episode_0046

“Rather…it’ll be okay, right?”

We were heading there because we thought the potion store might be able to help us with our lack of antidote.

Then, suddenly feeling uneasy, I turned my head to Elesis, who was following me from afar, and asked.

Elisias hid the notebook he was holding behind his back and scratched his cheek as if embarrassed.

“Well, I guess there wouldn’t be any problem if it was that strange of an arrest…”

I was worried that Illisha, who was in a state of heat and lost, might cause trouble again when she came back, so I tied her up with a rope.

“Where on earth did you learn that strange trapping technique?…”

Elisias had an expression that made him feel uncomfortable.

“Looking at it… it’s even more of a strange alcohol…”

“Oh, ah, that?”

Elisias’ strange look in his eyes was very stinging. But I couldn’t tell the truth.

One of the SM games that caught my eye while playing other night games in the past was tying tortoiseshell.

Perhaps because the knot is quite unique, I was intrigued and searched for it on the Internet.

I was impressed by the way he very kindly taught me how to tie knots from 1 to 10, and thanks to that, I was able to have no trouble tying Ilicia.

“Hmm! That was all I knew…”

I looked straight ahead and cleared my throat as if to make an excuse, but the back of my head still hurt.

It’s not wrong. How else would I ever tie someone up in my life? The only thing I remember doing is binding people.

“Pa, if you just tie the arms and legs loosely, it will soon be freed with its strength?”

Illisha, the owner of superpowers, would definitely do that. Therefore, the method of tying tortoise shells, which can tie up the entire body and neutralize it, was adopted.

“Hmm…that could be true…”

As I glanced at him, Elisias finally seemed to agree and her squinted eyes relaxed, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

“Yeah, right? Those bonds would be enough to immobilize anyone, right? I used the most effective trapping technique.”

As I crossed my arms and nodded and rationalized the catch, Elisias raised her finger as if she had thought of a good way.

“Ah, then how about telling me about that trapping liquor?”

I blinked, wondering if I had misheard Elisias’ bold statement, and Elisias continued speaking casually.

“Wouldn’t it be quite helpful in future battles if it was an entrapment technique that could clearly suppress the upper body!”

“Huh? No, really…is that so?”

My steps stop when I hear a sound that seems like something.

Of course, tying a knot was a bit difficult and time-consuming, but if you get the hang of it, wouldn’t it be possible quickly?

“Then I will come to your room tonight and you can be my practice partner.”

“I…go?”

When I asked that question, Elisias nodded and I let my imagination run wild.

Late at night, the candles flicker as if they will go out at any moment.

The yellow light that fills the room, the long black shadows stretching on the wall, and the shadows begin to tangle and stick together.

Starting from the neck, the knot is tied so tightly that one cannot even move the upper body. The knot tightens the chest, making it impossible to even breathe, and the rope digs into the skin, giving a dizzying feeling.

And Elisias, who was pulling the rope connected to his neck, with that cold look on his face-

“Ha…ri?”

When Elisias called from behind me, I quickly turned my head to and fro and forced myself to shake off the delusion I had been having just now.

“Uh, uh, why?”

“Are you okay…? Your face is seriously red…or maybe you too…”

“Oh, no! no! Rather, let’s pretend it never happened.”

My cheeks feel hot. When I said this out of embarrassment, wondering if this was my taste, Elisias made a sad expression.

“Why is that so? You seemed to agree to some extent, but…”

I didn’t try to respond and started walking again.

“More than that, Elisias, why have you been walking away from me since a while ago?”

It was now difficult to ignore the guy who always walked next to me staring intently at me from behind.

He looks at the notebook once, then looks at me, and when he thinks things are going well, he looks at the notebook, reports me, and so on.

There were times when people walked behind me, but I guess this distance is too far. As a rule of thumb, the distance seems to be about 2m.

“Don’t worry, I’m just doing the homework given by the teacher.”

“Homework?”

Earlier, I asked Elisias insinuatingly that there was more than one thing that bothered me about being a teacher, but Elisias only repeated these words like a broken tape: “Master is teacher.

“Really? What is that homework? I will help you if I can.”

If you don’t want to answer, you can find out through some guided questioning, so I first asked around about the existence of the homework.

“Thank you, then um…how do you feel now?”

It was Elisias who asked with a quite serious expression, lifting his chin.

“No matter how you sleep…”

As I sighed in frustration, Elisias was now openly flipping through the notebook in front of me, without any intention of hiding it.

