Chapter 34: Volume 3 - CH 6

“Haaah ~~~~~~.”

I holed myself in my room since morning and was experimenting, but I fell flat onto the writing desk and let out a big sigh since the results were just as I had expected.

Even though I had predicted how this would turn out, it wasn’t a favourable outcome.

To tell the truth, this outcome wasn’t something I wanted.

Yesterday, I had activated the 【Saint】technique at the place where the knights were stationed.

It was great that I could activate it.

I was surprised that it suddenly activated, but I was able to cure the knights’ injuries because it did.

I was glad that I found out the conditions to activate it since I didn’t know what the activation conditions were at all until now thus preventing me from activating it.

I thought that it was good that I could activate it whenever I wanted.

I was very happy that this would lessen the stress of a certain Division Head-sama.

The problem was the activation condition……

Why is the activation condition Captain-san!!!

I tried many things since morning.

Captain-san wasn’t the only person I thought about when I activated the 【Saint】technique before.

I also thought about Jude, Director, the researchers and the knights I knew.

I tried to activate the technique while thinking about different people that I knew.

However, the magic in question wouldn’t even activate if I thought about people other than Captain-san.

I was reluctant, but the last thing I did was think about Captain-san as I tried to activate it and……

I endured my embarrassment as I thought about him and then I felt magic stirring from within me.

The magic would stop if I prayed for it to stop when I felt the slight movements.

It seemed that I could stop it at will as well.

To be honest, if I was alone in my room then I’d hit the desk and yell in a really loud voice.

Because, you know?

I have to think about Captain-san every time I want to use this technique, don’t I?!

Isn’t that torture!?

However, Marie-san and a few maids were in the room.

I couldn’t cover my face with both hands and roll around on the floor either.

The only thing I could do in this situation was sigh.

“Sei-sama, why don’t you take a break now?” A worried voice came from behind me when I was drooping my head down.

It was Marie-san.

“Thank you very much. I’ll do that.”

When I looked up from the desk, I saw that Marie-san was smiling and that tea had already been prepared at the lounge suite.

I’ll take her up on the offer and have a break.

There were sandwiches and fruits on top of the table, as well as sweets for tea.

It was obvious that I’d seen this food before. They were the same things I made when I was at the research institute.

I glanced at Marie and she smiled, “Enjoy your food.”

My stomach growled a little.

Which reminds me, I woke up this morning, got dressed and started my experiments straight away so I haven’t had anything to eat.

Thinking it over carefully, I didn’t have anything for dinner yesterday either.

Yesterday, I secluded myself in my room as soon as I returned from the knights’ station.

I usually try to eat three meals a day.

But, I didn’t eat anything for dinner yesterday and I sat on the desk since morning with a frown on my face.

She was probably worried about me.

That was what I felt when I looked at the things on the table.

She probably thought that I would feel like eating something that I was used to eating.

I felt bad about it and put the sandwich in my mouth. I got hungry as soon as I did that.

The sandwich disappeared in an instant and then I noticed that the maids looked relieved when I reached for the sweets.

It wasn’t just Marie-san, they were all worried about me.

I’m really, really sorry……

I took a sip of my tea when I finished eating and Marie-san informed me of the guests that visited while I was confining myself in my room.

The more I listened, the more I realised that I had made a lot of people worry and I felt ashamed.

I had returned to my room without visiting the distillation room, so even Corinna-san came to visit me.

And of course, Captain-san as well.

However, Marie-san saw what I looked like when I came back to my room and she decided to act as my messenger.

I was really thankful for her thoughtfulness.

I didn’t mind seeing Corinna-san, but I couldn’t meet Captain-san in that state.

I basically ran away from the knights’ station after I activated the 【Saint】technique.

Even though Captain-san was calling out to me to stop, I ignored him.

It’s Captain-san, so he’s probably really worried about me.

But I didn’t know how I should act when I meet him.

I thought he was my type when I first met him.

And after seeing him a lot, I also realised that he was a good person.

But this was the first time that I was aware of this.

Would I be able to act as I always have around him the next time we meet?

I’m extremely anxious.

Even so, it’s difficult to keep avoiding Captain-san.

We have to go on demon subjugations.

Yup, work, work.

It’s not good to abandon my work.

If I think that it’s work then I might not be overly conscious about it when I activate the 【Saint】technique.

I’m not too sure, but let’s do it.

“Thanks for the meal.”

“What are your plans for today?”

“I wanted to go to the distillation room.”

“Certainly.”

I headed to the distillation room after my meal.

It seemed that Corinna-san also visited my room yesterday.

She’s probably worried about me so I should visit her.

There’s also the thing about blessing.

I wasn’t sure what blessing was but I could finally activate the 【Saint】technique.

I can conduct many experiments from now on.

If my experiments go well, then I could obtain the herbs I want.

I got really excited thinking about the future.

