ASDP Chapter 10

“Well, you can try it.”
I was a little nervous after I got home, but when I told my father what my grandfather told me to, the words that came back were so light that I was disappointed.
What I found out today, what I want to do. My grandfather told me that I was crossing a pretty dangerous bridge.
That’s why I thought there would be a little more attention and bitterness. I thought I might have to persuade him depending on the situation.

“Won’t I be causing you trouble?”
“I’m a parent. You don’t have to worry about inconveniencing me. It’s easy to get information about people in the royal capital. Besides, I listened carefully to Amelia’s declaration, and I didn’t particularly stop you, did I? I didn’t think you would move around so quickly and make a hypothesis.”
“Thank you, Dad.”
I thank my father for accepting it because he is a parent. I think my father, who is firm and accepts me unconditionally, is really the best father.
“After that, is it beeswax and honey that you want? It’s not a lot, but it’s in stock, so you can sell it.”
“Well, I’ll tell Theo that. Because I said I would check it.”
My grandfather told me not to get too close, but I was the one who undertook it. I think we should take the time to discuss this matter.

“The amount of money is fine according to the list price, but can you put it on the condition that he never talks about anything he bought here? I’ll be in trouble if someone came all this way to buy things.”
“I understand”
If it’s a negotiation without a discount at the regular price, there’s no problem even for me. The reason why he doesn’t want him to talk about it is that he doesn’t want to get involved in the trouble that happens because it’s rare.
Merchants say that we don’t have a business spirit because we don’t raise the price no matter how scarce the product is, but it’s more difficult to deal with the hassle.
For my father who earns enough even at the regular price, there will be no problem.

The day after I negotiated the sale of beeswax and honey in this way, I went to my grandfather’s clinic again.
Yesterday I continued to use physical strengthening, so my body has been feeling muscle pain since this morning. Immediately after waking up, I was in a state of a newborn fawn. I’m working, so I’ll put up with the pain, but it seems impossible to move quickly yet.
“Hello. Are Theo and the others here?”
“Oh? Amelia, you’re early. I just finished breakfast. The doctor is going to the store to eat.”
The breakfast at the clinic will be delivered by order from the proprietress of a nearby diner. This clinic has almost no patients who are hospitalized, so there is no kitchen.
Therefore, when there is a hospitalized patient, they pay the salary and ask the restaurant to take care of the patient’s meal. In the meantime, my grandfather also goes out to eat.

“Thank you as always.”
“That’s fine. I’m getting paid properly. And I’ve seen something interesting since this morning.”
“Something interesting?”
I wonder if there was such an interesting thing.
“The patient in the hospital this time. Even though he is a beautiful man, he has his hands tied to a log in a hugging position. You can’t usually see a handsome blonde man imitating a mushroom, right?”
“…That’s right.”
I can’t see it, and I don’t really think I want to see it.
The landlady who can laugh at the scene is courageous. Even so, it’s only been one night, but he was tied to a tree… The blonde is probably the priest Alfie. I feel sorry for Theo in the next bed.

“Ah. But wouldn’t it be impossible to eat if your hands were tied?”
“As long as there is food, it seems that his appetite will prevail even if you remove the binding for now. The doctor also said that he also has an appetite and the urge to urinate, considering the time since he got mushroom disease. It seems that if he wants to go to the bathroom, he will tell you properly. He just starts planting mushrooms when he doesn’t have anything else to do.”
He had such an early urge to plant mushrooms too quickly, but I’m relieved he has an appetite.
If you don’t eat and drink, your body will be weak, so even though it was an emergency, I felt guilty for infecting him with the mushroom disease.

