The Genius Perfumer of the Fallen Cult - Chapter 46

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The Genius Perfumer of the Fallen Religious Order Episode 46

 

The divine beast paid no attention to those words, completely absorbed in its purring slumber.

 

Varin had tried to explain for dozens of minutes what significance it held that this divine beast, thought to be extinct, had been revived again, but gave up and decided to change the subject.

 

— But now, my little lily of the valley.

 

“Yes, Prim is here.”

 

— You honestly suspected me, didn’t you?

 

“…What? Cough!”

 

She suddenly inhaled the smoke and let out a small cough. Varin’s voice grew louder.

 

— You suspected that I gave you a strange blessing! That it wasn’t what you wanted!

 

“I didn’t do that.”

 

— You didn’t do that, my foot!

 

Prim thought that if Varin had manifested, he probably would have rolled his eyes at her.

 

— My blessing was perfect, wasn’t it? This Varin never gets lost when there’s a path that needs to be navigated!

 

“Well, you are the god of crossroads. I only trusted in Varin.”

 

— Oh my, how can you be so bad at flattery?

 

“Because I only speak the truth.”

 

— Fine, fine. What am I supposed to say to that.

 

Prim suddenly remembered something and asked a question.

 

“But what about the roses? How did that path open…”

 

— How can you, as my follower in name, immediately get straight to your own business?

 

Prim hesitated for a moment.

 

“You said it was fine.”

 

— …Actually it wasn’t fine!

 

Prim wondered whether to ask why he said it was fine when it wasn’t, but stopped herself and squeezed out something to say to appease the sulking god.

 

“Um, how do you like this fragrance? According to the Marseria Priest, this is the first new Guiding Light made in a hundred years.”

 

— Are you giving me hints again about eating a special meal for the first time in a hundred years?

 

“Hmm.”

 

This isn’t it. Prim drew an X mark on the first item in her mental list and moved on to the next.

 

“Did you like the fragrant oil I sprinkled on the stone this time? I named it Maze Compass.”

 

— That wasn’t meant for me! You were going to give it to that guy blinded by gold coins, but gave it to me because the situation was urgent! It was good though, really excellent, but still!

 

This isn’t it either.

 

Prim drew a big X mark on the second line as well and brought out the next item.

 

“Then this time I made…”

 

— Fine, fine. This time it’s really fine. Oh my, you foolish lily of the valley!

 

“…”

 

This time he said it was really okay even before she finished speaking. His voice seemed genuinely calm and had a hint of laughter, as if his mood had truly improved.

 

However, Prim felt even more bewildered and just rolled her eyes.

 

A god’s heart is truly impossible to fathom!

 

— Well, that rose back then was probably Yulberon’s scheme too, but they say it was possible because your rose had been feeding blood to other roses all this time.

 

“…What?”

 

Her rose referred to Rozien.

 

What on earth did it mean that he had been feeding blood to roses?

 

— I don’t really know either. I can’t watch everything. Yulberon said that’s what happened. So he was able to help.

 

Prim felt as if a thorn had pierced her heart, but didn’t ask any more questions about something even Varin didn’t know.

 

Varin immediately began badmouthing Yulberon.

 

— You should see how much he’s targeting you all. When you were in crisis, he came rushing over in such a frenzy again!

 

“Yulberon went that far?”

 

— Thanks to that, he even found his own rose that was thought to be extinct, so that guy is probably dancing with joy right now.

 

“Ah, that’s right.”

 

Even though Yulberon’s own knights couldn’t recognize that fragrance and appearance…

 

That’s when it happened. As the incense smoke lowered, Varin whispered secretly and wickedly.

 

— But that Yulberon’s Heart can only be found with that stone you offered this time.

 

“…!”

 

— That annoying Yulberon probably doesn’t know yet! Hahaha!

 

In other words, no matter how many holy knights Yulberon sent, they couldn’t find the roses without that sacred relic—the stone—blessed by Varin.

