Magic Tools Are Selling Too Well

The manufacturing of the antidote could barely be finished by staying up all night on the weekend.
As a result, I had taken a day off on Monday when I was supposed to work as a student assistant.

The name of this magic tool was [Special Antidote].

The way magic tool names are determined is unique.
If a magic tool of the same kind has ever been created in the world, even if I developed the manufacturing method myself, it’s classified as the same magic tool.
It means that once you make it, the name is determined automatically.

Then how is the name of a completely new magic tool that has never existed in the world determined?
It’s simple.
The first creator can directly name the magic tool.

[Please set the name of the magic tool]

Just like the sentence “You have been selected as a hero” appears when first selected as a hero, this kind of sentence appears when you make a magic tool for the first time.

This doesn’t only apply to alchemists.
Magicians born with the hero talent for combat magic also see a similar sentence when they create a new magic, and heroes born with blacksmith talent can also set names when they create armor or weapons that never existed before.

‘This antidote seems to be the first one I’ve made…’

However, in the case of [Special Antidote], the story is slightly different.
Because there are too many types of special poisons that can’t be treated with general antidotes to number them, even if you make it for the first time, they are all named [Special Antidote].

I’m not sure about the exact criteria for this.
Such questions about the ‘hero system’ were receiving a lot of attention from continental scholars and were being actively researched.

“You’re here, Senior.”

After catching up on sleep that I had missed by staying up all night until the afternoon, when I came to work at the alchemy shop, Delia was waiting for me.

When I gave the completed antidote to Morphine in the morning, he skipped all his Monday classes and went home.
I knew Delia had gone with him, probably curious about the results.

“Did you visit Morphine’s mother? You came back earlier than I thought.”
“I was just going to see the results. Fortunately, she woke up 2 hours after taking the antidote. We’ll have to keep watching, but I think she might have fully recovered at this rate.”
“That’s a relief… Really a relief.”

I’m glad she overcame it well.
Although I didn’t show it much outwardly, I was inwardly relieved.

Even though I had boasted to my juniors, the truth is there was some anxiety.
You can’t ignore the possibility of ‘what if’, and variables in the reaction between antidotes and the human body can occur at any time.

But contrary to the worry, Morphine’s mother had completed the treatment well.
In just 2 hours, such a short time.
It was a moment when 2 years of battling illness disappeared as if it were a lie.

“Morphine says he’s sorry he couldn’t thank you today. He said he needs to be with his mother today… He says he’ll definitely come to thank you tomorrow.”
“Of course. It must be a moment he’s been dreaming of for 2 years. And I’m sick of thanks now. I’ve received so many thanks from that guy, I feel like calluses are going to form on my ears.”

Delia burst out laughing.

Her face was much brighter than usual.

The girl who had a gloomy face asking why I was helping Morphine was no longer visible.
Maybe she felt something from this incident too.
Whatever it was, it was clearly a positive change.

“Senior… you really are amazing.”

Delia said with a bright smile.

Following Morphine’s “Thank you”, now it’s Delia’s “Senior is amazing”.
I’ve heard this so many times that I’m not even embarrassed anymore.
And… for this incident, I want to praise myself too.

I smiled lightly and put a cigarette in my mouth.

“I told you not to believe your dad too much.”
“This is my own thought.”
“You’re not even stuttering anymore.”

I opened the evening door of the alchemy shop while bickering with her.

A more rewarding day than any other was pleasantly coming to an end.

Three days after making the antidote.

I was sitting like a corpse in the lecture room of a liberal arts course I take with my friends.

“Sleepy.”
“Again?”

Shunika, sitting next to me, looked at me with a fed-up expression.

But I feel wronged.
This time I’m really sleepy, I swear.

“I stayed up late making a new product yesterday. I need sleep right now.”

As if I had suddenly realized the truth, I put my bag on the desk.
Then I turned my head to the left and lay down comfortably.
Hmm. This is the life.

Then what greeted me was Ruen with a look of contempt.

“Lazy Sacher.”
“No, I really couldn’t sleep because I was making a new product! I feel wronged.”

She was definitely a quiet and nice kid when we first met, but the kid changed at some point.

I felt upset, but I didn’t want to react to Ruen’s provocation and get up.
The bag placed on the desk was too comfortable for that.

“Sacher, Sacher. So what’s the new product? Is it a combat magic tool like Exstone again?”

Shunika asked while pounding on my shoulder.

Shunika has been interested in my alchemy and magic tools since before, probably because she’s in the Swordsmanship Department.

