Chapter 85
The hardships of harvesting really hit home.
My back hurts...
My arms hurt...
I'm tired...
I haven't known fatigue since coming to this world, but now I'm tired.
Staying hunched over while harvesting is brutal—my back is killing me!
Praise me for working so hard!
For some reason, Karen rubbed against me.
Did Karen heal me?
Thank you.
Mira, whom I'm hugging tightly, has soft, pleasant fur.
...Why are Mira's companions gathering, too?
For now, I hugged everyone tight and let myself be comforted.
The vegetables the farming team harvested and brought over amounted to quite a lot; some even multiplied when we checked whether they were edible.
We're a little short on storage space.
...Not a little—we're completely out.
Huh? How much did we harvest?
The back?
The farming team led me to the Fruit Forest... Come to think of it, it had expanded, too.
Oh, so they're harvesting here, too.
No wonder we're running out of room.
But why has the farming team stockpiled so much?
Do we need all this?
Huh? Next? ...I couldn't figure out what the farming team was trying to tell me.
Sorry.
Well, I suppose there's a reason.
I'll go along with them and do my best.
They let me know it was time to harvest the grapes.
...Wine!
I almost forgot.
Let's get that wine started.
Wine is easy, after all.
Except for the barrels.
...
I decided making barrels was hopeless.
No good. I tried making a small one with magic, but it wouldn't hold water.
So I searched for a huge tree. There were so many that I hardly had to look.
I cut one down to about a meter high and hollowed out the inside, naturally with magic.
I shaped it into a barrel, made a stopper, and it was done.
Then... I made 43 of them.
I used up quite a few large trees.
Grapes have natural yeast on their skins, and that's what you use to make wine.
So you just crush them, put them in barrels, seal them, and let them age.
For now... huh?
I ended up with 38, but there are three types of grapes?
I only tasted one type. Will this be okay?
Well, let's trust the farming team.
There's nowhere to let them age.
...Let's expand Basement Level 1. We're also running out of room in the storage areas.
...
I psyched myself up, but... all I had to do was cut the rocks into manageable sizes with magic and teleport them elsewhere.
I barely had to move my own body; all I used was my mind and magic power.
Still, I will work hard.
Cut, move, cut, move... Repeating it gets boring.
I kept at it.
Basement Level 1 was now three times its original size.
I got carried away.
The rocky area had expanded, so I expanded it without worrying about it, and it became enormous.
I started worrying it might collapse, so partway through, I reinforced the surrounding rock and built pillars to shore it up.
...I was still worried, so I reinforced the entire house. It shouldn't collapse now.
The one-eyed ones and the farming team seemed happy, so that was good.
I made storage rooms and a wine cellar.
There was still plenty of space. Of course there was.
I'd have freaked out if there wasn't.
When I went outside, a massive pile of rocks had appeared in the clearing.
...What should I do?
For now, I shaped the rocks and laid them like cobblestones along the path from the house to outside.
It wasn't getting any smaller.
I tried to make a new hole near the house, in addition to Shuri's hole and the flying lizards' hole, but the idea was rejected.
Maybe there's room underground.
I expanded Basement Level 1 too much, after all.
What should I do?