Hakai No Miko Chapter 212 (2/2)

Sourandfather borrowed a small plot of land and cultivated it As Sourandfather, he notices that the plant in front of his eyes closely resembles the ones he saw at that time

“…! No way, this is!?”

Compared to his memory, the spread shouldn't naturally split open like that The color of the s as well However, Souma takes out the small beads from within the spread, throws theency and bitterness that spread inside his mouth overlaps with the memory of the ti the time of the End of Winter Holiday

“…These, are they possibly soybeans?”

It's unknohether a seed, which fell from the other world like Souma, took root and adapted to the world over here or whether a bean of a very similar type was born from a wild soybean which existed in this world fro a soybean

Souma repeatedly instructs himself to calm down

But, he's unable to suppress the excite up within his chest

If I reh nutritional value, including so much proteins that they are called the Meat of the Fields Moreover, their use doesn't stop at only being edible It should be possible to extract oil fros will also turn into fertilizer for the fields Of course it's also possible to feed it to cattle Either way, there are plenty of ways to use it

Yet, those are only trivial matters For Sou beyond that

“What are you doing?”

At that point Shye Souhtly wrinkled her nose up

“—Are you already hungry? Anyway, cut it out If you eat too many, you will have an upset stomach afterwards”

Shye in the plains However, soybeans have a peculiar acridity and bitter taste Also, since one will upset their sto them well, the zoan didn't consider them as edible

“Hey, Shyemul—”

Due to Soue force, Shyeather these beans as soon as possible?”

“Beans like these?”

Souma faced Shyeathers such inedible beans, with a ghastly sht?”

If it's for the sake of obtaining soybeans, Souly brandish his authority as Shyemul's Navel Master

Shyemul had no other option but to bob her head up and down

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“Soybeans nurtured the Divine Son of Destruction's soldiers”

These are faist Martin S Ackerson

It's been known that pulses contain a well-balanced amount of nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, vita pulses, only the soybean is a produce referred to as Meat of the Fields containing such great aetative proteins that they rival meat

However, at the time of the Divine Son of Destruction, beans weren't eaten overly arded as food even by the zoan, who lived in the Solbiant Plains where wild soybeans were growing, because they included soybean saponin, which has a unique acridity and bitterness

But, it's said that the Divine Son of Destruction Soinal ways of cooking them andto the records left behind by Michena, the Chief of Financial Affairs back then, the processed food side barley and wheat as provisions for Soma's military forces There's no roo the tough bodies of Soma Kisaki's soldiers

Moreover, there are also records left, stating that So soybeans

Since it's said that his ot very bad if he couldn't eat a soup, which used a melted paste of fermented soybeans, for three days, he likely preferred them quite a bit

Even now this truth is considered to be the biggest ations bythat as key to explain the the history of Soma Kisaki before his appearance in the Solbiant Plains

Contrary to wheat, which had reasonable value as grain, beans were the food of the poor and slaves back then, being regarded as inferior food There's a fa the fact that So for hi been a former slave that escaped froarnered eventhose soybeans

Soybeans don't contain only components which are beneficial to the body Coative effect on a hu enzymes and phytic acid, which hinders the absorption of e amounts of those toxic substances is considered as not desirable

But, there's a method to separate those toxic components from soybeans to process them into a food with ideal nutrition

That's fermentation

The method, which was introduced by Soic and has beco soybeans

I don't know about nowadays with che advanced, but to notice the toxicity of soybeans and adopt a h fermentation probably required an enor the ancient ti such an experience, So but a human from a race that familiarly ate or used soybeans for at the very least several hundred years

Several regions, which used soybeans as food, have been confirmed in the documents of that time, but a race or area, where the beans were eaten in the same way as Soma did, hasn't been discovered Until this very day theories about this circumstance don't leave the spheres of hypothesis

Well then, nowadays it has become an established theory that Sorew in the Solbiant Plains, and started to cultivate those beans However, until very recently there was the belief that Soic to produce those beans For that reason there are still areas where soybeans are shi+rked as food of the devil

Even at the current time, traces of that belief can be found in fairy-tales

“The Divine Son of Destruction, Sorow the food of ly, Soma Kisaki cast a dreadful curse at the plains

『Miso, Soysauce, Tofu, Natto! They are edible!』

Once he did, one soybean sprout after the other shot out of the ground”

— Extract from the Fairy-Tale “Divine Son of Destruction”

Actually theof that chant, which Kisaki Soma recited, has remained a riddle up until this day

Translation Notes:

Loose translation out of the japanese Wikipedia as it's a japanese-only law: It's a law that wasthe Edo Period The traditional law of annual land tax collection was adopted by the Kemi (inspection of rice plants) Lahich decided the the a the annual harvest amount, but since this didn't lead to a stabilization of the tax revenue, the Joumen Laas introduced as part of the Kyouhou Reforms in 1722 In the Joue harvest a in a fixed annual aood or bad harvests Times of very bad harvests were addressed in a separate law later onRefers to the tradition of scattering beans during the ceremony at the end of winter