Chapter 46 – How Much! All It Takes!(4)

“Mi, sorry! I’ll pretend I didn’t hear it! That… I think this is a bit… !”

What?

Why did you get rejected?

“What’s wrong? Did you run out of money?”

First of all, I took out 300 gold more from my inventory.

Total 600 gold.

If this was given every month, it would be 7,200 gold a year, and it also meant that a total of 21,600 gold would be supported for Fay’s remaining 3 years of academy life.

It cost 20,000 gold to win the bid for Karla. That should be enough.

“Huh….”

Fay staggered as if she was dizzy in front of the gold that doubled in an instant.

However, he managed to regain his composure and shook his head again.

“It’s not a matter of money! … It’s surprising that my juniors are willing to pay me 600 gold every month… I don’t think this is….”

“Don’t do that, tell me honestly. How much do you need? Or do you want something other than money?”

“Isn’t that really a problem?!”

Unexpectedly, Fei’s resolute attitude let out a sigh.

Okay. Wasn’t there a lot of room for gold anyway?

“Whoa… I can’t help it. 1,000 gold per month! Do you know that more than this is too greedy?”

“Cheer, a thousand gold?! Scared! It’s so scary… ! What are you planning to do to me for a thousand gold each? ?!”

What is it? Of course it is ductile.

Starting with various potions, he plans to ask them to make all miscellaneous consumables needed to attack the dungeon.

Although Fay is fiddling around in a small workshop like this, she should be able to make advanced potions even at this point.

If, after personal research, I succeed in casting alchemy, which was my original purpose, I plan to entrust the equipment to you from then on.

The quality is a little lacking at first, but as you gain proficiency, you start to create artisan-level equipment.

Craftsman-level equipment is not something that can be obtained with money, so even if you sponsor 1,000 gold a month, it will soon be more than enough to draw even more.

The moment when you reach the truth of alchemy one day while developing this and that.

At that time, you should ask them to make a staff with a Philosopher’s Stone embedded in it.

In fact, it can be seen as a plan to make the party in charge of all production lines.

However, if Fei comes out like this, I also plan to go back to blank paper.

For some reason, seeing Fei trembling while hugging her chest… There was something that made me cry and soar.

No. Come to think of it, it’s ridiculous.

Why do I have to fight like this?

If you don’t get this money, you’ll die?!

In the end, ‘more money’ couldn’t overcome the frustration that didn’t work, and grabbed Fei’s shoulder and shook it wildly.

“How much is it! How much is it!”

“Eugheek!”

Fey swayed helplessly back and forth while being held by me.

Her hair, which was already like dog hair, became more sporadic, and her chest, which she couldn’t even cover with her arms, swayed dynamically.

But to me right now, that doesn’t matter at all.

“How soon will you become my exclusive!”

“Eh, money isn’t everything in the world, junior… !”

What… ? Isn’t money everything in the world?

It can’t be!

Then what am I going to do if I only believed in the balance of my inventory and tried to spend money!

Leaning on Ogi rising from the depths of her heart, she looked back at Carla who was beside her.

“Carla!”

“Hup! Yes, Master!”

Carla, who had a grumpy expression, hurriedly wiped the saliva at the corner of her mouth.

He looks like a person watching an exciting morning drama.

What… ?

No, that’s not what’s important now.

“Do you think money is not everything in the world? Really?!”

“Uh… Yes. Money is not everything in the world.”

Unbelievable… !

Even Carla, who she believed, never thought she would think so!

It was only for a while that she shed tears because of her sense of betrayal and depression.

Soon, Carla smiled broadly and added her back story.

“Because you are everything in the world! Nothing compares to gold!”

“Ka, Karaa… !”

She moderately threw away her Fay, who was shaking at her surge of emotion, and said, “Geek!” He stroked Carla’s hair as it was.

“Who says only pretty things like that! Uh! Who!”

Hehe….”

“His chin too!”

“Here you go!”

The heroine tickles her down to the bottom of her chin with her sincerity, and Carla smiles with a happy smile.

“Hey… What did you have to do to become a teaching assistant like that… Me, I almost became like that… ?”

