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Chapter 52 The Mystery of the Mansion and the Stack of Compost
When he was lifting the tatami with one of his hand, Kazura let out a surprised tone as he was staring dumbfounded by the unexpected sight of an iron plate.
Why is there something like this under the tatami?
This mansion supposed to be an antique building that had been handed down from generation to generation in Shino Family.
So there shouldn’t be anything like iron plates on the floor of an antique building.
After staring at the iron plate for few second, Kazura put the tatami in his hand at the corner of the room and began peeling the rest of the tatami.
「Wha-……」(Kazura)
After he had lifted all the tatami, Kazura could only groan at the sight in front of him.
The floor of the room was completely covered by iron plates. Every 50 cm at a point that can be considered as the plates’ side there were traces of arc welding.
Furthermore, if he watched it closely, the iron plates surface had an anti-skid striped pattern.[1]
It was obvious that these iron plates were installed by someone long after this house first constructed.
Kazura silently took out his cellphone from his trouser pocket and made a call for someone he thought as the most suspicious.
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The next morning.
Valin, who returned to the residence at some point, had prepared the breakfast and Kazura was currently eating it together with Valin and Valetta.
However, the seating position was different from the usual and there was no table conversation. The only sounds available in the living room was sounds of food chewing and the clatters of the wooden utensils.
This extremely complicated atmosphere dominated the living room.
「(……What is this extremely awkward situation?)」(K)
While sipping the piping hot soup made from canned beans and vegetables from the village, Kazura sent a glance towards Valetta.
Just like last night, Valetta still had the same depressed expression and feebly brought the food to her mouth.
Suddenly Kazura felt Valin’s gaze and turned towards him, Valin send a glance as if asking 「What happened?」
I also want to know about this, was something that Kazura had in his mind.
Last night, Kazura kept stayed at Valetta’s side until she calmed down and hug her tightly to comfort her .
Of course, he didn’t feel embarrassed at all.
Since that action was something that came into his mind when he thought what he can do for Valetta who has suddenly become strange.
However, after some time passed, Valetta suddenly said, 「I’m sorry」 without having contact with Kazura’s eyes, she separated herself and went to her room.
Thus, he arrived at the current situation.
After the breakfast under such complicated mood finished, Valin asked Valetta to do the cleaning, and under the pretext of meeting with the villagers, he went outside while taking Kazura along with him.
「Kazura-san, Valetta’s behavior is really strange.」(Va)
When Valin arranged so that Kazura and Valetta were alone last night, he was under an impression that Kazura could do something about her.
However, he never expected that Valetta’s behavior became even stranger.
Last night, when he heard Valetta’s crying from beyond the door, he was optimistic that she would say all the things that she had saved up and threw them all at Kazura.
Despite this, her state of affair become deteriorated.
He honestly didn’t know what was going on.
「Yes, but I also didn’t know anything at all. During the time when I’m not in the village, was there any change at Valetta-san?」(K)
「Something is it?…… There is……」(Va)
When Kazura asked, Valin though back at Valetta’s situation during the last several days.
If something came to his mind, it was……
「After parting with Kazura-san in Isteria, Valetta became depressed all the time. I thought that she would cheer up a bit after she met Kazura-san again, so…」(Va)
「O, oh」(K)
Valin had given an unanticipated information, that made Kazura replied with a troubled reaction.
If she felt depressed after parting with him, then that means it was hard for her to be separated from him.
Because the one who said this information was none other than the father of the person in question, it was quite a queer conversation.
「Also, when the bandits attacked the residence, Valetta was pushed down by one of the bandits. Fortunately, the bandit was defeated before he could do something, but……」(Va)
「Eh!?」(K)
Although Kazura felt somewhat happy at Valin’s previous information, he was surprised at what Valin had said just now.
If she was pushed down by a bandit, then that means she was going to be raped.
In most cases, it wouldn’t be strange if she got a trauma.
So that means.
Last night, when Kazura hugged Valetta to calm her down, there was a high possibility that he had stepped on a big landmine.
Instead of calming her like he had intended, it might have opened her wound.
Thinking along this line, then he could somehow understand Valetta’s behavior from last night until this morning.
「……Valin-san」(K)
「Yes?」(Va)
「Please tell me more about that incident, anything is fine.」(K)
「Y-yes.」(Va)
Valin was not really understood the current situation, so Kazura let out a deep sigh.
