
Should I accept Professor Oe's request? In Noctis' laboratory, the thought was constantly raging in my mind. Although I had immersed myself in textbooks and PR, but still he was bothering me.
As a Noctis Family Princess, I must not carelessly accept the requests of others. We are one of the most famous families in the world. If I accept Professor Oe's request and fail to keep it. I don't know what will happen to me.
“Ba!”
Jumping in shock I found Eclair pranking me again. With her thin nightgown, the curious girl checked my PR with a single look. With a mocking smile he said, “Eits, still wrong? Thirty numbers are the answer—“
“A-Aaa!! N-Nda wants! I want to work on my own, make my own mistakes, and learn my own mistakes,” my reprimand immediately shuffled that collapsed PR assignment away from my genius Brother's eyes.
“Heee? Though you have the assets of a brother who is sinter, why not just use it?” eclair said scrabbling, but Langsugn smiled sweetly again after tearing my hair. He looked at the laboratory for a moment.
Until now my eyes are still amazed to see the grace of Eclair. Like the vast night sky, Eclair's hair decomposed long to his feet. Smoothly filled with twinkling candlelight like the bright colorful stars in the sky. His long, plump eyelashes, combined with the look of his confident eyes. The jade gem was omnipresent in her eyes, anyone who looked into the girl's eyes would definitely be bewitched in her beauty.
… He really is Mutter's son, I thought. As she grew older, the more Eclair grew into a graceful girl like her mother. While me…
“Hey, I've rarely seen you fool around with magic chemistry anymore. Wh why? Months are tired?” ask Eclair.
To raise my eyes, I also *****-**** my hand and replied, “T-No time, s-so I have to study and do school PR.”
Eclair also touched my forehead, “Hmmm, but I think, rather than learning the boring material, the Moon is better to focus on the alchemy of magic. You see, you look the coolest fitting make a colorful magic compound!” he said, smiling at me.
“B-REally?” my many.
Eclair sat on my desk, “Yupsi! Gini yes Moon, there are people who are born to be doctors who help many people, some are library officers who maintain knowledge from generation to generation, he said,” he said who then played a big globe beside my desk,
“I believe, each individual was born with their own purpose. You yourself have to choose what your purpose is. Do you want to be a bird that flies freely in the sky and reaches for its goal, or a butterfly in a cage that forgets how to fly?”
“T-Tumben, Big brother talk wise,” teaseku.
A little upset, Eclair pinched my cheeks wide and nagged, “Gini-gini, I am your big brother huh. Fuckin' bad brother!”
Laughter broke out between us, which was stopped by the sound of the night bell. Eclair jumped down from my desk and said, “You know, this lab is actually haunted. Last night I heard-“
“Ghosts can't hurt people,” prevent me from bending eyebrows wonder. Oh my God, my brother, does he still think I'm a little kid who can be scared of ghost stories.
“Hadeh, hardworking base. Yasudah, the point is, do not overtime too night yes, night without months it feels tuh, really quiet!” he rubbed my cheek in a frenzy, before stepping half-jumping towards his room.
As the wind went away, silence greeted me. Alone among the spices and magic plants, I sat on my chair, staring at the starry night sky behind the glass roof of Noctis' laboratory.
“Everyone is born with their own purpose,” my murmurs try to reach the stars in the sky.
… What is my purpose for being born in this world? What is the thing I want to accomplish with this hand?
When I asked that question, I had a dream that appealed to my heart. About a mother who gently stroked my head when I managed to do something. The proud smile he gave her. Then the dream changed into the face of Dame Krista and Prof. Oe who hugs full of relief at her healed son.
I hold my hand tight. That dream may be forever I won't be able to achieve. But the story is different with Quina, she still gets it. If I could make a reality where people like Quina could be united in the warmth of her family again.
“If not wrong, the aroma of the drug.. is very similar to Mint-Vladberry or Tunisia yes?” my murmurs then began to sniff out the magic plants one by one in Noctis' laboratory.
As I was busy concocting new potions from various magic plants, the lab door opened. The candlelight cast the shadow of a woman with a blouse and trousers, stepping over to me.
The firm and confident footsteps are very familiar to the ears. Surprised by me, I immediately jumped to hide all the mess I had done. With her tired eyes, the woman sighed as she looked at me in the laboratory.
“Month, how many times have I told you, yes, you can take care of this arboretum and this little lab, but that doesn't mean you can stay up late in it,” reprimands Mutter who just got home from his overtime hours at Ishtarin palace.
“A-Anu, it's not like that. B-Month is just a fad,“ I said who rushed to pack the mess.
"White?"
