All-rounder Healer Chapter 283: Everyone Becomes Happy Because Of Medicine

　After lunch, I decided to call Lizzy over to play since we had some time to kill today.

　It’s good to have a day off once in a while.

“Heed my call and show me the way [Summon Fairy].” (Rook)

　As usual, Lizzy appeared from within the three-dimensional magic circle of light.

“Hello!” (Lizzy)

“Hi!” (Rook)

“Kyu!” (Shion)

“Shion!” (Lizzy)

　As soon as they arrived, Lizzy and Shion were chasing each other around the room.

　I watched them smiling for a while, but then I remembered a few things, so I activated the magic.

“To a new world. Open the dimensional door, [Holy Dimension].” (Rook)

　I activated [Holy Dimension] against the wall of the room, causing a door of light to appear.

“Lizzy, I want you to take a look at this.” (Rook)

“What is it?” (Lizzy)

　I called Lizzy into the Holy Dimension and pointed to an object in a dish on the floor.

　It was a sprout from an Oran seed. The experiment is going well, and the Orans, which are being grown with three types of water: well water, magic water, and holy water, are growing well, and all of them have grown to the size of the tip of a finger.

　I have a feeling that the dish growing with holy water is growing a little better, but at this point it is probably still within the margin of error.

“Look, they’ve grown this big.” (Rook)

“Grass?” (Lizzy)

“Oran seeds.” (Rook)

“Hmm~. Why are they so small?” (Lizzy)

　Lizzy tilted her head a little curiously.

　Why? I am at a loss for an answer for a moment when she asks me.

“…hmmm, maybe because the seeds have only just been planted.” (Rook)

“Really?” (Lizzy)

　Lizzy is still tilting her head curiously with her arms crossed.

　What? Is there something strange about this situation now? I try to think about it, but I have no idea.

　Then Lizzy starts saying confusing things.

“Oh, did you use the medicine?” (Lizzy)

“Eh? Medicine?” (Rook)

　Medicine? What? No, wait… Medicine in agriculture… Okay! Pesticides! I hear that fruits are often ruined by insects, and it’s bad enough that I have to use pesticides to prevent insects!

　…No, no, no, no, I don’t think a fairy is recommending the use of pesticides on fruit!　It’s going to break the fantasy world!

　…What else is there in medicine? Something… Medicine…

“Oh!” (Rook)

　The idea came to me, I rummaged in my magic bag, pulled it out, and held it up to the heavens.

“The medicine Lizzy gave me a while ago! I’m sure it was here!” (Rook)

　Yes. The “unknown medicine” was given to me by Lizzy as a thank you when I saved Shion before.

　I didn’t have to rely on medicines because I had a lot of recovery magic, so I completely forgot about it after receiving it!

“That’s it!” (Lizzy)

“Kyu!” (Shion)

　Lizzy pointed at me with a serious look, and Shion, who should not have understood it well, pointed at it with his paw.

　Both of them looked very proud of themselves.

“…So, what is this?” (Rook)

“We’re going to use that here!” (Shion)

　Lizzy says while pointing at the plate.

“I’m supposed to put it in this dish, right? And what happens when I put it in?” (Rook)

“It’s going to be a ‘Buwa’!” (Lizzy)

　Lizzy is standing tall in the air and says, “Bwah! Bwah!” and Shion is also doing a similar pose.

“…In other words, if we grow the plants, it in water with this in it, it will grow even bigger?” (Rook)

“Yes!” (Lizzy)

“Kyu!” (Shion)

　Is that possible? Such a thing completely ignores the laws of physics – no, it’s a world with magic to begin with …so it’s useless to even think about it.

“How much should I put in?” (Rook)

“Just a little bit. If we use a lot of it, it will be big trouble!” (Lizzy)

“Kyu.” (Shion)

　Shion is nodding, but do you really understand?

　Anyway, I pulled the lid off the bottle and carefully tilted it toward the inside of the dish.

　A slightly viscous liquid sloshes out of the bottle and drops into the dish.

　Let’s just take one drop for now and see how it goes.

　I pour the same medicine into the rest of the dish and wait a little.

“…it is not changing.” (Rook)

“It won’t change that fast!” (Lizzy)

“Kyu!” (Shion)

　Well Shion really seems to understand… Anyway, it seems that the medicine is not that fast-acting, so I just said, “That’s it for today,” and Lizzy went back to her world.