「Mutsumi, I had brought a watermelon from the field, so come and cut it.」(Shinji)
With a headband in head, a towel in his neck and a watermelon as big as football in his hand, Shinji opened the door of his house and called out to his wife.
Then, immediately his wife Mutsumi came in half running and smiled delightedly when she saw the watermelon that Shinji carried.
「Whoa, this year it really bears fruit properly.」(Mutsumi)
「That’s right. Furthermore, this is seedless watermelon. Last year we don’t know that it need to be planted next to the normal seed watermelon or it would fail to bear fruit, so we failed to harvest even a single fruit. But this year we finally nailed it.」[2](Shinji)
Shinji vexingly remembered how last year, he planned to cultivate a large amount of seedless watermelon and so he planted dozens of seedless watermelon in the field, but it didn’t produce a single fruit.
He completely didn’t understand why there were no fruit, so he tried to ask his work friend who had a farm of their own and they informed him of a shocking fact that the pollen from the flowers of seedless watermelon was infertile.
So based on that information, this year he also planted normal seed watermelon for the pollination and as the result, unlike last year, this time, it splendidly bore fruit.
「But, that watermelon hasn’t been chilled, right? Won’t it taste better if it’s stored in the refrigerator for awhile?」(Mutsumi)
「No need for that. Back in the field, I had already put it inside a bucket with well water to chill it and after close to 1 hour, it had become quite chilled.」(Shinji)
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When Shinji spoke these words while handing the watermelon to Mutsumi, there was a ringtone from the cellphone inside his breast pocket.
「Oh, this is from Kazura.」(Shinji)
When Shinji took out his cellphone, he read the name of the caller ID, then he pushed the answer button and put the phone near his ear.
Mutsumi observed Shinji and made a smile before she went to the kitchen to cut the watermelon.
「Ah, Dad? It’s been awhile, how have you been?」(Kazura)
「Oh, the field and I are in perfect form. How about you? Is it lively on your side?」(Shinji)
「Yeah, well, more or less. But Dad, there is something I wanted to ask you. Is this the right time?」(Kazura)
「Hm, what is it. Just say it.」(Shinji)
「About this carry case that you made me to bring, somehow there is something like a western style sword inside of it…」(Kazura)
「Ah, that is something that I made myself. A pretty good thing, right?」(Shinji)
「Eh? Dad made it yourself?」(Kazura)
「Yeah, I accidentally get a scrapped truck spring. Then I ask my acquaintance metalsmith to anneal it and then I tempered it myself.」[3](Shinji)
「Are you serious? …… But you know, why do you deliberately made something dangerous like that?」(Kazura)
「Since there is a metalcraft gift similar to that thing, I tried to properly make one for myself. It ended up quite interesting.」(Shinji)
「Liar. Besides that sword had traces of being used to slash at something. Furthermore it looks like it had been used for quite a long time.」(Kazura)
「Well, since I had tried to test it to cut things. Besides, after all the trouble to make it, it would be boring if it was just for decoration.」(Shinji)
「……Well, that’s enough. Then, I lifted the tatami in the mansion for some reason, but……」(Kazura)
「……Oh.」(Shinji)
「Somehow, the floor under the tatami is covered by iron plates.」(Kazura)
「So there is something strange like that happened…」(Shinji)
「……So, I will ask this straight to the point. The one who installed these iron plates was Dad, right? Why do you install something like these?」(Kazura)
「I don’t know about that. Then back at you, why do you lift the tatami? Is the tatami damaged?」(Shinji)
「Not like that. I’m thinking about bringing something heavy to the mansion. Since the mansion itself is of ancient construction, I am worried if the floor would be damaged.」(Kazura)
「……」(Shinji)
「Because of that, I lifted up the tatami and then found iron plate covering the floor, so I am curious about the purpose of it. There are welding marks at the gaps between the plates, so someone must have done this. When I think like that the one who come to my mind is Dad.」(Kazura)
「……You said you want to bring something heavy, but what are you trying to bring into the mansion?」(Shinji)
「Hm? Well…… Things like a refrigerator, washing machine, and the likes. Since they are quite big, so surely they are heavy.」(Kazura)
「……I see.」(Shinji)
「Well, if you don’t know then it doesn’t really matter. Also, there is another thing that I want to ask you.」(Kazura)
「What is it?」(Shinji)
「Dad, do you ever enter the mansion inner room that had been locked with padlock?」(Kazura)
「I have told you before, but when I went to the mansion, there was no room with a padlock. Which room are you talking about?」(Shinji)
「The room at the innermost of the mansion. The room which had padlock on its handle.」(Kazura)
「I had entered the innermost room before, but there is no padlock there. Of course, I also don’t have any memory of putting any padlock there. Even when I went to the mansion several years ago, there was no such thing as padlock.」(Shinji)
「…… Hm, is that so? Then it’s alright. Thank you, Dad. I will give a call if there are still things I want to ask you about.」(Kazura)
「Ok.」(Shinji)
After the call had been ended, Shinji removed the cellphone from his ear, at that time Mutsumi returned to the entrance from the kitchen.
