The reunion with Teo was brief.

Lea had to head straight to the store run by Magnolia, moving past her joy.

However, every path to the store was a mess, with piles of garbage accumulated due to the flood damage and broken tree branches strewn about.

Her heart weighed heavy at the sight of the situation being worse than what she had vaguely seen from the carriage.

‘I did well to come here.’

She felt glad she had made the effort to come to Tren, even if it was difficult. At that moment, she was looking around with a regrettable gaze.

When she saw Magnolia’s store in the nottoofar distance, Beren, who was walking with her, spoke.

“We’re almost there. You may have to struggle for a few days as the damage is quite severe.”

“Yes, I expected as much. Seeing it up close, it’s worse than I thought.”

“You’re right. The damage to the upper part shouldn’t have been this severe.”

Beren sighed at the sight of the store with a sunken roof. The largest herb store in Tren was the one run by Magnolia.

Lea moved into the store covered in mud.

‘There was a river nearby, wasn’t there?’

The main reason Tren suffered such extensive water damage was the large river that crossed the territory.

Due to the heavy rain, not only Magnolia’s store, but the entire village was covered in sediment from the flooded river.

“This is serious. These herbs by the entrance can’t be sold.”

“Yes, it seems so.”

The herbs covered in mud were not only unsellable but it was uncertain if they could even be used for immediate treatment.

Lea entered the store, pushing aside the disarrayed display shelves.

Thanks to the staff of Magnolia who had been in Tren, they had prepared it so that there was a path for people to walk.

Lea began to collect medicines from the shelves closest to the ceiling.

“The top row should be okay since they’re in medicine bottles. Gather these and request them to be cleaned.”

The reason they needed an herbalist was that the labels of the medicines were all messed up due to the flood. Lea classified them as she wrote the names of the medicines on the bottles in haste.

“I’ll classify them roughly, so Beren, please gather these and label them properly.”

“…”

“Beren?”

“Yes? Yes! I’ll do that.”

Beren, who was staring in awe at Lea working without a hitch, snapped back to reality at the sound of her voice calling his name.

The way she sorted out the situation was not like a young pharmacist who had just turned twenty.

“I understand you’re overwhelmed, but we don’t have time for that. Please.”

It was a moment when the blood of the K[Dash]race remaining somewhere in her body shone.

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After quickly sorting out the usable items, Lea began to separate the herbs and medicines that needed to be thrown away.

The bottom shelf was more of a mess than imagined.

The smell was foul as the medicines from the broken bottles mixed with the rainwater. Lea, who was reaching into the mud and picking out anything she could grab, held up a medicine bottle.

“What is this?”

It was a bottle of medicine containing a strange blue glowing liquid. Lea tilted her head at the unfamiliar medicine and opened the lid.

“This doesn’t seem like a medicine.”

Just as she thought the sharp smell was strange enough to paralyze her nostrils, one of the store’s staff who had been cleaning with her approached and spoke to Lea.

“Ah. It seems to be a poison spider venom.”

“Poison spider venom?”

Why was there venom in a herb store?

As a puzzled look appeared on Lea’s face, the man laughed as if it was not a big deal.

“Yes. People started looking for it quite a bit due to research results showing that poison spider venom is effective in treating epilepsy, like arsenic.”

“It’s effective in treating epilepsy?”

This was news to her. Then she recalled what she had heard about baekseonpi from the herb store she visited before.

‘Well, toxic herbs do become medicinal herbs.’

Lea nodded and classified the bottle labeled ‘poison spider venom’ into a basket. As she was organizing for a while.

The sunset was painting lines through the window and illuminating the inside of the store. Having been bending over and sitting for a while, her back was stiff.
While relieving her tired muscles by tapping her waist with her fist, she spotted Teo entering the store.

“Lea, are you finished with your work? Should I help you with something?”

Teo, who had come to help after repairing the village, asked, but there was nothing he could really do.

“Well, I haven’t finished sorting the herbs yet…….”

It was a little hard for Teo, who didn’t know about herbs, to do. While pondering what to do, Berun suggested with a tired look.

“Why don’t we stop here for today and continue tomorrow?”

Come to think of it, it was almost time for dinner. Lea, who wanted to have dinner with the orphanage family for the first time in a long time, tidied up the seamstress.

“Then we’ll stop here for today, and I’ll come back tomorrow morning to sort out the rest.”