Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 150.1
Kirli Trading Company
Where did you get this?”
That day, one of Kirli Trading Company’s foremen, a man called “Jed the Apothecary,” was confronted by a pair of strange women.
The Kirli Trading Company, which controls 70% of the food, liquor, and other necessities of life in the desert town of Cutlass, has various divisions, but the “apothecary,” of which Jed is the head, buys materials collected by adventurers from the Hogloss Trading Company, processes them into medicines, and then sells them to adventurers and wealthy residents.
Then, Jed heard a strange rumor. It was then that a pair of young women he had never seen before came to him selling potions.
Basically, “medicine shops” buy materials, but not medicines. If the medicines were still usable, they would sell them to the poor residents at a high price, instead of offering them to the public.
However, these young women left what they considered to be lower-grade potions free of charge.
Although they were of a lower grade, these potions could restore a person’s weakened strength, close wounds, and heal shallow wounds in a few days without leaving any scars. Not only that, but unless it was special, even illnesses could be cured after only a few days of sleep.
In this world, where the greater the magic power, the less likely one is to get sick or injured, recovery potions were the most familiar medicine.
However, even at the lower levels, a potion would cost a silver coin. Especially in this desert town, it is a luxury item that costs three silver coins.
This is because the ingredients are scarce. If it were a country or region with a lot of nature, there would be no problem, but only monsters are living in this desert, and it would not be easy to collect them.
Alchemists who could create potions were also rare. It was not because there were few alchemists, but because it was safer and cheaper to work in a normal country than to work in an illegal town in a desert like this.
There would be no alchemists who work privately in this town. The only alchemists who came to this town were those with no real skills, second-rate alchemists, and alchemists with a bad background.
Even second-rate alchemists who could only make such low-grade potions were rare, and naturally, the products they produced were not distributed to low-rank adventurers and the poor.
Therefore, most of the potions available in town were imported by Kirli Trading Company from the Khalfaan Empire and other countries, and many of them had deteriorated due to the month-long journey and the desert climate. But the lower-grade potions left behind by these young women showed no deterioration whatsoever.
“Where, you say… are you trying a merchant who divulged their suppliers?”
“Haha, that’s a sore spot to hit.”
The reception room of a chemist. At the words of the woman sitting on the couch, Jed, also a merchant, smacks his balding forehead and laughs in amusement.
The potion on the table was an advanced potion.
The amount and speed of recovery of the advanced potion is comparable to that of level 3 Light Magic. However, the imported and deteriorated potion was 30% less effective, and was still sold in this town for five small gold coins, which was several times the regular price.
Yet, the advanced potion that the women brought for the first time had not deteriorated in the slightest, as if it had just been made.
The effects of the potion had already been tested on a lowly worker who was dying of a severe sunburn from a sample of the potion.
If it was a lower-grade potion, one could get in this town without deterioration, but in this desert, where even materials are supposed to be hard to come by, how did they get an advanced potion that had not deteriorated?
(…And they look so young.)
Jed’s gaze sharpens slightly as he looks at the young woman in front of him.
The woman was a white-skinned Mercenian, a rarity in this town. There were a few of them, but young and good-looking women like her were rare, even in the Liezan organization, which was responsible for entertainment affairs.
At first, she wore a hood over her head, but Jed was surprised when she showed her true face at the business meeting. She had pale blonde hair and blue eyes, like a noblewoman. She looked about 15 years old, the age of a commoner, but if she had high magic power, she might even be a little younger.
It was hard to believe that a girl who still looked so young could be a high-level alchemist. She could not possibly be a high-level alchemist, since she did not have the materials to make it in the first place.
There must be “some” secret.
Was she using Magic to import the ingredients while keeping them fresh? Or was there a way to cross the desert without degrading the potion? Or was it Magic itself that kept the potions fresh?
There must be a secret. How do I “steal” it?
“!!!”
Jed choked at the sudden pressure he felt.
Jed, the head of the Kirli Trading Company, one of the four major factions in this town, was having a quiet business meeting with this little girl because of the presence of her “companion”.
In addition to the blonde girl, there was another woman standing behind her, probably her escort, with her hood pulled back over her eyes, always keeping a watchful eye on her surroundings with a threatening air.
Jed was another resident of this town. He had killed people, taken other people’s property, trampled on their dignity, and put them in a hell worse than death more times than he could count.
But Jed felt that the one woman was “different”.
The residents of this town would not hesitate to kill a person. Because they knew that if they did not take it from others, it would be taken from them. That was why they would even sell their dignity to save their own lives.
Jed looked at them at first glance and thought.
If he messed with these people, he would be in trouble.
Jed’s bodyguards were here as well. Even the youngest children in this town knew that if they messed with the head of the Kirli Trading Company, they would be killed, along with their family and friends.
But even so, Jed still had a premonition of his own imminent death if he attempted something.
“…Then let’s get back to our business. How about six small gold coins for each of these if you deliver them regularly?”
“Well…that’s fine. I would be happy to continue our good relationship.”
“Yes, of course…”
The girls brought a total of five advanced potions. After receiving a total of three large gold coins, the girls left the Kirli Trading Company.
The high-grade potions brought in by the traders were worth only two small gold coins. Even if the potions were fresh and sold for more than one large gold coin, six small gold coins would be a bargain.
The price was not expensive considering the profit to be gained from the girls.
The room was filled with the sweet aroma of boiled tea with lots of sugar, which was left on the table untouched.
“…Don’t underestimate the Kirli Trading Company, you little girls.”
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