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Chapter 14 – Today’s Seed Gacha Is…
The fourth day has arrived!
It’s sunny today too.
I leave the house and look back.
There’s a big tree there after all.
It wasn’t a dream.
…
Oh well.
Yesterday, I climbed down from the tree to investigate, and found that the big tree had pushed the stone of the barrier out, and it was almost broken.
I quickly applied first aid, but today I decided to fix it.
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After looking around and adding more stones to the dangerous places, I felt a presence approaching.
Oh, the ants are coming again.
I hurried to “a certain place”.
I quickly picked them on my skirt and took them to the ants with a smile.
“Here you go, take them!”
It was a big bell pepper.
I thought I had picked them all, but for some reason they were ripe this morning.
The ants wave their hands and hold oranges and apples with their front paws, but I push them further in.
Then, one of them accepts them, with a somewhat drooping head, as if giving up.
Good!
Just as I was feeling satisfied, one of the ants hands me three seeds, just like yesterday.
Hmm, what’s this time?
It’s like a “gacha” smartphone game, and I’m having a bit of fun.
When I tried to plant it near the roses, the fairy princess came flying over and somehow pulled my sleeve.
What?
Does that mean I should plant it further away?
Why?
Since I was desperate and didn’t really care, I decided to plant it a little further away.
What?
Further away?
I guess there’s no other way.
For now, I’ll plant it in front of the hut, east of where I planted the wild grapes.
The giant ants are moving along the barrier as I move.
You can eat that pepper you’re holding, right?
I lightly dig a hole and plant the first seed.
I feel like I’ve seen these seeds before.
What were they called?
For now, I’ll use plant growth magic.
“Grow it!”
It grows and grows… and it falls over.
I hastily support it with my white Fluffy.
Oh, this is a broad bean!
The pod that grows from the stem is swelling up to the shape of a large bean inside.
It’s a good hit for our country, which is lacking in vegetables.
…I glanced at the ants and they were pointing at oranges and apples with their front paws.
I see, so even if it was a little strange for them, they brought it because they thought I would be happy.
Very clever.
I set up a pole and tied it to a wild grape vine to stop it falling over.
I picked about five apples and gave them to the ants.
I also gave them about ten broad bean pods.
They made gestures to say they didn’t want the broad beans, but I told them they couldn’t be picky, so I gave them to them anyway.
The ants accepted them reluctantly.
This is also for their health.
I’m so kind to think that far!
Now, what’s next?
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The remaining two were a bit tricky.
I guessed one of them when it was just a seed.
It’s a sunflower.
It bloomed into a yellow sun-like flower.
I looked at it to see if the fairy princesses would be happy, but although they glanced at it, they seemed to prefer roses and the like, so they didn’t move.
Ah, but you can eat the seeds.
I continued using plant-growing magic until seeds were produced.
Yes, the flowers withered and I got a ton of seeds.
I shared them with the giant ants.
If they’re tasty, I’ll make more.
As for the last one… I wasn’t sure.
A waist-high shrub?
You see those green waist-high leaves in parks and apartment buildings, with no visible trunks or branches, and something like that grew.
No nuts or anything.
Eh?
What’s this?
When I turned my gaze to the ant, it seemed to decide it wasn’t needed, as it shook its front legs and left.
…Hey!
But still, it was more like an SR broad bean and an R sunflower.
Considering how rough smartphone games were in my previous life, I’ll call it a good thing.
Hmm?
A group of fairies are flying in from the depths of the forest.
There are about fifty of them?
At the front are the guard fairies, but the rest are all kids I haven’t seen yesterday.
Unlike the fairy princesses and the guard fairies, they’re wearing simple clothes like one-piece dresses or shirts and pants, and they’re all carrying bags.
More than anything, their wings are only a little bigger than a crested white butterfly.
Oh, if you look closely, there aren’t just some flying, there are some walking through the grass.
Are those kids fairies too?
I say kids, but there’s also a white-bearded old man among them.
Do fairies get old too?
They’re all coming towards me… and crashing into the barrier!?
“Are you okay?”
I run over to them worried, but they’re all holding their foreheads in pain.
The fairy guard soldiers are safe because they didn’t run into the barrier, and they are rushing over to help.
I crouched down to help, but they suddenly started to tremble and get scared, so I stopped.
Eh, it’s not scary?
I thought something landed on my shoulder, but it was the fairy princess.
The princess is saying something to everyone.
When she’s done, she turns to me and makes gestures.
Huh?
Are you going to let these kids in?
There are three ways to enter the barrier.
The first is to become one of the people who set up the barrier, in other words, Mama’s family.
The second is to be taken by one of Mama’s family members and invited in.
The third is to receive the barrier stone made by Mama’s family and enter with it.
I think she said something else too…
What was it?
I forgot.
In this case, I think it was the second one.
I held out both hands to the ordinary fairy (not her real name).
Perhaps because Fairy Princess had told her to, several ordinary fairies timidly climbed on top of her.
They were trembling, and I’m sorry to say it, but it was so cute!
I gently let them into the barrier.
The ordinary fairies had their eyes tightly closed just before the barrier, but they were able to enter easily and looked around in surprise.
So cute!
After they flew off, I let the others in as well.
Of course, the ones below too.
I also put their luggage inside the barrier.
Everyone was flying around happily, and some of the ones that could fly gave me a kiss on the cheek and flew off towards the big tree.
Hmm, does this mean those kids are going to live here too?
I turn my gaze to the Fairy Princess.
Perhaps she understood what I meant, as the Fairy Princess looks up and says, “Isn’t it good?”
How cunning!
But that’s what’s good about it!
I lightly poked the Fairy Princess on the cheek and went back to my work of expanding the barrier.
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