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Published at 18th of October 2020 08:07:14 PM
Chapter 124.2: Chapter 124.2

The Man Picked up by the Gods – Volume 3 Chapter 124: Getting Food (2/2)

10 minutes later .

“I’m back!” [Ryouma]

“Good job . ” [Howard

“Good work out there . ” [Lucy]

I left my luggage at my base, and then reported my arrival . The stationed teachers were the ones to respond to me .

“There’s a lot of food at the woods here . They’re easy to find too . ” [Ryouma]

“Oh . Then maybe this time there won’t be any children crying because they couldn’t find food . ” [Lucy]

“Are there people like that, Lucy-san?” [Ryouma]

“There’s actually a lot of children not used to camping . And there’s a lot of instance where you end up with no food . Sometimes you bring less food than you should’ve . Sometimes food spoils because of some trouble . There are all sorts of reasons . So it’s a good idea to teach the students here how to procure food in such cases provided that there’s a land to source food from . ” [Lucy]

“Right . …How do the rest of the students spend their time? I saw some of them at the woods . ” [Ryouma]

“They’re all the same . ” [Lucy]

“They’re either doing a job or gathering food from the woods or the grasslands . That’s why other than taking care of the horses, there’s not actually a whole lot for us to do . ” [Howard]

“That makes our life easy, but it sure is boring . Ha ha . ” [Lucas]

So all the students are outside . Well, at least they’re feeling up to it .

Oh, right . There was something bothering me when I was inside the woods .

“By the way, there’s something bothering me . ” [Ryouma]

“What is it?” [Lucy]

“Those woods . There was a lot of mushrooms growing in them . There were edible ones, but there were also edible-looking ones that were actually poisonous . ” [Ryouma]

I was again reminded not to point out to the students when something is suspicious, but they might accidentally eat something bad .

“It might be a good idea to double our efforts in checking what they’ve gathered . ” [Lucy]


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“Yes . I think that would be for the best . I’ve brought a lot of medicine with me, so do call me when you need some . Depending on the poison, I can also make antidotes using the ingredients of the forest . ” [Ryouma]

“Got it . At that time, I’ll be sure to call you . ” [Lucy]

“Alright, see you later . ” [Ryouma]

I have to process the ingredients I’ve collected . First comes water .

Just as was written in the booklet, I was able to find a river inside the woods . It wasn’t hard to find, but the problem was the quality of the water . It’s not very clear, so I want to filter it first .

Outside my base that had been throughly smoked and cleared of insects, I gathered some soil . I used that to make sand and gravel with earth magic, and then I placed a tank with a cylinder attached to it on top of a huge funnel . Next I brought all of those back to my base, then I took out some cloth and some crushed charcoal from my Item Box .

I then laid out the cloth inside the tank, and then added charcoal on top of it . I laid out another layer of cloth, atop which I placed the sand, and then another layer, and then the gravel, and again the cloth . I figured I would be able to remove the dirt from the water if I layer these out like this with the cloth . I placed that apparatus at the corner of my room and prevented water leakage with a cloth and a pipe .

“Simple Water Purifier complete!”

The river water has been stored in a portable water vessel . When I need it, I’ll filter it and boil it . That should be enough to give me clean drinking water .

“Well then, let’s get to it . ”


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I poured water into the tank while confirming the steps for the filtration process .

Let’s do something else with the excess gravel and sand while the water is being filtered .

Gather the gravel and smooth it over with magic . It doesn’t need to be deep . I made a large flat planter, and then threw the fertilizer of the scavenger slime on it . I then turned the remaining gravel into soil and mixed it with the fertilizer . Very soon I was done with my preparations .

“Next, I need to scatter these…” [Ryouma]

I scattered sesame-seed-sized beans on top of the planter, moisturized them with water, placed a cloth on top, and then brought it to a dark room . After that I forced them to germinate with wood magic, and in the blink of an eye, the beans sprouted . Their white skin rose within the darkness .

“Bean sprouts complete . ” [Ryouma]

When I took off the cloth covering the planter, the light of the sun passing through the windows illuminated the thin white skin of the bean sprouts .

I’ll take enough for tonight’s supper, then I’ll let the remaining ones grow more .

These beans grow quickly like weeds, so you can easily make more of them with a combination of fertilizer and magic . If I take just those, then I can produce bean sprouts for the following days as well . These beans helped me out a lot back at the Forest of Gana . It’s kind of nostalgic .

…Right . Speaking of nostalgia, there’s another ingredient that fits the bill .


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’Kotsubuyarikusa’ (Kotsubu = small grain; Yari = spear; Kusa = grass)

A plant resembling the susuki (Japanese pampas grass) that grow by the river . It grows really long, and at the tip of its grown body are a lot of seeds . Because of that, depending on one’s perspective, it might appear to resemble a spear . Placed in the same category of grains as rice and wheat, when turned into flour, it can allow even things like unfermented bread to be cooked . It’s a convenient grass .

But this only means that it’s edible . It actually tastes terrible . Because of that bitter taste, the world only sees it as a weed . There’s barely anyone who regularly eats it . But that’s only a given . After all, unless you really had to, you would usually just eat bread made with wheat flour .

Still, with the various types of mushrooms, the bean sprouts, and the kotsubuyarikusa . I was able to gather a lot of wild edible plants and wild grasses, and I also have the seasoning and preserved food that I brought with me . It seems I’ll be able to have a decent meal tonight too .

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