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Harvest Time
After making sure Nina and Stella had returned to their house, I teleported to the entrance of Howling Village. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Andre was standing in front, holding a spear, but perhaps it’s due to the dull, long hours of guard duty that he was completely spacing out. He doesn’t notice me, who has appeared in front of him.
It makes me worried whether he’s fine or not, but this is normal, considering the peaceful Howling Village, where there are few people coming and going, and no monsters appear.
Feeling a sudden mischievous impulse, I teleported right next to him without calling out.
「Dowaa!?」
Seeing me suddenly appear, the absentminded Andre hurriedly readied his spear.
Having learned a swordsmanship lesson from Helena, I teleported to a place not dangerous and out of reach of his spear.
「Andre-san, please calm down, it’s me」
「So it’s Kureto! You surprised me by appearing so suddenly like that!」
「Sorry. I did it cause I wanted to see Andre-san get shaken」
「This jerk. I’m gonna stab you with my spear the next time you appear with teleport right in front of me, ya’hear?」
Andre swings his prized spear around with a whoosh to show it off.
His spear handling looks unexpectedly skillful, and it feels like he might really thrust his spear at me.
「I came here since I got your message from Stella-san, do you have business with me?」
「Ooh, that’s right. It’s almost time to harvest the crops for the entire Village. And as you can see, the Village’s fields are quite huge, and harvesting every year is quite the struggle. That’s why, could you help us if you have some free time, Kureto?」
Just as Stella said, it was a matter of the harvest. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
There are many elderly people in Howling Village, so young people with a lot of stamina seem to be seen as a very valuable workforce. It seems that young people are helping with the harvest around this time of the year.
「I see. Then I can prioritize the village and help」
「I’m happy to hear that but is that alright? You have your job in the royal capital, right?」
「I’m personally indebted to everyone in Howling Village, and you have all supplied us with fresh vegetables, so even the company will not have any complaints」
Even if I give priority to Howling Village, Emilio will probably have no objection to that.
The ingredients from Howling Village are very popular among the rich and powerful in the royal capital after all.
It won’t be a loss for the company if we can leave an impression on the village by me prioritizing the village.
「That’s fine then, but make sure you don’t overdo it, okay?」
「Yeah. I will take refuge in my house in the royal capital once I get exhausted」
If I were forced to work around a lot, I could just say I have a job in the royal capital and teleport away.
Andre looked at me with envy, but this is also the privilege of someone who can use Space magic.
「By the way, when is the harvest?」
「All the ears have bent over nicely, they’re fully ripe. There are subtle differences between wheat and barley, so I can’t say for sure, but I think it will start within the week」
「Understood. I’ll come and check on things as closely as possible」
「Ou, thanks」
Not knowing the specific days is a little inconvenient, but I guess that’s natural since it depends on the crops. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Even if I have some business in the royal capital, I can just teleport back and check on the situation as needed.
「Also, there will be a harvest festival once the harvest work is done. It’s like a festival to celebrate this year's harvest and to pray for an abundant harvest next year」
「Ooh, harvest festival, huh! I will definitely participate!」
I had taken on Arte’s request during the royal capital’s Nation Founding festival so it’s hard to say I was able to relax from the start.
Having missed the festival in this other world, I would really love to participate in Howling Village’s harvest festival.
「The festival will be done on a small scale if the harvest doesn’t go smoothly. Let’s do our best at the harvest so we can enjoy it well. Nina also looks forward to it each year」
「We have to give it our all then」
Naturally, we have to complete the harvest work properly in order to celebrate the harvest festival.
I have to do my best so we can have a lively harvest festival. And it seems like Nina is also really looking forward to it.
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「Byeー, Kureto!」
「Yeah, do your best to help out in the fields」
I returned home with teleport and finished playing with Nina.
It seems like Nina is helping with farm work in the evening.
It’s really impressive of her to help out with work even after playing.
I feel like I was only playing all the time when I was a kid.
The sky is still bright, and it is just a bit before evening.
I just finished sowing seeds in the morning, so there’s no particular need to do anything to the field.
「It’s a bit early, shall I prepare dinner, then.....」
It has become colder before evening once autumn comes. It will probably get a bit colder once night falls.
「Mushroom stew for today, I guess」
At times like this, it will make you want to have a warm stew, so I’ve often been having stew for dinner recently.
It’s also simple since I just have to cut the ingredients and throw them into the pot. It is highly nutritious, and anyone can make it deliciously, so it is a reliable ally for lazy men living alone.
I put a pot with water on top of the magic stove, and check the ingredients stored in the refrigerator.
Then I take out the wooden box filled with mushrooms I stored in the subspace.
「Ah, there’s almost no mushrooms left.....」
When I tried checking the mushrooms after opening the lid, there were almost no mushrooms inside.
There’s only a small amount of them left, only enough to make a single serving of stew.
I’ve been having stew recently, and I also made Elza make mushroom stew for me when I was doing the merchant work. So I guess it can be said to be the normal outcome for the harvested mushrooms to run out.
At this rate, it’s possible to get through dinner with this amount, but the meal would naturally taste better if it contained a lot of mushrooms, which have their flavor and savoriness.
Given the choice, I would like to have a mushroom hotpot with a lot of mushrooms.
「……the sun hasn’t set yet, I think I should be able to return by evening if I gather them with teleport now」
If my mushrooms have gone this low, Nina’s share - with the 3 of them in the house - must also be running out. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Although I feel a little hesitant to invite them to gather mushrooms close to evening. And it seems like Nina and Stella are going to do farm work after this.
Let’s just gather them by myself this time.
Although I’m still unskilled in terms of knowledge about mushrooms, I learned about several mushrooms that are certainly safe to consume from our last foraging.
Let’s gather a lot this time and share it.
Once I decided on my course of action, I immediately teleported near the forest.
The place I arrived at is the place where I had gathered the Seat mushrooms back with Nina and Stella.
「Oh, there they are, there they are」
There weren’t many mushrooms growing last time, but there were a lot of trees around and densely packed with a lot of Seat mushrooms.
Taking out a knife, I cut the Seat mushroom at the base to collect them.
I continue to collect the dropping mushrooms into the wooden box, one after another.
I’m gathering more than just for my own consumption since I’ll be sharing them with Andre’s family.
But I can’t collect too many mushrooms from the same place. It will affect the next time we collect them if I don’t properly leave the bases behind.
Not just Seat mushrooms, I continue to gather other mushrooms, such as white mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, and round mushrooms, in the same way.
It was safe since I just gathered around the mushrooms, but I’m afraid poisonous mushrooms will get mixed in, so let’s ask Nina and Stella’s opinion later when I share them. Though it will probably be fine.
I continue to gather other mushrooms, such as kara mushrooms, black mushrooms, mukitake, and shiitake, in the same way.
I remember all the locations where we gathered mushrooms last time and was able to teleport to the gathering point quickly, making the efficiency surprisingly good.
If we’re going to do the gathering work like this, it will be more efficient to do it alone.
It’s natural to be fast since I’m using teleport, and even if I encounter a fierce animal or monster, I can just escape immediately using teleport. The only drawback in this is the loneliness I felt when gathering them in silence and alone.
Just as I continued gathering mushrooms like that, I realized I had gathered a lot of mushrooms in the wooden box in no time at all. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
The sun still hasn’t set, and I still have plenty of time.
「I’m already here anyway, might as well explore some places I can only go alone」
The more you go deeper into the forest, the higher the probability of monster encounters you will have, but there is hardly any danger to me since I can escape using teleportation.
I’m curious to see what other kind of mushrooms I can find deeper into the forest. I decided to continue walking deeper. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
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