　The next day. I woke up in the morning and used [Holy Dimension].

“To a new world. Open the dimensional door, [Holy Dimension].” (Rook)

　A doorway of light appeared, and from within, the usual Holy Dimension room—it did not appear.

“What the hell?!” (Rook)

　I screamed.

　From the next room comes a yell, “Shut up it’s early!”

“Sorry!” (Rook)

　I apologize, but my mind and eyes are completely focused on the [Holy Dimension].

　There it is, green.

　Green leaves were rustling around the place where the three plates had been placed, covering the floor.

　Fearfully, I picked up one of the leaves.

　The leaf had a thin stem attached to it, and at the end of it was a thicker stem about five millimeters in diameter, which also had a root attached to it. The total length from the leaf tip to the root is about thirty cm. There were countless such objects lying on the floor of the room.

“Unbelievable…” (Rook)

　Considering the situation, just as Lizzy said, the Oran sprouts grew rapidly thanks to the medicine I put in yesterday. But since there was no soil in the dish, it could not spread its roots to support its own weight and fell down and rolled on the floor.

“I didn’t expect it to grow so fast, and I don’t know what to do about it. …I didn’t think about it at all…” (Rook)

　It’s a good thing that Lizzy’s mysterious medicine made them grow so big, but now we have to think about what to do with them.

　As I recall, hydroponics can be used to grow seeds until they germinate, but as they get bigger, they need to take in nutrients to grow well. In other words, if there is no fertilizer, soil is necessary.

　So, I would have to plant them in pots, right?

“Okay, let’s go find pots and some soil!” (Rook)

“Kyu!” (Shion)

　So I went to town, and at a pottery store, I bought three vases that could be used as flowerpots, and a large shovel.

　I had been trying to avoid buying these things as much as possible, but now I couldn’t say the same. If I don’t replant them soon, the orans will die.

　So, carrying a shovel on my shoulder and a flowerpot under my arm, I walked through the gate and out of town.

“Well, where shall we go?” (Rook)

　The area around here was bare rock with almost no soil. The slope of the hill is also a reason for the soil to be easily washed away by rain.

　And in this season, there are small piles of snow all over the place, so it would be even more difficult to find a large amount of soil.

　At any rate, I searched for soil while walking to the east side of town at random, and proceeded to hit the Horned Rabbit that appeared with a shovel and beat it to death.

　After walking for a while, I finally found a puddle of dirt and inserted my shovel into it.

“Hmm, it’s a little muddy.” (Rook)

　The soil was not in good condition to be used for planting, as there were places where it was slushy, frozen, and sherbet-like. I have a feeling that the condition is not good to use for garden plants.

“Maybe I should heat the soil?”  (Rook)

　Burning it would release the moisture and kill any pathogens or insects in the soil.

　My mother once tried to grow houseplants in her room and got into trouble because of the soil she randomly gathered from the woods behind her house. When it got warm, mysterious bugs hatched out of the soil and flew all over the room.

　At that time I didn’t know if she was growing houseplants or pests…

“I remembered a bad memory I didn’t want to remember…” (Rook)

　I shake my head lightly to blow the memories out of my mind, then pull a pot out of my backpack and put some soil inside.

　I don’t want to use it this way, but I have no choice because there is no other choice.

　Then I gather stones of appropriate size from the surrounding area to make a hearth and add heat from the bottom of the pot with [Fire Seed].

　This was also unavoidable because there was no wood in the vicinity that could be heated.

　With such difficulty, I obtained soil and heaped it into three flowerpots.

　All that was left was to replant the oran saplings…

“If it’s here, nobody would see me, right? To a new world. Open the dimensional door, [Holy Dimension].” (Rook)

　A door of light appeared in the space in front of me.

　Entering the Holy Dimension, I chose one sapling from each of the three dishes that seemed to grow best, planted it in a flowerpot, and dumped the rest of the saplings into the soil pile. It would be impossible to grow all the saplings in the Holy Dimension anymore if they grow this big.

　If I forced to grow this many saplings in the Holy Dimension, it would become a jungle.

A/N: I feel like there’s going to be a mysterious Oran tree forest suddenly appearing. Is this going to become Rooky Oran Seed legend?

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