Early in the morning, I cleaned up the campfire by myself while everyone slept.
I completely extinguished the remaining fire with seawater, dug a hole in the ground in the forest near the beach, and buried the ashes.
I also washed the dirty tableware with seawater and then used Clean up on them. I made the wood that wasn’t used for the campfire into boards and made a large amount of sticky boards. They’re things that won’t be a problem no matter how many I have.
Furthermore, I also want to replenish our medicine, such as sleeping medicine and paralytics, as much as I can. Entering the forest, I searched for whether there were flowers used for sleeping drugs and mushrooms used for paralytics while seeing a beasel chasing a gagapo. I hugged the gagapo I found, protecting it, and captured the beasels coming this way with sticky boards for experimentation.
I didn’t find any flowers used for sleeping drugs or the like, but I did find the types of mushrooms that make you see hallucinations, or laugh until you die. All of them are things in the book Camilla showed me and the ingredients left unsold in Camilla’s shop. Unusual information is useful in unusual situations.
I’ll try making hallucinogenics and laughter-asphyxiation agents. I’ve never made anything like a laugh asphyxiation agent before, and I’m doubtful whether it existed in the past, but I’ll try it.
Once I made it, I tested it on the beasels I captured and observed them with the Diagnosis Skill. Beasels are harmful vermin to this island, so there should be no problems with killing them.
As a result, I discovered that the laughter-asphyxiation agent doesn’t kill. It’s doubtful whether the mushrooms are deadly in the first place. But either way, they seem to be seeing hallucinations, with vacant eyes and tongues hanging out of their mouths, in an abnormal condition.
I also had slow-acting poisonous mushrooms, so I made poison. I was troubled over whether to test the poison on the beasels or not, but I ended up testing it. Putting the poisonous dumplings in their mouths, I observed the writhing beasels with the Diagnosis Skill. I discovered that their internal organs took quite the damage, so I made it easier for them.
I burned their bodies to ash with a magic circle and buried them in the ground.
I got two types of hallucination drug and delayed poison. As expected, the types of poisons I can make will very from region to region. With things turning out like this, I discovered that what Camilla carried in the Elf’s Pharmacy is amazingly effective. I’ll try asking Camilla about her ingredients the next time I call Balzack.
Shiose-san was awake when I returned to the beach.
“Sorry about that. Leaving the clean up to you.”
“Aah, it’s fine. In fact, I was able to secure quite a few things.”
Cleaning up, or rather cleaning in general might have become ingrained into my body; I did it unconsciously.
“I’ve protected four gagapo who looked like they were being attacked by beasels. Although I’ve already released them in the forest.”
“I see. What about the beasels?”
“I disposed of them while experimenting with hallucinogens and poisons.”
“Experiments… How gruesome, but you’ve helped me out.”
“Ah, that’s right, I thought of doing it with the hallucinogens, but what about making a fake gagapo thing as a trap?”
“Hm? What kind of thing?”
I talked with Shiose-san about the trap I thought of.
The trap I proposed was putting hallucinogens within a plush gagapo thing, and by pulling it with a string, the beasels will bite into it.
“I think that when the beasels bite into it, they’ll see hallucinations and become unable to move.”
“I see. However, in my case, when I see the beasels I’ll kill them with the bow.”
Ah, that’s right. This person is a bow demon.
“Then what about scattering the hallucinogenic dumplings around? Even if the gagapo eat it by mistake they won’t die.”
“But gagapos who eat it by mistake won’t make good eating, right?”
That’s true. Hm. This is pretty difficult.
“You said poison, but what kind is it?”
Shiose-san asked.
“It’s a slow-acting poison, the type of poison that damages the body and internal organs. Once absorbed, they died writhing.”
“I see, how about soaking monster meat in it? Gagapo aren’t carnivorous and won’t eat the meat, but beasels will even eat carcasses.”
“That might work!”
“Can you teach me the poison’s ingredients?”
“Of course, let’s go into the forest for a bit.”
So saying, Shiose-san and I entered the forest.
We couldn’t find the poisonous mushrooms easily, so we walked quite a bit.
The sun was quite high by the time we finally found them growing en masse on dead wood in the entrance of the cliff’s cave.
