Cheat Pharmicist’s Slow Life ~Making a Drug Store in Another World~ - chapter 33.5

Pitiful Father (First)
After returning from the company vacation, the next few days were spent normally, with Jiral and Paula coming by to chat as usual, and Kululu-san and Lilica dropping by.

Today, Elaine came by with her butler.

“Good day to you, Reiji-sama.”
“Yes, good day to you. Noela is currently taking a nap, you know?”

Noela takes a nap for about two hours after eating lunch.
On my bed.

Heh; Elaine chuckled elegantly.

“Oh no. Today I’m here for Reiji-sama, not Noela-san…”
“Eh? Ah, me?”

Does she have something she wants to consult with me about?
I offered her a seat, and Elaine sat down elegantly.

“Did you need me for something? You don’t want work experience or medicinal experiences, right?”

Did I phrase it poorly? Elaine made an upset face, puffing out her cheeks.

“Today I had something to ask Reiji-sama about concerning my father.”
“By father, you mean the feudal lord?”
“Yes. My father the feudal lord. Recently … there’s an unpleasant smell whenever I get close to Father…”

“An unpleasant smell? Because of not bathing, or something like that?”
“I don’t believe that’s the case. I feel like it’s something a little different … I wonder what it is…”

Elaine furrowed her brows as if she’d met with misfortune.
This is, it’s that, isn’t it?

The phenomenon where a girl going through puberty says, “Don’t wash my laundry with Dad’s.”

Elaine approached me with an embarrassed expression.

“E,e,excuse me…”

She faced me and sat on top of my lap.
U, too close…

This girl, she’s wearing the perfume again.
Darn precocious child.

“Wh,when I was young, I would hug Father like this, but the other day, when I approached him to do so, I’m not really sure why, but there was an unpleasant smell…”

Sniff sniff.
Elaine brought her nose near to me and sniffed my scent.

“Reiji-sama is … if anything, you have a pleasant smell. It’s not like all gentlemen smell this way, right……? Ah-. I, I’m being i,improper…”
“I don’t care, so it’s fine.”

When I patted her head, fwoosh; steam came from her head with that weird sound.

“Ge-geez, Reiji-sama. Treating me like a child … . I,it’s troubling.”

Despite saying so, Elaine doesn’t seem that troubled at all on top of my lap.

Twirl, twirl.

She twirled the vertical curls she’s so proud of and looked the other way.

When it comes to a daughter who’s come of age disliking her father’s smell, it’s neither party’s fault; it’s just an obvious reaction due to biology.

To sum it up, Elaine came to ask me whether or not there was some way so she wouldn’t be able to sense that smell.
But that’s the natural reaction of a daughter, so it might be difficult to make it go away so she can’t smell it.

For now I told Elaine that I’d think about it,, and she went home for the day.

It was the next day.
The old butler from a while ago came to meet me.

“Reiji-sama. My Lord has called for you. Could I have you come to the mansion?”

It’s not like I’m busy, so I returned a positive reply and headed to the mansion by carriage together with the old butler.

The inside is unchanged since Madame Flam called me here; it’s an extravagant noble-style mansion.

Within the reception room I was guided to was a gentleman.

“Your must be that alchemist from the pharmacy. I am called Casty Fein Doran Vargas.”
“My name is Reiji, the owner of the pharmacy.”

It’s already become too much of a pain, so I don’t bother correcting everybody.
I shook hands with the gentleman who stood up from the sofa, and sat down on the opposite sofa that he offered.

“The other day, the medicine you made quite rejuvenated my wife Frau. It was the main topic at the banquet. Frau was also delighted.”

“Ahaha, I’m glad.”

“And for Elaine as well, I’m truly grateful for all the precious experiences she was able to make ever since she’s intruded into your shop.”

“Think nothing of it.”

However; Lord Casty suddenly brought his face towards me.

“But don’t think that Elaine and Frau’s opinions are equal to mine. I … am a man who doesn’t believe anything until I see it for myself.”

Well of course.
The Lord dropped his voice another degree lower and spoke.

“Elaine grew up to be a good girl. Her appearance is also good. It’s also understandable that she would fascinate commoner men. Sir Alchemist … You’ll have to defeat me if you want her –!”

Roar-!
The power of the Lord’s gaze seemed to manifest itself in his glare.

Eeeh…
But I don’t want her in the first place…

If I say I don’t want her, it will turn into, “So you’re toying with my daughter.”
If I say I want her, it will probably become, “I’ll end a bastard like you,” …

What the heck is with this ‘dead’ or ‘dead’ choice.

