Takarakuji de 40-oku Atattandakedo Isekai ni Ijuu Suru

The next morning.

The good men were guided to Zirconia and came to a farm abandoned with loaded carriages and craftsmen.

The farm is desolate with grass on one side of the perimeter, but the area is flat and suitable for building ice ponds.

It would also be easy to dig up the soil because it means that all the stones in the soil have been removed.

"The road to the river is flat, and I think the water can be easily pulled using a water wheel. I think this place would be the best place to dig a little toward the slope as well."

"This is a nice place. It's a little far from the trees around it, and if you build a fence, it's going to be hard to get leaves in."

Yiliang answered, stealing a glimpse of Zirconia's face on the side.

Zirconia looks the same as usual, and there's nothing particularly dark about it.

Last night, about half an hour after that, Zirconia finally came back.

After that, he soon entered his tent, and he also took his meal in the tent.

Leese was worried that she would be depressed, but that seemed to be all she had to worry about.

"Shall I give you work instructions as soon as possible?"

When Ichigo said that, he began to explain the working procedures to the artisans who were following him.

The first step is how to make mortar.

In fact, I demonstrate mortar making in front of me, and I continue to explain this and the artisans who ask me questions carefully.

"Like this, the mortar you can do should be carefully applied and flattened using a hella. Lime is poisonous when inhaled, so wrap cloth around your mouth to work."

"Is the lime you use for the material for insect repellent?

"No, if you mix lime with sand and soil and rub it with water, you can have a mortar that hardens over time."

"If it rains, won't the mortar melt and solidify?

"This mortar is special, even in water, that solidifies well. Mixing ceramic pieces makes a water-hard mortar. That said, if it rains like dust and sand, the mortar will spill with rain grains, so interrupt the work in those cases. If it's about light rain, it's okay to keep working."

That's how I finished explaining Mortar.

Mixing ceramic pieces can create a water-hard mortar, Ichigo explained, but this is due to the effects of artificial pozorans.

Soluble silica in baked clay and calcium hydroxide in lime mixed with water react, causing something called a pozolan reaction.

This makes the air-hard mortar, which is originally dried and cured, a water-hard mortar that cures even in water.

It is similar to 'Roman Concrete' used in ancient Rome.

Similar can be made even by mixing light stones, volcanic ash and volcanic soil.

Zirconia previously said that obsidian produces rarely in this mountainous area, so if you look, you will find volcanic soil.

Even so, there are massive discards of ceramic pieces on the outskirts of Isteria, so I don't have to bother looking around the mountains.

"Next is the filtration device, but make sure to clean the stones and wood you use. If the ingredients were dirty, there would be no ex-girlfriends."

The filtration device used here is for removing fine debris from the water in the river that the water truck sends out.

A detachable, small filtration device with jade stone inside a square wooden basket shall be used as the first step, and a mortar filtration device about the size of a bath hot tub shall be installed as the second step.

The second stage filtration apparatus is made by laying large stones, jade gravel and river sand from the bottom in turn.

I heard those explanations, and Zirconia and Liese also had a serious look on their face.

He then instructed the size of the ice pond and the depth of digging, finishing all the explanations.

The depth of the ice pond is to be a little over a metre, and the bottom and walls will be made of mortar.

Digging the ground and drying the mortar will take some days to complete.

"Now, let's get to work. I'm going to have you stay here for a while, so if you have the supplies you need, I'll tell you right now."

When Ichirano said so, one of the craftsmen raised his hand.

"I heard there is an abandoned village ahead of me, may I dismantle the building there and use it as firewood? I'd like to use it if I still have tools such as pans and violins."

"No, that's..."

"I don't mind. Use it as you please."

Zirconia, who was next door, opened her mouth as Ichiyoshi tried to turn it down gently.

"Just be careful not to trample them or vandalize them because there are so many graves over there. If you can afford it, take care of your grave."

"Yes, sir."

When the craftsmen paid their respects to Zirconia, they called and gathered the workers who had been waiting in a remote place.

Not so much, and a huge amount of ice pond digging work began.

That night.

Barletta was among the mountains a few kilometers from the camp where the good guys were spending their time.

Barletta sat with her knees in front of a stuffy, uplifting domed charcoal kiln (Sumiyama) in a quiet mountain, sneaking up on the boat.

On the mussillo laid right next door, the village daughter, who is always close, lays down in her cape.

The coal kiln is rounded at a height of about 50 cm per meter and has one chimney for smoke exhaust.

The top was covered with topsoil and the entrance part was framed with bricks.

All the materials used in the coal kiln were created by Barletta in cooperation with the villagers.

The brick used is a sun-dried brick made of clay obtained in the mountains in a wooden mould that is heavenly sun-dried.

It was used to create the outer frame of the kiln and lay the logs that had been cut around it on the inside.

The lime and sand brought from the village were mixed together to make mortar, and the soil from the mountains was mixed together to make what was called kamatsuchi.

The doughed kamatsuchi was beaten from the top of the logs to cover the whole area, beaten with a stick to tighten the soil, and it took a few days to create a kiln.

It was about seven days ago now that the kiln was ready, and now it's just setting fire at the entrance to the kiln to facilitate the kiln's drying.

Thanks to the extremely dry air with no rain at all, the kiln will be able to dry quite quickly.

Just in case, columns are erected around the kiln and the roof is mounted so that it is okay to rain.

There are piles of firewood nearby that I brought from the village, and I plan to use that firewood to bake charcoal when the coal kiln dries up.

This firewood, by the way, was cut for tax purposes in the village some time ago into firewood sizes.

