The Genius Perfumer of the Fallen Cult - Chapter 77

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The Genius Perfumer of the Fallen Religious Order Episode 77

 

Moreover, the current exam isn’t just any ordinary test. Isn’t it for creating fragrances to prepare for the upcoming attack by Demon Beasts?

 

What would happen if all those people ran away?

 

Prim hurriedly grabbed Mennellik’s sleeve. She was about to ask him to calm the others so they wouldn’t flee. However, even Mennellik had a dazed expression on his face.

 

Prim lost her words and let go of his hand.

 

And so the third exam ended without any dignity. Everyone glanced at Prim sideways, drooped their shoulders, and trudged back home.

 

Prim watched them with an awkward expression. Then Mennellik, whose flower-petal-like face had finished the fragrance extraction, looked at her, furrowed his brow, then smiled faintly again. He had the face of a priest who had let go of all attachments.

 

“I was foolish.”

 

“No, you weren’t.”

 

“What do you mean no.”

 

“…”

 

“Honestly, you must have thought I was stupid.”

 

“No, I…”

 

Prim stopped mid-sentence. Mennellik shook his head back and forth.

 

“I knew about you geniuses’ methods!”

 

“Mm.”

 

“You think I don’t know, right?”

 

“Mmm.”

 

Prim now realized that silence was the best option at times like this.

 

While the Exam Supervisor and priests checked the tags attached to the test takers’ results and organized them, Mennellik finally returned to his usual self and said.

 

“Prim, congratulations on becoming a Perfumer in advance.”

 

“Thank you.”

 

* * *

 

On the night after taking the exam, Prim offered a fragrance to Varin. At the same time, Varin’s voice rang out with a clang.

 

— I’m so dumbfounded! If you heard such news, you should have run away immediately! Go to another city right now! What on earth are you doing here!

 

“…”

 

Without even a chance to recite something resembling a prayer, Varin poured out words like a waterfall.

 

— How could you so leisurely take an exam and come back? A child who has trouble even walking! What if something terrible happens!

 

Prim only widened her eyes, leaned back slightly, then barely opened her mouth.

 

“Still, I have to do what I can here.”

 

Prim dropped a few more drops of fragrant oil into the lamp. The smoke from the fragrant oil that had been rising in wisps swayed back and forth.

 

— Yes, you’ve already made all those fragrances! Do you need to stay and watch when everything will be completed in a few days anyway?

 

“Actually, I don’t know when the Time Headache will come.”

 

— …Ah.

 

“I’m worried it might be a problem if I suddenly get sick while traveling… I don’t know how much it will hurt, and Rozien is worried too. But you don’t need to worry too much. They say the Demon Beasts are coming from the west, so an evacuation shelter has been set up in the eastern part of the city. I’ve decided to stay there.”

 

— …

 

Both the fragrance and Varin fell silent for a moment. Prim tilted her head.

 

“Varin?”

 

— That’s exactly why I told you not to do such things! You’ve made so many fragrances for nothing and now something bigger is going to happen. What if the Time Headache becomes too severe?

 

“Actually, wasn’t the biggest thing that could happen already occur when I shared the Divine Oracle?”

 

In Prim’s opinion, among all the things she had done here, what had changed something the most wasn’t staying in the city to mass-produce fragrances under the pretext of taking the Perfumer exam, but hearing Levitia’s Divine Revelation and reporting it to the Temple.

 

— That’s exactly why you shouldn’t have said it! What if you get so sick that you faint!

 

Varin shouted. Prim’s hand, which had been filling the lamp with fragrant oil, shook slightly and the oil spilled. Just recalling that Time Headache made her body tremble with pain.

 

Prim waited for the trembling in her hands to stop, then answered calmly.

 

“Still, I had to say it.”

 

It was about protecting people. If it had been Rozien, even if that Time Headache had been agony that tore through his brain, he would have spoken without a moment’s hesitation.

 

Just as he had rushed in without caring about curses, trying to protect others.

 

— Oh, Prim. You haven’t forgotten, have you? That if you don’t safely fix this regression, everything will come to nothing!