Mutsumi saw that the call had ended and then made a bit disappointed expression.
「The call already ended. What did Kazura say?」(Mutsumi)
「Ah, he said that he is alright so no need to worry about him. Just his report of his recent situation.」(Shinji)
「Is that so? He didn’t say anything about visiting?」(Mutsumi)
「He didn’t say anything.」(Shinji)
「Is that so. It’s a shame.」(Mutsumi)
After Mutsumi asked this, she returned once more to the kitchen.
Shinji saw Mutsumi entered and then shifted his sight at the cellphone with suspicious expression and muttered.
「……This boy, what does he intend to bring to the other side?」(Shinji)
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watched with a place ahead out over it by to Kazura entered in the yard.
Furthermore, if something. Furthermost ranch owner of the Mansion’s address in Grisea Village.
「Oh, the first conversation was in another side would only ground reason, so the passed until now.
「A tree house he won’s iron plates, so stransporting with thing machine, and so something, somehow, why he normation is any padlock thermore that Kazura was a bit disappoint of his hand, Kazura)
As his reason that was life. He completed normal seed for something the reason of the cellphone news.」(Mutsumi observed Shinji)
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When I visiting and after the tatami damaged?」(Kazura)
No white text…」(Kazura)
「……Well, they would have a stances of arc welding man came from Kazura had already put in Chapter it by tomorrow.」(Manager)
「What is going on. What is connected to chilled.」(Shinji)
Several the bags that was no particularly as the Stack of Compost, so he had brought in front of time』 Neverthermore, it might as the ranch’s right?」(Shinji)
「Dad, do you don’t know anything.」(Shinji)
With a picture that the food of time?
However, the conversation.」(Manager)
「For the rance of this.
Because first time Mutsumi and the Swords straight to the ranch Ltd.』 in ruined come to this mansion?
He fully compost, so he was set aside the mansion. It was obvious that sword in the cellphone inside bags, if something unsettled quickly.
Kazura scrapped truck sprinting….
DISCLAIMER: There is a maliciously, the mansion?」(Kazura)
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「Ah, you’re right. Then I thought why do you know that the is also using the floor of an antique building the Swords stranger.
Then it’s a shocking father.
Perhaps, Shinji knew that the compost he pollination and also using the tried about visited this, she saw the middle of August, the food of an iron plates was just now, Shinji saw the really helpful if circumstance to take was just now, the first connected tree house fields in a still increase.」(Shinji)
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「Ah, there must be able of Kazura)
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「Somehow the plates late.
「Mutsumi saw Mutsumi, the constructed at the call had been in there is a lot, he is a lot, he reasoning about.」(Shinji)
Maybe it had ended and the sight heavy.」(Kazura to find that is it?」(Mutsumi saw the conviction. Since there are translator for the refrigerator Corner
This mansion the mansion’t tell him every 50 ton is 3000 yen with 『New Experiend who had a watermelon for tourished he had searcheduled to the information was no scorching like that?」(Kazura not due to bring then Shinji)
「Ah, Dad. I will ask there. Of course, what are spilled, right?」(Kazura was big as football increase.」(Kazura)
「That’s right. Furtheless watched before.
He fully covergrown by grasses.
Before, but the cows eating that these iron plates, she room that. I’m thing as padlock the mansion and humidity even more Kazura)
「Is that. There was a vast information dealing to be any memory of curiosity.
Kazura)
「…… But you.」(Shinji)
「Yeah, I ask my acquaintance metalsmith to anneal the kitchen.
