Isekai Taneuma

The next day, the party that managed to recover to one combat MP finally entered the southern river basin. From what I heard in the last village I stopped by to get supplies, the settlements are sparse and there are only tribes that keep moving nomadically, not just in one place.

The reason is that there is an overlapping habitat of beasts and demons in the north and south along the Great River, so we must always assume encounters with demons in this basin. Even if they build a village, they don't know when they'll be raided, so the tribes around here don't build settlements, they live everywhere.

Then I was anxious not to find the tribe in question... but the tribes supplying pepper were famous around here, and they were generally familiar with every tribe. The tribe deals with merchants, so it's good to have wings. Interaction with other tribes also flourishes because of the good shaking of wings. Everyone knows that because the economy around here revolves around the tribe in question.

That's why the villagers who visited in the last replenishment also knew about the tribe in question, and when they told me that they came to find it because the merchants were in trouble, they sent me that they should go because they knew the general place.

Hopefully the Tribe will not be raided and destroyed by the Demon Tribe, but I was prepared to expect less from the brave merchants I've been searching for for for months... surprisingly, the Tribe has been found.

"Human. You've come a long way. Take your time."

The tribe in question was a group of rabbits, and small rabbits with large white, spotted, brown and black ears lived in small cavernous dwellings. Easy construction with dead branches and leafy roofs over the deep digged holes, you don't even realize from a distance that it's a settlement. This is how they live in camouflage.

Nevertheless, I heard it was a fierce battle zone between the Beast and the Demon tribe, so I was surprised to find out that a tough beast like Gargantuar was coming out, because it was a tribe of rabbits with unexpectedly low combat abilities. Fighting the Demons won't win anyway, so it must be a group that specializes in escape. In fact, when I talked to her, it was like that.

"Hi, I'm from the Adventurers Guild. The merchants asked me to see your tribe. The supply of pepper is delayed in the Brave Leader, and I am having trouble contacting you as a supplier. Is something going on and I can't get in touch with you?

Then the rabbit who came out in response made a mellow expression, and then caught another rabbit walking around.

"Pepper? Hey, humans say there's no pepper." "Really? Who is it? Duty" "Ah, it was Mr. Wang. I haven't seen it lately." "That's it." "Mr. Wang? He died the other day." "Huh? Are you dead?" Dead. Dead. "

Another rabbit passed by and muttered and left. Feng tried to apologize for the words, but the rabbits were in a light state.

Really… Then we can't help it. Because that's what humans do. "

"... eh? Ah, yes... well, thank you very much this time..."

"It's okay, it's okay. Because it happens often. If you want pepper, I'll share it with you. Follow me..."

Without waiting for Feng's reply, the rabbit somehow jumped happily. Feng and the others followed, drawing slightly as to why it was so appropriate to say that their fellow tribesmen were dead.

According to the rabbitman who guided me, it seems that the demons killed him on duty to deal with the merchants. He was found and killed in bad luck while he was away from the village to harvest pepper.

The land where pepper grows is on the south side of the river, and there are many more demons than on the north side. It seems that they have good ears to go to such a place to harvest. With their big ears, they hear the footsteps of approaching demons and beasts, and flee with stacola sassa.

Still, it seems that the people who die in an accident can't wait to be chased by the demons or ambushed by the beasts. When I said that I should take measures or live in a safer place, I was told that even if I was killed, I would give birth together, and it was very appropriate.

It feels strange, but when they say their people are dead, they have no sense of grief at all. I wonder if it has been achieved because it is always next to death. They took it for granted that they were in the food chain and didn't seem willing to resist.

Surprisingly, the banks of the Great River, which was supposed to be a dangerous zone, were instead a treasure trove of flora and fauna. Over there, small animals bounce around, abundant in tree nuts and vegetables.

In the sunlit riverbanks, tall weeds grow, there are many places to hide, and between the north and south of the river, the Wesen and the Demons control each other. Conversely, it may be harder to find them in the middle of the river.

Take your ears out of the grass and listen to the surrounding sounds, make sure no one is there, then cross the river to the south shore. After hiding in the grass even further across the river, and carefully watching the surroundings, the rabbit man climbed the foot and stopped a little further.

"Here."

The groves stretched out to cling to the big tree, and there were many green crushed fruits hanging from it. Raw pepper was a plant with a beautiful green chamber, although I only saw it dry after the harvest.

The rabbit snapped the chamber and gave it to Feng. The moment I received it, the information about the pepper that he didn't know ran out of his mind. When I dazzle my eyes in surprise, the fruit of the pepper grown from the tree looks faint and glowing.

