Kaoru gets reincarnated in another world and receives cheat powers that allow her to create potions. She uses them to help those in need by curing the sick and saving a noblewoman from having her household taken over. Naturally, this catches the attention of others and she's targeted by greedy men. While all this is happening, someone sets their sights on Layette. What will the enraged Kaoru decide to do...? Will she never get the peaceful life she wishes for? Surely she can resolve all these problems with her cheat potion powers!

Business is booming at Kaoru’s brand new drugstore...or is it a deli? Whether she’s behind the counter with Layette or on a treasure-hunting house call, Kaoru finds herself with no shortage of opportunities to use her divine gift of creating any potion she can imagine. She may prefer a subtler approach when curing the headaches of inter-industry intrigue, but when rumors of a deadly disease make their way through her doors, our miracle medicine-maker prepares to provide the panacea for this public health crisis. Even in the middle of an epidemic, she’ll keep surviving!

The war between Aligot and Balmore is over thanks to Kaoru, but now comes the hard part: the peace talks. The Holy Land of Rueda, one of the conflict's major instigators, is dead-set on causing as much trouble as possible for everyone. Even if Kaoru can handle all that nonsense, she still has her main mission to consider: spreading the Nagase family genes in this new world. To do that, she'll venture far and wide, reuniting with old friends and making new enemies along the way, including a group of kidnappers who exclusively target cute girls! Surely Kaoru wouldn't be distracted from such a perilous fate by being identified as 'cute'... would she? How can our protagonist use her potion powers to get out of this jam?!

As an apology for her accidental death, Kaoru is reincarnated in a different, less culturally-advanced world where she receives cheat powers to create magic potions, an item box with infinite storage, the ability to understand and speak every language, and the same body she had back when she was a fifteen-year-old girl.

After receiving the power to create any potion she wants, Kaoru is sent off to live her new life in a brand new world. Things don’t go exactly as she planned, though, and the truth comes out that she’s friends with the goddess Celestine! Though Kaoru tries to keep her head low despite this (emphasis on “tries”), she can’t help but put her potion powers to use, drawing the attention of both countries she’s already passed through. Now it’s time for Kaoru to put her brand new schemes into action!

After turning the lower city into a true sight to behold, Rozemyne aims to continue her development plan and secure a greater influence over the country’s other duchies. As she needs the assistance of commoners to achieve this, she gets to work dismantling the wall that exists between them and the nobles. She tours the printing workshops in the Central District, holds a dyeing competition to unearth skilled craftspeople, and even fantasizes about designing her own library. Not everything is quite so straightforward, however—a normal wedding is enshrouded in complex interduchy politics, and as Rozemyne prepares for her second year in the Royal Academy, she finds herself needing to stay on guard against the rebellious former Veronica faction. This is the newest volume of this biblio-fantasy, filled to the brim with moving developments! Includes two original short stories and four-panel manga by You Shiina!

Let's say you're way too smart, good-looking, and overpowered for your new world. Do you become a grand mage? Or do you play it cool like Kaoru: waiting tables, running an advice booth, cleaning up after absent-minded adventurers, and running a secret society of do-gooders on the side? Life may seem sweet when most solutions are just a potion away, but that doesn't mean it's easy. After all, you can't really drink away a menagerie of marriage-minded nobles...

Originally published: London: Orbit, 1998.

With the mysterious outbreak stopped at its source, Kaoru sighs in relief at the many lives she's saved--but her only reward is a return to a wanderer's rough-and-tumble life...and the smorgasbord of seafood the next city over! Her next business venture sounds like the perfect palate cleanser, but the laws of supply and demand have an inconvenient turn in store. Kaoru will keep on surviving...for sushi!

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