Early morning. Lina hurriedly finished her morning work and left the inn.

“I really thought I was going to die of frustration.”

Last night, how anxious she was in front of the Duke, in case she might say something wrong.

Even while working at the inn, she had never spoken comfortably, thinking that she might bump into him anytime, anywhere.

“Today, I must buy a magic potion.”

While the Duke and his party were staying at the inn, she had planned to keep drinking the potion.

The price of the magic potion was wicked, but it seemed that the money Lawrence gave her would be enough to last for about a week.

“I pretended not to be able to speak to the Duke, but I can excuse myself by saying I was so surprised that the words didn’t come out, or I can bluff to the inn’s people that a voice changer came or it’s an aftereffect of an injury to my throat.”

Besides, the Duke probably doesn’t even know who she is, so it wouldn’t matter if her voice changed.

“I have to buy it quickly and go back. Otherwise, the innkeeper will scold me again.”

Since he doesn’t like to see her resting, if he finds out that she went out for a while, he will keep her working all day without any time to rest.

Lina hurried her steps to the store to get back to the inn as soon as possible.

“Are you there?”

With the jingling sound of a bell, she entered, and since it was a fairly famous shop, it was bustling with people.

As Lina looked around with searching eyes, an employee came up to her.

“How can I help you?”

“I want to buy a potion that changes the voice.”

“Oh, for the voicechanging potion, come this way[dash].”

Following the kindly guiding employee, she handed over a bottle filled with blue potion.

“There’s only one left now, is that okay? One bottle will last you about a week.”

“Okay, I’ll just take one bottle.”

As Lina was paying the employee and about to leave, a woman standing next to her, constantly exclaiming, caught her eye.

She was wearing plain clothes, but the fabric of the clothes and her behavior made her look like a highborn lady.

‘Wow, she looks just like cotton candy.’

And the woman’s first impression was sweet.

The pink hair that reminded her of sweet dessert was curling down to her waist, and her clear skyblue eyes added to the fresh feel.

‘She looks like a lady who doesn’t know the ways of the world.’

And it seemed Lina wasn’t the only one who felt that first impression, as one of the employees was holding the lady and showing her various things.

Every time she heard the employee’s explanation, the lady, who seemed amazed, was ready to buy all the potions she was shown.

For a while, Lina stared blankly at her, and just as she was about to pass by.

“So is it one gold coin for a bottle?”

‘What? One gold coin?’

She unconsciously stopped at the outrageous amount.

“This is the ‘Love Potion’ that’s popular among noble ladies these days. Just one drop of this potion, and any man will fall in love with you.”

The man, stroking his mustache, looked unmistakably like a swindler.

‘I thought such fraud would not be present in a reputed shop like this.’

Magic was not easily accessible, and since magic potions were so expensive and luxurious, many people who knew nothing about them often got cheated.

But a love potion for one gold coin? It was not a price she could ignore.

‘And that lady seems ready to buy it right now.’

Unlike Lina, who was inwardly clicking her tongue, the cotton candylike lady seemed like she would buy the potion even if it cost ten gold coins.

With that, Lina, after a brief moment of hesitation, let out a short sigh and approached them.

“A love potion for one gold coin, that’s really an outrageous price.”

At that one sentence, both people looked at her.

“I came to buy, trusting that this is the most famous magic potion shop in the capital… I didn’t know this was a place that cheats like this.”
She deliberately raised her voice and approached, and the eyes of those around her gathered.

“Fraud, fraud! Where did that come from……! Who are you!”

The employee scolded Lina with an excited voice.

“Generally, the price of a potion is measured by how long it can be maintained. But a love potion, something that moves a person’s heart, lasts only a week at most. It can’t maintain a period worth a single gold coin. Oh, is Festius’s pricing policy a little different?”

As Lina brought up even the national policy, the flustered man eventually put his tail down, and the people who were watching put down the potions they were holding with a loud sound and left.

At that, the employee hastily tried to make an excuse, but everyone turned away as if it was not worth listening to anymore.

Watching this, Lina also left the shop.

“Wait a moment!”

A woman who seemed to have run caught hold of Lina’s hem.

“What is it?”

“I want to thank you. I almost suffered a big loss, but thanks to you, I survived.”

“Oh, it’s nothing. I have urgent business, so I must go.”

Answering indifferently to the woman who was thanking her, Lina turned away.