Chapter Chapter 119: 14. To the world of farming! (2/2)

“You’re eating especially well today.”

“It’s meat! People havta eat meat!”

No, you’re not a person……

I’ve gotten used to it by now, but I have no idea where food goes in and comes out the other end on that.

“Mm! Everything Dad makes is delicious but it’s even more delicious if there’s meat in it!”

Of course. Meat is the truth.

“Alright, then.”

Seeing as I was getting up anyway, I filled up three bowls of soup, one for myself as well.

I wanted to add a bit of pepper but there was no way that such an expensive spice would be available in this backwater village.

To make up for it as best as I could I sprinkled a bit of a herb I found nearby, tore up the non-hard bread and dipped it into the soup.

Although I couldn’t replicate the bread of my past life, compared to the hard black bread of commoners, my bread is soft and delicious.

“Dad… are you going to go to the fields after breakfast today as well?”

“Yes. Why, do you want to come along?”

“Mm! I want to come, too!”

I looked at my adorable daughter whose sparkling eyes indicated how she’d come to love farming already.

“Uweeeeek! Nyooooo! Ellis shad come play wif meeee!”

Her character concept was supposed to be the big sister, but the way she acted was exactly like a little sister pestering her big sister, and I sighed reflexively.

“I, I can’t…… I finally have my own field! I… I finally have something of my own to protect as well!”

“T, traitor!”

As the metal bat pouted and grumbled, just in case, I warned her.

“You know what happens if you mess with the fields… right?”

“Tch.”

If this thing hits the fields, then the crops are done for.

I did hope a bit last time just in case the fields would receive a blessing, but how much did I weep and rage when I saw the crops helplessly dying the next day!

I don’t want to see something like that happening ever again.

“I’m bored~”

“Ehey, go play on your own!”

After she followed me a few times to the fields and caused numerous incidents, I eventually banned her from all farm work.

This place has good soil and water, a perfect place for the retired life I’d dreamed of since my past life, but on the flip side, it’s a boring village with no amusement for the metal bat.

At most the wild beasts that threatened to ruin our crops were her outlet to vent.

But not even the wild animals come down anymore in fear of the metal bat.

Meaning, Ellis is the only one that will play with her.

“Then finish the shed.”

“That’s even more boring……”

“Tch.”

As the metal bat drooped face-down on the table, I clicked my teeth in annoyance.

Considering what happened last time, I couldn’t even call for the dwarves, and under the pretense of building a shed, was secretly building an escape tunnel, but it’s hard as hell to do it on my own.

Shovelling aside, I wasn’t used to swinging a pickaxe so every time I struck down my hands hurt a lot.

“Ellis, let’s play~ let’s go up into the mountains and get some tasty meat~”

“M, meat?”

Ellis’s eyes shook at the mention of meat.

The twelve-year old Ellis still prefers meat over vegetables.

In that case……

“But, Ellis. Tonight’s dinner… was going to be fries?”

“F, fries!”

“Kgh?!”

At my announcement Ellis’s eyes widened even more than when she heard about meat.

“Ellis… you liked potato fries, right?”

“Mm, potato fries are tasty! Outside is crunchy, inside is soft and moist!”

“And when Dad’s special sauce is added to it?”

“I, invincible…….”

As if just imagining it made her happy, I cupped her cheeks that were threatening to loosen entirely.”

“But to make potato fries… we need to dig up potatoes first, and Dad needs to take care of the other crops today… should we just not have fries today?”

Those words caused Ellis’s face to darken.

Due to using a lot of oil, fried foods were an even rarer special treat than meat was.

“Don’t worry! Ellis’ll dig up the potatoes! So potato fries tonight!”

“Fried vegetables are also good.”

“Mm mm!”

“Should we fry some pumpkin tonight as well?”

“P, pumpkin is good!”

“Hm… if we had some chicken we could make fried chicken as well…”

“Th, the almighty fried chicken… too?”

Having come to the greatness of the almighty fried chicken at an early age thanks to my teachings, Ellie was looking up at me like an apostle seeking salvation from her god.

“But in order to make that then Dad needs someone to help out?”

“Me! Me! Me!”

As Ellis jumped up and down, hand high in the air as if she’d come running into my arms at any moment, I smiled like a winner.

-How’s that, this is how you conduct negotiations!

-Cheater! You used fried food! And fried chicken at that!

-Who was the one who brought out meat in the first place?

-Roast rabbit is just about all there is in terms of mountain animals, of course there’s no way I can win if you bring out the chicken!

-Of course, our lord and saviour fried chicken is almighty.

How dare you compare some gamey-stinking rabbit with our lord and saviour fried chicken.

I ignored the metal bat’s sharp glare as I began cleaning up the utensils from breakfast.

“Now, Dad’s going to clean up the table, so go change your clothes and get ready, Ellis.”

“Yep, I got it.”

Her short legs hurried pitter-patter up the stairs to her room.

“Can I come watch too?”

“And kill all the crops again?”

“Haang, it’s not like I meant to do that last time!”

“You just fell over and the almost the entire corn crop was destroyed.”

“The earth’s just too weak to receive this goddess’s blessings. Raise it toughaaaaaaa”

“And whose mouth is it that’s saying such things? Hm? Just how much corn died back then! Apologise! Apologise to all the corn that couldn’t go into our bellies because of you!”

“Im sopletely perfect!”

Our brightly smiling Ellis was no longer an ordinary 12 year old girl, but a perfect aspiring farmer with three years of experience already under her belt!

“Tools?”

“All ready!”

In her skinny hands was a basket full with all sorts of tools.

“Alright, we are perfectly ready for battle.”

“Yes, captain!”

I looked over Ellis’s inexact but adorable salute with a smile.

“Today’s weather!”

“Mister sunshine is bright and sunny! Perfect weather for farming!”

“Very good, today’s objective!”

“Potatoes and other assorted vegetables! We’re aiming for ingredients to fry tonight!”

“Yes we are, and if we finish up quickly today then I’ll see about going into town for some chickens.”

“Yessir! I’ll do my best!”

Excellent, she’s full of motivation.

“Then move out!”

“Move out!”

“Bye bye~”

With the metal bat’s half-assed farewells, we started heading towards our fields that welcomed the warm sunlight.

Four years since escaping from Yugrasia.

We were now full-fledged farmers.