“I’m sorry. I’ll introduce you.”
Rei looked at Nina and Nora puzzled.
“This is Rei, a pharmacist I met in the village at the east.”
“I am Rei. I look forward to working with you all.”
Lastly, I introduced Rei to everyone.
“U-Um …… excuse me, but Lydia-han, who you just introduced to me, is an elf …… right?”
“I knew it! I see! I see. That makes sense then. The plants in this village are absurd, after all.”
When I asked her what she meant by the plants being absurd, she told me that there was no sense of season, which made sense to me.
Lydia’s spirit magic is tremendous, after all.
With my extra skill, I can also use earth spirit magic, but thanks to Lydia’s wood spirit magic, we are able to harvest crops in this empty land.
“Um, Lydia-han …… you are an elf, and you know a lot about plants, don’t you?”
“Well, then, do you know where the mandragora grows?”
“Mandragora …… Oh, not only do I know, but I can make them grow, but they are not that potent, though? And there’s a possibility that it would monsterize.”
“You can grow mandragoras!? You mean you’re growing them from a seed! As expected of an elf …… you have a different mindset!”
Rei is excited about something, but Lydia can grow plants with spirit magic, not from seeds.
I mean, she grew vegetables and fruits for us, so of course she can also produce other plants.
“Lydia-han. Please! Can you share some mandragora with me?”
“…… There are many medicinal herbs that are safer and more effective than mandragora, though.”
“That may be so. But for a pharmacist, mandragora is a plant that we have always dreamed of, or at least I would like to have a chance to handle it!”
“Well, if you insist so much …… Mr. Alex. May I offer you some mandragoras to Ms. Rei?”
Oops, so you’re throwing that to me now.
It’s fine with me, but I’m not familiar with mandragoras, so I don’t really know.
“I don’t mind, but it’s not dangerous, is it?”
“It’s fine. Even if it were to monsterize, it would just run around on its own. Just don’t accidentally eat it as it is.”
“The mandragora is a humanoid root, right? I wouldn’t eat that.”
“If that’s the case, I’ll create a mandragora. Ms. Rei, this way.”
I moved with Rei to see what will happen first.
I followed Lydia and walked to the house and she used wood spirit magic near the wall.
“Lydia. Don’t you have to cultivate the land?”
“It’s not for crops, and it’s only one tree, so I think it should be fine.”
While we were talking about this, a small leaf appeared, and she made it grow with the earth spirit magic…
A green leaf came out of the ground and grew big.
Then Rei approached and looked at the green leaves solemnly.
“Ohhhhh …… so this is the legendary mandragora! I’m going to pull it out now, so everybody, move away from me!”
“Why are we moving away if you’re going to pull it out?”
“The mandragora makes a loud scream when it is pulled out of the ground. But if you hear that voice, you will die, so we put a string on the dog and tie it to the mandragora. Then, when we call the dog from a distance, the mandragora attached to the string is pulled out.”
“…… If you put a string on the mandragora, why don’t you just pull it yourself instead of having the dog pull it?”
“No, no, the traditional way is to let the dog pull the mandragora …… So, where’s the dog?”
“No, there are no dogs here.”
If I had to guess, I’d say the Shadow Wolf is dog-like?
Well, you can’t put a leash on that thing.
“W-What! There’s no dog here!?”
“And by the way, there’s no long string either.”
“Oh, no! Then how am I supposed to get the mandragora out!”
No, I don’t know even if you ask me.
While I was thinking about this, Lydia suddenly pulled out a green leaf.
“Well, you don’t have to go to all that trouble, I can just use wind magic to block the sound.”
“The pharmacist tradition …… but the mandragora is in my hands!”
Rei, holding a small root, not quite humanoid in shape, leaps in joy…
“Alex-han! Thank you! I’m going to use this mandragora to make some amazing medicine!”
“Oh, it’s amazing that you can make medicine.”
“Leave it to me! At first, I was surprised to see that the culture is so different from ours, but I’ve learned to understand it! To repay you for your help, I’m going to make you a medicine that will be very useful and suitable for you, Alex-han, so you can look forward to it tonight!”
I’m not sure about cultural differences, but that aside, Rei offered to make me the medicine I needed.
I’m resistant to all sorts of status abnormalities, so a medicine is …… but, since it’s supposed to be made tonight, I’ll just wait and see.