Inari wants to live in peace

We arrived at the dock of the Grand River, so we descend immediately on land.Then head to the Inari Shrine cutting out the wood.

But shortly after I moved to land, I found something in the river, so I stopped my feet.

Matsuda-san, who had disembarked earlier, also noticed that he would not move slightly while looking at a point in the river and stopped to ask.

"Inari, what have you done?"

"I found something that bothered me a little."

That said, I looked further at the water surface of the Great River.

Then, as if it were enlarged, the range was narrow, but the distant ones were clearly visible in detail.

(Hmm, is that possible?)

It's a creature longer than a normal fish, making its black glossy body look stupid.Many of them were swimming vigorously in the river.

At a glance, I understood that it was not a sea lion or a deer.

Then there was only one other type of detail I knew, so I acted quickly afterwards.

"It's an eel!!!!"

I didn't expect to see a natural eel in the future that was rarely seen here.

Not only do I feel all that joy, but I jump into the river without hesitation, like a child who looks worthy without shame or audience.

Inari God!?

I can't hear the shocking voices of the people around me anymore, and I'm obsessed with being selfless anyway.

I've been swimming in the river many times, so I try to catch the longest and biggest eel of all.

But even if you try to catch your body alive without killing it, it's hard to imagine.

Even if I swim and try to escape, I'm a fox daughter, so I can go around with plenty of room, but I don't have the decisive hand.

Anyway, I fought underwater without breathing for a while, and when the opponent got tired, I finally caught the neck of the eel, which was as tall as my own.

So I finally went up to land.

Looking around, the dock looked downstream, so he was swimming upstream to catch eels.

Matsuda-san and the guards rushed to me in a hurry after a while as I was easily removing the water droplets on my fully waterproof witch clothes with one hand.

"Inari God, are you all right?"

"I'm fine. I'm sorry for the concern."

Now that I realized that the imprudent behavior was not the work of Inari God, I lowered my head deeply.

"No, Inari God doesn't care."

Luckily nothing happened, they stroked down their chest and then watched me grab the eel with my little hand.

And one of the guards, Honda, looks at the eel I have and opens his mouth.

Is that an eel?

Naturally, I expected to be asked, but I was relieved to know why I had taken such unexpected action before, and that I was saved without receiving the total criticism.

If the boulder asks you, it's hard to explain.The reason is simple and clear.

(Eel is an endangered species, among which natural products are rarely eaten as a luxury ingredient.

That's why we met here, but in the hundredth year, we went to catch him, saying we would never miss him.I can't say...)

Personally, it was very easy to understand, but I can't just tell people in our time.

Therefore, Mr. Honda's pure question was as thankful as possible as a diversion.

"If it were an eel, you would catch as many as you want in the Mikawa River, but was Hojo territory the same?"

In other words, the Sengoku era was neither a luxury fish nor an endangered species.It would have been an eel that could easily be eaten by ordinary people.

If so, why didn't you notice it before, it was because it was too close.

Even if it is eaten as usual in Nagayama Village and under Okazaki Castle, the offerings to me are always carefully selected.

Rice, wild vegetables, meat, etc., are all the luxury products that the general public rarely tastes.

When I saw the villagers roasting and eating and swimming in the river, I thought it would be Dojo or Namazu anyway, and when it comes to eel, the image of kayaki and noodle bowl was too strong.

It is an eel that is ripped, sauced, skewered, baked, and has a strong aroma that invites appetite.

If you look at the mysterious chunks that have been chopped into pieces and shaken with salt, it looks like nothing but fish.

This time, I was interested because I saw a big guy as tall as myself up close.

It was the first time I noticed the presence of eels that could not be found in the future.

"If it comes true, I want to eat as much eel as I like in the distant future."

"What do you mean?"

Honestly, it is troublesome to explain, and the eel is unlikely to go extinct before my life is over, so I will respond appropriately.

"Just like mining, we have limited resources in the oceans and rivers."

"Hahaha! Inari God is joking too ─ ─"

But even though Honda mistook me for a joke, I kept my face straight.

He immediately corrects his posture and apologizes if he feels like such an idiot.

And I can see the guards are paying attention to each and every one of them.

When no one speaks anymore, I even speak to them in a serious tone.

"As a matter of course, you are cutting down forests and using them as materials.

But it takes a long time to become a tree. "

I wonder if I can tell you here now, but if you just tell me the concept of environmental protection, I will tell you that pollution and resource depletion will be alleviated a little bit, and it will be appropriate to say it with the usual routine.

"Eel is the same as this.If humans continue indefinitely, they will not see a single one in the future of Japan. "

I don't know what happened to my history after I died of old age.

However, since I am still a Japanese citizen, I just want my country's future to move in a slightly better direction.

"While the population is still large, adjusting for non-extinction is relatively easy.

But recovering from the brink of depletion is a difficult business, and it takes a huge amount of time. "

It is not uncommon for species to be extinct due to abnormal weather, but when you see the number decreasing due to human selfishness, you can feel something unbearable.

I don't want to be radical like a dolphin or whale conservation organization, but I hope you keep that in mind.

"If you continue mass production and mass consumption without thinking about anything, it will impose a huge burden on your descendants."

What happens if you keep wasting it without thinking about anything?

Needless to say, I remember hearing somewhere in the United States that desertification had progressed because white people hunted prairie dogs.

So it will no longer be possible to avoid the extinction of rare wildlife.

But at least Japan didn't follow the same path and wanted us to come up with the right answers ourselves and move towards a better future.

Though the will would be splendid, in the end, what I was saying was a round-throw, as the saying goes, and I shouted it out loudly without any naughtiness.

"I sincerely hope you will make the right choice."

Leave it to the scene to cloud the tea with symbolic words that are somehow unclear.

I didn't give anything right because I didn't have a clear solution with me, so whatever I was doing here right now, it wouldn't have much impact on my future history.

However, hopefully, I wanted you to turn off the rudder to protect the environment so that a small ripple could occur by throwing pebbles into the lake.

But I talked a little bit about the heat, but it wasn't that important now with regard to resources and the environment.

If I had misled the reason why I jumped into the river to catch eels, I would have gotten out of line with a lot of things, so I didn't know what I was talking about myself.

Moreover, in order to escape Mr. Matsuda's pursuit after this, as a solution to environmental damage, we also taught him about the planting and cultivation of candles, so why did this happen?

After all, I wasn't physically tired at all, but mentally I became a jerk.

By the way, the cherry blossoms and guards who looked after the eel brought plenty of fresh water into the barrel.So I started with a bad excuse, and I moved you there to get rid of the mud, and now I'm pinning.

I hated eating it as it smelled, but for me who wanted to eat it now, it was exactly the colon.