Chapter 162 – How to Become an Alchemist
“If you accepted, you’re assistant. Anyway, well thought out. Go to work tomorrow. What time do you want to go to work?”
“…Damn.”
Contrary to her beautiful appearance, she seems to have a rather rough mouth, and with a very annoyed expression, she set her holy day and work time. The two will draw up a contract once again based on the contents of the agreement.
“Then see you tomorrow! Assistant!!”
“…Shut up!!”
She turns her head, her face red, and runs to her own dorm. Seeing her like that, her Seong-il smiles sinisterly.
‘I guess I’ll just have to play tricks now!’
“Damn it!!”
In her own dormitory, Vivian spits her swear words in her wrathful face. Embarrassed by this terrible reality, she denies it.
‘…Do I really have to serve as a subordinate of those lowly guys from tomorrow? Really? This Vivian?!’
Vivian, despairing at the reality facing her, utters her swear words. She ends her days in denial of this terrible reality and in her extended rage.
“Oh! Are you here?”
“…A promise is a promise!!”
Vivian managed to figure out the time when Erica didn’t come and came like a ghost at that time. She quickly enters the corner of the workshop and stir-fries her holy day.
“What am I going to do today! Tell me quickly! I’ll work quickly and go!!”
“…Not fast, four hours every day.”
“Anyway!! I’ll quickly organize it with my excellent skills!!”
‘As Erica said…’
The night before.
“Hey. Vivian is coming tomorrow?”
“Uh. Starting tomorrow, you just have to work hard for 4 hours a day.”
“Is that really going to happen?”
“…Huh?”
“Seeing that he sent the workshop schedule for next week. I thought he was only going to visit during class time?”
“…No way?!”
“Oh, I guess it’s because you don’t want to run into me?”
“It’s okay. He too.”
“Well… He’s a kid who lives on his own pride. I understand. But I’ll pamper you a lot!!!”
Erisha, who was so sad that she had been ignored by her Vivian, gritting her teeth and reassuring her enthusiasm to pamper her. She twists her own brown hair with her fingers, smiling her sullen smile and muttering to herself.
“Fufufu…! Starting tomorrow, I’m going to have to peck a lot to prepare auxiliary reagents and reagents for making energy potions!! I can’t do that! I’ll have to fill out the order right away!!”
Having said that, Erisha brought her something from her living room and asked her Seongil.
“Now! See this? That’s her daily quota! I’m already doing this, so if she can’t do it, that means she’s incompetent.”
“…You’re an expert.”
“What do you know? If you can’t make it, you’re incompetent anyway.”
“…”
Seeing Erisha, who seemed slightly mad, her Seongil flinched and nodded her head. Erica is proud of such an attitude on the holy day and continues to mutter to herself.
“I’ll show you hell~”
“…”
Seong-il, who was absent-mindedly reminiscing about what had happened the night before. Vivian frowns at him and says.
“Hey! Aren’t you going to make me work quickly? I’m busy! If I’m going to make you stand there blankly like this, I’ll just let you go early!!”
To Vivian, who speaks sharply, her holy day brings Elisha’s order prepared yesterday and hands it to her.
“…What’s this?”
“Your boss’ orders.”
“!!”
Vivian hardens her expression at the expression ‘boss’. However, Seong-il ignores her and urges her to do it.
“Ah, do it quickly. If you look, it’s information about the ingredients under the potion that Elisha prepares every day.”
Vivian takes the material away from Seong-il and starts reading it. After reading her material for a while, she asks him with her face pale.
“This… So many?”
“What’s more? Erisha does it all by herself. She’s at best the bottom ingredient…”
“!!”
When the story of a rival’s ability that she doesn’t want to see appears, Vivian answers her seongil with a burning eye.
“Start right away!! Explain the equipment inside the workshop!!!”
‘He’s also very easy to deal with…’
Seong-il takes Vivien and explains the inside of the studio. After listening to his explanation for a while, Vivian issues an order to celebrate guests to Seong-il and says,
“Heh! It’s nothing special! I’ll take care of it from now on, so don’t disturb me and just go out there and play!!”
