We have a level system in place for mankind.

Sakuma back from the home center built me a decent furnace and thermal insulation wall. This furnace and thermal insulation wall prevents the gradual carburization of the surrounding wood and the like by prolonged exposure to the heat of the firewood stove. It's not just about preventing a fire.

Also, the chimney temporarily mounted on the window was decent so that there was no gap wind.

When they became known that there was a firewood stove in the nursery school, the residents around them began to gather.

The children and housewives are good, but when the men who bring in booze also came together and had a negative impact on the children, the gardener became troubled.

The men's leader is a middle-aged man named Muto, a former fisherman and explorer. It is the same searchers, the youth, who gather around this martial arts.

"I'm sorry, Director Tsuchii. We were discussing it in the assembly hall with patience for the cold, and I'm telling you, the young guys can't stand it."

A rally hall is a building that was formerly a pension, and it is a building that gathers about twenty people. I also know that it took booze to hold a rally in such a cold building.

"But yeah. You don't have a rally every day, do you? Besides, you don't need booze for a rally."

Muto stroked his bald head.

"That's what the gardener says, but some young guys feel like they have to drink to do it."

They have the feeling that the young people of Higashigami Town have been abandoned by the administration. Drinking alcohol spoils stupidity towards the mayors in Higashita Town.

I had one question.

"Mr. Muto, can I ask you one thing?

"Nice."

"It's that booze, but it's strange how much I drink every day."

Muto laughed niggardly.

"Hehe......, there is only one good thing about this town. Oh, my God, there's only one brewery in Jesuit City."

I've heard of it too. It is a sake brewery that makes sake called "Watanabe". Nevertheless, I just turned 20 and drink only about beer. I completely forgot about Watanabe Brewery.

They say only sake is endless after a year of drinking.

"Why don't we just install a firewood stove in the assembly hall?"

Elena told Muto.

"Dude, where do you say the firewood stove is?

It was summer that the different beasts began to emerge, and what remained of them in the home center would be last winter's sell-out.

"Even if it's not a proper firewood stove, why don't we just use something else to turn it into a firewood stove?

I came up with an idea.

Muto conceived. But he didn't seem to think of it and asked me.

"For example, what kind of stuff do you use?

"Right... what about a steel drum can or something"

"A drum can... you can't be too big. Fifty liters or maybe sixty liters of drum can would be nice."

Muto gathered the young people who were drinking and began consultations.

The next day, I processed a drum can I had been looking for from somewhere, using a pair of glasses or something, and it looks like I made something that looks like a firewood stove. The chimney had an iron pipe about 10 cm in diameter, and they substituted it with that.

Its drum can modified firewood stoves became popular in East Cape Town, with more houses said to modify small drum cans to install household firewood stoves.

The problem is that the increase in the firewood stoves necessitated a large amount of firewood, which is fuel.

"What do you think I should do?

Muto suddenly came to the nursery and asked me a question.

"All of a sudden, what is it? All you have to do is think about it among the Seekers."

"I thought you were here to talk to me because they don't rely on me."

The proposal put out at the rally was to cut mountain trees and turn them into firewood. The younger generation, not knowing the common sense of forestry, seemed to think that cutting trees would make them ready to use firewood.

I don't know much about it either, but I have more survival skills and knowledge in my life on the island. I knew that raw trees could not be used as firewood unless they were dried.

"Is there anyone in this town who worked in forestry?

"Unfortunately, they're all dead"

Forestry seemed to be ageing. They all died of poison.

"If we run out of firewood, we'll have trouble collecting cozillo."

Muto calls me Kojiro, probably because the kids call me Kojiro.

It wasn't like I wasn't thinking about it either. Ultimately, trees would be cut out of the mountains and dried, and turned into firewood. But that's for the next winter.

"I think we need to cut trees out of the mountains."

Muto looked at you too.

"I know you can't use it for firewood unless it's dry."

"Then you know you can't use it if you cut it out now"

"It's for the next winter. I think the only firewood I need right now is to destroy the house in Little Ghost District and get it"

I look like Muto was shocked.

"That's someone else's house. If I break it on my own, I'll pay..."

Muto seems to have remembered that neither the police nor the courts controlling it are functioning anymore.

"... a house where people no longer live is said to be hurting faster. Should I destroy it?"

"Why don't you plant a tree after you break it?"

I couldn't plant trees on the concrete base, but I also thought it would be interesting to plant trees in the garden area to increase the number of trees.

"With tree planting... does Cozillow think his current state will last years ahead?

"Come on, I don't get it. But until help gets here, I think we should think this will continue."

Muto looked bitter and bit his lips off.

"From the next rally, will Cozillow join us?

"When's the rally?

It's Saturday night.

"Every day, it's like we're getting together."

"That's a drinking party."

It's a shame they're here. If you have time to drink, you can try to improve your life, but I thought so.

Me and Elena took all the food we had at the Little Ghost District supermarket to the nursery and secured a year's worth of food. The vegetables are divided from someone named Yoshino, who originally farms them.

Instead, he helps with field work and water pumping. Yoshino is a successful aubergine housegrower who owns five large vinyl houses.

But the electricity stopped and the rest of the gasoline was gone, so he said the machine couldn't move and the vegetables he was growing were almost gone. Still, there are more vegetables left than my family consumes, and I have them supplied to the nursery as well.

There are more than 200 people in this Higashigami town who farm like Yoshino, and many people are getting food by providing their workforce to those people.

However, vegetables and cereals are fine, but meat and eggs produce less. Some farmers have chickens, but no one really keeps them and rarely eats them in nursery schools.

By the way, they say fishing is not good at all. They can't get the ship out without fuel. I can do about fishing, but bad winter weather overlaps with lack of fishing needles, etc., and Muto says he's giving up and being an explorer.

One day, Muto came to the nursery and asked me if I could go to the home center with him. Sakuma told me I was going to the home center.

"Mr. Muto is also an explorer. Home center or so…"

Muto shook his head. Apparently, few of the Explorers can fight and win against Orcs.

When asked, the level of those who are explorers is between '05' and '10'. They work mainly in the Little Ghost District, and for them, the Beastman District where the oak is is is heavy loaded.

"What can I do for you at the home center?

"I need fishing gear. And I want all the carpentry tools."

I wondered if I wanted fishing gear even though I was a fisherman. I thought it might be at home. But he said he only had a few fishing gear in Muto's house where he was fishing in nets.

"Fine, but is it just Mr. Muto?

"I want to take three of our seekers"

As for the fishing gear, I agreed because I wanted it too. I've been eating fish all over the island, but I haven't eaten in the last few days. That made me want fish that I should be tired of eating.

There are three people accompanying Muto: Kashiwagi, Kuroi, and Nishibe. Kashiki said he was a water bureau clerk in his late twenties, Kuroi was a truck driver in his early twenties, and Nippu was an eighteen-year-old high school student.

Elena said she wanted to practice her bow, so me and the four Muto left.