Putting work gloves on, we harvested 80%, and Shiose-san memorized the location.
“Man, you’ve saved me. To be honest, just having Lucio and I aren’t enough so I was thinking we were going to have to use traps. Getting to talk to a trader with the ability to make traps has been very helpful.”
“But you’re the one who thought of it, Shiose-san.”
“No, if I was alone, I wouldn’t have thought of this method. I bet I’d just make a small pitfall, at most. You’re basis of thought is truly different. I was thinking from the idea of catching monsters to eat, but it’s a totally different field of thought.”
We returned to the beach as Shiose-san praised exterminators.
At the beach, everyone was already awake, preparing for lunch.
Lunch is dried herringfish and vegetable stirfry. And also a stew with a potato-like vegetable, (Velsa called it bareimo). The siren wives have also completely warmed up to us, and Cory also carried food, helping.
Shiose-san and I washed our hands thoroughly, telling everyone about what happened in the forest earlier. Shiose-san repeatedly said, “Exterminators are amazing. Their way of thinking is fundamentally different from ours.”
After lunch, I taught Shiose-san and Lucio how to make poison, and Ayl and Velsa took Bori-san and Cory-san into the forest to see the Gagapo. Seth and Merumo cleaned up the tableware together with the siren wives, and drank tea. The wives were surprised with the tea and their eyes went round as they made merry.
“Boil this, and with this sort of timing, lift it up……”
Explaining like that in front of the pot, Shiose-san looked over at me and froze.
“Naoki … sir, how much is your Pharmacy Skill?”
Lucia asked.
“Heh? Aah, 10. It’s okay. It’s fine, it’s not so difficult if you just want to lean this poison. You can fail a lot.”
I said as I looked at the poison mushroom I’d scooped up.
The silent Shiose-san ruffled his hair up once, making a serious face, and,
“Alright! Teacher, please, show me once more!”
he said eagerly. It’s like he’s included a shout full of spirit or something.
I showed them a sample once, and the two began to make it.
They failed many times, but it seems that they won’t stop until they succeed.
“I never thought I’d be challenging a new Skill at this age.”
“I was never allowed to do such a thing in the castle.”
It seems the two are having a bit of fun making the poison.
“Isn’t it fun when you can do it well?”
“ “It’s fun!” “
While the two were still all for it, I taught them how to make antidotes and recovery potions with the antidote herbs and medicinal herbs. The herbs being crushed in the mortar were things I’d picked from the banks of the river in the forest.
Finishing the explanation of how to make it,
“Just repeat this. Then practice, or put skill points in the Pharmacy Skill when you raise your level.”
“I understand. Thank you very much!”
“Thank you very much! Teacher, can you show us a sample?”
“Got it.”
I made 3 bottles each of poison, antidote, and recovery potions for samples.
“If you sell this in a city, each bottle would be 1 gold coin.”
Merumo said, bringing tea over.
“I’m not that rich.”
“Aah, it’s fine.”
I said, but Shiose-san asked Lucio, “Do you have money?” Lucio said, “I came here naked, so I don’t have any,” sadly.
Right then, Ayl and the others returned from the forest.
“Ah, oi! Dry goods store, lend me money!”
“What the heck. Suddenly out of nowhere. How much do you need?”
“E-m, there are 9 bottles, so 9 gold coins.”
“A dry goods stored doesn’t have that much.”
Shiose-san said, “That’s true,” and folded his arms.
“No, like I said, it’s fine. Hm, then I’ll lend it to you, so return it when we return some day. Please use them during an emergency.”
“Is that fine?”
“Yes, in return, increase the amount of gagapo and treat us to delicious meat next time we come.”
“Got it! It’s a promise!”
Shiose-san took my hand and clasped it.
“Agaain, you’re working for free!”
Ayl told me.
“Isn’t it fine? The banquet yesterday was fun, right? And you don’t get many chances to drink liquor with beautiful siren wives.”
“Well, that’s true.”
Ayl agreed, so we’ll call it good. Velsa said, “You can’t experience this anywhere else. To the point where we’re the ones who gained,” and she seems like she doesn’t intend to take money for the first time.
“Are you done with the gagapo?”
I asked Velsa.
“Un. I also made a sketch. And there’s also a monster scholar on this island.”
