01x12 - Those He Couldn't Cure

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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 w*r 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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Final Episode

Those He Couldn't Cure

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 k*ll 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 b*ll*ts!

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!