Medicine Melancholy

Medicine Melancholy is an NPC and Rare Customer found in the Garden of the Sun. This location and NPC are from DLC 4.

## Descriptions

### Bond Lv1

A tsukumogami living in the meadow of highly poisonous lilies-of-the-valley. She was only born recently so she's seriously lacking in experience and knowledge, nor does she know how to get along with others. In the vast meadow, one could often see her talking to herself-or even dancing-a cuteness wrapped in strangeness... Although she's very blunt personality-wise.

### Bond Lv3

She's become a youkai, but her body seems to still be that of a doll's, so she's fine even if her body is filled to the brim with poison. Not very fond of humans; in the past she'd even control humans by putting poison in their food... Due to her age, she doesn't know how to hold herself back, so caution must be taken before she becomes more mature!

### Bond Lv5

Who would've thought that a poison doll would actually be a simple young girl? If you teach her something, she'll commit that something to memory. I never knew this is how it feels to see a newborn youkai slowly growing up! I'm pretty young myself, so it's not often I get to be the older youkai. Now all I want is to keep her safe and sound and let her grow up happily... Though I'm probably not as powerful as her.

## Tag Requests

* Sweet: *"The basic taste of poison is sweetness."*
* Signature: *"I'm not sure... can you recommend me some signature dishes?"*
* Photogenic: *"Lily says beautiful dishes are very photogenic, like me."*
* Refreshing: *"Dolls and heat do not go well."*
* Fungus: *"Most people think of those things that grow rapidly in the forest when you mention poison."*
* Small Portion: *"Small things like Lily are cute, right?"*
* Dreamy: *"Humans intentionally poison themselves to seek enthralling experiences."*
* Poison: *"Poisons are the best seasoning."*

## Spell Card

### Analysis "Toxin Neutralization" (Reward)

Removes the **Withering garden** [sic] status effect *(see punishment card for details)*;

Medicine manipulates all the possibly harmful substances in a dish, making tags not conflict with each other while cooking. Lasts for 30 seconds and immediately gives a drink with the "mid alcohol [sic]" tag [sic]

### Convalla "Withering garden [sic]" (Punishment)

Removes the **Toxin Neutralization** status effect *(see reward card for details)*;

The melancholic poison [sic] tag is added when cooking dishes. Guests who consume this tag will not make follow-up orders. Lasts 30 seconds.

## Bond Rewards

* Lv2: Toon Pancake recipe
* Lv3: Miasma Garden recipe
* Lv4: Little Sweet "Poison" recipe
* Lv5: "About Gathering (will spend 30 minutes)" dialogue option. This dialogue option will yield all gatherable items from Garden of the Sun at 18:00.

## Strategies

Burn-out Pudding fits a whopping *five* tags (Signature, Refreshing, Dreamy, Small Portion, Sweet), and for a cheaper option Okonomiyaki satisfies Signature, Small Portion and Photogenic. Poison can be added via Red Toon, Fungus can be added via Mushroom, Photogenic can be added via Ginkgo Nut or Bamboo (it and Dreamy with Flower), Sweet can be added through a few ways. Note that hitting a total of 5 ingredients through adding extras will knock out Small Portion due to adding Large Portion, thus lowering the amount of points gained by 1, but you will be guaranteeing 4 at minimum regardless.

Iceberg Kedama Lemonade covers No Alcohol, Fruity and Sweet, while Fruity Highball and Fruity Sour have Bitter, Fruity and Sweet. Choose whatever fits best.

Medicine is **rather high priority.** While her recipes aren't all that special, she is the area's gatherer, and the Garden of the Sun is one of the best gathering areas in the game at the time of writing, thus immediately pushing her up.