「How is the cultivation going?」
「I have confirmed that the cultivation is progressing smoothly at all the 6 locations. The harvest amount is also roughly as assumed」
「Then, I want to expand it as soon as possible, but……..」
「Regretfully, if we enlarge the scope of it any more than this, we won’t have enough manpower」
「And if it isn’t inspected, farmhouses which selfishly start their own cultivation due to being dazzled by the profits will also appear」
It had been 2 weeks since the start of trial run for the implementation of LP farming, and Kazuki, while confirming the results with Norman and Jake, was discussing about the prospects from here on out with them.
The place was obviously Harold’s room. Recently, he was seldom alone in the room. Anyone out of Norman, Jake and Zen being in the room became numerous.
「I can’t do anything about the deficiency in manpower. Isn’t there anybody else in this mansion we can use?」
「It is difficult in the present condition. If we ask Elias or Saxon to cooperate, it will just be a temporary measure……….」
Norman raised up the names of the 2 soldiers who helped in the plan to rescue Clara.
But asking them to go to the agricultural district for inspection on top of their original work, it wasn’t very realistic. As Norman himself had stated, it would just become a temporary measure.
「Tsk, then how about I hire people from the outside…………?」
「From the outside, is it?」
「For example, if I ask my father that I want personal aides…………No, that’ll be no good. If it’s some guy recommended by father, moving around will become even more harder」
Jake stopped Kazuki (Harold), who seemed to be immersed while murmuring to himself.
「Harold-sama, first I want to continue the report」
「Nn? Ah, the matter about the soil」
「Yes. Regarding the soil of the testing field, no huge changes were observed」
In short, the testing field was the field present in Jake’s house. He had been cultivating nothing but the 3 types of vegetable there.
The thing he had wanted to confirm was whether problems related to the soil would arise when they did this over a long period of time or when they used a large amount of LP. If due to this, the soil withered away and if it couldn’t be used a field for farming anymore, they would need to suspend the use of LP immediately.
「Including this time’s, how many rotations has it been?」
「It’ll be red groot 7 times, bell tubers 6 times and bluna 11 times. I even had the cooks sample them regularly, but there were no differences in the taste」
「The notice isn’t bad, but the number of trials is too less. Continue the cultivation testing and observe the progression. And then………..」
Like this, it became regular for Kazuki to keep them company once in few days and working hard to grasp the current circumstances. Although he did have the sense of fulfillment he hadn’t experienced in his student days, even now his future was full of troubles.
And since he was using his head in a completely different way from how he used it during classes in high school or university, maybe as a recoil, his body started demanding to go rowdy.
And so, after finishing the discussion, holding the sword, Kazuki carried his legs towards the completely familiar opening in the forest expanding behind the mansion, which they had used for the plan to rescue Clara.
It was the only place where he could swing the sword with all of his strength.
As soon as Kazuki arrived, he lightly loosened his body and immediately commenced his normal routine.
The 3 hit combo of slashing downwards diagonally from above, cutting upwards, slicing while rotating.
But the sharpness of the swing and the speed of the sword had reached to a level which couldn’t be compared to when he had just started training. As though it would slice apart the air itself, a swordplay which would overwhelm those who saw it.
But Kazuki’s (Harold’s) sword technique didn’t stop only at that.
Closing his eyes, he calmed his breath and sharpened his nerves.
It became silent and as though to break it, Kazuki started moving.
Within a second, he had unleashed the 3 hit combo, similar to the one before.The difference was in the next part.
The blade which was swung out due to the rotating slash was clad in –Lightning.
「『Raijin(Thunder God)』」
As though in concurrence with that word, the instant the blade stabbed the ground, a bright electric current was fired.
With Kazuki at the center, 8 streaks of electricity attacked the surroundings. One gouged the ground out, one scorched a rock, one broke a tree trunk.
The reach of the streak was about 3 meters. Kazuki fired an attack which could strike in all the directions, as though it could ignore a numerical disadvantage. But he muttered as though he was dissatisfied.
「It won’t even be useful at this level」
The attack Kazuki had fired off a moment ago was called 『Raijin』, one of the elementary level skills in 『Brave Hearts』.
It looked to be quite flashy, and when it had succeeded for the first t