Allrounders!!

eck.

“Hey, how old do you think I am!?” Sword roared at me after the stall wasn’t in sight anymore.

“Hmm…it’s hard to tell the age of life-forms in this world.
Going by the standards of the other world, you’d long passed your thirties.
Yep, I’d guess you’re something around forty?”

Sword froze.
No, it’s better to call it petrified.

……Oops, it looks like I went a little too high with my estimate.

“Umm…anti-aging technologies are quite advanced in the other world, you see? I’d estimate the young man over there to be around thirty.” I pointed at a youth walking in front of us.

“Ah, so it’s not like your judgment labels me as old.” Sword’s petrification was lifted.

“…By the way, how old are you?”

Silence followed my timid question.
After a painfully long spell of quietness, he whispered,

“……25.”

“Okay, I got it.
I’ll create some beauty products.
I forgot that being an adventurer is a job where you’re often exposed to the sun.
Sunlight consists of several light rays.
Some of them are also harmful to the human body.
If you keep exposing your skin to them, it gets burned by those rays and ultimately hurts.
The skin tries to resist those sun rays, resulting in an accelerated aging.
Since some of the sun rays are also necessary for your body, it’d be bad to avoid all sunlight, but as with everything else, keeping it moderate matters.
Alright, I’ll do my best to normalize your skin again, okay?” I rattled down in a hurry.

Sword seemed to be on the verge of crying.

Sorry, I didn’t expect you to be so young.
You gave me a dad-like impression.
Until now, that is.
That’s why I’ve thought that various things might have withered away, though…

“I’ve been regularly drinkin’ healing potions, you know?” He appealed with a tear-choked voice.

“I’m sorry to tell you, but skin aging is a normal cell reaction.
For this reason, healing potions won’t help with beautiful skin.
It’s alright.
I’ve asked the pharmacist to teach me various things for this very occasion.
And now is the perfect time to test the results of all my studying!”

It’s fine.
We’re in the capital, a place that’s overflowing with all kinds of resources, items, and products.

…Having said that, it’s impossible to obtain Vitamin-C derivatives and W377 in this world.
And as might be expected, I don’t know how to make them either.

Resveratols seem to be good as well, but I’ve heard that you can only get grapes from the big farming nation…

So it’s only ceramides, huh…? Well, it’s still better than not tending to your skin at all, I suppose.
Then again, it’d be scary if he suddenly had weirdly beautiful skin.