Her Fay muttered something behind her, but she couldn’t hear it because she was scratching Carla’s chin.

It must be something that doesn’t matter.

While she was petting Karla for a long time and cooling her overheated head.

“Master, master.”

Karla, who was in her room, asked me, pulling her chin behind her.

“What would you do if you said that you would support me without hesitation? You have to clearly state the conditions.”

“Yes? Didn’t you?”

“Simply use it however you like, but I just said that you prioritize what the master wants.”

“That is enough.”

“I’m saying that’s not enough.”

Karla, who crossed her index fingers in front of her chest and made her X, shook her head.

“Did Master tell you exactly what he wanted from Miss Fei?”

“What more do you want from an alchemist than conversion?”

You can’t even ask to be a tanker in a dungeon.

“Swimming… ? You didn’t ask me to listen to what you wanted, did you mean to make it?”

Fei tilted her head with a blank expression.

What are you so puzzled about? Isn’t that what it is?

“Ugh. I guess you still haven’t noticed. Then, master. What was the first thing you asked Miss Fei for?”

“It’s about making auxiliary potions to use during the upcoming dungeon practice. I bought plenty of recovery series in advance, but there aren’t many support series. I wouldn’t know if I was alone, but even with the scrolls, there’s not enough for everyone in the party to use.”

“… Do you intend to do to the party members what you did to me?”

“What, the effect was good?”

Carla shrugged her shoulders, reflexively stroking her own stomach and giving her a tired expression.

Uh huh! Speedrunning comes with a price!

Faye, who had been listening to our conversation, interrupted in a puzzled voice.

“Now, wait a minute, junior. I was thinking of getting me to make a potion… ?”

“Yes. Anyway, the only thing Fei-senpai can make right now is a potion. I heard that after about a month, even if it’s a freshman, class A will go to a dungeon practice, so I tried to use it at that time.”

“Not a baby?”

“…… ?”

Isn’t it the same in this world that if you go wrong with human body transformation?

So even though the Philosopher’s Stone appears in H&A, the Homunculus doesn’t appear….

While tilting my head all the time. I realized that there are other ways to make a baby besides sex.

“Ah.”

I can’t believe my sponsorship offer was like that… So you’re saying you thought it was the same as the spawn offer you were talking about in your previous life?

“No, where did you hear that?!”

“Whoa!”

Faye trembled like a frightened person when I screamed out loud without even realizing it.

Soon, with a musty expression on his face, he began to point out the reasons why he thought so one by one.

“That… But junior, you tried to play with the lady-in-waiting in front of my workshop! Outside! “

“Wasn’t that misunderstanding resolved? It was simply to make Carla quiet that Fei-senpai could have serious flaws and she said to think again!”

“Bo, I usually don’t just persuade or order quiet… ? Uh… Now that I see it, it seems that the lady-in-waiting is her junior’s slave, but a forced order is possible.”

“It is, but….”

If possible, she did not want to write a compulsory order to Carla.

However, I hesitated for a while because it was a little strange to explain it like that.

“Look at that… ! Junior just wanted to touch her ass, uh! Transformation! Junior is a pervert!”

“Kuh… ! Even so, there’s no way I would give Fei-senpai that kind of support!”

“Looking at my chest like that… !”

“It can’t be helped! Instinct. Instinct! It was not me, but Fei-senpai, who was born with ridiculously erotic breasts, was at fault! I came because I really needed your alchemy!”

She sincerely appealed for resentment, but for some reason Fei made a depressed expression.

“Such a lie… It’s okay if you don’t, junior.”

“No, I’m not lying….”

“I-I know… I’m not good at talking… She was so happy to think that she would recognize me just now, so I just said this and that… Didn’t you understand at all, junior?”

“Uh… Well….”

It is true that I did not understand what he was talking about. It’s because I didn’t have any knowledge about alchemy, but… Most of all, because it was too gibberish.

“More than anything… This isn’t the first time I’ve shown my research to my juniors… Have you been talking to other people? Ha, but they all say nonsense… I told you to stop doing useless things and make potions….”

Faye’s voice as she said that came out with a bit of moisture.

