Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

In the early summer of the rainy season, the heat creeps into the skin.

Shizuko's work did not diminish in an attempt to be in such a state, but rather followed a path of increase in the climb of eels.

"With..."

Shizuko shrugs while rehydrating with a water bottle made of bamboo.

I feel like forgetting everything and taking a bath in the water. I would have definitely done it without my surrounding eyes.

I felt different just bathing water from my head, but I was not allowed to do that with raw hatred.

Because the hot springs are building houses like fortresses in front of us.

Besides, Shizuko is the site director of that architecture, in a position where he can't forget everything and run to play.

"With all these nasty buildings in the village, it's uncomfortable... well, okay"

Hot springs alone, however much they may be, are extremely uncomfortable with the surrounding buildings and create suspicion.

So Shizuko advised the surrounding houses to do the same.

As a result, the village house could be completely renovated as permission was granted.

The house was beautiful and generally popular with the villagers, but Vitman doesn't seem to be comfortable with the new house.

I used to go out and play sunshine.

"Oh, it's time to come deer hunting"

When it comes to site supervision, if you decide to do it this morning, you won't need much more after that.

Unlike the villagers, they are not desperate, so turning the issue today to tomorrow did not pose a problem.

That was appreciated when it came to thanking Shizuko.

"Get ready..."

When she whined so, Shizuko went back to her own house.

There was no Vitman, but I thought he would be near the river, so I went to prepare myself.

Getting ready, I don't take anything special with me.

It's a bamboo water bottle to hydrate, a knife to drain blood, a hemp rope for captivity, a whistle to give orders to Vitman, and a crossbow for hunting.

There are several reasons to have a crossbow, not a bow that was born as a tool for hunting and later became used as a weapon as well.

The more powerful the bow, the harder it becomes to pull by manpower.

However, in the case of crossbows, instruments and machines such as teko and winders can be used in combination because of the structure.

Using these makes it relatively easy to use even bows of such power that it is difficult to pull them off manually.

It is also easier to target by attaching the aimer to the pedestal.

A crossbow with a high accuracy of the original hit rate can increase the hit rate even more.

It is also advantageous that the training period required to handle it is shorter than the bow.

There is no need for artisan arms like a bow, and it is good to be able to make them in a simple structure.

There will be no more continuous firing performance due to structural problems on the reverse side.

But hunting is basic to a one-hit special, so there's little need to think about shooting in a row.

Moreover, in modern times, even when the power is weak and the weapon is treated as a lower weapon, it can be a fine weapon in warring times when guns were even valuables.

Taken together, the benefits of a crossbow are that it makes little firing noise, it is possible to fly other than bullets, it can be created at low cost, it is high reliability, it is made only of wood, so it is lightweight, easy to maintain and repair, it can be handled with some practice, and if it is within 100 meters, it has a high accuracy of hitting.

On the other hand, disadvantages include that it is unsuitable for long range shooting, it is almost impossible to fire continuously, the power cannot be given more than a certain amount of power, and the strength is lower than that of metal.

A crossbow was chosen over a bow in that it was relatively easy to handle as a static child and the image was easy to grasp with horizontal shooting.

She doesn't have the technology to handle bows more highly than she did.

Then it was still easier to shoot with the same image as a military pussy.

Still, I needed to practice a few times, so I practiced a lot when I could.

If the opponent is stopped because of this, he has the ability to give a high hit rate within a few dozen metres.

"Can I have a few arrows?"

There's no need to hunt in large quantities, so you don't need enough arrows to carry them in an arrow barrel.

After that, if you have a string winder, you're ready.

"Okay, ready. Do you want to call Vitman"

After muttering so, Shizuko whistled in her mouth and breathed as much as she wanted.

Hunting, even so, what static kids do is focus on hunting for deer youths.

ageing deer society by continuing to do so, causing a decline in fertility.

But the number of deer is half as high. Shizuko alone has a limit no matter how much he hunts.

