Is this how it should be done?
Yes, well done. This is perfect for a bait tree.

　I nod with satisfaction as I look at the ship that was built in Babylon's "workshop". It's a large sailing boat, but it doesn't have a sail, and has a huge, radiating hook at the back.
　This boat is a substitute for the baitwood, or in other words, a lure, used for catching squid. Of course, the boat is a dummy in the shape of a ship and its contents are empty. It was made sturdy enough not to be broken by the tensioner, though.
　Squid is caught in the water, but the ten-taklers attack the ship. They are going to drag this boat up to the ground with Sue's Ortlinde.
　There's a problem with opening [Gate] in the water, and with [Teleport], I have to touch it directly. Well, 【teleport】 can't transfer something that big, though.
　And then when I brought it to the ground, I would use Linse's flying control sword 《Fragarach》 to stab the heart between the eyes. Well, this is based on the assumption that the heart is in the same place as the squid.
　According to my research, squid has three hearts, and two of them are called 'gill hearts', which are used to move its gills.
　In the meantime, they say that we can tighten it up by stabbing it between its eyes, but we'd have to try it to see if it would work on a ten-takler. If the heart is in a different position, there's nothing we can do.
　Now, let's see if it works.




　Thud!　And with a loud earth shaking, the golden giant god descends to the land of Iglet.
　It's a huge frame gear of nearly thirty meters, the Ortrindeoverlord of Soo.
　The body of the Orhalcon with crystal wood coating glows golden under the tropical sun. The wires held in its hands are directly connected to the giant radiating needles attached to the baitwood [Egi] ship.
　It's a wire made by deforming orichalcone into thread by modeling and twisting it together. It's also several times thicker than my waist. It is unlikely to be cut.

Okay, we're ready.

　Behind Ortlinde is Cherry Blossom's Rothweisse, and in the sky above is Linse's Helmwige in flight form.
　It would be nice if I could transfer the ship of the feeding tree to the coast with 【Gate】, but that's difficult since the wires are attached. I board the ship and use 【Gravity】 to lighten the ship, and then have Linse's Helmvige hoist it up with Linse's Helmvige.
　As it was, I had Linze carry me to the offshore and the bait boat with me on board landed on the surface of the sea.
　Naturally, this boat has no power, so I have Sue's Ortlinde pull it a little bit at a time.
　It's the first boat I've seen in a few days for a tentmaker. Hopefully this will hook me up........
　As the boat is slowly pulled away, we peer out over the emerald green surface of the ocean.
　When the seafloor is white due to coral crushed sand and other factors, the water absorbs the red color, so red is not included in the reflected light that reaches the eye. In other words, the water appears to be an emerald green color without the red color in the white light.
　Of course, the deeper we went, the deeper the blue color became, but it was still just barely green. This area was too shallow. Do we need to go further out to sea?
　But all of a sudden, out of those clear waves, bash!　And a single tentacle shot out. In no time at all, it tangled itself around the hull of the ship.

'Here it comes!'

　A tentacle extended from the other side, and in no time, the entire feeder ship was tangled up in a flash.

''Soo!''
It's all right!

　I send a signal to Sue on my phone, and I myself jump up into the sky with [Fly].
　Suddenly, the ship speeds up and the radiating needles that were attached to it pierce Tentacler's body.
　It was basically written on the internet that invertebrates don't have a sense of pain, but does that apply to Tentacler as well?
　While I was thinking about this, the boat carrying the Tentaclar was being pulled towards the shore.

''Pgallaa!''

　A Tentacler pulled up on the shore, exposing its massive body to the sun.
　Its body is more than twenty meters long, and it's big enough to be close to the Ortlindeover Road. Well, it doesn't stand upright on the ground, so it looks sticky.
　Tentacler tried to extend his tentacles to the golden giant that fished him in, but Cherry Blossom's Rosweisse stopped Tentacler's movement with her singing magic.
　It's a good idea to have a good time with the company, but it's not worth it.

''P'gyal gyuah!

　With an eerie decapitation, the Tentacler stopped moving as if it had been dumbfounded.
　The color of the body changed from brown to white in an instant. This part is the same as that of the squid I saw on the video site. It seems that the heart was in the same place as the squid.
　Now, here comes the hard part. Once again, I lifted the baitwood boat, saw off Helmvige, and opened the gate and called up my beloved Regingrave.
　I carried the motionless Tentacler towards the coastal hills with the Regingrave, and transformed the Flying Maneuvering Sword 《Fragarach》 on its back into two great swords.

