Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters! Volume 5 (eBook)

Kaya (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-7826-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Straight to the capital! It's been a year since Sara traveled to Hydrangea, the hometown of her guardian Nelly. She's trained all that time at the Apothecary's Guild, and soon she'll be an apprentice no longer. That's when Nelly's father, Riot, suggests that she make a trip to the capital to introduce herself to the king. Nelly and Chris are along for the ride, with Nelly traveling to hunt migrating dragons and Chris tagging along to test a new drug he's developed as a dragon countermeasure. As luck would have it, Allen and Kuntz are coming too! However, there seems to be something strange about Allen... What trouble will they find waiting for them at their destination?

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Applause and cheers erupted throughout the guild and Sara’s mana elixir and spoon were passed around to all of the senior apothecaries. Some of them nodded and smiled, saying, “Mm-hmm, it’s perfect,” while others groaned in frustration, “That took me five years to do!” Still, everyone was happy, since like Caren had said, more people sharing the work meant less time to get it done and more time to do other things like research. Though Sara liked to think they were simply celebrating her success, of course.

She felt the tension leaving her shoulders.

“I would expect nothing less from Master Chris’s favorite student,” said Caren. “You know, Master Chris was acknowledged as a full-fledged apothecary at thirteen. He’d actually mastered everything at twelve, but the thickheaded guildmaster at the time wouldn’t acknowledge him until he was thirteen.”

“Is that right?”

It was Caren’s usual excited Master Chris talk, so Sara’s response was somewhat half-hearted, but she enjoyed getting to hear things about him that he probably didn’t remember himself. She was excited to go back to the mansion later and report her success to Nelly too.

“Well, that’s enough about Master Chris,” said Caren.

Sara decided not to comment that she was the one who’d brought him up in the first place.

“We’ve still got a decent stock of mana elixirs, so you’ll be in charge of producing them for us for a little while. Once you’re able to make them consistently, you’ll be officially recognized as an apothecary in Hydrangea.”

Another cheer went through the guildhall.

“Pretty lively in here, huh?”

“We’re back!”

Kuntz and Allen stuck their heads into the workspace in the back of the guildhall. Sara turned toward the front, realizing that it was already evening. Time flew when you were nervous.

“Welcome back!”

Sara had grown a bit in the last year, settling somewhere around the height she’d been before she’d reincarnated, but Allen had grown even more. Kuntz, who was already taller than Allen, still seemed to be growing too, so while the height difference between them hadn’t changed, Sara was having to look farther up at both of them, which she found a little frustrating.

It had been a year since the outbreak of seven-colored swallowtails as well, and though the adult forms of the monsters could be hunted, it was impossible to eliminate the eggs and cocoons completely, so there were still quite a few of them around, though not as many as at the height of the problem. Thus, there was still demand for antiparalytics, which meant there was demand for the ingredients to make them: white moonlight mushrooms.

Kuntz and Allen were able to go down pretty deep into the dungeon now, but they still dutifully gathered white moonlight mushrooms, so they were as popular as ever with the Apothecary’s Guild. But that wasn’t the only place they were popular. After coming in first in last year’s seven-colored swallowtail hunting contest, they were immediately thrust into the spotlight as talented young Hunters.

“Allen, what’s that you’ve got there?”

“Oh, this?” Allen lifted up his hand like he’d only just realized he was holding something and then tossed it into the storage pouch on his waist like it was completely unimportant. “Just a letter. They gave it to me right in front of the Apothecary’s Guild today, so I ended up just bringing it here.”

“Today?” That implied that he had gotten other letters.

“I get them too, you know. Most of my invitations are in person, though.” Kuntz put his arm around Allen’s shoulder and grinned.

Allen was fourteen like Sara, but Kuntz was sixteen, so maybe he was getting invitations from older groups who were more proactive. In any case, Sara was just curious what Allen had been holding, so she didn’t intend to pry into his personal affairs. She was pretty sure she’d managed to stop herself from smirking too.

“Oh yeah? You sure are popular.” She left it at that.

“Come on, you’re not gonna ask them any questions?” someone piped up from the crowd, but Sara ignored them.

Teenagers didn’t like people butting into their business, Sara recalled from her past life. Of course, she had been more concerned with simply surviving at the time, so she hadn’t exactly had a normal experience of puberty.

