CH 68

Together with Iris, I made a textbook picture book about effective treatments for bacteria, viruses and other illnesses. We didn’t use any text at all, so it won’t be transmitted well by itself, but it was generally well-received by Iris.

“Diana-sama and the others fell asleep on the sofa.”

Following Iris’s gaze, Hati is sleeping on Diana’s arms with its chin on the arm pillow. Navi slept on Hati and was buried in Hati’s fur.

Cute….my servants are too cute!

“If it was just Navi and Hati, I’d carry them to my room…but, it will be a pity to wake them up, so I’ll just let them sleep here for today. I’ll just put a blanket over them.”

After that, I left Iris and went to my room to sleep on my bed, but I couldn’t fall asleep while thinking about tomorrow.

From my bed, I stared at the ceiling, which was rather bright in the moonlight, I thought about a presentation I had given a long time ago to a hundred people. I was so nervous at that time that I couldn’t sleep the day before. I’m nervous because all the important people from the temple are going to be there tomorrow…It’s a training session where people’s lives were at stake.

I couldn’t sleep… I decided to do one more job until I got sleepy.

Navi makes a lot of things in the workshop, but I’m not satisfied without trying it myself.

I take out the medical tools that my master had given me from my inventory.

A mortar and pestle, and a stone mill, a crusher similar to a coffee grinder, newly made at Navi’s workshop.

First of all, I use the mortar to grind the dried turmeric that I bought in large quantities at the Pharmacists Guild into powder.

It’s quite difficult to grind it into as fine a granule as possible.

knock Knock!

The door of my room was knocked on

“Luke-sama? May I come into your room?”

“Yeah. Sure.”

Is she here about the noise?

When Iris entered the room, she looked at the desk and was startled.

“Luke, if you’re going to make a potion, why didn’t you tell me? Or is it some kind of secret concoction that you can’t tell me anything about?”

“What? Is that what it looks like?”

Ah ~ I see, did she think that when she saw the several kinds of plants I have out now? We made the shampoo together, but she thinks this is a secret concoction because I’m doing it in my room instead of in the living room. Apparently, she didn’t come to complain about the noise.

“Turmeric is said to be good for the stomach and liver. The others are also effective for the stomach….In case you’re wondering, I majored in pharmacology, so I can tell by looking at the materials. Are you sick? “

It seems that she made that decision by looking at the dried plants on the table, which I bought at the Pharmacists Guild.

“Ah, it’s not like that.”

“But….that’s coriander, isn’t it? It’s used as a detoxifying stomach medicine, and this cumin is also used as a stomach medicine and diuretic. This ginger is said to have the same effect. Red pepper and garlic are also used to promote appetite.”

At this point, some people will know what I’m doing by looking at the ingredients.

“Well, if you can help me, I’ll teach you the recipe for this concoction.”

“Of course I’ll help you! I am Master Luke’s disciple, and if you’re going to make medicine, be sure to call me! I was sure I heard sounds like you were using a mortar and pestle, and a stone mill. But I wasn’t sure, so I decided to come to your room and check….”

“Okay! Don’t get angry. I want to grind all this into powder for the time being.”

I coarsely grind it with my mortar and pestle, and then Iris grinds it into finer powder with the stone mill (crusher).

The two of us grind it into powder and put it in a jar. After doing this for about an hour, Iris muttered.

“Luke…is this all…”

Yeah, it’s hard as expected. I’m getting tired of it too–

“Hmm, by the way, my Master, the Great Sage, was doing it with magic.”

“Great Sage Edward? I think it’s probably either [grinding] or [fine grain] magic. I wanted to learn it when I was in the pharmacy department, but I couldn’t because I didn’t have the aptitude.”

Luke also couldn’t learn it, so it was a manual process.

“But normally, I don’t grind so much at once, so I don’t have to worry…up until now, I’ve been making recovery agents by hand, so, I’m not at all troubled. “

“That’s right….Why are you making so much of these this time? Is it related to tomorrow’s seminar?”

“It’s completely separate from tomorrow.”

Ah, now I can use my AP to learn it with [customize]!

I took out my [Status Plate] and looked at the list of available magic…..both skills were there.

Both skills have proficiency of up to level 10, and it seems [grinding] can make fine powder, but [fine grain] is considerably finer even in the state of level 1, and it seems that level 2 is enough to make my desired powder state, so I used points to acquire [fine grain].

“As I recall, this is how you surround the plants with wind magic barrier…[fine grain]!”

“Oh! Luke, you’re done!”

