Parallel World Pharmacy Vol 2 Chapter 10

 “Master Palle will return home the day after tomorrow. The Head Chef had informed me!”

 “Eh!? Brother is coming back!?”

 “It’s been almost a year already. He has been busy with studying and training.”

 Um, I should ask the Head Chef. And Lotte was smiling from ear to ear. She decided to be hungry tomorrow and was enthusiastic. However, the Head Chef will heartily feed me bread before the feast, because I will be hungry at that time, as Lotte became cautious.

 Falma felt pleasant talking back to Lotte.

 “Is that so?”

 “Master Palle had inherited our Lord’s excellent Water Divine Art and used it to train hard Master Falma. Lady Blanche too.”

 She spoke about the terrifying matter, saying that Palle had beaten them viciously without holding back and that Bruno scolded him saying “You went too far”.

 “Master Palle said it was a whip of love. However, Master Falma’s and Lady Blanche’s Divine Art had tremendously improved all thanks to Master Palle.”

 Falma wanted to be spared from suffering, but escape was futile; according to the information from Lotte, Palle would chase him to the ends of the earth if he tried. By the way, it was said that Falma had received broken bones when Palle was at his worst.

 “Both of them are teaching you. Ah, while Master Palle and Lady Eléonore are childhood friends, they are also eternal rivals. Please be careful not to talk about it while both are present if you can.”

 “Thank you for your valuable information, Lotte.”

 “Come to think of it, my body is getting dull.”

 Unfortunately his wand broke right in half during his practice.

 The next day, Ellen heard the story in the pharmacy and yelled in a loud voice.

 If you do not have a wand, your elder brother will beat you half-dead, was how Lotte threatened Falma, so he was in a hurry to procure one by the end of the day.

 The wand was primarily used for medical care, with little focus on actual combat use. The structure of the apparatus was delicate, to the point that it wasn’t able to handle Falma’s divine power. And so Ellen came to the conclusion that, the Imperial Capital didn’t have a divine wand that was suitable for him.

 Certainly, Ellen always carries around a big divine wand which can be used for both medical and combat purposes. It was constructed to be folded so it would be easier for her to carry.

 Divine wand is for creating Divine Art by transmitting divine power and invoking divine skill, if you can use Divine Art without restriction, it is not neccessary, explained Ellen.

 “If you want it so much, why don’t you look at the divine wand shop that made Her Majesty’s wand? But I think it’s very expensive.”

 “You’re awfully in a rush, it’s not a good thing to choose a divine wand in a hurry. You should mull over it for quite a while over several shops.”

 The Head Priest of the Guardian Church interjected as he was listening at the corner of the pharmacy. Every time the Head Priest was on break of his duties in the Church, he would come to the pharmacy almost every day. And, for some reason, offer a prayer (probably to Falma), buy a medicine and drank the free water. Although he was a respectable customer because he buys medicine, both Ellen and Falma cannot help but feel that his main purpose coming here every day was to offer his daily prayers.

 “Ah, yes. Please stop addressing me that way.”

 “I have called upon a treasure worthy for the Medicine God in our Church. I shall bring it immediately.”

 “You are going to lend it to me? I’m afraid I might break it. It might also be stolen because it’s very expensive.”

 “I can’t use it then.”

 “Ha ha ha, that will never happen. You’re just joking. I will certainly be pleased if you use the Divine Medical Wand.”

 On that same day, the Head Priest took along 20 Guardian Priest and rode a carriage to the pharmacy. The Head Priest was quick on what he said. It seems it really was a treasure, the number of guards and level of security was on a whole different level. The patients were in an uproar over that thing.

 The Divine Medical Wand was as tall as an adult person, it was made of bluish crystal material, there were beautiful decorations, and there were several clear crystals in the part of the handle.

 Ellen leaked a sigh as she looked at the expensive jewels.

 According to what Falma had heard, the crystal gems stored divine power, making it convenient when applying boost. You could call it something like a divine power battery. It seems that the bigger and more clear the gems that were attached, the more powerful the Divine Art that could be invoked. That being said, the gem was almost entirely transparent.

 Wand enthusiast Ellen was being immature and jealous. Because she devoted herself to collecting rare wands, it was a given that she’d be envious. Right now, the one she was carrying to use everyday was a long wand which had two blue crystal gems, but the size of the gems were quite small.

 “OOOh, it is as I had expected. That wand is rightfully yours my Lord.”

 “Would you like to hold it too, Ellen?”