''Um, are we going to gut it first?''

　The ventral side is torn open with the Fragarach to remove the internal organs and eyeballs. The internal organs may be a delicacy, but I'll pass on them this time. It's not a good idea to get rid of such a large fish.
　Therefore, the entrails that were cut off were returned to the sea as food for the sea animals at the 【Gate】, and the handled tentacles were washed well with salt water.
　After dipping them in the salt water whose concentration was adjusted by coral and obsidians, they were cut into moderately large pieces because they were too large as it was, and hung from the palm trees lining the shore with ropes.
　With the strong tropical sunshine, the Tentaclar slume should be ready in a few days. We won't know for sure until it's completed.
　To be precise, our primary goal is to eliminate the Tentacler, and making the emergency food is just a side note. If we could go fishing after the Tentacler disappeared, we wouldn't be forced to eat this food.

''Pugyoralaaa!

　And while I was thinking about it, it seems the second one was already killed.
　I mean, is he going to do it more than fifty more times?　This?
　It wasn't until some time later that I realized that this task was pretty hard. Especially me.




''I'm trapped...''

　It took me a whole day to catch most of the tenterhooks in the waters near Egret and line them up on the coastline north of the royal capital Lethrabamba.
　The ones on the other side of the island and farther away were caught by using the [Gate] to lure the surrounding seawater into the sea here.
　The fishy smell is unbelievable when there is this much of it lined up in a row, so I asked the spirit of the wind to flush the smell as much as possible towards the sea.
　In addition, it is a wide range of 【Prison】, and only humans and sub-humans are prohibited from entering the area, even if they are eaten by wild animals. It's a wide range of [Prison], so it's easy to break, but it's probably enough for animals.
　Of course, it's not just dried squid, I gave the cooks in this country the recipes for dishes using dried squid, saki squid, and golden cuttlefish. I might be able to make something better than I did as an amateur.
　I could smell the delicious smell of sunset on the beach. His Majesty the King is using a chef to distribute free tenterhooks that he hadn't made into slime.
　There is no culture of eating squid on the island, but once you try it, you will not be afraid of it, and some people enjoy eating various kinds of tentakula dishes.
　Grilled Tentacula on a spit looked a bit tasty.

I would like to thank you very much for saving our country from a difficult situation. On top of that, even a ship in such large numbers.......
But we are being paid for our services, so don't be shy. We will send relief supplies from other countries to you at a later date, so I hope this will help with the food shortage.

　With that, I make King Iglet stop bowing.
　Hundreds of ships made in the "workshop" were floating on the shore. Of course, these materials include lumber from the forests of Igrette, but I've also received a good amount of other things along with the extermination of the Tentaclar.
　I couldn't get money directly from the country that suffered the disaster, so I used my detection magic to tell them about a large gold mine that was on a small island floating in Iglet's territory. You can then pay me a little bit from there.
　This will help us to rebuild the damaged area.
　On the beach at dusk, Ortlinde of Suh was catching a lot of fish with a seine net. The townspeople have all picked up the fish washed up on the beach and are taking them home with them or starting to cook them on the spot.
　As we sat on the beach, the dishes were laid out for us to eat.

'This looks good,'
Feel free to eat. Though most of them were captured by His Majesty's betrothed.

　On a simple wooden plate, the food is arranged in a variety of ways, from grilled fish to sashimi. I guess they also eat sashimi here in the same island country as Yisheng. They don't seem to have soy sauce, but it seems to be eaten here with hot peppers, vinegar, green onions and garlic.
　I wonder if the reason why they only grill the surface of the fish like sashimi of bonito is to kill parasites. I secretly used [Analysis 《Analyze] and there was certainly no problem.
　I tried it with a little bit of hot pepper and it was very tasty. In my opinion, it's several times better than Tentacula. Oh, I want to eat white rice with this.
　We invited Suh and his friends to join us, and a lively party began. People were dancing merrily and everyone was happy that the threat of the Tentaclar was gone.
　Flute players and drummers gathered around the bonfire, and some of them sang songs, and everyone applauded.
　Then, as if she couldn't stand it anymore, Sakura stood up and performed a song. Of course, I was the accompanist. I take out the piano from 【Storage】 and start playing Sakura's requested song.
　But that........as usual, Sakura's choice is not quite right....... Well, it can't be helped because I don't understand the meaning of the lyrics in Western music, but this song is a song about the thoughts of nostalgia.
　I'm sure he sings about West Virginia and doesn't even know it's the name of the land. Well, even the singer of the song has a funny story about how he had never actually been to West Virginia. I'm not the same person who wrote the lyrics, and maybe it's not a good idea here either.
　But it doesn't matter, the people of Egret are listening to this song of cherry blossoms. By the way, this song was also used as an insert song in a Japanese anime movie. The lyrics were in Japanese over there, though. Just like the title of the movie, everyone is listening to the cherry blossom song with ears closed.
　When the chorus was over and we started the second song, the sound of stringed instruments came from somewhere. When I turned my head in that direction, I saw Kanosuke, the god of music, playing his guitar on the beach.

