I spent the afternoon helping to dry the clary berries.
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After the drying was finished, I was allowed to taste the ones dried about half a month ago, and they were quite tasty.
He told me that the acidity was reduced and the sweetness was emphasized.
Adriana likes sour fruits, but she also loves this kind of natural sweetness.
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"Oh, it's delicious!
"Oh, it's delicious!" "Isn't it? I picked these myself."
Krull looks proud and proud of herself, while Marul and Bice smile at her.
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(Family...... sisters are so nice!)
Adriana felt a little envious.
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"Do you want to go there tomorrow, Ad? Some places are easier than others.
"But we might not be able to pick so many, ......."
Krull and Marle invited me to join them,
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"Yes, I'll go.
Adriana answered immediately.
She had not been out in the field since she was a child.
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Suddenly, the faces of her childhood friends came to mind.
（Bal, Humundo, and Lolora (......).
I call their names without saying them out loud.
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The friends in my memory are still smiling as they used to be.
The next day, after having breakfast, I went to the restaurant to see if I could find a place to eat.
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The next day, after breakfast, Adriana, together with Krull and Marle, went to the mountains with a bag of dried meat for emergencies and the harvested berries.
Adriana said that she could magically produce water, so she carried the smallest canteen she could find.
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Water is heavy, so that alone makes the trip easier.
"But why the dried meat?"
Adriana asked. On each person's back was a bag with a basket of berries and a canteen. In the bag there is also dried meat.
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"Because you mustn't lick the mountain. You could break your leg and not be able to walk."
"...... hmm."
Now Adriana has access to healing magic up to intermediate level, so she can heal a sprained leg or a simple fracture.
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But we need to be careful since there is a possibility that we might get separated from Adriana.
So we each have our own dried meat and water bottles.
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"......Fu,fu......Wait a minute, let's take a break......"
"Ad, I guess you're not used to this."
"We're not even halfway there yet. We're still trying to get to ...... the closest and easiest place."
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Compared to Krull and Marle, Adriana was definitely less athletic.
The three of us took a break from walking and managed to reach our destination before noon.
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It was on a table-shaped rocky hill.
"......"
Adriana is limp.
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Krull is flying around and starting to gather clary berries.
Marle is worried about Adriana.
"Ad, are you okay?"
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"......Uh,yes. ......I just need to rest a little longer. ......"
After about 10 minutes of rest, Adriana managed to recover.
Then Marle explained to Adriana.
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This is the Clary tree. There are male and female trees, and only the female trees grow fruit. And sometimes there are insects on them, so be careful.
"Yes, okay."
Adriana is not afraid of insects. She even kept a ground spider in the basement of Horai Island in later years.
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"Ado, look, I got all this..."
Krull, who had been running around, came back to show me his basket. The basket was about the size of a person's head, and about a third of it was filled with clary berries.
"Wow, that's amazing!
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Adriana stood up. She looks a little old, as she has Shuki's genes in that regard.
"Well, here it is..."
There is still some clary left, just out of Krull's reach.
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"You can eat the purple berries raw," he says.
Krull said with purple lips.
"Yes.
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Adriana does as she is told and takes a bite of the purple ripe fruit.
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"Oh, it's delicious!"
The sweet and sour taste spreads in my mouth... and Adriana puts three or four in my mouth one after the other,
Adriana tried three or four in succession, but Marle warned her, "The red ones are not ripe yet, that's why they're sour.
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Marle warned her that the red ones were not yet ripe and therefore sour.
Adriana took a bite of one to check it out,
"Oh, they are really sour," she said.
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She was unconcerned about it. She loves sour food.
"Ad, that's great ......."
"Yes. I can even bite into a Ramon fruit.
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"I don't know what Ramon is, but I know you like sour food. ......
Marle was both impressed and a little taken back. Krull is gathering berries in the distance.
Krull shouts out.
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"Sis! Ado! Come here!
"What's wrong? What's wrong?
"Let's go!"
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Krull's voice called to them, and they headed in that direction.
"What's wrong, Krull?
There was a large clary tree with many long, thin, pale green spheres attached to it.
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"Wild cocoons," he said.
"Wow, this is ......."
Adriana thought, "It seems to be a natural silkworm.
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By the way, silkworms on Earth do not grow in the wild. Even if they were placed on a mulberry tree, they would be quickly eaten by birds because of their white color, and they would fall down only when the wind blows, because the sucking power of their ventral legs (sucker-like legs attached to the larva's abdomen) is weak.
It seems that there are wild silkworms in the Ars world.
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They eat not mulberry but sawtooth oak, chestnut, oak and oak tree. This was another difference.
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"Do you collect a lot of these cocoons to make thread?
Adriana asked. Krull and Marle shook their heads.
"No, we don't do that, do we?"
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"Yes, ......."
"Yes."
Adriana was not familiar with sericulture, as Shuki did not know anything about it.
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If this sericulture could be made into an industry, the income of the village would increase, but unfortunately, no one here was aware of it.
"Let's collect more clary berries, shall we?
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"Yes, let's."
After that, the three of us had a pleasant lunch of dried meat and clary berries.
Then it was time to go home.
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"It's not easy to go down ......," he said.
"Be careful, it's easy to get hurt going down the mountain."
"Ugh. ......"
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Adriana is still flabbergasted.
And on top of that, the morning after we got back from picking clarys...
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"Oops, oops, oops, oops, oops, oops, oops, oops, oops, oops, oops... ......"
Adriana was suffering from sore muscles this time.