"What do you see over there... is an olive garden?
"Olive? What? Delicious?"
"It's delicious if you salt it. But when it comes to olives, it's oil.
"Delicious? Then let's take some and go home!
"No, I told you earlier, didn't I? Olive garden (...) Because. Someone's raising the olives here because they're well maintained.
Yes, it is. Olives are very easy to grow, but it takes a lot of pruning and a little work if you want to get a lot of big, decent fruit. The olive trees here show signs of proper pruning, and it is clear that someone is growing them.
"Ho, you know this tree.
Suddenly the voice was close, so Masaru and Adelina were back to back and asked around, but no one...
"Adelina... was anyone there?
"Neither I nor anyone will find me.
Tension runs and breathes into the two of us. I was obsessed with olives and looked up all the time, but the olives themselves weren't that expensive, so I didn't mean to neglect attention to my surroundings so much that people wouldn't know.
"Hey! You didn't make the classic promise. Look at me! Downstairs!"
When I followed my voice and looked down, there was one little uncle standing. He's about 80 cm tall and he looks kind of great in the arms, but he doesn't feel majestic.
"Dwarf?... No, Norm?
"Do you know anything about Ho, Nong, etc.? I did know that Norm and the others didn't get a chance to face each other.
"Masal... what's a gnome?
"Norm is a dwarf who commands the earth. Sometimes they say spirits, but maybe it's only as different as people and beastmen are different?
"Hmm... you sound like a pretty funny little guy, only as different as a man and an animal man. Sure, it's not just a little bit different in body structure.
"Hey...? Well, that's certainly what it is.
Don't you dare leave me like that, I don't want to get into contention or trouble over racism or anything good.
"The lady turns into a good one.
That's what I said and gahaha laughing at Norm's old man.
"I'm late to greet you. My name is Massal of Race. My name is Miss Adelina.
Adelina also bows to Pecori to match the introduction. Probably someone up front, right? He said it was about me, kid...
"I'm not greeting you that hard. Yeah. Non is just a grandfather and bot with a hobby to take care of the trees here in Gnome. I was just saying, do you know how to eat these nuts?
"Yeah, for once. I mean, you don't eat it, but you plant and grow so many olives? Rather, what are you doing and consuming fruit?
If you look at it in your map skills, olives are even planted on about 3 km square of land in a way like Shikoku in Japan. It's an unscrupulous scale.
"Totally a hobby. These days, a different bee lives on the edge to eat this fruit and feeds it, but even if I tried everything, I didn't actually eat this. If you're interested in hobbies and you're planting a lot, it's this scale.
You're not stupid, you old man... how many trees are you growing even though you don't know how to use them...
"If you know how to eat, why don't you tell me? If you're going to tell me, I don't mind you taking as much of this as you actually want.
"You only know enough to salt it, don't you? Uh, first add caustic soda to the olive fruit I washed and put in the water... ah, caustic soda...
"What's up? Something missing?
"There's a drug called caustic soda... there isn't, is there?
"I've never even heard of it.
There's no way you know... Adelina's shaking her neck beside me, of course.
"You must have made it out of electrolysis from aqueous sodium chloride... I think I'll check it out later on my smartphone. It's in some sort of app dictionary or something...
"Hey, Masal... should we stop saying something bumpy?
"Leave me alone... at times like this it's better to keep it in your head to speak for yourself.... So, what was it?
"Where you manage to put soda in it?
"Yeah, you put in less than 2% caustic soda and you do the tanning. They say the time is about 12 to 16 hours. Replace the water that is browning with something beautiful, and when the time stands, it gets dirty again, so I change the water occasionally for two days!
"What, two days!?
"Then soak it in 4% salt water for another two days!
"Another two days!?
Both Adelina and Grandpa Botz are huge in about two days...
"If you wash it afterwards and eat it right away, then soak it in 4% brine again, or 6-10% brine if you want to store it. You can eat as you like when you eat, or you can drain salt, if you like... what's wrong?
"What is %? Plus, salt water is easy to say, but around here, salt is precious!?
Oh, just a little bit away from the sea makes salt still a precious...
"Well, we're building a city now. So why don't we just leave the processing to this side of the deal? You don't live alone, do you, Grandpa Botts?
"Well, there are about 50 gnomes living in the settlement...
"Don't you think everyone in the settlement would be happy if salt and other things became available with useless olive fruit?
"Well, that helps...
"Well, don't even dare talk to the settlers.... Oh, I said we'd build our city, but the residents say we're all beasts by accident.
"Are you building a city with the Beast Man? The humans are back in May, right?
"It's okay. I've talked to the great men of the human city. Because of this, Miss Adelina is the niece of the city's top knight commander.
"It's easy to persuade the hard-headed people of the settlement to stay uprooted. Then take as much fruit as you like.
Not just the truth, but even the signs of a deal… this would be good to think of as a considerable achievement. Get two things out of the item box to give to Grandpa Botz, who is about to turn his back.
"Grandpa Botts! Just give me a minute! Take this little barrel home with you! The contents are dried salt and sea fish!
These two were salt and fish dried from the fishing village, which was a little too much for Masaru's taste. They're both sweet to make.
"It's a little cluttered, but I need you to mark your approach.
"Oh! It's been a long time since I've had fish! Let's get it out of the way.
See you later! and exchanged greetings with each other and Massal went back to Adelina to pick up the olives.
"Hey, can't you grow olives in the city?
"I can raise you, that's pretty much impossible, too.
"Then...
"No, Norm's people don't live in better conditions. I also lack honesty in Grandpa Botz, who trusted me to talk to me and divided me to the point of truth. Don't complain about threatening other people's lives for profit.
"Right... coexistence and co-prosperity?
I'm glad you're such a good student.
"Besides, if beasts don't aim for fruit, the lifestyle of beasts who are good at hunting changes, and if it's only hard to raise them, you don't want to bother... let someone do whatever you want.
"... I wonder why I can't be a good person to the end...
That's how blurry Adelina sighed heavily.