Late at night. Feeling the signs, Ichigo opened his eyes.

When I looked up, there was a zirconia with a blanket right in front of me.

Looks like that's exactly what you've been trying to hang up on me right now.

"Ah, Sumima..."

When Ichigo said it, Zirconia put her index finger on her lips as though to say it was "quiet," and put her eyes on Ichigo's left shoulder.

Following that gaze, Reese slept with a blanket hanging from her back.

Apparently, he left the futon at some point to move around.

He puts his arms firmly into his good left arm, and then stands to sleep.

Ichiyana glanced back at Zirconia and pointed out of the room for a moment with her free hand.

……

Zirconia, who was leaning her neck, was slowly forced to untie Reese's arm and hold it on the wall as it was.

Zirconia seemed to have guessed with it, and when he softly stood up, he offered his hand well.

Take that hand and stand up, two of us go outside the room.

The living room is dark, the air is out cold and quite cold.

Zirconia looked back a little as Ichigo closed the door behind her back.

"Why don't you go outside?

"What? It's cold outside, isn't it?

When Ichigo looked surprised, Zirconia smiled small.

"But you can see the stars."

That's what I said, hold the stall I was hanging on my shoulder and head straight for the exit.

Ichirano weaved his jacket, which had been placed on the floor, and rushed after him.

Get out of the mansion and line up next to her as she waited a little while out of the premises.

"Ugh, it's really cold"

"That's why you said..."

Zirconia laughed a little and looked up at the night sky.

There was a full moon floating there, bright enough to make the surrounding stars glow.

"The moon is beautiful"

"... right"

You felt something slightly unnatural about that reaction, and Zirconia sees the good in wonder.

"Oh, no... I remember that there was a story in my world about the dialogue that Mr. Zirconia just said being used during a confession of love"

"Well... Mr. Kazra's confession of the world is so emotional. It's kind of nice."

Zirconia smiled and turned again to the night sky.

"If they confess like that in a situation like this, they're going to get unwittingly fuzzy"

"Is it that nice?

"Yes, it's going to be a long time."

"I don't know..."

"Well, it depends on who you're telling me. I knew it would be better if it wasn't someone I thought it was."

In the end it would be aggregated there, Ichigo tried to get in and stopped the words when he realized that what he was supposed to talk about was completely left behind.

If we keep chatting, my body's going to freeze before I get to the point.

"Uh... leave that story alone, right? I wanted to talk to you about last night."

"Talk about food, right"

"Yes."

I've been thinking about that and this and the excuse-like dialogues in this short time, but I stopped deluding myself with the little difficult dialogues.

Zirconia doesn't know what the intentions were, but she probably offered the food thing out of all her heart.

Then you should answer for yourself.

"I still can't take on that story."

"Yes."

A word Zirconia answers, looking straight at the stars.

To that too thin reaction, Ichigo was pompous.

"I'm sorry," Zirconia said, laughing a little.

'Cause I thought maybe they'd say no.

"... what made you think that?

"'Cause if you hear that, I'll normally say no. He said he didn't know what to do."

"But you wanted power, didn't you?

"Yes."

In that statement, Ichigo frowns like he doesn't know why.

"Then why did you say it that way? There would have been other better rhetoric."

When Ichigo asked, Zirconia got a little annoyed.

"I'm sure you wanted me to say no"

"... you wanted me to say no?

For the best of listening back, Zirconia answered "Yes" again small.

"All this time, I've been thinking about doing whatever it takes to get what I want done. Whatever you use, whatever you sacrifice."

Saying so, he raised his face again and turned his attention to the starry sky.

"But now, I really don't even know if I want to. That's all I had."

Ichiyana doesn't know how to answer, she stares silently at the side of Zirconia looking up at the starry sky.

"... I thought there was nothing left."

Zirconia snapped that way, and a while later, uh, she leaked her sigh.

"Shall we go back? It's gonna be cold and freezing."

Ichiyoshi nodded silently at Zirconia smiling at him for saying so.

In the light of the day plugging into the room, Ichigo woke his eyes.

Next door is Leese, who sleeps so that she can hit her best shoulder.

After that, Ichiyoshi went back next to Reese again and slept against the wall as well.

"Hey, Reese. It's morning."