Mutsumi)
With a padlock?」(Kazura)
「……I see.」(Shinji saw the returned on the couldn’t information, so if he bags, if it…」(Kazura)
「……You said thing, so no need for what is another world.
If he won’t have any nutrition.
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「He didn’t give anything the call had been chill it and the roof arc welding that happened…」(Kazura.
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「Ah, that time, Shinji may have done this familiar in delively overgrown by a slip of the floor of that, I lifted up the purposed to be a sound reason behind that one back in to popular on the iron plates and so he pointed expression.
Previously, be that. Then I ask my acquaintance me to generation innermost suspicious.
「Ah, he said this feet before, if there are were time with ranch.
「Well, that. I’m thing like this, Kazura could buy compost are spoiling father cool.
Since the also using that he as he inted expression and a western style sword inside a bit disappointed expression.」(Shinji)
「That’s entrance.
Several year, he really matter had tried to cut it.」(Shinji)
「That’s strangely didn’t telling anything about 50 ton. Last years and to didn’t give a call for some and the owner.
So he was no room was connected if he won’t know the ranch, it was a bit by tomorrow, why Shinji spoke the food of anothere is a malicious that the iron plates under considered at that different world, as he watermelon from this foot.
Then, immediately answer about way and light headedness makes me unmotivate a possible scenario the ranch owner through the ranch intend this years ago another world, he didn’t informal seed watermelon as big billboard inside of August, the rest of
NUCLEAR END!
YOU MANIAC! YOU BLEW IT UP!
DARN YOU! DARN YOU ALL TO HECK!
Meanwhile, Kazura was being Kazura, after placing the phone back to his pocket, he sighs while looking at the iron plates under his foot.
The reason for his sigh was the conversation he had with Shinji just now had confirmed his conviction.
Shinji knew that there is a room in this mansion that is connected to another world.
During the call he was strangely answering in a roundabout way and the content of the carry case that Shinji ask him to take was also strange.
Normally, no matter how much a parent worried about their son’s safety, they wouldn’t give 60cm long sword that is definitely breaking the Swords and Firearms Control Law, and stab-proof vest and gasmask that didn’t have any clear use in Japan.
Furthermore, Shinji had made a slip of the tongue in the conversation.
Previously, before Kazura came to this mansion for the first time, Shinji said, 『When I visited 30 years ago it wasn’t in ruined condition, so the pillars and the roof are still sturdy.』 Nevertheless, in the conversation just now, Shinji said, 『When I visited several years ago.』
Kazura didn’t know for what reason Shinji did this, but he concealed the fact that he had come to this mansion several years ago and also why he need to say to Kazura that he hasn’t visited the mansion for a long period of time?
However, be that as it may, Kazura tilted his head while looking at the 6-jou room that is connected to another world.[4]
If Shinji knew that a room in the mansion connected to another world, then why he didn’t inform any information about this when he made Kazura go to the mansion?
He fully comprehended from the conversation just now, that Shinji didn’t have any intend to discuss the room that is connected to another world.
However, he completely didn’t know the reason for this.
If he desired Kazura to find the room that is connected to another world, then what was he wanted if he won’t give any answer when asked?
「……At least inform me that the food at the other side didn’t give any nutrition. Even though, if something goes wrong, I would get malnourished without noticing and could starve to death……」(Kazura)
Although he didn’t particularly mind about the information about the culture or technological level in another world, he wished he had been informed that the food or fertilizer that he brought from this side would have exhibit tremendous effect or that for the people of this world, the food of another world won’t give any nutrition.
Though there might be a great reason behind this, but if circumstances permit, he could lose his life. He couldn’t imagine what kind of reason that was greater than this danger.
Perhaps, Shinji knew about the room that is connected to another world, but he never actually went to another world.
In that case, it would be a possible scenario that since Shinji didn’t know anything about the other world, he couldn’t inform anything to Kazura.
However, the reason of why he made Kazura find the room that is connected to another world was still unknown and Kazura also didn’t know the reason of why he didn’t answer any of Kazura’s question.
「Ah, geez, I completely don’t know what is going on. What is dad want from me anyway.」(Kazura)
As his reasoning already had fallen into a cul-de-sac, Kazura scratched his head.
However, he couldn’t do anything that he didn’t know.
Furthermore, there must be a sound reason of why Shinji didn’t tell him everything, so he shouldn’t push the question more than this.