 

“I know. I’ll never forget.”

 

How could she forget when she was living only for that? Even at Prim’s words, Varin grumbled for a long time before finally reducing his complaints.

 

“But there are good points too, Varin.”

 

— What good points could there possibly be here! After hearing such a messed-up revelation, you’ll only suffer from terrible Time Headaches and the Demon Beasts will still come attacking! Damn it, that bastard Levitia! He should have given a revelation to move Prim too!

 

Varin spoke like a child with candy in his mouth asking for more.

 

“Originally, if you pass the Perfumer Qualification Exam, you have to perform military service tasks. This exam replaces the military service task with the third practical exam.”

 

— What? How is this a good thing!

 

Suddenly Varin shouted. Prim’s eyes widened.

 

“Huh? If not this…”

 

She would have to go somewhere else to help make fragrances, which would delay making fragrances to offer to Varin. There probably wouldn’t be any Temple of Varin anywhere else either.

 

— No, no, no! You’re losing the chance to make a name for yourself! The opportunity to proudly show the world that you, like those Perfumers of old, received a blessing by offering a wonderful fragrance right after passing the Perfumer Qualification Exam!

 

“If it’s about that, I already received a blessing from Levitia, so with that…”

 

— No, no, no!

 

Varin repeated the same words once more.

 

— That was before you passed the Perfumer Qualification Exam! It’s not a ‘military service task’ but just something you did well on your own!

 

“So wouldn’t that be enough?”

 

— Is just doing well on your own the same as achieving something in what’s called a ‘military service task’! Oh, my Lily of the Valley. How can you be so slow-witted?

 

“Ah…”

 

Prim touched her cheek. Thinking about it, Varin’s words had some merit.

 

“I understand. Then I’ll take the military service task as Varin says.”

 

— There will already be people who look down on you for your young appearance! If you pass such an exam, won’t they just find fault with you for no reason?

 

“That’s also true.”

 

As Prim obediently nodded, Varin’s voice, which had been heated, gradually became quieter and calmer.

 

Then, as if something occurred to him belatedly, Varin quickly said.

 

— Ah… And, and fragrances submitted for military service tasks, um, won’t be used for anything immediately, so there might be fewer Time Headaches?

 

“Yes, there will be almost none.”

 

Prim thought there would definitely be Time Headaches, but she answered that way.

 

— If, if you think you might get Time Headaches, don’t make them! You understand, my Lily of the Valley?

 

“Yes, I understand.”

 

Prim said this while quietly looking up at the fragrance. The fox Bell in her arms licked at the fragrant steam and purred.

 

— And what about Curresen’s Violet Candy? Are you finishing them all?

 

“Yes, there are only a few left.”

 

Just a few more days of eating them and she would be free from this curse too. Prim said this while looking down at her feet.

 

Every time she built a temple to offer fragrance and pray to Varin, she conveniently drew blood thanks to the curse, but what should she do now?

 

‘Should I carry around a dagger or something?’

 

If there were Temples of Varin here and there, it would solve the problem, but that would still take a bit more time.

 

While thinking she should ask Luciano to get her a sharp dagger, Prim thought about the military service task.

 

If she offered it to Varin and received a decent blessing, that alone would elevate Varin’s name and increase his followers.

 

‘I should start writing the military service task formula from today.’

 

* * *

 

The day before going to the promised evacuation shelter, Prim sat face to face with Antien, the Bishop of Yulberon. Antien’s face was filled with the tension of facing the day of revelation.

 

Prim first brought out the ‘Last Day of the Festival’ that had received a blessing at the Temple of Curresen.

 

“What is… this?”

 

Since he couldn’t speak carelessly to someone who had received Divine Revelation, respect now seeped through even Antien’s words.

 

Prim pondered for a moment before speaking.

 

“Does the immunity still stand?”

 

Since she wasn’t going to withhold this fragrance just because she might spend some time in jail in this situation, it was a small joke on Prim’s part.

 

Though to Antien, it only sounded bizarre.

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