Confound it!
It seems that blasted shop still continues to thrive.
Parallel World Pharmacy...
That shop's abuses are intolerable!
They're charging so little that even a pauper can afford their medicines.
And when that carriage crashed into the place, they recovered awfully quickly.
I bet he handled it with Divine Arts somehow.
That, or he used Daddy's money.
Bruno de Médicis...
Standing behind that brat is his world- famous Chief Royal Pharmaceutist of a father.
And Her Majesty the Empress, at that!
You know, word is that it was Veron who ran that carriage into the place.
I suspected as much.
He had it in for 'em before it even opened, after all.
That pharmacy is the source of all our problems!
We must do whatever it takes to rid ourselves of it!
Whatever aristocratic game he's playing, he'll be found out eventually!
And then, the customers will assuredly wake up to the truth and come back to us!
The path forward is to hold out until then!
Accordingly, I prohibit all guild members from having contact with that shop!
Anyone who violates this rule will be subject to expulsion from the guild
and immediate forfeiture of their business license!
Quite right!
They'd deserve it.
Parallel World Pharmacy
Episode 8
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Doctor!
Dr. Donald!
Are you there?
Please see my daughter!
I beg you!
Please!
Doctor!
That clinic is closed until next week, sir.
Did your daughter suddenly fall ill?
Oh, where are my manners?
I am a pharmaceutist at Parallel World Pharmacy.
My name is Farma.
If you'd like, I would gladly examine your daughter.
No, I...
Master Farma, I'll go on ahead and get things ready.
Please do, Lotte.
Please, follow me.
Welcome back, sir.
Keep up the good work.
Please enter through here.
I see.
So people of my standing have to use the back entrance.
Please lay your daughter there.
Also, please put this over your mouth and nose.
What is it?
A mask. It's to help keep the infection from spreading.
Like a... ward against disease?
Yes, you could say that.
Then the reason we came through the back was...
Yes, to avoid spreading it to the other customers.
So it wasn't about my social status?
Now, may I ask you some questions?
What is your daughter's name and age?
Marie. She's seven years old.
When was the last time she ate?
Y-Yesterday around noon, I believe.
She has quite a fever.
She also appears dehydrated.
She doesn't seem fully conscious.
Did she experience convulsions last night?
Incredible.
Yes. For two or three minutes.
For just one patient, he goes into this much detail?
Do you happen to know Marie's weight?
What? No...
Then let's weigh her now.
Please step onto this little platform while holding Marie.
Good.
Um, what are you doing?
I'm recording the weight.
Later, I'll weigh just you, so that I can calculate the difference.
I'm measuring her weight in order to determine the dosage.
If the dosage is not appropriate, the medicine might not work,
or it might cause side effects.
Among commoner pharmaceutists like us,
Open a little wider and say "ah."
the standard practice is just to crudely cut the adult dose in half for children.
Good job. Thank you.
Lastly...
Great. There seems to be no encephalopathy.
Was that... a Divine Art?
Huh? Um, well, yes.
I have diagnosed Marie's illness.
Marie is suffering from...
essentially a severe cold.
Excuse me?
You're telling me this is a cold?
Yes.
When she has this high a fever?
When she foamed at the mouth and had convulsions?
How could this be just a cold?
Couldn't it be an evil spirit possessing her?
No. Marie has a form of severe cold.
It's called influenza.
Influ... What is that?
Right now, there's a virus that causes a severe cold invading Marie's body.
Huh? A vi...rus?
This powder is a medicine called zanamivir.
It's most effective within two days of symptom emergence and is taken via oral inhalation.
Inhalation? She has to breathe it in through her mouth?
This medicine is not absorbed well when swallowed.
Inhalation delivers the medicine directly to the respiratory tract,
where the pathogen is multiplying.
To go into greater detail—
Well, let's just say it's a medicine to help Marie win the battle being waged inside her.
We'll practice how to take the medicine later, okay?
'Kay.
You called it a battle?
Yes. Marie's body is wisely producing a fever in an attempt to fight off the pathogen.
This particular pathogen is vulnerable to heat.
And so, it's not a bad thing that Marie has a fever.
Still, it can be draining to have,
so I'll provide acetaminophen to slightly lower the fever.
Once things have settled down and she seems able, have her drink water.
I will come check on her later.
I can't believe it worked this quickly.
Thank you very much for today.
I truly appreciate it.
The most important thing is that Marie's condition has improved.
This bag contains five days' worth of medicine.
The shop is closed for today,
but if her condition suddenly worsens in the night,
don't hesitate to speak to the guard.
You mean you'll see her?
Many people fall ill during the night.
This way, I can help those people, too.
Um, how much does your fee for today amount to?
I might not be able to pay it right away, but I promise to pay in full.
No need for concern. The charge is roughly the cost of a baguette.
What?
I-It is? But that's unbelievably low!
I set the price low to make it easier for children to be seen.
Take care, now.
Dada?
We're going home now, sweetie.
Parallel World Pharmacy...
Well, I see why the guild can't compete.
Honey...
How is she?
She's sound asleep.
Good.
The medicine must have worked.
Yeah.
It's from that noble's pharmacy.
But that's against the guild's...
I had no choice.
I don't know if Marie would have survived if I hadn't gone there.
The place was incredible.
The owner is highly knowledgeable and shows true concern for his patients.
That's the true picture of how pharmaceutists ought to be.
I had considered myself to have
a fair amount of experience and confidence as a pharmaceutist,
But compared to that boy...
As a commoner, I have neither the nobles' Divine Arts
nor the means to study detailed medicinal knowledge.
If I could incorporate even a fraction of his know-how into my shop...
