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"It seems to grow faster than normal, after all."

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　I muttered to myself as I looked at my field.

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　After my first harvest, I continued to tend my fields.

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　Then I became convinced of something.

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　The vegetables grown in my garden grow faster than usual.

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　It is beyond amazing, it is almost scary that I can grow up the HATUKA to be ready to eat in only about 5 days, when normally it takes about 20 days to harvest.

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　However, eating the vegetables that have grown to this point has not caused any physical problems.

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　We concluded that there would probably be no immediate effects.

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　It is not impossible that there might be some side effects later on, but I have decided that there is no point in worrying about it.

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　After all, the hunger was that hard to bear.

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"But recently, I've been able to relax a little bit. I think I'd like to try an experiment here or there."

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　However, these hard days are gradually calming down.

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　Then I got a little playful.

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　If I were a normal three-year-old boy, I would not have thought of this.

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　But I have been to school in a previous life.

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　I didn't study agriculture professionally, but I know some things about it.

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　This time, the word "breeding" came to my mind.

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　The foods I had eaten in my previous life were all delicious.

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　Even the special sale items in the supermarket were beautiful, fresh, and tasted strong.

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　However, at that time, I didn't care about such things, and only ate foods that had been made stronger with various seasonings, so I didn't really enjoy the true taste of vegetables.

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　However, when I look at vegetables grown in this world, I am very curious about them.

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　But when I look at the vegetables grown in this world, I am very much concerned about the low quality of them.

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　I am now painfully aware of how good the vegetables I used to eat used to be.

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　All this was possible because of the daily study and continuous breeding by unknown farmers and researchers in the past, which made it possible to obtain such high quality products at such low prices.

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　However, I don't think that an individual farmer would be able to achieve such a great result in breeding.

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　It would be a great success if I could finally leave my descendants something to be proud of after devoting my life to it.

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　However, there is an entity that could destroy such a common sense.

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　That is magic.

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　I don't know what the logic is, but vegetables grow faster in the fields I plow with magic.

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　Then I will have no choice but to take advantage of it.

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　And so I set to work to improve the variety.

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　Hoping with all my heart that the taste of HATSUKA will improve even a little.

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　I hope with all my heart that the taste of HATSUKA will improve as much as possible.

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　Now that we have come up with the idea of breeding, how do we go about it?

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　Even though I helped my grandma in the countryside with her farm, I would have used seeds and seedlings that I had bought every time I went there.

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　Then, I recall the knowledge I have learned in school by picking them up from the bottom of my memory.

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　I remember that we must have learned the laws of heredity in the biology class.

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　There must have been a story about an old man who experimented with peas in the field.

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　I remember that he found out the law of heredity by checking the wrinkles of peas by the thousand with the naked eye and taking data.

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　When I heard that story, I wondered how he could do such a leisurely experiment.

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　But there is a clue.

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　There are not enough varieties of HATUKA to be crossed in the current situation, even if we call it breeding.

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　If there were varieties of the same crop, such as Koshihikari and Akita Komachi, it would be possible to cross breed each of them, but that is not the situation.

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　In other words, I had to start from the investigation of the characteristics of HATSUKA itself.

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　I carefully observed each harvested hatzka one by one.

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　The root mass under the stem is edible, but of course, there were also minute differences in the stems and flowers.

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　We found them one by one and classified them.

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　Some of the roots are black, others are slightly reddish-purplish.

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　Some have many clumps of roots, while others have at least a few but slightly larger ones.

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　Some flowers are whitish, others yellowish.

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　I checked every other small difference.

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　Of course, I am not an academic researcher, so I never forget to actually taste them and see what they taste like.

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　And of course, just checking them is not the end of the process.

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　We have to classify their characteristics and then cross-breed them.

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　I decided to divide the field into 6 categories.

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　It is not possible to separate them completely, but I have divided them so that they grow according to the characteristics I have targeted.

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　After a while, when this experimentation, food preparation, and half-interesting activity became a part of my daily routine, I realized a fact.

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　It was that "vegetables also have magic power.

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