Ore wa Mada, Honki o Dashite Inai

The office on the day of the comeback.

I'm going into the office and I'm going to take our place.

Now, when I think about it, I realize that things are different from usual.

Mimis stands alone, not in the ministerial corps.

And that mistake, sometime, gives me a serious - no, serious look.

It's usually a sinister face, but that's just so serious, it's not such a serious face.

Besides... I don't have anything.

I usually have tons of paperwork for reporting, but I don't have anything today.

Not a single other minister.

... What happened?

"What's up, Mimis?"

It's an emergency, my lord.

"An emergency?

My head was crisp.

Apparently, today's not the time to just relax and say "how dare you".

Mistakes is so serious, and "emergency" is a straightforward word.

It stinks a lot, and it's probably over the top.

... No way.

"The meteorite fell again?

First of all, I came up with it.

The mysterious meteorite drop that led me to take the lead, and has been possessed by me ever since.

And that happened somewhere again? I thought.

"No, it's not"

Mimis clearly denied it.

It's more urgent.

"What do you mean?

"Abnormal reproduction of Acris confirmed"

"Acris......? You've heard of something. What is it?"

When I asked, Mimis raised her hand and sent a signal.

Then one maid pushed the wagon into the office.

A maid who doesn't usually get in here while on duty.

Mimis must have put him on standby beforehand.

On the wagon that the maid had pressed, there was a white plate, like a parallax and a black bean grain on the plate.

"This way."

"What's that?

"This is Acris."

"Hmm."

I got up and approached the wagon.

I can clearly tell by the proximity.

What looked like black bean grains were worms about the size of sesame seeds.

The bugs are awesome on the plate.

"What's wrong with this?

"It's an abnormal breeding"

"How long is abnormal reproduction?

"All reports from villages and towns with several damages were identical."

"Hmm?"

The seriousness of the mistake pulled me too.

Shortly afterwards, it will be even more surprising.

"The sky is gone," he said.

"The sky has disappeared... no way"

I was hazy, Mimis nodded.

"Yes, it has occurred in large quantities, and the sky has become invisible enough,"

"Wow..."

That's not good, I thought.

"Not good, when it breeds so much"

"Yes. If you do poorly... the country will perish"

"What do you mean?

When I found out I didn't know anything, Mimis went into explanatory mode.

"The true horror of this Acris is not number. No, the numbers are amazing."

"No way, you eat humans"

"No, this Acris doesn't eat meat, vegetables - nor grass."

"So what's scary?

"What's really scary is that this is how you consume water."

"Water?

"Yes, you can consume water and just reproduce it"

"Water."

"Yes, water only"

"Water only... water?

"Yes."

Mimis nodded clearly.

"In that number"

Again, a clear nodding mistake.

I was stunned.

Enough to be reported in multiple villages and towns that the "sky has disappeared".

It simultaneously consumes and reproduces water.

That's... that's too bad.

The river, the pond, the water will take root.

"Why again..."

"I don't know."

Mimis shook her head quietly to the side.

"Acris is naturally present from time to time, but it doesn't happen because of the number of flies and mosquitoes and because it's this figure, it reproduces abnormally with some kind of clap."

……

"It's hard to do that, after this goes through, the moisture is taken away from you. Some villages are already deserted."

"Desertification!?

It felt worse than I expected.

"Yes, because it will also root away moisture in the soil. It can't be taken from plants and animals, so it's like strangling your neck with cotton."

"That sucks."

"What will you do, my lord?"

After the prerequisite report, Mimis asked me.

"What can I do?

I threw it straight back at Mimis.

This is the only way to do it now.

I barely know anything about Acris.

Even with the explanation, the reality was going far up my imagination.

It is not good to make any decisions in this state.

Let's start with the information.

Thoroughly threw the information back to Miss.

"First, identify the path of Acris, then evacuate the inhabitants on the route, abandon villages and towns"

"Waiver?"

A little surprised.

"Yes, that is an unmistakable natural disaster. There's nothing I can do."

"Any exorcisms?

"When the sky has disappeared and bred in more than one place, we wonder if the number is in the range of hundreds of billions even if it is estimated to be small…"

Mimis sighed.

I didn't say the words ahead of me, but I know very well.

It's not a level you can exorcise, first you have to run away and wait for the Storm to leave.

I saw a sesame grainy worm on a plate.

But if this is a hundreds of billions of dollars - can't it be exorcised in the usual way?

"... ok, I'll take care of everything. It's an emergency, do everything you can."

"Yes, sir."

Mimis left the office.

"... I can't help it"

I sighed and stood up.

From the sky, I looked down at the earth.

