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Episode 170. Melissa’s Proposal (2)

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Melissa came to my lab. I thought she was an extraordinary student, but I didn’t expect her to actually come.

Orange hair, light freckles roughly covered with makeup, and green eyes.

Of course, she was smart, but she was also a bit different from other students in terms of her spirit.

A rare type of student in an academy where rigid and closed-off aristocratic culture prevails. This can be both an advantage and a disadvantage.

I looked at Melissa.

Melissa sat at her desk in her lab.

“Oh, hello.”

“Yeah. Why are you here?”

Melissa was a bit worried.

“You know I’m from the Kingdom of Lutece, right? That’s why I came.”

For what reason?

Melissa hesitated again, as if she had something difficult to say. I wanted to ask her if she had come because she wanted to be a graduate student.

So it didn’t seem like it came.

If you came here because you wanted to become a graduate student, you would have brought it up a long time ago. You might have come here to say that you would not be entering graduate school.

“What is that.”

“I took your class. I think this is a missed opportunity. Advanced medicine isn’t just needed in the empire, right?”

“A missed opportunity. Are you talking about selling knowledge or medicine to the Kingdom of Lutece?”

“Yes. I want to spread the word about what the professor has accomplished in the empire when I return to the kingdom.”

I thought about it for a moment. If you think of it as going overseas, it’s a good thing. I didn’t really oppose it, but I don’t know what the royal family thinks.

The royal family may not be willing to send such an important item overseas, but from a business perspective, it would be good to expand the market.

“Then, Melissa.”

“Yes?”

Melissa tilted her head.

“What can you do? Can you go back to the Kingdom of Lutece and persuade or demand the government or the powerful people of the kingdom?”

“Maybe?”

It wasn’t a very satisfactory answer.

It’s true that there are many rich and noble students at the Academy, but they are just one of hundreds of students. Melissa is one of them.

Well, it’s still worth it.

“By the way, Ms. Melissa. Do you have any plans to go to Imperial Academy Graduate School?”

“Oh, no.”

Melissa shook her head slightly.

“They say it’s good to come to graduate school? They give you a salary, clinical experience, and research opportunities. Amy and Istina also received several awards.”

“Then, there must be many students applying for graduate school in Professor Asterix’s lab.”

“That’s… ….”

I thought Melissa was a smarter student than other students. She was so smart that she had an idea of what graduate school would be like.

“And if you work so hard to sell, students won’t come to you.”

“It’s not an easy position to fill. But Ms. Melissa seems to be a special talent.”

In my past life and this life, I have debated with countless geniuses and scholars, but this time, I had no words to respond to Melissa’s words.

“Yeah.”

“I’m sorry. I also want to learn from Professor Asterix, but I have to go back to the kingdom. I’m scared of being tied down to the Academy Graduate School for a long time.”

“Finish what you were saying earlier.”

“I am the daughter of the Madison family, a baronial family of the Kingdom of Lutece. If you give me the opportunity, I will spread your medical discoveries far and wide across the ocean.”

I looked at Melissa. It was true that healers were paid well, but they didn’t have the same power as knights or wizards.

It was like that in the empire,

“So. You mean you want to import medicine using the family name? You want to share your research results with the Lutece Kingdom?”

“Yes.”

“That’s something the royal family will do. Don’t ask me to do it. I don’t know if the royal family will take the risk of technology or drugs leaking out.”

“Shouldn’t medicine be widely known? To save more people?”

I looked at Melissa.

“Teacher Melissa is shameless.”

“I’m sorry.”

“It’s not necessarily true that being ambitious is good? If your ambition has no basis, then you’re just crazy. ”

“Yes.”

Separately. It is true that I need to help as many people as possible, but that doesn’t mean I can do it by stealing other people’s money, for example, the royal family’s money. I thought about it for a long time.

I did make that promise.

“Melissa.”

“Yes.”

“There was a guy named Jonas Sok among my seniors. He was famous for inventing the polio vaccine. Someone asked who owned the patent on the medicine he invented.”

