Saved a Heroine From the Brink of Death

11. I secretly gave the heroine an elixir

#11. I tried secretly feeding the heroine the elixir

“… Chef? Isn’t this an advanced elixir?”

Lee Seon-ah, the cook at the center, was looking at a rare sight where elixirs she had never seen before were lined up in front of her eyes.

These are elixirs that I have only seen in books. Famous elixirs that even she, a mediocre cook, could understand.

She couldn’t believe it, so she asked the chef.

The chef shook his head.

Lee Seon-ah looked at it and let out a sigh of relief.

‘Yes. I must be mistaken. There can be so many advanced elixirs….’

It wasn’t strange that the elixir was in the kitchen, as there were occasional requests from VIPs to include the elixir in their diet. However, it was the first time that such high-quality elixirs existed, so I was just curious.

She did, but she soon realized that she was mistaken. The chef said so too, so you must be right.

“It is not a high-end elixir. It is the finest elixir.”

“… Yes?”

Top quality elixir.

Even the cheapest elixir is worth at least hundreds of millions of won.

Demand cannot keep up with supply, so it is expensive enough to call it.

“That, why is it here… ?”

“Why? Would you like to cook it and add it to your diet? Now wake up and focus! Since we’re going into the VIP menu in room 3, help us prepare well to match the menu.”

“Yes, yes!”

Seonah Lee thought.

How many apartments in Seoul do you burn with so much money?

It was such an amount that I was afraid to even taste it to see if the seasoning was right.

Hundreds of thousands of won for a spoonful of broth….

In just one spoon, there was more than someone’s daily wage.

Who eats this precious food?

***

It is evening.

Cynthia closed her book while waiting for food to come out of the hospital.

-The meal has arrived. May I come in?

“Yes~”

The corners of Cynthia’s mouth went up.

Why?

She’s tired from studying all day, and it’s time for her to blow it off!

“Thank you.”

“Have a nice meal~”

Bob was hidden by the cover.

But I could tell by the smell. This smell must have been delicious food.

“Hee hee… just waited for this How can hospital food be so delicious?”

Cynthia waited for dinner time, spending her whole day studying for the quizzes.

Academy rice was delicious, but… The food in the center’s VIP room was of a different level.

It was not a VIP room for nothing. You can enjoy this for free… She wanted to stay for several days.

“I will eat well!”

Cynthia thanked her cooks for preparing her meal and immediately opened her cover.

Then she saw today’s menu.

Cynthia felt puzzled while watching her dinner.

“Huh? Does it seem like a lot? Even though it’s dinner, can I eat this much… ?”

Somehow the amount seemed larger than at lunch.

That’s too much.

I thought it was an illusion, but it wasn’t an illusion at all.

“It is said that it will be prepared according to the condition, so this is correct, right? Okay. They say eat a lot… I can’t help it!”

Cynthia immediately began to eat, her spoon in both her hands. She first took a spoonful of rice and tasted the soup.

‘Um… Does the soup taste a bit bitter? Is it an illusion?’

The soup we had at lunch boasted a fantastically balanced taste… Something was disappointing about this episode.

‘Still, other side dishes will be different, right?’

Cynthia reached her hand at her fish, which was showing off her plump flesh.

“Umm~ Mysser.”

Worry was groundless.

The fish was very tasty despite the lack of seasoning. It was the first time I had such a fish. Probably too expensive… ?

I turned the fish meat over and looked at the shell. It was the first shell I had ever seen. Golden? Have you ever had a fish with this color? Did it just change color during the boiling process?

“What kind of fish is important! I wouldn’t be able to eat here anyway. You should enjoy it now.”

Cynthia always prepared the table.

She must eat every grain of rice, she thought.

Even if your stomach explodes!

She reveled in her dinner, tasting many side dishes that were no different from mountain and sea delicacies. It was a very happy evening.

“Okay. I feel like something is getting better… !”

I felt like my body was already getting better, as if it wasn’t a diet tailored to the individual by an expert.

***

“It went according to plan.”

I heard the news from the director.

It is said that Cynthia just finished her meal.

Clean enough to empty the rice.

I wondered what would happen if I skipped a meal, but that didn’t happen.

Yes. Due to Cynthia’s personality, there’s no way she’ll go hungry.

Besides, there is no place where hospital food is served as deliciously as the center. There was no reason to starve.

‘Because he has a delaying elixir, he should be able to absorb all the elixirs without difficulty.’

Cynthia has a unique constitution called weak and weak.

It is a constitution that accepts all the elixirs absorbed into the body without difficulty. In addition, it slightly improves the effectiveness of elixirs.

In general, elixirs can become poisonous if taken in excess, but Cynthia had no such thing.

