Transition to Another World, Landmines Included

After we were ready to milk, we were visiting 15 layers again.

Container on automatic milker, white paint for marking strike ox on it.

The first thing I aimed at with it was the last strike ox I milked.

The purpose is to find out how soon the milk will recover.

If you get just the same amount in a few days or so, this can be described as a pretty powerful ranch.

- You'll need extraordinary strength in a pastoral child, or high-ranking adventure-like fighting power.

"Strike Ox himself... sounds like he's not back."

"Yeah. I'm sure you don't see it."

Just down the stairs.

Last time there was a strike ox roaming around here, but so far there's no object caught in the enemy.

From there, moving to the area where Strike Ox was last milked...... yeah, you're here.

I'm not sure if it's really the same individual as last time, but the location itself is checked on the map, so there's no mistake.

"Let's just get him. Say hello, Toya."

"Leave it to me!"

Fortunately, they don't have the ability to learn in Strike Ox.

Stupid honestly thrust into Toya, who came out a while ago, sarally avoided, grabbed a corner and held him back where he looked back.

Soon after, me and Yuki's Earthwall Earth Wall was activated, and the rope was hung and the movement was sealed.

If you dare mention the difference, where the height of the dirt wall has been halved to one meter?

This is me and Yuki practicing together, trying to match the same height. Because 2 meters is too expensive after all, given the hassle of milking, etc.

"It's easy to catch, but you're a little stupid, aren't you, Strike Ox?... good because it's easy. Quickly, it's time for my milking machine."

When Yuki takes out the milker with a little joy, attaches it to the strike ox and switches it on, it sounds like a small motion and the milk starts to build up in the bottle.

That speed was quite fast, in about 30 seconds the first bottle would be full, the second and third bottles - the total amount of milk eventually squeezed was about 2.8.

I mean, it's roughly 7 liters, roughly the same amount as the last time I squeezed it.

If this strike ox is the same individual as the last one, the amount of milk stored will be fully recovered in a few days.

"Oh, healing, that's fast, huh?

Natsuki shook her head at Toya, who grinned with half surprise and half joy.

"No, it's normal if you think of it as a dairy cow, right? I don't know about wild cows, but dairy cows have to be squeezed every day, so much so that I wonder if Strike Ox is okay. I don't see any calves."

Naturally, animals milk to raise their children.

Even dairy cows don't always milk, only milk can be milked for a period of time until it's time to have children and wean them off.

In other words, milking can be indispensable because if you don't have children, you won't get milk, and vice versa, if you don't have children to milk but drink it, you can get sick.

But there are no Strike Ox children around here, and naturally there are no dairy farmers who milk and look after them.

"... it's still a demon"

"It's a dungeon, so it's possible."

"Ecosystem, cancer ignored."

"Right."

Toya is right, it is pointless to indulge the demons in the dungeon.

Because we don't even need food or water as a major prerequisite for organisms to survive.

"Well, we'll mark it later and then we'll be free."

Remove the white paint you brought and dye the Strike Ox hair into a cow pattern - Holstein-like pattern as Yuki seems to enjoy it.

Even so, I don't look like Holstein because I apply it appropriately, but I can tell enough from a distance about this.

"Petapetta, and. Then withdraw."

Leave the jittery Strike Ox on the dirt wall and head to the next area.

From then on, finding Strike Ox will determine gender, exterminate, or milk & mark.

It wasn't until three days later that we took a good amount of time to walk through the 15 layers and crush them, and eventually we ended up circling all the areas.

"How many did you end up with? Definitely over 100, though."

"I'm not counting because it's troublesome. But it's not too bad, as far as you're concerned."

Milk alone would be about 100 gold coins if sold.

In addition to that, materials such as male strike ox meat and demonic stones, which were the subject of extermination, and fruit obtained from the forest, like up to 14 layers, do not make an idiot.

By the way, the 15 layers of fruit were Ume and Momo.

Ume is not very popular - rather than being too sour to eat normally, it doesn't seem to sell outside some areas, but on the contrary, Momo sells quite high due to its transport difficulties.

However, it is also up to a certain amount.

The difficulty of transporting means that it is difficult to go to other towns for sale, so even if the supply exceeds the consumption of the area brought in, they will not buy it.

However, luckily, there is a lack of fruit supply around Raffan, so it would be no problem for us to bring in as much fruit as we do, but either way, the fruit obtained in this hierarchy was a little difficult to handle.

"But if you think about it, it's the first time you've ever picked it, but you didn't pick it."

Ume has a wide range of edibles, from still green and stiff to yellow and softened, all of which become ingredients for plum, but this time I collected about three fine buckets.

