Isekai Taneuma

Feng, who had taken a vacation for a long time, was about to go fishing for his hobbies. When he heard of the fish, he was caught by cats without eyes, and he went to the river with him. I was going to ask the field blacksmith who was there to take care of the cats' weapons, but as it seemed that the mani was unexpectedly interested in blacksmithing work, he entered the blacksmith's apprenticeship on the spot.

I recommended it to the mani who wanted to see the human society, but looking back, the cats were hungry and waiting. That said, I came fishing. Feng alone was not confident that they would harvest enough fish to satisfy them, but anyway, we would have to do it.

I wanted to fish around where I could see the bazaars, but I don't think there are any fish around if they get killed so badly. Feng deposited the mani in Gekko, a lizard merchant, and took the cats downstream towards steam water.

However, this choice will be in reverse.

The Feng and the others were now in a river that separated the brave leader from the great forest. This was originally a river flowing into the brave capital of New Amsterdam, but it was diverted by the dredging project and flowed directly into the sea. What a source of water that runs through the great forest, beyond Hermes territory, all the way to Bohemia.

Was there a lot of flooding in the past as a result of changing the flow of such a large river? The levee is more solid than I thought, and I can see the skill level of the people who made the brave leader. Perhaps not only the brave and Leonardo, but also the other wanderers (Bagabonds) are involved.

In ancient times, everything about the east and west and the embankment are similar, so I just can't see the highway beyond the soil, and if they say this is Tokyo, it's an atmosphere that I might inadvertently believe.

In particular, only the dikes were similar, and the water quality was different. Somehow, in a bad direction. Unlike Tokyo, this river is filled with domestic drainage from nearby villages and cities, and water pollution spreads downstream, so there was no shadow to see.

Originally, the Tokyo River seemed to be a terrible thing, but there was a history that water treatment work progressed on the occasion of the 64 Tokyo Olympics, and in the 21st century, the whale became as beautiful as it could be retroactively. After all, if people gather and there is no regulation, the river will be filled with dirt in no time.

In front of a river that smells intensely, like the Ganges River, the feng is stunned, and the cats are stirring.

"Can fish be harvested in a river like this?

"Oh no, even if they do, they won't be able to eat it. I'm going to die."

"Sonnyaaa... shock"

Full of desire to eat, the cats lay down on the ground and drooped. Even in these rivers, creatures like sea lions and dojos may be inhabiting, but they probably smell too bad to eat. Before that, I didn't feel like going into a river where such oil floated.

If you go further downstream and go out to the sea, or vice versa, you can expect to improve the water quality, but either way, there was not enough time to go there now. It would still be better to go back to the village of Vinci and hang the fishing line in the waterway. But then I don't know why I came out here.

When she looked up at the sky with a sigh and said it was a long holiday, it was boring... Feng found a house on the high ground.

After crossing the bridge over the river and following the road leading up to the hill, a shop was built there. It feels like a mountain teahouse in a place, and travelers passing by come in to be sucked in from time to time, so it seems certain that they will at least give us something.

Anyway, there's nothing to do here.

"Hey, cats. Why don't you go to the shop over there? Maybe they even serve snacks."

"Nyah... we don't have any money"

"I'll buy you that much. If it's true, I was going to catch a fish, but I was so delighted."

"Are you sure?!?

The beards of the cats are standing on their feet. Looks like he's recovered a little bit. Feng sent them an OK sign and crossed the bridge in pursuit of the brave cats who went ahead with joy. Recently, I received money from there to exterminate Goblins, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to spend it on this occasion. If it is true, it is not strange that they receive it.

From a distance, it looked surprisingly close, but when I climbed up the unexpectedly far hill, it was still a mountain teahouse shop that appeared in front of me.

Vinci village station carriages also appeared on the pass, apparently a place like a roadside station relaying the city around here. Because the shipment is passing everywhere, or because the shop has a lot of goods, it seems that some neighbors are coming for it.

Feng ordered food like rice noodles (Four) or soba noodles, and the cats chewed candied sweets to taste delicious. By the way, is it okay to say it was soaked in sugar, or to eat citrus...? Well, cats are different from cats.

Lizard trader Gekko also said that pepper is still a precious commodity in this world, but sugar is already quite around. Everything seems to be planting in the New World, selling sugar from across the sea to the Empire, and merchants around here are making a lot of money. Recently, they have begun to import cereals to support an overpopulated population. I wish the people of the New World hadn't thrown tea at the sea one day.