First, I need to get more information about blessing and then I need to receive permission from Corinna-san to conduct experiments……

I headed towards the distillation room with those things in mind.

“Are you alright now?”

“Yes. I’m sorry for worrying you.”

Corinna-san called out to me as soon as I entered the distillation room.

She really was worried after all.

She replied, “If you’re fine then that’s good,” when I lowered my head.

Our greetings were rushed and she took me to the back room when I told her I had something to discuss with her.

I had said it in a small voice, but she understood my intentions.

I wanted to discuss blessing with her.

The contents will contain confidential information, so I wanted to avoid talking about it in a room full of people.

“You want to experiment with blessing?”

“Yes. But first of all, I want to read the document again.”

“What are you planning to do after you read the document?”

“I think I’ll probably experiment with some medicinal herbs. I’d also like to borrow some flowerpots.”

“Flowerpots?”

“If I suddenly experiment on the fields and fail then it’ll be troublesome, wouldn’t it?”

“Well, you’re right. Okay, I’ll get the things together.”

“Thank you very much.”

I decided to use flowerpots for the blessing experiments at first.

It probably wouldn’t be a problem if I activated the 【Saint】technique like I did at the Medicinal Herb Research Institute, but I’m just being cautious.

Corinna-san said that she would have everything ready by the afternoon, so I decided to review the documents in the meantime.

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In the afternoon, I received a message saying that my experiment equipment was ready so I headed to the designated place with Corinna-san.

The place that she took me to was at the back of the castle, near the herb field used for herb cultivation experiments.

A wooden staircase-type stand was put there and there were five bisque pots on top of it.

There were pots that already contained soil in them, but there were also pots that were being filled with soil by the gardeners at the moment.

When Corinna-san and I approached them, the most elderly gardener turned towards us, “We only have these flowerpots right now. Do you still need more?”

“No, this is enough. I might ask you to change the soil again if I fail, or something like that.”

“I see. Please let me know if you need anything.”

“Thanks.”

According to Corinna-san, the gardeners would help out with herb cultivation as well and they had a relationship of convenience.

The gardener finished talking with Corinna-san and returned to his work.

After a while, all the pots were filled with dirt and the gardeners went to work at a different place.

Corinna-san confirmed that we were the only two left and spoke, “Well then, shall we start?”

“Yes.”

I turned to face the flowerpots on Corinna-san’s command.

Then, I suddenly realised.

“What kind of herb is that?”

“I prepared some seeds for the fastest growing herb in the world. See, look.” Corinna-san said and took out a small bag containing seeds from her skirt pockets.

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I wonder if those seeds need blessing.

Corinna-san nodded as I confirmed it with her.

She chose it with blessing in mind.

Afterwards, she taught me what kind of seeds they were.

I recalled the cultivation conditions for the seed and immediately sowed them.

The other fertilisers were being prepared by the gardeners, so all I had to do was sow the seeds.

Put the seeds on top of the soil and then put more soil on top of them.

I held the flowerpot in my hands and thought a little.

I will activate the technique from now on, but how do I activate it?

When I activated it back at the research institute, I felt like I was praying for the medicinal herbs to be more effective.

In this case, I’m growing the herbs from the seeds so do I pray that they grow up healthy?

For now, let’s try praying for that.

I stopped moving when I tried to activate the 【Saint】technique.

I accidentally recalled that I have to think about Captain-san in order to activate the technique.

Blood rushed to my face.

“What’s wrong?”

“N-nothing, it’s nothing.”

It might have been odd for me to stop moving because Corinna-san looked at me strangely.

I couldn’t tell her the reason even if she asked.

I can’t say it.

I quickly replied and concentrated on the flowerpot again.

Gah, work, this is work.

I have to concentrate.

I rearranged my thoughts and felt magic surging from within my chest when I thought about Captain-san, like it did this morning.

I didn’t stop it this time and let it flow from within me.

Since the target was the flowerpot in my hand, I didn’t forget to adjust the magic to both my hands when I activated the recovery spell.

Here, I could feel the magic manipulation technique that Head Magician-sama taught me.

“This is……”

As expected, a white haze with gold particles mixed in it spread to the soil of the pot.

Corinna-san, who was next to me, raised her voice in admiration.

Now then, this much magic is enough, right?

I activated the skill while praying that it would grow up healthily.

The magic reacted with the soil and then light split open after shining brightly. The sparkling gold particles rained down onto the flowerpot.

“Did it work?”

“I wonder? But I did activate the technique.”

“Is that so? It won’t sprout if the technique doesn’t work, so we’ll just have to wait and see.”

“Okay.”

“Now this one.”

“Huh?”

She handed me a new bag.

I thought that she wanted me to pray something else while activating the technique on the same seeds, but she wanted to experiment with different seeds as well.

Corinna-san approved of my experiment when I explained it to her and it was decided that I would combine the prayer with different kinds of seeds in my experiment.

