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　We're going to clear the forest.

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　In the end, my job became mainly to hatch Valkyries from the eggs of newly delivered beasts of burden, while clearing the land by cutting down trees and expanding the usable land.

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　I decided to leave all the tree management to Mr. Madoc.

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　To tell the truth, he knows more about trees than I do.

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　We cut off the branches from the fallen trees, cut them into reasonable lengths, and store them as logs.

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　I also asked him to prepare logs for growing magic mushrooms from them.

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　All I have to do is to inject magic power into the logs so that they can be used to grow magic mushrooms, which is a lot easier.

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　Incidentally, one of Mr. Madoc's acquaintances was a skilled woodworker.

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　I decided to hire him as well.

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　The building I was building was a brick structure, and I needed doors, shelves, desks, chairs, etc. to match.

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　The land I cleared also has a field to grow some kind of hats.

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　I left that to my brother Byte.

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　To my surprise, he was a few years older than me, but he was quite good at using people, even though he was not yet an adult.

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　He was very fond of the hornless Valkyrie I gave him when I hired him.

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　And he wanted to ride around on his back like me.

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　But it takes a lot of skill and strength.

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　In order to have enough time to practice, Byte himself gathered a group of people to help him with his work.

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　There are not a few people, mainly children who have lost their parents in the war and are in poverty, who are not able to survive on the work in the village alone.

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　He calls on these people to help him with the farm work in the fields.

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　The part-timer himself has no money.

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　I wondered how he was hiring people, but it seems that he was giving some of the harvested crops to them.

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　In my case, I tend to think that I have to prepare cash when I hire people, but for the poor people, even the actual goods were enough.

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　When I saw that the older man was willing to help my brother with his part-time job, it might have had something to do with his personality.

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　In this way, my life gradually began to revolve around the pioneer land.

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　The first time I saw the land, I was surprised to find that the land was not used by the people.

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"Are the fields being raided?　Bite-brother, do you know who did it?"

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"Yeah, we found footprints. Yeah, we found footprints. It was a big boar that trashed the fields.

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"Mr. Maddock, you confirmed the footprints, didn't you?"

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"Yes, I'm sure of it. And what's worse, we found multiple sets of footprints.

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"Bad?"

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Yes. The tracks were made by two adult boars and a few cubs mixed in.

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"Children or ......, maybe they got a taste for it?"

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Perhaps. You could get in trouble."

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What are you talking about? I'm already in trouble. Some people turn down jobs because they're scared of a big boar.

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　It was the year I turned eight.

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　One day, I came home to find my older brother and Mr. Maddock waiting for me with their heads lined up.

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　It was about animal damage in the fields.

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　It is a very serious incident to have one's farm ravaged.

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　As I recall, the damage by wild boars had been in the news in my previous life.

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　Wild boars are quite clever creatures.

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　In some cases, electric traps are set to prevent them from entering the fields.

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　They put a kind of wire around the field that gives off a jolt of electricity when it is touched.

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　If anyone who tries to enter the field touches the wire, he/she will be electrocuted and will have to escape.

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　However, this trap soon became ineffective.

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　The boars have learned.

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　Touching the wire hurts, but they want to eat the vegetables in the field in front of them.

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　Thinking this way, the boars began to push logs and other objects into the trap with their bodies and pull down the whole wire to get into the field.

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　In the end, there was no definitive trap, and I have heard that the boars and the traps continued to play each other.

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　Even in this world, there is damage by big boars.

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　However, it is said that there has not been so much recently.

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　The reason is simple and clear.

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　Because the forests are rich in food that the boars can eat.

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　The omnivorous boars grew up in the huge forest field, and they did not come to the fields where wheat is often planted, in search of food.

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　But why is it that now the number of boars destroying my fields is increasing in my cultivated land?

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　Maybe it is because of my cultivation.

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　In some places, I thin out the trees and leave the forest as a protective forest, but in many places, all the trees have been felled and the land has been cleared.

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　Moreover, because of the magical clearing of the land, the ecosystem is no longer as rich as it was in the past.

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　Perhaps the food situation has worsened, or they have lost their territory because of the competition with other animals for food.

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　The problem lies in the characteristics of the big boar.

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　It is not known exactly, but what is said in the village is that the boars will eat what they ate well in their childhood and will like to eat it for the rest of their lives.

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　Moreover, it is said that it is passed down from parent to child.

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　I have planted Hatuka, food for Valkyries, in my field.

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　There is a possibility that they will continue to be targeted even if they are passed down from generation to generation.

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　This is very troubling.

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　Thus, I was forced to deal with the big boar.

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