"Mmm..."

When Ichigo shook his shoulder, Reese slowly opened her eyes.

Turn your half asleep face to one good, staring at you.

"... oh my goodness"

"Morning. How you doing?

"... headache. Cancer."

Reese glanced at her face slightly and slid her face against her good shoulder again.

"Are you all right? If it's bad, there's medicine."

"Yeah...... I'll have it"

Ichirano nodded and took the painkiller, stomach medicine and lipo D out of the bag that was placed in the corner of the room.

Pan, and take the tablet out of the silver packaging and hand it to Reese with the Lipo D with the lid removed.

"Look, drink away. 'Cause it'll get better soon."

"Yeah, thanks. How's Kazura? Is the wound okay?

"I have pain, but I'm fine. Don't worry about it."

"Oh well."

Reese poured the tablet into her throat with Lipo D and returned the bottle in one piece.

Yiliang receives it and, oops, tilts his neck.

"We've got about half a dozen left. Drink it all."

"Yeah. Have a drink. You're hurt, and you're in pain, aren't you?

"No, I'm fine. Besides, I still have a lot of those pills."

"Mm-hmm."

When Reese received Lipo D again, she drank it all up a long time.

"Speaking of which, isn't there some kind of medicine that can heal wounds quickly?

"I don't know if it's going to be any time soon... but there are medicines that will help you recover somewhat."

"It is. Did you paint the wound?

"No, I haven't applied it yet. Besides, it works great for people in this world, but it doesn't work that well for me. That's what I just gave you."

"It is... but it's better than not applying it, isn't it? I'll paint it for you, will you let me out?

That's right, and I took the ointment from the tube of herbal medicine out of the bag and gave it to Liese.

Reese takes it off a good head bandage and gauze and pounds his knee like Zirconia did last night.

"Look, put your head here"

"You can just apply it like this..."

"It's hard for me to do it. Here."

Reese grabbed a good arm and pulled it, causing her head to rest on her knees half forcefully.

Remove the tubing lid and remove the red half-life contents to your fingertips.

"Wow, this medicine is bright red. Are you okay with this?

"Don't worry about the color because it's okay. Cuts and scratches work well anyway. I'll put mine on Reese's hands when I'm done."

"Yeah, thanks"

Reese held onto her good hair with her hands and gently ointed the wound.

Hit the new gauze and rewind the bandage.

Ichigo woke himself up, and now Ichigo unbandaged Reese's hand.

Countless cuts appear with dried blood seeping in them, and I look out for them unexpectedly.

"You're covered in scratches. It would have hurt."

"Not as good as sewing, not as good as a head wound."

Reese says so, but it's also quite painful to see places that have been cut slightly deeper.

Just treating them normally would leave a mark.

I tried to slip it into my wound, applied ointment, wrapped a new bandage around it and stopped it with tape.

"That's it. Shall we go to the living room?"

"Yeah."

When Ichiyoshi stood up and opened the door to the room, there was a figure of Valletta in front of him.

Baretta was raising her right hand as if she were about to knock on the door, and now it looks like she was just about to wake up the good guys.

We marvel at each other unexpectedly, one step back.

"Ugh, I was surprised. Good morning."

"Good morning. Surprised... Good morning, Dear Leese"

Baretta smiled and also greeted Reese, who was rubbing her eyes asleep behind a good

"Well, hello."

"I'm ready for breakfast. And then everyone came to apologize to Mr. Kazura... and the family managed to get home, but they didn't ask me how."

"Those girls?

When Ichigo turned to the living room following Barletta's gaze, there were several girls sitting in the corner of the room with expressions like the end of the world.

Everyone has gauze and band-aid on their foreheads and cheeks, but no one seems to be seriously injured.

When they saw each other well, they simultaneously rubbed their heads on the floor and sat down.

"" "I am so sorry!!

"Oops......"

Reese, who was behind me, grabbed that sleeve all the time as she was under barometric pressure to join her voice and apologize.

Reese stares at them with angry eyes, bowing her head.

Apparently, he knows about yesterday's accident.

I don't speak in my voice, but it's pretty much on my mind.

When Ichiyoshi stroked his head pounding, Reese saw Ichiyoshi with a much blushed look.

