I’m Not Doing This With A Friend

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"I'm here."

"You're here, Leen?"

As soon as I entered the club room, Carson ran up to me and held my bag.

I listened to what he said and was almost taken away again.

He hurriedly opened the bag, and carefully took out the herbs packed in the bag.

Then, with a skilled touch, Carson begins to trim herbs.

Kun, who had arrived at the club room first, also siphoned off medicinal herbs monopolized by Carson and trimmed them.

"Someone has a habit of stealing herbs."

"It's not stealing, it's helping with the preparation. I'm the one who decided to help Leen in the first place."

I couldn't help but admire seeing the herbs that had filled the bag being trimmed in an instant.

No matter how many times I watched them, I couldn't get used to it.

"Everyone, take it easy."

How did this happen?

To find out, I have to go back to the first day Kun agreed to help me a few days ago.

I visited the club room with an armful of Dao Tranto.

I couldn't leave it to an outsider to make medicine, so I thought I would get help even with herbal refining.

At that, I only demonstrated once how to trim it, but Kun soon followed well. I was amazed and complimented him…

Here's the problem…

Even if it wasn't, it was Carson who didn't like seeing Kun going in and out of the club, but when I praised Kun, the jealousy gauge rose.

Carson also rolled up his sleeves and said he could do it himself.

He trimmed the herbs accurately and quickly as if he had practiced secretly.

With a little exaggeration, he was at a better level than me.

I praised Carson, who was burning with jealousy to appease him, several times. I was actually amazed.

They were the talents of herbal refining that no one could refute.

But maybe it's because I praised both of them, and after that, the competition has overheated and it's the same situation as I'm seeing now.

As I looked at the two people who were working hard on the herbs, my gaze fell on Fjord for a moment.

Fjord also looked at the two with a tired face, felt my gaze and shook his head.

"Leen. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I can fit in."

"I'm already causing trouble, but I don't ask for help without conscience. It's already overflowing with these two."

Having said that, I sat down at my desk and prepared the other ingredients needed for the antiperspirant combination.

As soon as I started to do something else, Carson and Kun began to fight.

"Oh, come on. That's not how you prepare herbs."

"You seem to be full of compliments from Leen, but I've been with plants since I was young."

"It means you're a plant lover."

"It means that at least I can do better than Carson."

"I can't believe your skills are better than mine. You only had a mouth. You're worthless."

"There's nothing as worthless in the world."

Clang-! 

I hurriedly turned my head to the sound of a rupture hitting my ear.

Fjord looked at me in a panic with his eyes wide open.

"Soㅡ I'm sorry. I'm so curious that my hands slipped when I just wanted to smell it."

"Aren't you hurt?"

I hurriedly checked that Fjord was not hurt, and found a broom to clean up the broken glass.

Then something caught my eye.

Paper with the name of the raw material contained in the broken glass bottle.

Fjord's peeling glass bottle was the most expensive ingredient to make antiperspirant.

"That worthless bastard!"

It was the moment when something worthless that didn't exist in the world was born.

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The situation was quickly settled, and Fjord offered to pay the price.

In fact, I tried to refuse, but if I didn't accept it, I felt sorry for his face that's about to cry soon, so I said yes.

Fortunately, it was not difficult to obtain, although it was expensive.

You'll be able to get it quickly if you go to the shopping street around the academy.

Ah… After trimming all the herbs I brought, Kun left the club room.

In fact, rather than going out on his own, it was routine for Carson to kick him out as soon as he finished trimming.

So I might turn on the lights for my eyes more and clean them up.

I looked happily at Dao Tranto, which was piled up on the other side of the club room.

Thanks to Carson and Kun's hard work for the past few days, I have exhausted the Dao Tranto that they had previously obtained.

I'm going to go up to the mountain and collect them soon.

What should I bring…?

Gathering tools, a basket for medicinal herbs, and a monster repellent?

The club's performance score suddenly came to my mind when I heard the monster repellent.

"Caon."

"Yes?"

"Did we meet the club performance scores this semester?"

Carson blinked softly.

"Are you worried that I won't be able to fill it until the end of this semester? Don't worry, I won't let that happen."

"No, please take me with you this time, this monster subjugation."

"What…?"

There was a breathtaking silence in the club room for a while.

"No!"

"You can't!"

And Carcion and Fjord shouted at the same time.

Not expecting such a violent response, I tilted my head in surprise.

"Why?"

"I- it's dangerous, and I don’t want Leen to see such things…"

Carson was embarrassed and made excuses, but that wasn't the reason I couldn't go.

Because,

"I'm good at catching monsters."

It wasn't bluffing. I was really good at catching the monsters.