Among the works, it was only a redundant setting that only appeared and was rarely used, but it was very useful now.

‘Thanks to this, she can freely feed the elixir.’

Feed the elixir whenever the opportunity arises.

Of course, there will be limits. It’s not too much for the body, but if you overfeed the elixir, problems such as increasing your magical power beyond the controllable level could arise.

Until then, you can just feed it.

‘Anyway, I don’t know if Hoseok hyung is going to do well?’

Looking at Kim Ho-seok, who came to visit him in the hospital, he made a deal.

Not the usual blind eyes, but those of someone who has a desire for something. Because of that, I realized that he would jump into a succession fight.

I don’t know what the trigger was, but I thought this might also be the butterfly effect caused by me.

In the original work, Kim Ho-seok did not intervene in the succession fight of the Changcheon family until the end. No name is mentioned. I found out that he was from the Changchun family long after I became possessed.

‘It’s not bad for Hoseok to make his brother the head of household. I’ll have to look a bit more to see if it’s a good piece of wood.’

Leeseok Kim.

The next head of the original work.

It won’t be easy to push them away… It wasn’t impossible.

Because it is more beneficial for me in many ways to have Kim Ho-seok, who is a good brother-in-law, become the family head rather than Kim I-seok, who is just a stranger.

There will be a lot of losses in the process, but… That loss can be compensated by using Kim Ho-seok.

‘Hoseok hyung is the head of the Changchun family… I can’t imagine. There will be a lot going on in the future. There must be more than one or two things to do to get past the older brothers and sisters.’

Of course, if Kim Ho-seok is not young, he will tell you to stop.

Can’t you? Then either one.

Do I turn it into a headpiece and use it as a puppet, or do I grab it by the neck and drag it down.

I didn’t want to choose between the two methods. Because it was Kim Ho-seok who helped me a lot before I became an adult.

I hoped for Kim Hoseok to do well.

‘I didn’t think I would be able to live with my head like this even after coming to Korea. But thanks to that, I don’t think I’ll be bored at least.’

For the time being, I thought I would live a busy life.

***

Hoseok Kim went to Cynthia’s hospital room with a fruit basket.

“… Instructor Kim Hoseok?”

“To be precise, a temporary instructor.”

“By the way, what did you come here for? Temporary Instructor Kim Ho-seok.”

“I heard that the cadet I was teaching was injured, so I have to come. Are you okay?”

“Ah, yes. It’s okay.”

“You don’t have to speak too harshly. It’s just temporary. Temporary. I didn’t even take the instructor test, so what?”

Hoseok Kim naturally tried to lighten the mood.

Even though it was temporary, Cynthia seemed to be firm, perhaps because of the authority given by the position of instructor.

“Still, it’s the instructor….”

“I will be fired soon. So don’t worry. I commute to and from work as I please, but I was about to get fired.”

“… Yes?”

“Getting fired is a joke. I will stop. To do something else.”

Kim Ho-seok, who confirmed that the atmosphere had calmed down to some extent, brought up the matter in earnest.

He carefully took a box out of his bag.

Then he carefully removed the box. A small bottle was found there.

‘I don’t know what Seongjin is thinking. These easy things are the terms of the deal?’

What he held in his hand was what Han Seong-jin had given him.

I had to hand this to Cynthia from now on. While providing appropriate excuses.

But there was an appropriate and very good excuse at the right time. Seong-jin must have set himself up as a substitute because of that.

“Come on. Take this.”

Hoseok Kim handed the bottle he took out to Cynthia.

“What is this… ?”

Cynthia asked while looking at the small bottle Kim Hoseok held out to her.

He thought it was a nutritional supplement, but it didn’t seem like it.

It looked like something out of the ordinary in a fancy bottle.

“It’s Gongqing Petroleum. The authenticity verification process has been completed, and here is the quality assurance certificate.”

At Hoseok Kim’s answer, Cynthia’s eyes shook like an earthquake.

“Go, Go, Gongqing Oil?”

Gongqing Petroleum.

A supreme elixir that is said to give you tremendous magical power with just one drop.

“Oh. It’s diluted, but it’ll still be a high-quality elixir.”

Actually, it was not diluted, but only Kim Ho-seok and Han Sung-jin knew about it.

“But why did you do this to me… ?”

Cynthia asked, clutching a bottle of Gongcheng oil in her trembling hand.

‘That’s what I want to ask….’

Hoseok Kim was also questionable.

The finest elixir is so rare that even he, who grew up in a prestigious family, has never tasted it.

But I didn’t understand why they handed it over.

Even saying that it was diluted.

‘I don’t know what the hell that guy is thinking… Handing over the finest elixir to an academy cadet. Even with a suitable excuse? What is he left with? I heard you saw it for the first time yesterday?’

