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Chapter 279 - Buying Catalysts 4. Food and Medicine Share the Same Origin

Having finished his liquor hunt under the grand justification of purchasing catalysts for enchanting, Yuri returned to Adon’s mansion in high spirits... but something from his conversation with the liquor store owner had been bothering him.

(The idea of ‘Food and Medicine Share the Same Origin’... does it not exist in this world?)

Unlike in his past life in Japan, he felt that the awareness of taking in fortifying ingredients like Vitamin B and Taurine from food was weak. It seemed to be known that monster meat was effective for recovering magic power and stamina, but he felt that it didn't progress one step further to the idea of "eating such-and-such ingredients to improve one’s physical condition." In a way, was it a side effect of monster meat and potions being too effective?


"Well... cooks like us do know about that sort of thing... but as for whether an ordinary family would care that much... I wonder..."

Mand, the head chef of Adon’s mansion, seemed to know, as expected, but whether that was common knowledge in ordinary households was another matter entirely.

"The poor probably don’t have the luxury to choose what they eat, and conversely, the wealthy tend to focus on delicious things."

If one felt a little unwell, they could just rely on a Potion or a healer, so it seemed they didn't arrive at the idea of being careful about their food intake to maintain their physical condition on a daily basis.

"Are you knowledgeable about that sort of thing, Yuri?"

"Well, where I live, it’s an environment where medicine isn’t so easy to come by."

One might want to ask what mouth he was spouting such things from, having made potions that would make the Adventurer’s Guild’s eyes pop out... but what Yuri was saying wasn't entirely wrong. It was precisely because medicine was not so easy to come by that he had no choice but to resort to making it himself... the fact that what he ended up making was that was another matter.

Well, for that reason, he had no choice but to be mindful of the efficacy of his ingredients on a daily basis, Yuri stated proudly. But Mand's subsequent simple question would pierce him to the core.

"Huh... and how did you learn about that ‘efficacy,’ Yuri?"

"That’s, of course, with [Appr..."

Officially, Yuri was not supposed to have the [Appraisal] skill. Yuri, who remembered that setting at the last second, couldn’t help but let his sentence trail off abruptly.

"...‘App’?"

"...No, um... It was just a, ‘hunch.’"

"I see, a ‘hunch.’"

"Yes, a ‘hunch.’"

Mand looked at Yuri with a lukewarm gaze for a moment, but inwardly he was thinking something else. This idea, which Yuri called "Food and Medicine Share the Same Origin,"

(...couldn't this be used as a reason why the mistress and the young lady are looking so radiant?)

The reason Adon’s wife and daughter were actually glowing was because they were eating the crops Yuri grew on Salt-Sour Mountain. Mand was aware of the circumstances that required this to be kept secret, but,

(...it’s not like the only good-for-your-body food comes from Salt-Sour Mountain, right?)

Thus, Mand succeeded in extracting knowledge about Beauty Food from Yuri, and as a result, Adon’s wife and daughter would become even more radiant than before. And, just as Mand had planned, he also succeeded in misdirecting the reason for it to the idea of "Beauty Food."