#sorry for repost
@tg-anon44‘s Elena! :) Thank you!!!
Octanivelle Dorm Lounge
Vil: I make a special toner for my skin, which leaves it rich and moisturized. It works far better than any other cosmetic.
Vil: And you’re telling me that you can prepare an even better toner, one week before the entrance ceremony?
Azul: Of course. If you sign the contract, your wish to attend the entrance ceremony with the most beautiful skin yet, will be granted.
Azul: ‘Any wish can be granted, no matter how difficult’…You came here because you heard such a rumor about me, isn’t that right?
Vil: Well, aren’t you confident. I can’t trust a man who makes cheap promises.
Azul: It’s fine to pull your request if you can’t trust me.
Azul: However…I think it would be difficult for anyone but myself to fulfill such a demanding request.
Vil: Grinning like that, you’re such an unpleasant man aren’t you… Well then, what do you want in return for this?
Azul: Let’s see…
Azul: I’d like 10 flowers from the Country of Augite, that which you grow in your botanical garden.
Vil: Flowers, is it…There’s no need to be so roundabout.
Vil: You must have already known that it’s a valuable poison. You really are quite cunning.
Azul: Fufu. Isn’t it a fitting compensation for your difficult request?
Vil: Very well then. I’ll take the deal. I’ve steeled my resolve for the sake of my wish.
Azul: It’s a deal then! I look forward to the day I receive the flowers.
Azul: I’m glad this turned out to be beneficial for the both of us. Jade, Floyd, Vil shall be taking his leave.
Vil: There’s no need to escort me. If you have the free time for that, then use it towards granting my request.
Azul: ….Good grief. He’s such a noisy person.
Azul: It seems like we have to make the world’s most moisturizing toner yet.
Floyd: Isn’t Betta-chan-senpai’s skin plenty pretty already?
Jade: It’s just like Vil-san to want even more than that. He’s always trying to improve himself even further.
Azul: Vil excels at Magical Pharmaceutics; He must have tried all manner of herbs that are good for the skin.
Azul: In that case, we’ll have to use other ingredients to make the toner.
Jade: Then, why not use your skill in alchemy, Azul?
Jade: I assume the metals and ores used in alchemy are not common materials used in Magic Pharmaceutics.
Azul: Certainly, we do have metals and precious stones which have medicinal effects when turned into fine powder. It’s worth a shot.
Floyd: Eh~ but ain’t that boring?
Azul: Why?
Floyd: 'Cos, using metals and ores, don’t it seem like an obvious answer?
Floyd: I think Betta-chan-senpai expects something that he didn’t even think of before, right?
Azul: ….You do have a point. An element of surprise is important. As they say, surprise often leads to satisfaction.
Azul: Well then, let’s find some ingredients that aren’t normally used in cosmetics to add to its moisturizing value.
Floyd: What’s 'moisturizing’ mean?
Jade: To put it simply…it makes something soft and jelly-like?
Azul: That’s right. I’ll leave it to you two to gather the materials. Meanwhile I’ll prepare the tools for conducting our experiment.
Jade: Understood.
—-A few days later—-
Floyd: Ahh~ I’m done with this. Can I quit?
Jade: Attempt No.198…has also ended in failure, it seems.
Azul: No matter how much we try to refine it, it still fails to produce better results than that of Vil’s toner!
Floyd: There’s only one day left before the deadline you promised Betta-chan-senpai. Dun think this is gonna happen.
Jade: What is it lacking… Is it permeability? Or perhaps viscosity?
Azul: That’s not it… We agreed we needed an element of surprise in the ingredients, so perhaps we should consider an innovative composition for it as well?
Jade: In that case, we need more….maybe here we should add….
Azul: But then…..instead it…..no but even then….
Floyd: Jelly, pudding, slime, gumball, raw meat, blisters…
Floyd: Ugh, I’m tired of seeing all these fleshy stuff.
Azul: Floyd, stop trying to damage the ingredients.
Floyd: We dun really need all these right~? Your octopus form is a lot more fleshy than all these stuff combined.
Azul: What? ….Why would you bring that up now of all times. Don’t mess with me.
Floyd: When yer in the ocean, yer so fleshy and tasty looking. Even if we tried to hold in all of you, you’d just pop right out.
Jade: Certainly…Azul’s form in the ocean is jelly-like and very…fufufu.
Azul: Don’t agree with him Jade, and don’t laugh!
Azul: And in that case, Floyd, your form in the ocean is quite slippery as well!
Floyd: Eh, me? Ya think so? Then Jade’s the same too right?
Azul: ….hm?
Azul: Now that you said it, Jade has good skin too doesn’t he. If you look closely, even in this human form….
Jade: Do you think so? I hadn’t really thought about it.
Azul: In that case…we seem to have an inherent moisture. And what we have in common is….
Azul: …Jade, come here.
Azul: …..ocean…..skin…..the mucilage is…..
Jade: Gelatin…..collagen as well…..harvesting…..
Azul: Ocean water…..rich in mineral….
Floyd: Yer mumbling is creeping me out. What’re you talking about?
Azul: Floyd, can you spare a minute? I need you to turn into your eel form.
Floyd: Eh, no way. ….The hell is Jade practicing wringing a dust cloth for!?
Jade: Hn! Hn!
Azul: This is for the sake of a successful deal. Please endure it for a while.
Jade: The image training was perfect. I don’t want to hurt my precious brother after all.
Floyd: Wh—Noooooooo!!
Part 2
