Maybe Mina used insight a little too much for me. I mean, she probably already does, and most cats don't randomly change their category, level, title, or insight.

Instead of looking at my fancy new titles, Mina flipped me over on her back and began to untie the bandages, carefully untying them and throwing them in the trash. I twitched my legs and paws, stretching. Truth be told, those bandages aren't that much of a hassle, but what about once they come off? Sweet freedom. Feeling air on the paw, rather than the stuffy, itchy-making cloth, I stood up, hesitantly putting weight on my now free paw.

I hissed, the pain hit again, and my body bent slightly. I started licking my wounds and felt disgusting, but wasn't that a habit? What do cats usually do? But in this case, it feels like it's the right thing to do. Still, Mina carefully grabbed my paw and began to wrap a new bandage around it, which I gently remembered. Great, now I know how bad it is to wear them.

"Alright! That's it, thank you for your cooperation. Mina said in a condescending, surprised tone.

Mina grabbed a blanket from the bed, folded it up, and placed it in the corner of the table. "Get up." She said as she grabbed me and put me on top, ignoring my cries of protest as usual. If she had kindly requested, I would have moved anyway.

I kneaded the blanket with my unsheathed paws to make sure it was soft enough, then tucked my legs under me. Mina's headache quickly dispelled the grumbling in my heart. Ha

Mina stood up and pulled out a large drawer of the table, revealing her carefully organized ...... A whole bunch of stuff with a lot of different plants. Ivy is entwined and has green and black leaves, the flowers have blue, pink, and white petals, and the slightly cyan leaves give off a faint glow.

Fix ivy cuttings.

graft

Well, insight only told me the name.

However, the drawers also have spiral-shaped shells, dark blue butterfly wings, fur fragments, vials containing liquids of different colors, and so on. Everything is isolated by a thin white barrier, dividing them into countless rectangles of different sizes, some of which are empty, the closest comparison I can make is the spice drawers, but usually those drawers have spices in them instead of moss and eyeballs.

I now noticed white runes carved into it, and her fingers moved from side to side, occasionally humming or shaking her head in disappointment. Thinking about it, she grabbed a chain-like vine, two Lu leaf leaves, a bottle of dark blue liquid, a blue butterfly wing, a vial filled with light blue translucent slime, and a flower that was transparent blue throughout. From petals to stems to roots. There's a lot of blue stuff here. When she pulled, everything she grabbed didn't seem to move for a second before she let go and left the drawer, as if stuck in place.

Mina thought for a moment and put the five flowers that the guy had gotten with the others. She leaned against me and grabbed a thick, weather-beaten notebook with bookmarks on it. Flipping through until she found a blank page of about 200 pages. She bent down and wrote, obscuring my vision. The book and the things she took out of the drawer. I guess no insight for me. Never mind. I don't want to know about those cool magic items.

After a few minutes of writing, she put the charcoal aside and wiped her already blackened hands from her clothes. She slid the book towards me, grabbed some metal instruments and glass bottles, and placed them in front of her. She opened another drawer and grabbed a square stone slab covered with runes, black on top and white on the bottom.

Mina carefully lowered the slate and slipped her fingers out from under the slate. She hesitated for a moment, then quickly touched the top, her fingers pulling back again, frowning at the pain, and there was a slight burning sensation. "It's okay, there's still energy." She muttered to herself.

Magical Hot Rock, charged 32%.

Mina, if only there was a way for you to see this without burning yourself.

Well, maybe I do deserve the title of Inquisitor.

I turned to the book she had set aside and read what she had written. Her handwriting is small and neat, and every word is carefully printed.

Increases maximum mana potion, prototype 38

Ingredients:

Nachi Vine (2 links) (remove the leaves!) They secrete acid! ）

Rumareevs (2)

Snake Blood (1/4 vial)

Butterfly Wing (1)

Gel (1/8 bottle)

Hibiscus (1)

Procedure:

Chop the butterfly wings, pound the vines into a fine powder, mix the snake blood with water in a ratio of 1:3, and add the wings + vines + leaf juice. Boil. Put the slimes, mana hibiscus, and vitamin leaves in a separate beaker, mash them all, add to the blood mixture, and stir until things change or until I give up.

