Triiffic-Soul: Can I Be In Control?-Chapter 76 – Competition

Chapter 76 – Competition

[Let’s go!] Syrus cheered.

[Calm down…] (Luna)

[No, after we do this delivery, I want to go for a full-on sprint around the western forest.] (Syrus)

[.......] (Eva)

[Don’t stay silent about this, Lilly, you are partly responsible for this.] (Luna)

[Eh… Eva did not calculate the sheer… everything of Syrus.] (Eva)

[Chatting will get you two nowhere, come on, I haven’t felt this good in ages.] (Syrus)

They left their house in a good mood. Well, Syrus was in a fantastic mood. The vitalizer Eva made did its job extremely well.

Due to their house being on the same segment, which led to the same street Ash Evelen’s store was on. It was easy to stop by the shop before immediately booking to run like Syrus wanted.

When they got up in the morning, Syrus was pumped to do everything and anything. Even last night she could barely sleep, not because the extra energy was keeping her up, but because she could feel the body healing. It would still take a while, but it felt like they had finally broken through a wall in the recovery process.

In the morning, as they were getting ready, Syrus asked why Eva didn’t just buy one when she looked around shopping, or if there was simply none around.

[There were a few… but like we kind of discussed, a lot were mana rich, which is normally a good thing… our conditions, you know.] (Eva)

[Fair enough. How were the prices, were they affordable?] Syrus was curious, they were something she considered buying for the future after their body recovered. Eva could make them herself sure, but it took ages for the ingredients to come in, they were expensive anyway, and only three potions were able to be made.

This train of thought was immediately countered. [Oh no, they were very pricey.] Eva shook her head. [I’m half expecting it to be a marketing ploy…]

[Make the useful vitalizer expensive so people buy the massively less useful energy potions.] Said Luna, she had thought back to the shopping Eva had done after she had learned the truth behind everything.

[Yeah…] (Eva)

Though Eva was surprised Syrus didn’t know too much about vitalizers, as a seasoned warrior, she figured she knew about the basic types of potions for long and short-term use. Not necessarily the names or extract function, but what was useful. To which Syrus simply said that it wasn’t as developed over there as it was here. A fair statement to make: there were some big players on the continent and nearby that had heavily developed that industry, Lilly’s home of Eletscoep was a pillar of such advancements.

From the explanations Syrus’ gave, it wasn’t like her former home had no forms of healing, it was just a different industry. Medicine-based healthcare and magic were more common, to the point where most people knew how to do basic first aid.

“Feeling too good for our products now?”

As they neared Ash’s shop, they heard some voices coming out of the front door.

Ash demanded, “For the last time, fuck off, I bought what I wanted so bloody leave.”

A clearly angry and pissed-off Ash, and a delivery man with a mostly full crate exited the shop. The man had a somewhat tidy uniform of three layers of brown, then blue, then dark brown. They recognised him as a worker of the Dapple Sparkling company, one of the potion suppliers in the area. There weren’t too many that had set up shop and manufactured locally. Out of the big three companies, Dapple Sparkling, Hialaha, and Glorious Potions, only Dapple Sparkling and Hialaha created their supply within the city. They weren’t the only places that sold potions in the city, but they were the ones that made it their main job.

As they got closer, the man turned to his side and looked over at the person who was walking closer with a glint in his eye.

[Don’t say you are working together.] (Luna)

[Why?] (Eva)

[Eva, just let me handle this.] (Syrus)

[Fine…] (Eva)

Only Eva and Syrus were supposed to talk while they were in ‘Syrus’ disguise. Between Luna and Syrus, it was arguable who was better at dealing with particular social encounters, but in this instance, Luna had to stay on the backline.

“This is your new business partner?” The man looked up and down at Syrus.

“Nah, just a friendly acquaintance, hey Ash.” Syrus

Ash understood the situation quickly. “Morning, didn’t expect you to get up and about so early, thought you would rest well in your home.”

Syrus shrugged, “Work gotta be done still.”

Syrus and Ash began the ‘ignore the stinky shit on the floor’ form of communication.

“Though it’s been a while since I’ve seen you selling,” Ash asked, putting Syrus on the spot a bit, but it helped bring the conversation together. freёnovelkiss.com

“Yeah, what can I really say?”

“That you don’t like making money?”

“No, but a fair guess based on my behaviour.”

The man was confused at first, but his irritation grew drastically, dealing with the two women. Being yelled out was fine, but ignored? How dare they!

