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"Hey, hey, general. Can we really beat the Mementos?
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"What the hell, Vargas? Don't start talking like that until we're already in the field."
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"Because, who wouldn't? Memento's army must be at least 40,000 strong. And they're talking about 100,000. You have to wonder. Can they really win with the 2,500 or so troops of Barka's army?
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"Well, you can't win in a normal situation."
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Right?" But I thought you might have an idea. What are you going to do?"
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"Well, I don't see how we can just go ahead and attack the Memento family. That's all I'm going to say.
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"Don't you have a ...... plan?"
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"Yes, I do. I mean, the plan to set up the Memento family is already in effect. I think they're not moving properly by now."
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"The plan is already in effect? Are you referring to the fact that the other day the general himself set fire to the larder of Memento's army?"
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"That's right. Yes. At that time, I had other plans besides setting fire to it. Maybe it would have worked.
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"......Heh, I knew you were going to attack us from the beginning, General. So, what kind of strategy did you use?"
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"That's easy. We just did the same thing we did when we killed the dog people who had nested in the mines.
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"What? Is that the dog man? The iron mine demon exterminator in the Baltic knight territory where the Bight is? ...... I'm pretty sure that's the poison they used?"
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"Correct. The Mementos are probably sprawled out with poison by now. I thought it was a good time to buy some time, but it was also a good time to attack. That's why we went out."
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The 2,500 troops of Barca march toward the army of the Memento family.
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Vargas, the leader of the army, rushed toward us and spoke to us.
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Apparently, he wanted to know what I was going to do about his decision to attack an opponent who outnumbered us.
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I am grateful that he followed me without complaint when we set out and asked me on the move after we departed.
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Without wasting any time, he began to give Vargas an overview of the mission.
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I built a new kind of airship and used it to scout the Memento family's army.
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The airship itself was able to operate properly, and I was able to fly well enough to get a complete picture of my opponent.
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I then burned down the food gathering points to slow down the speed of the Memento's advance.
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However, they could not burn all of their opponent's food.
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This is partly because they ran out of magic power for the ice magic they used to burn the food.
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But this does not mean that I did nothing to the food that I could not burn.
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For the other foodstuffs I sprayed them with poison.
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The Memento family lost almost half of the army's food.
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Carlos said that a house as big as Memento's could temporarily cover the lost food, but it would be difficult to respond immediately.
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They would have to make do with the food that remained and collect food from the surrounding areas with their overwhelming power.
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I think that is all they can do.
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That is why they sprinkled poison on the remaining food.
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Perhaps the soldiers of Memento's army are eating the poisoned food.
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Just like the dog people who lived in the mines.
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They are sharing the food they think is safe and eating it together.
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However, if there is food that was burned and food that was left behind, one would normally consider the remaining food to be in danger.
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Especially this time when a mysterious flying object passed overhead and scattered something.
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The Memento family should have taken precautions.
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But I still think that the probability of success of this poison spraying operation is quite high.
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This is because there exists a "safety myth" in this world that did not exist in our previous life.
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That is, most people have been strongly imprinted with the perception that "food is safe as long as it is not rotten.
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In this case, whether food is rotten or not is judged by its color and smell.
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In other words, food that is not discolored or does not smell rotten is considered safe.
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Why is this so?
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In fact, this perception was greatly influenced by the "washing" of life magic given by the church.
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The magic of "washing" is a magic that removes dirt from an object.
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If a person's body is washed, it becomes so clean that he does not need to take a bath.
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On the other hand, if you clean your house, it will be as clean as new in no time.
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And this "washing" was also used for food.
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When food is washed before cooking, all contaminants that may affect the human body are removed.
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I am not sure how true this is, since I have not made a microscope yet, but in my experience, food cooked after [washing] has never caused food poisoning.
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However, this is not the case when the food itself is old and rotten.
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If the food is so rotten that it smells bad, it will harm the human body even if [washing] is applied.
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In other words, food is safe to eat as long as you smell it and [wash it] if it does not smell putrid.
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In fact, it is also a countermeasure against poison.
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As long as you do not eat poisonous food itself, food with poison on it is almost always safe as long as it is [washed] before cooking and the dishes are [washed] as well.
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In other words, it was common knowledge in this world that even if some kind of substance was sprayed from an airship and ended up on the food of the military, as long as it was [washed], there would be no problem.
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However, what I sprayed was a poison that slipped through the [cleaning] effect.
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I had been working with Meme to create a magic called [Poison Disable] as a way to deal with poison, and I had been told of the existence of poisons that could kill people by ignoring the [cleaning] function.
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The poison, however, could only be obtained under very rare conditions, and it was impossible to prepare it in large quantities.
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However, it was possible to prepare it in Barka.
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The secret lay with my brother Kyle.
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It was made possible by Kyle's contract with a tree spirit in the northern forest.
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It was possible for the tree spirit to mass produce a special poisonous herb that ignores the function of the cleansing agent and produces a poisonous effect.
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However, they are not very strong poisons if ingested in small quantities.
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At most, it would cause a period of diarrhea and dehydration.
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It was loaded on the airship in the hope that it could be used to buy time so that the Memento family would not be able to move.
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I wonder if the Mementos, unlike the dogs, are able to avoid eating poisoned food.
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"Master Ars, we have received word from the scouting party ahead of us. It seems that Memento's army is moving very slowly.
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"I think you've hit the nail on the head, Vargas. They're slowing down. We should be able to close the gap in numbers. Let's go."
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"You're still a fiend, general. Well, that's what I'm talking about. All right, everyone follow the general. We're going to hit Memento's army.
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Thus, Barka attacked the immobilized forces of the Memento family.
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