Chapter 13: New Potion? – 1

Chapter 13: New Potion? – 1

“…Unfortunately, I only have one ‘Mana Potion’ left today.”

“It doesn’t really matter. I’m interested in the potions you make, but I’m also quite interested in ‘you’.”

“I’m sorry if you seem to have unnecessary expectations. I’m just an ordinary 19-year-old girl? Ah, I’m a little pretty though.”

…I thought my face flushed for a moment, but I decided to be confident.

It’s true that I’m a 19-year-old girl, and it’s also true that I’m pretty!

Honestly, if you get this kind of appearance and don’t brag about it? That’s because you don’t have the desire to show off that people naturally have.

No matter how unfamiliar I feel with this body and how much I haven’t adapted in various ways… it’s still my body!

Of course, that doesn’t mean that I’m a different person from who I was in the past, before I died.

My identity is firm. In the first place, I didn’t become someone else, it’s just that my body changed.

As I nodded my head slightly, satisfied with the perfect definition of myself, I heard Elena’s laughter.

“Pfft. You’re really cute. Especially when you smile so confidently and say “Um, um” in a small voice.”

“…Did I do that?”

“You were nodding your head while doing that? Was it an unconscious interjection?”

For a moment, I imagined it.

My appearance nodding my head slightly with a proud and confident expression that I said something very right.

…It was kind of pathetic.

“…Go away if you’re not going to buy a potion. I have to buy something to eat today too.”

I thought I was maintaining my composure, but it was a voice tone that anyone could feel was sulking.

…I’m not like this when I talk to Christie, but I don’t know why I’m like this in front of Elena.

‘Is this what they call human chemistry? I’m strong against Christie, but weak against Elena.’

Before starting a deep consideration of why I’m showing this side of myself to Elena,

Elena spoke in a voice with a slight smile.

…I felt like I knew how Christie felt just now.

“Okay, I get it. You’re pretty and cute, right. More than that, don’t you have a new potion?”

“Hmm… I’m thinking of starting research soon. I can’t keep using the same thing forever, and above all, the current potions all have flaws.”

“Flaws? They all have excellent effects?”

“I’m talking about side effects, originally, I could make it without them, but I haven’t been able to research that far yet.”

At that, Elena’s eyes instantly disappeared.

The person who was full of playfulness just now disappeared, and the Elena I knew was in front of me.

…I almost forgot for a moment, but this person is the head of a group that wants to put the whole world under her feet.

In fact, a ‘healing potion’ without side effects is nothing special.

It’s strong compared to the benefits of side effects, but it’s not objectively fatal.

But what if.

If ‘top-grade’ potions like the ones I ate are supplied to Elena without side effects?

Elena will be able to achieve her goals really easily.

Not the basic potions I’m making now, but much higher-level potions.

The effect of those potions… I know best of all.

What ordinary girl in the world would catch a monster by throwing a small glass bottle in this frail body?

Even the ‘stupid birds’ I caught yesterday were later told by the system to be monsters that a typical knight would catch with a sword.

And, that’s why I could tell intuitively.

Elena, this main character… is dangerous.

And if I start getting involved with Elena, I’ll start getting involved with all the main characters.

Not only Christie, the commander of the defense force who has suspected Elena since the novel, but also the saint and the hero who Elena personally approached.

Maybe starting to get involved with Elena is the first and biggest mistake I’ve made since coming to this world?

“That’s… interesting. More than that, is this made through magic?”

“I told you before, the manufacturing method is confidential! I have to make a living, don’t I?”

“It’s just personal curiosity. I don’t know the ingredients or anything.”

“…I didn’t use magic. It’s just a personal skill.”

It’s not wrong. Honestly, I don’t know how this ability that the system just threw at me works…

Anyway, it’s not magic.

*To be exact, you have been given the ability to do alchemy. It’s easier to think of it as a kind of passive.

And, the more you make potions with alchemy, the more abilities will be unlocked sequentially.

In addition to ‘stamina potions’ and ‘mana potions’, there are quite a few more potions you can now make, so we recommend trying them at home later.*

…I don’t know if it read my mind or inferred the question through the conversation, but the system gave a timely answer.

In summary, it was that it was really my unique ability, and that I could make new potions, so try it.

“I see… It’s amazing every time I see it. I’ve never seen this kind of technology before.”

