Tracey took over the trouble that had just begun to surface around Sybill, and with the school year only just starting, there was nothing particularly worth paying attention to.
For a while, Manus's school life proceeded entirely along the steady path he had originally hoped for.
He attended classes, conducted research, studied, taught Barty Jr. and the others, then brought Petunia to the secret base in the first half of the night to learn magical knowledge.
It was safe to say that his days were full and satisfying.
A month passed, and Manus's first attempt at a healing-type Beauty Potion finally yielded results. Once bottled, the pale green potion amounted to roughly the same quantity as a Cold Potion.
He still used rabbits raised in the Mental World as test subjects, but the results were... how should he put it? Barely satisfactory.
"It does have a healing effect, but it is rather poor at closing wounds. The wound cannot be too large or too deep..."
Facing the rabbit he had disemboweled, Manus gave the anesthetized animal a swift death, ending its life before it could feel any pain.
"Was it because the subject was a rabbit? Or was the potion itself simply not powerful enough?"
In theory, Manus had brewed the potion around the concept of repairing wounds to make oneself beautiful. That meant it ought to work regardless of the wound's size and should have been able to heal it.
But theory was theory. Shrinking Solution could make people younger too, but in practice, becoming even a tiny bit younger still counted as becoming younger.
If the rabbit-to-human ratio was converted proportionally, the Wound-Healing Potion could only heal a wound about as long as a forearm, provided it did not damage internal organs or bones.
It had some value,