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This chapter has been replaced with a new translation on [2024-07-12]. Comments may refer to the old translation.

For some reason, it’s getting noisy in the sickbay. Meanwhile, I’ve been crafting several Great Potions. Look, there’s already 10 of them.

*Tmp*, *tmp*, *tmp*, *tmp*, *tmp*!!
Ruin and Orgo suddenly arrived in a fluster. They were wounded, so I’d have preferred them not to move around so much.

“Huh, Mr. Ruin, Mr. Orgo, shouldn’t you be resting…?
“You… Did you… seriously… create… this?” Orgo held a Great Potion, that had been filled into a flask with a distorted shape, in his hand.

So, he didn’t drink it yet…

In reply to Orgo’s question, I showed him the 10 Great Potions I just made.

“Whoa… huh… so it was true…”
Dang, I broke him.

Ruin, who was just as agitated, tried to forcibly keep his calm.

“D-Do you know… what these are? …Alim?” he asked me haltingly.
“Potions!”
“Well, yeah. You’re right, but… the potions you created sell for about as much as a jewel the size of my fist, you see? As a matter of fact, you shouldn’t even be able to create Great Potions without lots of time, effort, and specialized magic tools!”
“Huh? Is that so?”
“Exactly! You crafted them with just a mortar and a strainer, didn’t you? That’s insane! Do you understand?”
“No, I only…”
“You did the same as people described in legends, you know?”

Seriously? I truly went too far, didn’t I?

“Alim… just who in the world are you?”

Ugh, I didn’t want them to ask me that, so, until now, I didn’t go all out~! Of course, he still asked me… For the time being, let’s play dumb.

“I… can’t… remem… ber.”
“Right… Still, we’ll be departing for the royal capital tomorrow, so I guess we can ask at the public office there in three days’ time.”

I managed to feign ignorance. Well, even if we ask there, nothing will come out of it.

More importantly, did he say ‘tomorrow’? Will we already be leaving tomorrow? I wonder, will that be alright for Lilo?

“Huh… Shouldn’t you rest for a day? I wouldn’t mind much if we waited for the next carriage…”
“That’s the thing, Alim.” Orgo replied. “That potion fully heals anyone in an instant, even Lilo, so she can move around, y’know…?
“We will leave tomorrow, then, as planned?”
“It’s just… well, right. I’m just asking to make sure, but are you really positive that we can use those potions?”
“Of course, that’s why I made them!”

When they heard my words, Oro and Ruin nodded wordlessly at each other and downed the Great Potions with loud gulps. Then, something that was probably marvelous happened¹. All of Orgo’s injuries closed up in a flash…

“They’re all gone, y’know, that stuff is absurd.”
“Please ask Miss Lilo and Miss Myuri to drink theirs too, will you?”
“Gotcha. Thanks, Alim.”

Finally, the two of them went back to the sickbay…

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“Hey, hey, hey! Alim! Did you really save me from danger?” Lilo, who had been healed, hugged me.

Hang on… Miss Lilo… your breasts… are too big… gah…

“Ah, sorry for that. Hey, so… is it true?”
“Erm… Well, yes.”
“That’s incredible~~!!”

She hugged me again, with even more force. This time, she buried my face in her chest².
Oh no, I can’t breathe. Moreover, I’m currently a girl. So, I don’t get excited by it… or maybe I do.

“Hey, Lilo! You are going too far… Alim looks like… she is suffering.”
“Oh, sorry. Are you alright?”
“Hah… *gasp*… I’m fine…”

Well done, Miss Myuri. I was seriously about to die due to these marshmallows.

At this point, Jisef arrived.

“Heroes of the village…”
“No way, we are no heroes or anything…” Myuri mumbled, when they were addressed as “heroes”.

But Jisef looked as if he was serious.

“No, you are heroes. If you kids hadn’t been here, the village would’ve been destroyed. Truly, thank you so much. Because of this incident, I’ll increase your reward… I want to show you my gratitude, no matter what. We will hold a banquet to praise the five of you, the heroes who put their lives on the line to protect the village. We will be preparing a feast for tonight.”

Huh? Five heroes? Could he be including me?

“Mr. Jisef, why did you say the five of you?”
“Alim, it’s only natural, that you are included.”
“Huh~!? Me!?”
“Yes, that’s right. It’s thanks to you, that none of the villager’s were hurt and you also created an opportunity to defeat the monster, didn’t you? …And, of course, for breaking your back³ making the Great Potions.”
“I see…”
“Well, in any case. We’ll hold a banquet. Everyone in the village has already started preparing for it. Ho-ho-ho… Oh, you kids should get some rest.”

After leaving us with these words, Jisef left the doctor’s hut…

TL notes:
With this chapter, the previous translator switched from Whatever Translations to Yuki. I’m honestly not sure if this was better or worse than the preceding chapters. While there seemed to be no sentences missing and there were less translation errors (though still a lot of them), the English appeared to be even worse, plus there were all these Japanese expressions left untranslated.

1. I’m not sure about this and the following sentence, they might mean something else (though I’m not sure what that’d be).
2. I guess that’s what it means. The original is more along the lines of “This time, (her) chest came to (my) face”.
3. Not sure about that, the expression used here 腰を抜かす can also mean “to be so surprised, you can no longer stand up”.