Chapter: 20
On the other hand, her cousin, Sigmund had blue eyes.
After she divorced, it was unfortunate that she found a small house in the eastern woods.
Astelle became friends with the priestess who lived there in the woods.
A young priestess named Gretel marveled at Astelle, who had moved to the uninhabited place, and was even more amazed when she learned that Astelle was a noblewoman.
Gretel’s family was said to have been apothecary for generations, so she knew a lot about how to make strange potions that Astelle had never heard of in the capital.
After she gave birth to Theor, Astelle asked Gretel if she could make a potion for her child.
“Is there a potion that can change the color of the eyes?”
“Well, there are some of my mother’s recipes……”
Gretel replied with an unconfident face and continued, “My mother stopped doing research, so I need time to research and experiment again to be able to make it.”
Astelle supported Gretel to conduct experiments to make that potion.
She sold her dress and all her remaining jewelry, gave her money for research, and became a test subject of the potion.
She repeatedly put Gretel’s potion in her eyes to see if it worked and to see if there were any pain or side effects.
“……I guess this potion is very important to you. If the noblewoman did this……”
Seeing Astelle testing the potions with her own eyes, Gretel admired it as if she was sorry.
Astelle explained her situation to her calmly, “If the child’s father sees Theor’s eyes, he will take him away.”
When Gretel heard that, she belatedly replied, “Then, you can’t leave our Theor to him!”
Gretel worked hard to study potion because she couldn’t let a child who was so cute and sweet might be taken away by someone she doesn’t even know.
That’s how the potion was made.
A potion that turns the eyes into blue.
Although Astelle has tested it with her own eyes every day for the past few years, the potion has been safe with no pain or side effects.
However, if there was a drawback, the duration was too short.
In about half a day, the effect was over.
Astelle weighed the amount while shaking the bottle.
‘I think it’s still enough until I go to the capital.’
After that, she has no choice but to make it herself.