Chapter 1277 – [Eventful Summer]

I’m saying it out of the blue, but the weapon used here was something other than a firearm. In the first place, it was difficult to properly use and store gunpowder weapons in this place where most of the sea was humid and the weather was humid, so I had to find an alternative.

That’s why the air gun was created. Instead of gunpowder, it uses the force of compressed air to return to its original state as propulsion.

Since it was such a weapon, it was difficult to fire it, so it was more like arrows than bullets. A large caliber can even shoot a harpoon.

Anyway, if you ask why I say that, it’s because it was shot at me out of nowhere.

Whoop!!!!

“We can’t give our Luri to the likes of you!!!!!”

A long, little-finger-thick iron bar was fired at me, and I immediately slammed it out of the air. Jjoong! And the iron rod bends and rolls on the floor.

“……….Uh?”

“Ruri and I have a boyfriend, but let’s not openly shoot things like this.”

“No, how did you do that with your bare hands?!”

“Goodbye”

No matter how dire the situation gets, I can’t say my girl isn’t my girl. What kind of Hong Gil-dong is this?

Although her mischievous side is strong, it is because Ruri and Ruri have been in a relationship since her previous life. Now that I’ve regained her memories, it’s definitely the Grouri I know.

As the representative of an organization, he was quick-witted and had the skills to deal with things. He gently lowered the muzzle at him and handed me an apology.

“I’m sorry. Ruri has been close enough to know her baby’s mother since she was young, so when she said she was the one to take such a child, she was furious.”

“Well, if her daughter brings a bastard to get married, I think I will too, so I understand.”

“I can’t get married because of my father”

“I’m blaming my father for not having enough money.

She knew that Eden was my daughter, and she knew that I was married, but she didn’t say anything about it. As much as the world is like this, it seems that they are free when it comes to marriage issues.

Hagisa The more the world collapses, the harder it will be to maintain monogamy. If you have the power, polygamy or polygamy is possible, and there are probably places that still do that.

“I’ll give you a room. Make yourself comfortable during your stay. And I’d like to invite you to dinner later, would that be all right?”

“Yes, if you’re invited, I’ll accept it. But there’s a glutton in the party, so you’ll have to cook quite a bit.”

“Don’t worry about that”

No, I think you should be concerned. Even if you prepare to the level of a moderate glutton, Eden won’t even send a message in front of you.

After we finished talking, we left the room. Even if the clan members guarding his room pretend not to be interested, it is noticeable that their noses are twitching from the reverberation of fairy tears.

Let’s understand that much. In this era, alcohol is hard to find, and fruit is even harder to find.

“I made a lot of money, so I have to spend it!!! First of all, let’s go with the intention of spending all the bills worth 1,500 gold coins here!!!”

“Can I use all of that?”

“It’s not that I don’t have cash, because I have another 500 gold coins. That should be enough for my travel expenses.”

First of all, before dinner with Jamie, I decided to prepare the things I needed for the itinerary. Since there is Eden, start with food. Even if I caught and ate fish while traveling, I couldn’t live on just that every day, so I had to buy something else.

Follow Ruri, who is familiar with the geography of this place, into the market. The market was located on the first floor of the Safe Zone, and upon entering such a market, the fishy smell of fish began to waft even more than before.

It’s a nasty smell, but considering the environment here, it was rather better. You wouldn’t be able to clean properly on the sea, and the weather was hot there, but it was fortunate that it didn’t smell like Surströmming.

“Surprisingly enough to put up with it? I use a separate deodorant made from ground shells.”

“Ah, you mean calcium oxide.

“Because we also have to think hard to live here. Places that can’t even do that smell really rotten.”

When clam shells are calcined at high temperatures and ground, they become calcium oxide. And since the calcium oxide has a bactericidal effect, the effect as a deodorant is good.

It’s just that it’s harmful to the human body, but that’s not something to worry about here. Even though there is no atmosphere, there is an atmosphere that has been properly civilized.

“Let’s start by buying vegetables. It’s nothing special if we say vegetables.”

“Vegetables? You have vegetables?”

“There are two main types of vegetables, one of which is vegetables grown on a boat after removing the salt from the soil by pumping up soil from the seabed, and the other is vegetables grown using hydroponics. Because there is a desalination facility, water can be used.”

“It’s in earnest. How much supply do you think is enough?”

“Otherwise, we would all die of scurvy.”

Scurvy, characterized by bleeding from the gums, was a disease that killed many sailors in the past. The disease was caused by a lack of vitamin C, but it was mainly caused by the lack of ways to supplement vitamin C on the stomach.

