an immortality medicine

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We started exchanging letters after dealing with the dungeon activation, using gratitude for taking care of me as an excuse.
While passing documents to each other, before and after salon staff meetings, for example.
Occasionally, whenever we passed each other, for some reason we kept it secret.
I didn't want Nyanna to ask about my situation in secret and I didn't want the students to have rumors about it, so I was grateful for the secrecy, but...
The reasons for this are also revealed after several exchanges of letters.

Apparently, Ekaterina doesn’t like Basili.
That was a one-sided affection from Basili, and Ekaterina herself is troubled because of it...
There were such occasions at every key point, but the trouble was that Ekaterina’s parents said they didn't mind her having Basili as her fiancé. This is because he is an excellent man, who has made a mark in academia, and has also left behind a track record of devising magic circles for the government.

However, Ekaterina refuses.
She has only been a principal for a short time so she can't afford to be obsessed with love.
She seems to be using an excuse of wanting to dedicate her life as the school principal for the sake of the students... but her parents at least want her to have descendants, and Ekaterina herself agrees with that.

...In short, Ekaterina is at a loss because she wants an excellent fiancé other than Basili.
What an arrogant woman she is.
However, even a man like me can somehow understand why she hates Basili.
That kind of guy is the type who wants things to go his way. He is probably also the kind of guy who wants women to do what he wants.

Still.
Somehow, I am exchanging letters with Ekaterina, but I again wonder what she wants to do.
Could it be, she is in love with me?
Like desperately calling out to me, touching my hand, or even exchanging letters with me...
...That can’t be.
Truly can’t be. I myself don't like Ekaterina, no more than Midia at least. Having romantic feelings is just too troublesome.

Other than that, my parents send me a letter once a month, so I just send out a random letter.
Midia sends me various medicine ingredients even though I didn't ask for them.
Even Randy is being active in another country right now.
I'm developing various new medicines that have medicine and magic circles working together, but I haven't been able to complete something that I'm satisfied with.
I had Zekkiro check my lifespan, but there is still no change in it.

In the midst of all that.
One jewel-like flower on the tip of Herkovara wand had fallen off.
I thought it was a sign of the wand’s growth.
At the same time, I saw the flower shine like a diamond, and now that I think about it――I remember Giam's words.

The nature of Herkovara.
Its fine magic power tubes greatly absorbed magic power and convert it into durability, and at the same time stores it as life energy.
I see.
Is it telling me to use this?

Feeling some kind fate, I proceed to mix the wand flower with an ingredient of high concentration of energy.
I prioritize choosing ingredients that are safe for my constitution――light element ingredients.
I ended up owing a great debt to Midia, because... she gave me the heart of the light element S-rank monster, Hildegarde.
A light element plant of the highest quality, Innyeld.
A rare crystal of the light element, Virginia.
And so on and so forth...

“...I completed it.”

Hildegarde's heart alone has enough energy, but when a special medicine filled with it is packed into Herkovara wand flower, it absorbs it while emitting a dazzling light.
And once I connect it with my nerves...

But, before that.
I check it using [Scan]. ...What the hell is this? The effect is not to improve aging, nor to rejuvenate, and it would be too long to explain everything, but to put it plainly, I ended up completing something close to [Immortality].
Close.
It's a strange way of putting it, but it’ll become [Immortality] if I’m the one who uses it, but if someone else uses it, it won't become [Immortality].

There are also several conditions.
First, there are an unusual number of side effects. I can overcome it with [Cycle], so it's not a problem.
Next, the state of [Immortality] lasts only until the Herkovara wand flower medicine runs out. When it's gone, its effect disappears.
Well, to begin with, it is difficult to collect the ingredients.

“What I wanted to make isn’t this kind of thing...”

Perhaps it might be evaluated as having achieved one of the seven great undertakings of the world, but it wasn't like I was aiming for [Immortality].
If I use this thing, that shitty god won't shut up――

Crack!* (T/N: bishi!!)

While I was finding the [Immortality] medicine that I had completed with my wand flower on my palm to be beyond control, I don’t know where it came from, no.
From the Ekaterina's wand flower, which was planted in my room from the beginning, a tree branch grows and stops my hand.
What a shitty woman.
I have no privacy at all. That's why I write the contents of my research in encryption, and I don't even say that I hate the shitty woman while inside the school.

Without knocking, Ekaterina enters using the master key she has.
Usually, people would go ‘what’s going on’.
I covered the wand flower containing the medicine I completed with a magic circle and sealed it.
With a sigh, I tell Ekaterina, who has a grim look on her face.

“I won't use it.”

“...However, this is something that shouldn't exist in this world. There are so many medicines similar to this that have been developed...”

Ekaterina talks to me as if I'm an overly helpful bastard.
But at the same time.

“If you publish these, even Josiah-sensei would――”

She said as if tempting me, and I interrupted her.

“If Principal Ekaterina wants to publish it, please do it in your name. I am not interested.”

Because I haven’t finished developing the essential rejuvenation medicine.

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