Han Seong-jin said that he would not engage in unprofitable transactions.

By that, I mean he gets some form of benefit from this deal. And Kim Hoseok wondered what it was.

But he never knew.

“Why? Is there only one?”

Hoseok Kim smiled evilly.

“Not saying anything about this incident. I mean, you got hurt during the test. I don’t want any word out about it.”

“… It’s not just because I got hurt during the test this time, is it?”

Cynthia’s eyes weren’t good, but she was, but she was to a certain extent.

She thought that if only she had been hurt, it wouldn’t have happened until Kim Hoseok came.

“You have a good eye. That’s right. One civilian was injured. If it leaks out, the academy will be in trouble. I’m saying this because you know that too. By the way, I can’t even say that. That is the condition for handing over this elixir.”

“Are you just giving away an elixir worth tens of thousands of won on just that condition?”

“Are you suspicious?”

“Very good.”

“But is that important now?”

Kim Ho-seok told Han Seong-jin exactly what he had heard.

“Rather than questioning, it is more important to determine what is in your interest. If you just zip up your mouth, this will be yours, right?”

“… ….”

“What’s wrong? You have nothing to lose. That’s not what I bet. If anything, you can even write a contract. Is this something to worry about so much?”

Cynthia was also attracted to the elixir to be honest.

However, there was a catch.

It was Han Seong-jin.

What if he wants to press charges against the academy? So what if he asks himself for help?

Cynthia couldn’t help but assume that situation.

“One thing. I have only one condition. Then I will accept it.”

“What is it?”

“That, I can’t help it when an injured civilian asks me to talk about it. That… There is something graceful.”

She knew it was a condition she would not accept, but Cynthia gave a shout.

“Is grace more important than this elixir?”

At Kim Hoseok’s words, Cynthia held out her Gongcheng oil in her hand again and said.

“… I’m sorry, but even though I didn’t learn much, I definitely learned one courtesy.”

Kim Ho-seok looked at Cynthia with all her magic. Even though she must have felt a lot of pressure, she was staring at herself without blinking an eye.

“Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha!”

Hoseok Kim laughed at Cynthia.

Things went very well. However, only Kim Ho-seok knew about the situation.

‘The injured civilian is Han Seong-jin, and he told you to deliver the elixir, so how can you ask for help?’

Cynthia refuses the elixir, worried that Han Seong-jin will accuse her academy, so she won’t ask for help.

Han Seong-jin is trying to deliver her elixir through himself to Cynthia.

It was just 5 minutes before the opening.

Plus, the attitude of her cadet, Cynthia, was funny.

She was a rare guy these days. How could she have such upright convictions?

Moreover, she even endured the pressure of her own magic. In addition to her convictions, she also has her outstanding mental strength.

Kim Ho-seok seemed to know a little about why Han Seong-jin wanted to give Cynthia the elixir. Did Han Seong-jin even find out about this and invest in advance? I don’t know how to retrieve it, but one eye was great.

“Ah. Sorry sorry. The situation is so funny. I already made an agreement with that civilian. You have nothing to worry about. You just have to promise one thing.”

“… Is it real?”

“Yes.”

“Wait a minute. Check it out.”

“… Check? What are you checking?”

“Ah, yes. I got a phone number.”

After a while, Cynthia looked at Kim Hoseok and said.

“Ah! Really!”

Hoseok Kim was taken aback when he saw Cynthia like that.

‘What is this guy? How do you know Sungjin’s phone number? Did Sungjin give it to you? Why did Sung-jin give the academy cadet his phone number? Some parts, like mental strength, are pretty good, but other parts are still mediocre.’

Kim Ho-seok gave Cynthia a good review, but she wondered if it was enough for Han Seong-jin to give her a direct phone number.

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t find an answer. Seongjin, how many numbers is this guy looking ahead….

“Then this is mine? I will write well!”

“Uh, uh. Okay.”

Cynthia naturally robbed Kim Hoseok of her Gongcheong oil.

He nodded his head slowly, slightly embarrassed.

“Then I will drink it now, so please stay by my side!”

“… Now?”

What was even more embarrassing was that as soon as she received the expensive elixir, she immediately tried to drink it.

“Yes!”

‘Anything like this… I can’t even sell it, so let’s just drink it!’

Cynthia said she wanted to make a lot of money, but more than that, she wanted to succeed as a hero. To do that, she had to be strong. And that opportunity was right in front of her eyes.

‘No, I can drink… !’

Tens of millions of won disappear in less than a second… Fearless, Cynthia mustered up the courage to open her bottle.

She then gulped down her Gongcheng oil in one gulp.

A small amount of less than 10 ml.

Something… It tasted like cold water.

Then, a white light rose from Cynthia’s body.