Chapter 29: The Whereabouts of Love
While I was minding the store, Lilica ca in for the first ti in a while.
“Yo. It’s been a while. How as the Hunting Festival?”
“Thanks to you, I was able to beco the Champion.”
“That’s a relief. Congratulations. Ah-. I heard that you ca to give your thanks, but I didn’t hear about the result so I was interested about what had happened.”
“I. I see… . S.So you’re interested…”
Lilica averted her eyes as she played with her hair.
She probably ca to complain about Kululu-san are ask for advice again.
It doesn’t seem like Paula’s coming today, so I offered her the chair that Paula had brought without permission.
“Th,thanks, uu…”
So-how she seems awkward…
Is she in poor health?
Sitting on the opposite side of the counter, Lilica keeps taking side glances of .
“Mina-san … isn’t in, right?”
… right?
“Aah. She went shopping with Noela.”
Mina can leave the house as long as she carries the brooche, so recently she’s often been finishing up the housework and going on a walk or going shopping.
Being able to go outside is fun, I suppose.
“That’s right … she’s not here, I made sure of it before coming into the shop, so…”
Lilica is muttering quietly.
Was there sothing about Mina?
Like, did they get in a fight and I didn’t know about it?
Although since Mina is the other party, it doesn’t feel like that would be the case.
“Hey, Lilica. What did you co for today?”
“… I want to know… about Mina-san…”
Lilica said, as if she was embarrassed.
“Know about Mina? Why? … … Ah.”
I figured it out.
… So that’s how it is.
Just like her brother, did she awaken to that kind of thing?
It’s difficult to ask Mina herself, so her aim is to ask , who’s close to her?
“If that’s the case, then bring it on. What do you want to know about Mina?”
Paula also said Mina was cute (although she didn’t an it sexually), and that ossan adventurer from a while back was also taken by her; Mina’s quite popular.
With things like this, Lilica can’t say anything about Kululu-san anymore.
An adorable Mina and a lovely Lilica…
It can’t be helped that I have all sorts of delusions.
“I, I’m not really good with housework but … what about Mina-san…?”
“Ah-. Mina is amazing, you know? She can do all types of housework, and her cooking is delicious.”
“Her cooking is …. delicious…”
For so reason, Lilica is depressed.
Was she thinking about giving her homade sweets to raise their intimacy…?
If you know you’re bad and the other is good, then this kind of appeak might actually have the opposite effect, after all-.
“But it’s fine, Lilica. If you make it with your heart, then it doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad!”
“I,I wonder.”
Lilica’s face lightened a little.
Alright, I successfully cheered her up a little.
“I want to ask sothing important, but … what … kind of relationship … does Reiji have with Mina-san?”
Lilica snuck a peek at .
That’s certainly sothing you need to confirm right away.
With a knowing look, I gave her a thumbs up.
“Lilica, be at ease. We have no such relationship.”
“- Is that so!”
Lilica’s expression lightened a little more.
“I,I thought that you two didn’t have that kind of relationship from what I could see, after all. J,just to let you know, I just happened to see it from a distance… I – it was just a coincidence? It’s not like I was watching to check it out!”
Yup, that’s certainly the the tsundere thod of following up on things.
“Confirming it is important after all; it’s scary if you mistake it.”
“What, why are you grinning…”
Hmph; Lilica’s face went red.
“Is there anything else you want to know?”
“It’s fine for today. It was enough for to confirm it. But…”
Stopping mid sentence, Lilica hung her head.
“Aside from that, I don’t want to lose-”
If she’s aiming for Mina, she’s going to have a lot of rivals after all.
I wonder what Mina will if it’s this girl.
I wonder if she’ll readily give an okay?
But that’s Mina’s problem, and it’s not sothing I should be concerned about.
Just like before, with the Hunting Festival, Lilica is trying her hardest, so I feel like cheering her on.
She doesn’t want to lose, huh…?
“Alright, leave it to . I’ll make Lilica the most beautiful elf!”
“Really!? Thank you, Reiji! …. Huh? Why do I feel like sothing’s wrong…? I,is this going to be alright, like this…?”
Lilica is beautiful enough as she is, but the person herself said she wants to be more, so I’ll give her that support.
“Rather than making up for shortcomings, I think we should go with emphasizing your strong points.”
“Ah, I see … then, I think that’s fine.”
The perfect gel that I gave to Mada Flam is sothing that makes skin prettier, bet whether or not Lilica needs that is … …
I approached her and stared at Lilica seriously.
“Lilica’s skin … is white and clear, huh…”
“Wha!? No. What, what are you doing so suddenly?”
Startled, Lilica separated our faces like she was leaping backwards.
I moved closer to her in an instant.
“Your eyelashes are also long, and your eyes are large with a dual fold … and your eyebrows are thin…“
“You’re too close, Reiji, you’re too close.”
There’s the perfu I gave Elaine and the perfu Noela gave Elaine.
Even though both types have different scents, I don’t think they’d suit Lilica.
And making her perfu of sothing she doesn’t like the sll of is kinda …
“Lilica, what kind of scents do you like?”
“Huh…? Um….”
Glancing at , she averted her eyes.
“Th,the sll of dicine…”
“Heeh, how weird.”
“Uu… Not really, rather than the scent, what I like is…”
The end of that was so mumbled that I couldn’t hear it at all.
What she actually likes is … I wonder what the rest was.
Then does that an she doesn’t like it all that much…?
Aside from that … That’s right, when speaking about won, it’s the hair.
Lilica’s hair is quite long.
Haircare should be quite troubleso when it’s that long.
It’s beautiful as it is, but with this amount it should take quite so ti, right?