“…Elena seems to be very interested in potions.”

“I guess so? A thing that might turn the world upside down, suddenly popped out into the world.”

“Unfortunately, I’m also researching this potion. I don’t know what kind of technology it is yet.”

“Really…?”

Saying that, Elena stares at me.

Looking at those two eyes, I had the illusion that I was being sucked in.

For some reason, I couldn’t breathe well, and I felt like I was being seen through as a person.

Also… I couldn’t take my eyes off Elena.

My head kept ordering me to turn my head, but my neck wouldn’t turn.

‘Move… a little!’

*A forced and in-depth search of the user’s mind and body has been detected, so a defense response has been made. If you wait a little longer…*

The system was saying something, but I couldn’t see it. I was just putting all my effort into turning my head and avoiding those eyes.

And, after a desperate resistance, my head turned and the stiffness of my body was released.

Immediately after that, I grabbed my half-disappearing consciousness and got away from Elena and went deep into the market.

Fortunately, Elena didn’t follow.

I don’t know why this happened. But one thing was clear.

…I got caught by a crazy bitch.

***

As I ran away from Elena like that, I felt like I had forgotten something, but it didn’t matter.

For a moment, emotions that I thought were far from me in this world began to spring up.

I finally calmed down after coming to a corner of the market where people don’t come.

*Are you okay? A deep mental and physical analysis attempt was detected, so I responded.*

“Did you, respond, and, that’s why, I’m, so tired?”

My body still felt stiff and I was out of breath.

…When I thought about it for a moment, it seemed like it was because I ran from the entrance of the market to here, but anyway, the meaning would have been conveyed well.

*Originally, you wouldn’t have felt anything and would have been searched by the target, but it seems that physical stiffness occurred in the process of resisting the target’s search magic.*

“So, Elena tried to use search magic on me, and my body suddenly stiffened in the process of blocking it?”

*To put it simply, yes.*

For a moment, I felt goosebumps on my body.

If I didn’t have the system, I would have been searched by Elena without knowing anything.

The search magic that Elena uses… was one of the most powerful in the novel.

What abilities and potential the target has, and what they are thinking now.

It was magic that could glimpse all of that for a moment.

It’s mentioned that Elena was able to easily discover talented people because of this.

*Of course, originally, it would have just ended with a slight blurring of consciousness or dizziness.*

“Then? Why did my body stiffen and I get out of breath?”

*That’s because… your body resisted the search magic together.*

“Huh? Didn’t you say that you defended from the system side?”

*What I did was only to defend against being searched, not to forcibly release the search magic.

…So, I’m saying that you forcibly broke the magic using your physical abilities and came out.*

“Is that… possible?”

I was asking sincerely.

Of course, there is a setting in the novel that people with excellent physical abilities resist mental magic or magic that affects the body well…

But it was a different problem to experience it directly.

*I’m a little embarrassed too. Suddenly, you released the search magic on your body and mind on your own, so I thought something had happened.*

“…I seriously need to study magic a little bit. But, wasn’t this actually not a dangerous situation?”

*If you think about it, right? I’m sure the other side was also embarrassed. She just used search magic normally, but suddenly the other person desperately resisted and ran away.

Of course, I can’t be sure what her intentions were… but if it’s ‘Elena’, there’s a high possibility that it’s to find out the truth of your words.*

In simple terms, Elena was just trying to lightly check if my words were true, but I suddenly resisted that magic desperately, and that’s what happened.

…I thought Elena had cast a strange magic on me and my body stiffened.

I really need to learn some magic. That way, I won’t overreact like this when something like this happens in the future.

At the same time as remembering that I have to learn magic, I came out of the corner of the market.

As I calmed my mind while buying some necessary things at the market, I remembered what I had forgotten earlier.

…I didn’t get the money.

“…I can’t just say that I’ll put it on credit and ask for the money later, right?”

*She’ll give it to you. Are you still thinking that even after being treated like this by that person?”

“No, but…”

As I was having silly thoughts, my body had returned to normal before I knew it.

As if I had never experienced such a thing.

‘I need to be a little careful about Elena in the future…’

Of course, it’s not that Elena was trying to harm me directly… but that doesn’t mean it’s okay for others to read my thoughts without permission.

I raised the alert level for Elena by 2 levels in my mind.

…It was already the highest level though.