Volume 2 - CH 1.06

Part 6

The 《Demon King’s Ring》 that he had equipped reflected magic.

It didn’t only reflect the opponent’s attack magic, it also reflected magic that healed damage in the same way.

Diablo had no choice but to rely on potions to recover.

If he had comrades, he could have had a potions craftsman make it, but because he did his Demon King role play, he didn’t have any comrades that he could depend on.

As a result, needing to make potions on his own, Diablo took the subclass of 《Compounder》.

Even in this world, he could use Chemical Element magic as a Magician.

Believing that would surely be able to compound as well, he should probably try and procure the ingredients.

A curio shop——

It was an old building in a section of the Southern District’s shopping district.

The walls were just like that of the other structures, and were rocks piled up on top of each other.

This store also had its door closed, and one could enter by pulling open that big door.

Many shelves were lined up, making it feel narrow.

It was clear that the goods that had amounts that were too large to be placed in this store were crowded into the shelves. There were various items, from things that he recognized to things that he didn’t.

Let alone written explanations, there weren’t even brand names.

——Come to think of it, in the middle of the Middle Ages, the literacy rate was less than half, wasn’t it.

If a majority of Adventurers were unable to read or write anything but their own names, just preparing an explanation with letters was pointless. Only price tags were placed in front of the merchandise.

Rem asked a question.

「……Do you also have business with this curio shop? Does a person as strong as you even need things like items?」

「Yeah, yeah, Diablo, you don’t look like you would drink stuff like potions, you know?」

Shera nodded in agreement.

Making Recovery Potions required time and the cost of the materials. That’s why, when everyone else became a level where they could use recovery magic, they naturally stopped using them.

Superior Adventurers didn’t rely on items.

——Well, it’s probably hard to imagine the appearance of a Demon King using a potion.

If the last boss of a game were to start drinking recovery potions, that would be kind of……disillusioning in the sense of its image.

He either had to take care of his Demon King image, or go for the benefits of using them.

Just to let you know, he did worry about this.

However, he had already come to a conclusion.

Losing from running out of potions even though he had time to prepare them——That would mortify him to death.

It would first be mortifying as a gamer.

Above all, if he were to lose, he couldn’t protect Shera from the Elves.

It would also break his promise to defeat the Demon King Krebskrem that was sealed within Rem.

In this world, if he lost, it was the end. He couldn’t re-challenge it.

A fight where he absolutely couldn’t afford to lose, was right here. ——He couldn’t win just by encouraging himself with that.

Only sufficient preparations and war potential would bring him to victory.

There was an awfully old, worn out, wooden table.

There was a young lady reading a book sitting there.

——This is also an NPC that I know of.

It was a Dwarf girl that was still very young.

Other than having dog ears and tails, Dwarf children didn’t have a great difference from Human children. This girl had chihuahua-like dog ears, as they were large and triangular.

When Dwarf women grow to adulthood, although their heights stay low, their features mature, and how their chests become bigger is a characteristic of theirs’.

This girl had the setting of “the granddaughter that tended to the store in her grandmother’s absence”.

While feeling that this was nostalgic, Diablo talked to her.

「There are some things that I need.」

「Ah, welco~me. Ah, but you know, let’s see, Obaa-chan still hasn’t come back~……Nn~……But I guess it’s fine. You can do some shopping, you know?」

Those were lines that were pretty much how they were in the game.

It seems that in the game, her grandmother never returned even once. In regards to this, things like the “she died at her destination” theory, the “store was abandoned” theory, and the “I’m Obaa-chan” theory, various considerations were piled up.

It was net chat that never had an answer come out.

——However, isn’t this a chance to acquire an answer to that long time question? The things other than purchasing goods that weren’t possible in the game are now possible in this world. Even asking questions to this girl.

An unpleasant theory crossed his mind.

The “she couldn’t accept her grandmother’s passing and believed in a lie” theory.

Supposing that he were to ask that rude question, if it were to give the store tending girl’s heart a deep wound, he’d have no way to follow up.

Let’s stop. It’s fine if there are mysteries that can’t be explained.

Diablo gave out the names of the ingredients needed for 《Elementary HP Recovery Potion Compounding》.

「Do you have 《Forest Poppy Leaves》 and 《Green Nature Water》?」

The store tending girl put her finger to her lips looking like she was thinking.

「Nn~……We do~.」

In the game, if these two were compounded, an HP Recovery Potion would be completed.

Suddenly, Diablo thought of something.

「Do you have bottle-like things to put potions in?」

It was an item that didn’t appear in the game.

However, in this world, “if medicinal plants and water were combined then even a container would readied with it”, such a thing was probably impossible.

The store tending girl did the same thing she did before and then answered.

「Nn~……We do~.」

——So there really were some.

Diablo made a sigh of relief in his mind.

If he were to buy the ingredients for 《Compounding》 but forgot the container, he’d probably get the image of a “thoughtless person” attached to him even though he was Demon King. He was truly glad that something so lame didn’t happen.

「Well then, those things……Sell me nine of each.」

「……That sure is a half-assed number.」

In the game, items of the same variety would gather up for a max number of nine per slot. That’s why, he had a habit of up to nine piece whenever he bought items.

Thinking about it realistically, it certainly was half-assed.

——Now then, how should I carry it back?

It was great that he bought the ingredients, but it was pretty heavy.

With him holding this luggage on top of holding the 《Trial-Made Great War Scythe》 and 《The Staff of Tenma》, he looked more like a peddler than a Demon King.

Alicia volunteered.

「Shall I carry it for you?」

「Wait, let me test something.」

In the game, there were up to 3〇 slots in the pouch that items could be put into.

Incidentally, the number of slots at the beginning of the game was up to 1〇 and would increase by paying with cash. It was a Real Money Magic Pouch.

Five slots was 15〇〇 yen……

In other words, to get to the full release of slots, it required a slightly heavy amount of 6〇〇〇 yen.

——How about it!? My 6〇〇〇 yen!?

He tried pushing the leather bag of 《Green Nature Water》 into the pouch on his waist.

Normally, it would probably would absolutely never go in. It was a leather bad with 1 L of water going into a pouch that looked like only a wallet and a smartphone could fit inside of it.

Rem, Shera, Alicia, and, on top of that, the store tending girl looked as if it were some kind of miracle.

It smoothly went in.

「As expected of 6〇〇〇 yen!」

When he involuntarily spoke that out loud, Rem said 「Is six-thousand-yen some kind of magic? 」 and tilted her head in confusion.

——Nn? So she couldn’t understand when I said six thousand yen. But she understood when I said six thousand Furis.

Diablo couldn’t read the letters of the Lifelia Kingdom. However, he could have a conversation.

What kind of arrangement was this?

To begin with, he didn’t know what language he was speaking.

Since the outlook of the world was set to be Middle Age Europe-like, was it Latin? However, this was another world.

He decided to inquire about this eventually.

Just to be sure, he tried taking out the leather bag of 《Green Nature Water》.

There was no problem. Even though its outward appearance was that of a small pouch, it felt as if the inside had a spaciousness of a large rucksack──no, about the spaciousness of a storage room.

Diablo stored the luggage in the pouch, and returned to the inn.