Syrus continued, “But yeah, I got some new supplies, and with the stuff I purchased off you, the motivation was running high.”

The act continued, “You're welcome, thanks for the help.”

“I could say the same, thanks for the recommendation and patching me up.”

“You don’t need to keep saying that.”

“Now now ladies, it’s rude to ignore the customer.” The man took a large step forward, breaking the line of sight between the two.

[How is a delivery boy a customer?] (Eva)

[Salesman is more appropriate, but I do wonder how offended he would get if I called him boy.] (Syrus)

"Now, Miss, nice to meet you too. Are you a new alchemist to the area?” He asked and received a silent disinterest in Syrus as a response. He continued, “If you are ever looking for actual work, Dapple Sparkling on the main street would be glad to accept you.”

After that interruption.

“Want to buy some Ash?” Syrus lightly shook the box. “I’ll even sell them at a discount.”

“Really?” Ash paused, “What about your normal customers?”

They went immediately back to ignore the man.

“Yeah, they’ll manage, so consider this opportunity a test out my supply. Because there might be no next time.”

“You were always bragging about them…” Ash sighed, “You should just make more, you know.”

“Eh, I have better things to do.”

[Wow… you all are so good at acting.] (Eva)

[Syrus is barely even acting; she’s just her usual self.] (Luna)

Ash thanked. “I do appreciate it, let’s examine them inside, it must get annoying carrying them.”

“With my muscles? Hardly.”

Syrus walked inside first, slipping by the turd wall standing in her way.

Ash followed and gently closed, then locked the door. Once inside, Syrus, Eva, and Ash went to have a nice chat about the potions they were giving Ash, and about the turd.

After a moment, there was a little shake on the door before the man walked away.

[I feel like a lot of the dickheads around the city have been showing up more frequently.] (Syrus)

[You are just saying that because they were the more memorable encounters.] (Luna)

[Maybe.] (Syrus)

“He been causing you trouble?” Syrus asked.

Ash let out a deep sigh. “Since forever; those the fucker been making me more stressed because of their stupid sales or whatnot.”

“I’m assuming switching to one of the other brands of stores won’t help.”

“Yeah… They are by far the cheapest. Even the ‘low cost’ places aren’t low enough for me to do my job with them. Maybe if I jacked up my prices, but nah, I’ll lose an 8th of my customers that way.” Ash took a sip of a diluted golden bottle that Eva had made for Ash as an order. “Ah! They aren’t all bad though; I’ve met a few of their employees and crafters even recently, and most are nice folk. That brat, on the other hand, and his boss I wouldn’t mind seeing disappear for a few months.”

Syrus jokingly pretended to write on her hand. “I’ll take note of that.”

“Heh, don’t even waste your time. By the way, brilliant job out there.”

The talk between Ash and Syrus didn’t last too long, both people had to work. Eva gave most of what she intended to Ash, which she was mighty grateful for, but she did make sure to ‘pay’ Syrus for the sale.

Because Eva made extra potions anyway, they decided to keep some to ‘sell’ later at the hunting guild. Eva was all too ready to sell them for cheap as a part of a generous gift for her coworkers. They weren’t going to sell them individually, but to the guild itself to give out.

[Eva, will having another one of the vitalizers help?] (Syrus)

Syrus asked after their quick and successful drop-off at the Brown Oak Guild.

[No, at most, it will prolong the effect, but it would be much more efficient to simply take a new one after the effect has dissipated.] (Eva)

The pure vitalizer Eva made, besides packing a lot of nutrients, left behind a ball of energy within the user's body. This energy was created by extracting rich, pure natural mana from sources that were mostly free of other types of mana pollution. The potion in question ended up being a source of heavy life energy, it was still technically a type of mana, but no one called it that as its default state behaved differently enough.

Eva had explained the process to Syrus, and she kind of got it.

[So, it’s kind of like, if it were possible, extracting the heat from a fire and storing it for later, it’s not fire anymore by the byproduct of it.] (Syrus)

[Weirdly enough, that is an apt description.] (Eva)

[Impressive.] (Luna)

[Well, back to my original point, if there is no need to take another one at the moment, then there is nothing holding me back from starting my sprint.] (Syrus)

There was nothing Luna or Eva could do to change Syrus’ mind. The energy being released made it feel like for the first time in ages her blood and muscles could finally breathe. After over a month of what felt like chains dragging her down with needles hampering her movements, for a moment, Syrus knew she could feel free moving.

So, there she went.

Sprinting until the sun started to set.