Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
What is it? I do not need to be told the alarm bells are ringing!
Holy Knights from Nederland have invaded the city!
Holy Knights?! What is their number?
Five.
Five? A mere five?
Can we not simply crush such a small force?
Your Majesty, given Nederland's involvement and the reported rogue ship,
we ought to consider this an intentional infection mission.
Afterward, I shall have Your Majesty
take the new medicine for the Black Death as a prophylactic.
Very well.
Still, I do not understand it.
What is Nederland's aim in this?
That nation has long since been allied with the Empire.
It has no reason to launch a surprise attack with five holy knights alone.
The previous monarch only just died.
There has been no notice abrogating the alliance.
So then who is behind this?
It must be someone well acquainted with how the Black Death operates.
It would take special knowledge to set up this scheme.
I take it you have someone in mind?
I heard that three years ago, Nederland engaged a certain commoner pharmaceutist.
His characteristics, and the treatments he employed,
match those of an abominable pharmaceutist I know.
Would this, perchance, be the man who was expelled
from the Novalout College of Medicine?
The very same.
He was a brilliant pharmaceutist who established
numerous new treatment methods and gained renown as a genius.
However, at the same time, he also conducted gruesome human experiments.
He was a man remarkably lacking in both humanity and morality.
For his atrocities, he was seized by inquisitors,
had his Divine Arts sealed away, and was cast out as a commoner.
Before he was expelled,
he was using large numbers of prisoners of war to research poisons.
Poisons, you say?
The objects of his research included poisons that could jump from person to person—
in other words, epidemic diseases.
If this individual is the same pharmaceutist who appeared in Nederland,
he might have had some involvement with the previous monarch's demise.
And who is this man, exactly?
My erstwhile schoolmate...
Bruno...
...and seemingly admirable colleague...
Do you still not see it?
The beautiful truth of this world!
...Camus de Sade.
His is the one life I ought to have taken!
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Gale of the Anemotheos!
Fire!
Trampling Flame!
Here they come! Capture them!
Holy Whirlwind!
You shall not escape.
Fury of the Earth!
I can't move!
Oh! He arrived!
His Excellency, leader of the Archdiocese of the Imperial Capital,
Archbishop Salomon!
The highest-ranking member of Saint Fleuve's Temple?!
Why would he show up?
You who have turned against the Temple's doctrine
are no longer fit to wield the gods' arts!
Accordingly, in the name of the Guardian Deities, I strip you of your Divine Power!
Lord Cédric, what should we do?
This bell pattern indicates an attack.
Do you think people might be in need of medicine?
There must be injured people...
Y-Yes, but well...
Oh! That's near Parallel World Pharmacy!
And there are lots of dangerous medicines there!
And... And...
If something were to happen to you, it would grieve Lord Farma!
Is that...
The quarantine station's been breached!
How far? How far has the plague spread?
Blue lights... Infections have taken root!
Huh? What is that?
That's not just a squirrel. It's a flying squirrel!
That gliding is gonna make it much tougher to deal with!
Bruno?
Father!
Oh, Farma. Welcome back.
How is Marseirre?
I left Lady Eléonore in charge, so it will be fine.
I'm more concerned about...
What was your objective?
Nederland borders the Empire.
Bringing the Black Death here will doom Nederland as well!
The Black... Death? What are you talking about?
What? You don't know what it is you've done?!
We just did what he told us to do.
We don't know his objective.
How incredibly foolish.
He's holding the populace hostage.
He has the power to kill thousands of people in the blink of an eye.
He's possessed. Possessed by an evil spirit!
An evil spirit?
This man, does he have turquoise hair, a burn on his left cheek, and one eye?
Y-Yes!
We carried out our end. Now our people can...
Give them a burial.
Father, you know who's behind all this?
Camus de Sade. A heretical pharmaceutist with a sick mind.
So that fiend became an evil spirit in the end.
Oh! The alarm bells have stopped!
Hurray! Hurray!
I'm going back to the pharmacy!
Hey! Come back!
To deal with what's coming,
I think I should go and begin producing more of the medicine—
What's this ominous feeling?
What is that?
A black shadow?
What's wrong?
I'm sorry! I need to get to my pharmacy!
O-Okay...
Oh, no!
Don't stop the alarm! Keep the bells ringing!
Camus is in the capital!
To view the results of his experiment.
I must strike him down, even if he kills me in the process!
Oh! Master Farma must have returned!
What?
The alarm is sounding again!
How strange... Is it another enemy?
For now, let's hurry inside!