The shop on the highest hill of the neighborhood overlooked the distant city of New Amsterdam. Feng saw the capital of the country for the first time at this time, but it was like a modern city lined with larger buildings than he thought.

The walls of the houses, up to five or six stories high, appeared white and could not be seen unless they approached, but the red roof looked like a tile. I wonder if it should be called the colonial style that is common in Latin America, where houses like that stand side by side.

There were many sailboats moored at the port, and there was a glimpse of the ships waiting in turn offshore. I wonder if they are all ships traveling back and forth to the distant New World. Speaking of which, even though we are supposed to be at war with the Empire, it seems relaxing because there is no concept of trade destruction... the Empire is a country that is not sure whether it is strong or weak.

It seems that a quick horse will take about an hour to reach the capital. I said I could charter a highway station carriage, so I'd be there soon anyway, and I said I'd go chill for the after-school, but I stopped because the cats hated it.

Speaking of which, it looked like the cat I borrowed from Bazar, but maybe it wasn't crowded. Or is it because the veterinarian is discriminated against, as the treatment of the blacksmith's parent was terrible?

It happens, but there is a mixture of beasts around Feng, like Mani and Lucy. It's easy to mistake them because they're good, but ordinary beasts still have bad memories. If this were a turmoil, werewolves and cats still specialized in fighting would have a role to play, but it might be quite difficult to do it among people if it were as peaceful as this country.

Nevertheless, what is interesting to make is the excellence of mixed blood. Lucy said she hid it because mixed blood was discriminated against by both humans and beasts, but of course, if she succeeded, Lucy would be much smarter than a normal person.

Why they are so good can somehow be predicted when we look at international marriages between humans. When genetically distant people mix together, it's easy to inherit only the good things about parents. Conversely, being too close emphasizes not only superiority, but also inferiority, which is susceptible to fatal adverse effects. Maybe that's why Gargantuar doesn't benefit his children.

As I thought of Rabba, a mixture of horses and donkeys, very recently, races separated from their common ancestors were able to make children. Unfortunately, many of the children born in this way are not capable of reproduction, but are expected to be capable individuals. However, even in such cases, very rare individuals with reproductive capacity may be born, and if they remain unsuccessful, they may be established as new species.

What the Spirit revealed to Feng in the past is that the Beast is believed to be a species that has been artificially evolved based on humans. So humans, beasts, and beasts with the same common ancestors can reproduce, and children born are likely to become physically and mentally emphasized individuals.

Thinking so, it seems better for the Beast to be more mindful of mixed blood, but there was a problem with level caps, and in the Gargantuar settlement it seemed to be more obsessed with pure blood.

Forget about that. If the beasts in the Great Forest (Wallachia) flourish together and become equal with the human society, it would seem better that way... but there were circumstances where I could not say that the level meant nothing.

As Guillaume first noticed, the status set for each and every human being in this world seems to correlate with the level. Guillaume, who rose from the 30s to the 60s, now possesses superhuman status, and Lucy is enduring Leonardo's Spartan education and learning new magic.

If we proceed with the mix of beasts, they may also benefit from civilization and live a social life like human beings. In fact, there is a model case called Raven. However, in times of peace, that is fine, but if the time of war comes in the future, they may find themselves at a low level of hardship. That's not necessarily a good thing.

At least now Beasts are physically superior to humans. Thanks to this, monsters can live in the vast forest that jumps off the beam, and serve as a breakwater for the demon tribe's invasion from Neuroi. The history of 300 years ago tells us what happened when the breakwater collapsed.

"But... a demon race?"

Feng murmured without anyone, eating off the baked tongue stuck in the skewer.

Because the cats ate candied food that seemed too delicious, Feng also tried one, but if they ate a dark baked tongue that was too sweet and didn't suit their mouth, and the cats were staring at things as they wanted, so I decided to do their part.

It's a painful expense, but when I look at their happy faces, I don't think it's good... he wondered if he made himself or if he should not have a pet.

Nonsense. Let's get back to the demons. For a moment, I thought I might be a demon, but it is a living thing that comes from the land of Neuroi at the southern tip of the Baltica continent. I wonder what that is.

