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"Oh, so this is the goat. His hair is brown. I hope we get some warm hair or something."

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"Hey, kid, be careful. It's not easy to bring a goat alive to the battlefield. Don't let them escape.

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"I know. But I never thought goats could use magic like this. I wonder why anyone would want to keep a goat.

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　It was a while after I became interested in goats from my talk with the old man.

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　The old man seemed to have done his best to get a goat for me.

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　Merchants are very powerful.

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　They came to Fontana's army that was attacking Einrad's hill and sold various things to them.

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　If you tell them what you want, they will collect it and bring it to you.

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　Naturally, it is risky and expensive, but we managed to get a goat without any problems.

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　Goats in this world use magic.

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　When I heard that, I wondered what kind of a ferocious creature it was.

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　My image of a black bipedal goat with horns, like a demon, came to mind.

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　But when I saw the real thing, it was nothing like that.

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　It looked like a very ordinary goat.

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　It was no more than one meter long, with not-so-large goat horns on its head.

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　It made eye contact with me, and was making a "meh" sound.

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　It looked very much like a goat I know.

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　Moreover, the magic that the goat used was not so terrible.

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　However, it is troublesome.

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　Because it was not a magic that would be suitable for keeping a goat.

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　Leap.

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　The magic used by the goats was to use their magical power while making a "meh" sound, and to display a terrifying jumping ability.

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　Amazingly, the goat could leap several times its own height.

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　Even if we tried to keep them in a fenced enclosure, they would easily run away.

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　It seems that goats have evolved to strengthen their escape routes in order to survive in dangerous natural environments.

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"Amazing. They're jumping around like grasshoppers. But there seems to be a limit to how high they can jump. It doesn't seem to be able to jump more than 10 meters.

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"...... true. So, if they are enclosed in a wall, they can be free-range."

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"Yeah, and look at that, old man. Looks like he eats the stems of the hutka. He's munching and mumbling.

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"Then, I guess we can grow something to feed the goats in the field. Boy, I wonder if this goat can be raised in Barca.

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"Okay, let's give it a try. If it works, we may be able to secure a stable supply of meat. We had tried to domesticate big boars and failed. I really want to succeed with this one.

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　The old man and I discuss while looking at the actual goat.

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　I would like to increase the number of these goats in Vulcania.

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　Having failed with the big boar in the past, I had high hopes for the domestication of this goat.

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　A pig is a domesticated wild boar.

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　I remembered this knowledge from my previous life, and I had once wondered if I could domesticate a big boar.

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　I once killed an adult boar and kept its young.

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　But all of them failed.

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　After all, the boars were too rambunctious.

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　He would repeatedly rush and attack people and things, and he would eat anything and everything he could find, and he would devour anything he liked.

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　I thought that I could cut off his tusks while he was still a child, but it didn't work out so well.

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　But this goat might work.

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　The magic of "leap" is a little troublesome, but the goat seems to be basically a coward and does not seem to have any intention to attack us.

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　If he can't climb over the wall he built by [Wall Construction] even if he jumps, there is no need to worry about him escaping.

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　Even more convenient was the food.

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　The goats brought by the merchants ate the stalks of the hutka.

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　We humans and Valkyries eat hutka, but not the stems.

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　They eat only the clumps that grow in the ground.

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　If they eat the stalks, it would be just as well, since the harvest from the fields would be used more sparingly.

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　For the time being we can send some goats to Vulcania for a trial.

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　For the time being, goat's milk will be the goal.

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　After that, we will see if the hair from the goats can be put to good use.

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　Let's hope that the goats will eventually be used as meat for our tables.

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　Thus, I decided to send the caged goats to Vulcania, hoping that the goats would be well bred.

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