Velsa responded.
“Then we’ll be off!”
“Are you leaving already!?”
Shiose-san asked, a bit sadly.
“Yes, before the sun sets.”
“I see. You’re going to the eastern continent?”
Bori-san asked.
“Yes, that’s our intention.”
“Then. O-i! Guide their ship to the eastern continent-!”
Bori-san called out to his siren wives. The wives waved their hands in reply. It seems they’ll be guiding us. We can feel reassured if guided by sirens.
We made preparations for departure.
“Ah, Lucio. Branton might come to this island. Be aware.”
“Eh? He’ll come? I got it!”
“Is that okay?”
“Hm – well, it will be okay!”
The naked former-prince answered brightly. His frightened look when on the northern island a few days ago has already changed completely, it seems.
“Alright! Let’s set off!”
Ayl pushed the boat out to sea and leapt onto the boat. Spreading our sails, we set sail.
“We owe you a lot. Thanks!”
On the beach, Lucio waved his hand broadly towards us. Shiose-san, Bori-san, and Cory were also waving their hands on the beach.
We waved our hands in return.
We left the island and had passed a number of islands when the siren wives told us to stop for a moment, and we dropped anchor.
It was just before sunset, so the eastern sky was dark. The siren wives began to swim like they were dancing. In the span of 10 minutes, sealights gathered around the ship, and the siren wives leapt from the sea, circled, and began swimming even more elegantly.
“Look!”
Ayl, in the bow of the ship, pointed ahead of us with her finger.
The sealights in front of our ship made a long thin line.
The light blue light stretched straight out towards the east. If we followed this light east, we’ll probably reach the eastern continent.
The siren wives waved their hands and returned to their beloved and child’s side.
“ “ “ “ Thank you!!” “ “ “
We waved our hands in return and lifted anchor.
When the sun sank completely, we could see that the pale light made a beautiful pathway in the dark ocean.
“How mysterious.”
Velsa muttered.
“These are also monsters. The siren wives and the gagapo are also monsters. The masmascarl and locusthoppers are also monsters. Monsters are mysterious.”
Velsa words remained in my ears.
Early in the morning, I cleaned up the campfire by myself while everyone slept.
I completely extinguished the remaining fire with seawater, dug a hole in the ground in the forest near the beach, and buried the ashes.
I also washed the dirty tableware with seawater and then used Clean up on them. I made the wood that wasn’t used for the campfire into boards and made a large amount of sticky boards. They’re things that won’t be a problem no matter how many I have.
Furthermore, I also want to replenish our medicine, such as sleeping medicine and paralytics, as much as I can. Entering the forest, I searched for whether there were flowers used for sleeping drugs and mushrooms used for paralytics while seeing a beasel chasing a gagapo. I hugged the gagapo I found, protecting it, and captured the beasels coming this way with sticky boards for experimentation.
I didn’t find any flowers used for sleeping drugs or the like, but I did find the types of mushrooms that make you see hallucinations, or laugh until you die. All of them are things in the book Camilla showed me and the ingredients left unsold in Camilla’s shop. Unusual information is useful in unusual situations.
I’ll try making hallucinogenics and laughter-asphyxiation agents. I’ve never made anything like a laugh asphyxiation agent before, and I’m doubtful whether it existed in the past, but I’ll try it.
Once I made it, I tested it on the beasels I captured and observed them with the Diagnosis Skill. Beasels are harmful vermin to this island, so there should be no problems with killing them.
As a result, I discovered that the laughter-asphyxiation agent doesn’t kill. It’s doubtful whether the mushrooms are deadly in the first place. But either way, they seem to be seeing hallucinations, with vacant eyes and tongues hanging out of their mouths, in an abnormal condition.
I also had slow-acting poisonous mushrooms, so I made poison. I was troubled over whether to test the poison on the beasels or not, but I ended up testing it. Putting the poisonous dumplings in their mouths, I observed the writhing beasels with the Diagnosis Skill. I discovered that their internal organs took quite the damage, so I made it easier for them.
I burned their bodies to ash with a magic circle and buried them in the ground.
I got two types of hallucination drug and delayed poison. As expected, the types of poisons I can make will very from region to region. With things turning out like this, I discovered that what Camilla carried in the Elf’s Pharmacy is amazingly effective. I’ll try asking Camilla about her ingredients the next time I call Balzack.