Expected Results: If it works, I should gain mana, hopefully permanently. Blood, lumaleafs, wings, gels, and hibiscus are all rich in natural mana.

Mina completed the procedure with skillful precision and speed; Remove the vine leaves with metal tongs, put them in a drawer, mash, mix, and boil. Eventually, she began to stir the final potion, but now it was just a gray-blue mixture, with chunks of plants floating around it.

The sun has completely set. Eventually, after what felt like an eternal stirring at a steady, monotonous pace, the mixture changed. Its viscosity thickens and turns into a dark blue color with black swirls on it. A faint stream of black vapor evaporated from it, forming faces, animals, and people, and then somehow falling back into the potion itself. It has a lovely floral scent, but somehow the smell is unstable, like if it were a little sweeter and a little more enticing.

Mina frowned and jotted down some notes. "Well, at least some kind of reaction." She put the beaker with the potion on the table, fortunately not near me, and began to clean herself up, putting things back in the drawer, with great difficulty getting in, and when she put them away, her hand stopped in the air for a second. Inside.

She closed the drawer again and wiped her hands on her clothes again. "Alright, there's only one thing to do now, it's time to calm down." She said, sat down, and picked up the potion. A potion that emits a black mist that shapes the face. The potion smelled like a flower on the verge of collapse. This agent has an indescribable potentially lethal effect.

Well, this potion has a lethal effect. Who cares what "Manna Animation" means, it's described as suspicious, that can't be a good thing. She wouldn't drink that, would she? Especially after a lecture a few hours ago about how potions can easily kill people?

"Drink it all!" Mina took a big sip and swallowed the evil potion. She began to cough, and with each cough, black smoke erupted from her mouth. Is she dying? Did it kill her? Should I seek help somehow? Will I be a suspect?

Mina cleared her throat and stopped coughing, smacking her lips in disgust. Thankfully, she's not dead. "Oh wow, it tastes terrible." She screamed, jotting it down in her notebook. She looked around her body and let out an approving grunt. "No noticeable changes, it's good."

She closed her eyes, furrowed her face, and was preoccupied with ...... Something. When she opened her eyes, she sighed deeply and sank. "It seems that the mana has not changed." She said in frustration, writing in her notebook again. I glanced at her newly written section.

Actual Results:

Black, eerie vapor that smells sweet but not very good. Tastes like and has a very sticky/greasy texture.

There is no change in my body

My mana hasn't changed

I don't see any effect, attempt 38 failed.

When there was a knock on the door, we all stood up in surprise.

"Mina, I need help downstairs right now, and I'm a little too busy right now." Father's low, apologetic voice rang out. “

Tomorrow I'll buy you some better vitamin leaves. But in any case, please go downstairs as soon as possible, it is already packed. With that, he left.

Mina collapsed on the bed, covering her face with a pillow, and screamed pitifully. Slowly, she stood up and looked at her clothes, which were covered in stains and marks. She sighed and went to the closet to take out another identical garment; The sleeves and collar are white, the upper half is green, and the skirt is tan. She started undressing and putting it on, and I looked out the window at the alley because when she didn't even know I was technically alone, it would be very creepy and weird for me to watch her change clothes, and it would usually be messy. Ha

Mina walked back to the table and grabbed the remaining half-drunk potion. "It's better to throw the rest away." She shrugged, opening the window and pouring water into a pipe that led directly to the grate on the alley floor.

She stroked me a few times, I was grateful to her, and left the room with charcoal marks still on her face. I don't want to sit alone in a room and get bored, though. After all, I'd better sit downstairs in the tavern where I can eavesdrop on everyone's conversations. I silently walked through the half-open door and followed Mina downstairs.