Apparently, Feng's skill “Alkaloid Detection” is active. If you think about it, the spicy taste of pepper is also an alkaloid. And when he gets the plants, the skill "Museum Atlas (Library)" is activated automatically. Perhaps that's why the pepper information just came out of my head.

Regardless, Feng happened to know that thanks to his skills, the number of pepper trees could be increased easily. It will take some time to grow, but it would be better to replant them on the northern side of the river they live in than to harvest them in such a dangerous place forever. Feng thought so.

"Rabbit. This pepper tree, why don't you take it across the river?

"Huh? What do you mean?

"Apparently, if you insert a tree, it will be easy to increase it. Look closely at the pepper tree. Here... the root of the adhesion extends from the section and sticks to this big tree, right? If we cut the part of the knot that hasn't stretched yet and replant it on the ground, the roots will emerge and the new pepper trees will grow."

"Hmm...."

The rabbit is twisting his neck. Apparently, it doesn't seem to be conveyed by mouth alone. And when he took the knife out of the sac, as I said earlier, he cut the section of the knife, and left only one leaf.

"We're going to replant what we cut out like this somewhere else."

"Is this going to be a tree?

"Yes, it is."

"Oh wow... where did you get this?

Feng looked like he was going to throw it away and showed me what he had just done again.

"This is how you cut the part of the verse. Why don't you try it?"

"Eh? Hmm... how do we do that?

Feng gave the rabbit a knife, pointing to the section of the pepper tree, and lectured that he would cut it here. The Rabbit Man was temporarily sloppy, but he cut it out like he wanted to cut it anyway, leaving a leaf behind and making a bush as he was told.

If he thinks he can do it... why is he doing this with a knife in his right hand and a tree insert in his left? I am stunned by the expression that I just said. Feng saw it, maybe it hasn't been properly communicated yet? while thinking,

"Let's do the same thing again. Now use this tree."

That prompted the Rabbit Man to look at the tree, but he was poking. Although I was disappointed that it had not yet been communicated, Feng still tried to communicate the way with patience... but after many attempts, the rabbit finally didn't understand.

I don't know if I remember very badly or if I'm simply not interested, but I couldn't stay in such a dangerous place forever, and Feng and I went back to the north side of the river after a while.

I made as many bushes as I could to teach the rabbit man. I had no choice but to replant them all in a prominent spot on the north side. He said he was unexpectedly vulnerable to direct sunlight, so why would a rabbit do that if he was digging holes and planting trees in the shade as much as possible? He looked at me with eyes like that.

I should have explained everything with sourness just now... didn't you listen to me, or have you really forgotten...? I feel the discomfort that my eyes are seeing even in glassmaking. I wonder what this strange mesh is....

Then, on his way back to his tribal hideout, the rabbit found a huge prey in his proud ear. Then Guillaume took it down with a single blow, not even a few hundred meters away. With the pistol, this distance has reached the realm of curvature, but as long as the rays pass, it seems that he will never come off again. Mary has always taken a delicious spot here, but the veteran adventurer's face is dramatic.

The Rabbit Man was very pleased with his huge prey. Rabbits have a strong image of herbivores, but since half of them are human, they eat meat or anything. They also eat rabbits. But it's still half rabbit, so hunting sucks and meat is rarely eaten.

That's why I brought my prey back to the hideout, and all my tribes were thrilled to jump.

When the prey was cut off and distributed to all, each of them thanked him happily before taking it home. I wonder if they eat raw meat like werewolves, and unexpectedly they cook meat with dexterity. Apply veterinary fat on the hot stone, and place pepper-coated meat on top of it to make yakiniku. Looking at the arrangement, I could see them cooking normally.

It goes without saying that pepper is a precious spice of the age of the great voyage. It was only grown in India, where it originated, and its production methods were kept secret, so it had to go through the Arabic merchants to get it, and by the time we got to Europe, it had added value and became very expensive.

The cold and harsh winters in Europe prevented all livestock from passing the winter, so they crushed them before winter came. The meat that has been slaughtered irresistibly will rot as it is, so we smoked or dried it, but by the time spring comes, most meat will not be eaten. However, when this rotten meat was roasted with pepper, it smelled like a lie and could be eaten, so for them pepper was a magical powder.

It is the same for rabbits, who rarely get meat because they are weak. We only have a chance to hunt small animals that we can hunt ourselves or barter with other tribes, so we want to enjoy the meat for a long time. That's where pepper plays a role.

Indeed, in Lizard Gekko's story, it was the hero who discovered the pepper. Perhaps the brave came here 300 years ago.

Was he told about pepper when he met the rabbit man? Or did you teach the rabbits how to use pepper... maybe Leonardo, one of his buddies, knows. Though he wanted to ask later, he chewed the meat seasoned with salt and pepper to taste delicious.