Shiose-san was awake when I returned to the beach.
“Sorry about that. Leaving the clean up to you.”
“Aah, it’s fine. In fact, I was able to secure quite a few things.”
Cleaning up, or rather cleaning in general might have become ingrained into my body; I did it unconsciously.
“I’ve protected four gagapo who looked like they were being attacked by beasels. Although I’ve already released them in the forest.”
“I see. What about the beasels?”
“I disposed of them while experimenting with hallucinogens and poisons.”
“Experiments… How gruesome, but you’ve helped me out.”
“Ah, that’s right, I thought of doing it with the hallucinogens, but what about making a fake gagapo thing as a trap?”
“Hm? What kind of thing?”
I talked with Shiose-san about the trap I thought of.
The trap I proposed was putting hallucinogens within a plush gagapo thing, and by pulling it with a string, the beasels will bite into it.
“I think that when the beasels bite into it, they’ll see hallucinations and become unable to move.”
“I see. However, in my case, when I see the beasels I’ll kill them with the bow.”
Ah, that’s right. This person is a bow demon.
“Then what about scattering the hallucinogenic dumplings around? Even if the gagapo eat it by mistake they won’t die.”
“But gagapos who eat it by mistake won’t make good eating, right?”
That’s true. Hm. This is pretty difficult.
“You said poison, but what kind is it?”
Shiose-san asked.
“It’s a slow-acting poison, the type of poison that damages the body and internal organs. Once absorbed, they died writhing.”
“I see, how about soaking monster meat in it? Gagapo aren’t carnivorous and won’t eat the meat, but beasels will even eat carcasses.”
“That might work!”
“Can you teach me the poison’s ingredients?”
“Of course, let’s go into the forest for a bit.”
So saying, Shiose-san and I entered the forest.
We couldn’t find the poisonous mushrooms easily, so we walked quite a bit.
The sun was quite high by the time we finally found them growing en masse on dead wood in the entrance of the cliff’s cave.
Putting work gloves on, we harvested 80%, and Shiose-san memorized the location.
“Man, you’ve saved me. To be honest, just having Lucio and I aren’t enough so I was thinking we were going to have to use traps. Getting to talk to a trader with the ability to make traps has been very helpful.”
“But you’re the one who thought of it, Shiose-san.”
“No, if I was alone, I wouldn’t have thought of this method. I bet I’d just make a small pitfall, at most. You’re basis of thought is truly different. I was thinking from the idea of catching monsters to eat, but it’s a totally different field of thought.”
We returned to the beach as Shiose-san praised exterminators.
At the beach, everyone was already awake, preparing for lunch.
Lunch is dried herringfish and vegetable stirfry. And also a stew with a potato-like vegetable, (Velsa called it bareimo). The siren wives have also completely warmed up to us, and Cory also carried food, helping.
Shiose-san and I washed our hands thoroughly, telling everyone about what happened in the forest earlier. Shiose-san repeatedly said, “Exterminators are amazing. Their way of thinking is fundamentally different from ours.”
After lunch, I taught Shiose-san and Lucio how to make poison, and Ayl and Velsa took Bori-san and Cory-san into the forest to see the Gagapo. Seth and Merumo cleaned up the tableware together with the siren wives, and drank tea. The wives were surprised with the tea and their eyes went round as they made merry.
“Boil this, and with this sort of timing, lift it up……”
Explaining like that in front of the pot, Shiose-san looked over at me and froze.
“Naoki … sir, how much is your Pharmacy Skill?”
Lucia asked.
“Heh? Aah, 10. It’s okay. It’s fine, it’s not so difficult if you just want to lean this poison. You can fail a lot.”
I said as I looked at the poison mushroom I’d scooped up.
The silent Shiose-san ruffled his hair up once, making a serious face, and,
“Alright! Teacher, please, show me once more!”
he said eagerly. It’s like he’s included a shout full of spirit or something.
I showed them a sample once, and the two began to make it.
They failed many times, but it seems that they won’t stop until they succeed.
“I never thought I’d be challenging a new Skill at this age.”
“I was never allowed to do such a thing in the castle.”
