Isekai Tensei no Boukensha

"This is the village you want?

"I don't see anything particularly unusual"

That's what Amur returned when she heard me whine. Sure, that's the way Amur spoke for what I felt. And Grandpa seemed to have the same sentiment, nodding without saying it to his mouth.

"Well, it just looks different, because the way you live doesn't make a difference in itself. Other than a hiding place, there's no difference from a normal village."

The answer to our question was Blanca, who has been to this village many times. Surely they just look different and nothing else is different from the Beastman, so there was no way they could have made a difference in their lives. Instead, the way of life around the forest may be closer to life in Kukri village.

We went straight through the village for a while and stopped in front of a splendid building in the village.

"This is the village chief's house. I'm sure Hannah will be fine... but if you do harm to the village chief, remember that everything in this village will be an enemy."

Here the three guiding men seemed to finish their roles, walking away from the village chief's house with the words of the tiger-faced man. I just lost sight of the three of them, and according to "Exploration," which I used just in case, the three of them appeared to have disappeared and rendezvous with their fellow villagers at the same time, and they seemed to be hiding and waiting a long way apart. By the way, to those hiding people, Hannah, Blanca, and Amur didn't seem to notice, but Grandpa seemed to know all the directions he was hiding in, so he turned his subtle gaze to see where he was.

"The mayor here is a gentle man, and rarely angry, so just be normal and you'll be fine."

You worried about me and Grandpa, who got quiet about the hiding people, that's what Hannah told me about the village chief. And as it were, he walks into the house without saying a lot of greetings.

"Come quickly. The mayor will be waiting for you."

Hannah asked us (including Blanca), who hesitated to come in, to peek half way through the door. The house felt like an ancient private house in rural Japan, and it was also made as if I had seen it on TV.

"Look, come on in"

Hannah walked up the front door as easily as if she had returned to her parents' house, opened a nearby jar and went inside. There was an old (seemingly) tiger-faced beast man in the room.

"Don't hesitate, come here"

The tiger-faced beast man who was inside was as old as I thought, and even more female. The tiger-faced old woman greeted us with a gracious voice and told us to sit across from her seat. According to Hannah, this man is the village chief and elder of this village.

I got to my seat in case I was cautious of my surroundings, but the only signs nearby were beasts (like escorts, refraining in the immediate vicinity of the room) and what seemed like a few women, unlike those who had guided me so far. It should be noted that the signs of the woman are gathered in the kitchen and it seems that she is a family member or a helper. One of the women actually brought her tea just after she got to her seat, but she was a normal (albeit cat-faced) woman no matter how she saw it.

"Is this... green tea?

What the cat-faced woman brought was complete green tea, and even here the name worked with green tea. Green tea has long been popular in the south, and it seems that there are still flourishing ways to drink, put in, and improve varieties. The green tea served to us, by the way, was the usual hot tea to drink, but the elder's seemed to have been cooled down enough, and there was no hot air.

"We use cheek bags poorly, so it's hard to drink them when they're hot."

And the elder who perceived the question from my perspective answered the question. They don't like chewing anything else, and it's hard to live in a city of beasts like Nanao from the point of view of such a meal.

"The most important reason is that some of the same beasts are discriminating."

It is. This seems that some beasts, especially the younger generation of people, do not know that animal-faced beasts like the elders in front of them exist, and in the past it was normal to say to a woman who had an animal-faced baby that she "gave birth to a demonic child" and commit persecution and assault, or kill a child by saying she was a demon. For once, like Hannah and others, they know about the city and the top of the village, or to some extent the old beasts can be taught by the people of the last generation, but some of the last generation have a strong sense of rejection. It seems an old custom to prevent confusion that what the younger generation has not been taught may be a species close to demons, but there is currently a discussion to stop that custom and try to teach that animal-faced beasts are rarely born from a small age.

"If you do that, you'll actually have to look at it, but that's hard because it takes the form of exposing people like you live here. Besides, some people who live in these villages have long been discriminated against and have had life-targeting experiences, so they have a strong sense of companionship for that matter, and they strongly rebel against making their companions look like spectacles."

