🔊 TTS Settings
PRLOUGE
The kingdom’s capital. 36 Maple Street.
Jingle.
“Lady Riche?”
“…You’re here again?”
To the customer who opened the shop door and walked in, I gave a very unfriendly greeting.
I beat them to the punch before the customer could even reply.
“It’s going to take a long time. It’s really going to take a long time this time. So you’d better just go to the shop next door.”
“My goodness… how long could it possibly take?”
“…….”
It looked like it would take about ten minutes.
I glanced sideways.
Ian, who was slicing dandelions, was shaking his head with an earnest expression. His mouth was mouthing the words, “Thirty minutes.”
Thirty minutes just to make a single potion.
An astonishingly long amount of time.
However—
‘No. With this customer, thirty minutes doesn’t feel like it’s going to make them go away.’
I really can’t work anymore today. I need to chase them away, even if I have to exaggerate.
With a hardened heart, I said,
“It takes an hour.”
“It takes a whole hour?!”
“Yes, so please, this time, go to the shop next door…….”
“The shop next door said it would take a week.”
“…….”
“Heh, heh, heh.”
“…….”
“I’m counting on you, Lady Riche.”
The old woman patted my shoulder and walked out smiling.
“What did she say?”
“She says it only takes an hour.”
“Goodness, it only takes that long?”
“I guess I can go home, eat some bread, and take a stroll around.”
“That’s just perfect!”
I could hear the neighborhood people chatting outside.
“…….”
“…….”
Ian, with a hollow and haggard look on his face, raised his head to stare at the ceiling. I stared at the ceiling too.
Even while that was happening, our hands never stopped working.
“Just… why…?”
I couldn’t help but cry out.
“Just why is business doing so well, aaaaaah!”
Why is everyone so eager to throw money at me? Why are all the customers in town so obsessed with me?!
“And why on earth can’t I just half-ass things and why am I trying so hard, aaaaaah!“
Why on earth am I doing this here?
The detailed story dates back a few months…
