Chapter 231: The First Step Toward Improving the Standard of Living. Everyone Divides the Work and Does Their Jobs
What our settlement needs is sleeping places and a cafeteria. What else is needed.
For me, the moment the hot spring became shared, there’s nothing more I desire, but...
After a while, I received opinions from everyone again.
The cat girls want to sharpen their claws.
The capybara girls want to gnaw wood.
The elf wants to create a forest.
The horse girls want to run.
The dog girls want to play tag.
The moment opinions like these come out as requests for living places, it’s clear that no one wants private rooms.
Depending how you look at it, the current opinions can be gathered into one.
A plot that remains wasteland (preferably made into lawn if possible) and a forest is enough, so the moment Fullru creates a forest it will be solved.
"Apparently I was overthinking it. Because of the different values of my homeland, my thoughts were out of sync with everyone. Let’s gradually fill the gaps and create a village that’s easy to live in."
"Yes."
"Pi."
"Nya."
Various replies, but it seems the feelings are shared with everyone.
From the feeling of talking for a while, the only thing that must be realized quickly to raise the quality of life is securing cooking tools.
"Then, in the afternoon I’ll take Rafilia-san and go to Monvan."
"Yes. Please. It would have been good if we had bought tools and brought them before coming here."
"Well, even while avoiding public eyes we can make a round trip in a day, so it won’t be that much of a burden."
Esty-san patted her butt pon pon. It means if she puts out her tails she can move at high speed.
The tools to buy will be few so for the time being we can rely on Esty-san’s wallet, but eventually money will be needed... If possible I want to live by self-sufficiency.
The capybara girls began climbing onto neighboring kids, and the cat girls started chasing the horse girls’ long tails.
Apparently the free-spirited kids have lost concentration.
"Then, discussion ends here. Everyone go play freely. Rafilia-san, Esty-san, Letree-san, Dura-san, and Elf-san, stay behind."
I decided that serious talk would be done only by the adults.
Age-wise Fullru is in the little-kid group, but because she will bear the great undertaking of creating a forest, she can’t be left out of the discussion. By giving her the special seat of my lap, I had her participate in the meeting.
I left looking after the little kids to the reliable Lian younger sister.
"The first thing we must decide is where to build the base, I think, but how about it. Because it might eventually become the capital, choosing the location feels important. I’ll roughly draw the terrain so please look."
I gathered the adult team in one place and drew a diagram on the ground with a stick.
Considering future trade, near the sea or a large river was decided to be good.
The large river of the glans flows as if bisecting the land like the urethral opening. In manga and anime when drawing a sideways face, the mouth is drawn at the position of the cheek to drop three dimensions into two. In the same way the urethral opening of the erect peninsula is dropped into two dimensions and has become a large river that vertically cuts through the glans.
Let’s name this the Urethral River. Did Iferaski catch the fish in a tributary of the Urethral River?
However, although it is large-river size, the volume of water is small. Is it because precipitation is low and there are no trees in the mountains to store water. The upstream areas are almost dried up.
Because the Urethral River continues to the northern sea, there is a high possibility the river mouth will freeze in winter.
If we build the capital in a place that is even a little warmer so the port can be used, the southern part of the curved portion of the glans is optimal, but...
"Arasgard is surrounded east and west by the large countries of Lumaniera and Leglandelle. Therefore, we may not need to think much about maritime trade. Merchants are protected in each country, so they move around without caring about national conflicts, but in the first place there are no trade goods on the glans, so they won’t come. In other words, without some reason to stop here a shipping route can’t be made."
"Trade goods, huh. Indeed because it’s wasteland there’s nothing..."
"If we think about land trade with Margolant and Monvan for the time being, it might be better for the capital to be close to the Glans-Neck Mountain Range."
To this opinion of Esty-san, Rafilia-san and Letree-san agreed, and because Dura-san and Fullru don’t understand this country’s circumstances much, they reserved their opinions.
In the end, thinking about trade when we don’t even have ships is too premature, and we decided to investigate the land a little more before deciding.
Trade, huh.
Even if we sell something, there’s nothing on the glans.
Even if Fullru creates a forest, forests exist throughout the country. It’s probably still an era where there is more virgin forest than land people can live on the continent, so lumber won’t become a sellable item.
Sweet potatoes, once shipped once, can easily be cultivated in that land as well, so they are unsuitable as export goods.
I don’t want to sell the wool of the capybara to strangers. Even though it’s created by magic, I can’t allow Lucia’s body hair to pass into the hands of men.
Shall I leave trade completely to people of the future. I don’t think we’ll develop enough to trade heavily with foreign countries while we’re alive.
It became noon so we ate bread, cheese, sausage, and wine, and because Iferaski had caught fish again we ate that together.
Well then, in the afternoon we divide into small groups and act separately.
"Then, I’ll create a forest. I thought of making a mountain, but because the sunlight is poor I’ll look for another place."
Fullru is creating the forest. Originally the plan was to cover the bare Glans-Neck Mountain Range with green, but because it’s the northern slope the sunlight is poor so she abandoned it. She will consider making a forest around the upstream of the Urethral River.
Then, those crossing the Glans-Neck Mountain Range moved by riding the giant capybara.
"Well then. Once Rafilia-san finishes preparing meals for the people of Margolant I’ll go to Monvan and buy kitchen knives and pots."
"Yes."
Esty-san and Rafilia-san will provide food to the people of Margolant and then go shopping in Monvan.
"Then, we will go hunting."
The dog girls will hunt in the forest. The harvested game will be paid as tax to Iria, and from there the portion we eat will be divided. Because the forest and the animals of the forest are owned by the lord, we can’t do as we please.
I stood beside Letree-san and while stroking her butt whispered in a low voice.
"If you show Letree-san’s ability in hunting, everyone will quickly forget about the pee."
"...Yes. I’ll do my best."
Lucia will play with the beastmen inside Margolant territory.
I and Kaka Pipi will help with reconstruction inside Margolant territory.
Those remaining on the glans will be looked after by Dura-san. I asked them to make fields and plant the sweet-potato seedlings I brought from Japan. There seems to be leeway in personnel, so if possible have them catch fish and make dried fish.
If Dura-san looks after them, even if flying monsters like yesterday attack we can be at ease, and because we can also do long-distance communication, we can respond immediately to trouble.
I will help with house-building in Margolant.
"Alright. Kaka, Pipi, let’s do our best. We’ll make houses like yesterday!"
"Do our best ka?"
"Leave it to us ppi!"
Kaka and Pipi were incredibly amazing.
Like the martial artists that appear in boys’ manga depicting the post-nuclear-war end of the century, just by stroking with their fingertips the logs are cut and processed into boards. Their movements are elegant like water birds.
Just by stroking hyoo, a cut enters the log and it shifts on its own into equal-width boards. Moreover the edges are cut so they can be fitted and combined. As expected of mysterious existences created by a god. Probably these guys are also gods or existences equivalent to gods.
Embarrassed that it’s only tofu houses like DIY bookshelves, we built houses one after another.
Because the residents also cooperate, the work is going well.
Ah. Good. The houses around here were destroyed when I got them caught in the magic when defeating the orcs. With this the sense of guilt has lessened a little.
I don’t have a clock so I don’t know, but in about three or four hours we were able to rebuild the twenty buildings that were originally in Margolant’s castle town.
However, the problem is again the stove. We have to search for suitable stones, and that isn’t something that can be solved with our power.
I the power role and Kaka Pipi made a firewood shed and produced a large amount of firewood. It will help with wintering.