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"Why on earth isn't it working…"
After leaving the Clubroom, Asakura walked down the hallway, arms crossed, deep in thought: "The ingredients are all the same, so why can't I make Essence of Dittany with my own ingredients?"
Although Essence of Dittany wasn't a panacea, it had a wide range of applications, so being able to make it was naturally for the best. However, so far, Asakura had tried several times, and all of them had failed, turning into something resembling traditional Chinese medicine dregs.
"I don't quite understand, but from my perspective as an observer, Takuma-kun is simply 'boiling soup'."
Asagumo Chihaya asked from the side: "Were there successful examples before?"
By the way, Gokou Ruri had already left earlier to pick up her sister from school, and Yuigahama Yui had run off after shouting, 'Ah, I have cleaning duty today!' So now, only Asakura and Asagumo Chihaya remained.
"That previous bottle was my masterpiece."
Asakura replied.
The girl immediately recalled the scene from Asakura's hot spring trip where he instantly reattached his severed hand just by pouring a bottle of floral water on it.
Modern medicine clearly couldn't do such a thing; it could only be explained by Magic.
"Then it certainly has value in recreating it…"
She mused.
"Exactly."
Asakura sighed helplessly.
"Could it be related to Magic power? Since it's a Magic, shouldn't you add Magic power when brewing it?"
Asagumo Chihaya guessed.
"I don't think so."
Asakura recalled Miss Fix-It's Magic notes and confirmed that there was no mention of adding Magic power: "Besides, I didn't add Magic power the time I succeeded."
"Takuma-kun just said that the ingredients you're using to brew the Magic now are 'your' ingredients, right? That means the previous ingredients were prepared by someone else for you. Can you be sure the ingredients are truly identical?"
Asagumo Chihaya asked again.
Although he found her question surprisingly jumpy, Asakura still nodded: "They should be completely identical… Hmm?"
With her saying that, Asakura became uncertain.
The ingredients themselves were indeed identical, but the ingredients used to make the Magic before might not have been native to this world, but rather from another world… Well, mainly, they likely came from the world of "Harry Potter."
Perhaps in that world, the White Fresh itself was a plant that contained a bit of Magic power?
It might be precisely because that bit of Magic power was missing that the Magic he brewed ultimately turned into dregs.
Asakura glanced at Asagumo Chihaya walking beside him, her expression unchanged and very natural: Was her question so jumpy just to remind him of this point?
"As expected of Chihaya, it might really be this problem."
Asakura expressed his gratitude very directly: "So, do you want a hairpin, a doll, or a dessert shop voucher?"
"You're using the method I taught you to curry favor with me?"
Asagumo Chihaya looked at Asakura with a smile: "How about flowers?"
"Flowers?"
"It's just a joke, a simple thank you is enough, it's not like we're strangers."
"Then thank you! It's a pity I've used up all the materials I bought before, otherwise I'd really like to go back and try to see if I can succeed."
Asakura was eager to try.
However, considering that Magic needs to be injected, which is equivalent to adding a new step to the original process of brewing Magic, it would probably be very difficult to succeed at first.
Not only that, whether it is injecting Magic into the Magic potion, or into a certain material, or covering the crucible with Magic throughout the entire process… Considering the controlled variable method, Essence of Dittany alone would be enough for him to study for a long time.
"Speaking of which, about the ghost story investigation during the consecutive holidays that we just talked about, do you really not need me to go with you?"
Just as Asakura was immersed in how to improve the method of brewing Essence of Dittany, Asagumo Chihaya suddenly spoke.
She looked at Asakura somewhat cautiously, then quickly lowered her gaze: "That… although I don't have powerful Magic like Gokou, nor can I control Napoleon like Yuigahama Yui… but if it's just helping Takuma-kun check for omissions like this, I'm still somewhat confident…"
"If Gokou isn't here, you don't call her Senior anymore?"
Asakura didn't answer, but instead teased her.
"You're so mean, that's not what we should be talking about right now, is it?"
The girl said in an almost coquettish tone.
This child, indeed, is not the type who will listen to whatever he says, unlike Gokou Ruri and Yuigahama Yui.
Asakura judged in his heart.
"Chihaya, have you seen the information about Yamanokemono?"
So he decided to be clearer.
A look of disgust appeared on the girl's face.
It seemed she had seen it.
Yamanokemono is a new monster that specifically targets females, but poses little threat to males.
"Isn't that just a simple ghost story?"
Asagumo Chihaya frowned, her smooth forehead tinged orange by the setting sun outside the window, making the girl look somewhat interesting: "There's no specific time or place, the entire ghost story is almost vague, it looks like it's just made up…"
She expressed her judgment that this ghost story was 'obviously fake.'
"I also thought it was fake at first."
Asakura took out his phone, pulled up a news article he had collected, and sent it to the girl.
"Mount Kumotori Wife Murder Case?"
The girl was startled by the news headline.
"It's just unscrupulous media sensationalizing. This, to be precise, should be a disappearance case. Two years ago, the 'suspect' in the news went hiking and camping on Mount Kumotori with his wife, but only he came down. And after he came down, he ran to the police station saying that a monster killed his wife. The police believed he killed his wife and then, to clear himself, he made things up, so they detained him and searched Mount Kumotori."
"But even after sealing off the mountain and deploying several search teams, even using helicopters, it was all in vain. Half a month of arduous searching yielded nothing, they couldn't find his wife's body, nor could they get any information about his wife's body from his interrogation. He just seemed to insist that his wife was killed by a monster."
"Finally, due to insufficient evidence but suspected mental problems, the police sent the suspect to a mental hospital."
Asakura put away his phone: "After discovering this news, I tried to investigate a little, and then I learned that he had been judged to have greatly improved mentally half a year ago and was allowed to be discharged from the hospital. Although the hospital did not disclose the address, in several interviews, it was implicitly revealed that he was from Toyama Prefecture, and Ryunosuke's program crawled to the earliest 'story' about Yamanokemono half a year ago, and the IP address of the post was indeed from Toyama Prefecture."
In addition to this, there have actually been several disappearances of hikers on Mount Kumotori in the past two years, and almost all of them were women, but there was no need to tell the girl about such things.
Only after noticing this information did Asakura believe that this ghost story might be true and intended to go check it out.
"Even so, it still feels very dangerous… Is it really okay?"
The girl understood why Asakura wasn't taking her, after all, if the Yamanokemono ghost story was real, then this thing was a monster specializing in attacking females, and her going would be useless.
But she still couldn't help but worry: "If there really are monsters or something in this world, it still feels a bit…"
"Don't worry, the ghost story isn't necessarily true. If it really is Yamanokemono, I, as a male, am not in much danger."
Asakura was unconcerned.
"Otherwise, let's still use the cursed camera…"
"That thing is an inhuman creation. Although Nukumizu Kazuhiko used it once without any side effects, there's no guarantee it's the same for everyone's constitution. It's best not to touch it if possible."
Asakura sternly stopped the girl from courting disaster, then he showed a smile: "In fact, even if there really are monsters, it doesn't matter."
Saying that, Asakura looked around, and after confirming there was no one, he lightly snapped his fingers, and a flame ignited at his fingertips.
Although the use of [Candle] is still unclear for now, at least among all of Asakura's Magic, its special effects are the best.
"Don't look at me like this, I'm actually quite strong."
"Will we win?"
The girl asked nervously.
"We will win."
Asakura was full of confidence.
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