The Rising Of The Shield Hero

Chapter 13: Remedy

The day died out and the night grew cold; it was about time for Raphtalia’s stomach to grumble. Leaving the luggage behind at the inn, we went to a nearby restaurant for dinner.
We had some snacks just awhile ago.
Raphtalia got them from an unfamiliar shop, though I had no idea what was so good about them.
Good grief, I needed a way to fatten up my wallet. I guess camping out will be our plan from now on.
So I'll let you eat your fill for now!

“Let’s see, Delia-set for two people and a Neapolitan please.”

After giving the order to our server, our dinner soon arrived.

“Let’s dig in.”
“Un.”

Raphtalia began eating by stuffing food into her mouth with her bare hands again.
Judging from her growth, I would say that she was roughly 10. She had been eyeing my plate, so I went ahead and ordered extra.

“Eat up while you can since we'll be camping out from tomorrow onward.”
“Ha-gu-i!”

Nodding and eating at the same time is bad table manners. But since she’s eating so gratefully, I'll excuse her behavior this time.
After that, we returned to our room where I took note of Raphtalia’s appearance yet again.

“Your hair is a mess, let’s trim it a bit.”
“... Hai.”

I patted Raphtalia head with a 'pon*' since she was making an uneasy face.

“It'll be fine. I'm not going to give you a weird haircut.”

Besides, it was her current appearance that looked weird.
Using a knife, I began trimming off the excessive hair with a ‘gushi*’.
I trimmed her hair to about shoulder length before I was done.

“Alright, this much should be good, right.”

Compared to her old hairstyle, this one was at least more presentable.
With this, she would look quite nice after dressing up.
Raphtalia began twirling around, her face swelling with confidence.
I wonder what she's so happy about.
The shield reacted when I was cleaning up the leftover hair.

...
I never would have imagined that.
Suuu*...
I opened my status to confirm. Though it appeared that my Lvl and ‘Tree’ were still insufficient.

“Hm?”

Crap, she turned around.

“Now then, you should hurry up and go to bed.”
“Un!”

She was being strangely honest, unlike yesterday.
Well, that’s good.

She might weep again, so I busied myself by compounding inside the room.
...

Nutritional Supplement was created.

Nutritional Supplement Quality Bad -> A Bit Bad A medicine that relieves fatigue, it is also effective as a method of rapidly recovering from malnourishment.

Recovery Potion was created.

Recovery Potion Quality A Bit Bad -> Normal A medicine that treats certain illnesses. It will be less effective against more severe diseases.

Fumu... there are various things that can be made using the mountain and forest herbs.
Because of this, I can trade these at the pharmacy for a splendid sum of money.
It was just that the materials were consumed at a fearsome rate that was borderline hazardous.
Altogether, I made 6 Nutritional Supplements and a few other remedies.
However, it was still very difficult to make high quality medicines; I had no chance of winning against a specialist.
Since I'm the Shield Hero and not a Pharmacist.
... Let’s absorb some of them into the Shield then.