When you finish graduating from the academy and get officially recognized as a hero, most heroes form parties matching combinations when they go out to hunt monsters.
And heroes who graduated from the Swordsmanship Department usually took the position of standing at the forefront in those parties.
As a result, they got injured a lot, so they used a lot of potions and many magic tools that could be used impromptu.
In a way, the department with the closest relationship to the Alchemy Department was the Swordsmanship Department.

That’s right.
They were the so-called money line for alchemists.

I turned my head to look at Shunika next to me.
Before I could answer, her hair length caught my eye first.

“Cut your hair, Shunika.”

Her trademark bob cut was gradually getting awkwardly longer.

Shunika replied with an upset expression at my words.

“Ah, why! I want to have long hair like Ruen and get waves too!”
“What would you do with that? A bob cut suits you.”
“I want to do the hair twirling thing!”

Hair twirling.
It was like a habit that Ruen often did when she was lost in thought.
Because of her wavy hair that came down to her shoulders, even with such a habit, her hair doesn’t easily get messy.

I let out a groan like “Urgh-” and forced myself to get up.
It was to properly check the hair lengths of both Ruen and Shunika.

But my eyes naturally went to their upper bodies.
This was not my intention, but a natural phenomenon of my body.

And after looking at both of them alternately, I gave a thumbs up to Shunika and said.

“It’s okay, Shunika. You have something Ruen doesn’t ha– Ow!”

Before I could finish throwing the joke, a tearing pain came to my head first.

I’ve felt wronged about many things today, but this is really unfair.
I got hit before I could even finish speaking.
It felt like I was getting hit at a speed where I would get hit even if I didn’t say anything.

Did she already know what I was going to say?

I looked at Ruen while holding my head.
She was pretending to read a book as if nothing had happened, after blatantly committing violence with the lecture textbook.

“…Pervert Sacher.”
“Wow… It really hurts like hell. The worst pain I’ve ever felt.”
“Damn, stop joking around! So what’s the new product?”

I took out a vial and a small statuette from my magic bag while holding my head.
Then I handed them to the pestering Shunika.

“Read it.”

They were magic tools that I had already had appraised.

[Intermediate Mana Potion]
-Type: Potion
-Creator: Sacher Philip
-An intermediate mana potion that quickly restores consumed mana. The effect is very good.

[Safe Cage]
-Type: Special
-Creator: Sacher Philip
-A statuette that creates and raises solid walls made of earth. The walls rise in a circle around the caster, and the effect can be seen by injecting a little mana and throwing it on the ground.

“Oh! Sacher, you know how to make intermediate potions too? You really are a genius!”
“The statuette is the new product, not the potion.”
“Safe Cage? It’s a magic tool I’ve never seen before.”
“Of course you’ve never seen it. Because I created it for the first time, independently.”

A completely new magic tool that didn’t exist before.
A magic tool that never existed in the world, which I even named myself.

[Safe Cage] was a magic tool whose first creator was ‘Sacher Philip’.

It wasn’t the first time I had created a new magic tool that didn’t exist before, but it was the first time I made one for the purpose of selling.
How this magic tool would be received, and how well it would sell.
Naturally, I couldn’t help but be excited too.

So my voice was a bit excited as I explained to Shunika.

“This is, you know. A magic tool for the Magic Department.”

I said discreetly while lowering my head slightly.

At the keyword Magic Department, I felt even Ruen, who was pretending to read a book, glancing at me.
Because it was about her major.

“Magic Department?”
“Yeah. When magicians run out of mana, they usually eat potions or recover naturally, right? And in those situations, they’re mostly defenseless. This magic tool plays a role in defending against that as much as possible.”

Shunika’s eyes widened and she clapped her hands as if she understood.

“Ah! To buy time?”
“That’s right. You mark the approaching enemies with this statuette, and during that time you drink the mana potion. That’s why I’m selling these two as a set. How about it? Isn’t it a good strategy?”
“Oh~ Sacher has completely become a merchant~”

Of course, this [Safe Cage] wasn’t an almighty magic tool.

It had the drawback that a knight above a certain level could break through if they set their mind to it, and it might not be very useful because magicians, who are usually positioned at the rear, aren’t often exposed to targeted attacks.
Moreover, because the material cost was too expensive, it was burdensome to sell in large quantities.

Nevertheless, this magic tool was sure to be popular.

The first reason was that it was a completely first-of-its-kind magic tool that had never been seen before, and the second reason was that my reputation at the academy was already known by word of mouth, so the reliability was high.
Since taking over the alchemy shop, I had been selling magic tools for a month, but there hadn’t been a case where my items weren’t sold out yet.

I ended up grinning, feeling like the new product was already sold out even though I hadn’t even started selling it yet.

“Another foolish expression.”

This time, I acknowledged Ruen’s nagging.