"I Became a Witch, but Now Everyone's in Love with Me!"

Chapter 31: Shi Lan — I'm Waiting for You, the Bad Girl, to Fall
Witches are a species exceptionally good at making things happen. This ability doesn’t just show in everyday life—it’s also perfectly embodied in their products.

Take, for example, a multifunctional “fun egg” crafted from top-tier materials. It features dual ice-and-fire settings, enchanted vibration magic, and more. Seven types of magic engraved onto something the size of a pigeon egg, using micro-carving enchantment—this level of precision is something only a master enchanter can pull off. And the egg itself has been transformed through alchemy into a jade-smooth, virtually indestructible object.
It can even be charged and discharged like a magical device.
Any girl would be stunned at the sight of this thing, right?

Is this “fun egg” useful? Not really.
It’s basically a waste of ninth-grade Fire Dragon Horn and eighth-grade Black Ice Stone. Still, you can’t deny that the alchemy and enchantment techniques used on it are pure art.
The egg manages to fuse materials with opposing properties while allowing perfect temperature control and attribute conversion.
You have to admit: when witches take something seriously, their imagination knows no bounds.
There are countless such items sold at the flea market.

And the second test for the Alchemy Society is...
“So... nipple covers? Really?”
The girl looked at Shi Lan with blank eyes, speechless for a moment.

“Ahem. This is our Alchemy Society’s flagship product. It's a fully transparent Band-Aid—comfortable, breathable, and even has light repair effects.”
“But it’s still a nipple cover, isn’t it?”
How did Jiang Cha recognize it as a nipple cover? Or more importantly, one with hidden features?

Because Lina uses them.
The golden-haired loli didn’t need a bra and hated sports bras. She usually just wore two of these “transparent Band-Aids” on her chest.
—In fact, since most witches can heal themselves with magic, the main use of this “Band-Aid” is exactly what you think.

It’s comfy, durable, breathable, and even self-cleaning. You can cool your body while wearing it, and when you want to remove it, just cut off the mana supply—it peels right off.
“A product is a product. Why should it matter how people use it? If you make a cucumber-shaped model and someone uses it for... other things, are you going to stop producing cucumbers?”
Shi Lan blushed as she tried to justify herself, voice firm but shaky.

Jiang Cha: I’ll just quietly let you talk.
It’s one thing if people use cucumbers that way—but your Band-Aid has gone through several updates and now looks more like a nipple cover than ever. That's definitely on you.
“Are you doing it or not?”
“Sure. A product that sells is a good product.”

Jiang Cha shrugged. Just as the flustered Shi Lan was about to escape in relief, Jiang Cha grinned mischievously and asked, “Senior Shi Lan, are you... wearing them right now?”
Her eyes darted toward Shi Lan’s chest.
Fully transparent nipple covers?
Just imagining it felt scandalous.

“No!!!”
Leaving behind a yell, Shi Lan fled the alchemy room like she was escaping a fire.
Jiang Cha just shrugged and turned back to examine the product formula.

“The principle’s simple, and technically not hard to copy. The real value is in production cost and distribution.”
This test obviously didn’t use a secret or proprietary formula. The Band-Aid was basic enough that Jiang Cha grasped most of it after one read.
Other alchemists could replicate it easily. What made the Alchemy Society’s version profitable was their in-house raw material supply, which brought production costs way down.

Buying materials on the open market would cost more than just buying the finished product. So, even if the formula leaked, it wasn’t a threat.
“Slime, ice grass, healing cells... all standard stuff.”
Alchemy isn’t particularly hard or easy. No matter how complicated the final product, the basic principle is the same:

Use magic to alter material properties, fuse different magics within components, and stabilize them into a magical core.
Simple in theory.
But applying that to real-world production creates endless problems:
How to prep the materials?
How to fuse properties without conflict?
How to stabilize the resulting magic?

Solving these is the true work of an alchemist.
The formula Shi Lan gave only listed ingredients—not amounts, prep instructions, or fusion methods.
For industrial-grade alchemical products, three things matter most:

Materials must be easily sourced and mass-produced.
The process must be simple and easy to replicate.
The end product must be stable in bulk production.