To replenish things like vitamin C, you have to eat vegetables or fruits, but isn’t it difficult to find such things on the ship? In other places, it is an island, so it would be possible to stop by and supply it, but this is impossible because there are more seas than land, let alone islands.

Periodically, if vitamin C and other vitamins are not supplemented, a person will die. Surprisingly, humans are animals that need a lot more than their ability to adapt.

“I rarely see things grown in soil because they are mainly used for seed propagation, and the ones we live in are ones grown through hydroponics. First of all, I have to supplement with vitamins, so I have to buy them.”

The market was very noisy. Most of the things sold as much as the smell of fishy fish are seafood.

There are places that sell fish caught in the sea as they are, while others are processed, but among them, dried flowers stand out.

“Dad!!! Dad!!!! The abalone is so big!!!! It will be delicious if you cook it!!!”

“Hey, I dried it, but at this rate, how big was my life? How much is this?”

“I get gold coins for 3 dried abalones!!”

“Then give me 30”

“Oh, thank you!!!!”

Drying intensifies the taste. Although tastes differ, this is the reason why raisins are made.

Likewise, dried seafood has a concentrated taste and rich umami. In particular, it is treated as a high-quality food ingredient in China to the extent that the word dried currency itself means dried currency.

If you boil the broth in water, the soup will be just awesome. Besides, the bigger the size, the better the taste.

“Once I get a thousand gold coins from the promissory note, I’ll buy equipment and the remaining 500 will buy food, so I can buy a lot.”

“Oh, then let me try that. Fish skewers. Do you want the Devil and Eden to eat too?”

“Oh, that’s delicious. Wait a minute, I’ll buy it”

Mary was interested in the fish skewers being sold on one side of the market. She said it was fish, so she didn’t just put fish on a skewer, it looked like grilled eel. Is it a conger eel? No, I think it’s a little bit different.

There is no separate marinade, so I use fish sauce instead and bake it, but it still smells quite delicious. Ruri quickly went and paid the price and brought some skewers to share with us.

“Oh!!! The flesh is soft and delicious.”

“It would have been better if it had been seasoned with grilled eel instead of a fish farm.”

“I can’t help it. You can’t get something like that from a place like this. Anyway, I ate it after a long time, so it’s delicious.”

“Oh, it reminds me of the old days. I caught a fish like this in the stream and shared it with my older brothers.”

“I think it was a freshwater eel?”

“It was hard to eat because there were so many bones.”

Originally, eel had many bones. To make it well, the cook must have good skills.

Shall we eat eel later… No, maybe it’s because there’s an image of eating eel because it’s said to be good for stamina.

Eventually, we found a vegetable vendor on one side of the market. There, bean sprouts siru, which seem to have been grown through hydroponic cultivation, stand out.

However, bean sprouts were green, not yellow, unlike the bean sprouts we know in general.

“Huh? Why are bean sprouts green?”

“Eden, bean sprouts must be grown without sunlight to become the yellow bean sprouts we know. These are bean sprouts grown under sunlight.”

“Why? Do you have to do that on purpose?”

“Probably a nutritional problem, right?”

“That’s right. It’s not a fruit, it’s a vegetable, but we eat it to live, not for the taste.”

Green bean sprouts are better than yellow bean sprouts if you eat them as a vitamin supplement to prevent scurvy. This is because green bean sprouts contain several times more vitamins.

However, the reason why it wasn’t like that on the other side of the earth was because it didn’t look good and it smelled fishy and was tough. I can’t afford to worry about such extravagant things here, so it seems like I’m eating like this.

“I’ve bought everything… I’m going to buy equipment tomorrow and take a break today. Let’s go to a restaurant and have a meal!!!”

“Oh!!! I wonder what the cooking is like here!!!!”

“It’s nothing special, but there are things to eat. I’d rather not drink alcohol.”

“Do you have any alcohol?”

“It’s not the kind of alcohol excavated from the wreckage before the Great War, but it’s diluted with ethanol produced for disinfection and made like diluted soju. But because it doesn’t contain additives, it tastes worse than Korean soju.”

“No, if it’s not as tasty as Korean soju, isn’t it just drinking to get drunk?”

Even Korean soju has a sweet taste because it contains additives. It’s just that the taste isn’t noticeable thanks to the alcohol, but the taste itself is sweet. Rather, that’s why it’s drinkable level for diluted soju.

But without those additives… It’s something like alcohol that you wouldn’t drink unless you really wanted to get drunk. I’m not kidding.