“Poetry, I even received such a sponsorship offer from a guest from outside not too long ago… Of course I declined… But no one is interested in my research anymore… I thought so… Whoops.”

I could understand it intuitively.

This is it.

Right now, Fei has unknowingly revealed her inner thoughts. This inner feeling is not something I would confide to someone I met for the first time today.

It must be the cause of Faye’s suicide.

“Whoa….”

Here, as before, support is reckless anyway! Anyway, more money! Should not shout She opened her mouth a little more carefully.

“Right. To be honest, I didn’t understand a thing about Fei-senpai. In the first place, I don’t know much about alchemy.”

“Well, then! Then… Why did you offer to support me… ? Be honest… Isn’t that really why?”

An attitude that even became desperate.

For a moment, she closed her eyes, remembering the first time she saw the ending of Fay Route.

How did she become a great alchemist called all-rounder from a woman with no self-esteem?

She retold the whole scene over and over again, with the help of her excellent memory.

She slowly lifted her eyelids and opened her mouth.

“It’s cool.”

“Yes… ?”

“I don’t know much about alchemy… I know very well that the essence is change.”

If you use alchemy directly in H&A, you can transform it in the form of a mini game, so I don’t know much about realistic alchemy… However, there is one thing I do know for sure.

Extract, purify and change.

These three processes are the whole of alchemy.

“Past. The Philosopher’s Stone, said to have been created by the great alchemist Paracelsus, was said to be an all-purpose material that could change into anything and cause any reaction.”

The greatest alchemist of all time, Paracelsus, who exists only in the game setting.

In this world, the first great alchemist who actually existed in the past argued that the essence of alchemy is transformation.

So, if the conditions are right, alchemy can become omnipotent.

“Isn’t it ridiculous to have a completed weapon from scratch? How do you make that weapon in the first place? Melting iron, pounding and sharpening blades? By cutting down trees, adding catalysts, and enchanting?”

After one stroke of luck, he shook his head.

“In the end, both the kendo and the staff were made by ‘changing’ their own materials in a specific way, right? I think there is nothing that alchemy can’t do as long as the materials and skills are supported. It’s an all-powerful alchemy. How cool.”

“Ha, but… I think I can do that… ? It’s hard to say with my own mouth, but… I’m only maintaining moderate grades, but I haven’t achieved much… There must be a reason why I haven’t received any attention or support so far….”

I guess so. However, I know

The fact that Fei goes beyond equipment transformation, and someday even transmutes the Philosopher’s Stone.

Of course, the road is not easy. Because Fay Route’s sub-quests were quite difficult.

However.

As long as I remember that brilliant golden illustration.

I can confidently say

“Believe.”

“… What?”

“I can’t go into detail, but I believe that Fei-senpai can do even greater things than that.”

“…….”

I gave Faye, who was looking at me with a blank expression, as if shaking hands.

“So this is an investment. If you get my sponsorship now, Fei-senpai will be my exclusive possession for the rest of my life, so I have to prioritize the things I ask you to make. Even if I become a Grand Alchemist.”

“I… Grand Alchemist… ?”

She nodded her head to Faye, who looked at my face and hands in disbelief.

“I could. I will make it.”

“…….”

Fey grabbed my hand as if possessed by something.

Holding her small hand tightly, she raised the corner of her smirk.

“I made a good choice. You will never regret it.”

“Yes… Me, I will never disappoint you either. Yes!”

Faye, half-crying, energetically nodded her head.

Was it because the momentum was so good?

Clumsily clumsily.

Breasts bigger than the head shaking violently along the head.

Unknowingly, my eyes went down.

“…….”

“…….”

“Senior. Perhaps….”

“Eh, this doesn’t matter how much you sponsor… !”

As she had done several times, Fei reflexively hugged herself and tried to cover her chest with her arms.

Now, thank you so much, he was in the middle of shaking hands with me.

And a handshake is not solved by loosening one side.

Water.

“Five.”

Honey.

I nodded my head involuntarily at the soft feel of my hand.

Indeed.

I think I know why Faey was able to make a Philosopher’s Stone.

Was the truth here?