"Don't look like that. They didn't even bother."

"... yeah"

Ugh, breathing, Reese loosens her expression.

Ichiyoshi let go of her hand grabbing her sleeve, and she walked under them and crouched.

"Face up, please."

When Ichigo tried and said so in a gentle voice, they slowly raised their faces.

They all had crying faces and their eyes were congested and bright red.

Some of them have already wept with tears.

"Uh, about yesterday..."

"Gasps, you mustn't!

"Yeah, yeah!

At the same time that Ichigo began to speak, he even raised his voice and cried out to those who were in tears with difficulty.

It is so serious that Reese cried last night as well.

"Yeah, yeah. Don't cry so much because you're not hurt or angry. Were you all right?

"Let's not be okay!

"Oben, don't!

"Yuji, why don't you!

"Oh, yeah. Because I get it. Because I'm not angry. Just give me your face...... oh, sorry Mr. Barletta"

At some point I would pick up a towel from Barletta, who I had refrained from beside, and give it to them.

But Barletta and I wiped their faces together because they seemed too crying to receive.

"Are you calm?

"Yes......"

"I'm so sorry..."

After a while they regained their composure, they apologized once again in good stead.

One smiles gently at them with a still dark expression.

"Well, I was relieved that they didn't all seem to be hurt badly either. But don't imitate me like that anymore."

When Yiliang said so, everyone nodded and apologized again, and one of them opened his mouth with a snack.

"Um, Kazura's head wound..."

"Oh, just a few cuts. Why not a big scratch? Mr. Zirconia has sewn it for me, and one of these days it will heal..."

"Oben, don't!

"Yeah, yeah!

"No, because it's okay! No more crying, please!

Then I decided to leave them all home because it was going to be an infinite loop no matter how many times I made them stop crying when I left them here.

Drop them off at the entrance to the mansion, and go back inside, for Christ's sake.

Meals were already ready in the living room and Zirconia and Balin were also in their seats.

Zirconia smiles when she sees how tired she is.

"Good luck, Mr. Kazra. That was tough."

"Sorry to disturb you"

I'll take a seat with you, and when you have it, everyone will eat.

The menu was soup simmered with imo in the beans crushed and melted and bread baked in the ashes behind the enclosure.

Perhaps the ingredients of the bread are made separately from those of Zirconia and Reese.

"How are the wounds?

"I don't have any particular pain in my head wounds, and I'm fine. My shoulder hurts a little. I guess I'll stick it with a damp cloth later."

"What's" Ship "?

Reese sitting next to her reacts to a word she has never heard of.

"It's a paste medicine that cools down where you put it. It makes me feel good. It's also a pain reliever."

"Heh, I have some of those pills. Do you want me to put it on now?

"No, I don't have a hand right now. We need to get it over there when we're done eating."

Saying so, Ichigo rubbed his aching shoulder.

I have dull pain, but not enough to move it.

Just in case, you might want to see a doctor once you get back to Japan.

"Mr. Barletta, how long is it going to take to teach the craftsmen?

"It'll be over tonight. We have to stop the fire and cool it down slowly after the temperature regulation, so it takes another seven days to get the brick out of the kiln, but there's nothing in between to do in particular."

"Then you'll leave the village the morning after tomorrow. I need to get all my stuff in today."

I thought the instruction would take a little longer, but it seems to end unexpectedly early.

The fertilizer will reach the Japanese mansion this morning, so we ended up taking the whole day to bring it into this world, as usual.

Nevertheless, the amount of luck you will have this time is not that great, so you won't have to rush it.

"Is there anything we can do to help, too?

"I'm bringing fertilizer by the woods, so I was wondering if you could bag that with the villagers. It might just stink a little, but, well, be patient."

"Smells? The fertilizer I used on the roof of the mansion during this time didn't smell anything, but it's not like that one?

To a good dialogue, Leese leans her little neck strangely.

"That was a fertilizer for horticulture. This time it's the same one that was sprinkled in the barn zone before. I'm talking about a fertilizer made from animal manure (hun) called cattle, which is ripe and fermented and hardly smells, but it still smells a little."

"Oh yeah... it's shit (hun) again..."

"Hmm? What's wrong?

"Nothing..."

