The Magus of Genesis

Episode 23: An ominous precursor/Ominous Omen

"Oh Doctor, good morning. You don't look well, are you okay?

"Good morning…… no, it's okay"

I answered purple looking into my face worryingly.

Hard to say hangover.

"Uh, what about Yuki?

A wheat field stretching out on one side. Without acknowledging the appearance of a healthy redhead there, I asked.

More than a decade after starting a special classroom, I taught them most of what they could teach. Livestock, farming, and I've managed to get on track, and my daily classes are first graduated. Now they work for me as a school teacher, farming, and livestock leader.

"Maybe you're still asleep today"

"Really?

When she always asks early in the morning if it's something unusual,

"Because I said my teacher shook me and I was crying and drinking late yesterday"

Mr. Purple said as if it was nothing.

"Oh... did you hear that?"

"Yeah. I was comforted with me and Lynn and Luca."

Her expression is as dazzling as usual, and she has absolutely nothing to include in her tone.

But that scared me.

"... excuse me..."

"It's not for me to apologize, is it?

If you accidentally utter words of apology, you will be embarrassed only in a soft tone.

"Right..."

To me, Mr. Purple continues, "But".

"I know how the teacher feels."

She stroked the blue wheat leaves and told her to whine.

"I tried living in people, and I get it. They live in too much haste. Instead of trees, it's like a flower that scatters quickly"

"Right..."

Now that I think about it, maybe it was because I knew that the herd blue had said no.

"So why don't you leave it to me?

When the air was dull, Mr. Purple suddenly said something like that.

"Yeah, um, excuse me..."

"Oh. You've shaken me, too."

Mr. Purple, who laughs corny, has no idea how serious the hell he is.

"When I'm done harvesting this wheat, I'm going back to the woods"

"……… I understand."

I didn't think it was cheap.

Because it was her feelings that made me know so painfully.

"It's just another story to see if it's going to be all right."

"Rat, is it?"

With a serious look, Mr. Purple nods.

Hiirokane rat returns worked well. They couldn't even eat metal from boulders, and if it was a high-floor warehouse, they succeeded in preventing rats from harming.

But the rats didn't give up. If I can't eat the stockpile, I just started attacking the field saying I should eat the growing crop.

Various measures have been taken to create traps and sprinkle poison bait, but the harm seems to be getting worse year after year just staying.

"I'll think of something else to take care of."

Put that aside, I decided to go check on the other students.

On the way to the ranch, stop at the school building. In the classroom, Luca was writing with wax stone on the tablet while giving classes to the students. How can a girl who was quiet with a plan to pull in be such a good teacher? I might be better suited to teachers than I am.

As I watched her work still, the bell rang to mark the end of the class. It's a mechanism to keep a stick of wood hanging from a rope in a floating magic magic formation that keeps it for an hour, and when the time comes, the magic will unravel and automatically strike the bell.

Luca turned her gaze outside the classroom to the sound of the bell, her eyes matching mine and Bacilli.

"Hey, why are you looking, Doctor? - Huh!

As soon as she did, she turned her face bright red and ran over to the window. From behind it, the laughter of the students echoes.

"The class is over, it's over! Dismissed!

If Luca screamed, the students left the classroom to scatter the spider child.

"My students seem to admire me. Most importantly."

"I'm already embarrassed, Doctor. Since when have you seen it?

"No, just a little bit. Enough to indulge in Luca's teacher."

"Don't make fun of me..."

Luca fears with a voice that is going to disappear.

"But teachers are fun. I thought it was for me."

It was unusual to think so, and she gave an uncontrolled smile.

"Deal with human children... you know, don't you ever get in trouble?

It's been a long time since I've told a boulder what life expectancy is like, and I ask it that way. Then Luca tilted her neck a little and thought, then said.

"Right. Humans grow up so fast, don't they? So did Yuki."

"……… yeah."

I nod, thrilled by the name that suddenly appeared.

"That's why it's so fun to tell me. Because it keeps changing."

But I was surprised by what she said.

"What I couldn't do yesterday will be able to do today. Even if I can't do it today, I might be able to do it tomorrow. So I get excited every day, and I think it's amazing."

I was in the mood to be taught how to think about it.

After all, she is better suited to teachers than I am.

"Oh, but... can I go back to the meadow next time?

"Why!?

So to that offer, I shouted unexpectedly.

Purple followed by Luca.

"Uh, you know, 'cause I haven't been home in over a decade... and sometimes, I want to see my brothers' faces"

Luca answered that in confusion, pinning her ears in surprise.

"Oh, oh... right"

"Don't worry, I'll be right back."

"Really? No, good. I was surprised Luca was gone."

I breathe relief as I accidentally take her hand.

"Oh, you know, Doctor...... so much?

"Well, yeah. I'd be in a lot of trouble if I wasn't in a kid as good as Luca"

"Ah, right...... eh, yu, excellent!? Am I!?

Luca suddenly starts panicking when she wonders why she's fainted for a moment.

Who do you call good without calling her good, who has always been chairman of the class committee, put together the children in question in the low age group, and created the trigger for the concept of magic formation?

"Of course. Thank you and keep it up."

"Yes......"

Break up with Luca, who is completely lit, and I head to the ranch.

"So why are you always like this!

"Uh, 'cause it's more fun that way, isn't it?