It seems the two are having a bit of fun making the poison.
“Isn’t it fun when you can do it well?”
“ “It’s fun!” “
While the two were still all for it, I taught them how to make antidotes and recovery potions with the antidote herbs and medicinal herbs. The herbs being crushed in the mortar were things I’d picked from the banks of the river in the forest.
Finishing the explanation of how to make it,
“Just repeat this. Then practice, or put skill points in the Pharmacy Skill when you raise your level.”
“I understand. Thank you very much!”
“Thank you very much! Teacher, can you show us a sample?”
“Got it.”
I made 3 bottles each of poison, antidote, and recovery potions for samples.
“If you sell this in a city, each bottle would be 1 gold coin.”
Merumo said, bringing tea over.
“I’m not that rich.”
“Aah, it’s fine.”
I said, but Shiose-san asked Lucio, “Do you have money?” Lucio said, “I came here naked, so I don’t have any,” sadly.
Right then, Ayl and the others returned from the forest.
“Ah, oi! Dry goods store, lend me money!”
“What the heck. Suddenly out of nowhere. How much do you need?”
“E-m, there are 9 bottles, so 9 gold coins.”
“A dry goods stored doesn’t have that much.”
Shiose-san said, “That’s true,” and folded his arms.
“No, like I said, it’s fine. Hm, then I’ll lend it to you, so return it when we return some day. Please use them during an emergency.”
“Is that fine?”
“Yes, in return, increase the amount of gagapo and treat us to delicious meat next time we come.”
“Got it! It’s a promise!”
Shiose-san took my hand and clasped it.
“Agaain, you’re working for free!”
Ayl told me.
“Isn’t it fine? The banquet yesterday was fun, right? And you don’t get many chances to drink liquor with beautiful siren wives.”
“Well, that’s true.”
Ayl agreed, so we’ll call it good. Velsa said, “You can’t experience this anywhere else. To the point where we’re the ones who gained,” and she seems like she doesn’t intend to take money for the first time.
“Are you done with the gagapo?”
I asked Velsa.
“Un. I also made a sketch. And there’s also a monster scholar on this island.”
Velsa responded.
“Then we’ll be off!”
“Are you leaving already!?”
Shiose-san asked, a bit sadly.
“Yes, before the sun sets.”
“I see. You’re going to the eastern continent?”
Bori-san asked.
“Yes, that’s our intention.”
“Then. O-i! Guide their ship to the eastern continent-!”
Bori-san called out to his siren wives. The wives waved their hands in reply. It seems they’ll be guiding us. We can feel reassured if guided by sirens.
We made preparations for departure.
“Ah, Lucio. Branton might come to this island. Be aware.”
“Eh? He’ll come? I got it!”
“Is that okay?”
“Hm – well, it will be okay!”
The naked former-prince answered brightly. His frightened look when on the northern island a few days ago has already changed completely, it seems.
“Alright! Let’s set off!”
Ayl pushed the boat out to sea and leapt onto the boat. Spreading our sails, we set sail.
“We owe you a lot. Thanks!”
On the beach, Lucio waved his hand broadly towards us. Shiose-san, Bori-san, and Cory were also waving their hands on the beach.
We waved our hands in return.
We left the island and had passed a number of islands when the siren wives told us to stop for a moment, and we dropped anchor.
It was just before sunset, so the eastern sky was dark. The siren wives began to swim like they were dancing. In the span of 10 minutes, sealights gathered around the ship, and the siren wives leapt from the sea, circled, and began swimming even more elegantly.
“Look!”
Ayl, in the bow of the ship, pointed ahead of us with her finger.
The sealights in front of our ship made a long thin line.
The light blue light stretched straight out towards the east. If we followed this light east, we’ll probably reach the eastern continent.
The siren wives waved their hands and returned to their beloved and child’s side.
“ “ “ “ Thank you!!” “ “ “
We waved our hands in return and lifted anchor.
When the sun sank completely, we could see that the pale light made a beautiful pathway in the dark ocean.
“How mysterious.”
Velsa muttered.
“These are also monsters. The siren wives and the gagapo are also monsters. The masmascarl and locusthoppers are also monsters. Monsters are mysterious.”
Velsa words remained in my ears.
