“Hmm...”

Fortunately Li was able to create a magic potion effective for thinning hair using the materials she already had on hand.

After all it only required adding a few materials and a bit more effort to a basic healing potion.

However even after making it, she had no idea how effective it would actually be.

Li, whose slightly bluish silver hair was of course thick and full.

Rather, thinking about it again, there was no one in the Karasebed Ducal House with thinning hair.

Even among the servants there was not a single person who seemed troubled by hair loss.

That meant she could not verify the effectiveness.

If possible she also wanted to check whether there were any side effects.

“Master, I do not think there will be any particular problems.”

“That may be true but...”

Even if it was a medicine with proven theory behind it, she still wanted to confirm the results with her own eyes.

Li shook off the lingering dissatisfaction.

To do that she chose to start making every magic potion or item that had caught her interest.

She had carefully prepared materials for this very day.

Li immersed herself in the work.

Occasionally exchanging words with Trismegistus.

It was a very fulfilling time.

Through trial and error she continued creating various things that seemed like they might be useful.

At times like this the Goddess’s blessing was extremely helpful.

An ordinary person would have run out of mana long ago.

But for Li it was nothing at all.

She lost track of time and became completely absorbed.

Then she suddenly came back to her senses.

“Hmm. Master, someone is coming.”

Before the familiar had even finished speaking, someone knocked on the heavily secured door.

“Lady Li, may I come in?”

It was a deep voice.

Li recognized it as Adros the steward and stood up to unlock the door.

Adros was a man of respectable age but a gentleman with distinguished silver hair.

“My apologies for interrupting your work. Lady Li, it is time for dinner so perhaps you would like to bathe first—”

Adros saw it.

No, he could not help but see it.

The results of Li’s work that nearly filled the entire room.

For a moment even the capable steward Adros stopped thinking.

“Adros, your timing is perfect! There is something I would like to give you.”

What Li pointed at was an elegant candy pot with a beautiful cut glass design.

Inside were vividly colored candies.

However, it was enormous.

Large enough that Adros would need to hold it with both arms.

“L-Lady Li... what is this?”

“I tried making them. It will be getting hot soon, right? So they are candies that provide a small recovery effect for stamina. Please let everyone enjoy them as they like. There are more as well,” Li continued cheerfully.

Adros was speechless.

The thoughtfulness was appreciated.

It truly was.

But he could not help thinking this might be a bit excessive.

“This is something to apply to your hands. Though it is fine to use it in other places too.”

While saying that Li pointed toward another piled-up section.

“These are portable containers for men and these are for women. They also contain kneaded medicinal herbs.”

They were small cream containers.

The men’s versions were simple metal containers with no decoration.

However the women’s versions were colorful with bright pop-style designs.

“Both of them have preservation magic applied. And also...”

Li continued specifying various things.

As she spoke, Adros’s smile gradually stiffened.

“L-Lady Li, I am extremely grateful for the thought. However... perhaps we should stop around here.”

“Yes, that is true. Then please store them in the Jewel Dimensional Vault.”

“Understood. However Lady Li, with this amount they may not all fit.”

“Is that so? Then please wait a moment.”

Li took out a new jewel and instantly turned it into a magical tool.

“Please use this one as well. It is a present for you, Adros.”

“I gratefully accept.”

The gentleman with distinguished silver hair decided not to say anything further.

He concluded that Li must have been holding in some stress.

She had simply released it.

It was just slightly outside the range of ordinary cases.

Thinking that, Adros stored the specified section into the Jewel Dimensional Vault.

Li quickly stored everything else as well and then showed a bright smile.

“Now then, let us have dinner. The bath can wait until after the meal.”

“Understood.”

They left the basement.

To Adros, Li was like a granddaughter.

Seeing that girl smiling with such refreshed satisfaction was more than enough for him.