Potion, Wagami o Tasukeru - Ch. 5

[MangaDex]

 

[Miserys_End]

I've heard about all sorts of bathtub brews at house parties, but think this is the first time I've seen such a thing being done at a public bathhouse...

Also kind of silly to wait all day for the bathhouse to close, when she could have just gone down to the river yet once again.

 

[GipoScribantino]

The elf is kinda annoying. Knife ears I swear.

Also kind of silly to wait all day for the bathhouse to close, when she could have just gone down to the river yet once again.

Wasn't the container the issue, not the water?

 

[inkindoug]

I've heard about all sorts of bathtub brews at house parties, but think this is the first time I've seen such a thing being done at a public bathhouse...

Also kind of silly to wait all day for the bathhouse to close, when she could have just gone down to the river yet once again.

I reckon throwing the purifying stone and Aogiri grass into the river then shouting create only to watch a few hundred high potions sink to the riverbed might have been a problem (or float down the river)

 

[Miserys_End]

Wasn't the container the issue, not the water?

@inkindoug

Except she never needed a container before. She spent two chapters sitting by the riverside making potions before, so why would she need more then a washbasin full of river water? I mean sure she saves brewing time throwing it all in bathhouse tub at once, but she spent hours waiting for the bathhouse to close.

This just comes off as a hamfisted restriction so that she would be forced to spend the day wondering around town. which could have been just as easily accomplished after a morning down by the river making potions.

 

[inkindoug]

@inkindoug

Except she never needed a container before. She spent two chapters sitting by the riverside making potions before, so why would she need more then a washbasin full of river water? I mean sure she saves brewing time throwing it all in bathhouse tub at once, but she spent hours waiting for the bathhouse to close.

This just comes off as a hamfisted restriction so that she would be forced to spend the day wondering around town. which could have been just as easily accomplished after a morning down by the river making potions.

From what I can remember, whilst she was at the river she was making them individually. Whereas on this occasion, the volume of materials provided coupled with the "non consumable" purifying stone means logistically using a larger-than-bucket but smaller-than-river receptacle for h2o would be the sensible way to go about it.

 

[Miserys_End]

From what I can remember, whilst she was at the river she was making them individually. Whereas on this occasion, the volume of materials provided coupled with the "non consumable" purifying stone means logistically using a larger-than-bucket but smaller-than-river receptacle for h2o would be the sensible way to go about it.

O . o
iirc her second trip to the river saw her producing several hundred low potions. So even if she was doing it individually, it wouldn't have taken nearly as long to make the elf a hundred or so High Potions. This was less a matter of logistics and seems more about not repeating the same action for a third time.

 

[inkindoug]

O . o
iirc her second trip to the river saw her producing several hundred low potions. So even if she was doing it individually, it wouldn't have taken nearly as long to make the elf a few dozen High Potions. This was less a matter of logistics and seems more about not repeating the same action for a third time.

I think her words were "Whilst I was making them I was keeping count, there are definitely over 100" (Okay, not think, I TL'd it so went back and checked) and she didn't just scream create and then pack up with over 100 potions. It wasn't explained whether they were made individually, but if she can make that many in the bath, but not in one go whilst by the river, the conclusion I draw from that is...
Then there's the whole purifying stone issue. Don't want to have to throw that in a river...

 

[UdenEmpati]

@inkindoug

Except she never needed a container before. She spent two chapters sitting by the riverside making potions before, so why would she need more then a washbasin full of river water? I mean sure she saves brewing time throwing it all in bathhouse tub at once, but she spent hours waiting for the bathhouse to close.

This just comes off as a hamfisted restriction so that she would be forced to spend the day wondering around town. which could have been just as easily accomplished after a morning down by the river making potions.

She never needed a container before because the 'regular potion' recipe called for plain water. The river was an ideal place to get effectively-limitless quantities of water.

Because the 'High Potion' required purified water, she needed a contained place where she could just toss the Purifying Stone into the water and let it do its thing.

She couldn't do that at the river, because the moment she tossed the stone in, it'd purify some amount of river water, that water would immediately be carried downstream, and she'd lose the Stone.

The bathhouse-as-receptacle was to keep the purified water in-place so she could use it once the Stone had worked its magic.

Plus, maybe I just missed it being stated, but there's no indication that the Purifying Stone isn't one-use.
So doing it bucket-by-bucket at the river isn't guaranteed to work if the Stone only works once upon being placed in a body of water--doing it in a large container like a giant public bathhouse tub, means you get the greatest amount of purified water at one time as possible.

 

[inkindoug]

She never needed a container before because the 'regular potion' recipe called for plain water. The river was an ideal place to get effectively-limitless quantities of water.

Because the 'High Potion' required purified water, she needed a contained place where she could just toss the Purifying Stone into the water and let it do its thing.

She couldn't do that at the river, because the moment she tossed the stone in, it'd purify some amount of river water, that water would immediately be carried downstream, and she'd lose the Stone.