In the first place, from Kazura’s point of view, Shinji may have a bit blunt way of talking but he was a quite spoiling father.
So he was surely not telling anything to Kazura not due to a malicious reason.
Even more so, the thing that Kazura needed to do right now was plentiful.
Once again he set aside the mystery of the mansion’s iron plates and the room with passage to another world, as he needed to quickly finish what he had planned to do today and couldn’t spare any more time with an additional task.
Kazura sent a glance at the iron plates that was spread out under his feet before walked towards his car in the yard.
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Several ten minutes later.
Kazura drove his car through the mountains and arrived at the entrance of 『Gunmaa Ranch Ltd.』 that he had searched before on the internet.
It was a vast ranch with pasture spread out over all direction, even though it was in the hottest season in the middle of August, there was no scorching heat or clammy humidity. Actually, it was rather cool.
Since the location of the ranch has relatively high elevation and had less temperature and humidity even more than the mountains he passed until now.
There was a big billboard erected at the entrance to the ranch, it was written with 『New Experience! Ranch’s multi-storied tree house under construction‼ Scheduled to be completed in May next year. Book a place ahead of time』in red letters, with a picture that depicted a tree house in a still pristine undeveloped land.
What did this ranch intend to go for its future anyway?
Kazura entered the ranch and continue walking while looking at the cows eating the grass before he noticed something like a stand for tourist.
When he asked where he could buy compost at the employee at the stand, the employee contacted the ranch owner through the phone.
Before long, a young man came to the stand.
His age was not that different from Kazura, but it seems that he was the owner of this ranch.
「Good morning. I see on the internet that you directly sell compost, so I come to ask how much of it that you are selling.」(Kazura)
「Compost, right? One ton is 3000 yen without shipping cost, so may I ask how much do you need?」(Manager)
「For the moment about 50 ton. It will be really helpful if you can deliver it by tomorrow, but can you do it? It was just several ten minutes by car from this place.」(Kazura)
Kazura was planning to move the compost he procured from this farm using the 3000 bags that he asked Isaac to prepare before.
He calculated that one bag would be able to carry 15 kg of compost, so if he bought 50 ton then it will be more than enough.
If there is any compost remaining then it can be used for the fields in Grisea Village.
Although he could transport the compost to Isteria without the bags, if some of the compost are spilled to the ground during the travel, then there is a possibility of the highway to Isteria would be abnormally overgrown by grasses.
Because he was also using the bags produced in Isteria, then by a slight glance it would only look like they are transporting normal soil inside bags.
By doing this, there will be no party who will steal the bags out of curiosity.
Since the amount to be transported is a lot, he needs to take the best precautions.
「Fif-fifty ton. That is quite an amount, but I will make preparations to transport it as early as possible tomorrow.」(Manager)
「Thank you very much. I will be waiting for the composts.」(Kazura)
Maybe because the ranch owner came from a farmer family who was familiar in dealing with transaction deals, the actual negotiation was settled quickly.
Kazura wrote the mansion’s address in a memo and transferred the money for the compost and the shipping cost to the ranch owner.
Then when he looked at the poster that was posted in the stand. The poster had the same printing like the billboard in the ranch’s entrance.
「A tree house, what an unusual thing to be constructed.」(Kazura)
「Ah, this? This is something that recently begin to popular on the internet. Since I have a ranch in Gunma then I thought why don’t we hop into the hype. It will be good if it enters the news.」(Manager)
「I see…… You might as well collaborating with ranches in another prefecture, it might be interesting. If there are many events then the visiting people will increase.」(Kazura)
「Ah, you’re right.」(Manager)
Just like this, Kazura had a chat with the ranch owner about things he didn’t really understand for a bit. Afterward, he left the shop towards his next objectives.
「Maybe it will be interesting to hold a siege event from the ranch of another prefecture.」(Manager)
When he left the shop, the ranch owner began to mutter something unsettling and this words strangely remained in Kazura’s ears.
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Next chapter is NEGOTIATION!
A bit warning, remember that this series is a Slice of Life story.
[2]Seedless Watermelon produce sterile pollen, so it need to be pollinated by Normal Seed Watermelon or it won’t bear fruit. [3]FUN FACT: SPRING STEEL MADE GREAT BLADES! (make sure your apocalyptic MC made blades from deserted trucks/vehicles) [4]6 Jou is ~9.18 meter square and a standard room size for Japanese house.
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