4 - first harvest



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 I was deeply moved when I saw the field in front of me, with beautiful rows of vegetables that seemed to promise a harvest of delicious vegetables, instead of the hard soil and weeds that had been growing in the field before.

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 It was a modest feat for the first time that I had succeeded on my own in a world where magic existed differently from my previous life.

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 But even so, I was happy.

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 I even wonder if I have ever worked so hard to accomplish something before.

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 Come to think of it, in my previous lives I had been able to find out most of the things in advance.

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 It must have been a big step in my life in this world to be able to use magic from a completely zero state.

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 While I was thinking about that, I heard a gurgling sound from my stomach.

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 My body complaining of hunger brings my thoughts back to reality.

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 Yes, it's true.

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 At any rate, I have more important things to do right now than magic.

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 I have to make something to eat at all costs.

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"Okay, I guess I'll start planting this thing."

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 My body is still making noises and claiming hunger.

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 I barely manage to suppress my appetite, one of the three major cravings that come from my body, and pick up the vegetables I have prepared.

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 What I had planned to plant in the field is a kind of root vegetable.

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 A vegetable that grows in a short period of time, a vegetable that most poor farmers have in their fields.

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 Amazingly, it would be ready to eat in about 20 days.

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 However, this vegetable called "HATUKA" is famous for not being very popular.

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 It tastes very bad.

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 It is a blackish mass that forms on the root of a hard stem, and it looks so bad that it is generally used as food for livestock.

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 Therefore, it is regarded as a scrappy vegetable for poor farmers.

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 The plants are planted at equal spacing along the magically plowed ridges.

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 I don't care how much notoriety it has.

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 Anyway, I'm that hungry!

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 To tell the truth, if the magic had not succeeded today, I might have regretted my rebirth in this world.

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 I was made to realize how hard it is to be poor, even though I was only a child.

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 I was a child, but I realized how hard it was to be poor.

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"Hey, something's wrong, isn't it?"

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 I was tending the fields, which had become a daily routine, when I muttered to myself.

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 A few days had already passed since my first successful spell.

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 I had been casting a spell on the soil of the field once a day.

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 Thanks to this magic, a reasonably large space has already been transformed from a desolate area to a soft, fluffy soil.

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 However, as the area expanded, problems began to appear.

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 That is "watering".

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 There is no running water here, no hose, no water that comes out when you turn on the tap.

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 He fills a rag bucket with water from a water bottle at home and goes back and forth to the field.

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 The act of watering the fields is unimaginably hard work for me, a three-year-old with a small, immature body.

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 It would be best if I could magically produce water, but I am having a hard time doing so.

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 On this particular day, I managed to water the plants with a great deal of difficulty.

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 Then I saw something that caught my attention.

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 It was the hatsuba that I had planted in the field on the first day.

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 Hatska is a root vegetable that forms a number of small spherical roots under a thin, hard stem.

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 After about 20 days, the stalks will bloom, marking the harvest.

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 But to my surprise, the first day I planted the plant, it was already in full bloom.

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 Obviously, it is early.

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 I guess you could say that it is too early.

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 Obviously, the honeysuckle is flowering at an unusual rate.

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 But even though I know it's unusual, I can't take the option of leaving it alone.

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 I put my hand on my chest to suppress my pounding heart, and then, regulating my breathing, I reach out my hand to the stem of the honeysuckle.

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 My hand gripped the stem tightly, as if it were firmly rooted to the earth.

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 He leaned down and pulled it out at once, as if putting all the weight of his small body on it.

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"Oh! That's a lot of stems!"

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 The hachkas that were pulled out with a "zubobo" surprised me when they emerged from the ground in all their glory.

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 Normally, the hatzukas have only a few clumps of edible roots at the end of their stems.

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 However, the hatzkas pulled from this field have more than a dozen spherical roots.

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 I plucked one of them off with my hand and beat it with a bang.

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 He removed dirt from the soil.

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 He then soaked it in the water left in the tub to remove all the fine soil from the surface.

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"Gulp!"

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 I bit my teeth together vigorously and bit into the hatzkah.

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 Instantly, a bad bitter taste spread in my mouth.

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 It was so bad that I almost spit it out of my mouth.

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 But I would never do that.

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 I already know that it is not tasty.

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"V~~~. It tastes bad!"

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 Almost subconsciously, I say so.

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 But despite my words, only my eyes were smiling.

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 Now there was hope that I could finally escape my hunger.

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 Thus began the agricultural revolution in my mind.

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