Then, before I could see him, I heard a yelling and my-paced voice fight.

"As always, you are…………………"

"Oh, Shiraito!

"What, on purpose. Are you free?

When she puts her face on the fence half way through the boulder, Lynn flies right in and Sig slaps her hater. But the voice bounced, and the expression had a joy that I couldn't hide, and this made me feel cute or honest going around.

I have the same bad mouth, but I'm not gonna change Nina's expression or anything.

"What were you arguing about today?

"Listen to me. This guy doesn't keep the steps at all. Start cleaning before I feed you."

"Ahhh......"

In the end, my behemoth breeding plan was frustrated. I succeeded in fencing the behemoth myself, but it was too hard to get to the behemoth fence... and it was virtually impossible to handle the manure.

Behemoth eats the amount of bait that the giant deserves and, as a natural consequence, drops a tremendous amount of manure. Luca says that eventually the manure can be used as fertilizer to do the forest again, but if it is surrounded by a fence, this concentrates and deposits in a narrow range.

A tremendous amount of dung urine with a terrible stench goes back and forth every day and sprinkles it all over the meadow. Nobody wanted to do such a job, and it was unrealistic purely as a workload.

However, there has been progress in the livestock itself. The fence, reinforced with hihi-irokane, also withstood the deer rush, and the magic sustained in the magic formation helped prevent its escape. As usual, I am not used to people, but I have succeeded in raising them without being forced to.

"Why did Lynn do that?

"Think it's fun..."

Because I'm unfamiliar with people, the ranch is fundamental to cleaning into the gaps the deer are feeding on. Serve the hyiro potatoes in the feed box, close the fence surrounding the feed box while you are eating there, and when cleaned, open it. Otherwise, the deer who recognize the ranch as a habitat will be eliminated.

But it was also certain that Lynn now had enough strength to call that fun. Her magic isn't stable, but if you say it in output, it's picky. Even unchanging magic would make it easy to embellish an attacking deer.

"But maybe Lynn will get hurt, right? Lynn may be fine, but the deer may get hurt. The way Sig decided to do it makes sense."

"Yeah……………."

When I glanced at Lynn and told her, she snorted.

"Okay. Then you can listen to Sig properly, can't you?

"Yes!"

"You don't listen to me...!

To Lynn, who raises her hand honestly, does that make her angry or Sig hold her fist?

"By the way, I'm having trouble getting rats out on the field, do you have any good ideas?

When I was in trouble, I generally asked these two for their opinions.

"Hmmm...... make the fields, in the water"

"I can do it!

Thinking about it a little bit, Sig quickly penetrates Lynn's proposal that came out.

"Uh, but if rats can't swim, wouldn't it be nice to make them in the river around?

"That might be good."

What did I say? Sure... irrigation. If you pull the waterway for it, you won't have to bother to go to the river to get water, and you might be able to prevent rat entry to some extent. Even a rat would be able to swim, but should I make the waterway in such a way that it can't crawl up from the inside?

"Thanks, I'll give it a try."

I knew these two could count on you, and it's a good combination.

"You're welcome!"

"Whatever you think of your plan, you can't use it!? That's what I told you!

I wonder why we're so unfriendly...

As a result, Sig's devised waterway operation went very well. The rats don't seem to be very good at swimming, so they can't cross the waterway. Human waterways could be prevented to a degree that could easily be crossed.

The teacher's shortage of manpower was eliminated, and farming and animal husbandry were successful, and the ruin in a hundred years could be avoided if it remained so. Everything seemed to be going in the right direction.

That's right.

Except for the fact that I can no longer get a word from Yuki.

No, it's not exactly that you can't talk to me. I can have a proper conversation if I need to, and he gives me back my greetings. But when I tried to create a solid opportunity to talk to him to apologize for what happened before, he somehow escaped for a reason, and I stopped coming any closer from the other side.

Until now, that's all getting sticky.

I think to myself that it would be unsolicited to refuse, but it felt terribly lonely.

I tried to wait to see if it would be better after the days, but Yuki's attitude remained the same, only to make it difficult to apologize because of the time between them.

"Bridge?"

It was one of those days that I heard the story.

"Yeah, it only took what I thought was right."

Mr. Purple calls me to visit the field. It was a single stick of wood that had been sprayed across the waterway.

"I seem to have told you this………………"

Purple's tip, blue wheat. At its root, it was after it was chewed off. Rat.

"... a branch of a tree fell by chance, there will be no such thing as..."

A large part of the village of Hiiro uses land that was made by cutting through the forest. Although the field situated on the outer edge faces right next to the forest, it is not close enough for the tree branches to fall. You should see that someone intentionally moved a branch of a tree.

"What are the chances of a kid mischievous or putting a tree branch down without thinking deeply?

To boulders, it's hard to imagine a rat carrying and bridging its own tree branches.

"I asked him once, but he said nobody knew what he was doing."

"Hmm. Well, if you tell them to be careful because building a bridge could get rats in like this, they'll be fine"

I would like to think that no one in this village would harm food by being told that by boulders. Even though I can afford it, it doesn't mean it's an age of satiety, like modern Japan.

Okay, I'll keep you informed.

"Excuse me, thank you."

But at that time, I was still watching perfectly sweetly.

- About the creatures in this world.