Chapter 500 – #106_Perfume Tycoon (7)

#500

One.
Siu, who met Duke Erelim following Count Kohab, immediately headed to Taro Town.
It was to meet Yebin and check her physical condition without having to explain the reason further.

I know where she might be.
It is also the place where she spent her hot days with her for two days before her job.

A two-story stone house standing in the corner of the plaza, in a place where the commercial district is not so good.
As soon as Ye-bin obtained her citizenship, she opened a free clinic for the citizens of Taro Town.

If Lenormand Town recreated all the fantasies about the Belle Epoque era, her clinic is a very Taro Town-like building.
On the outside, there is no particularly flashy part, and instead, the traces of the years that can be felt here and there are dark.

However, when Si-woo arrived at her clinic, she had a hunch that her attempt was futile.
She tries to knock, but her door is locked.
Even though it wasn’t that late, the second floor where Yebin stayed and the first floor where the clinic was located were dark.

Did I come too late?
Or did she move her accommodation elsewhere?

She spoke to the old man who was cleaning the stalls next to her.

“Let me ask you something. Is Yebin Smyrna not there?”

Even though his face was full of wrinkles, the old man, who was arranging the fruit box with bulging muscles in his forearms, answered Siu’s question while wiping the sweat from his forehead.

“Yebin Smyrna…. Oh, you mean the saintess?”
“Are you a saint?”
“Cancer, it’s the saintess. Don’t you take care of grassroots like us without getting any money? That’s why everyone calls it that. The saintess also fixed my back, which was bent like a shrimp.”

The old man laughed and patted his back.

Well, even in Siwoo’s opinion, Yebin’s move was unconventional.
She claims to be doing magic research on the outside, but curing her minor ailments won’t be of much help to her magic research.
As a citizen who only saw her as a witch with her chin erect and immersed in the consciousness of the chosen people, there was nothing strange about calling her a saint.

“Do you know where you went?”
“Well, you told her that you would go on a business trip to get her medicine. But it’s already been over two months.”
“Two months?”

It’s not an urgent matter right now, but it seems that even if this is crossed, it’s firmly crossed.

“If it is urgent, I will tell you when you return.”
“Thank you. Please tell me that Shin Si-woo found it.”

2.
“Under… Angry….”

Sharon, who returned home after making her perfume while Siu was working, groaned at the sudden and huge expenditure.

I was able to believe that this perfume was regular price from Siwoo’s reaction.
But she couldn’t believe it at the same time.

If you replace 2.5 fl.Oz of perfume with the more familiar ml unit, it is only 75mL.

“Because the amount of yogurt is 65mL…. It’s a bit more….”

However, the price is 122.2 pounds.
Even if it is an installment payment, it is a fixed expense of 10 gold coins every day for 12 months.

12 gold coins are supported by the Mansion of Gemani in the name of dignity support and maintenance expenses every quarter, and 12 gold coins are supported every month in the name of research funds, for a total of 15 gold coins per month.

If it’s a lot, it’s a lot of money.
Moreover, the monthly rent, workshop rental fee, and food expenses are fully supported by the Jemonai Mansion.

However, due to the nature of Sharon’s magic, he was always walking on a tightrope with a tight budget, since huge expenditures were incurred for each research.
At least with Siu’s help, she stopped paying interest on her installments, but it was a painful expense for Sharon.

“Somehow, I’ve been lucky these days….”

Except for Siwoo’s momentary crisis, he thought that spring was finally in his life.
After overcoming her incomplete succession, Sharon’s magic research flew like a sail on her tailwind.

It seems that it was a great help for her to fall to the 17th rank and reestablish her basic skills.

“Ugh…. Should I look for a side job… ?”

Even if the Amman research situation is good, the budget plan is ruined….
The set of peridot that I was going to buy at the end of this month seems to have to be given up, and two out of five concurrent studies are in a position to be temporarily frozen.

Sharon dropped her head and held up a crystal perfume bottle that could see through her.
She opens the lid, drops a very, very little bit of her onto her wrist, and smells her scent.

“Sue….”

At that moment, her heart becomes peaceful as if she is walking in a happy dream.

When she smells this perfume, her heart beats and flutters like the first time she was held in Siu’s arms.
Of course, it’s the same as being excited whenever you look at it now, but it means that you’re excited as if you were looking back at a far-beautified memory of the past.
A comfortable scent that makes you forget about real money worries and the stress of conflicts.

“Ha…. How do you make something like this?”

