My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World: Volume 10 [Parts 1 to 2] by Tamamaru

Author:Tamamaru
Language: eng
Format: epub

“Speaking of, do animals around here hibernate in the winter?” I asked Samya over dinner. I casually sipped on my tea. While I couldn’t deny that I was interested in the biology of this forest, my chief concern was actually something else.

“I was wondering if securing food will become a problem,” I added.

Currently, we had more than enough food stored away. If we were forced into a situation where we had to hole up in the cabin, we could, by my tally, survive for at least a month without any outside help. We even had facilities to repair and forge new weapons. Though I suspect that our forge wouldn’t remain so pretty under those circumstances...

While we had enough food to go around for now, we were a large family of ten, so we depleted resources rather quickly. Surprisingly, Krul had a small appetite, and Lucy didn’t eat as much as I’d expected either—perhaps she was utilizing magical energy as a part of her diet. Still, they both ate in accordance with their size. Rike, Helen, and Anne had hearty appetites too, only increasing our consumption. I had no real complaints about their eating habits, though.

“Hmm...” Samya said. “It gets cold around this area, but it rarely snows, and the grass doesn’t get buried by frost either.”

“Which means you can still hunt,” I replied.

“Yeah. But the animals don’t move around as much, so it might be a bit of a pain to find them. I didn’t worry too much when I was alone, but now that you mention it, we might need a bit more food for our growing family. Probably a good plan to hunt down more than usual, just to be safe.”

It seemed the animals didn’t hibernate, but they weren’t as active either. That made sense—moving around consumed quite a bit of calories. If memory serves, I think Earth’s military rations were a lot more calorie dense for those in the cold north. If a person in cold weather had to traverse the same distance as a person in warm weather, the one in the cold would need more calories to do so. And finding calories required burning calories, so it was all terribly inefficient. This was a useful tactic for humans on a diet (a concept that was quite foreign to this world), but for wild animals, it was a matter of survival.

“What about wolves?” I asked.

“I see ’em around every now and then, but they don’t roam much,” Samya replied. “I usually spot a pack all huddled up and sleeping.”

Just then, I heard a loud clatter from Diana. Clearly, she’d overheard us talking about the huddling wolves and wanted to see such an adorable sight for herself. I remembered seeing a skulk of fluffy foxes all clumped up and sleeping near each other in a fox village back on Earth.

“Maybe you guys can see the wolves if you’re lucky,” I said. “Also, we’ve got room in storage for extra meat, right?”

“I believe so,” Lidy answered. “I stored some potatoes just the other day, and there was still plenty of room left.

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