“If you pushed it out, pull it out… What does pulling mean…?”

After saying that, he comes towards me with great strides and this time grabs my hand and pulls it.

“Wow!”

The body is pushed forward by force. As I strengthened my upper body, my body stood tall and I almost hit Elisias in the face.

“Hey, hey…it was almost dangerous…”

Elisias was staring at me with an expression of embarrassment. His eyes were looking straight at me, and my red face was reflected in his bright ruby eyes.

“Does this make your heart beat a little?”

“I don’t know…”

When Elisias swallowed nervously, I shook off his hand, turned my head, and quickly walked towards my destination.

Elisias has been strange ever since the name “Master” came out of his mouth.

Does he suddenly put on makeup? Doesn’t his way of speaking and acting different from usual? It’s full of things I don’t know.

“Theory is always difficult…”

He whispers quietly from behind, flips through the notebook several times, and then follows. Before you know it, you’re in front of your destination.

“Are you there by any chance?”

When I open the door and enter, the store owner I saw last time is no longer visible. However, there was only a loud noise coming from upstairs.

As I went to the counter and rang the bell to call the staff, I heard the door upstairs burst open.

“Are you leaving soon…huh? What’s going on?”

The store owner, who was coming down in slightly stained clothes, as if he had been working on something, looked at me and waved.

“Ah, I once prepared an all-purpose antidote using the books and tools you lent me…”

When I answered that, the store owner’s eyes sparkled and he ran over to me and grabbed my hand.

“Oh, so what happened? Was it successful?”

I was sorry for betraying that expectation. I didn’t say anything. The store owner must have read my expression, so he put down my hand and scratched his head.

“Well, it might be obvious…”

“No, it was effective to some extent…”

“What?!”

Before I could finish speaking, the store owner screamed with wide eyes and cut me off.

“It doesn’t seem like it was made perfectly…I wonder what the problem is…”

The store owner was thinking hard along with me, and then I suddenly handed the store owner the parchment I had brought with me.

“This is…”

“This is a piece of parchment with a list of ingredients needed for a universal antidote and the recipe I used.”

The store owner’s hand, which was handed the parchment, stopped and stayed in the air.

“Is it okay if you show this to me?”

I wondered why the store owner had a confused look on his face, but it was only natural.

This is a recipe that cannot be easily obtained unless you are a royal potion maker, and it was not easy to share it with others.

“Anyway, it’s a great recipe, but… I’d like you to take a look at this and see if there’s anything that could be improved. Because I might have missed something”

Since we first met, he gave me potions for cheap and even donated some of his belongings to me, so I decided to think of it as repaying him.

“And since it is related to Illisha, I really hope you can help me.”

When I heard that it was related to Illisha, the store owner nodded as if he noticed something.

After briefly making eye contact with Elisias, I told the store owner everything that had happened.

“I knew something like that happened to Illisha’s younger brother, but…”

The store owner dried his face and unfolded the parchment he had been handed.

“I didn’t know you were thinking that way…”

The store owner looked closely at the recipe I wrote down, scratched his head as if there was something strange, and motioned for me to follow him.

“Anyway… this means that only when the universal antidote is completely completed can Leila and Ilicia be cured and the revenge you are planning be successful, right?”

the store owner asks as he climbs the creaky wooden stairs.

“That’s right, and if it’s completed…the all-purpose antidote will need to be produced in large quantities.”

If the antidote is to be used as a replacement for a gas mask filter, the antidote must be produced in large quantities. The amount of samples I made would be ridiculously insufficient.

“Don’t worry about that.”

As we climbed the wooden stairs to the upper floor, a small square wooden door that appeared to be the entrance to the attic was waiting for us.

For some reason, purple smoke was seeping out from between the cracks of the closed attic door, and when the store owner pushed open the latch, it made a creaking sound.

“Inhale!”

When the store owner pushed the trap door upward, the wooden trap door began to scream and open its mouth.

From the completely open mouth, purple smoke and an acrid scent came out as if I was breathing out, tickling my nose and face.

As Elisias and I coughed repeatedly and waved our hands, the store owner smiled and brought out a ladder, gesturing for us to follow him.

Step on the ladder and head to the attic.

I entered first after the store owner and held out my hand, telling Elisias to be careful. He held my hand and entered the attic with difficulty.

“This is…”

Elisias and I’s eyes widen.

“Welcome to my secret workshop.”