Kanzen Kaihi Healer no Kiseki - Vol. 6 Ch. 28 - Ren's Decision

[MangaDex]

 

[0riginal]

What a surprise, sexism in a Japanese story. Who would have thunk it.

 

[NagatoKaiNi]

...Wouldn't they have got a massive discount by trading the apricot grass they have for the finished potion? IF it's really that hard to find an ingredient.. >.<

 

[Ezlsnow]

Ehh... Can't they hear the request first before making a decision? Although I don't think the fairy's gonna tell since they would've already.

...Wouldn't they have got a massive discount by trading the apricot grass they have for the finished potion? IF it's really that hard to find an ingredient.. >.<

Fairy is more of selling their services (using the needed Alchemy skill to turn Apricot Grass to potion) rather than the materials.

While the ingredient is rare (fairy seems to know where to search though and is strong enough to gather on their own), the fairy already said the ingredient Apricot Grass itself doesn't sell as a raw material since the curse-lifting potion is the much-needed item in the end, which needs a skilled alchemist to produce (fairy can seemingly turn it into potion).

 

[fieldhouse]

Ehh... Can't they hear the request first before making a decision? Although I don't think the fairy's gonna tell since they would've already.

Generally Japanese MCs would rather go on long grueling quests than listen to someone's request. Maybe in their culture just listening to the request obligates them? That would seem like a pretty big Achilles heel though.

 

[Pokari]

What a surprise, sexism in a Japanese story. Who would have thunk it.

Yeah, it's pretty jarring when everything's so low-key and relaxed but then it's all like "MEN NEED THEIR MANLY ISOLATION TIME WHEN IN PAIN" just like what is this even I don't understand XD

To be fair, the person saying it is implied to be a character raised by Yakuza so it seems plausible that they'd think that way (no place for bizarre preformative manliness like organised crime syndicates, really). Yet the authorial viewpoint seems to be endorsing it as correct without any sense of the thematic contradiction compared to MC and his other friends going "let us communicate properly when we are troubled!", so either they're doing a clever long play where these ideologies will come into conflict, or the author is really breezing past some wild cognitive dissonance here.