But if you defy the guild...
I know.
To go against the guild's rules is not a realistic option.
I'd be committing professional suicide.
I know that.
Listen, dear. I know how incredibly hard you've worked.
You steadily put in the effort, day after day.
I believe you did your utmost to help all sorts of people.
Yeah. Thanks, honey.
So, you don't have to agonize over your work or do anything rash.
Yeah...
What you already do helps people.
Marie is still small, after all, and there's still the debt from opening the shop...
I know.
I know exactly what's at stake.
But...
With the guild's methods for commoners',
if you or Marie were to fall ill,
I wouldn't be able to help you!
Oh, Pierre...
I-I'm sorry...
So there's been no change in the drastic reduction in sales every shop is facing?
Curse that blasted Parallel World Pharmacy!
My shop's sales have fallen another 20% since last month.
He just set up a branch for cosmetics, and now there's talk of a third store!
I recently discovered that even my wife had been surreptitiously buying their cosmetics.
I smashed them to bits, though!
My daughter was buying them as well. I tossed them out in front of her.
Their cosmetics are very popular.
Now she hasn't spoken to me for a week!
I've also had my female customer base snatched away.
Don't worry. She'll understand your concerns one day.
It doesn't stop there!
Why not get her a gift to improve her mood in the meantime?
Word is, the new bishop goes to Parallel World Pharmacy practically every day.
Ah, a fine idea. Perhaps I'll get my wife something as well.
So it's not just the Empress backing them, but even the Temple?
They're totally invincible now!
Pierre, proprietor of Ray of Sunlight Drugstore, what are your thoughts?
Y-You're asking me?
Your shop is suffering the greatest losses, since it's in the closest proximity.
Do you have any opinions?
Then I shall speak candidly.
Have any of you gentlemen ever entered that shop?
Have you ever viewed the medicines they carry?
Of course not!
They're a competitor!
Then you should go there and see it.
One visit is all it will take
to make it painfully clear that our customers will never even glance at our shops again...
as it did for me.
What?! You mean you went to that shop?
Yes. My daughter had a fever I could do nothing about,
and the proprietor lowered it and cured her in short order.
Everyone who visits that shop, whether commoner or noble, rich or poor,
receives equal treatment and appropriate medicine.
You're just falling prey to the novelty and curiosity of it all!
Even if we assume his knowledge is correct,
that doesn't necessarily mean his methods are correct!
He's using the mantle of the Empress's authority to drive prices wildly down
and unfairly squeeze us out of business, is he not?
The entire affair is no more than an aristocrat's whim!
The aristocrats view us common folk as livestock for tax revenue and nothing more!
Those useless nobles refused to treat us commoners,
claiming it was because their Divine Power was limited!
They said their medicines were valuable and jacked up the prices!
In my hour of need, no noble ever came to my rescue.
Mr. Veron had to bury his own child.
I see...
In the end, he's just a kid playing around.
There's no telling when he'll adapt to aristocratic society and abandon his shop!
We're the ones who spent years putting down roots here
and providing medicine to the common people.
He's a foreign body that showed up and made its way into our community!
If the customers keep flowing to him because everyone thinks his pharmacy is useful,
then before long, we'll wind up shutting down.
But after that point, if that brat ever disappears, what then?
If that happens, we'll have nothing—
nothing left!
The medical infrastructure for commoners will collapse!
Before that happens, we must excise this foreign body!
That reinforces my point!
We should not be excising his shop from the community!
We ought to learn from it instead!
Wh-Why, you...
How dare you speak those words as a guild member?!
Contrast what he does with what we do!
We sell patients herbs that we don't even know work, with practically fraudulent claims.
Is that not a disgrace upon us as pharmaceutists?
What else can we do?
The knowledge of our predecessors is absolute.
Some of those patients do recover.
But most of those cases were practically flukes.
And some patients die.
That shop is different from our shops in every way.
It's logical, advanced, and truly considers the patien—
Shut your mouth!
That's enough out of you!
If you despise our ways so much,
then get the hell out of this guild right now!
How awful...
Mr. Pierre!
Are you all right?
This shop... So you're a pharmaceutist.
What happened?
As you can see, I am the proprietor of this shop.
Or I was, I should say.
After I told the guild the truth about my experience at your shop,
my merchandise and my business license— all of it was taken from me.
I see. I'm sorry. I put you in a terrible position.
No. Don't apologize.
Your medicine and your shop made a deep impression on me.
And so, in hope that the guild might change for the better, I...
But now that I've been expelled from the guild, I can't do business in this country.
I'm thinking of moving to another country and starting over from scratch.
I just... can't give up walking the path of a pharmaceutist.
Do you mean that if you joined another guild, you could do business again?
Yes, but the Saint Fleuve Pharmaceutist Guild is the only one here.
Commoner pharmaceutists are required to belong to a guild to conduct business.
I'm out of options.
I see...
As a matter of fact, I recently received Her Majesty's approval to establish a new guild.
It's called the Compounding Pharmacy Guild and deals in new medicines.
If you would be willing, I would be honored to have your help.
Shelves in order? Check.
Candies. Check.
Nutritional wafers. Check.
Everything... is ready.
But... am I good enough?
Will customers even come?
Will they accept a shop that isn't Parallel World Pharmacy?
A proprietor that isn't Lord Farma?
Dada, you can do it!
Stand tall.
You're a legitimate pharmaceutist!
It's time for our grand reopening!
I heard it's Parallel World Pharmacy's first partner pharmacy!
It's supposed to have the same medicines available!
They came...
to my shop...
where I get to deal in the world's best medicine...
It's a new day...
Welcome to Dawn Pharmacy!
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