Chapter 36
I toss the red fruits the baby spiders brought me into the bag one after another.
Who would have thought the bag I brought would turn into a magic bag.
Thanks to that famous robot!
I harvest thirty red fruits the baby spiders brought me.
There still seem to be some fruits left, but I'll stop here. Maybe it's not harvest season yet?
The baby spiders freely travel back and forth between the trees.
A tiny ninja.
I follow the baby spiders through the forest.
For some reason, the baby spiders lead the way.
Much appreciated.
A baby spider slips past right in front of me.
When I stop to check, I see a short tree with thick foliage a few steps away.
When I approach, the baby spider harvests another one.
Within the thick foliage, I can see cabbage-like clumps here and there.
It seems to have brought me one of those clumps.
This one is pretty big too, about the size of a basketball.
I compare the size of the baby spider and the clump. How can it harvest something this big?
I peel off a leaf from the vegetable clump and try eating it.
It has no bitterness, just a gentle sweetness and a crisp texture.
It's not cabbage, and it's not lettuce—somewhere in between?
It's hard to describe, but it's good.
I put more of it in the bag.
There are dozens of these vegetable trees—or whatever they are—here.
Since they're clustered together, there's a lot to harvest.
Fifty in all.
...I might let them rot before I can eat them all.
Once I get home, I'll think about whether I can cast some kind of magic over the storage room.
...I've walked quite a way, but there don't seem to be many trees bearing edible fruit.
There seem to be quite a lot of monsters. They try to attack me, but Koa scares them off with a growl.
Koa is the strongest!
Even I find Koa scary when Koa growls!
I find a tree bearing vivid yellow-green fruit.
This time, a baby spider harvests a fist-sized fruit.
It has a refreshing scent like lemon.
This time, it harvests bluish fruit from the same tree.
This one... has no scent.
It's strange, but since it brought it to me, I put it in the bag.
Fifty fruits harvested between the two kinds.
There are three types in all.
For now, I'll return home.
When I get home, there are five prey animals in front of Shion and Chai, who had gone off on their own.
There are seven in front of Soa and Hio.
There are two in front of Crow.
The number of prey they hunt is increasing day by day.
Even so, that's a lot.
Together, Koa and the others eat three prey animals a day, so I need to tell them not to hunt too much.
But first, I pet them on the head to thank them.
I've gotten used to butchering them, so it doesn't take long.
I can skin them with magic now, too, which saves time.
I teleport the meat into the cold-storage room.
As for the hides... I'm still trying to figure out what to do with them.
I call out to the boss to check how big the baby spiders are.
...
Boss, have you grown, too...?