Something isn't right.
Neither the gate nor the door was locked...
Wait, Lotte! Let me check things out!
Master Farma!
What?
Master Farma?
M-Maybe I imagined it...
Lotte, I told you to wait for me.
Huh?
What's that? Don't tell me...
Is that... an evil spirit?
What's it doing in my lab?!
Farma!
Father!
What a nasty feeling. I sense a powerful light.
Lotte! Cédric!
I'll draw his attention.
Use that time to help them.
Here I go!
Flying Frozen Bullets!
It's been a while,
Camus.
Bruno. Have you come to interfere?
How foolish.
All people die eventually.
And that is why people live.
To support their bright, shining lives is why we pharmaceutists exist!
Crystalline Ice Spears!
What is this? What's going on?
Poison?
If I don't identify it soon, it'll be too late!
Crystalline Ice Prison!
Chemical poisoning!
An inorganic compound.
Organic compound.
An alkaloid.
A fast-acting, deadly poison easily obtained in this world...
Aconite?
Aconitine!
Eliminate aconitine!
Multiple poisons? How many are there?
Tetrodotoxin, saxitoxin, palytoxin, amanitin...
Batrachotoxin.
Are you kidding me?
E-Eliminate batrachotoxin!
I can't believe it was an arrow poison.
Bruno, why can't you see it?
Ill people on their way to death are beautiful!
W-Wait! Camus!
Debilitation, despair, death...
And the actions of the few winners who withstand an illness to keep life going...
All of it makes humanity hardier.
Therein lies the beauty of life— its essence!
This lab is wonderful.
Look how many unknown poisons it contains.
Now, time for humanity to take another step forward.
Time for an experiment!
Eliminate white phosphorous!
Oh?
That is not what an experiment is.
It's no use.
Not with you...
You're incurable!
Master Farma looks so angry.
No... He looks, somehow,
very sad.
And just what...
are you going to do about it?
Why? Why don't you see?
How can you have so much power and yet not appreciate my ideas?
You're a seeker of truth, like me! I know it!
We're the only ones
who can appreciate the truth of this world!
The ordinary people will try to get rid of you!
Just as they did with me!
None of them could... Nobody could understand me!
You'll eventually end up like me—
an evil spirit that exists outside the laws of the human world!
Even if that's true,
I choose to keep curing people!
Begone!
So this...
is death.
That light...
Could that be... Cleansing Sanctuary?
Numerous abilities appear in the legends passed down about the Panac-rhabdos.
Chief among them is the power of purification.
According to the ancient texts, the wand, in tandem with the Panactheos's own works,
destroyed the evil spirits in the air and quelled an epidemic.
So then perhaps...
Yes. I expect this is the Panactheos's power.
You stupid idiot.
Master Farma...
Welcome back.
Afterward, the response to and treatment of the Black Death continued earnestly.
Elen's inspection of the vessels arriving for the Saint Fleuve Fair
completely prevented any influx of the disease from the port.
I produced additional doses of levofloxacin to treat the Black Death.
Compounding Pharmacy Guild members carried out
free distribution of the treatment in contaminated districts.
However, that didn't mean we saved everyone.
Some people couldn't be saved.
Still, the capital's recovery proceeded steadily.
The threat of the Black Death is receding.
At the School of Pharmacy,
bacteria that produce streptomycin and other antibiotics have been found,
and they are currently in the process of isolating and culturing them.
At the same time, vaccine development for all sorts of infections is proceeding as well.
I'm sure that in the not-too-distant future,
the Black Death will cease to be an incurable disease.
And now, two months later...
On this occasion, I declare that the Black Death epidemic has ended!
And so, starting today, Parallel World Pharmacy resumes operation!
Everyone, give me an enthusiastic cheer! Yeah!
Yeah!
Y-Yeah...
We were closed for far too long. Not that we had another choice.
Hopefully people didn't forget about our shop.
Yes. I pray we won't need to have any more special closures.
Hey there, Mr. Proprietor!
Commodore Jean! Thanks for your support at the port!
Aw, shucks. Don't call me "Commodore."
It's been so long since we've seen all of you!
Hey there, Lotte! I missed seeing you.
Here you go! A souvenir from the Fair.
Thank you very much!
Now then, allow me to perform...
my dance of gratitude!
Though it was delayed, it's thanks to you that the Fair could be held at all, Farma.
Another impressive performance!
No, it was because everyone worked together.
Oh, don't be so modest! Come on!
Coming!
Please come in! Welcome to Parallel World Pharmacy!