After dinner, while I was drinking tea in the dining hall, one of the other butlers came and handed Sebastian a sheet of paper.
Sebastian inspected it as if to check if the contents were correct, and then he dismissed the butler.
The butler bowed to me once before leaving the room, and then Sebastian approached me and gave me the paper.
“Mr. Takumi. Here is the list of herbs we will need.”
“Yes, thank you.”
So it was the order form.
I took the paper and scanned the contents.
Hmm. One Loe and all the other herbs…
It was the same selection of herbs as last time. I suppose it meant that these were the ones that were most commonly used.
I wanted to see other rare types, but I suppose those would come in a future order.
“Is this number for Loe correct?”
“Yes. We still have some from the first time you used Weed Cultivation. Besides, we think that it’s best to not have too much of the more expensive herbs.”
Now that I thought of it, I had made quite a lot of Loe the first time I tried it.
And when we first started to discuss the partnership, they had warned that allowing too much of it to enter the market could cause a great confusion. So adjustments would have to be made.
One way to maintain the price would be to limit availability.
“Well, I don’t think I’ll have to worry about fainting then. It’s less than the previous order.”
“Indeed? That is good to hear.”
Ms. Claire had been looking at me worriedly, and so I smiled as I said this.
Though, I felt that she was overreacting…
I suppose the reason that it was less than last time, was because Mr. Ekenhart hadn’t taken everything with him.
I could easily fill in this order after my swinging practice. But in order to put their minds at ease, I would still split the work between today and tomorrow.
…In any case, I needed to do more research in order to figure out my daily limit… But since there was the duration, it really wasn’t something I could find out easily.
“Well, Tilura. Let’s go and practice our swings.”
“Yes, I’ll do my best.”
I held the order form as I got up from my seat, and then took the sword that Ms. Lyra handed me.
It was bad manners to eat at the table with your sword.
Tilura also took her sword and we went out to the back garden.
I finished the sword swings first, then made a few items from the order form while also making some recovery herbs.
Then I gave Tilura her share of recovery and sleeping herbs, and then handed the others to Ms. Lyra.
She always stood by and watched us during training, which I was very grateful for.
After that, I took a bath to wash off the sweat, ate the sleeping herbs and got into bed.
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The following day, I ate breakfast as I always did, and then trained with Leo like yesterday.
Both Tilura and I tried our hardest to hit her, but were once again unsuccessful.
…Leo. Why are you so fast…?
Well, it wouldn’t benefit us for her to go easy… But it was hard to admit it.
And so Tilura and I discussed what we could do to improve, and then continued with our other training, which included running.