Looking at the bottle of potion in her hand, Yakumo Ran shook her head. How should she put it? It was an energizing potion. The fact that human and youkai medicines could not be used interchangeably was common knowledge—especially the thing in her hand.
If a youkai drank it, they would feel endlessly invigorated, never tire no matter what they did. Sleep? How could they even think of sleeping when they were constantly so alert!?
It had the same effect on humans, but if a human drank it, they could just stay awake and wait to die. If they were examined afterward, the diagnosis would still be death from overwork. Ordinary people simply could not withstand the stimulation and drain brought by this potion.
Keep Yakumo Yukari awake all the time?
Mm, not a bad idea. But out of distrust for Eirin Yagokoro, Ran had no intention of giving this bottle to Yukari. How could she know what it really did when she had never used it herself? What if it was some kind of poison?
Right now, rather than trusting her, Yakumo Ran trusted Jiu Ming more!
Even just a slight sniff revealed the potion's faint sweetness, and that sweetness had a peculiar effect afterward—it was especially appealing to youkai! She had only opened the cap once, yet quite a few youkai of all sizes had been drawn to her along the way.
And, even more unexpectedly, every last one of those youkai had said it was female...
"What the hell!?" After driving away those tactless youkai, Yakumo Ran could not help scrutinizing the grayish-green potion in her hand once more. The more she looked at it, the stranger it seemed. Should she just throw it away?
Sensing several pairs of burning eyes in the shadows fixed on the