The Novice Alchemist's Store

The first person to leave school is the master's shop.

Thank you for your help, but I can't be unfaithful to graduate and say hello, and even without it, I have business for my master.

The master's shop is also close to the school and in a pretty good place in Wangdu.

Thanks to this, it was convenient to go on part-time and use my time effectively.

I'm not sure about the price of the land or anything, but it faces the boulevard, maybe first class?

My job was to help my master, so I didn't serve the customer, but I still know about the customer's entry and exit.

At least when I was working part-time, I almost felt like a guest was coming.

"Hello."

I greet lightly and enter the back of the store as usual.

The part-time job itself quits before the graduation exam, so I really feel bad too, but for me, who has been working for almost five years, the people here can also be considered the closest people at the moment.

So there was nothing particularly stoppable about it, rather he smiled and called out "Happy Graduation," and put me through normally.

Happy graduation, Sarasa.

Behind the store, the alchemist greeted me with a super beautiful woman.

Someone who talks in a somewhat abusive way that doesn't suit its appearance.

Appearance age in the mid twenties?

But I don't think I've seen a change since five years ago, an alchemist of unknown real age.

This is my master.

Its skill is at the top level.

Oh, my God, he's a master class alchemist who is said to be more influential than a lousy aristocrat, besides only being present enough to count all over the country.

Moreover, while other master class alchemists are old men, the master has this appearance.

You can't help but tell me I'm not old enough, can you?

But, well, because of its appearance, he's also a very popular alchemist in Wang Du, and he doesn't even cut his job requests.

Even now, it's incredible that I could have been hired at a store like that.

I'm not going to go into details, but I don't know... The Occasional Gift of Coincidence and Luck?

"Thank you. Thanks to my master, I managed to graduate."

Once again, carefully bowing his head and thanking him, the master responded with a gentle wave.

"Don't be modest. Are you listening to me? Grades say he was almost the chairman."

"That? Yes, what is it?

I got a lot of exam bounty, but I never came first...?

The ranking itself can be grasped because every time there is an exam, the top ten grades are stretched out.

I checked every time because it involves whether I could receive a bounty, but there were mostly two or three of them over me.

I don't remember the name well, but I'm sure it was noble.

As soon as you see the family name, you'll know, and it's about the bounty.

"The nobles, well, that's it. I'll wear waste by the title."

"Oh, really?"

"Hmm? Not really interested?

In response to me plainly, my master leaves my neck a little surprised.

I do think it's a little sloppy, but it doesn't really matter to me.

Honestly, if it doesn't even affect the exam bounty, it doesn't have to be first place.

The nobles are making donations to the school, and the scholarships, the bounty, are declining.

If you think my scholarship or bounty is out of that donation, I'd rather say thank you.

As much as some waste, let him wear as much as he wants.

When I said that, the master grinned and nodded.

"School grades don't matter if you become an alchemist. It depends on your efforts to raise the level. - Yeah, because nobility is equally evaluated for the decision to leave school, because no alchemist is below standard, right?

However, for post-graduate employment, grades appear to affect grades slightly.

But the people who hire them also know about the waste worn by the nobles...

- Isn't it harder for an aristocrat who's not legitimately appreciated the other way around?

Some aristocrats had a big attitude at school, but they weren't that bad, and one of the seniors who adored me was the Marquis' son, so I never got involved, so you don't have that bad impression.

A year after the seniors graduated?

That wasn't a problem at all either.

A slightly problematic aristocrat can't stay in school until the last year first.

Besides, even the civilian population is almost certain to be an alchemist as of the time they remain until the fifth grade.

Given the alchemist's social status, there are major disadvantages to hostility.

Maybe I'll be a master class alchemist in the future.

"So, Master. Can we go out? I'm also anxious to have too much money, so I'd like to go buy the alchemy daikon..."

"Hmm? Are you going already? I don't have any more plans for today, so I'm fine."

“Alchemy in full (all ten volumes)".

That's an alchemy bible everyone has, if you're a single alchemist.

When I worked part-time at my master's shop for a while, I asked.

"If you can be an alchemist, what is the first thing you should get?".

At that time, it was recommended that this book, "The Great Alchemy”.

Make it an introduction to alchemy and the deepest. As long as that book says that all alchemy techniques are noted, the journey as an alchemist will be shown.