The bathhouse-as-receptacle was to keep the purified water in-place so she could use it once the Stone had worked its magic.

Plus, maybe I just missed it being stated, but there's no indication that the Purifying Stone isn't one-use.
So doing it bucket-by-bucket at the river isn't guaranteed to work if the Stone only works once upon being placed in a body of water--doing it in a large container like a giant public bathhouse tub, means you get the greatest amount of purified water at one time as possible.

Chapter 3, page 16
"" Purifying stone: Also known as “Goddess Tears”, purifies tainted water. Oh, no matter how many times it’s used, it never runs out.
ST "That explains why they’re 1000 Tamils… But… still expensive"
Yeah, I never mentioned the need for a different kind of water as I thought that was assumed.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Chapter 3, page 16
"" Purifying stone: Also known as “Goddess Tears”, purifies tainted water. Oh, no matter how many times it’s used, it never runs out.
ST "That explains why they’re 1000 Tamils… But… still expensive"
Yeah, I never mentioned the need for a different kind of water as I thought that was assumed.

Okay, felt like I was forgetting something so there we go - still runs the risk of losing the stone in the river, as you'd stated yourself. A contained place for water is safer on that front, given how expensive those stones are.

 

[NeverAnother]

NGL if that tiny stone was able to produce magic powerful enough to pierce the dragon’s skull, then shouldn’t they be making a bigger deal out of it?! She’s not even spec’d for combat.

 

[3leaves2]

woah this was a packed chapter! I swear I read atleast two right now.

 

[HDMI1]

No Dragon Waifu to heal and tame.

 

[EchoGirl]

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/potions-will-save-me/ NU link for those who wants it

The elf is kinda annoying. Knife ears I swear.

LOL i like the elf from campfire cooking but the rest of them tend to fall under the haughty trope if not the oppressed dragon age ones (altho while i wouldn't care myself b/c i don't rly want big boobs but i'd charge him double outta spite/rudeness lol)

No Dragon Waifu to heal and tame.

Apparently she gets a female slave at some point, so...IDK if the manga will cut it out but plenty of other manga on here have slave owner mcs anyways but the only other one i can think of with a female mc is that one fanservicey one where her male slave kept going into heat or whatever lol. and i haven't seen the anime so idk how far it gets into that tho ppl said they skimped on the animation

 

[Seraphus]

Personally, I was just happy to see an MC be involved with killing a dragon unintentionally without acting like it's normal... my suspension of disbelief to no hits before the upload group advert.

 

[Miserys_End]

She never needed a container before because the 'regular potion' recipe called for plain water. The river was an ideal place to get effectively-limitless quantities of water.

Because the 'High Potion' required purified water, she needed a contained place where she could just toss the Purifying Stone into the water and let it do its thing.

She couldn't do that at the river, because the moment she tossed the stone in, it'd purify some amount of river water, that water would immediately be carried downstream, and she'd lose the Stone.

The bathhouse-as-receptacle was to keep the purified water in-place so she could use it once the Stone had worked its magic.

Hence the use of a washbasin i mention in my last few responses. Think of it like a wooden bucket the size of those yellow lidded, black plastic storage bins from Costco and big box stores.

The order of operations would be relitively simple, place the washbasin down beside the river, place the purification Stone in the bottom, and fill with river water using the bucket. All then that's needed is to add the magical grass, poof the contents into high potions, and pack the resulting high potions into a storage bag. Rinse and Repeat.

As for why I keep harping on this, it's because it just seems stupidly silly to change an already proven work flow. It would also allow her to create additional low potions to fill the remaining space in her storage bags.

Conversely, using the bathhouse means twiddling her thumbs for the entire day waiting for it to close, cleaning the facility, and only then being able to start working on crafting potions. Sure it offers a marginally safer location to craft potions, but at the expense of extra labor, and working late into the night.

Plus, maybe I just missed it being stated, but there's no indication that the Purifying Stone isn't one-use.
So doing it bucket-by-bucket at the river isn't guaranteed to work if the Stone only works once upon being placed in a body of water--doing it in a large container like a giant public bathhouse tub, means you get the greatest amount of purified water at one time as possible.

Yupper as inkindoug already pointed out, the stone doesn't have a listed limit on its use. As for the bathhouse tubs, sure they are convenient in that they have a larger capacity and are magically filled, a good sized washbasin would work just as well, even if she had to manually fill it.

 

[Civi]

It always bothered me that skills like this create the bottle out of thin air. At least make it like wax bottles or something that could plausibly be converted.

 

[Dexmangnata]

Thanks for the translation!

Also on page 30, first panel there is a typo with (j)ust.

 

[rkkn]

yeah I'd be finding a different inn after that. one that respects its patrons.
"yes, I gave him the key to your room, because he's hot" ... bruh

Luckily she's leaving town anyway

The elf is kinda annoying.

for real. good thing this isn't romance (?)