"Ah.. no. It just feels like the shop owners are always open to buyers, so I wondered if you ever leave your post at all." Lucas tried to fall back on an excuse, noticing that the alchemist was starting to send him some weird looks.
"Ahahah! So that's how it is. There's no such thing, I assure you. It's not like we're confined to the store or anything. It wouldn't make sense if we couldn't leave our shops. How are we going to fulfill our daily necessities if that was the case?" He broke into a fit of laughter and dismissed Lucas' worries.
"Yeah.. I thought so too. Hahah." Lucas could only dryly laugh.
After all, what the alchemist was dubbing as 'impossible' was what he went through in the past.
Sometimes, if the door-to-door sellers didn't visit his store, he would have to go on without resources for quite some time. He always had to make sure that he stocked up enough things for at least a month to avoid misery.