My Magic Tools Are Selling Too Well

65 – Summer Vacation (2)

Karin and I were at the teahouse inside the academy.

Even during exam period, there are quite a lot of people.

This was the most famous tea house in the area.

Clean and simple design.

Thanks to the cute interior, it was a place that people often visited even if they were not academy students.

“What do you want to eat?”

“Is Sacher buying it for you?”

“of course. I know the salary of the knights.”

In particular, the Imperial Guard Knights pay much less than other knights.

The Royal Guard Knights were literally founded to protect the empire and the imperial family.

The value added to the defense of the empire more than individual prowess…

This is because it is a public job close to that of a soldier.

So what warrior would want to join the Order of the Royal Guard when it pays less?

… Funnily enough, no one is impatient to get in.

instead of a low salary.

Welfare is great, and pensions come out when you retire.

The reason why the Guard Knights are the most popular within the empire is not just because they are an elite collection of outstanding warriors.

They provide the highest welfare that any warrior who uses swordsmanship would hope for.

Training facilities and swordsmanship instructors that greatly improve your skills.

Pleasant living environment and accommodation.

Working hours that keep time like a knife.

Above all, the area that requires the most capital as an article…

Provision of weapons and armor according to the position within the knights.

In fact, this was the most meritorious welfare.

Right now Karin is a rookie this year…

He said that he had already received three personal weapons, and that he owned them instead of renting them, so he said everything.

“Sacher is a student who can’t earn a single penny.”

“… You really don’t know anything Choose quickly.”

“I’ll drink citron tea then.”

“The taste is still the same.”

I ordered citron tea and lemon tea at the counter and took it to my seat.

Karin and I have been certain of our tastes ever since we were young.

Karin is a sweet food, I am a sour food.

It’s not that I don’t eat the opposite,

They liked their tastes much more.

So, all the chocolate in the house was Karin’s, and most of the sour fruits like oranges and lemons were mine.

Among them, citron tea was Karin’s favorite tea.

The sweet taste that fills the mouth while the sour taste lingers to some extent is a masterpiece… .

“But are you really okay? I can buy it.”

“I have a lot of money.”

“why? Does your family give you a lot of pocket money these days?”

“no? It’s been a while since I didn’t get my allowance.”

“what?!”

Karin, who was about to put the citron tea in her mouth, shouted with a very angry face.

The eyes of the people in the teahouse gathered for a moment, then quickly disappeared.

It was quite common for her to briefly raise her voice in a teahouse.

“Isn’t he giving me money? Sir, shall I knock it over?”

“sister. What is that person to my father?”

“joy. He is not my father.”

Karin has had a bad relationship with her father since before.

Exactly four years ago, when Karin was injured in the Demon War.

When he was poisoned by Venom Arcus and wandered between death and death.

Since then.

Karin and her father completely split apart.

She no longer treated her father as a parent.

I can understand her feelings to some extent.

It was a serious situation that could lead to death if it went wrong, but the man called my father did not move a single step on the front line.

Beyond the sadness, it must have felt like being abandoned as a child.

After the war, his father retired from the knights and returned to the family, but the strained father-daughter relationship showed no signs of returning easily.

And the split relationship got worse after Karin started to like me.

-Don’t get close to Karin, Sacher.

My father once said something like that in the family.

I don’t know how, but my father seemed to notice Karin’s strange feelings.

Fortunately, the feelings weren’t two-way, and my father knew that much, so he wasn’t very involved, but…

There was an intention in his father’s words that there was nothing wrong with being careful.

… To be honest, I’m not your real son.

Those words to keep your distance from your one and only sister,

It seemed like it came out easily.

So I pushed Karin away for a while.

It wasn’t because of what my father said.

Because I also know that her actions are wrong.

In order not to lose my family,

It just kept her and me from the public eye.

last year as a freshman.

Even though I went to the academy with Karin, who was in 4th grade,

His seldom encountered her disproved him.

But after a year, Karin met again.

As much as the time we missed each other.

The compulsion to keep your distance

Before I knew it, it was pretty dull inside me.

“so? Why do you have so much money?”

“Don’t you read the newspaper, sister? My younger brother is quite famous these days.”

“Look at everything that comes out of the body! I saw you win the Colosseum this time.”

“There are also magic tools I created. I make money by selling those things, and a lot of money comes in from patent fees for magic tools I created.”

“Is it that much money?”

… It’s not that I don’t read newspapers, it’s that I lack economic sense.

I took a sip of lemon tea and explained it to her step by step.