“This magic called [fine grain] is like a compound magic that cuts at high speed with wind blades.”

“I learned that both [grinding] and [fine grain] are high-speed cutting magic that uses either wind blades or physical blades with earth attributes.”

I thought it was amazing magic, but…when I actually used it, it was just a miller.

A major mail order site sells one for about 15,000 yen if it can produce the powdery texture I want. It was the kind of magic you can easily get from a certain mail-order site that sends you a cardboard box about five times the size of what’s inside…

Unlike with shampoo, I don’t need to extract only the ingredients I want, so when I get the ideal powder state, I put it in a jar, label it, and store it in my inventory to keep it dry.

“You won’t be teaching me the formula after all?”

Iris asked a question when the plants on the rough desk were gone.

“I’ll just grind it into powder today and we’ll continue when we go to the duke’s house. I’m making this for Lara-chan, you know.”

“Is this a medicine for Lara? Is there something wrong with Lara?”

From Iris’s point of view, I’m sure she’s wondering about this, but the day after tomorrow the school will be closed for the weekend, so we’ll be heading to the Duke’s house tomorrow evening. It’s no fun to say what it’s about right now.

“There’s nothing wrong with Lara. I’ll teach you properly then cause we’ll be doing this concoction many times in the future.”

“Is that true? It’s a promise. Please teach me properly.”

* * *

When I woke up in the morning, the servants who were supposed to be sleeping on the sofa were sleeping in my bed.

“Good morning, Master!”

“Good morning Diana…you’re looking good this morning…but, why are you naked and sticking to me again?”

“This mistress is a dragon and I don’t really like to wear clothes. I think it’s okay to be naked while you sleep…”

I’m not going to force you to do that, but if you don’t……I’m going to have trouble keeping my eyes off the subtle bulges. Another reason is that her humanized appearance is that of a beautiful girl.

≪ ♪ Good morning, Master. The saddle you requested for Diana  the other day has been completed ≫

“This mistress doesn’t like saddles either….”

≪ ♪ Don’t be so selfish. What will you do if master falls? ≫

“Well….I don’t want any more accidents like that again.”

“Diana….Thank you for that time. I’m alive today because you risked your life to save mine.”

If Diana hadn’t sacrificed herself and thrown me into the sky before the crash, my life would have ended in tens of seconds after reincarnation.

“This mistress now has more wisdom than that time….so, I won’t listen to such reckless orders anymore.”

At that time, she was a 5-year-old Drake, but now Diana has the knowledge of an ancient dragon…

“Well, I would like to take Iris and Emilia to the Duke’s house if possible, but is that okay?”

I’m sure Diana didn’t want to carry anyone other than me on her back.

“Iris and Natalie are fine, but I don’t want to carry anyone else….”

“Natalie….but why are those two good and the others bad?”

≪♪ I wonder, what a dumb dragon…she seems to love them because they make delicious food. ≫

“Aah! You read the voice of this mistress’ heart! But, why did you tell on me!?”

I’ve only had a few meals with her…but, I feel like I somehow understood what she was doing in the temporary dwarven village. I guess she was being fed.

“Diana, if you put everyone on board, I’ll give you a really delicious meat dish using the cows we hunted the other day, how about it?”

“How delicious is it? I don’t want it to be just a little delicious.”

≪♪ Don’t worry, it will be better than anything you’ve ever eaten.≫

“Really! I’m looking forward to it!”

“By the way, how much do you usually eat Diana? You’re eating as much as everyone else right now. Is that enough?”

“That’s not enough….this mistress will starve and die.”

≪ ♪ When you become a servant, you don’t need to eat. The same is true for Hati and Diana. In the dragon state, it’s less than a bite, so she won’t feel like she’s eating anything, but during humanization, she can taste it, and it’s just a luxury, so the current amount is sufficient.>>

“Diana, don’t lie to me….you just want to eat more. If you lie, I won’t give you any cooked meals. I’ll just give you raw meat like I did when you were a drake?”

“No! Raw meat is delicious, but the cooked meat is exceptional! I want to eat the same as everyone else! I’m sorry for lying to you.”

“Yeah, it’s good to apologize obediently. I’ll feed you the same meals as everyone else. Let’s get dressed.”

She gave us the consent to put everyone on her back. Surprisingly, Diana, who has the darkness attribute, was able to make weight disappear using gravity magic, so it doesn’t matter how many people ride on her back.

After taking a walk and the usual muscle training, we boarded the royal carriage that came to pick us up after breakfast and headed for the seminar.