To Another World... with Land Mines! Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 5] by Itsuki Mizuho

Author:Itsuki Mizuho
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2: New Ingredients and Food

We had been away from home for a long time, and when we finally returned from the dungeon, we were greeted by a field full of brown rapeseed pods. This must’ve been what Touya had been working on before we left, but it looked a lot bigger now. The kids from the temple orphanage were probably responsible for the field in front of us; we’d hired some to take care of our yard and had also given them some seeds. It seemed they had been diligent workers.

“I’m happy for you, Yuki,” I said. “Look at how magnificent these flower beds are. This is what you wanted, right?”

“F-Flower beds?” Yuki seemed a bit confused as she looked back and forth between the flower beds and my face. “I mean, yeah, there are flowers, but this is kind of different from what I had in mind.”

Our yard had probably looked very pretty when the rapeseed flowers were in full bloom, but only the pods were left now, and they looked a bit dirty. You could simply clear away ornamental plants after their flowers had withered, but rapeseed was a crop, so we needed to leave them alone for the pods to ripen. The sight in front of us was the natural result of our decision to plant rapeseed for vegetable oil. I patted Yuki on the shoulder to comfort her for a bit.

Then a voice came from behind me. “Hmm? So you’ve returned home.”

I turned and saw Seira, one of the assistant priests at the orphanage. She was wearing some gardening clothes that were covered in dirt, so she must have dropped by to work on our yard, but there weren’t any kids with her.

“It looks like everyone has been working hard. We really appreciate it,” I said. “Did you come to work all by yourself?”

Seira smiled. “You paid quite a bit of money in advance, so it’s only natural that we’d work hard.” She pointed at the field. “Grass grows slowly during this time of year, so I’m just here today to check on the field—it should be ready for harvest soon.”

“That seems to be the case,” said Haruka. “I’m surprised it’s almost ready for harvest after just one month, however.”

“Um, actually, this will be the second yield,” said Seira, sounding like she wasn’t sure how to explain things.

Yuki blinked in surprise a couple times. “Huh? The second yield? Does that mean you already harvested the rapeseed pods that grew while we were gone, and the pods in front of us are the second batch?”

“Yes. The compost that you provided proved very effective,” Seira replied. “The rapeseed grew extremely fast.”

I had no idea how long rapeseed normally took to grow, but I felt quite sure that two rounds in one month was too fast even accounting for the fact that we’d used potent compost to accelerate the process.

“I’ve heard of a variety of fast-growing radishes that can be harvested within twenty days,” said Haruka. “Is this similar?”

“Nah, that’s different, Haruka,” said Yuki.

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