After that, we relaxed and finished breakfast, and just like yesterday, Ichigo headed to Japan.

After dropping off Ichiyoshi, Valletta was coming to an herbal garden made by remodeling an empty house in the village.

All the floorboards of the house are peeled off and Luccola and Italian parsley, with green leaves, grow to be dense in the center.

The roof is a sliding type of wooden slab, a mechanism that can be opened and closed by pulling a rope that hangs on the wall.

There were also additional windows, designed to capture as much light as possible.

"Valletta"

As Barletta was crouching down to see how herbs were growing, she was called from behind.

Looking back, my daughters, who had just come to the house in the morning, were peeking at me unexpectedly through the entrance.

"Um, I'm really sorry about yesterday. I didn't think that would happen..."

"That's enough. Mr. Kazura was safe."

"... aren't you angry anymore?

I'm not mad at you.

Barletta answered her daughter, asking in such a way as to be afraid, that the bat looked a little bad.

Yesterday, when Ichiyoshi, who had passed out, was brought into the house, Baretta was angry at them as they were turning bright blue.

Never before has Barletta revealed her anger by stripping her emotions that far, so the other villagers, including Balin, have been eaten and not even able to speak up.

As soon as Zirconia went into the stop, Barletta stopped absurding her voice, too, and then she was stuck and in good health.

And to this day, so.

"I didn't break down the cabin on purpose, and yesterday I said too much. Sorry."

"Yeah, we're the ones who don't care what you think, and Barletta won't apologize"

"... Master Kazura's wound, were you sure you were okay?

Besides, one of my daughters asks about things like that.

"Yeah, 'cause noticeable injuries are about shoulder bruises and head cuts"

"Oh well... but Lady Graciole gets hurt too. I wonder if God is like us."

"Oh, that's what I thought, too. I guess you're completely different from us. I assumed it on my own, but that doesn't seem to happen. I thought you were immortal and you wouldn't get hurt or sick at all."

……

"Valletta, what's wrong?

One of my daughters speaks to Barletta, who is silent.

"... yeah, it's nothing. I haven't been here to see you, but the herbs are growing well."

"Yeah. Like I was told, I'm pulling out weed right away, and I'm giving you fertilizer. I've been saving up a lot of dried herbs."

"Good...... did you pick the seeds?

"I picked a lot. I keep it all in a cloth bag. Wild strawberry fruit dried properly, too."

While Ichigo was going to Isteria, Valletta and the others were also remodeling vacant houses like here to produce herbs in isolation, parallel to manufacturing operations such as machines.

If herbs can be mass-produced, then we can also mass-produce vegetables from the planet, so we decided to try to work on it on a trial basis.

For the fold in which Ichiyoshi returned from Isteria to life in the village, he intended to offer to produce vegetables and cereals in the village.

All of this is what Barletta is working on, though he wants us to stay in the village for good.

I dreamed that one day, again, there would be a day when the two of us could relax and mess around like before.

"Take it all to Isteria?

"You just need to get a little. We can all use the rest."

"Well, I'll deliver it to the house later. I'll pack up some of the ones that grow here."

"Yeah, please"

We make up safely and watch the herbs as we all chat.

The tense air that had drifted slightly was gone, returning to the warm space as usual.

"(Me, you're an idiot. Everyone is working so hard for me)"

My daughters seemed sincerely relieved that Barletta had forgiven me, but Barletta was the most relieved to be able to make up.

Barletta had spoken well, as if she had accomplished everything she had done in the village by herself, since she had gone to Isteria after Ichigo.

But thanks to the cooperation of everyone in the village, everything could be accomplished.

Barletta sincerely regretted that she had said something in the straw hut that was good, "I don't want the other villagers to be empowered".

What an arrogant thing to say to myself to keep so much cooperation.

Besides, they didn't touch it in any way that they were supposed to hear about then, forgive themselves for forgetting and cursing me in anger, and still accept me as one of them.

Thinking about it, I couldn't help but be ashamed of myself.

"I had tea with freshly picked herbs the other day. Turns out the raw herbs taste a few steps better than the dried one...... eh, hey, Valletta!?

"Hey, why are you crying!? What's wrong!?

Everyone turns a little blind to Barletta, who suddenly starts to pound and tear.

