Management of a Novice Alchemist: Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 2] by Mizuho Itsuki

Author:Mizuho Itsuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

The kitchen still bore the traces of destruction.

The first place we inspected was the back door. The backyard was clearly visible, and a breeze was blowing in through it.

It was warm this time of year, so I had been brushing it off as “enjoying our meals in the presence of nature,” but once winter rolled around that would be an exercise in austerity.

“I don’t think we’ll be able to reuse the door...”

“Right. It was completely destroyed, so we put it over there.”

Lorea-chan pointed to a pile of debris in the backyard. The door lay there, splintered to pieces.

“Yeah... Let’s give up on that one. As for the walls... They sure went to town on them, huh?”

One effect of the seals inside the walls was that they were sturdier than normal, on top of them being stonework to begin with. Even if an ordinary person had gone at the walls with a hammer, they wouldn’t have been able to break them.

“Normally, even those bears wouldn’t be able to break through, but that’s just what their frenzied state does to them, I guess.”

“They really forced their way inside, huh?”

“Sigh... I guess all I can do is work with Geberk-san and do the best I can to repair this.”

Because the destroyed walls had seals inside them, I couldn’t just leave all the work to a carpenter.

And as for the cost of the materials to repair said seals... I don’t want to think about it!

“Now then, getting back on track. Lorea-chan, what are you looking for in a kitchen? You can just say whatever you want at this point! I’ll show you what an alchemist can really do!”

Sensing the desperation in the way I thumped my chest with one hand as I said this, Lorea-chan answered somewhat hesitantly, and with restraint.

“Oh, well, so long as I have a stove... I’d like to try using a magical one.”

“A magic stove. Got it, got it. Of course I can handle that much. How about water? Don’t you want a system that automatically pumps water from the well?”

“It would be convenient to have, but are you sure? I think it’s already a luxury having a well.”

“I’m an alchemist, after all! I planned to make one eventually anyway.”

If I’m doing this, I’m gonna make it as convenient as possible!

“W-Well... I’d like that, then.”

“Next up... How about an oven? It’d make baking bread easy.”

“Really?! You’d put in something so expensive?!”

“It’s fine! Just leave it to big sis! I’m gonna make a magic oven! Ha ha ha!”

I leaned back and laughed as Lorea-chan’s eyes widened with surprise.

Most houses don’t have an oven, after all.

Unlike the magic oven, which operated in a similar manner to the magic stove, an ordinary oven required burning lots of firewood to get it up to heat. Most people couldn’t afford to use that much firewood just to bake bread for their family, so normally ovens were only found at bakeries, inns, and other places that needed to bake a lot.

In some places, they had a village oven, used to bake a whole lot all at once.

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