Attack

Today in Golen was peaceful.

The adventurer-cum-farmer villagers were devoting themselves to caring for their fields.

Man, my fields doing great today too. Grow big, my lovely cucumbers.

Aah, your leaves are shining so fresh today! Dont be giving anyone sneak peaks of your good stuff, my Radish-chans!

Pfft, whod want to look at your radishes? Follow my elegant potatoes example!

They, whod obtained the knowledge of [Talking to your plants helps them grow] from the book at the Beddhism Gathering, had begun talking to their beloved vegetables as part of their daily routine.

Theyd doubted it at first, but their plants were still alive.

There were plants that moved about to eat people like monsters, so they figured it wasnt too weird. Deciding to give pouring their love onto their plants a shot and noticing that there truly was a difference, they abandoned any last traces of doubt they had about it.

And, indeed, they grew even more delicious.

So there wasnt actually a need for them to continue talking to them.

Its almost harvest time, huh~

Kukuku, Ill have Kinue-san cook them and get the Sister-sans to nom on my children no, my prided children!

Hm? Whats that?

One of the villagers noticed something up in the sky.

It started out as a small dot, but steadily grew much larger.

Its body was huge and covered with red scales. It had featherless, bat-like wings and a reptilian head, upon which grew huge horns.

It was a red dragon.

!? A dragon!? We gotta run!

Whaaat!? Are you aiming for my field!? You bastard, Ill drive you away with my holy radishes! Just you see!

You want my cucumbers!? Three of them!? You dont!? Do you!?

Dammit, so you actually want mine!? No wait, we gotta run, seriously!

The fire-attributed red dragon, or rather, its body was clad in a fiery blaze. Was it a flame dragon, even more specialized in the fire-attribute than red dragons?

Once the villager got to the point of realizing that, the dragon flapped its wings and stopped mid-air. Following that, it opened its mouthand breathed.

Crap! This is the first time Ive seen it but thats definitely its breath attack! Its coming!

H-Hey, you want me to leave my radishes!? I can get a few more, just give me a sec.

You wanna die!? You can grow more radishes! Wait, uwaaah!?

Immediately afterflames covered the ground.

And thats how a part of the village was burned by a dragon.

How many were injured?

There were none, thankfully. A small mercy.

That so?

I nodded after hearing Village Sub-Chief Wozumas debriefing. Well, I already knew since I saw it on the map.

By the way, Id started wondering if this dragon was going to be another overpowered thing annoying me like Rin, but it flew up to the summit of Tsuia Mountain.

It was probably a field dragon1, so Ontentoos dungeon should be able to manage actually, maybe itll be hard since they both specialize in fire? Lets ask him about it later. Oh, maybe its Redras relative?

What will we do?

Hm? Oh yeah, I guess Ill check out the actual damage it did first As for the dragon, well, Ill think of something.

Although I went to go see the burned fields after that, the ground wasnt particularly vitrified.

It just looked like it was burned normally. Itll be able to be reseeded by the evening if I send out golems to plow it again.

So it was the improved version of a red dragon, a flame dragon? Seriously, if it can just breath out flames like that, its like it was just playing around or something.

Oh? Village Chief Kehma, you were familiar with dragons? Its like youre a top class adventurer.

Rokuko knows a bit about them. I just heard it from her.

Lets not say anything about me actually knowing a red dragon.

By the way, why are you crying like you just watched you just watched your daughter get killed?

Im the owner of this field. This place is where I raised and hand-nurtured my radishes and theyre all gone.

There arent too many, but I did manage to get a few of my cucumbers to safety! My potatoes were in the ground and just got roasted, so theyre roasted and delicious to eat too!

Oh, so thats why today turned into an all-you-can-eat potato festival? I ate some of them too.

The radish farmers friends, two others who were similarly affected by the dragon, clapped the radish farmers shoulders to cheer him up.

Hah hah hah! This is the the elegance of potatoes! A huge win for potatoes!

By the way, my cucumbers I mixed in with the potato salad tasted great right?

Ya bastards!

Unexpectedly, it looks like theyre doing fine, thats all that matters.

Rather, none of the radishes are still edible? Theyre root vegetables, right?

It spoiled my plan to put knee socks onto the younger white radishes though, dammiiiiiit!

You alright. So thats why you were heading into the dungeon so aggressively recently, you were getting enough for them, huh? Alright, go ahead, you can cry.

Unexpectedly, it looks like theyre doing fine, thats all that matters.

Well, their primary income is from adventuring, so its not like theyll go broke from their crops being ruined. They could even borrow equipment from the guild

Rather, from what I got out of their skit from before the dragon attacked, I cant even tell if theyre idiots, hard-headed, confused as heck, idiots, have some secret way to survive, or idiots.

Err, well, its great that no one died.

Agreed, Village Chief Kehma. By the way, theyre just idiots. Normal adventurers wouldnt have frozen and wouldve actually ran away. They were saved by the dragons whims.

That so? Oh, their houses burned down as well. Lets allow them to stay at the inn at a discount while their houses are repaired.

Ah, you wont allow them to stay for free?

They wont work if they dont have to pay.

Wozuma looked at me and sighed.

Yep, whats that about me playing innocent? Huh?

Im fine, I dont have to work. Im just a figurehead, after all.

I think you work plenty enough though?

Hahaha, good joke.

Even if you say Im working, Im just signing a few documents a day, its super easy. Ive delegated all of the troublesome stuff to everyone else.

My job basically just amounts to making an appearance every now and then, like how Im out and about because of this stuff.

Yep, being a figurehead is a great job!

Well, pick yourselves up. Youll be farmers again soon, Golen will help you.

Village Chief! Ill do my best to raise my radishes again! Ill definitely put kneesocks on them this time!

Nice. Right, do you have any seeds left?

Oh, come to think of it, those went with my house will I have to leave my field for a while?

Hm? Youd have to leave your field empty? Thats no good, how about trying to raise these?

Pretending to fish around the bag at my waist, I took out sugarbeet seeds from my [Storage]. They were the things Id gotten frustrated at after trying to use to earn money way back when.

Oooh thank you, Village Chief! What sort of seeds are these?

Theyre sugarbeets, they can be used to make sugar. There should be a book in the church on how to do it, so give it a look.

The recipe for that should be in a part of the book that talked about fertilizer that Ichika translated.

Village Chief, where did you get seeds like these?

Thats a Beddhism secret.

Seriously? Beddhism is the best thank you! Good Night!

Woah, Im so jealous Village Chief, please give me some too!

Me too! Me Too!

I dont mind, but

The cucumber farmer and potato farmer came and asked for some as well, so I gave also gave some to them. They were my leftovers either way, so go for it.

Oh, but now Ill have to call all three of them sugarbeet farmers, so how should I split them up? Eh, whatever.

As expected of the Village Chief. When did you manage to prepare those?

Ive forgotten at this point, its been a while.

Wozuma just shrugged his shoulders in response.

Did I say something weird?

1. As in not dungeon-related.