Even if you say demon tribes in one bite, they are as diverse as beasts. So far, humans have confirmed its existence as a little demon (Goblin), a dog demon (Kobolt), a pig demon (Oak), a big demon (Auga), a fish man (Oannes), a half-fish man (Insmouth), a bird man (Harpy), a Mezuki demon (Centaurus), a Gozu demon (Minotaur)... but it seems that there are still others like this.

All of these are legendary creatures of the original world and are classic enemy characters in RPG. Characteristically, they are hostile to humankind, have failed to establish dialogue, and even seem to live faithfully to their instincts, but it is as if they were born and what they are aiming for. Well, not all humans live for a purpose, so you might consider it a 'preservation of species' that is common to all creatures.

By the way, Feng realized recently that he often fights the demons, but they seem to have close relatives. Particularly similar are goblins and covolts. Both are said to be the weakest of the demons, and they are creatures that live secretly around the edge of the forest.....

Goblins are upright bipedal creatures with small, evil faces that look exactly like little demons. Her eyes are red, her nose is pointed, her ears are long, and she has green skin. The mouth is large but the canine teeth are not developed, and the ratio of incisors to molars is the same as that of humans. It's like an evil fairy familiar with JRPG, attacking livestock in a group and living as a field thief.

It can be assumed that the teeth have evolved in the same way, because they are the same things that humans eat. However, the color of the skin is completely different, and the goblin is more akin to the oak. It looks like a small oak.

I think there is a covolt with a dog face inside, which is also thought to be a subspecies of Goblin. Because they're almost ecologically together, and some of them are covolts mixed with goblins and playing field thieves.

In this way, the Green Skin Demons have fox face goblins, dog face covolts, pig face oaks... but there is no machine that can check DNA, so I don't know for sure, but if they were the same species in taxonomy, what would have divided them?

The Beast was a product of the artificial evolution of livestock. In that case, can the demons think the same way...?

Something happened, and humans and demons split up. Just as the common ancestors of the Wesen were humans, so are the common ancestors of the Demons also humans. There are some inconvenient facts, if not sufficient grounds for thinking so. There seems to be a two-legged creature in this world, but looking back 4.6 billion years on Earth, there should have been no upright (...) two-legged creature but humans.

It would be unnatural for such human-like creatures to be born one after another. Therefore, is it reasonable to think of the demonic race as a species that branched from the common ancestor of mankind? Of course, at this stage, it's just speculation.....

Considering that assumption as a premise, a little unpleasant speculation comes up again.

Guillaume told me more about the ecology of Goblins when Feng showed interest in killing them at the Adventurers Guild in Vinci Village. According to it, since the Goblins are also demonic and live faithfully to their instincts, if they capture other races, they will try to kill a man and rape a woman.

But the goblins are weak, so they're only about children. So if a girl with no fertility is caught, she will be killed in a more ruthless way. Goblins are therefore more hated than ordinary demons.

That's fine. The human girl is pathetic, but she will be killed. But what if this is the Beast?

Wesen grow fast. For example, a mani looks about 15-6 years old, but the actual age is 9 years old. Whether it evolved in the direction of increasing population numbers to survive in harsh environments or because it was originally livestock, it seems that Wesen have the ability to reproduce from a fairly young age and will have a fine child as early as five years old.

Well, there's little breeding power between humans and beasts. But not at all, occasionally half-born, quotas are more rare, but there are also examples like Mani and Lucy.

By the way, what about demons and humans? And the Devil and the Beast?

If a child is born between a Goblin and a werewolf, is the child born Goblin or a werewolf? Or will a dog-faced goblin... or a dog demon (Kobolt) be born?

Perhaps there were other people besides Feng who thought of this. But I can't be sure. I know because I've seen the Demon Clan before, but it's not the right person to talk to. Demons are irrational, and even if humans gave birth to demons, there is no humanity in the demons they were born into, and people who gave birth to demons do not seem to be living properly. It would be more spiritual to think that there is nothing that cannot be confirmed.

For now, there's a way to find out. Get Goblin, for example, and let him attack a human woman. If we look into the children that will be born, we will know whether this idea is correct or not. But who would do such a demonic experiment? From what I've heard, it seems to be confirmed that Covolt produces Covolt. If so, I think that's enough.

Thus Feng decided to forget his thoughts, as did the others. But he still thinks about it.

I don't care about humans and demons, beasts and demons. I'm sure that's not true. But what about demons and demons? For example, if Goblin had raped an orc child, and both had the ability to reproduce....

Is it the goblin or the oak that comes into being? I don't know this.