I Quit Being a Noble and Became a Commoner Chapter 68

68: Chaleon Plants, Chaleon Plants

I felt like I could finally understand the outline of my work from Earl Noir’s explanations and the dictionary. I could find aning to my work by knowing what I was involved in. Well, in my case, I don’t get to state my own opinions. My job was to make sure everyone made progress with their work.

I was happy that I was able to guess what the place was from just the enurations of characters. And then, when I went to visit those places once I understood more about it.

I felt like my work was coming to bit by bit, and I finally felt as if I was getting to know myself. But it was still not enough.

One day, after having a delicious, yet unsatisfactory lunch at the dining hall, like usual. “I wonder if there are any flowers that I can use for my embroidery sketch...” and I wandered to the Royal Palace garden and found it.

In the shade of a tree where the sun doesn’t hit, a little further away from the sidewalk. The air felt cool.

It was a place where chaleon plants grew.

Chaleon plants, chaleon plants. It was a cute white flower with heart shaped leaves. In the middle were four small white petals. It was a flower with a fleecy point that was as long as a pinky finger. However, it emitted a peculiar scented juice that stuck to your hands, it was that. It was the thing that was good for your skin when it was made into tea and could be used in substitute for salves.

(There’s a lot of them. Is soone cultivating them here? When did it grow so much like this?)

I approached it and looked around but no one was there and it was closed off like a flower bed. It seed like they just grew all at once recently.

“Mm, let’s ask about it.”

I, who had managed to get free ti, trotted back to the Royal Capital’s Public Order Consolation Room to question His Highness, Ludens, my superior.

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“Excuse , Your Highness Ludens. I have a question that has nothing to do with work, is it alright for to ask it?” I broached the subject when I judged that His Highness Ludens was taking a break from his work. I, who rarely talked about anything other than work, was making conversation with him. His Highness imdiately made a face that said, “What is it?” as he faced .

“May I prune and take back the weeds from the Royal Palace garden?”

“What are you going to use it for?” He imdiately responded. “What is she thinking?” was shown on his face. Roberto-sama, who ca to this room at noon, and the other escort knights in the room also made a weird face.

I told them about the chaleon plants. “It can be made into tea and is also considered a dicinal herb to the masses,” I’d told them. I also told them that a large amount had grown in the gardens. I explained that I wanted to take them if they were going to be treated as weeds and disposed of.

“So, what are you going to do with those chaleon plants?”

“I’m going to make dicine for haemostatic and rough hands. I’ll ground the leaves, soak it in alcohol and extract the contents. I’ll dry the parts that aren’t extracted and make those into tea.”

And if that feels good when I use it then I’m going to sell so in town.

I didn’t tell His Highness that I wanted to sell it.

“I’ll confirm whether or not we’re using those chaleon plants in the Royal Palace. If it’s not being used, then you can take as much as you want.”

Yay, I have His Highness Ludens’ confirmation.

Then, Roberto-sama went to work to get that confirmation. He works fast, doesn’t he? He’s making a strange face like usual though.

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The next day, I worked on getting the chaleon plants.

This was sothing I wanted to do, so it was worth the trouble. I was extrely hyped up for a while.

I had my lunch in half the ti, so that it wouldn’t interfere with my business and finished up all my work early. First of all I beca Aisha and went shopping.

I changed into a red tunic and blue trousers, so that people would only see as a commoner and went to liquor store to buy cheap alcohol called High Shochu. I bought a mortar, wooden pestle and a large pot from the sundry store and returned ho. It got dark in no ti even though I only went to two stores.

Ah, it’s so nice to have money I can use freely at tis like this. But in order to carry all the luggage, I tied the pot to my back with a string, I had the alcohol in my right hand and the mortar and wooden pestle in my left. My appearance was sothing that commoners rarely looked like and the rasping sound in my mind sohow disappeared. I wonder what people think when they see like this, and chose to go back into the Royal Palace through the gate that the servants used. In the Royal Palace, I chose roads with the less amount of people so that I wouldn’t et anyone and went back to the governnt residence.

The next day, I finished my work early and quickly returned to my room. I changed into Ayesha and went to where the chaleon plants were.

I spread a little yellow sheet on the floor, extracted the root and flower from the chaleon plant and put the leaves on top of the sheet. I did nothing but this... I was extrely thankful that the sun was out longer than it was in winter. I extracted enough leaves to cover the sheet. Then, I sohow managed to collect the sheet and carried it on my back.

It was a little bulky and the governnt residence was a little distance away, but I sohow managed to carry it even though I was weak. I put it near the back door of the governnt residence. Susan-obasan was looking at curiously.

I quickly had dinner and continued to work on the chaleon plants. I can only work until curfew.

I worked under the small light of the lamp. I quickly washed the heart leaves under the water at the back entrance, and put them in the mortar. Then did nothing but grind them. I put the paste into the pot which I had poured shochu in beforehand. I kept repeating these actions.

My fingertips were dyed a greenish-brown colour probably because of the leaves. The colour didn’t go away even though I washed my hands with soap. But His Highness wouldn’t find out if I wore gloves, now would he? But a peculiar sll was softly radiating from my body... Nope, don’t mind, don’t mind. I have to work on the chaleon plants while they’re still fresh.

“Susan-obasan, what is this sll?!”

A beautiful woman with a tall stature, freckles and dark reddish-brown hair that was tied up and ran to her waist was staring at the back entrance. She was covering her nose and mouth with her left hand. Her blue eyes were shining.

(This is the first ti I’ve seen soone else at the governnt residence!)

I explained to the freckled beauty that I was extracting from the chaleon plant. Her na is Natasha. She was one of the few female knights. When I returned from eating, she was looking for the sll that was drifting about and it eventually lead her to here.

“Can I help since you’re going to make it into a salve? You can give so dicine as thanks.”

I let her, who was confident in her skills, join in and soon the pot was full. This was wonderful.

The next day, I went to work at the Royal Capital’s Public Order Consolation Room like usual... His Highness Ludens frowned every ti he approached . He couldn’t stand it anymore after he’d approached five tis and called out to , “I sll sothing strange from you. Leave early and bathe.”

“...”

(Ex-excuse , this isn’t sothing a gentlen should say towards a lady.)

I was speechless. But it wasn’t like I didn’t know what he was talking about so I couldn’t answer.

I bowed and left the room... Well, I was mixing the extracts of the chaleon plant, so it’s probably a good idea to take a bath after mixing them.

The sll was so strong that His Highness had to say sothing about it. There were so people who saw mix the contents of the large pot while the sll drifted in the air. It might have been inevitable that the rumours of 『a witch living here』spread around for a while.

Honestly, everyone’s so rude.