''Buk!''

　I almost stopped playing, but I managed to continue. Wait a minute, when did they get here!
　Looking closely, I saw Hanakoi's sister eating sashimi with the Iglet women, Morobane's sister and Karina's sister in front of the squid roast, and Drunken Flower and Uncle Kosuke in the group having a drink.
　Oooh!　Kami Summers!　When did you get here?
　There's no way I can be that lucky while playing, and I continue to pull the piano while sweating weirdly.
　Needless to say, the gods can all use transference magic if they want to. It's not exactly magic, but they must have used it anyway to get here.
　As the song ended and there was a ten thousand applause, I crammed in on Sister Hanakoi, who was taking a bite out of a fish fry. Brother Kanasuke began to play the second song, and Sakura sang it to accompany him.

'Fuyao-kun, this is delicious. You should eat it.
That's great!　I mean, when did you get here?!
'Rosetta-chan told me about it and it was just a few minutes ago. They were having a banquet, so I invited them all over while I was at it.

　When I turned my head in the direction that sister Hanakoi pointed, I saw Yumina, Else, Yae, Lou, Hilda, Lean, and by the way, even Paula was sitting in a wheelchair eating fish, along with Linze and Sue.
　They all ended up coming together!
　With a bad feeling, I returned to King Iglet and bowed to him. His Majesty the King smiled and accepted it.

I have seven wives. ─ I have seven wives, you shouldn't worry about that. I have seven wives and I don't mind them, but it's nice to see how well they get along with each other. I envy you.
'Oh, really?　........after all, is it hard when your wives fight with each other?

　I couldn't help but ask the senior polygamist. Then His Majesty's hitherto cheerful face turned into a Noh mask with no expression.

It's a needle in a haystack. It's a needle in a haystack........ Peace in the country comes from peace at home. You must get rid of your wife's discontent and anxiety as soon as possible. Otherwise, you will be caught in a world of hurt!

　His Majesty, the mighty warrior king, speaks to me with vacant eyes. Wait! What happened?　You're too scared to hear the rest of it!
　The soldiers behind him must not have been so bleak, judging from their bitter laughter, but to him, it was a rather sobering experience.
　As if to cheer up His Majesty's depressed and gloomy state, I turned to other topics. I've been thinking about joining the World Alliance for some time, and when I told him about it, he replied with a resounding yes.
　It seems that His Majesty Liefries had heard about it before and was positive about it if it would benefit his country.
　As a thank you for that and for killing the Tentaculum, he offered to let me use his private beach for the royal family's exclusive use at a later date, so I decided to use it after this month's alliance meeting.
　It's rare to find a sea as beautiful as this one. I'm sure the other kings will be happy to see it. I should prepare for some marine activities. Of course, I'll pay the utmost attention to safety, but... And if we use the [Prison], we can drive away dangerous marine life...
　Since this is the time to do this, I'll have the representatives of Yishen, Hannock, Lyle, Elfrau, and Parelius formally join the alliance.
　The problem is Yishen........ In effect, it's like Tokugawa Ieyasu-san is ruling that place, but there's an emperor, Mikado, as the head of the country. Should I make sense of it once?
　The king of Yisheng Godland is the emperor. As his vassals, the lords of the country exist, and Ieyasu-san is just the head of it.
　........Well, I don't know what kind of person the emperor of Yisheng is. I've never heard if he's a man or a woman, or even if he's a child or an old man. Well, maybe I'll ask Yae later.
　Under a sky of falling stars, the party on the beach continued.