Seong-il shrugs at Vivian’s words, then leaves the alchemy studio and devotes himself to martial arts training in the garden.
Two days passed like that. Vivian asks Seong-il questions with a tired expression after constantly making her potion to avoid Erica and die.
“Haa… Anyway, what the hell are you making all this fuss about?”
“What is a potion?”
“…Huh. Of course it must be a potion!! What kind of potion? I mean.”
“Ah, it’s a stamina potion.”
“!!”
Vivian looks at Seongil after making a contemptuous expression at the word ‘energy potion’. Seong-il ignores her expression and continues with her own words.
“Why? It’s a potion that gives the user tremendous energy for several hours. It’s a potion that the nobles can’t sell because they don’t have it in the market right now?”
“…Dirty.”
“Oh, and you’re helping to make that dirty potion.”
After saying that, Seong-il took out three of her stamina potions from her cupboard and handed them to her.
“Take it. At least you make it, so you should take this much.”
“Who… Who did that!!”
However, her seongil laughs at her, takes out her contract, holds it at her, and continues her words.
“It’s a business order! Take it and go!”
“…That’s absurd.”
Vivian, who has no choice but to accept her potion on her holy day, prepares for her departure with an annoyed expression.
“Anyway… I’ve finished my work for today! I have an appointment then…”
Vivian walks away from the workshop with a very tired expression on her face. Looking at her like that, I think of her Seongil with a smile.
‘Is he good enough? He does everything he is told to do quickly… It seems that his vigilance has subtly lowered. Shall we try using a voodoo doll soon?’
I don’t know the idea of such a holy day. Vivian grumbles and goes to see her father, Olke Brenner, who has come to Adenheim that evening to see his precious daughter.
“Vivian!! My lovely princess!”
“Father is here!”
“Yes. How have you been?”
The appearance of Lord Brenner, who leads the Brenner Merchant. When her father, whom she has not seen in a long time, appears, Vivian greets him with a smile on his face.
“Yeah~! I’m working hard on my studies and going to the academy!”
“Haha! You said you placed 3rd overall this time?”
“Yeah… Whoops…”
In that way, the two of them shared a friendly father-daughter story for a long time. But at one point Brenner asks her with her stern expression on her face.
“By the way… Rumors have been circulating lately?”
“Yes…?”
“I heard that you hang out at the home of an international student from the east. What are you talking about?”
“Sweet!!”
Unexpected that the story of her own bet would come out of her father’s mouth out of nowhere, she looks at her father with a penetrating look on her face.
Brenner frowns at Vivian and drives her away.
“Aren’t you going around doing weird things by falling into useless love games with strangers?”
“It can’t be!!”
Vivian desperately claims her innocence to her father and explains her situation.
“That… The reason I’m going there is…”
“The reason is?”
“Business!! It’s because of business!!”
“…Business?”
“Yes! Because my classmates jumped into the potion business…!! It’s a situation where I got into their business a bit late.”
“Hmm…”
“It’s real! W… Here’s the prototype…”
“…Prototype?”
Brenner is puzzled by Vivian’s out of nowhere handing him a green potion, claiming it’s a prototype. He takes her potion and tells her.
“It must be true that you say that. Business, I expect it to prosper in the future! It is clear that you also resemble this father’s blood. Haha!!”
“Go… Thank you!”
After clearing up the misunderstanding (?), Her father and daughter end their meeting by conversing in a friendly atmosphere.
‘…It could have been a big deal.’
Vivian, who did not know that her father would be monitoring her every move this much, feels goosebumps and thinks over and over again that she needs to be careful about her behavior.
In addition, she returns to her own dormitory, crying that she has lost her real bet and has become embroiled in her troublesome affair.
One day, while working as potion slaves (?) At Seongil and Erisha’s workshop. As always, Vivian avoids Erisha and takes care of her holy day and potion ingredients, then returns to her dormitory with a tired expression on her face.
At that time.
“Miss Vivian?”
“Huh? You…?”
The appearance of her father’s secretary who came to visit her out of the blue. Vivian asks a question as if she is curious about the young man.