A meadow I've been to before is now black.

This altitude, this distance.

From here, it no longer looks like a black carpet, just something like that.

Sometimes, like the original meadow, it waves and twists, claiming that it is not a black stained earth, but a herd of acris.

I saw the tail of the black population.

After going through, the grass is scattered.

I couldn't take the water from the grass.

But from the meadow soil, the roots took away the moisture.

As a result, all parts of the meadow have been dug back into the sand without exception.

"That's not a bad cousin."

On the sky, I was alone.

Actually check it with your own eyes and I understand it very well.

This is - it's not a good thing to leave alone.

Sooo... and breathed deeply, I cast my magic.

It's a chanting, expansive, burning magic.

The magic of the flames, which burned down even that slime load, swallowed up a group of acris and burned them down completely to extinguish them.

On a black carpet, there was a hole as if he had dropped a cigarette.

But...

"You look like a playback, damn it."

Things went so far that I accidentally threw up evil.

The group of Acris who burned down and drilled holes were filled with Acris again surprisingly, as if they had just regenerated.

Is it breeding, or is it just a large number and "recreated the rows"?

"... both"

When I glanced, I saw a clear increase.

It seems to be breeding just from ingesting water from the soil.

This, the more you let it go, the more important it becomes.

"I can't help it if I do it right away - let's go"

Open your eyes and boost your magic.

The magic of a flame ranging from 100 times more than when I burned down Slime Road, I burned Acris.

A tornado of flames swallowed up a group of Acris.

After swallowing it, burning it down, the black carpet looks like it's regenerated again -.

"Well, you're diluting properly."

When I looked down from the sky, it was not black, but sparse so that I could see the ground a little.

The number is steadily decreasing.

I'm a little relieved.

This means, in short, that we should reduce it more than we increase.

I would have had trouble if it was a group of people whose "proverbs" don't make sense, but that doesn't matter.

"Do you really want to do this?"

In addition, I worked my magic to unleash a tornado of flames.

I baked Acris one after the other.

With each bake, the population of Acris becomes "thinner".

That's not all.

When it became somewhat thin, the range of the population was now reduced.

The numbers are steadily decreasing.

I thought I could do it more and more, and I unleashed a few more flaming tornadoes.

A total of more than a dozen rounds were released and hundreds of times more magic was used on the slime load to wipe out the entire population of Acris.

"Okay, here's (,,) this is it"

Wipe the sweat of the bean grain size floating on your forehead as you look down from the sky.

Because I can't see Acris anymore.

"Next"

So I snapped, and I got a report, and I flew to the next place.

Me coming back to the mansion after burning down a whole street.

In the living room, in the sunset.

Tired.

I haven't been tired in a long time.

I haven't been so tired in a long time.

It feels like I don't want to do anything anymore today.

But.

"Were you here, my lord"

Mimis jumped into the living room.

It's very unusual for him to come to a personal space, not an office.

I was right on the couch, I heard.

"Hmm? What's up......"

"Something terrible has happened."

"Again?"

"It's about Acris."

"Oh... you disappeared, with a mysterious phenomenon. It's..."

"No, and then there's a report of a recurrence."

"What!?

I woke up.

I was up falling on the couch, staring at Mimis.

"According to reports of objects chasing the situation, they were swallowed up one after the other by unexplained hot air, but a few seemed to have remained, from which they played as many games as they could."

"What!?

"Besides, we don't seem to need water this time. He who watched said it was as if it had evolved."

"... have evolved driven by the existential crisis of the species, you mean?

"Probably."

"Knock."

In the evening I flew into the meadow earlier.

Looking down, there's a group of Acris.

Surprisingly, it plays like a black carpet.

Illuminated at dusk it was creating a different creep than in the middle of the day.

"It's really playing..."

I'm down.

Looks like it was a bad idea to just look down from the sky and think it was wiped out.

Really, I had to wipe it all out.

"I don't like this because I'm tired - I can't help it"

Close your eyes and chant.

During the day, he produced a grain of black balls, using as much magic as he had burned down the group.

Throw a bullet made by condensing high magic into Acris.

The bullet hit one Acris.

Swallow, more bullets in two.

Two bullets each hit Acris again and swallowed.

And then they split up, and they became four.

That swallows Acris one after the other, one after the other.

It exploded along the way and instantly wiped out Acris.

I was on the ground.

As the grown black balls burst one after the other as they ran out of drinkable objects, they turned their eyes around like plates.

Now properly, I made sure Acris was wiped out, and then I flew to the next point.

I flew over there this day and used "blah blah blah" to go around.

It's been the most tiring day of my life.