Management of a Novice Alchemist: Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 3] by Mizuho Itsuki

Author:Mizuho Itsuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2: My Shop Is...

Back in the present, I was standing in front of a dilapidated shop.

I sighed. “I can complain all I want, but it’s not going to help. I’m here now, so better make the best of it!”

Remember the resolve you felt back then, me!

I had to repay my debt of gratitude to Master, who’d... Wait. Master was the one who chose this shop, right?

No, no, she can’t have known it was in this bad shape.

But the one who’d decided to buy a shop instead of me working somewhere while I trained, was...

No, no, no, this is Master. She’s definitely thinking of what’s best for me! Yeah, that’s gotta be it. Otherwise my heart’s going to break...

“A-Anyway, first things first! Time to verify the situation!”

Getting back on track, I took another look at the outside of the shop.

Sure, the sign was tilting, and looked ready to fall off at any moment, but... On closer inspection, maybe the building itself wasn’t in such bad shape?

It looked squalid because the yard was all torn up, the fence was rotted, and the windows were so covered with grime that you couldn’t see inside, but the roof was solid, and while there were some cracks in the plaster on the walls, they weren’t collapsing anywhere.

The door and windows were good, and if I just fixed the sign and cleaned up, they place might not be half bad.

“Yeah! Okay! I’m feeling a bit more motivated now! Let’s take a look inside.”

I pulled the key from my pocket, and began trudging through the tall grass toward the door before stopping along the way.

“Isn’t this...a medicinal herb?”

Even the path leading up to the door was overrun with plants.

Scrutinizing them more closely, I could see that some of them were medicinal herbs, which could be used as ingredients in alchemy.

Come to think of it, this house came with a field of herbs, right? Maybe the seeds blew here on the wind…

Most of the plants were just weeds, but there were just enough herbs that it made it awkward to walk without stepping on them.

There were some growing off of the path too, so I could have just ignored it and walked right through them, but to my eyes, there was money lying right there on the ground.

How could someone like me, with a serious case of poverty brain, step on money like that?!

“Collection, collection...”

I put off going inside the house for a little while and started collecting the medicinal herbs first. I pulled up the grass, clearing a narrow path.

“Trash, cash, trash, cash, trash, trash, cash...” I mumbled to myself as I sorted the plants I was plucking into weed and herb piles.

The individual herbs weren’t worth a terribly impressive amount on their own, but if I kept on harvesting all the way to the door, I might make as much as an ordinary person did for a day’s work.

Although, if they weren’t processed immediately, their quality would degrade, so they were more valuable to me because I was an alchemist.

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