Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters! Volume 4 by KAYA

Author:KAYA [KAYA]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2024-02-26T00:00:00+00:00

“Fine. We’ll just have to lend you one of ours.”

She didn’t want to dirty Chris’s precious hand-me-downs, Sara guessed. But she’d already used them yesterday, and since they were hers now, the next person to use them would be using Sara’s hand-me-downs, she thought with a smirk.

She plucked the leaves from the stems and put them in the mortar, but she couldn’t use too little or too much. Normally, you ground up a bundle of ten at a time, but Sara was working with scraps, so she eyeballed what she had until it looked like a bundle’s worth.

She’d wondered if you could just grind them up with magic like a food processor, but she couldn’t picture the process well enough. It was her life’s greatest shame when she’d scattered a bundle of healing herbs all over the floor in Camellia and Ted had reprimanded her for it.

She really felt like she should be able to figure something out, but nothing was coming to mind at the moment, so she sat down and diligently ground the herbs up with her pestle. You couldn’t do this too fast, since it was bad if the herbs got too warm while you were grinding them up. She moved her hands at a careful, steady speed. Ted had actually been a pretty good teacher. His words came to mind as she worked and she thought somewhat fondly of those busy days in Camellia. Was Ted working without clashing with anyone? Probably not, Sara thought with a smile.

Before she knew it, the herbs were looking good. They had a deep green color, like concentrated vegetable juice.

“There we go. Waugh!”

Sara stood up, satisfied with her work, and the apothecaries were all looking at her again. It scared her. She wished they’d stop.

“Let me see that.” The apothecary who’d given her her instructions earlier took the mortar from her and looked it over from several angles. Sara found it a little funny, since it reminded her of tea ceremony etiquette back in Japan. “How much of the herbs did you use?”

“I just eyeballed an amount that looked the same as ten herbs.”

“Got it. I’m borrowing this, okay?”

The apothecary took the mortar over to the wall and began making potions with the herbs.

Finally getting a chance to breathe, Sara looked around and found some people grinding herbs like she had just been or making potions like that other apothecary. About half of them were over at the table with the white moonlight mushrooms. She headed over there since she hadn’t been told to do anything else.

Drops of the nectar seven-colored swallowtails enjoyed welled up in the center of the halved mushrooms. The apothecaries were scooping the nectar up with spatulas and putting it in containers that looked like beakers. Once they were done, they disposed of the mushrooms and cut open new ones.

More experienced apothecaries were taking the nectar and adding water to it, warming it up in a heat bath. Then they poured it into a blue liquid and stirred it at a steady rate, adding mana to it.

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