They say it's a lot harder. Moreover, even if they are cleared so that they can live with other beasts, this time friction with the kingdom of the people may arise.

The biggest reason the Southern Autonomous Communities were created in the first place was because of the large number of beasts who were driven away by the people of the past. Among the reasons for being driven are persecution of beasts with animal ears and tails as if the people were not the same people as themselves. There are still only a handful of tribes of people who do not recognize and discriminate against beasts as the same people, and yet some of them have nobility and power close to it. If they find out about the hiding place, they may further strengthen their sense of discrimination. Not yet if they consign and call from the front, but if they take something like Operation Guerrilla, there is a high chance that it will be wiped out in villages and small townships, and then it could lead to a war between the nations of the people and the southern autonomous communities.

"It's probably the biggest problem to reform consciousness, but not just in the south."

To Hannah's words, the tiger-faced old woman nodded in agreement as well. Hannah seems to want to tackle an issue soon, but the elders still seemed to think it would take a long time to tackle it.

"So why did you bring us here?

"Hmm? I'm almost done. I just wanted you to know that there was a village like this, and Amur, as a member of the Viscount family, had to be brought in any minute."

"In short, do you want me and Tenma, who have influence over the royal family and leading nobles, to communicate the current situation to the royal family and take measures on that side?

Anyway, Amur opened his mouth to Grandpa, who had been silently making tea until then, thinking that just because he wanted you to know wouldn't be a reason to bring us in. And as far as Hannah's face goes, Grandpa's thoughts seem like a big win.

"... you're right. You can't take this issue from me, so I want you to tell me indirectly."

Some people see this delicate problem as a problem when the top of the Southern Autonomous Region leaks it, so they take this form. By the way, when you find out that you've brought me to this village, that's going to be a problem, and you're going to have to muscle that we happened to go to the Viscount Forest to collect it, and we happened to bowl it down with the men of the village who were here hunting, and to persuade them to keep a secret, we had no choice but to guide them to the village. It's a pretty impossible muscle, but they can handle it as long as the people involved have their mouths in alignment, beyond the possibility of a real coincidence (...). By the way, the reason Hannah and Blanca were together was to keep us away from the restricted area (near the hideout)...

"Don't you dare, you just have to talk to the king. Well, if you're Maria, you'll be asking root digging leaf digging what happened in the south, so when you accidentally slip your mouth. Still, this tea is delicious."

"The tea should have been at home, so I'll give it to you as a souvenir"

"I want this tea leaf seedling at last."

"I'll arrange it"

I asked Hannah for a favor, so I decided to do this one too. Well, that would be so cute as a consideration for that favor...... I don't care who thinks that the consideration for your use of the royal family is tea and seedlings. I guess that's why Hannah kept her head down from earlier. It's a form of weakness, but now I can get this green tea seedling. If it works, I might be able to drink homemade green tea, and even if it didn't work, I just need to buy tea leaves via the Viscount House.

"Not as a substitute for tea treats, but just because our tree had fruit, go ahead"

That was the little red fruit that the elders made me bring. I was wondering how I would eat it, and Amur grabbed a few red fruits and put them straight in my mouth. Apparently, there are seeds in the center the size of which accounts for nearly half of the fruit, so that in your mouth you can scrape the fruit around the seed and eat it and spit out the remaining seeds. That's the same way you eat pomegranate and acne.

"This is actually sweet and sour and afterward delicious, but be careful because if you eat too much, you won't be able to sleep at night"

and Hannah cautioned me. I thought I knew when I heard the story. Because I've seen this species before. Most importantly, I had never seen anything raw, and I hadn't seen it in this world, but it was exactly the same as the processed seeds I had seen in books and on TV. The identity of this fruit...

"Is that 'coffee fruit'?

"You know very well. Because this is actually only grown in parts of the south and the fruit is small, there is no distribution outside the south."

In such a way, Hannah, Blanca and the elders were impressed as if they were a little surprised. Amur had his gaze on this one, but he seemed to prioritize eating coffee fruit over admiring it, and now that everyone's attention was on it from fruit, he was cheeking fruit all over his mouth, just a chance.

