“You idiots!! What do you mean by entering a mountain that you two are not used to at this time of year!!”
I quickly left the clinic with my grandfather’s angry voice in the background as soon as I dropped the two of them off.
I’m sorry for Theo and the others, but my grandfather’s nagging is a weight that has accumulated over time, and it won’t disappear just because he’s old. I’m sure his skills are solid, so I want you to be patient and receive treatment while listening to the scolding.
However, I didn’t want to get involved in his nagging, so I ran away because I had to deliver the materials to my father as soon as possible. If I’m catch by my grandfather, it will definitely develop into a story about me taking over the clinic at the end. Now that I haven’t decided on a career path yet, avoiding nagging is a good strategy.
“Dad, I’m home.”
My house has two floors. The front of the first floor is a small material sales office, and there are magic circles for sending goods to the capital, a material storage, and synthesis equipment. There is a kitchen, a toilet, a bath, and pumping facilities in a separate room, but the basic living space for ourselves is on the second floor.
There is also a back door, but basically materials are sold in far away places such as the royal capital, and the store side has almost no customers, so you can enter from the entrance of the store normally.
“Welcome back. I heard that the red signal rose in the mountain today, was it okay?”
My father, who has light blue hair, which is close to white, looked up from the book and turned his gentle blue eyes behind his glasses towards me.
“It’s okay for the time being. I was in the mountain, so I went to the place of the signal and helped them go down the mountain. A pair of people from the royal capital are now being treated at my grandfather’s clinic. It was a knight and a priest, and they were attacked by Killer Bee. I saw it too, so I pushed it away with the magic of water.”
“I see. That was tough. Thank you for your hard work.”
“Oh, because of that, the collection was only half finished. I was able to collect leaves, but there might not be enough mushrooms, and it was impossible to get cotton seeds. I’m sorry.”
I take the collection bag out of the backpack and put it in front of the counter.
I was planning to collect all the the things I was instructed to by the end of the day, but I couldn’t make it in time.
“It’s enough. There are restrictions on the mountain now, so all the materials are in short supply, and there are only customers who are grateful if they get even a little, and it will not be so urgent. But, Killer Bee. I think I’ll go and get some poison next time. Are there any nests left?”
“I don’t know. But I just flushed the bees with water, so the nests are probably still there. If you’re just going to get poison, it might be better to exterminate them before they create a nest in the village. Even though it’s in the back, it attacked relatively close to the village.”
I report about the bees while taking out what I gathered from the material bag and arranging them.
Actually, it’s better for me to collect bee poison, but my father knows that I don’t like insects, so if it’s not urgent, he would collect insects by himself. My father originally intended to run a small material shop, selling only what he could collect.
But my father is the only one who thinks about it like that.
Contrary to my father’s expectations, the royal capital has built a revolutionary transportation route that sends materials with a magic circle to the royal capital, and there are many high-quality and rare things, so it is selling like hotcakes. It’s no longer a small shop, it’s a brand. For that reason, the pharmacists and alchemists in the royal capital are appealing for more transactions, but my father does not break the scope of what he can do. Thanks to that, when I was attending school in the capital, other daughters asked me to speak to my father.
Well, thanks to my father working at his own pace like this, I can also work for a change of pace. If I decide to take over in earnest, I’ll put up with the collection of insects, but now I’m helping as much as I can.
“Anyway, people often think of climbing the mountain at a time like this. If there was a knight, I’m sure they have permission.”
If there is a restriction, due to the danger of monsters, only a party that has graduated from a school as a knight, a magician, or a saint, or a party accompanied by one of them can enter the mountain. Still, if there is no reason, they won’t step into it at this time.
“That’s it, listen to this, dad!”
My father brought up the topic, so I talked about the story of the saint I heard from the two of them without hesitation. I know there’s no point in getting angry, but I still can’t agree with a lot of things. Even if it’s called a personal grudge, I don’t like the saints. Or rather, in this case, it may be the saint’s system.
I understand that saints are rare, and I understand that saints are subject to various restrictions on their actions. I understand, but aren’t they too spoiled?
“I see. Well, now only saints can purify the maga. No matter what, their voice will be stronger. Moreover, there is more maga now, and it’s not enough.”
“If it were my father, would you go to get beeswax and honey for beauty?”
“Hmm. If I listen to the reason and think it’s necessary, I’ll get them that much.”
“Ugh. That’s what happens to my father too.”
After all, when I hear that they’re going to do this much, it seems that I’m wrong. No matter what, I end up looking at the saints harshly after my ex-boyfriend.
It’s as if my heart has become dirty since then…
It seems that he found out that I was depressed, so my father patted me on the head.
“Your father is used to it, so this level is not a lot of labor. But it’s too heavy to let the priest go. That’s why I think the order is wrong. They can’t make careless remarks. It’s a pity, but it’s a position they shouldn’t be in. Because that’s what they’re guaranteed.”
“I wish the saints weren’t so special.”
There may be things they want to complain about, but they have to endure it because someone may be harmed because of the content, and I sympathize a little with that part.
“It will be difficult as long as only saints can get rid of the maga. For example, if you can get the same ability as a saint, or if anyone can purify the maga by using tools, a saint will also be a profession like a magician or a swordsman.”
Purification of maga.
It has been said that only a saint can do this. In fact, a magician’s spell does not purify it, nor can a swordsman cut it.
But…
“Hey, Dad. In the royal capital, it is thought that demonization due to maga can only be cured in the temple.”
“Come to think of it, that’s right. There are always saints in the royal capital, there are temples, and even if maga appears in the first place, the saints will purify it immediately, so their research has not progressed much.”
If there is no problem, humans will not try to overcome it.
And the current situation is that the royal capital is going around without any problems, so they don’t bother to look for anything else.
But in places that are far away from the royal capital and major cities, no saints come and no temples are built. So we gather wisdom to do something about it on our own.
One of those wisdoms is the way to stop the progress of demonization with today’s mushroom poison.
“Then, perhaps purification can be done even if you’re not a saint, right? There are not enough saints at all now, so why don’t we establish a way to purify without a saint even if it takes time?”
Why maga is created, why creatures become monsters when they come into contact with the maga, we haven’t been able to figure out at all, and I wonder if the research to find out hasn’t progressed much?
There is are saints, and if you are a saint, you can purify it. So that’s fine.
The power of the saints is given by God. So there is no substitute for it.
Isn’t that how we think about it?
“It would be interesting if it could be done. Only saints can do it now, so saints are too special. Even from the appearance rate of the maga, the saints’ healing is not enough, so even more so the people around them are trying desperately to keep them from running away.”
“I’ve decided. I’m going to study how to purify without a saint.”
It started with a personal grudge, but that’s reason enough.
I decided here to activate the saint’s decline plan from today.
The plan will now be put into action!
I hope you enjoyed this chapter and thank you for reading!
