Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai Deshou!

"I'm going to the forest"

"Beware of bears and wolves!"

One week after the first guinea fowl was harvested, I went to the forest as usual, and my father was very happy.

The miso cake, which he thought was useless at the age of six, contributed to enriching the family dining table.

Because I was originally out of number and thought that helping with land reclamation was still impossible, I began to hunt guinea fowl every day, which is difficult for professional hunters to hunt.

Besides, wild strawberries, wild vegetables and natural potatoes.

Recently, family members are getting better because they collect foods that can be eaten accurately.

After all, everyone was tired of eating only black bread and salted vegetable soup.

However, living in this village is not very affordable.

Due to the fact that much of the work is being devoted to new land clearing and agricultural work in response to the growing population, fewer people and time are available for hunting and gathering.

The basic ingredient that can be eaten by humans is wheat, which is a bread ingredient.

According to the basics, my father moved his hands.

While turning a child may be dangerous, but I'm still the eighth son, and dying doesn't mean much.

Even the same children, the children of the citizens are busy helping with farming and employment.

I was the only child in the forest now, because I don't want to die from that precious labor.

I wonder what aristocrats expect to earn from a six-year-old child, but this is probably the reality of many poor people in this world, not just poor poor aristocrats in this world.

I just expected that the city I was going to be an adult would be pretty good.

Nevertheless, I continue hunting and gathering activities to improve my eating habits.

Because you can paint side dishes using guinea fowl and wild plants, or jam using wild strawberries on that ugly black bread.

There are many other things you can get, and you can practice magic freely in the forest anyway.

"The magic of the general name being 'report' ..."

Because I couldn't practice flashy attack magic, I was mainly practicing auxiliary magic to temporarily strengthen physical functions and other life magic.

We will go deep into the forest while checking that no large wild animals are approaching, and then try the magic written on the new page of the spellbook.

The new magic "Report" is a magic that literally reports something to the user.

When I used it for a trial, a faint light glowed in a few places where I could see.

If you look closely, it was a vine of wild yam extending from the root of the tree to the ground, or an aconite growing wild.

Indeed, it surely reports the location of something with a hazy glow.

Natural potatoes are effective as food, but aconite is not very useful in this world.

Because it is a poisonous plant, it is often used for assassination.

I heard it was a poison, but depending on how I use it, I felt like I heard it in the world before, but I don't know how to use it, so I will leave it for now.

I first dig out the wild potatoes with the excavation magic that improved the magic of the earth system.

As in the world before, if such a six-year-old child digs for potatoes on his own, the sun will fall.

Therefore, apply the magic of “digging” described in the intermediate spellbook to dig the potatoes without damaging them.

Then, a wonderful potato about 2 meters in length was dug out.

As expected, it is a forest where people do not usually come and go.

It's a wonderful potato, but it's too long for you to carry.

Because it is not for sale, fold it in half and tie it to the back sac.

After that, we will hunt two Guinea fowls as usual, and also harvest wild plants and scabies and pack them in the back sac.

"But I don't understand the ecosystem and vegetation of this forest ..."

Naturally, it was not a Japanese forest of the previous life, but it was natural here. etc.

Animals and plants that are familiar in Japan are mixed like chaos.

The blessings of nature are quite large.

However, since most of the human resources are usually engaged in agricultural work, there seems to be no other than professional hunters who frequently hunt and gather.

In addition, it seems that the basics of entering a forest with multiple adult men are basically the avoidance of bears and wolves, but it could be said that it is impossible in the working environment to easily gather multiple adult men.

"Moreover, the professional hunters seem to be hunting in another forest near their home."

That's why it seems that this forest rarely receives people except for several times of collective hunting a year.

It's a matter of course, but it was a natural reason for a lord to give priority to crops that can generate tax revenue and calculate the yield to some extent, over the bounty of nature whose yield is not stable.

Because this is a remote area where there is little exchange with other territories, if you are not self-sufficient, you will be directly starved to death.

"later……"

When I looked for a new dimly lit place, I found a tree that was very similar to loquat.

Surely a kind of loquat, it must have been called loquat in this world.

I use magic to detect poison and then peel and bite myself.

Then, the taste of juice that is sweeter than loquat spreads in the mouth.

In addition, we will collect fruits similar to akebi and fruits similar to persimmons.

I thought that it would be autumn when it comes to season because fruits can be harvested, but it doesn't seem to be so.

Now it seems that it is between spring and summer in terms of season, but when I checked why the fruits were formed in a book, it was written that "The time of fruit formation differs for each individual tree."

In other words, some trees bear fruit in spring and some bear fruit in summer.

Furthermore, even in winter, some trees die without snow falling even in winter, and there seems to be some individuals that bear fruit in winter.

Indeed, the climate was the southern part of the continent.

For that reason, I feel that my diet is poor.

However, I can't do anything because I'm a child right now.

After using a lot of magic and securing the specified yield, I hurry home.

"Good job"

When he gives his mother the fruits of the harvest and enjoys dinner with two dishes, his father suddenly begins to say this.

"Evens, the huntsman, has witnessed the Talking Dead."

"Is it true? Dad!"

My elder brother Kurt raises a surprise voice.

"Oh, maybe five years ago."

Yes, five years ago, my father, who had hoped to open a part of the Demon Forest where the monsters lived, and the army of Breichrader Marsh, who had been armed by his interests, were making great losses.

Fortunately, my father, who was busy maintaining security because he had 2,000 troops in other territories, did not have to go to the Demon Forest.

However, it seems that only twenty-three troops, led by an uncle who was their father's vassal, returned only twenty-three.

Naturally, his uncle did not seem to have returned.

It is easy to imagine that as many as seventy-seven adult men died in Knights of Baumeister, whose population was gradually increasing.

It seemed to be a big deal about what is going on in the current extreme farming work and the fact that I didn't say anything when I hunted and gathered next to danger in the forest.

The Bleichrader Frontier also seems to have not returned 1,925 people, including its predecessor.

According to the public definition, it was almost annihilation.

"For a while, will you be bothered by a demonic monster ..."

"It's still a dead story, so you can say it's a good thing. Zombies are troublesome to defeat."

It was common sense that no monsters came out of their own territory, but the only exception would be this demonic monster.

Because humans are humans, a certain number of individuals will inevitably return to their hometowns even if they become monsters.

According to the picture book, a monster like a zombie that moves only by instinct seems to be a troublesome thing that harms humans.

This seems to require immediate defeat.

But it's slow and it's extremely vulnerable to fire.

And the important story was the dead, but this is a case-by-case response.

In some cases, they are brutalized by the fear of death and must only be burned like zombies. In other cases, they come to talk like ordinary humans, and when a person who talks to them asks for a request, they become a Buddha.

People who speak to you seem to be mostly priests, etc., but it seems that ordinary people can make a Buddha if the wavelength is the same.

"Do you ask the Father?"

"Meister is sick because of his age. It's impossible to find a dead narrator who doesn't know where he is."

Despite this remote place, the priests are dispatched from the headquarters of the church in the royal capital.

However, the priest is really only one elderly man who has exceeded the age of eighty.

Because there was no sister, the chores of the church seemed to be helped by Mr. Baa in the territory.

Moreover, there were few religious people in this Baumeister knight territory, and I only participated in the mass several times.

Perhaps, unless this old priest is called to heaven, no new priest will come from the royal city.

"That's why, be careful when Vell enters the forest. It's possible that you'll leave your territory."

While listening to the irresponsible father's story, unscrupulously I talked and became interested in the dead.