"Can I also get a seedling of this?

"Hmm... I don't think I can do that."

I don't think I can harvest enough coffee to drink a lot, but even if I had just a little bit, the sweets would likely widen, so I asked, but Hannah turned me down. Because it is grown only in part, if I give up on whether coffee seedlings are valuable, things seem a little different.

"No, because coffee seedlings are not very valuable, giving them away is not a problem in itself. The problem is the climate in Wang Du."

According to Hannah, it is the most important condition for growing coffee trees all year round in a warm climate, and even if there were some cold weather, it would actually be, but in a Kingdu climate where it would snow in winter, we wouldn't even know if trees would grow properly rather than be fruitful. By the way, it's not uncommon for people to say they've never seen snow in the Southern Autonomous Region, and as far as the record goes, they don't have anything left to say it snowed in the southern flats. Exceptionally, however, if it is around the summit or the middle belly of several thousands of metre-class mountains in the Southern Autonomous Region, it also seems to snow or accumulate.

"Then you should give up. I don't want it to be ornamental. Even if it turns out to be fruity, you won't be able to pick enough coffee."

"Want a cup of coffee? What do you mean?"

Hannah and the others (including Grandpa) reacted to what I casually said. And you felt it was a food relationship from the content of the story, and now Amur had the biggest reaction of the five.

I have drank coffee many times in my previous life, but I have not experienced it since the stage of roasting coffee beans on boulders, and at best I have grinded it several times with a coffee mill. Therefore, based on the knowledge of the memories I saw and heard, I intended to explain it as clearly as possible, but it didn't seem to convey much, and I was actually going to be made to do it.

I substituted frying the beans in a frying pan, and instead of the coffee mill I used a cloth-wrapped canazuchi. I really need to grind the beans so that they are even, but I gave up that I had no choice but to have no tools. I divided it roughly with monkeys instead, so I think it's better than not doing anything.

The way I have put it in is drip coffee and water out coffee, but the water out takes time, so I ruled it out this time. I substituted the drip paper I needed for drip coffee (I don't know what the name is, but that's what I always called it) with a thin cloth, and I actually tried to make coffee...

"" "" "" Damn it!

and everyone who drank shouted the same sentiment at the same time. It should be noted that the elders did not suffer harm when they tried to have coffee, as the escort they had refrained from outside the room drank instead as a poison's eye.

"Is this such a bitter thing?

Hannah asked me over a mouth-watering cup of tea, but I don't know if this actually tastes like coffee in this world, or if I just failed, so I said, "I'm not sure because I just listened to you, too. However, I hear that the coffee itself is originally bitter," he replied.

"I can't believe it, they drink it like this... for once, they even dilute it with water or mix sugar or milk with it"

As a precaution, I tried diluting it with water and mixing sugar and milk, but the bitterness still prevailed and the taste could not be said to be delicious. Maybe it's failing at the roasting stage, so I'd like to experiment with it if I have time and beans.

"If it tastes like this, you don't have to drink coffee."

One of the elders' words came to the conclusion of this one. However, if the excess seeds that I have been discarding will be sold, it could be a new specialty in the south, so I think it will be detailed, but they will be studying it. 'Finely (...)' simply because there are few seeds that can be taken and we have to increase seedling production first in anticipation of future demand.

"It's time to eat."

And the elders said, until then, the women in the kitchen brought one dish after another on a large plate. In Nanao, the dishes were divided into individual pieces, but in the average household, they basically eat the dishes on large plates in small pieces on their own.

The dishes served included stewed vegetables and chicken and stewed miso, a flavour that seemed to involve a large number of reincarnators from Japan.

After the dishes, I took a walk around the village with the guidance of Hannah and the others (which probably meant something to the villagers in the face) and left the village before sundown. On the way home, the elder gave me herbs and food souvenirs (the herbs came here to collect them for the alibi making, so the food has no special products, so instead, it was said). Well, the souvenir dish was eaten before I went back to Nanao (almost in the Amur and our eater combo) and the souvenir for Viscount Robo Emeritus was gone...... or the very existence of Viscount Robo Emeritus, we all forgot.