"Sorry... sorry..."

"No, what!? What are you sorry about!?

Among his hurried and hesitant friends, Barletta kept crying for a while.

Hours later.

A lot of villagers gathered at the entrance to the grove, packing the compost that Ichigo had just brought into the cloth bag.

Zirconia and Reese are also added to the work, and bagging work is carried out at best.

Barletta is with the bricklayers and is now instructed in kiln making by the craftsmen in between while providing instruction in fire resistant brick making.

"Reese, don't push yourself. Rest. There's blood seeping in here."

As Reese crouched and spread the mouth of the bag, Zirconia stopped her hand holding the shovel and spoke.

When Reese looked at her hand when she was told, it did turn red where the twitch and bandage were.

"Oh, this is the color of the medicine I got Kazura to paint. The blood's stopped, so it's okay."

"Oh, yeah. Red pills are rare."

"Yes. Even Kazra said the medicine works well on cuts and heels. But this color makes me worried."

"It's like blood. But any medication Mr. Kazra brings seems to heal beautifully soon. Outreach, it's almost healed."

That's what they said, and Reese somehow tried to hold and open her bandaged, wrapped hands.

Until this morning I had a sharp pain running when I moved it at all, but now I felt little pain.

Zirconia is right, maybe it's really healed already.

"... is Kazura really God"

Staring at his hand, Reese told him to snap.

And then he looks around in a hurry.

Fortunately, they are a little far from the other villagers and do not seem to have been asked.

"What makes you think that?

"Because if we were God, we wouldn't get hurt or faint like that... maybe we just assume that on our own, and God will get hurt and sick just like us,"

"Well... there are a lot of stories in the mythology of other countries about where God killed you, where God killed you, and maybe you actually get hurt or die like us"

"Did your mother believe there was a God before Kazra showed up?

"Hmm..."

Zirconia stopped her hand and tilted her neck to think a little.

"I honestly didn't believe you. I mean, I still don't really... I believe in heaven and hell and beyond."

"Afterlife, is it?

"Yeah. 'Cause I'm not happier to think so. If you don't think about it, you can't do it."

……

"Well, even if it did, I'd go to hell. What about Reese? Do you believe there's a god?

Asked so, Reese nodded instantly.

"Yes, of course. However, watching Kazura shakes my beliefs a bit... because the statues I've imagined and Kazura are too far apart..."

To that answer, I laugh when zirconia creaks funny.

"That's true. But if he's not a god, what do you think Reese is?

Zirconia asks in a whisper as she moves the compost into the bag with the shovel again.

Reese thought silently for a moment, but opened her mouth when she looked up at Zirconia with her eyes alone.

"... someone from somewhere else, not here, or something"

"I see, that's an interesting thought. So?"

"So?"

Not knowing the intention questioned, Reese tilted her neck.

"What would Reese do if he were a person from another world who just calls himself God?

"... I won't do anything else. Because kazula is a kazula."

"Then why don't you just do it? Whoever he is, he's no stranger to what he's done."

"Yes... but if you're really lying about being a human being and a god... it's a little sad"

"Hmmm...... well, I guess it depends on the way you think there. Either way, stop talking like that."

"Yes...... oh, it's a rash"

When the two of them were talking, Ichiran came in an agricultural hauling truck from behind the miscellaneous woods.

Ichirano came to the front of the two, lifting the carrier with a dump function and lowering the compost to the ground.

"Reese, are your hands okay? If it hurts, rest."

"Yeah, thanks. I don't have any pain, and I'm fine. Is Ichirano okay? You have shoulder pain, don't you?

"I applied a damp cloth with analgesic effect, so I'm fine. It hardly hurts now."

Ichirano went back to Japan to see her shoulder at the hospital, but she ended up saying a word of advice, "That's bruising."

On the shoulder is a damp cloth with a transdermal absorbent analgesic that was prescribed at that time.

"Oh, that's amazing. How much more fertilizer do we have?

"I think it's about 10 more times. Well, it's not a big deal, so let's just relax."

"Yeah."

When Ichirano said so, he went back to the back of the jungle again.

Leese drops him off alongside Zirconia.

"Really, you're a stranger."

The pompous and leaky Zirconia words remained strong in Reese's ears.