The Frontier Alchemist ~ I Can't Go Back to That Job After You Made My Budget Zero

"If you ask me, it's certainly ....... Not all of them. Loa, I'm surprised you noticed that," said Ary.

"I was taking them from the single person's tent," said Roa.

Apparently there is a tent for singles. It seems that many of the endemic patients Roa brought to us yesterday were living there.

I almost stand up when I finally find a clue. However, I suddenly feel a tugging at my heart.

Thinking back on their conversation, I absentmindedly turn the scroll of "transcription", which has been floating in the air, to the meal in front of me.

"Commence transcription.

"Rabbi Rust, what ......?" Ary and the others look at me.

"Shh. I found it!　Both of you, stop eating for once!"

I called out to them and started to read through the scroll seriously.

"It's only a trace, but it's still poison. It's definitely from the monster. It's from the nervous system, so it fits the symptoms. But I've seen this ingredient somewhere recently: ......"

I read through the scrolls with a single minded effort, muttering to myself. At the sight of my unusual behavior, Ary gets up from his seat and leaves. It seems that he is calling out to the people around us who are eating. Roa stops eating too, and is listening intently to me.

"There it is!　This is it. Yes, I knew I'd seen it somewhere. You see?　But then you'd have to go to ...... that?"

Just then Ary returns with a middle-aged woman.

"Rabbi Rust?　You found out something, didn't you?

"Yes. I think I've figured it out. And who are you?"

"I'm in charge here," said the middle-aged woman. She looked nervous.

I tell her my name and that I am investigating an endemic disease on Karin's orders.

In the meantime, I ask Roa to leave a message for Kalene.

The kitchen is checked in one way or another.

It seems to be just as I imagined. Based on this, I instruct the woman in charge of the kitchen what needs to be done immediately. Roa comes back.

"I'm fine, Miss Kalin," says Loa, who is as quiet as ever.

"Thank you, Loa. Oh, and please come back to Karin's place in an hour. I told the woman in charge, "I'll give you a summary of the situation," and I headed next to the singles' tent to get some proof.

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An hour later.

All the people involved were outside Kalin's tent.

"So, Rust. What do you mean the endemic disease is solved?" Kalin interrupted.

Yes, it was the poison," I put on a pair of purified gloves and put my hand into my backpack.

I take out a catfish-like monster that had been attacking the white lizard. I had brought it with me in case it could be used as an alchemical material.

He puts it down in front of everyone's eyes.

"This monster used to live in a pond in the upper reaches of a nearby river. The poison in its tentacles was the cause of the endemic disease.