“Excuse me. Good morning, Mr. Theo and Mr. Alfie.”
When I entered the room, there was Theo, who was wearing patient clothes and sitting up in bed, and Alfie, who was tied to a log. Alfie looks happy to close his eyes while being restrained, but Theo seems to want to keep it out of sight. Yeah. You’ll hate it when you think that might be your future.
“Good morning, Amelia.”
“How are you doing?”
“I don’t feel like I’m becoming a monster, and I don’t have any symptoms that I want to plant mushrooms, so I don’t care about anything other than the fact that they’re growing on my head.”
“How’s your injury?”
“The doctor said that the itching and pain would be terrible because it was just a thin layer of skin, but I don’t feel much.”
I see. It seems that if you start turning into a monster, it will be difficult for people to feel itching.
I’d like to see the injury once, but if I ask for this now, my grandfather will get angry again, so I’ll keep quiet. Let’s ask my grandfather about the detailed observation process later.

“That’s good then. Demonization is troublesome, but it was lucky that the injury healed quickly. Do you have an appetite?”
“Oh. It was very delicious. I didn’t move much, but I was hungry in the middle of the night.”
If mushroom disease progresses, the appetite will disappear. So if you have an appetite, the progress here must have stopped. But do you have more appetite than usual… Could it be caused by an abnormality in the magical manufacturing organ? Magic power can be made with mana, but it takes that much energy to convert from mana to magic power.
If that’s the case, it’s not strange that you need more energy than usual to turn into a monster.
“Thank you for taking care of me. Amelia is kind.”
“What?”
I blinked at the sudden thank you.

“Thanks to Amelia, I was not only able to get help, but was also given so much attention to my body. I really appreciate it.”
“Ah. It’s okay. This is not because I’m kind, but because I’m just checking the symptoms of demonization. Don’t thank me.”
I’m not doing anything to be thanked.
I’m just observing. It’s hard to do it when you say thank you.
But when I said that, Theo laughed without any sign of being offended. The smile on the sunburned face is very refreshing.
“I see. I’m sorry for worrying about you strangely. So, what happened today?”
“I came to report it because I confirmed the beeswax and honey that I was talking about yesterday. I checked with my father, and he said it’s a small amount, but it’s in stock. I can sell the amount at the regular price, but there is a condition that you never leak what my father sold it to you. He doesn’t want people to think that he will sell it to them if they come this far.”
It’s not a hassle for my father to send it to the royal capital.
It’s just that the later problems caused by selling are troublesome. That’s why he hates it very much to bring that problem to the village, and I don’t like it either.

“Don’t let it leak… Got it. I’ll say that a person I met on the mountain by chance had it and sold it to me, but I won’t mention his name.”
If you look up which mountain it is, you will know, so there will be people who feel the possibility of it being my father, but if you just met by chance on the mountain and he gave it to you, they won’t come all the way here even if there is an inquiry.
“Yeah. So, please. What about the material? I can give it to you now, or you can set up a magic circle that can only be used once after returning to the capital later, and I can send it to you from here.”
“Is there a magic circle that can only be used once?”
“Yes. My father made it for doing business. It is necessary to have blood attached as a sign that can be received there when using it in one-way transaction, and I can only send it from here, but it doesn’t deteriorate like it does when carrying it. However, we will add a magic circle fee to the beeswax and honey fee.”
Transportation by my father’s magic circle is very revolutionary because it is also a countermeasure against bandits, but it’s cheaper if you bring it home by yourself. Considering the transportation cost, most people choose transportation by magic circle, but Theo is already in this village. There is no problem if he takes it home.

“I don’t want it to deteriorate, so can you send it to me? I don’t know how to use it for beauty either.”
There are few men who are so particular about beauty, so it’s not strange if they don’t know. Certainly, if you don’t know how to use it, it’s better to send it because it’s troublesome if it deteriorates badly.
“I got it. How much do you want? Hmm. Shall I have you take a look before returning to the royal capital, and then make an invoice?”
“It would be helpful if you could do that, but I think I’ll probably buy as much as you can sell.”
He didn’t know how they would use it, but he accepted the job, thinking that it would be hard to run errands for a saint.

Is it just me or is anyone else thinking that Theo’s sunburn might not be just a sunburn?

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