Chapter 153 – Black Slime Material Delivery (3)

“20 shinbones of a skeleton and 20 cores of a skeleton. I checked the requested item.”

When I entered the dungeon in the morning, I finished the settlement of the request at the window with the guide who greeted me.

As a bonus, even the disposal of materials other than commissioned items.

“We checked all the rest of the material. Are you taking it all in cash this time?”

“Yes, it is.”

“Then wait….”

As soon as my answer came out, the receptionist gave me the money envelope containing the amount corresponding to the request.

“Here, Mr. Seongcheol Kim.”

“Now you’re not asking me to open the safe.”

“Because I got used to it. Oh, I excluded the amount for the black slime material. That’s because Kim Seong-cheol said he would ship it himself and receive it in kind.”

“That’s right.”

“I’m telling you just in case, but black slime material is addictive, so you shouldn’t trade with anyone other than the client. It doesn’t matter if you use it yourself.”

“I know.”

“Yes, then, thank you for your hard work today.”

I also lightly bowed my head to say hello to the guide who greeted me, and then I sent a CocoaTalk message to Choi Hwa-young saying that we were just leaving.

“I just came out of the Guild. I’ll go straight to the lakeside drugstore.”

I expected that I would not be read again this time, but this time I sent a message and got a reply right away not long after.

“Come fast. Miss you.”

“Yes?”

“Black slime bodily fluid. Hurry. I’m in a hurry.”

When I saw the first letter, I thought I was sending a text message to someone else, but it seems that it was just a misunderstanding because I omitted the subject.

What a rush to make such an important medicine.

She replied that she would catch her own taxi and go.

“I’ll take a taxi. You know it takes about 30 minutes, right?”

“Get on the gate. If you ride it, it will be there in 5 minutes.”

“It’s much more expensive than the taxi fare.”

「I will give it to you. Just ride.”

What the hell is this material supposed to do is ride a warp gate that breaks in units of 100,000 even though it goes through it once.

Of course, it was not polite to refuse to pay the gate fee.

“I see. Then I’ll ride the warp gate.”

“Yes”

Certainly, in this world where warp gates existed, time belonged to the value that money could buy.

Impressed by the taste of capitalism, I climbed the warp gate to Gangnam-gu.

It was her first encounter with her since her last encounter at her guild.

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BB Tower, 1002 AA-ro, Gangnam-gu.

I was able to find a three-story commercial building at the place where I arrived by following the address written on the business card that senior Choi Hwa-young handed me the other day.

A commercial building with a signboard reading ‘Lakeside Pharmacy’ on the first floor of the building.

“… I don’t think it’s big enough to be called a tower.”

Of course, since it is a 3-story commercial building in Gangnam-gu, the price itself must be as expensive as the new town complex.

The downside was that it was a small commercial building with only one store per floor.

Except for the sign on the first floor, the other two floors didn’t even feel like they were in business.

“The right thing came… Right?”

To add a little bit of exaggeration, I even thought that it might be an abandoned building where the business was closed and the store vacated.

Looking at the showcase of the first floor shopping mall where various potions were listed, it seemed that it was not just like that.

I was carefully guessing that the second and third floors might be living spaces.

While I was thinking about how to get inside, a KakaoTalk message rang.

“When are you coming?”

It was a very slight text message, presumably mixed with annoyance.

“Arrived. We are now on the first floor.”

“I have to tell you.”

Clap. Along with that, I heard the door on the first floor opening from the inside.

「I unlocked it. Come in with the door closed.”

“Yes.”

“Come up to the second floor. We’ll check the material first and then trade.”

I had a desire to take a quick look inside the pharmacy where various medicines were displayed, but since my main goal was to build intimacy with the client, I went up to the second floor without doing anything sad.

By the time the slightly messy indoor scenery caught my eye and the strangely acrid smell of cigarettes reached my nose, I was finally able to face Hwa-young.

With her petite stature, she is the owner of her breasts, which is not petite at all.

“You are late.”

“…….”

As a reference, it was irresistible that I had to evaluate her breast size as soon as I met her after a long time.

It was just that, because it was her chest that came into view at a glance, she couldn’t help but come in.

“… Senior Choi Hwayoung?”

“Uh, why?”

Because, Hwayoung-senpai was looking at me while wearing barely-there clothes, enough to be considered half-naked.

Presumably she had just crawled out of the covers, she was wearing only her top and bottom two pairs of underwear.

She didn’t, but she was a person with big breasts that didn’t suit her short stature, so it was natural that she naturally felt that way in her head.

“I’m a little embarrassed about how I dress.”

“…… Ah.”

After hearing my words, senior Hwayoung looked down at her own body and then grabbed the gown that was draped over her chair and wrapped it around herself.

Even so, the matching black underwear under the white gown was not an element that could be covered.

“Right, you were a man…. I forgot because I always only looked at female hunters….”

“It’s okay. It’s like a good sight.”

“… Tsk, I’m sorry I showed you something you couldn’t see.”