“At least that much is better. I heard that there are not one or two people who have gone blind while drinking methanol somewhere.”

“I shouldn’t drink alcohol”

“Anyway, follow me!!! I know a restaurant that makes it delicious!!!”

We followed Ruri into a shop in the middle of the market. It’s a pretty big store, and it seemed like a fairly well-run business.

Upon entering her store, her owner, who noticed her Ruri, greeted her.

“Who is this!!! Isn’t that a no marker!!!”

“Am I going crazy right now? I’m going to have a fight, what the hell!!!”

“So, who told me not to join a clan and just go out to sea alone? Yes, it looks like I’ve made friends, right?”

“These are companions who will be traveling together for a while. We haven’t created a clan yet.”

“It’s good, because it’s better to be in a group than alone to make it through this sea.”

“Anyway, give me some food. According to the number of people… No, about 10 times the number of people.”

“Ten times? Can I eat that much?”

“You should eat it all. It doesn’t matter if you leave it anyway.”

We sat in a corner of the store and waited for our dishes to be served. I was about to come out, but it wasn’t that grandiose, and only a few things came out, including grilled fish.

However, if there is one that stands out, let’s talk about it. Sliced ​​a little thinner than usual, it was like noodles, with fish meat sliced ​​into long strips, and even diluted with fish sauce, so it was like buckwheat noodles.

“You’ll know it when you see it, right? This is how you eat it.”

“Since there are no noodles, it seems like you’re eating noodles like this.”

“In large safe zones that run poultry farms, they say they make fish cake by adding viscosity with eggs instead of starch and cut it into thin and long pieces and eat it like noodles.”

“Oh, that sounds delicious too.”

“They say they use the broth with fish bones and crustacean broth.”

“Then it’s like fish cake soup”

The dishes were quite tasty. Although the taste was bland, I still liked the chewy texture of the bones unique to Sekkoshi, and when I scooped it up and dipped it in the fish sauce, it felt hearty.

No matter how much it is, it’s not noodles, but fish? Who would eat sashimi this way?

“It’s not as bad as I thought. You should know why the business is doing well.”

“Mary, don’t you want more? Order more if you have.”

“Shouldn’t the devil take care of his daughter first?”

“Eden eats well on his own, so there’s no problem. My daughter isn’t going to starve anywhere.”

“If I don’t have anything to eat, I’ll eat dirt.”

“It’s scary because you can digest even real dirt.”

If Eden can convert the food he ate into ether, he can also convert it by eating soil. It’s painful, but if you convert the dirt you eat into nutrients, you won’t starve to death.

At least one less worry about starving to death. I can die for other reasons, so I’m worried about that again.

“Hey, the young lady eats well. Yes, let’s eat this too.”

“Oh, thank you!!!!!”

The shop owner even served a service dish, as if Eden, who was eating well, looked special. It was like clear boiled altang, but it was quite delicious.

After eating for a while… We decided to listen to Ruri’s travel plan in earnest.

“Yes, if you think the place you found exists, there must be at least a strong candidate? What are your travel plans?”

“For now, I’m looking at two places”

“Two places?”

“One side is an undersea volcanic area. There is a place where an eruption occurred a few years ago to such an extent that an earthquake could be felt. If you are lucky, the island must have been created by a volcanic eruption.”

“But a volcanic area like that wouldn’t be very good as a base.”

“Now is not the time to cover it up. Well… The other one is in the south, where there are many reefs and strong currents, so everyone is reluctant to go in.

“It’s going to be a pretty long journey. Wouldn’t it make the schedule longer?”

“If you can ride the current well, it’ll be in no time. It didn’t take long to get here.”

Come to think of it, the current was quite fast here. Is it because it is mostly by the sea? As Ruri said, if you only know the current, it will be of great help to move to the desired place.

“But there are problems in each place. First of all, the volcanic area under the sea is the territory of the large clan, and the other side is the place where the country and the large clan fight against each other.”

“Hey, if you go, you’ll be in trouble.”

“In that case, I’ll ask you, mister.”

“Did you call me for this?”

“I did the same thing last time, but what? Instead, I’ll pay you back with my body!!!! This episode is a virgin!!!!”

“Hey!!!!! What are you talking about in front of the kid!!!!”

And at that moment, the people in the store who heard Ruri’s voice stood up.

As this is Ruri’s hometown, there will be people who know her…And there will be people who care for her as much as the clan chief here.

“What?! What to do with Ruri?”

“What kind of bastard is this……!!!!”

Ahhh, the premonition of commotion!!!!!