Parallel World Pharmacy Vol 4 Chapter 8.1

Published at 22nd of August 2022 02:48:22 PM

Different World Pharmacy Volume 4 Chapter 8 part 1

Volume 4 – Chapter 8: Turn abundant water into clean water

T/L: IonMan

T/L Notes: Please be aware that I’ll be using present tense to minimize confusion. There have been too many inter-mixing of past and present tenses that made the reading not only annoying, but very difficult to comprehend the moment-by-moment timeline. Unless there’s a flashback, which I will flag, everything will be focused in the presence.

The translation will be a closely one-to-one translation to the author’s style of writing to deliver Rika Takayama’s narrative intentions. She is very creative and spent a great deal of time performing her research for this novel. However, there are quite a bit of lacking backstories and descriptors to enhance her Sci-Fi + medical genres story. I will modify the phrases to ensure Japanese-to-English for easy reading and add my own knowledge into the mix.

Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n8541cr/54/

“This is only a symptomatic treatment.” 

Falma begins the infusion to rehydrate the patient’s (T/N: the female infant discovered by Palle) dehydration. Falma provides the patient with a simple oral rehydration solution. It has been reported that this oral rehydration solution should not be taken in severe cases, Falma judges that the stool has not completely exhausted (in moisture), and therefore the oral rehydration solution method is given in order to get the virus out of the body.

“Is there really only symptomatic treatment? Can’t you do something about it?”

Ellen asks frustratingly. She wonders if there is any way to increase the probability of survival? Failure is not an option … she screams (inside herself).

“Oh…it depends entirely on her strength and luck. There is no medicine to deal with this virus.”

Falma has no further explanation. Further treatment is difficult.

“Be careful not to allow it to infect us either. This virus is very infectious, Ellen, but my brother (Palle) must be especially careful. If the nursing person got infected, the infection passes from mother to child.”

“The infection route was fecal-oral infection.”

In other words, the infection comes from contaminated food that contains the patient’s excrement when it enters through the mouth. In addition, rotavirus is extremely infectious, and even if only a few viruses enter orally, the infection can be transmitted. Great care must be taken to prevent the infected source of excrement  from transmitting to the next person. Falma pharmacy (T/N: it’s deemed as the “sanctuary” by the Great Church) is resistant to airborne infections (T/N: because of Falma’s purification power), but relatively less effective against oral infections.

“Because it is resistant against alcohol, alcohol disinfection does not work.”

“Oh, is that right?”

Ellen is surprised to know that alcohol is a versatile disinfectant.

“Ellen. Grab the bottle of sodium hypochlorite from the laboratory on the fourth floor. I’ll make a disinfectant.”

“Okay, I’ll better wipe all the places Palle touched.”

“Thank you so much. My brother tells Lotte to change the diapers and bring along this child’s clothes.”

“Oh, leave it to me.”

Falma uses a proper excuse to drive them out of the quarantine room, and uses his Medicine God’s staff to apply [Relief of the Origin]. He doesn’t  want many to witness the magical techniques peculiar to this Medicine God’s staff.

“Do your best……”

This will allow her to regain her strength. Upon using the examination with the [Diagnosis Eye], the light turns more bluish purple. The infant’s condition is improving. After the temporary treatment has been completed and the disinfection performed, Falma discusses with the staff.

“Thank you for helping me. I’m staying here tonight. I’ll be staying because I don’t want my brother to get infected.”

Falma offers to stay at the pharmacy for nursing. Of the three, only Falma is not infected, so he volunteers as a nurse.

“Will the infection spread if I take her back to the mansion…what I can do?”

Palle regrets the situation as he was the one who picked up this abandoned infant.

“It’s okay and leave it to me. Both of you, go home.”

Ellen turns around, with the back of her hair swaying, and leaves the quarantine room and Palle with his wig. (T/N: author simply indicate she shows the back of her hair, so I emphasise the hair “swaying” part as the author’s intention of a pun)

After they leave, Falma is thinking about another treatment. He thinks about the opening of the infant’s divine vein. So Falma gently inserts the tip of the Medicine God’s staff into the infant’s heart, just like how he did with Salomon (T/N: Solomon’s divine vein was sealed by the Great Church earlier). The baby is asleep and does not seem to be uncomfortable (from the staff piercing towards the heart). A pale light leaks from the tip of the staff. Then,

“I’ll help you, Falmkun”

Ellen, who should have left, returns and suddenly opens the quarantine room’s door., just as Falmawas stabs into the infant’s chest with the tip of the staff.

“Woah!”

Falma hurriedly pulled out the Medicine God’s staff.

“What were you trying to do with that child?”

No matter how one looks at it, it only looks like he was trying to do harm to the infant.

“No, I’m not doing anything wrong. This is a misunderstanding.”

“What are doing to a sick child? You’re trying to use the infant for an experiment for somekind of medicine!?”

Ellen pulls out her staff, perhaps assuming the worst.

“Do you think I would do that?”

“I don’t think you’re going to do such thing, but what are you doing?”

“Okay, I’ll confess. I was trying to open the infant’s divine vein.”

“What the hell…?” Ellen utters a weak voice mutters.

“If the guardian god can’t judge the divine vein, the connection will not open. You can’t do it properly.”

“I think it’s already open.”

Chapter end