It's me.

The summer heat has passed again this year, and the autumn has deepened.

The newborn Norito also sat on his neck gradually, and Junior started to run around and play outside.

The feeling of the passage of time comes to me.

As winter approached, I had a consultation.

From who?

From persimmon.

Kakiemon the persimmon tree spirit

"Ooh...!?"

Our farm ran an orchard a short distance away, and there lived a spiritual existence called a tree spirit attached to the tree.

It is often helpful because it is nurtured and managed by Mikan, apples, and various trees.

Among them, the persimmon tree spirit that resides in the persimmon tree... seems to be named Kakiemon.

He came to me for advice.

It looks like a comical impression with a manga nose on persimmon.

It seems to be possible to move away from the trees if you actually stay there.

So, what does Kakiemon want to talk to me about?

"Recently... persimmon is not doing well...!"

Yeah?

I'm so sorry! The saint has been entrusted with the cultivation and management of the trees, but the unsatisfactory results are unworthy!Apologize for cutting my stomach...! "

Wait. Calm down.

If you're hungry enough to possess persimmon, it's just a cut fruit.

"So what's wrong with that?If you tell me the exact condition, maybe I can give you some advice...? "

"Now, please enjoy it...!"

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A few persimmons will be served to me.

... this is...

It's a bad persimmon harvested the other day!

"That's what I'm talking about...!"

Do you really want to eat it?

Aren't you afraid of that?

The empiricism of daring to eat something bad.

I wonder if a hundred hearsay is more than a meal.

But I'm afraid of what it tastes like...

"Yeah! Keep it up!"

I never took a sip of persimmon.

"Shabui!?"

Tomatoes!?

My mouth is sinister, sinister, sinister!?

I didn't eat that much!

Tea, tea, tea, tea, tea!

Shitty!

"As you can taste, persimmons have always been sweet, but at some point they became bitter, and at most one or two in a single harvest at first, at some point more than 20%...!"

Cachiemon said in a drenched state.

Originally, the fruit tree blessed by the saint should have all the most delicious fruits.It was my responsibility to manage what happened!I apologize for ripping you apart!! "

Calm down. Calm down.

You really possess persimmons, so if you chop them up, you can only make persimmon purées.

"Besides, I don't mind the tomatoes.This isn't a failure or anything. "

Huh?

"This is a signature from persimmon.Realizing our new possibilities...! "



I prepare tomatoes.

Collect as many as you can that are bitter, unpleasant, and not very edible.

Peel with a knife.

Wrap the rope around the top stiff area so that it can hang, then apply to hot water to kill excess fungus on the surface.

Hang on top of the house and dry in the sun.

Be careful not to let the crows stick with you...

Don't come here, crow!

The crops you can eat are not as good as a grain of shell for us!!

... and desperately. Keep drying for about a month.

In the meantime, fly.

We will resume where we can.



"This is the dried persimmon!!"

Hoshinoki!?

Dried, hydrated and dried persimmons!

All right, let's try it when it's done!

Persimmon whose internal moisture has disappeared and shrunk, making it smaller and wrinkled!

Danger, Saint! Once you eat the whole thing, it's going to be bubbly bubbly bubbly bubbly bubbly bubbly bubbling inside your mouth!! "

Kakiemon stopped in a hurry, but it's okay.

Pull your teeth around the middle of the persimmon and chew them off!

"Sweetheart!!"

Whatever!?

The sweetness condensed by drying out moisture is rich and sweet!!

Sweet Nigazaki!

"Why, saint!? Tomatoes that are not bitter and eaten become sweet just by drying them?Is it some kind of magic!? "

Hmm, why?

What is it, the... tannic ingredients of tomatoes?

Tannin? Oxytocin? Tolmethylamine?

Anyway, I wonder if some of the ingredients will turn from bitter to sweet in a chemical reaction.

Well, it got sweeter anyway, so that's fine.... ahh, sweet...! A rich sweetness that you can't even taste after eating fruit normally "

I said something about not exceeding the sweetness of persimmon.

In other words, this is the best sweetness you can taste as a dish!

Sweetheart!!

Sweet, sweet!

Sweet!

Sweet, sweet annoyance.

"Sweet means today's new dish is sweets!Cake or pepper!? It's a huge hit! "

Platty and Veer came there with the usual sense of smell.

She is holding Norito in her chest and pulling Junior's hand.

"I thought you were coming!Of course I've got everybody's share!Now, eat this persimmon as much as you can! "

"Wow, what's this? It looks a little hard to imagine."

"This is... dried persimmon!!"

"Dried oysters?"

Yes, dried persimmon!

"Oh yeah, you can dry oysters.The abalone can be dried, so it's the same thing. "

There seemed to be a perception difference with Platty.

Couple of breakups!?

"Uh-huh...? What is this...? It looks brown and blows white powder.Is this good to eat? "

And Veer stared at the dried persimmon at his heart and looked anxious.

Well, it's true that persimmons look really scary.

Can I eat it? It feels like '.

"But, Master made it, and it never came off before!I believe in your husband!I'm cummiiiiiiiiiiing!? "

"Ah, wait, Veil. If you bite too hard...!"

There are still seeds in the persimmon.

Moreover, the dried fruit becomes smaller, resulting in a relative increase in seed content.

If you're going to chew the seeds in the persimmon by mistake...

Giggle!!

"Ugaaaaaaaaaaa!? Tooth!? Tooth!?"

"Persimmon is a stiff seed at the level of contesting one or two of the fruits...!?"

If you tried to chew it all out, your teeth would have gone away instead.

Exactly the oliharcon of the fruit seed world.

"But it's so sweet!? Wow, it's so sweet!? It's a different type of sweetness that can't be tasted with cake or bean paste!?"

"I'm glad you're happy."

Eat carefully to avoid biting the seed this time.

It may be too early for Norito... but let's raise the seeded persimmons for Junior.

Kakikuba-kun, kakakane-kun!

"It's delicious, Junior. It's good."

Now, we can't stop using the cut and seeded persimmons.

Finely chopped on a plate with a knife... a dried persimmon like a paste.

I can't stand the cream cheese I just got from Panu....

... eat!

"Kiaaaaaahh!? What is that!? dried persimmon and cream cheese aaaaaahhhhh!?"

"It looks delicious, Master!Give me a sip too!! "

Thus, the tomatoes underwent a gorgeous transformation into dried persimmons that everyone liked.

Fuoooooo!! That's the saint!With your wisdom, tomatoes will also become smiling messengers!! "

Kakiemon was also touched.