"Such an amazing book, where the hell do you get it!?" the master casually added to me, "By the way, I can buy it from school purchasing".

The deepest can be easily bought with school purchasing.

While I felt something somewhat unclear about such reality, the next day I grabbed the money I had worked so hard to save and happily went out to buy.

And it collapsed.

The pricing my purchasing aunt told me, what a 7.5 million rare.

Even Wang Du can afford a house that is quite large.

Even an alchemist is not an easy amount to pay for new rice.

Not to mention what students did before that.

Is this a good price to sell on a purchase?

I usually buy it here, and the gap with about 100 rare notebooks and ink is too great.

It's effortless in places, but not at all effortless in price. Hey!

Naturally, I gave up purchasing and stupidity to my master.

Then the master smiled bitterly and said, "So normally, you go into a store with an apprentice and make money. I don't even need to buy ten volumes together in the first place," he told me one way out.

"You can buy it for five million if you let me through. If I could save by graduation, I'd buy it for you".

Five million! What a 2.5M rare discount!!

... No, but it's still a price you can normally buy a house for.

But why is the alchemy daiichi so expensive?

One of the reasons for this is that the book itself is a special "smelter" artifact.

If you're not an alchemist, you can't read it, otherwise it just looks like a blank book to someone else.

Even alchemists can read different volumes depending on their level.

No, exactly the opposite, levels are determined by readable volumes.

If a freshly-schooled alchemist like me is a new America, he is called a junior alchemist when four volumes can be read, intermediate by seven volumes, and senior alchemist at a stage when ten volumes can be read.

Very few of the alchemists can become senior alchemists, and those who have gone beyond it are masterclasses like masters.

It is difficult to determine the veracity of this book because it is such an object.

Normal people just can't tell the difference from blank books, so they can't deny or affirm it when they say, "This is the whole alchemy thing".

The same is true of new American alchemists, who don't know if a roll is fake or not, even if it's blank.

That is where the guarantee system becomes necessary.

Ask the alchemist to see what's inside and write back that it's real.

But when you buy up to ten volumes, you need more than a senior alchemist.

Ask a handful of senior alchemists to be present and write backwards.

Naturally, it is not unremunerated, and that is reflected in the cost of the goods.

This is another reason why alchemy daisy is expensive.

Incidentally, the alchemy daiichi is sometimes sold in an old bookstore, but the master says, "Don't ever get your hands on it because it's almost certainly a fake".

Of course, the possibility of a book flowing from a defunct alchemist is not zero, but it seems unlikely that a roll or two would be the first if it were even ten.

At least the master says he never saw the real thing in an old bookstore.

When it comes to the poor quality of the "We", is it a good thing that you can't confirm that the level is low, so that even the junior alchemist will use the real one by about three volumes that can be confirmed, and then make it all fake?

Still, they see crying when the price of authentic products is just the price, and there are alchemists who sometimes get their hands on them.

"But I really don't expect to save 5 million rar..."

Kind of my master looks at me emotionally, but I totally agree with him.

Because I really saved......

Can I be complimented for not buying a hobby for the past five years, while generally having an amount of money?

Yeah, it's amazing, me!

"So, it's good to go buy it, but how are you going to take it back?

"Huh? Put that in this."

That being said, I go around Kurli and show my master the bag I'm carrying.

What's inside is only "not" except for study tools and cash.

This is my entire property, not buying anything but essentials.

Poor me, I was choosing a bag that wasn't decorative but was durable and bigger, so I still can afford the space, and it's okay to add some heavy books!

That's what I thought and confidently indicated, but the master seemed disapproved, which made me sigh.

"Ha... Come back a little bit."

"Oh, yes."

A slightly frightened master took me upstairs, usually not up, and it was one room that I reached.

Lots of books lined up, a little dim.

There's a big desk in the center of the room, but it's somewhat cluttered and hasn't been cleaned up much.

"Wait a minute."

That's what they said, honestly waiting for a while.

The book the master had brought from the back of the room was piled up on the desk.

"This is the whole alchemy, three to ten volumes. You've seen one and two volumes, haven't you?

"... oh? Isn't it something thick?

Eight books were piled up on the desk by the master.

... eight books? With this?

One or two volumes of the great alchemy that I was allowed to read at my master's office were only about two centimeters thick at best.

Yet the height of all the books on the desk now is fifty centimeters.

"He's getting thicker and thicker as the roll progresses. Give it a try."