“You do stuff to your hair as you wash it and such, right? How long does that take?”
“Why are you asking about that… two hours.”
“That long-!?”
“It’s not just l I think it’s the sa for others?”
Ah, I see.
Shampoo-like washing agent does technically exist in this world, and I also use it.
For , who thinks anything’s fine as long as it cleans it, I don’t have much interest in things regarding hair.
Everyone thinks it’s the norm, so no one has any complaints about it.
“Alright, I’m going to make a dicine. Let’s try raising Lilica’s femininity y one or two, or even more ranks!”
“Aah, yeah…”
Leaving Lilica, who responded with a vaguely sloppy answer, I holed up in the dicine room.
Thinking back on it, there are a lot of this kind of dicines that I just wasn’t interested in.
Extracting the fruit essence and the plants’ oils, my work progressed nicely.
[Shampoo: Has the effect of washing filth from hair.]
[Hair Mask: Penetrates hair to repair it. Has the effect of strengthening and moisturizing hair.]
[Conditioner: Gives hair silkiness and has the effect of retaining moisture all the way to the tip of the hair.
Alright, I’ve made a set.
Carrying the bottles, I returned to where Lilica is.
When I gave her a simple lecture on how to use it,
“With this, I wonder if I won’t lose to Mina-san…”
I wonder why she doesn’t want to lose to Mina?
But Mina likes touching other girls’ hair.
“Noela-san’s hair is so smooth and slls so good… (sni~ff~)”
“Sniffing hair, no good. Pervert. Dislike.”
“Aw, Noela-san, please wait~.”
I’ve seen that scene of Noela running away many tis.
Is Lilica using that kind of approach?
Or she could use hair as a conversation starter…
“Well, at the very least, it should reduce the ti you take for your hair.”
“Hmm. …. Y,you went to such great trouble, so I’ll use it for you.”
“Yeah. After you use it, can you tell your impressions? I might be able to improve it, and I might be able to make a product out of it.”
Lilica twirled her hair around her finger.
She really won’t et my eyes.
“H,hey…? Hey, Reiji is … I, if I beco prettier, will Reiji be happy…?”
Well yeah, I made the dicine, so I think I’ll be happy if she becos prettier.
Seeing happy faces is why it’s worth running a pharmacy.
“Of course.”
“-. …. I see.”
“Yup, I’m cheering you on.”
Lilica’s face went bright red.
“Geez—-! Wh,wh,what do you an by thaat—!!”
Clutching the new product’s three-part set to her chest, woosh, she shot out of the store.
◆Side Lilica◆
Leaving town, Lilica ran to the forest.
“What do you an, cheering on? What what what what? Geez. Geezgeezgeezgeez. Geez, were my feelings found, found out!? S,s,s,s,s,so that’s why he’s cheering on? Eh, eh, eh? Butbutbut, if he knows and is cheering own, then, then then. Could it be Reiji also, about … …. ? *deep breaths* … … Waaaaaaaaaaah! What did he eeeeaan—-!?”
Returning to her house while screaming, she imdiately tried out the three liquids she had gotten from Reijia.
“…. Ah. Amazing … this is amazing! It’s so silky and smooth!”
Lilica had already experienced the effects the first day, but it was still too embarrassing to face him, so her feet avoided the drugstore for so ti.
◆Side Reiji◆
Lilica ca over after 10 days.
“… H,hello.”
“If you’re worried about Mina, she’s not here. She went shopping.”
“I, I know that. I,I aid for that ti, after all…”
Without entering the store, she held her arms and glanced at .
What is it?
If she has sothing to say than she should….
Hm? Ooh?
Her originally beautiful hair has beco further improved.
Her hair is smooo-th, lush, and soft.
It’s so silky that, with just the slightest breeze, you could see each strand fluttering.
A sweet sll drifted on that breeze.
As the one who put the scent into the hair mask, I knew it would give off this sort of sll, but coupled with her beautiful looks, it beca unbelievably stunning.
The destructive effect is amazing…
“That’s… my hair care has now takes under half the ti … just like you said … and the final effect has also beco amazingly better…”
“I’m happy for that. It was worth making.”
“…”
“…?”
What is it?
Lilica slightly brushed her hair, tucking it behind her ear.
“H,how … is it…?”
“Ah, your hair? I think it’s beco amazingly beautiful, so it’s good, right?”
Like this, Mina won’t be able to ignore it.
It should be hair that you’d want to give a big sniff.
“H,hmmm … I see … hmm….”
Saying only that, Lilica kept staring at her toes.
Just standing around talking is a bit… so I offered her a chair, but
“I,it’s fine…. here.”
“Eh? Really?”
Not chatting about anything in particular, Lilica simply stood in front of the store.
Actually, I’m concerned.
As I was feeling troubled, Mina ca running back.
“Ah. Lilica-san. Hello-”
“H….he….hello… Th,then, I’m leaving, so”
As expected, was she too embarrassed to talk to her directly? Lilica quickly took her leave.
Once she looked over her shoulder at Lilica, Mina’s breathing beca a little rough.
“Mina, what’s wrong?”
“I forgot my wallet…”
Once again, Mina looked at the place where Mina had just been.
“What business did Lilica-san have here?”
Ah. There’s a reaction…?
“Impressions on a new product … and also … so stuff.”
“Reiji-san is being suspicious … what are you hiding?”
Mina stared at .
While trying to cover it up in a panic, I fled inside.
I picked up Mina’s wallet and handed it to her.
”Ah. Thank you.”
Bowing her head lightlly, Mina left the store once again.
Lilica, I hope things go well for you.
I watched Mina’s departing back, nodding with my approval.
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