Management of a Novice Alchemist: Volume 6 by Mizuho Itsuki

Author:Mizuho Itsuki [ITSUKI, MIZUHO]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Episode 3: Dealing With Pollution

Some time had passed since we’d returned from the capital and it was now already midsummer.

“There sure are a lot more people in the village these days,” I said as I poked my head into the shop during the slower morning hours.

“You’re right. More than even this spring,” Lorea-chan responded before adding with a sigh, “Maybe too many.”

Misty had gotten used to working in the shop and between the three of us, we had the business running smoothly now. Recently, though, there was one thing that had been bothering us: the heat.

The shop was air conditioned, so there was no problem there, but it had changed something about the gatherers who visited.

To be a bit blunt... They stank. Badly.

Heading into the great forest in summer to gather materials, they were going to get all sweaty and covered in dirt too. Not to mention that some of them were out there for days, then immediately came in to sell their haul, so of course their body odor was atrocious.

I had gotten fed up with it back during the frostbite bat fang boom, but this time the cause was different—there were simply too many people packed into the shop. The growing population of Yok Village was something that, normally, I should have been pleased about, but if it meant they were going to dirty my lovely shop... Urgh, what a dilemma.

Because of the way things were, I’d been forced to remove the tables and chairs from the sales floor, so we hadn’t been able to relax and enjoy tea time there lately.

“Was it like this last year, Senpai?” asked Misty. “I’m using magic to bring in fresh air pretty frequently, and even then it’s honestly pretty unpleasant in here.”

“It wasn’t so bad last year... I appreciate you airing the place out, though. Thanks.”

It got hot in here if we left the windows and doors open, and there wasn’t much air exchange if there wasn’t a breeze outside.

With magic, though, that could be taken care of in an instant. Misty could cast Breeze, which we had all used regularly when cleaning the dorm at the academy, and she was using perfect control of it to circulate the air in the shop without blowing away any of the merchandise.

“Just so you know,” Lorea-chan said, “Andre-san and the other longtime gatherers have been doing their best to be considerate. They’re grateful to have had a young female alchemist come to the village, so they don’t want to make things unpleasant for you.”

They did things like bathing before they came into the shop or only sending a single representative for the group. Some of them even carried around the deodorant that I had started selling back during the boom for frostbite-bat fangs.

“But the newcomers aren’t really thinking about that as much...” Lorea-chan concluded.

“Come to think of it, Andre-san once mentioned that gatherers are used to being filthy,” I said.

“It certainly seems like it,” Misty replied. “Not that that’s anything we should be happy about.

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