"Oh, yes."

Lift the book tower as the master tells you.

"Gu, muggy. Oh, it's heavy."

"Right?

There's nothing I can't even hold on to.

I can also put it in a bag... maybe.

But from now on, I'm going to have to find a place to study and get there.

And the place, probably not the king's capital.

Can you stand a trip like that......

"What do you say? Still don't you want to work for us? You don't have to buy everything, you don't have to look for a place to finish?

"Mmmm... well, that's... eh! I knew you wouldn't let me!

I shook my head at the thought of a mutilation to my master, who laughed niggardly and invited me.

Honestly, it's almost impossible to have the opportunity to be a disciple to an alchemist with as many arms as a master, and I'm almost certain that if you learn here, you can extend your arms smoothly.

My master seems to have bought me for a long time, and I had been invited since my part-time days.

But still, I didn't shake my head vertically because I was aware that my world was so narrow.

I went into an orphanage at a young age and studied even for an alchemist right after that.

Even when you go into school, only part-time and study when it comes to what you did.

Outside of the school and the master's shop, the part-time store I was hanging from, that's about my range of action.

There was a sense of crisis that if we went into the master's shop like this, we would almost certainly grow up unknown to the public.

Given that, I think we should be independent at least once.

"Hmm. Is that still true? Unfortunately, well, it would be a good experience to go outside. That's your graduation."

I have only said no a few times before, was it as expected that I would answer that, and the master handed me one backpack when he nodded lightly.

Compared to the practical one-sided thing I have, that backpack is about two turns small and a bit stylish in shape.

Dyed in a light pink color, cute.

Sounds good for a little getaway around the city, but not enough capacity for a long trip, right?

Wait for me in my bag this time, huh?

"Incidentally, it is endowed with effects such as capacity expansion and weight reduction. If you put it in there, you'll be able to travel with all of it."

"... What!? Really? Are you sure? It's very expensive, isn't it?

"If I buy it, yes, but don't worry, it's something I made"

"Thank you!

I thought it was just a stylish backpack, apparently it was the smelter Artifact.

In my current situation, I am so happy with this backpack.

More than that, without this, you can't carry the whole alchemy thing first.

... I will not consider how much this backpack made by a master class alchemist is. Because it scares me.

"Oh, and you also wore anti-theft. I can't use it other than you, so if you give way to people, work hard until you're at a level where you can change that part."

"No, I won't do that! My master gave it to me because of you!

I laugh and try to get my hands in my backpack quickly.

"Ooh, ooh."

Even though the feeling I see is just the right size for my back, my arms get soaked in.

Even if I finally put in the bag I had, there's still room in there.

If it's just the size I saw from the outside, the bag is obviously bigger.

"That's my master! Amazing!"

"Well, that's about it. You're gonna go buy more than that, aren't you? Too late to close your purchasing, huh?

As I glanced up, the master missed his gaze with a flat expression and changed his story.

"Oh, I was. I need to buy it by the end of the day and finally find a place to train! Because I can't stay in the dorm anymore."

I had an occasional look on my face at the orphanage I'm from, and I'm going to go report graduation, but it's just hard to say "stay".

So for a while, stay at the inn and get a job.

But the Wang Du Inn is pretty expensive.

Of course, some places seem cheap, but if a girl like me stays in a place like that, it's dangerous... Apparently. From what I hear.

"You can stay with us for a while, okay?

"No, because I'm a jerk!

For once, this year, adults are welcome. We need to be independent!

Being bad can be cozy and sloppy... whatever.

I rush my master to purchase a school.

Back right after graduation, because it's kind of unfamiliar, but the truth is, it can be about here that you can buy the alchemist's tools.

I didn't know at the beginning of school, but the alchemist's tools are basically order production, and there are not enough customers - that is, alchemists - to be made up of it alone.

You think it turns out to be a form of dealing with everything in school purchasing?

"Sorry."

When I went into purchasing and spoke up, my usual aunt came out of the back.

"Oh, Sarasa, don't graduate."

"Thank you. Thanks to you, I graduated safely"

I bowed my head and thanked my aunt for smiling and celebrating.

I used to buy paper, pens, and ink here frequently, so I'm friends with my aunt.

I also know that I am from an orphanage, so sometimes, I took care of products that I plan to dispose of for free.