“For what reason…?”
“Sir Brenner is looking for you! Are you leaving now?”
“Yes? All of a sudden?”
Vivian is taken aback when she hears that her father is looking for her out of the blue. However, since she is not a stranger to the other person, but a secretary who has served her father for a long time, Vivian does not suspect it and she follows him to her office.
“Ohhh! My daughter!!”
“Yeah! Father… Why all of a sudden…?”
She is puzzled when her father, who is always busy with her business and has a hard time seeing her, suddenly finds her. Towards Vivian, Sir Brenner takes out her empty potion bottle and asks her.
“This potion!! How did you make this potion!!”
“Yes…?”
“This potion is revolutionary!! Did you invent this recipe?”
“No… That’s not…”
“Then?!
“That… That’s not it either…”
Brenner prying at Vivian with her eyes wide open. Eventually, Vivian blushes and starts making excuses to him.
“Because I’m a latecomer, I don’t know the core recipe yet… I’m just preparing the bottom ingredients… I’m mainly doing auxiliary…”
“Hmm!! That’s right…”
Brenner has been thinking about something for a long time with his daughter in front of him. He struggles to open his mouth to Vivian and continues his words.
“Vivian.”
“Yes…”
“This potion you gave me is highly likely to cause a great upheaval in the market in the future.
“!!”
Vivian looks at him with a shocked look on her face, as her father has never failed at anything, considering that he had a high opinion of it.
“…So I don’t mind paying any price, so I want to get the recipe for this potion…”
“That… That’s because the recipe wasn’t shared with me, so it wasn’t easy…”
“Hmm… Then you’ll have to find out! Ask your friends to sell the recipe, so you act as a stepping stone.”
“Yes…?”
“Why? Is it that hard for this father?”
“That… It’s not…”
“Then, let’s ask for it. It’s something that could influence the revival of our family in the future.”
“…All right.”
At her father’s insistence, she forced herself to nod her head. In response to Vivian’s attitude, Brenner gave her a very satisfied smile and continued her words to her.
“Ha ha! That’s my daughter! Tell your friends! I’ll pay for the recipe!”
“Yes…”
The next day, Vivian visits Seongil’s studio with a heavy heart at the request of her father, Sir Brenner. He smiles awkwardly and greets Seong-il.
“Hey, I’m here.”
“Uh. Are you here? I wrote down what I have to do today on the desk over there. You can report it.”
“…Before that, I have something to say.”
“…?”
When she suddenly says that she has something to say, Seong-il goes to Vivian with a puzzled look on his face. OK..
“Are you thinking of selling that potion recipe?”
“…Suddenly?”
“That…That’s…”
Having said that, Vivian conveys to Seong-il that she wants to purchase the recipe along with her father’s rave reviews.
“You’re talking nonsense.”
“!!”
“If it’s money, I’m rotten too much. Please tell me not to talk nonsense.”
“What… What?!”
“Am I an idiot? I hand over the recipe for something that’s still sold for 3 gold per bottle as crazy. The margin is over 1 gold.”
“!!”
Vivian is shocked by the sales price and profits that are higher than expected. Seeing her like that, Seong-il takes out something from her arms and hands it to her.
“Don’t talk nonsense, take this.”
“…This?”
“Still, I’m a new employee, so I have to give you a present. A comb and a mirror. Try it.”
“Now?”
“Yeah. But you’re sincere.”
“No.. What kind of recklessness..!!”
“Ah~ It’s a business order~ Try using it for now.”
Vivian sighed at Seong-il’s unreasonable behavior and started brushing her hair with the comb he gave her as a gift. Seeing this, Seong-il smiles strangely at her and tells her.
“Ohhh… You comb it well!”
“The comb needs to be combed well. What nonsense… Anyway! How about the recipe…”
“Okay. Hand over that for now. Get to work!”
Seong-il, who takes her comb and mirror from her Vivian and puts them on the table in her studio, pushes her into her studio and forces her to start her business.
Vivian sighs lightly at such an attitude and starts her work.
‘Whoops… Got her hair!!’