In the end, since then, the timber has not been paid to the Istell family as a tax, so the large quantities of timber cut out are used little by little in the village.

"... n"

Barletta, who had been in the boat until then, woke her eyes.

I feel my gaze behind my back and gaze at you blurry as I stretch out my back.

In the darkness, there was a wolf-like beast the size of a cow staring at itself.

"(Ah, it's Uribou)"

I saw the beast staring straight at me - Uribou - and Barletta thought with a blurry head.

And for a few seconds, I finally understood what I was up against, and my whole body was attacked by the feeling of total fury.

Uribou at the end of his gaze was so huge that Barletta had never seen it before.

Once upon a time, Roslu showed me the remains of Uribou that he had finished in the mountains, but surely more than twice than that.

I heard Uribou wouldn't have come near me if I had set fire to it, but it didn't seem to have worked with a fire the size of which was being burned at the entrance to the coal kiln.

Barletta stood up in a hurry and squeezed the pattern of the dagger that was inserting into her hips.

Watch Uribou's movements as he grips the pattern.

The opponent is a beast, so there won't be any irregular attacks such as feints.

If I were you right now, maybe I could stick a dagger in Uribou's brain weather with one blow if I did well.

But if you get bitten badly, you're definitely not hurt.

I want you to leave this place if you can, because even if you fight, it will cost you your life.

But such Valletta's wishes are also empty, and Uribou has moved on to this way.

I don't raise my roar or anything, I quietly stare at this one, and it slowly moves on.

It was a magnificent start.

When Barletta was ready, pulled out the dagger and set it up.

Uribou stopped walking about five meters away and sat on the spot.

"What are you doing?"

A voice, not his own, echoed around.

"... Huh?

Barletta unexpectedly opened her eyes to an unexpected event.

I'll take a look around Kyolo Kyolo and the surroundings, but there's just a dark forest spreading out there, and naturally no one.

"What are you doing?"

Again, my voice sounded.

Barletta stares at Uribou in front of her, remaining solidified.

Uribo opened his mouth.

"What are you doing?"

"Shh, I'm building a coal kiln"

Barletta accidentally replied to the words apparently emanating from Uribou's mouth.

I have no idea what's going on, but I felt like I had to answer.

As soon as I was, my body stopped moving as if it were in gold bondage.

In sudden events, oil sweat blows out of my whole body.

"That's a lot of different shapes of coal kiln."

Uribou said so, turning his face to the right of Baretta.

"Why are there so many charcoal kilns?"

When Barletta moved only her eyes and looked at you, there were nine more coal kilns installed there.

From the entrance of each coal kiln, the ignition lights are blurry and leaking.

"I'm going to make iron, and I'm going to need a lot of charcoal for that."

"How much do you need?"

"It takes a lot of money."

Asked, Barletta answers.

I don't feel like I'm talking to myself, but my mouth was moving on its own.

"That's enough to have to cut down all the mountain trees."

"I don't know about that, but I'm sure you'll need a lot of trees. But I'm not going to cut all the mountain trees."

They're cutting down every tree they see.

"... them?

I didn't know what the words meant and Barletta listened back.

"Are you going to do the same with this mountain"

Uribou has not answered it and has kept asking questions.

From voices and expressions, emotions are unreadable.

"I wouldn't do that"

"If it's just my mouth, I can say anything."

"We're going to make sure that we don't cut through all of the mountains or anything so that we don't become vulture mountains. The site where the trees were cut will also be planted."

"Destroy the mountains as you please and everyone will see hell."

"Are you talking about flooding or landslides?

When Baretta heard that, Uribou narrowed her eyes.

Without denial or affirmation, he slowly rises from the spot.

"You must not cut strong, hard trees. If you don't want to die dry. One more time, I'll come and ask."

With that said, he turned his heel back and slowly walked out towards the woods.

"Wait!

When he shouted that out loud, Barletta lost her words to the sight that appeared in front of her.

There's just a fire shaking at the entrance to the coal kiln, and nowhere is the figure of Uribou who was there earlier.

With himself sitting with his knees in his arms, the dagger that should have been pulled out is also inserted into his hips.

I looked around in a hurry and my village daughter, surprised by Barletta's shout, was waking her eyes and staring at Barletta.

"Duh, what's wrong? All of a sudden, shout."

"Oh, that, now Uribou..."

"What!?

Surprised by Barletta's dialogue, the village daughter rose in a hurry, grabbing the short spear she had left aside and looking around.

But there are just dark woods spreading out there, and Uribou is nowhere to be seen.

"I'm nowhere near Uribou... did you really see that?

"... sorry. I finally followed him, and I think he was probably dreaming. That Uribo, he was talking."

When Barletta said so, the village daughter gave a frightened look.

"Don't threaten me anymore. You lost your sleepiness."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"You haven't slept much lately, have you? I'm sure you're tired. I'll take the place of the fire, so sleep till morning."

"Uh... well, just three hours"

Barletta set the timer needle three hours later when she took the analogue alarm clock she had kept nearby.

It's what Ichigo left me in Valletta.

"Shouldn't you be sleeping more?

"Yeah, I'm fine. When you wake up, we'll take turns in three hours, okay?

"Mmm, okay."

Barletta was replaced by her village daughter and lay down in Musilo.

"(That was a big ulivo......)"

Put a blanket replacement cape on your body and close your eyes.

Soon afterwards, drowsiness came.

"(Animal tendons, too, I want more)"

Barletta fell asleep, blurring to wonder how many tendons could have been removed from Uribou, who had come out of her dreams.