Maybe it was because Shinji usually worked in the field every day, he practically didn’t have any excess fats tissue and was quite muscular.
His height was 170 cm, just a little shorter than Kazura’s height. With his tanned dark brown skin and some white color mixed in his hair, along with his good health, his appearance was rather dandy.
「Since I had been helping the farmer near the house with working at the fields every day recently, I am quite skillful with this.」(Kazura)
While Kazura was speaking these words, he had finished digging the remaining hole. He stabbed the shovel to the ground and wiped the sweat with towel that hanging from his neck. Compared to the field work he had done in the Grisea Villages field, Saitama’s heat and humidity was quite harsh to his body, even if he was doing nothing the sweat would still be gushing out.
「Oh... Helping the field is it? No wonder you become quite brawny. Do you get along with the neighbor?」(Shinji)
Hearing about helping in the field, Shinji nodded, as if he had understood the reason why Kazura’s physical appearance suddenly became much brawnier, as compared to before.
Kazura, whom never participated in sports that specifically required strength until now, so he could be classified as a person with poor physical strength, however, in just under several months, he had became quite muscular due to him helping out in the field.
The core of Kazura’s meal was rice and canned food that he had brought to the village, and during his stay he almost practically didn’t eat any snacks so basically, he wasn’t eating excessively. This beneficial manner brought out a detoxifying effect, so his body was in excellent condition.
Sometimes, when he returned to Japan he eats a lot of food in a family restaurant, however that was only for enjoyment.
「Yes, since everyone are good people....... Ah, that’s right, I want to ask something about that residence from you.」(Kazura)
「Residence? Ah, it’s an old house but there aren’t any dusts, right? A long time ago, when I went there, the place was also excessively clean.」(Shinji)
While Shinji talked about this he brought out the fertilizer from the wheelbarrow, and began to talk in detail about the condition of the residence. when he personally visited it a long time ago.
However, that wasn’t the story that Kazura wanted to know.
「No, it’s not about that.」(Kazura)
And so, he interrupted Shinji.
「Deep inside the residence there was a door to a room which was secured with a padlock, do you know something about that room?」(Kazura)
「Padlock? ......Was there any room like that? When I went there a long time ago, there isn’t any room with a padlock.」(Shinji)
Shinji tilted his head with confused expression, Kazura though that somehow or another he could obtain some information about the room, which connected to another world, however it was different from his expectation.
As it was possible that there were people other than Shinji that knew about the house, he could visit every blood relatives to find someone who may know about it. However, he didn’t have any plans to meet with his closest relatives.
After all, he didn’t immediately need the information about the house so he decided to postpone this matter for the time being.
「Leaving that aside, there’s also only a few other houses near that residence’s neighborhood, so is the public order good? There were quite a lot of robbers, so you need to be careful.」(Shinji)
「I never heard such dangerous story before...... Don’t rural area have better public order than the city?」(Kazura)
When Kazura replied like that, Shinji looked at him with very worried expression.
「No, it may not be so. But you cannot be too careful. Since I have prepared several personal security goods, so you may take it when you return.」(Shinji)
「Personal security goods, huh... Also, about the thing earlier, I only want to hear about the water service on the residence.」(Kazura)
While speaking about that, Shinji kept working on transplanting the seedlings into the hole that Kazura had dug before and mixing the fertilizer into the soil. It looked like the asparagus field would be splendidly expanding.
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It has been 2 hours since both of them began transplanting the seedlings.
Finally, all the asparagus had been transplanted. As the sun also began to set, the both of them decided to return home.
Kazura was, at first planning to pick some books as souvenir for Valetta in the city inside Gunma Prefecture and also purchased some delicious delicacies to bring back as souvenir, when he returned to take a look at Grisea village’s condition on the noon of the next day. However this plan went off the drawing table when Shinji summoned him.
So, it looked like he would stay at his parents’ home for today, then he would revise his planned schedule so it would be finished before tomorrow evening.