“Turkish tree Root, Sunnyaster sap, Mint-Vladberry leaf. All that the Moon collects is a plant that is famous for having potent anti-inflammatory effects,” said Mutter, who also picked up a five-petalled flower that gave off a white glow,
“But this.. Olivia Flower. He is only famous for his white purity which is synonymous with the symbol of peace. He is just an ornamental plant without any efficacy. But why did you put it with the other three preparations?”
I coughed my cheek and smiled awkwardly, “S-Soalnya. Olivia Flower has a scent that is most similar to the drug. Although the aroma is typical once.”
I told Mutter everything. About my meeting with Prof. Oe and his wife, about Quina's illness and also about a drug called Methylprednisolone. My heart was pounding, because for the first time I spoke with Mutter. Seeing him listen to me with a small nod, made me think. ah, for a moment, I felt like Mutter's real son.
“Crista Oedellia... Hoo, interesting. Isn't she one of Pei Jin's High Witches? This drug... Can I make it a coffer of money? Interesting, interesting,” muttered Mutter who folded his hands watching the flower very much. Ah, basic Mutter, his mind is always business mellow.
Then a funny grunt, Mutter also said, “Until anytime, you will not be able to replicate the drug.
“E-Eh? A-There are other methods?” manybloon.
“How can you call it Alchemy magic, if you remove magic from it, Moon?” reply Mutter with a question that makes the head dizzy, as usual.
After telling me to pick a basket full of Olivia flowers, Mutter took me to a giant oak tree that grew in the middle of the laboratory. With his wand, Mutter wrote a strange name on the bark of the tree, Chrysanta Alodia Noctis. But as he wrote the name, Mutter's face looked poignant. It was as if the name had such a deep meaning in his life.
A ray of light appeared, defending the name into a door that led us on a deep descending staircase. Step by step turned on the magic lamp that perched on the wall of the hallway to bring me to a room with a thick white wall of material that was foreign to me.
When stepping into the room, sparks of light appeared to open various strange machines that make me curious. But what attracted my eyes the most were three giant glass tubes, connected to each other by intricately winding glass pipes associated with the still active Magicite stone.
I can vaguely read the name of the device, Gruhningen Alpha.
“You said that the aroma of the medicine appeared in the Olivia Flower, but it is thin at all is not?” tanya Mutter who showed in front of her, “With this tool, we can utilize magic to amplify the essence power of the magic plant. If you normally need ten thousand Olivia flowers to get one milli essences, with this tool, we only need one hundred.”
“A-Is this tool also one of the Noctis family secrets, Mutter?”
“Yup, I'm telling you on condition. If you can get Ma Dame Krista to promise to give the drug production rights to the Noctis family, I'll teach you how to use it, ” he said, touching the glass tube gently. It was as if a friend had been reunited after a long separation.
"M-Mutter, it's not all about money" I complained.
"Oh, Moon, don't you know? Money is fair, money is honest, money is powerful. Without money, where could you do all your magic alchemy research from? And most importantly, I love money. Therefore, if you have a chance, you have to gercep take it, okay?"
I nodded, "Well, Mutter. Tomorrow, I'll see Dame Krista again."
"Ma Dame, different from the usual Dame. It was an honorable mention for a witch in Pei Jin country. Wrong-wrongly called the title of person, can affect the outcome of negotiations, understand?" reproof Mutter.
"Ready-Ready, Mutter!"
Mutter nodded and enthusiastically taught me how to operate the Gruhningen Alpha. When explained, Mutter's eyes that often look tired, are now filled with the light of hope. Sometimes I often find himself smiling faintly hearing the nostalgic sound of the tool.
Suddenly I remembered Eclair's words.Will I choose to be a bird that flies freely in the sky or a butterfly in a cage that forgets how to fly. In my eyes, Mutter now looks like a proud eagle flying with its wide wings, slashing the sky at his speed. A very different face when sitting next to Father, when she became Queen Kinje.
A question was asked in my mind. Did... when he was young, Mutter chose to forget how to fly to achieve his dream?
Thirty minutes passed, after enjoying the beautiful melody of the machine, the sound of droplets came from the end of the pipe. In spirit I took the liquid and smelled it.
“N-Ne is not as close as Ma Dame Krista anyway, but this is really, Metilprednisolone!” my mumbling, skipping small, celebrated my small success.
With a big smile, I approached Mutter but the footsteps stopped when I saw him sitting soundly asleep on the big sofa, near the small library in the magic lab. Slightly snoring with a small open mouth, it seems Mutter is tired so that he can fall asleep when just lying down for a while. Though I often peek behind the door, Mutter often has not slept even though it has been two at night.
Why would Mutter still want to guide me when exhausted like this?
Is it possible.. Mutter actually loves me like his son?
Smiling, I took off my lab coat and slowly enveloped Mutter. Naughty, I went up on the big sofa and went to sleep by his side.