Besides, I couldn't waste my time killing and losing protein.

No matter how much dried meat you make, there's a limit to preservation.

There was a need for a precise balance: not wasting a single one and reducing the number of deer.

"Ah, after the deer's feet. That's pretty new too... I think we're close."

Kneeling into the ground, Shizuko shrugs as she observes after the deer's feet.

When we checked the wind direction, the other side of the foot was on the wind, so we don't have to worry about them noticing their smell even if we track them down.

"Two deer, one adult... you're a parent and a child. Vitman, aim for the deer."

Predict the number of deer from after the leg.

And as I proceeded to try not to make any footsteps, I went out to a slightly open place.

Apparently, parents and children are coming to pick up meals at the bait where the sesame grass grows.

"Somewhere... I was"

Looking around, there were three deer a short distance away.

As far as I could see, the distance was about 30 meters, which was well within the range of the crossbow.

The deer, however, was not oriented well, and from this point of view it pointed vertically rather than horizontally.

"(I have no choice. Vitman, I'll aim for the deer in the back, so please ask for the deer on the right)"

After making a simple order by hand Vitman, Shizuko lowers the crossbow she was carrying on her back.

Before climbing the mountain, the strings were already left in a pulled state, so all I had to do was put an arrow on them later.

After checking the wind direction again, Shizuko sets a target for the deer as she whistles.

The moment the aim was set, Shizuko pulled the crossbow trigger.

An arrow arcs and pierces the back of the deer's head precisely.

Parent deer and deer noticed by external enemies flee to the woods at a glance.

Shizuko wiped out the whistle she was wearing. That's an order to give Vitman a GO signature.

Understanding the order by the whistle, Vitman jumps out of the grass.

It's a short-term showdown, so it accelerates to a maximum speed of 70 km/h at once.

Deer speeds are close to wolves, but deer don't have the body to get that fast.

I couldn't keep up with my fleeing mother, I couldn't even resist the appearance of resistance and I lost that life.

No counterattack, huh?

I had set up a crossbow in anticipation of a counterattack from a mother deer, but the worry was worrying.

It quickly disappeared into the woods.

Removing the arrow from the crossbow, Shizuko sweeps the whistle again. Now it was a rhythm with subtly open spaces.

If you want the order to be in Japanese, it will be "Bring your prey".

Since wolves are a harsher vertical society than humans, they are allowed to eat their prey from those above them in order.

So Shizuko had finished processing all her prey and fed Vitman meat after she had finished eating it lightly.

There are likely to be people out there who make retarded statements about "pathetic" or "terrible" in modern times, but if you want to keep a wolf, you need to understand the wolf's habits and ecology.

Most importantly, Shizuko learned from the painful experience of being bitten by a childhood dog.

Blood two deer on the spot and tie them to the appropriate branches.

Perform the blood draining and cooling work again at the usual place down the mountain.

All you have to do is gut removal within an hour, so all you have to do is drain blood in the mountains.

I can throw it away, but I can rot it and bring it back to the compost material as much as possible.

"I don't have much meat because I'm a deer."

I can't take as much hair and meat as a mature deer, but I still took the amount there.

However, only one of them was dismantled and the other was a meal for Vitman.

Remove the liver and gently sprinkle with salt on it to broil. Simple dishes, but foods with hyperplasia are precious.

I need to eat it while I can.

"Well, I'm done eating, and Vitman's next."

Flattening all the liver, Shizuko takes another deer out of the river.

And after removing only the hair, I put it straight in front of Vitman.

"It's your meat."

Understanding the word, Vitman bit the meat of the deer with tremendous momentum.

The flesh is torn apart without the appearance of worrying about the muscles, cartilage, etc.

"A wolf with a boulder bite muscle strength of one hundred and eighty kilos......"

He was Shizuko, impressed with Vitman, who instantly flattened the deer.

The dismantled deer meat is cut to a moderate size and distributed to the villagers.