If an alchemist settles down, he makes a lot of money…

I became famous enough to be in the newspaper…

So there are many places where money comes in through various routes…

Karin didn’t seem to understand all of my explanation, but she smiled and focused on me.

These are just ordinary stories.

Wouldn’t it be nice to share that with me?

Seeing her brighter than usual,

I also got a laugh out of nowhere.

“So Sacher is rich now?”

“no. I spent everything I earned this time on a new business.”

“A new business?”

Karin’s red eyes widened slightly.

Same with Ruen and Karin.

People with red eyes seem to have a charm that makes them fall into those deep eyes.

When I talk for a while, I fall for that person without even realizing it.

As we talked while looking into her eyes, I was fascinated by the red focus.

… This is almost a magical phenomenon.

It was a feeling I could never create with my pupils wearing colored lenses.

“huh. I’m setting up a private alchemy shop near here. It took so much capital, I spent all the money I didn’t have even though it was a joint business.”

“Wow, really? So, are you going to be Sacher’s boss now?”

“uh… Maybe so? Come play when it’s finished. I’ll show you around.”

“Hey… good.”

The alchemy shop that I will create, ＜The Moonlight Night＞, has already started construction.

A huge project with a total investment of about 600,000 gold.

It’s still at the level of building an empty building on the site…

The pace was quite fast, and at this rate, it seemed like it could be completed within summer vacation.

Looking at Karin, whom I like so much, I think I will have to sing it when it is completed.

There are Professor Melin, Ruen, Schunika, and Ariel in the waiting order, but…

Well, not even a housewarming party.

It won’t matter if you share it.

“How long is your sister at the academy?”

“that is… I do not know either.”

“You don’t know?”

“huh. Originally, dispatch work usually has a fixed period, but in this case it was written that it was an indefinite dispatch until further instructions were given. Being dispatched to the academy in the first place is a bit unusual from the perspective of the Royal Guard Knights.”

“hmm… .”

It’s definitely something unusual.

Although the purpose of the Establishment of the Royal Guard is to protect the imperial family as well as the empire as a whole… .

In any case, in the realm of defense of the empire, most of the cases were to protect citizens from monsters on the periphery, border, or gate.

There was no case like this time when they signed an agreement with the academy and came to protect the academy.

Maybe that’s why it didn’t seem like there was a specific dispatch period.

The target to be protected is an unspecified number of people,

The purpose to be protected was also unclear.

‘Ah, maybe it’s because of the vampires?’

Suddenly, I had such a guess.

Professor Melaine said that an operation to kill them, a clan of vampires, was currently ordered from the imperial family.

I don’t know what kind of power was involved in that secret operation, but the deployment of the Royal Guard’s troops to the academy must have something to do with it.

Vampires on the defensive don’t know what they’re going to do.

Because this is the academy, where the most promising future power of the empire is gathered.

When I think about it,

Karin’s dispatch to the academy made some sense.

“Anyway, it’s so nice to see you often now. When is Sacher public class?”

“Gonggang? It’s Monday, but… it doesn’t make any sense anymore It’s vacation soon.”

“uh? That’s right.”

Summer Vacation.

With the final exams over soon, the academy had a two-month break.

It’s me, I don’t care about grades and I don’t listen to classes…

It was a honey-like break for students who are working hard in their undergraduate life.

When the vacation story came up, Karin asked me with a strange expression.

“Sacher… Are you going to the family during this vacation?”

A well-intentioned question.

I could barely hold back the thought of laughing at that sight.

When the academy is on vacation, I go back to Viscount Philip’s house to rest.

Sometimes I have to see my father whom I haven’t seen in a while…

Although the implicit successor of the family is Karin,

Anyway, I also have a lot of things to do as the eldest son.

But after thinking for a moment, I shook my head.

“No, I’m not going this time.”

“really?”

“huh. I’m a little busy preparing for the alchemy shop business, and I think I’ll have quite a few things to do during vacation. I won’t go this time.”

“thank god!”

Karin said with a brighter face.

Wouldn’t it be fortunate… ?

Well, from her point of view, she was sent to the academy at most, but it must have been a pity not to see her again during vacation.

Karin might have come to my family on vacation because she didn’t want to wait for those two months.

Anyway, I had no intention of returning to my family this vacation.

As I said to Karin, the biggest reason is to prepare for the Alchemy Shop business.

Besides that, there were a few things that I had to deal with personally.

First of all, the lycanthrope.

We’ll have to catch that goddamn moonlight clan first.

Losing [Vita Taker] helplessly is a matter of pride.

It was the beginning of research on magic tools to catch him in earnest from today.