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　The sound of something hard being chewed by teeth.

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　The sound was coming from my mouth.

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　It's because I'm sitting on the ground in front of the field, chewing on a freshly harvested hatz-ka.

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　As usual, the taste of the hutka is not very flattering.

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　I mean, since we eat the root part, it is obvious that it would be more palatable if it were boiled or cooked thoroughly.

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　However, the harvested vegetables are treated as the property of my family, even though I grew them.

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　But my hunger does not allow me to do so, so I eat them whole right after harvesting.

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　There has been progress in the breeding of HATSUKA.

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　In the six divided fields, some of the varieties are starting to show differences in their characteristics.

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　However, there is not much difference in taste yet.

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　But as I was comparing the different varieties, something occurred to me.

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　It was about the magical power I use to plow the fields.

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　The magic that I have developed is a fusion of the magic power inside my body and the magic power that I have taken in from outside.

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　In the basic image, I repeatedly take a deep breath and fill my body with the magic power that I have developed, and then I invoke the magic.

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　Naturally, when magic is used, the magic power that has been kneaded in the body will be consumed.

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　So, even if you try to take a deep breath to invoke the next magic, you will not be able to fuse and knead the magic because you no longer have the original magic power in your body.

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　This is what is called "running out of magic power".

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　Then, how can we recover the magic power in our body?

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　Until now, I had vaguely thought that it would recover with the passage of time.

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　In fact, that is not wrong.

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　But it was not right either.

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　I know this because I have recently been able to secure a steady supply of food.

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　The magic power in my body was restored by the intake of food.

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　The reason why I did not notice it before is that I did not recover as soon as I ate.

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　Just as the food we eat does not immediately become blood and flesh, it takes some time for the magical power to be created after we eat it.

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　That's why he mistakenly thought that the magic power would be restored with the passage of time.

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　And the important thing here is the degree to which the magic power is recovered by what we eat.

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　In fact, the amount of recovery has started to differ even among several types of hatzkas that have recently started to differ.

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　The taste does not change that much, but the amount of magic power restored is different.

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　It was obvious how this would stimulate me.

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　I had originally started this breeding just for the sake of curiosity, after having cleared the basic premise of securing food.

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　Gradually, I shifted my attention to breeding with a focus on magical power rather than taste.

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　I started out as a curious breeder who was trying to secure food.

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　It reminds me of the time I was watching a popular TV show about an idol farming in a previous life.

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　There must have been an indicator when they improved the rice.

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　I think they made a brine solution by pouring a lot of salt into a large container of water, and then plunged the seed rice into the brine.

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　The salt water is said to have the effect of easily separating heavy seed rice from light seed rice, taking advantage of the fact that objects float more easily in salt water than in ordinary water.

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　Basically, the bigger the better.

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　This simple method is said to have been very useful for breeding.

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　Having succeeded in getting this method out of my head, I tried it at once, but it did not work.

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　Unlike rice, nothing was light enough to float in salt water.

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　Besides, the method I wanted to find was to select the ones that would recover more magic power.

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　It is very likely that even if the previous method works, the difference in the amount of magic restored is irrelevant.

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　The most reliable way would be to compare the food every day, and give priority to the ones with the highest recovery.

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　However, as a 3 year old with a small body, I could not do such a comparison.

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　I wonder if there is any way I can distinguish between them.

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　I continued tending to the fields with this in mind.

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　Then one day, the problem was solved.

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　That day I was casting a spell on the soil to till the fields.

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　Usually he closes his eyes to concentrate his mind and takes deep breaths over and over again to activate the magic.

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　However, on this day, as I was getting used to the magic, I started to take deep breaths without closing my eyes and began to knead the magic.

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　The magic power in my body, which is located below my navel, is fused with the magic power I have taken in through deep breathing, and is transformed into viscous magic power, which is then spread throughout my body.

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　Then, when the magic power came up from my stomach to my chest and then to my head.

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　Because my eyes were open, I could see the field in which the hatzkas were planted.

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　The field looked vaguely shaky.

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　I thought it was an optical illusion, but upon closer inspection, it was not.

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　It was as if a transparent gas was rising from the field.

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　Seeing this, I wondered if it was possible, and decided to concentrate the magic power I had been working on into my own eyes.

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　This was the beginning.

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　As I focused the magic power in my eyes, the scene became even more vivid.

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　The transparent gas had changed color, and a pale blue gas was rising from the field.

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　I quickly plucked out a plant of the honeysuckle tree growing in the field, and found that the gas was generated from the honeysuckle itself.

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　The blue color was not only in the air, but also in the edible roots of the plant.

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　Or rather, the blue color does not leak out of the roots into the air, but remains in the roots.

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　Perhaps this blue color is the magic power.

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　I have no proof, but it seemed so to me.

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　And I thought that I was not so wrong.

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　The blue color of the Hatsuka I had compared so far seemed to be darker in the one with the highest amount of magic power recovery, while the blue color was lighter in the one with the lowest amount of recovery.

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　Thus, I had a way to find out the amount of magic power a vegetable has without eating it.

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