Sharon sat down on her sofa, feeling the corners of her mouth loosen.
To the extent that her separately imposed magical effect boosts her vitality slightly.
The rest is purely an effect of a beautiful scent.
Sharon caressed her Mercedes-marked steering wheel and smiled as warmly as Kapoor, forgetting her bitterness.

– Smart smart

“Yes?”

Knocking sound.
Sharon’s heart starts beating too.
It was because the person who had come to visit at such a late hour was either Duke Eloa or Siu, whom he had been drinking with.

Since the Duke is on a business trip to solve a worldly problem, isn’t Siu the main character of the knocking sound?

Sharon bounced off like a spring and checked her fit in the mirror.
She hasn’t known Siu for too long.

“… Then tonight in bed together!”

It’s okay to prepare a nightgown that looks moderately weird because the fabric is thin.
It’s okay if your hair isn’t particularly disheveled and it’s fine.
Moreover, since there is even a treasured perfume that Amelia gave as a gift, why not share the excitement of your first relationship in a different way?

“I’ll be there soon~”

I finished the inspection quickly and opened the door as if I was riding on the wind.
It quickly stood tall.

“Eh….”
“Sorry for the late night. Can I have a moment? It won’t be long.”

Because it was Amelia who was waiting for Sharon at her doorstep.

2.
Actually, I forgot about it for a while because of the shock the perfume gave me.
Sharon had an apology to Amelia.

Even though she was angry, she said her words that hurt her and did not properly convey her apology, which was her original purpose.
Of the two sitting across from each other with her own brewed black tea in front of her, Sharon was the first to speak up.

“There…. I’m sorry in many ways. I think I spoke too carelessly.”
“No, it’s okay. It can be.”
“I’m not saying this in a showy way, I really mean it. If it wasn’t for Amelia-sama, she wouldn’t have even met Si-woo…. It was wrong to say it that way.”

Sharon bowed her head again.
Meanwhile, Amelia already didn’t take Sharon’s words to heart.
The reason I closed her shop and visited her separately was not to hear her apology.

“Miss Sharon, I have something to tell you.”
“… Yes?”

Amelia set the thick book slung by her side on her table.

“I can understand Miss Sharon feeling that way. Because it’s actually the fact that she’s been with Siu for a long time. As much as she had a hard time meeting her, she wanted to be together longer.”
“… I understand.”
“This book is the killing book that I received in exchange for treating Siu’s body. I got it from Duke Keter.”

Amelia stroked the cover of her book with a complicated gaze.
The killing part has not yet been fully implemented.
Half are waiting for Amelia to keep her promise.

“As soon as the fine is paid, I plan to finish the killing department in the current world. I will not accompany Siu. So, for the rest of the time…. Please let me stay with Siu a little longer.”
“Help…. Don’t you need it?”
“Because it’s my job.”

In those words, I felt a lofty determination.
It was a promise not to put Siwoo in danger no matter what.

“May I take a look?”

Amelia nodded, and Sharon cautiously took over her killing department.
Heavy and thick

Even the murderer of the mystic witch Duke Keter.
She was worried about Amelia, who would risk her future, but she couldn’t help but be curious.

I wonder what kind of witch and what kind of homunculus might exist.
When Sharon opened her bookshelf.
Naturally, she couldn’t help but tilt her head.

“Miss Amelia.”
“Yes.”
“Is this book really the killing club?”
“Yes?”

Sharon opened the mysterious book to Amelia, wondering if it was really true to call the murderer, or even the murderer.

“Isn’t there anything written?”

No matter how many times Sharon opened the killing book, it was blank.
Amelia, who had returned her book, flipped through her bookshelves wildly, but when she looked through it, all that was there was a white blank as if it were new.

“Why… Why?”

Amelia was perplexed.
After reuniting with Siwoo, it is the first time to open her killing book.

However, the texture of the paper and the thick cover.
There is no way to mistake a book that has been like one body for quite a long time with another.
As if my duty had ended here, or as if it was completely out of order, not a single letter was written.

As Amelia noticed, this killing book was no ordinary book.
To be precise, it was close to a prophetic book.
Even though the location of the homunculus and the achievement could not always be in the same place, he accurately positioned them.

What kind of case and what does it mean that such a book suddenly turned into a blank page?
Maybe it’s not meant to be ominous.
With a nervous feeling, Amelia rose from her seat.

“Miss Sharon, I’m sorry. I have somewhere to go.”
“Yes Yes?”

Amelia kicks her seat without even being properly greeted by Sharon.
It’s not someone else’s problem, it’s related to Siwoo.

You must meet Duke Keter.