School? If they're nobles or come from wealthy family then they usually study in private, but schools only exist in the royal capital."
"Furthermore, the Gabo fruits those children harvest are actually staple foods for people with light wallets."
Hmm? But the inn serves bread and thin rice porridge, sometimes even stew right?
"No well, Monzen inn is relatively high level so they don't serve Gabo fruit. On the west street, most stalls are selling flat bread, gruel, and pickled vegetables. It has strong smell, bitter, and hard to chew so the wealthy rarely ever eat it. Since you can eat cheap things until your stomach full, they're not only eaten by the orphanage children but also by about half of the general populace too."
If it's like that, won't normal potatoes suffice?
"The quantity of the yearly harvest differ. Although the harvest area becomes smaller, they could be harvested in one month period and rarely fail. Furthermore it has a property that enable it to fertilize fallow. Thanks to Gabo fruit, the number of orphanages has increased dramatically."
What a convenient fantasy fruit. Even opportunism has limit.
Even so, Nadi-san is quite knowledgeable... she looks like a literary woman graduated from the royal capital school.
"I wasn't raised in the manor inside the wall, the food situation in rural area was pretty terrible."
She grew up outside eh, I wonder if the lord has a monopoly. It's a subtle mystery.
"It's goblin's favorite food. If it's not a place surrounded by wall like this, goblins would come in a blink of an eye and devour them greedily."
"Back in the day, there was an explosive increase of goblins in the northern part of the kingdom, the scholar who investigated the cause concluded that it's related to Gabo fruit. In those days, if someone found a Gabo tree they would burn it down, then it began to be used as a food source and now it has become the staple food of the lower strata people. However, even now, if someone finds a Gabo tree, they would burn it down."
The wall around the farm is quite a bit lower than the town's wall. Is it around 2 meter and a half?
I wonder what that tower standing tall 1 kilometer away is? It's been in my mind since before I entered the farm. It's around 20 meter tall and look surprisingly rugged.
"That's a self defense mechanism built to repulse Wyvern attacks. The one in the castle is for the castle's defense, the one here is used when the attacks come to the farm."
"About 40 years ago when the black dragon attacked, it played a very big role. Back then, although a tower half as tall as this was brought down, the records depicting the successful repelling remain."
Repel... Did it escape through the sky?
"Leaving aside the Wyvern, as expected, defeating true dragon is impossible. Only someone like the ancestor king, Yamato who was a great magician or Saga empire's hero are able to do something like that."
...Hero, eh?
"Saga empire has this hero's summoning great magic. Since the compensation is enormous, except when the 66 year Demon King's resurrection cycle begin, it's not performed. Yamato-sama and Saga Empire's founder were also heroes who were summoned when the world was in crisis back in the day. It's so dreamy."
As I thought, these Yamato and Saga-san... I can slightly see through why the holy swords were named Excalibur and such.
When the story was finished, the one lap tour around the farm was also finished. The carriage went back towards the inner wall.