67-Episode 66: Restoration of the Sea



Mayor, we got some water.

You too, sir.

All right, boys, let's collect our gear and fall back to Mr. Gori Town.



 We had successfully defeated the Water Dragon, but that didn't help the sea to recover immediately.
 Even after we defeated the Water Dragon, only a small amount of water was coming from the place where we had heard from Marilyn that water was gushing out, and it had to be artificially altered.
 After all, the areas where the rock was thin that she had told me about were crushed by men under Aisha's former employers who had the power to do so with a construction drill.
 I heard that the rocky area near where the waterdragon was sitting would gush out underground water if they crushed it a bit.
 I gave everyone a day's pay and they were happy to work on it.
 They call it a W-roll low speed crusher or a concrete/asphalt crusher, but it's called differently depending on the manufacturer.
 I was able to purchase the drill at an online shopping site, so I handed it to my former employees and left them to crush the bedrock.
 As expected, we didn't finish in one day, and the work continued for a week or so, but water was seeping out of many places, so I ordered everyone to pull out.

'Mew, you're on,'

I'll take care of it.

 As cracks appeared in the rock formations here and there, and water was gradually gushing out, I decided to leave the rest to Mew.

''I'll show you the highest profound technique of my ice magic, the Giga Ice Attack.

What kind of magic is that? The Mew.

"Actually, like Lalabelle-sama, I learned this magic when I passed level six hundred, but this magic is great, but it's difficult to use.... It's a magic that crushes the target by dropping a huge block of ice from above.

Won't that destroy the town?

'I think they do. It's a great magic that uses up almost all of its magic power in one go.

Well....

 I don't think it's that kind of magic that you can answer so smoothly........
 Frau is drawing it with her bare hands.

''I'm using it for the first time. Well, I know the general power of it, so then.

 When Miu used the magic of the Giga Ice Attack at the port of Gori-san Town where they had joined up, a huge chunk of ice... what seemed to be hundreds of meters in diameter, fell from far above.
 The ice chunk then cracked into the bedrock and fell to the place where the underground water had been gushing out.
 It would be easy to figure out if you think about the mass x height, but it crushed the cracked bedrock with a flourish, and groundwater that had previously only been seeping out came pouring out.

'Awesome,'

The ice will melt and it will be part of the ocean water.

This is how the ocean is restored.

 Marilyn, who was watching the situation with me, was also very pleased.
 However, the amount of water gushing out seemed too rapid........

''Gorimachu, are you okay?''

"Rest assured Gori, a mobile city is a gori that can travel in the desert and run on water.

'I hope so, but...'

 While we were fighting the Water Dragon, Gori Macho kept merging with the ruins of the mobile city here and there in the withered sea, saying it was a pity that it would sink into the sea.
 Because of this, when they merged, Gori-san Town's diameter had swelled to three times its original size.
 The mobile city he lived in had obviously grown in size when he woke up in the morning.
 The former Aisha's minions seemed to be quite freaked out by this reality.
 They even came to tell Aisha about it right away.

''As the water increases, this goliath town will gradually float, too.

'As a reassurance to Goliath Town, I was told that the groundwater is fresh water. Is it going to be an ocean?

There's a lot of dry salt and rock salt in the dry sea. The amount that humans have dug out is so miniscule that when it dissolves, it becomes seawater.

Is it that simple?

That's where Marilyn, the spirit of the sea, comes in. Marilyn has been saving her powers for a time like this. Let her do it.

 Marilyn assured him, but she was right.
 Because Goliath Town was sailing towards that raggedy temple, but gradually, as the water increased, it began to float on the water, and also the water of the sea had become properly sour.

'When the sea comes back to life, it will nurture a lot of life.

'But this dry sea didn't even have any sand beasts except for the water dragons, right?

...Taro-chan!

Why are you coming to me?

 Are you not a sea spirit?

Please. Please give me something alive.

Do they sell sea creatures on 'online shopping'?

 Marilyn asked me to do this with tears in my eyes, so I opened up my 'online shopping' for sea creatures....do they sell such things?

There it is!

 Nowadays, it seems that some saltwater fishes are sold by mail order.
 But they would die for lack of food if they were released into the sea, so I first bought a lot of complex bacterial agent to clean the water in the saltwater fish tank and scattered them into the sea.

'It's good. I'll spray more of it.

 The ocean is based on microbes.
 Marilyn has been repeatedly sprinkling the sea with a bacterial solution and casting some kind of magic on it.
 Does it have the effect of increasing quickly?

Release more.

'Huh...'

 After all, I may have spent billions of Eidolcs worth of various bacterial solutions alone to reach the temple on the coast.
 Maybe that's why the ocean looked so beautiful.
 Maybe it's because there aren't many living things in it, but it's exactly the kind of ocean view that you'd expect.
 Maybe it's because Marilyn, the spirit of the sea, has tweaked it.

'I need some seaweed.'

 Continue with the various seaweeds, anemones, corals, etc. that we put in the saltwater fish tank.
 Shellfish, such as food live clams, clams, red clams, clams, honking clams, turban shells and mussels.
 Shrimp, too, should be live, whether ornamental or foodstuff.
 I thought it was a shame to waste them because they tasted better when eaten, but when I released them, Marilyn had cast some kind of spell on them.

'What is that magic?'

I gave them a blessing so they would multiply quickly. We can't release any fish or anything else in this state.

 Even with the blessing of the sea spirits, it would not be easy to revive the sea, as it had been withered for thousands of years.

But the sea will return to life. Marilyn believes that it will be restored.

Well....

 He made us take down water dragons and spend a lot of money to bring the ocean back to life.
 He's a rough and tumble spirit, but his desire to restore the ocean is genuine.

''However, it takes time for the sea to recover. Taro, I want fish for dinner tonight.''

Hey....

 You're a sea spirit, aren't you?
 You can't eat fish?
 Do spirits eat food in the first place?

Food tastes best when it's from humans. We don't need to eat to starve, but we do enjoy eating. I'm also welcome to offer them food. Then we'll go back to the castle.

'Huh? And the temple?

 Even though we had spent so much money and effort to get the temple up and running in the Mobile City, Marilyn was heading towards the castle where we lived with a nonchalant look on her face.

''Since the sea has been restored, aren't we going to live in the temple from now on?

'The Temple is a place of work, so I usually live with Taro and Lalabelle and the others. Marilyn is not a workaholic who is always in the temple. I don't like that stance.

'Huh...'

 I don't mind, I have extra room.

'Taro, Marilyn wants to eat crab.

'Taro-dono, that's all right. Once the water dragon is defeated and the sea is restored, you'll be relieved and hungry.

'Me too. Shrimp would be nice too.

The prawns are nice.

I'm a crab.

Either that or you buy it 'online'.

Gori needs a banana, Gori.

That's all the goldmines do. I like bananas too.

Gori is a gorilla because he's a gorilla.

I think we'll have bananas for dessert.



 Thus, safely, the waters of the far south have been restored.
 I don't know what that means for us, but since the environment of this world has improved and become easier to live in, maybe this is also our fate as 'change agents'.
 There's also the matter of being the master of a huge mobile city, albeit by accident, but there's no point in worrying about the future too much, so today we'll all enjoy some crabs and shrimp.

 I'm a pacifist old man who would like to spend my days in peace if possible.