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"After all the cultural research and historical research, is there one more thing I need to look into? Who is the right person for the job?"

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　When I thought of looking into the history of the Kingdom of Fontana, it occurred to me that there were other things I should look into.

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　Or rather, something that might be better to look into first than history and culture.

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　Because this one might be more urgent.

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　The research is about "organisms".

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　What kind of creatures live in the Kingdom of Fontana and other areas as well.

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　I want to examine not only animals but also plants and even demons.

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　Because I did not know the culture and history, and at the same time, I did not know these creatures at all.

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　In fact, it seems that there has been no extensive research on these creatures, and there is almost no data on them.

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　However, there is something that has been bothering me recently.

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　That is, whether or not there are any changes in the ecosystem.

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　Basically, the world consists of a pyramid structure called a food chain.

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　At the top of the pyramid, there are predators, and below the predators, there are many animals that are eaten by the predators, and below the predators, there are animals and plants that are eaten by the animals that are eaten by the predators.

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　The more powerful predators are fewer in number, while the less powerful animals that are only eaten by the predators give birth to a large number of offspring and leave behind their offspring.

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　The natural world as a whole is a very well-balanced system.

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　However, in recent years, there have been two acts that could destroy such a natural balance.

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　These were my expeditions to the east and my exploration of the west.

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　The mountains are so high that neither people nor animals can come and go in the eastern world.

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　I led an expeditionary force to the east and crossed the mountains, and after that, I set up transporter stones and transporter magic circle to make it possible for people to move around.

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　Also, just recently, I have reached the western sea and jungle, which were too far away for even a flying magic airship to reach in a day.

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　They are bringing back to Barca the rare goods they obtained there and using them for trading within the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　Among the goods they trade are rice, cotton, and other plants that have never been found in Fontana before.

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　Obviously, they are bringing back organisms that were not originally part of the ecosystem in this area.

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　In the first place, there is a possibility that some seeds or eggs are brought here unintentionally when people come and go, or when they move their belongings.

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　We have no way of predicting what kind of impact this will have on the ecosystem.

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　Rather, it is because we do not know the current state of the ecosystem that we may not be able to do anything about it when the effects become visible.

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　I would have liked to have dealt with this problem from the very beginning.

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　But there was a more important priority.

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　It is about the disease.

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　It was an unknown disease that might have an immediate and wider impact than the ecological impact that might be a problem later on in the future.

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　People from the Kingdom of Fontana might catch a disease in the East or in the West with which they had had little or no contact.

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　It would of course be a disease they had never had before.

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　In other words, it could be a disease that our bodies were not equipped with antibodies or immunity to protect us against.

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　What would happen if we brought such a disease back to the Kingdom of Fontana?

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　A completely unguarded body would not be able to resist the diseases that would affect the human body.

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　In other words, the disease would spread quickly.

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　No kidding, there was a risk of mass death throughout the region.

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　Therefore, those who went to the east or west had to check for disease for a while when they came back from there.

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　They were not allowed to return immediately to the place where the others were, but only after they had been [washed], [restored], or [purified].

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　I don't know if these measures have been effective or not, but so far there has been no outbreak of mysterious strange diseases in and around Barca.

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　Well, there is no guarantee that this will not happen in the future, but we are doing what we can.

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　We have established such a quarantine-like system, but to be honest, I think we are still immature in terms of measures to control the impact on the ecosystem.

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　This is because no one else but me is concerned about the impact on the ecosystem.

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　If there are tiny plant seeds or animal eggs that you can't even see in a large amount of luggage, no one recognizes them as a danger.

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　Maybe, they have already come into our area from some other pathway.

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　At least, we have taken the minimum precautions.

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　We prohibit the unauthorized introduction of live plants and animals from the east or west and their unauthorized increase, but honestly speaking, we do not know how effective this is.

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　Therefore, I have been thinking that we should do it now so that we can investigate the impact afterwards.

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　Until now, only the local people knew what kind of creatures were living where.

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　No, even the local people may not have a firm grasp of what kind of creatures are there.

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　We will investigate them thoroughly.

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　With the Reed family's [psychic photography], it is possible to draw animals and plants on paper as you see them, just like a photograph.

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　I would like to find out what kind of plants and animals are there, record their appearance, and if possible, record what kind of food they eat and how they live.

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　In other words, we will need an illustrated book that collects data on plants and animals.

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　Is there anyone who obsessively collects the records of living creatures like Darwin and Fabre?

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　The only one I can think of is Billy, who is continuing to collect data on the messenger beasts.

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　Billy is still working on the hatching of the messenger beasts, but he is doing it in an organized way with subordinates.

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　Maybe one of his subordinates is a biologist who wants to work independently.

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　If there is such a person, he can be entrusted with the research of the ecosystem in and around the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　Thus, I decided to build a team of experts to investigate the history, culture, and biology of the area, and to do a thorough research.

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