She said it from the bottom of her heart, but Hwayoung-senpai thought I was being sarcastic, so her face blushed and she complained a little.

She, like her tea glass, didn’t seem to like her own short stature and her lean body.

“It’s okay, so give me the black slime body fluid. I’m in a hurry.”

“Ah yes.”

He took out a bottle and core containing black slime body fluid from a bag disguised as a monster material pouch and put it on the desk.

“Two, four, six, eight… Uh?”

“Why are you like that?”

“… Isn’t that a little too much? When we talked last time, I think you said you were buying 10 of each.”

“Because I gave it a few days later than I was originally supposed to. As an apology, I collected 10 more.”

In fact, it was close to hunting more because I was immersed in swordsmanship training.

As I said before, black slime material is hard to get a good price even if you sell it to the guild, so I just thought it would be better to use it for this side.

She’s not selling it to anyone else, just delivering her original material to her as an additional supply, so there shouldn’t be any problems.

The question was whether senior Hwayoung would accept my favor straight away as a favor.

“You…….”

“Yes?”

“Looking at you now, you must have been a good guy before Oh… !”

“… Thank you for thinking so.”

I was a bit taken aback by the buzzword that popped up a generation ago, but fortunately it wasn’t difficult to manage my expression.

Yes, even if she looks like that, she is a retired senior who worked before me, so there is nothing strange about her using some old buzzwords.

After receiving her black slime material, she suddenly looked at me this time.

“…… Do you hate cigarette smoke?”

“I don’t like it, but I don’t particularly hate it either.”

“Okay? Then excuse me for a moment.”

“Yes?”

Excuse me, she couldn’t understand at once when she suddenly opened the window of the second floor room.

She took her smoking pipe from her desk drawer and placed it right in her hand.

Then she put tobacco leaves and a few drops of Black Slime’s bodily fluid inside, then ignited the contents of the pipe with the flick of her fingers.

… Was that the true identity of the cigarette smell spreading evenly throughout the room?

I was embarrassed at the moment that it was a material purchased to smoke tar cigarettes, but it was not a factor that I had to worry about, so I just kept quiet.

“Write it down.”

“…….”

“Fhaaaaa….”

I had never watched other people smoke closely, but seeing her smoke deliciously again made me want to smoke too.

At least I’ll never use it as a non-smoking ad model.

“Bhaaa…. I think I will live….”

Her expression relaxed with a smile as she sat cross-legged on her chair.

The underwear inside the white gown that had been put together was also exposed defenselessly outside.

I didn’t bother to call her attention again, so this time I just sat in silence and admired her figure.

Big breasts that don’t seem to fit in one hand. Thighs that look soft. And just the right amount of protruding belly fat.

Most of the women I’ve met so far have had a body type that I’ve never seen before because they took good care of themselves.

What would it feel like to hold on to that chubby waist like a handle and shake your body?

If she was small in stature, she would surely come right into my hand without much resistance.

As she was imagining such a slight rudeness, she took a few more sips and met senior Hwayoung’s eyes with mine.

“After Hunter retired, there was really no way to save him. She, like last time, really lived thanks to that….”

“I am Seongcheol Kim.”

“Uh, yes. Seongcheol junior.”

I nodded my head in surprise at her thanks.

“It’s a commission I’ve been given, so I have to finish it faithfully.”

“Ah, yes. Come to think of it, the settlement was still there. … Take this.”

After saying that, senior Hwayoung took out a relatively thick book from among the books on her desk and threw it at me.

“Those over there are items handled by our drugstore. Call the number and type of things you like and tell me. I will match the price according to the request fee.”

“Everything in this book… ?”

“It may take some time because there are no materials, but first of all, more than 70% are still on sale or can be made right away. If you bring the materials yourself, I will make the rest minus the production cost.”

Even though it looks like a fairly thick medicine book, you can make it all.

After all, it’s not like he’s an S-class hunter for nothing.

… No, it seems like he used flame magic when he just lit the cigarette.

Could it be that he is a double awakener?

“What are you doing? Don’t you need a potion?”

“… No.”

Well, we’re not very close, so if you ask me now, they probably won’t give you an answer.

First of all, I opened the first chapter of Hwa-young’s pharmacy book to find out what kind of medicine she deals with.

From the first page, I had to face a rather confusing sight.

“… I, senior Hwayoung.”

“What, did you choose already?”

“… All of this is written in a foreign language, so I can’t read any of it.”

When Hwayoung-senpai opened her book of medicinal herbs that she had handed to me and showed it to her, she put on a slightly embarrassed expression.

“… Sorry, I made a mistake. It was a translation.”

After saying that, I replaced the herbal medicine book I had with a new one, and put the original book back in its original place.

At least, if the book was in English or Chinese, I would have tried to read it.

It was written in bizarre characters that I had never seen before, and it was not something I could read with my mental strength.

Strange characters that are neither Russian nor Arabic. Do pharmacists in this world read and study books like that?

It was a moment when the respect for the potion makers rose again.