It was really mortifying to think of Captain-san every time I activated the technique.

“Good job.”

“Thank you very much.”

“The fastest seeds sprout buds in about two or three days.”

“I’ll come check on the herbs everyday just in case.”

“Ok. That’s fine. Let’s go back.”

I finished casting the 【Saint】technique and Corinna-san tapped me on the back.

I smiled when she complimented me and we headed to the distillation room.

I turned back when I’d walked a few paces and saw Leo-san walking towards us.

He laughed when he saw us and ran.

I wonder what’s wrong, I thought and looked next to me. Corinna-san also didn’t know what was happening and she also looked at him in wonder.

I thought that he was looking for Corinna-san but that didn’t seem to be the case.

Leo-san stopped in front of me and grabbed my shoulders.

“Please join the mercenaries!”

“Excuse me?” It was so sudden that I had to ask him to repeat himself.

If I’m not mistaken, he told me to join the mercenaries, didn’t he?

What the hell does he mean?

“Mm, what do you mean?”

“I said I want you to join the mercenaries!”

“Huh……? I don’t know why I’m being solicited. Why are you inviting me to join?”

When I asked for an explanation, he spoke with excitement.

It started the other day when I treated the mercenary group.

To begin with, few people could use magic and even fewer could use recovery magic.

Therefore, most of the people who could use recovery magic moved to the Royal Capital, so there were none left at the fiefs.

Of course, Klaussner wasn’t an exception.

Then I, who could use recovery magic, appeared.

If they had someone that could use recovery magic, then their subjugation missions would be safer and more efficient.

Moreover, the 『AREA HEAL』that I used on the mercenaries couldn’t be used unless the holy attribute level was high.

Therefore, they were able to deduct that the level of my holy attribute magic skills was high.

And they concluded that it was a waste for me to be a pharmacist and decided to invite me on subjugations.

“Wait a minute. What do you mean that it’s a waste for her to be a pharmacist?”

“Ah, no. I’m not looking down on pharmacists or something. It’s just that it would be a waste to ignore someone with high level recovery magic, isn’t it?”

The temperature of Corinna-san’s gaze dropped when Leo-san said “pharmacists or something”.

Corinna-san questioned him with an equally cold voice and a line of sweat dripped down from Leo-san’s temple.

However, Leo-san repeated his claim under Corinna-san’s overwhelmingly threatening attitude.

“I know that mages are rarer than pharmacists. That’s why I get what you’re trying to say. But you can’t have Sei.”

“WHY NOT?!”

The conversation continued between Corinna-san and Leo-san without me.

Of course, like Corinna-san said, I had no intentions of joining the mercenaries so I just listened to their conversation.

To begin with, I came from the Royal Capital.

I wasn’t going to be at Klaussner forever.

And also……

The surrounding temperature dropped considerably.

“What are you doing?”

Everyone’s eyes were fixed on the person behind Leo-san.

The gaze on Leo-san was colder than Corinna-san’s.

It probably wasn’t my imagination when I felt the temperature drop around us.

Mm…… Is his magic leaking out?

The reason I wanted to ask that question was to escape from reality.

Captain-san came up from behind Leo-san with a cold expression on his face.

The aura around Leo-san and Captain-san was dangerous.

“What? We are talking here.”

“Is that so? And how long are you going to grip her shoulders for?”

Huh? This feels like the first time I’ve heard Leo-san talking formally.

Ah, I see.

Captain-san is a noble, so Leo-san was being respectful.

I thought absentmindedly and Captain-san walked up to me and pulled Leo-san’s hands from my shoulders.

The aura between Leo-san and Captain-san became more dangerous.

“Then, what were you talking about?”

“It is nothing big.”

“You see, Leo wants to invite Sei to join the mercenaries.” Leo-san didn’t answer because the matter was related to the mercenaries, but Corinna-san answered for him.

“Granny!”

Leo-san quickly turned towards Corinna, but she acted like it didn’t concern her and looked nonchalant.

Captain-san, who heard that, calmed down a little.

“She won’t be joining the mercenaries. “

“Why are you the one to decide that? She has nothing to do with you, does she?”

“It does concern me. She came with us from the Royal Capital.”

“Huh? So she’s from the Court Mage Division? What’s a mage doing making potions in the distillation room?”

Mm, it’s my hobby you know.

That’s not it, it’s my job.

I don’t even belong to the Court Mage Division to begin with.

I whispered in my mind and Leo-san must have noticed something because he looked taken aback.

“No, wait. Are you perhaps the 【Saint】?”

Corinna-san rebuked him, “Don’t say her title,” as soon as he’d said that.

I looked at the stunned Leo-san and suddenly realised.

Huh? Come to think of it, did I not tell him that I was the 【Saint】?

I’d only just remembered such an important thing right now.

Translator: Blushy

Editor: Sam

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