Part 1
After we arrived in Ranalitta, Freia and I looked for a place to stay.
Ranalitta has many visitors, ranging from adventurers, criminals and immigrants from poor villages. There’s also the businessmen who come here to buy slaves and other goods.
There are enough places to house all these people. There are inns aimed at the poor people and inns aimed at the wealthy people. Thinking of the money in my wallet, it would be better to stay in a cheaper inn, but that’s not actually a good idea.
The cheap inns in this city are scarier than the forest at night. It’s basically asking to be stripped of everything you have. Either the other guests or the owner themselves might steal from you.
Freia and I are going to the middle section of the city. Ranalitta is basically divided into three sections.
The poor section, where the poor, riffraff and criminals live. It’s unsafe and full of illegal things. The sanitation is also not good.
The middle section, where those with a certain amount of income live. The minimum level of security and sanitation is secured.
Then there’s the wealthy section, where the aristocrats and rich people gather. The streets are beautiful and safe, thanks to their large donations.
I decided to stay at a reasonably expensive inn in the middle section because I could afford it with the money I had and it offered good security.
“Keyaruga-sama, I can’t wait to sleep in a soft futon. I haven’t been sleeping well in the sleeping bag.”
“It is hard to rest and relieve fatigue with a sleeping bag.”
Freia’s words make me laugh. I can’t believe she says she’s having trouble sleeping when she immediately sleeps due to fatigue. The former princess is still not used to traveling. Today, let’s wash ourselves with warm water and sleep on a soft futon.
Part 2
The next morning, we were able to relieve a lot of our fatigue due to staying at a decent inn with nice accommodation. The rate was a little pricey, but there’s no substituting for security.
Freia and I are heading to the poor section in order to sell medicine. Slaves are expensive, so we had to make money to buy one.
Until last night, I was wondering what kind of potion to make. Before we arrived, I had been gathering wild plants and mushrooms with medicinal value from everywhere we went, but I hadn’t made them into potions yet. There’s no point in making a potion I can’t sell.
But now I know what I have to make, and it’ll definitely sell well. I think back to the inn last night.
Even though we were in the middle section, it was worth choosing a higher-price inn. The dinner was included and the food wasn’t bad. But there was one fatal flaw.
“Keyaruga-sama, why did you say we shouldn’t drink the water? I’m glad you ordered a good drink, but I’m worried about our expenses.”
With good timing, Freia asked me about the fatal flaw, so I decided to explain it to her.
“My eye is special and I can see bad things. The water is poisoned. I was curious, so I did some research and found out that the city’s water supply is contaminated. There must be quite a few poisoned monster corpses sinking upstream. The poison has been diluted, but I wonder if it could cause illness if it accumulates in the body to some degree.”
I felt a strange taste in the water, so I decided to check everything we were served with my Jade Eye. At first, I thought the owner had tried to give us a sleeping drug to give us the city’s usual welcome and take everything we had during the night, but the poison is of monster origin and has no immediate effect.
So I told Freia to not drink any of the water and ordered some wine for us to drink. After that, we checked the water in the well and I was able to guess the cause.
“Err, if the water is polluted, then wasn’t the meal dangerous as well? Was it fine?”
“That was fine. The poison is sensitive to heat, so it’s fine as long as you cook it. And it’s also very diluted, so it won’t cause any trouble unless you consume it a lot. And the contamination of the water supply should be cleared in about a month, unless another monster happens to die there.”
Well, it doesn’t matter anyway. The poison isn’t fatal, and there are probably no long-term side-effects.
“Phew, what a relief. We shouldn’t drink any water that hasn’t been heated while we’re in town.”
“It’s no big deal even if you get it. At most, you’d spend two months in bed with a high fever, and you’d feel a constant stabbing pain in your body.”
“Isn’t that a really big deal?!”
Freia is making a fuss. It’s not that easy to take in so much poison from monsters. Just by looking at the people walking around outside, you can see many of them are starting to show mild symptoms. In a week, there will probably be a good number of seriously ill people. Probably a few hundreds or thousands.
“I thought that a lot of people in this city looked sick, but could it be?”
“Yeah, there’s a number of people suffering the initial symptoms, but considering the water source itself is poisoned, it’s only to be expected.”
“That’s really bad, isn’t it?!”
Bad? No, it’s an opportunity. I can make a lot of money with this.
I’m very lucky. Come to think of it, in the first world, I heard there was an epidemic in Ranalitta. This must be it.
“Keyaruga-sama, your face says you’re thinking of something evil.”
“I wasn’t thinking anything evil. Being here at this timing, I was thinking of a way to save everyone. That’s why I was smiling.”
After I said that, Freia seemed to guess my intention.
“Could it be that the potion Keyaruga-sama makes can save them?”
“Yeah, I think I can do it.”
I drank the water from a bottle I asked from the innkeeper before we left. I pour it all down my throat. This chapter was taken from g.com without permission.
“Keyaruga-sama, why are you drinking the water?!”
“It’s fine, I can cure myself. And I’ll need the ingredients to cure the disease.”
“Ingredients?”
“My blood. I’ll make antibodies by drinking the poison. Then, I’ll make a potion using the antibodies in my blood as a base. That’s the quickest way.”
The Jade Eye, alchemy magic and Heal. It’s something that can only be done by combining those three things.
The cause of the strange disease assaulting the town is unknown. No cure has been found and the number of infected people is high. I confirmed that by looking at the people in the inn’s bar last night. There’s no way this potion won’t sell.
I concentrate on my body, strengthening my immune system. One after another, antibodies are produced in my body, and I accelerate that with Transformation Heal. I extract those with alchemy magic, and also I extract the active ingredients from the medicinal plants that I have on my hand. Then, I synthesize it. I put the liquid I just made into the flask I just emptied.
With this, the potion is completed. On the way, I brought about 30 flasks and made about as much as an adult male would need to drink.
“It’s amazing, Keyaruga-sama. With this, you can cure the illness and save the city!”
“I don’t plan on becoming a hero, and I don’t plan to name myself as the maker of this potion either. But I will use this medicine as much as I can.”
“No way, if Keyaruga-sama says you made the medicine that saved the city, you’ll be praised and you can get money and honor… You’re so humble, Keyaruga-sama.”
I chuckle. I won’t deny it because it’s too much trouble, but Freia is making a big mistake. I’m only thinking of myself 100% of the time.
Selling medicine for an unknown disease that is spreading to everyone and no one knows how to cure is just a lump of profit. As long as we’re the only ones who can sell it, we could make a lot of money. But that would also bring a lot of danger.
The people with money and power will do whatever they can to capture the person making the potions so they can have that monopoly for themselves. The people without money and power are also dangerous, since they’ll risk anything to try and get a cure for themselves or a loved one, even if they have to kill me for it.
No matter how many lives I have it’ll never be enough.
I can’t just go to the streets and shout “I developed a cure for a strange disease. Buy it!” I would be ruined in less than a day.
Convenient power is a double-edged sword, I learned that the hard way in the first world.
In a business that deals with life, you risk your own life. You have to be very careful on how you choose to sell your products. So I thought of a way to make it easy, safe and profitable.
Now then, let’s hurry to the poor section. I have to make a lot of money so I can buy a slave soon.