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"Okay, I think I'll make that one soon."

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　After making a hardened brick horseshoe, a piece of Valkyrie equipment, and casting a spell on it, I decided to move on.

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　It was about the pantry.

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　So far, the village of Varka has been storing its food in an ordinary warehouse.

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　But I had always wondered about this food storage.

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　Having memories of my previous life, I had always been surrounded by a plentiful supply of food throughout the year, and I had taken it for granted.

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　However, there is a natural order of things, that there is a certain time of the year when all foods are ready to be harvested, and that we cannot eat them at other times of the year.

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　I realized after I was reborn in this world that it was an abnormal situation to be able to eat food at any time of the year regardless of its season.

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　Since I was born in this village of Barca, I have always been thinking about food.

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　I have even evolved the magic I dreamed of in my previous life in order to eat food.

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　But no matter how many spells I created to improve the soil so that I could harvest more food, I could never extend the time I could preserve it.

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　At best, they made a hole in the ground and stored the food there, but even then it was only slightly better than storing the food at room temperature, and after a while after harvesting, the food became inedible.

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　Even for food preservation, some of the vegetables could be preserved and some could not, and the results were not as good as they could have been.

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　But that is no longer the case.

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　I have a new means of preservation.

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　I have a new means of preservation.

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　A new repository.

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　I built it on my land.

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　But I didn't build anything unusual.

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　Just a big warehouse.

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　But I made the walls of the warehouse very thick.

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　He created a space with no sunlight, no wind, and not a single gap.

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The Ice Spear.

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　We use magic inside the warehouse.

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　I use the ice magic I got from Carlos, the head of the Fontana family.

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　Until now, no matter how hard I tried, I could only use magic to strengthen my body or earth magic, but now I can use the magic of the ice spear, which I have been newly named.

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　I repeated this spell, which was originally an offensive magic for the battlefield, into the empty warehouse.

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　The [Ice Lance] creates a pillar of ice about the thickness and length of an adult man's arm, and fires it.

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　The icicles roll down into the warehouse.

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　As was the case when we fought Fontana's army before, magically created ice does not just disappear after a certain amount of time.

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　The icicles will remain just as the ones I made with earth magic will remain afterwards.

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　But of course, unlike soil, the ice melts after a certain period of time.

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　So, after a certain amount of ice was accumulated, I spread sawdust on top of it.

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　Yes, the warehouse I built was called an ice house.

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　Normally, ice in ponds is stored in a basement called an ice house, but if sawdust is placed on the surface of the ice, the ice will not melt completely and will remain even in seasons when there is no ice.

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　I decided to preserve it with ice made by my newly available ice magic.

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　But I am not the only one who can make ice.

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　Because since I was named by Carlos, my descendants with the surname of Barca have also been able to use ice magic [ice spear].

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　Thus, it became possible to create and preserve ice at any time of the year in Barca.

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"But, Mister Ars. Was this ice house necessary, that it was?　I don't think there is any need to bother to store ice, since anyone with the name of Barca can produce it by himself, that I don't think."

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"What are you talking about, Gran? This ice is for preserving food."

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　That's why I went to the trouble of building an ice house as a warehouse.

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　It was for food storage from the start.

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　I didn't want a place to store ice.

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　I wanted to build a refrigerator.

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　I have never used one myself, but I heard that the old refrigerators did not use electricity.

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　There were refrigerators that were made of wooden crates and filled with ice, and the inside of the refrigerator was cooled by the cold air from the ice.

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　I wanted to reproduce this.

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　However, there is no need to keep it for home use.

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　They stored ice in a large warehouse they had built, and they also prepared a space for storing food in the warehouse cooled by the ice.

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　But of course it would be possible to build a wooden refrigerator for domestic use.

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　When I gave them the surname Barka, I did not give it to all the villagers.

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　I will sell ice to those who cannot produce it themselves.

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　With the advent of this icehouse-type refrigerator, the food that did not last long before can now be kept for a reasonable period of time.

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　My diet has improved a little, as I can now preserve the meat of the occasional big boar, not to mention the vegetables that I used to be able to eat only right after harvesting.

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