“So, what are we going to do with the fields?” Vigaro asked.



“Well take them, of course,” said Vandalieu.



He and his followers weren’t after only the materials left behind by the villagers. He wanted their harvest and crops as well. In fact, this was the main thing they were after.



“This is good wheat. Let’s take it by the roots. Get up.” As Vandalieu gave this order, the wheat field began to rise. Countless legs extended from beneath the earth in which the wheat was growing. After turning the wheat field into a Golem, he intended to take all of its earth and the wheat growing in it with him!



With this, he could make all of the bread, okonomiyaki and takoyaki he wanted, as well as ramen in the near future! He could make more udon and pasta as well. There hadn’t been enough acorn powder for all of this, so this wheat would be very helpful.



He would even be able to make straw and straw paper. Well, this would need trial and error as well.



“Bocchan, what about this millet?” asked Rita. “I think it’s foxtail millet and barnyard millet.”



“Millet can be harvested quickly, so let’s take it with us,” said Vandalieu. “They’re nutritious, too.”



He had the feeling that millet was greatly popular on Earth. Processing it was easier than acorns as well.



“Ah, this field has soba,” said Kachia.



“They turn it into galettes in the Mirg shield-nation, don’t they? Let’s take it with us.”



Soba would be wonderful. It could be added to either cold or hot soups. It even made aromatic teas… apparently.



“What are we doing with the beans?” asked Borkus.



“We’re taking it, of course.”



The beans being cultivated here resembled soya beans or something similar to them. With this, Vandalieu would finally be able to make normal miso. Soy sauce, too. And tofu, soy milk, bean curd, fried tofu… how truly wonderful.



Also, boiling the beans that were still green and adding salt to them to eat them as ‘edamame*’ was apparently enjoyable as well.



TLN*: Immature soybeans boiled and served with salt, as described.





“The beans over here appear to be of a different species,” said Sam.



“These are… adzuki beans! Get up, get up, get up.”



With adzuki beans, Vandalieu would be able to make red bean paste. He didn’t have sugar, but perhaps honey could be used as a substitute?



“It appears that there are tomatoes growing in this small field, my lord,” Bone Man reported.



“Ah, to think that such a versatile ingredient would be in a place like this…”



Among the researchers in Origin, there had been those who believed in tomatoes in addition to the mayonnaise believers. After they suffered heart attacks and died suddenly, the tomato believers would talk on and on about the wonders of tomato sauce while whispering complaints about the food of the laboratory’s cafeteria.



Vandalieu liked mayonnaise when he was on Earth, but he was someone who preferred ketchup.



“We haven’t had tomatoes up until now, so I’d given up on it. But with this, finally… Get up, get up, get up.”


Well, it wasn’t as if he didn’t have the other ingredients he needed, so things would probably work out.



Vandalieu also acquired potatoes, carrots, daikon, onions and other vegetables from the farms, taking the whole fields. It would be possible to make potato starch from the potatoes.



Incidentally, Vandalieu was using Golem Transmutation to create piles of dirt to fill the holes created by removing the fields.