Chapter 51. Vegetable Garden Barbecue
One of the Lily Sisters, Valentia, withdrew from Carmelo's Town and returned to peace.
This uproar has somehow subsided... I thought so, but there was a problem here.
It was the vegetable garden created by Valentia.
Even after she leaves, the vegetable garden naturally remains in the square, where vegetable monsters are cultivated one after another.
Before I knew it, the vegetable garden had become a magical place where several vegetable monsters roamed.
"Hey... What are you going to do with this?"
Worried, I asked Lu, but she frowned in annoyance.
"I don't know, but the guild told me to keep an eye on the situation for a while..."
After the retreat of Valentia, the Adventurer's Guild ordered several adventurers to monitor the vegetable garden to prevent damage from the vegetable monsters that sprang from the remaining vegetable fields.
If the vegetable monster tries to attack the townspeople, stop it immediately.
However, since Valentia left, the vegetable monsters that are created have been relatively docile. They don't want to leave the vegetable garden, they wander around in the field.
Even so, the production of vegetables is tremendous, and if left unchecked, it will eventually overflow from the field.
At this rate, it's only a matter of time before several vegetable monsters start roaming the town of Carmelo.
If they were to get into the habit of attacking people and trying to eat them, the whole town would become a hellish picture of screaming.
"It's bad if you leave this alone, right?"
"It's awful, isn't it... I'm just watching, so why don't we do something about it?"
Lucia summoned Sakuya, who was crouching a little away and looking at the vegetable monster, to see what she was thinking.
"What's wrong?"
"Sakuya, if you can light a flame on your sword, you can use elemental magic, right?"
"Huh? Yes. Because magic swordsmanship is a technique that imparts elemental magic to weapons. If it's a common attribute, you can handle it without any problems."
The general attributes here are fire, water, wind, and earth.
"Then make a fire here."
"What are you going to do?"
I was worried about Lucia's outlandish remarks, and when I asked her, she answered like a matter of course.
"I'm just getting hungry, so I thought I'd grill some vegetables and eat it."
"Are you going to eat!?"
These vegetables, have stem-like limbs and are walking independently!
No, come to think of it, I have already eaten it raw.
"Let's celebrate the victory over Valentia and have a vegetable barbecue!"
This vegetable garden and vegetable monsters are the product of Valentia. So what's the point of celebrating?
However, it seems that common sense between us is quite different, Sakuya also says something stupid like "That's good" and starts a fire with magic.
Noel noticed this and approached her, listened to Lucia's explanation, and sat down by the fire as if she was satisfied.
"Cucumber... So, first of all, what should I bake? After all, from the eggplant that tormented me?"
" Aren't some vegetables gathering?"
Strangely, when she started the bonfire, for some reason, the vegetable monsters slowly approached.
The vegetable monsters wandering around the bonfire eventually got close enough to be touched by the fire, and they became quiet.
" What are these guys doing? It's insanely burnt, is that okay?"
"Huh? I get it! As Valentia said, this vegetable monster has a habit of trying to eat itself! In other words, aren't they trying to become a grilled vegetable and eat it deliciously?!
What an idiot... But I have no choice but to interpret it that way when I look at this scene.
Vegetables flock to the bonfire as being led to a warm fireplace on a cold winter night. It produces a waiting line to be baked regularly.
Then, one after another, they throw themselves into the fire, and when they are burned, Lucia and the others take out the vegetables and eat them.
"When you bite into it, the moisture overflows and you can feel the subtle sweetness and powerful flavor!"
"The roasted onion is cool, and the vegetable monster I ate at that ruin was delicious, but it was made by one of the Lily Sisters, so it's even better."
"Yes... Hahaha, The vegetables are delicious!"
These guys eat well.
From my point of view, it's insane to line up and eat a vegetable monster that is roasted by itself. I am going to break my stomach.
However, the vegetable monsters waiting in line were jumping up and down a little, perhaps because they were happy to see Lucia eating deliciously.
One by one, the jumping vegetable monsters jump into the fire. It's like I'm having a bad dream.
There was no way this would not notice the strange situation, and before we knew it, other adventurers had arrived.
"That smells delicious... would I like one too?"
"Oh, I might want to eat it too."
"There are a lot of them, so please go ahead."
Perhaps because they were beaten up by the vegetable monster together earlier, a sense of camaraderie was building among the female adventurers. Lucia was also willing to recommend grilled vegetables.
She won a fierce battle with Valentia in the daytime, and now it's already dusk. Under the red-tinted sky, a barbecue began in a corner of the vegetable garden.
What is this situation... Chaotic.
But in a way, it may prove that there is no longer any danger in this vegetable garden.
These vegetable monsters will be docile if you eat them properly.
I don't know how long the vegetable monsters will continue to be born, but this is just a field created by Valentia with creation magic. If the magic power is eventually depleted, the vegetable garden will naturally disappear... Probably.
The quest to monitor the vegetable garden left by Valentia has now been successfully completed. I was finally relieved and patted my chest.
Before I knew it, several female adventurers had gathered to watch a large vegetable monster barbecue from a distance. Lucia noticed it and approached me.
"Akira-san, let's eat together without standing in such a place, we even have a freshly baked pumpkin."
"…"
From my point of view, it's not a joke to eat a vegetable monster that wanders around on its own.
But if it's baked, not raw... Can I eat it?
I'm going to eat it.
Watching the female adventurers eating delicious grilled vegetables, I was getting hungry too. I've already eaten demons several times, so I can't help but be weirdly mean.
"Okay, I'll eat it, but bake it properly. I don't feel like eating raw vegetable monsters."
"Akira is the type of person who does raw sex but grills vegetables properly!"
Nobody said that.
Well... It may be true that raw is better.
Sighing back at Lucia's stupid remarks, we head to the vegetable barbecue.
"Speaking of which, Akira, did you hear that a strange building was confirmed near the town of Carmelo just a moment ago?"
As I was eating the roasted pumpkin, Lucia suddenly said something like that.
"Mysterious architecture?... Is there such a thing around here?"
Today, I went to the ruins near the town of Carmelo, but I didn't find such a strange building on the way. The area nearby is supposed to be well maintained, so there aren't many things that go undiscovered.
If it was just a moment ago, a mysterious building suddenly appeared.
"Maybe that's where Valentia escaped."
Lucia said jokingly, and I gave her a dry laugh.
"No way... I don't think so."
"That's right."
Both laugh at each other and start eating the grilled vegetables.
No way. Valentia can't be such an idiot to be so cool and run away like that, and to be so close to Carmelo town.