“Ah- , Um – . What did you need me for today?”

“Umu. There is something. …. Recently, Elaine seems to hate me. – -This is all your doing- !”

“Why me!?”

“To use my beloved daughter to attack your most formidable enemy, me, mentally … such a cowardly man-!”

Roar-!
Once again, the Lord glared at me with the full power of his gaze.

I held up both my hands in surrender.

“I haven’t done anything, really.”

“Then you mean to say that when Elaine mutters, ‘It stinks…’ so that I can hear her when I approach her, and when she instructs the maid very strictly to separate her laundry from mine when it’s time to wash the clothes, it’s all done of her own volition–!?”

“Yes. It’s a shame, but it’s …”

That’s how an adolescent girl is.
Don’t mind it, Dad.

“Such a beloved daughter was like that to me, her daddy, you know…”
“I think she’s just at that age.”

The Lord clasped his hands and hung his head.

“She even looked at me like she was looking at garbage. Is that the cause…?”
“I think it depends, but in general, that’s how it is.”

“It wasn’t good that Elaine found out I had stared at her drying panties, was it?”
“Well of course it would be like that.”

“After that, it seems that she often went to the pharmacy’s alchemist to talk. So I thought that was the source of all of this….”
“Don’t make it other peoples’ fault. Face reality.”

But you’d be suitably hurt if your family member said you stank, I bet.
It seems that the Lord dotes on Elaine.

That’s why it was excessively painful.

Saying that Elaine changed and began to hate him because of the appearance of a person like me.
That’s how he interpreted it – or rather, it looks like that’s how he wants to see it.

“Adolescent – girls at that age have a tendency to dislike their fathers when it comes to things about gender sexuality.”
“B,but – I needed to check. To see how much she’d grown.”

“Please don’t check. She’ll hate you a lot.”

“But I think that type of underwear is too soon for Elaine.”
“She would probably say, ‘Stop talking about that kind of thing.”’

“Wh,who does she intend to show it to? … ou,outrageous… they were outrageous panties.”
“It’s natural that she’d hate you. Restrain yourself, pervert.”

This was an obvious turn of affairs.

“Ah. Maybe, did you say that to the person herself…?”

“Of course. With the intensity of a Lord, I told her, ‘These are outrageous panties.’”
“What’s outrageous is you.”

“Is that how it is….”

Gloo-m; the Lord hugged his knees while on the sofa.
He’s depressed…

Bang; the door opened forcefully and Elaine entered.

“I heard Reiji-sama was here and came to see, but -! What I do is no business of Father’s. It’s disgusting that you’re still remembering it even though I told you off so much. I despise you.”

Gloo-m; the Lord shrank even smaller.
It seems she heard our conversation from outside.

Hmph; Elaine sniffed and took my arm.

“Reiji-sama. Instead of having a conversation with my disgusting father, come talk with me in my room.

Pull pull; being pulled, I was forced to stand from my seat.

“Hey, Elaine, come on, hold on a second.”
“No. I’m not waiting.”

With a face of despair like he was seeing the world ending before his eyes, the Lord watched us.

Exiting the room, we walked just like that through the mansion.

Haa; I sighed heavily.
I bet the Lord wanted to make me the villain.

When Elaine came to the store yesterday, she didn’t talk about her father and the panties.
Of course she found it detestable, but that’s probably not the main cause.

“You didn’t have to say it like that, right? The Lord is probably crying in that room, right?”
“However…”

Elaine pursed her lips unhappily.

“The Lord does have his bad points but … you don’t actually hate him, right?”
“That’s, well of course not…”

“Go apologize to him later, okay? I’ll go with you.”
“Okay…”

Looks like Elaine also knows she said something cruel, and she had no vigor even while we were chatting in her room.
Let’s repair this father-daughter pair’s relationship.

“Elaine, leave the rest to me. I’ll make a medicine so you won’t have to hate your dad.”

Leaving behind those words, I leapt out of the mansion.
I have the deodorizer, but using that is a rude thing to speak of.

Currently it’s become something used for toilets.

I have to solve this at its base.
Furthermore, that smell has a more direct source.

What should I do about it…

Holing up in the medicine room, I developed a new drug.

“Alright, this will work-!”

[Body Soap for men: Has the affect of holding back the scent of sweat, and sterilizes the outbreak of fungus and germs.]

A secret weapon to counter Elaine is in the body soap.
With this, she probably won’t be muttering that he stinks anymore!