“Anyway, we heard cheering from outside, Sara. Does that mean...?” Allen asked her with stars in his eyes.

Sara stuck out her chest. “It sure does! I finally made a mana elixir!”

Allen and Kuntz broke into big grins. Sara preferred these honest expressions on them over the surly looks they wore when they were trying to show off their stuff as Hunters.

“You did it! Congrats!”

“You’re only fourteen, right? Exceptional as always.”

Sara was happy to receive Allen’s heartfelt congratulation and Kuntz’s somewhat sardonic praise.

“Though Master Chris became an apothecary at thirteen. I suppose it’s only natural, considering Sara is his apprentice.” Caren always had to bring up Chris, but Sara was still happy that she acknowledged her abilities.

“Well, we should celebrate! Of course, Nelly’s still down in the depths of the dungeon...”

“Yeah. She always stays for a week when she goes down there.”

She’d left just two days ago, so she wouldn’t be back for a while still. It was sad to think she wasn’t here when she was the one who’d be happiest to hear the news, but Sara was comforted by the fact that they each knew the other one was fine even when they were apart.

“Well, let’s celebrate twice, then! Just with us first and then with Nelly when she gets back.”

“Can we?!” Sara had been planning to wait until Nelly got back, so she leaped up in excitement at Allen’s unexpected suggestion.

“No, wait. Once with us, then again with the lord, and then a third time when Nelly gets back, right?”

“Kuntz...” Sara felt her eyes watering at the kindness of her friends.

“Oh? Well you know we’re going to celebrate here at the Guild as well, Sara. Once now, and again when your promotion is official,” said Caren.

The apothecaries all cheered.

“Thank you so much.” Sara was so touched that she couldn’t help bowing her head low.

One of the apothecaries gave her a curious look. “Oh, that’s a custom of the Invited, isn’t it? It’s the first time I’ve seen it.”

“Oh, I suppose so.”

Ever since the hunting contest last year, she’d stopped hiding the fact that she was one of the Invited, and thankfully she was able to get by without being treated differently by anyone else. Sara had really treasured this last year in Hydrangea.

“Oh, I think they’re already making dinner for me at home, though, so can we celebrate later?”

Here, “home” meant the mansion of Nelly’s father, the lord of Hydrangea, Riot. As his daughter, it was only natural for Nelly to stay there, but Chris and Sara had ended up taking advantage of his hospitality as well.

“Sure. Just let me walk you home since it’s been a while. We can buy some sweets or something on the way.”

“Okay!”

Sara was able to leave a little early that day, and she walked back home to the mansion in between Kuntz and Allen.

“Maybe Marcia’s cookies. Ri would like that.”

Of course, the chefs at the mansion were perfectly capable of baking delicious desserts, but Ri was just as fond of the simple, plain cookies Marcia sold at her store.

Sara had been calling him “Mr. Riot” last year to be polite until he’d told her, “You can call me ‘father,’ you know?”

Nelly had responded, “That’s a little shameless, isn’t it? It should be ‘grandfather.’”

After that savage exchange, she’d settled on calling him “Ri” like Chris and other people who were close to him did.

“The muffins sell out by noon, but she should still have some cookies left.”

She was familiar with Marcia’s shop since she and Nelly often stopped there when they went home together. Of course, they usually ate what they bought as soon as they bought it, so it was rare for any of it to actually make it back to Ri.

As they made their way to Marcia’s shop, the young girls of the town tittered and whispered about them, but this was a common occurrence as of late, so it had stopped bothering Sara.

“You two really are popular.”

“Guess so.”

Kuntz smiled smugly while Allen shrugged his shoulders, his expression neutral.

“Doesn’t really matter to me.”

“Yeah, yeah. You always gotta play it cool, Allen.” Kuntz jabbed Allen’s shoulder with his fist behind Sara’s back.

“I’m not playing it cool. I just know I’m a Hunter, so if I got together with someone and something happened to me, I’d just make them sad. I hate that.”

Sara was so startled she stopped walking. Not only had Allen lost his parents when he was young, he’d lost his uncle in a dungeon soon after. The pain Allen was describing, of being left behind, was something he’d experienced personally.

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters!
• Illustrationen: Kaya
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: camping and survival • female protagonist • found family • isekai light novel • lighthearted slow life • magic and monsters • money grind
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-7826-2 / 1718378262
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-7826-1 / 9781718378261