It's called a recommendation. This will improve the nutrition of the villagers and motivate them by eating meat.

Zara said that hunting is not always successful and that she can't do deer hunting for days.

Even if you meet a deer, you don't always succeed. If you are unluckily in the wind, you will be instantly noticed because of the smell.

The hunt won't succeed unless you stay in the wind and notice before the deer.

"Your wife, I wonder where she is"

Sleeping on the floor, Shizuko speaks that way to Vitman next door.

Vitman, who at first looked at Shizuko with a strange look on his face, turned his face forward to see if he immediately lost interest.

(Individuals in regions from size to cold. I think you're bringing both male females on a set. Hey)

There is no denying the possibility that he is dead. Vitman was dying anyway.

If Shizuko hadn't helped, he would have definitely lost his life.

In the first place, wolves have a low success rate of about 10%, even hunting in herds.

On top of that, if you are alone, you should have a success rate of one percent.

"Are you eating animal carcasses and surviving, or are you really dead... no female individuals in the first place? Oh, no, no, no."

Shizuko, who understands that even if she thinks about it, she won't get any answers, kicks out her thoughts with her head covered.

It will only come to an end, that was always the conclusion to be drawn.

"It's early tomorrow, go to sleep. Go to sleep."

When you lay down your sleeping clothes, take off your kimono and sprinkle it from the top like a duvet.

Good night, Vitman.

That's what I said. No, Shizuko fell asleep deep in just a few dozen seconds.

In early August, summer is also a time to become authentic.

It was time to harvest tomatoes, sweet corn and pumpkin, excluding sweet potatoes and sugar cane.

The villagers worked hard to make it into a big vegetable, but at the heart of it, they were just a little creepy because it was a food they had never seen before.

"Mm-hmm. Tomatoes aren't a good idea. I pollinated it, and I picked out the straw buds, so it's a good size. Is it time to eat?

There are a few tomatoes that are still in a state that is not red fruit, but still the majority of tomatoes turned bright red.

After harvesting a few to inspect the growth, Shizuko moved to the area where the pumpkin was next.

"The colour of the fruit peel is dark green, and the corky condition that can be found in the orbital infarct is good. The size is there, and I wonder if this is the time."

It is a pumpkin that will be in due time in the 30-40 days after flowering, so there is no problem with harvesting it about time given the artificial pollination I went to in July.

But first, we need to do a book harvest and see if there are any problems, or we need to do a trial harvest.

"I don't know about sweetcorn."

After harvesting about three suitable pumpkins, we head to the last sweetcorn.

When you harvest four corns with brown hair on the tip of the fruit, take them back to the village.

I told the villagers in advance to prepare hot water, so I saved them the trouble of going back and preparing it.

"Saki, Sky, are you ready -"

When Shizuko spoke to the women who were preparing, one of them turned to her.

Skinny but still beautiful, he looked so neat that he could say.

"Hot water is ready for you. I can do the other one too... anxious to be honest."

It seemed cute even from the woman's static child to ask with a slightly disturbing look.

(What a lovely creature)

When the corn or tomatoes are cleaned clean, the corn is cut to an affordable size and thrown into the pan.

Corn just after harvest requires no flavoring or anything. Best to boil as is and eat as is.

But it looked like a bright yellow grain, so the sky was slightly lumpy.

"The tomatoes are sliced as-is and the pumpkin is cut into bites. I'll use the seed, so leave it... do you want to boil it with venison? Season with miso and liquor."

In fact, it is good to dry heavenly from seven to ten days, but to check the harvest status, the heavenly sun-drying process was cut.

When the pumpkin seed is removed, it is soaked in a wooden barrel with water. To wash it later and remove only the seeds.

Cut the pulp into bites and similarly cut the venison to an affordable size and put it in boiling water.

The lid was then placed in the order of liquor and miso. After that, it only simmers.

"That's it. So, how much can you do?

Seeing the pot being boiled, Shizuko swept her chest open to expectations for the dish she could cook.