Except for the professor and the three seniors and juniors in this school, I guess it's sad, my acquaintance is only about this old lady and the librarian.

Of course, someone to celebrate......

"Um, did that one you were asking for arrive?

"Oh. Just give me a minute."

That being said, my aunt brought it from the back, of course, "The Great Alchemy (all ten volumes)".

The exterior is new compared to what I saw earlier in the master's room, but its heaviness is the same.

This is the fixed price of Rs. 7.5 million.

It's more expensive than a bad mansion.

"Well, I'm pretty sure Sarasa doesn't need a warranty, huh?

"Yes, because you came to my master for that. - So, master! Please!!"

"Hmm. I don't think it's that much effort."

When I give way to the place and show it to the master by hand, the master smiles lightly and bitterly, rolling each roll in pieces.

And Sarah and I will write down my signature on the last page.

In the meantime, just for a few minutes or so.

If your aunt presses Peppa and Hanko next to that signature, the work will be complete.

This will confirm by the master class alchemist and prove that the school recognized it.

By the way, they don't need a warranty, so they sell it without a back note, and they don't go through with it.

You think it's a measure to avoid creating a confusing object that doesn't have a back note, but it's real?

If you're just watching it on the side Buckwheat, it's an easy task, but this job, for the price, is 2.5 million rare...

If you think about it, it's something that will help my gaze.

Even so, in fact, even if the master undertook this task, not all Rs 2.5 million will be paid to the master.

As an administrative fee to coordinate the appropriate level of alchemists, there is also, to some extent, a school-side portion.

Still, the majority of them belong to alchemists... advanced alchemists don't look great!

You can earn a few minutes of ordinary people's work if you put it to the extreme: one day!

- I thought, if you ask me later, they're not actually that good of a job either.

First of all, for most alchemists, there is little opportunity per se to be asked.

Since school instructors can handle up to six volumes, there is no need to ask outside, and if it is more than that, it is the senior alchemist who will be required. Most alchemists will not be eligible at this point.

Furthermore, in the case where a job has been contracted, if the owner has been asked to determine the veracity of the book he/she wrote back, such as when the owner has changed due to trading, etc., he/she has to respond.

It's a price including the hassle around it.

Since very few people buy up to ten volumes in the first place, the job itself does not occur.

Is that it? Few people buy up to ten volumes?

- No, no, master, you told me to buy it, didn't you?

Believe that, you saved money, didn't you? And when they talked to me, I thought, of course, you didn't complain to your master because I immediately remembered that you had me doing the backwriting for free?

"All right, I got it, Sarasa. Five million rare."

"Yes, now..."

Arrange the white gold coins of the tiger child on the counter of fifty pieces. This is almost all my property.

Five years of hard work, my blood and sweat crystals.

I know I need it.

I know I need it!!

"Yes, every time ~"

An aunt who retrieves the white gold coins that I sent out inside, in a puffy tremor.

It's a hell of a lot of money, but it doesn't look like I noticed it at all.

The only thing I would buy in purchasing was cheap stuff, but I'm sure white gold coins are normally used just to handle alchemy tools as well.

"But you did your best, Sarasa. Usually graduates can buy up to three volumes, right? If that's the case, it's still cheap."

My aunt is right, I can ask the school lecturer to write backwards up to about three volumes, so I don't need the expensive backwards cost of 2.5 million rare etc.

If you have a friendly instructor, you can negotiate a discount.

So it is common for graduates who can afford some money to buy up to that point and go to training.

If I can't get a part-time job at my master's shop, too, I think that's the choice I made.

"Ha ha... that's all thanks to the master, right"

With a bitter smile, I carefully fit all the alchemy in the backpack that my master gave me.

Thinking that without this I would have had a hard time carrying around, I really can't get my head up on my master.

Finished putting the whole thing in my backpack, I get up in the mood.

"Whoa, whoa! and?!?"

but it breaks the balance to a different weight than expected and the master manages to rebuild it.

"Are you okay, Sarasa? Pretty heavy, huh?

No, it's tear-free and light.

That's my master. I don't have half the level of weight loss.

But I can't help but purposefully promote that, so let's be vaguely deluded.

"Oh, no...... it's okay. Thank you for your help, Auntie."

"No, it's fine, Sarasa was trying, so hey. Come back when you get a chance."

I lowered my head to my aunt, who smiled and waved at me, and I followed my purchasing with my master.