Interlude:
Jilgista Kingdom 3
Today
as well, Carter tore up the letter of complaint that had arrived, handed
the reagent recipe to his assistant, and yelled at him.
「Make this immediately! I will not
allow you to go home until it's done!!」
Half
a year since Layla left the Jilgista Kingdom. In this half a
year, Carter's gears had completely gone out of whack, and now the trust
in the Medicinal Herb Laboratory was only on a path of steady decline.
The
assistant he had just scolded was the third one, and the Second Prince
had warned him that there would absolutely be no next replacement.
Carter himself had no idea why the
reagents kept failing so much.
That
was to be expected; even when Layla was there, he had been making
reagent recipes. After a fashion, anyway. And he would hand them to Layla,
ordering her, 「Make it based on this.」
However,
the reagents Layla created faithfully according to the written contents
were not usable products. When she told him that, he reprimanded her, saying it
was her duty to improve upon it based on the recipe he handed her.
At
first, she reported the contents of the improvements one by one, but after Carter
found it bothersome and yelled at her, 「Don't check with me for every little
thing, that's your job,」 Layla stopped consulting him and began to
think for herself and create the reagents.
The
reagents completed in this way were by now completely different from the
recipes Carter had made. In some cases, all the medicinal herbs used
were different. Of course, since she handed the recipes of the created reagents
to Carter, he had countless opportunities to know that, but he did not
try to know.
The
assistant, of course, was making the reagents according to Carter's
instructions. That was why they were failing.
That
being said, sometimes a reagent would actually be completed. Normally, one
would carefully check for side effects before handing it over to the Pharmaceutical
Department, but Carter didn't even do that.
Giving
it a quick glance and confirming that it was made according to his
instructions, he had it taken to the Pharmaceutical Department just like
that. The result of that was a massive amount of complaint letters. The
medicines made by the Pharmaceutical Department were also distributed to
the market. Although there were medicines made by the private sector, the ones
made by the Pharmaceutical Department were popular for being more
effective.
Now,
it had reached the point where people in the streets were saying it was better
not to buy the medicines made by the Pharmaceutical Department.
They
got a rash when they applied the salve. The poultice peeled off immediately and
was useless. Their diarrhea wouldn't stop after taking the painkiller.
The
complaints were endless.
Moreover,
several of the important documents handed to Aisha had gone missing, and
complaints kept coming in one after another from various departments saying
they hadn't received any communication or asking what happened to that matter.
Even if he tried to ask Aisha, she just tilted her head and teared up,
getting nowhere.
The
Pharmaceutical Department made a report to the King regarding the
deterioration in the quality of the Medicinal Herb Laboratory's new medicines,
and based on that, Carter was summoned by the King yesterday.
Carter, sweating cold bullets, desperately
continued to string together excuses.
Failures
are inherent in new medicines. His assistant is completely useless.
Furthermore, the Pharmaceutical Department isn't making them exactly as
he wrote. And so on.
The
King looked at Carter, who was stringing together words out of
desperation, with suspicious eyes, and gave him a stern warning that the next
failure would not be forgiven.
Carter wasn't the only one panicked by
this. The Second Prince, who had backed Carter's research
results, was also driven by impatience. Despite throwing his support behind him
and even rewarding him, not a single decent medicine had been made in this half
a year. On the contrary, the quality of existing medicines had dropped,
dissatisfaction was welling up from various departments, and elementary
mistakes like the loss of important documents were occurring one after another.
「Develop a medicine that will take
everyone by surprise.」
Furrowing
his brows deeply, he ordered Carter.
At
that ghastly expression, Carter had no choice but to shrink back and
answer, 「Certainly.」
And so, unusually staying up late into the night thinking, he handed the
completed reagent recipe to his assistant just now. Therefore, Carter
thought.
(My
job is done with this. The assistant will finish up the reagent for the rest.)
In
his mind, there was no thought of making the reagent over and over and
improving it each time. Because that was Layla's job. As for the side
effects of the completed reagent, just like up until now, they wouldn't be
checked. In this way, the "new medicine that takes everyone by
surprise" ended up being developed.
When
autumn comes, a contagious disease that causes repeated vomiting and diarrhea
begins to spread. It is highly infectious and takes about a week to fully
recover from. Although healthy adults do not die from it, infants and the
elderly die every year from this disease; a new medicine to completely cure it.
It ended up being made so simply and easily. Without repeating experiments, and
without checking for side effects.
To
make matters worse, the Second Prince, satisfied with those results,
began saying he would reward Carter again. Not for Carter's sake.
But to show his own presence, which had completely faded into the background
lately, to those around him.
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