Following that logic, Jiang Cha quickly worked out her approach.
“To get transparent, skin-fitting slime, I’ll need gelation magic, not transformation-type solidification.”
“As for the ice grass... the usual refining method wastes material. Let’s stew it instead using the Meister technique—lower purity, but faster and easier.”

“Healing cells... spores are risky. Allergies. I’ll just extract the healing magic directly. It's okay if the effect is a bit weaker. It’s a nipple patch, not a potion.”
As she refined her ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) ideas, her hands moved quickly.
She threw the slime into a blender, injected it with magic, and turned it into a translucent gel.
She stewed the ice grass with dissolving liquid while carefully extracting its unique magic.
Then came the healing cells—meaty, pink blobs. Like the ice grass, she stewed them until their magic essence was released.

She filtered both mixtures, then blended them in a 4:3 ratio. Stirring with a glass rod, she slowly poured the mixture onto the gel.
With guided magic, the once-clear gel took on a faint blue-green tint.
Finally, she removed the sheet of gel, inscribed it with vacuum enchantments to unify its mana field, and ran it through a cutting machine.

Just like that, five hundred alchemical Band-Aids were produced.
“Senior, I’m done~”
She placed one on a plate and handed it to Shi Lan, who was waiting just outside.

Shi Lan fidgeted, tapping her toe and glancing in with a nervous look.
The product wasn’t hard to make.
What worried Jiang Cha was whether her process matched the Alchemy Society’s standards.
“How many did you make? How much material did you use? Judging by how long it took, it looks like you nailed it on the first try?”

Shi Lan examined the Band-Aid and could already sense the magic within. She just needed confirmation.
“Five hundred sheets. Four to three ratio. About one kilogram of materials. First try.”
“Then congratulations, Junior Jiang Cha. Welcome to the Alchemy Society.”

Shi Lan smiled and said it softly.
“Thanks, Senior~ So... what are we going to do with these 500 Band-Aids? Will you let me know your experience using them? I’ve never worn a nip—Band-Aid before.”
“I told you to stop bringing that up!!”

“Hehe~”
...
“Each new member gets a monthly material quota worth 100 gold coins. It rolls over if unused. Consider it a training subsidy.”

“If you want more, you can produce items for the club to sell. We offer discounted materials—cheaper the more common they are. I’ll send you the price list.”
Shi Lan, still blushing faintly, explained everything carefully.
She kept glancing at the girl walking behind her—Jiang Cha was oddly well-behaved now, looking around curiously.

Shi Lan sighed inwardly.
The Alchemy Society wasn’t like the Battle Club. There weren’t many chaos gremlins here. Most members were introverts—and someone like her was considered a “social butterfly.”
Would bringing Jiang Cha in cause problems?

“This is your alchemy room. Your commuter card’s already authorized—you can come and go as you please.”
“Oh, and don’t run dangerous experiments in here. If you break something, you’ll have to pay for it.”
“If you want to appraise a new product, just go to the front desk—”

Seeing Jiang Cha’s puzzled look, Shi Lan added, “Xingzi blew something up yesterday, so the president put her on front desk duty. Usually, it's me and two other seniors taking turns.”
No wonder Shi Lan seemed so familiar with everything—she was basically in charge.
Jiang Cha nodded, then pouted with feigned innocence. “I thought you were being so sweet because I’m cute?”

“I suggest you—ugh, whatever.”
Shi Lan opened her mouth to argue, then gave up.
After just this brief time together, she already had a good idea of Jiang Cha’s personality.

She only hoped that when the girl finally stepped in it, she wouldn’t get dragged down with her.
Sure, introverted girls are easy to tease, but if one gets emotionally attached and then betrayed... it only takes a few minutes to snap.
Witches, in general, don’t have the most stable mental states.

“You know that, right?”
Jiang Cha tapped her lips playfully and nodded.
Of course she knew teasing people might backfire—but teasing Shi Lan was just too fun.

Just like her playful rivalry with More, both of them knew what they were doing. Neither would ever fall for the other.
Solid and safe.
“...Oh.”

Watching that confident expression, Shi Lan just chuckled softly and said nothing.
Witches are all at least a little SP.
With Jiang Cha’s looks alone, she’d attract admirers even without trying—let alone when she was constantly playing with fire.