「Yes, I haven’t reported that matter. In spite of not even 8 days having passed since the fertilizer was scattered, the potato leaves became more than two times bigger than before. It’s just like the Energy Drink Medicine, the goods from Kazura-san’s country are so wonderful.」
「More than two times?....... Umm, could I go together to the potato field tomorrow morning? Since, I want to confirm it with my own eyes.」
「Yes. We will appreciate it if you accept. By all means.」[13]
In any case, Kazura couldn’t imagine how much the potato had grown only by hearing it.
Although actually tomorrow morning he wanted to go check the progress of waterwheel parts production, but he was quite bothered by the matter of potato growth.
No matter how you look at it, it’s hard to believe the two folds increase, so Kazura was wondering if Valin was only exaggerating. First of all, the first thing he will do in the morning tomorrow is to go to the potato field, after that he will begin the production of the waterwheel parts.
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The next morning.
Kazura, who was worn out from the long journey, was still sleeping like a log while wrapped inside the futon when he was woken up by the piercing metallic clatters alarm from the analog clock that he had set up before, since he anticipated that he would oversleep. After having a breakfast with Valin and Valetta, he exited the residence to go towards the potato fields.
By the way, there was an event that, immediately after the alarm rang, Valin and Valetta, who were already woke up and were preparing the breakfast, were surprised by the sound and barged into the room. After explaining their reason and gave their earnest apology, they are pardoned with a laugh.
Even though he was so tired that he was muddleheaded, after a brief comment about how glad he had set the alarm, Kazura reflected about it.
After they exited the house, they walked for awhile, and arrived at the potato fields that had been scattered with fertilizer, Kazura couldn’t believe the spectacle that was in front of his eyes.
「What happened in here.....」
Kazura remarked in astonishment.
「As you can see, thanks to the fertilizer, the leaves and the vines have grown to this big size. That has never happened before. At this rate, we could harvest a lot more potato than the average year’s harvest.」
Valin was not exaggerating yesterday as the leaves really became two times bigger.
The potatoes, which were planted on the fields in front of him, had longer vines than the time Kazura had previously seen them. The leaves even covered the ridge between the potatoes while its vines jutted out magnificently.
Beside Valin, who was nodding in satisfaction, was Valetta, who was viewing the fields with delightful expression. However Kazura was’t so pleased about as much as he was questioning the situation.
The potato leaves at the time when they were scattering the fertilizer 8 days ago, had the same size as a desktop mouse[14]. But now it size had became equal to an adult palm while the vine stalk size became thicker. To put it simply, this was abnormal.
「Even if you said that this is the result from the fertilizer that I brought, no matter how you think about it, this is impossible. What about the other field?」(Kazura)
Kazura kneeled on the ground, while holding a potato leaf on his hand with puzzled expression, he asked Valin.
Different from Kazura, Valin and Valetta is wondering if there is something wrong.
「The other fields are also similar, the potatoes and the vegetables become bigger, but is there a problem?」(Valin)
「No, I don’t mean like that, but I never hear about vegetable that can became this big in merely a few days.」(Kazura)
While Kazura was saying those words, he dug one potato that was in front of him.
If the potato leaves had grown to this big size then wouldn’t the potato tuber inside the ground also become bigger? So Kazura thought.
「Yoisho[15]... Wow! As expected even the potato became big.」(Kazura)
He dug the potato root, and perhaps it should be said, that it already had the appearance of a big potato that was ready to be harvested.
The potato size was approximately the size of an M sized egg that was sold in the supermarket, just like what Valetta said about the size of the potato at the time it was harvested.
「In spite of recently withering because of the drought, the potatoes had grown into the same size when they can be already harvested...... It maybe because of the scattered fertilizer, that the difference is this big.」(Valetta)