 When Falma gently gave the wand to Ellen’s willing hands, the wand lost its glow, slipped through Ellen’s hands and and fell on the floor with a thud.

 Falma and Ellen raised their voice at the same time. Ellen was taken aback in surprise that her glasses dropped on the floor.

 The Head Priest laughed with relish. He said that wand was not something of this world. It seemed that the wand can be retracted from as tall as an adult, down to a dozen centimeters.

 While looking at Falma picking up the wand uncomfortably, Ellen nodded suggestively. But the Head Priest saw Falma as eager to touch the wand.

 “Holy Father. Perhaps this wand has the power of levitation?”

 “Yes, It should be able to give you the ability to fly if you applied strong divine power. It was written on the ancient texts, everyone tried but no one has accomplished the feat yet.”

 “How can a wand fly? I never heard such a thing.”

 “I guess there was no precedent since there was no human who can pour out that much divine power.”

 When Cedric pointed out the unfortunate event, Ellen screamed with a “Kyaaー” as expected. It seemed that Ellen would drop her glasses every time she lost focus. If the temple of the glasses was firmly secured over her ears, it wouldn’t fall off so easily, Falma thought. Even so,

 Travelling using a horse takes time.

 Ellen was seriously worried about that.

 “Thank you for this wonderful gift, Holy Father.”

 The Head Priest excitedly spoke about it.

 Eeh!?, both Ellen and Cedric was in awe. Even those two were unaware of its existence..

 “Huh, it does sound like an ID card.”

 “But if I went marching to the Church headquarters, wouldn’t I just get killed?”

 “If it is known that the Medicine God lives in your body, there is a possibility that the Great Church will worship you.”

 Falma unintentionally showed his disgust.

 “I will order my subordinate, who is an engineer in the Great Church, to make an exact replica of the great treasure, so you will definitely see it at least once, I want you to read the characters.”

 The next day. Accompanied by three servants, the brother of Falma, Palle, came home triumphantly after a long journey riding a warhorse. A boy with long silver-hair and blue eyes, but unlike Falma, his lean toned body gave off an intrepid atmosphere.

 Bruno concealed from Palle the fact that Falma became independent with the Empress personal approval as a Royal Court Apothecary and founded a Royal Chartered pharmacy, until Palle graduated from Nova Root Medical University and earned his qualification as a Royal Court Apothecary.

 Palle, who was oblivious to everything, came to Falma’s room acting all arrogant as the big brother.

 “It has been a long time, dear brother.”

 “All right! I’m going to toughen you up until dinnertime! Have you gotten a little more bite to ya?!”

 There was torrential rain with roaring thunder outside. Falma wouldn’t catch a cold, but his brother definitely would. This was because his big brother had a bit of nasal voice.

 So the older brother was a hot-blooded man, or rather, a terrifying muscle-brain.

 At least I’m going to spare us from competing in this downpour.

 “Huh? The rain stopped. Well this is more appropriate anyway. Take out your wand, I’m going all the way.”

 “Don’t tell me you bought that glass wand that’s only good for decoration? It seems that you only focus on appearances. I will break that glass wand along with your will.”

 “Come on, Falma. Let me see your power!”

 “Water Play (Jeux d’eau)”

 Countless bullets of water attacked Falma while the bullets generated shock waves as it moved passed the speed of sound. Falma seemed to held back his power but he hopped lightly, avoided it, and sometimes striking back with the wand as he defended himself from the attack. Feeding divine power to the Divine Medical Wand made the opponent’s attacks look very slow.

 “Seems like you’re getting tougher. Great, I’m increasing the pace.”

 The divine skill that Ellen was struggling to use, was activated easily. The water that shot out of the wand became a water giant, its attacks trying to crush Falma.

 Falma also chanted a spell, the tornado absorbed the attack of the giant. The water just rose up unaffected as it won over the giant,

 Falma surrounded his brother with a water barrier. As soon as Palle’s movement was sealed, he created a water cannon inside the barrier and broke through with sheer force. This brother isn’t bad either.

 “Master Palle, Master Falma. It’s time for dinner.”

 “You’re… quite… good.”

 His face was blushing red and was running a high fever. It seemed he had caught on a cold from earnestly training while soaking wet. Although Falma treated his brother’s bruises on the spot, he thought that it was better to let the fever run without curing it.

 “Oho, it seems like it’s Master Falma’s victory this time.”

 “I don’t think I could say this is the end of it.”

 That day, Lotte ate freshly baked bread as part of the Head Chef’s strategy, she thought. She said “Great Feast” but her stomach wasn’t able to hold it all.

Chapter end