“What did you answer?”

“People have it, can you claim a patent on the sun? He answered succinctly.”

Of course, drug developers since Salk’s time have not sympathized with Salk’s sentiments. They have even lobbied to sell narcotic painkillers without a prescription and sold the antidotes to the government.

Anyway, Melissa was right.

It depends on how you handle it, but selling penicillin overseas is a positive thing from a business perspective. The royal family’s thoughts are important.

Even if you take the position that penicillin and aspirin are strategic materials and should not be exported at all, what can you say?

The royal family might think so.

“You’re right. Listen carefully. I can give you a chance to meet the royal family, but I don’t think it’ll be possible to do more than that. It’s not my money.”

“Thank you!”

Tch.

I scratched my head.

Melissa was a smarter and stronger opponent than I expected. This time, I was completely defeated by my disciple. Melissa not only succeeded in persuading me, but she also got everything she wanted.

“You send a letter to the family and tell them to come. If you can convince me and the Imperial Family, I will do what you want.”

“Thank you so much!”

Melissa kept bowing her head.

Let’s say you export penicillin… … Depending on how much the medicine sells for across the ocean, it could determine the fate of your family.

“You really have no intention of going to graduate school?”

“Oh, yes. Sorry.”

I sighed again. Why aren’t there any students who want to go to graduate school? At this point, there must be some people who are just being fooled.

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I spread out the parchment and thought about it for a while.

“Oh, are you going to send a letter to the royal family now?”

“Yeah.”

“What are you going to send?”

“Still thinking about it, think about it with me.”

As expected, it was a problem that could have been easily solved by asking the princess… … . That’s a method that you won’t hear good things about if you use it too often.

The royal family isn’t stupid either.

Ah, you’re being unreasonable by abusing your relationship with the princess, that’s what people would say. Even if it’s not unreasonable but reasonable.

So, it’s much better to talk without going through Mint, if that’s possible.

“But. Professor, are you close to the imperial family? I’ve heard a lot of rumors about that.”

“That’s true. He’s from the royal healer family.”

I didn’t go into detail.

If that were to happen, he would have had to keep explaining that he was in a relationship with the princess, and that if he kept using the princess name, the value of the name would wear out.

“How about something like this? A chance to show the humanitarian side of the empire to the surrounding countries. A way to save more people.”

I shook my head.

“That’s how you’re going to convince me. You have to think of these people as politicians, businessmen, and secretaries and make up your own phrases.”

The letters that the prince would receive were just sent randomly – no, you shouldn’t say that. The letters that the prince would receive were written with sincerity.

This time, I couldn’t just write something roughly and send it out, because I had to change the expected reaction of the royal family. What should I say to convince them?

“A chance to show off the Empire’s scientific prowess?”

“There’s not enough expressions for those people to like. An opportunity to show off the power of the Empire’s scientific prowess.”

“Oh, that’s strong.”

“What else is there?”

“I should also emphasize that this is an opportunity to make money. In the end, you will have no choice but to roll the abacus.”

The prince is not an abacus user, but the officials around him will have no choice but to use the abacus. They too must be persuaded.

“Money. What should I write to impress upon the prince that this is an opportunity to make money?”

Melissa tilted her head.

“That’s just. I think you can just write it literally. It’s not an abstract object.”

It’s sharp. I think the writing is sufficient to this extent.

I dipped my pen in ink and began to write a letter on parchment to be sent to the imperial court.

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-Hello. The weather has gotten colder recently, so please be careful of the weather, Your Highness.

-Let’s get straight to the point. I heard something interesting from an academy student.

– It is said that the noble society of the Kingdom of Lutece is very interested in the recent medical advancements made at the Imperial Academy.

– Of course, there are some difficulties that must be overcome, but overall, selling medicine overseas, such as to the Kingdom of Lutece, seems like an opportunity to show off the power of the empire’s scientific prowess.

– Also. It’s an opportunity to make money by opening up new markets. If word gets out that the Empire is supplying a new magical potion exclusively to Lutece, other people will be interested as well.