If that bothered me, I still had a lot of fruit to pick, but Yuki is right, this time it's left behind.

Because...

"That's right, Ume, there's a limit to self-consumption,"

"Plum dried is bad for your health if you eat too much, and we don't drink plum wine,"

You can eat as many other fruits as you want, or you can sell them if you have trouble processing them.

But in Ume's case, besides not being consumed around here, we can't even eat it as it is, and basically there's only enough way to make it plum.

I don't care if I eat plum dried, about 1 per meal.

If it's me, every meal... no, it's not something I eat every day, and my consumption is limited.

"I'm going to candied it and make juice too, because I'm not going to use dozens of kilos exactly. Unfortunately."

That's why, for the first time since entering this area, I've been framed for an act that subtly makes me feel remorse: ignoring it even though it has fruit from the time it was picked.

You feel like you're losing it somehow, don't you?

"Unfortunately, Strike Ox's meat was a little unexpected."

The last time I got home, I also tasted Strike Ox meat, which is very normal compared to the quality of the milk.

It doesn't taste bad, but it's not very soft meat, and I feel like I said imported beef for a few hundred yen or so grams.

Depending on the area, it would be delicious to steak, but the overall impression is, is it everyday meat?

"Oh, yeah? Was it delicious?

"Toya likes gutted meat, doesn't she? Did you think I was pretty good as a lean meat, too? Perhaps it would be delicious if it was aged. I don't know how."

"Rather, it's more user-friendly than frosted meat, isn't it? Because eating greasy every day is tough."

"Yes, it's good meat for beef jerky, etc."

Other than me, it seems to be well received.

No, it doesn't mean I'm not bad either. I'm just saying it wasn't what I was expecting.

"What, beef jerky!? Can you make it? Can you make it?

"Uh, yeah. I can make it, but I don't know if I can season it well...... I think trial and error are necessary if you're imagining something like what they sell in Japan. What's the matter, sir?

"No, I like beef jerky, but you can't really eat that, that one. Because it's expensive."

I guess Natsuki said beef jerky in the image of dried meat made for meat preservation around here, but dried meat and beef jerky are similarly unusual objects.

Apart from the dried meat that we used to make our own task-bore ingredients, the dried meat we can buy around here is basically just salty and hard.

It's hard to eat as it is, and it's never as tasty as it sounds.

Of course what I want is beef jerky like they sell in Japan.

The sweeter and spicier the harder the dried meat.

... dried meat? What the fuck, huh?

Knowing the dried meat I bought over here, I wonder if it really is the same dried meat.

"Were you? Well, sure, it's a little expensive to buy for a dime."

Even if it was cheap, it would cost about 100 grams a thousand yen, and that amount, from a high school boy, would soon disappear.

If you think that the ingredients are beef and you are drying it, you can be satisfied with the price, but there is a different problem between what you can be satisfied with and what you can buy.

It was a bit of a hurdle to buy a treat instead of a treat on my dime.

"If you want nao, you can make it though. There are also smoked huts that are infrequently utilized."

"Seriously? Do it, do it!

How many times have I wanted to have a belly full!

- If I actually ate it, it would seem bad for my health.

By the way, the smoked cabin we have at home, as Hulka said, is not very frequently used instead of splendid.

The reason is that we often leave our homes empty and that we have magic bags that don't have to worry about shelf life without smoking them.

I just use it for cooking, not for preservation, so other than when I make it in so many quantities, the compact smoking tools made by Toya - such as a simple box that you can buy in the mail if it's in Japan or something - are done.

Well, it's usually matured hanging raw ham or something in the shed, so it's never been wasted.

Raw ham with a hint of smoke, it's quite delicious.

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"Well. So it's time to go in?

After 15 layers of exploration, we were taking a break in front of a place where there should be a staircase leading to 16 if the pattern was the same as before.

But what was here was the door to the boss room that I haven't seen in a long time.

I mean, we were trying to recover a little bit slowly before the war, boss.

Because I was in this hierarchy with an oak level strike ox.

Compare the strength of Pickaw to Tyrant Pickaw and the boss here will never be insulted.

At least an oak leader, if you do poorly, could be as strong as an oak captain.

Fortunately, the dungeon in this world says, 'You can't run from the boss!' There is nothing like it, so if it [breaks through] and looks like it sucks, I plan to escape at first sight.

"Right. Guys, okay?

Make sure everyone nods and Toya opens the door carefully.

Behind it is the usual boss room.

And there he was, a demon more than twice as big as Strike Ox.