 

It meant that Prim had achieved a monopoly on Ferum Rosa through divine power. Prim quickly finished her calculations and drew a faint smile.

 

Now, no matter what kind of knight Rozien became, she wouldn’t have to worry about the cost of his weapons and armor.

 

— But, you know…

 

“Yes?”

 

Hesitation rippled in Varin’s voice. When Prim tilted her head, Varin finally spoke.

 

— Um, ahem. How was the pain? Were you okay?

 

“Ah, the time headache? I had it a bit but I was fine.”

 

Since the pain had passed, saying she was fine wasn’t wrong. However, Varin’s voice still carried a restless tone.

 

— Didn’t that rose that appeared out of nowhere just make your time headache worse?

 

“I was glad about Ferum Rosa because I wanted to find it again too.”

 

— I’ve been thinking, my little lily of the valley. How about offering small fragrances multiple times instead? You know, so you only get headaches like ‘Ah, my head hurts a little~!’

 

“Hmm, time headaches don’t seem to be determined by the quality of fragrance alone.”

 

Time headaches don’t occur because Prim offers fragrances, but when changes happen.

 

Those changes usually occur when Prim offers fragrances to Varin, but fundamentally, it’s not because of the fragrances.

 

Even now, Prim had newly crafted Guiding Light and offered it to Varin, but there was no particular headache, which was why.

 

— Ugh.

 

“Don’t worry.”

 

Now that Baron Corvus and his wife’s incident was resolved, once she lifted the curse, there wouldn’t be such urgent need to offer fragrances to the god.

 

She could quietly offer fragrances alone, endure the time headaches, tell Varin she was fine, and say nothing to Rozien.

 

— I’m not worried! I’m concerned it might affect your perfumery! What if you say you don’t want to make perfumes because you’re in pain!

 

“That would never happen.”

 

If she couldn’t fix this regression, she would return to the time when she had lost Rozien again.

 

Varin was silent for a moment before changing the subject.

 

— Well, that’s a relief then. Have you finished making the fragrance to lift your curse? How about putting this rose we found this time into it?

 

Prim was silent for a moment. Gods liked to savor fragrances, but they didn’t have exceptional talent in perfumery.

 

“I’ve finished planning that. Now I just need to make it.”

 

— If you’ve finished planning it, you should make that first! What have you been doing all this time!

 

“Well…”

 

What had she been doing? She had made this. This Guiding Light.

 

Reading the answer from Prim’s silence, Varin’s voice jumped.

 

— You fool! Go right now and make the fragrance to lift the curse first!

 

“There’s still some time left before I need to go to the temple at the Lord’s Manor anyway. I can make it now. And Varin, you used a lot of power helping us this time too.”

 

— …

 

Visible blessings require that much intense power.

 

Varin had also used everything he had without regard for consequences to save Rozien and herself back then.

 

Thinking about that made her want to immediately make something and offer it to him.

 

— I’m not that urgent. This Varin trusts my lily of the valley. Hurry and resolve your curse first!

 

Now Prim understood Varin a little. Even when he said he was fine, he actually wasn’t.

 

‘I’ll just make something for him.’

 

“Um, thank you. Oh Varin! Do you happen to remember what you said when you blessed that stone?”

 

— ….

 

“Varin?”

 

— Sigh…. By borrowing the power of Noxrak of chaos, may fortune come to adventurers who will ward off misfortune and explore unknown paths… is what I said.

 

“Thank you. When I couldn’t memorize it last time, everyone was disappointed. I’ll make sure to record Varin’s words.”

 

— Hmph! You think I’ll be pleased just because you say such things?

 

“Huh?”

 

— A-anyway, solve your curse first, quickly!

 

The smoke gradually died down, and the figure of the small lily of the valley kneeling in prayer also disappeared from Varin’s sight.

 

Varin wore a triumphant expression.

 

Though things got a bit awkward at the end, she had said she would trust him once, so Prim would surely be quite moved by those words and create even more magnificent and beautiful fragrances.

 

‘This is what they call taking one step back for two steps forward.’

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