Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 30.1

Side chapter: Rion observation record

Rion’s mornings start early, she begin to work as the sun rises. According to her “I just go to bed early and waking up early.”.
As for me, I wanted to enjoy this warm feeling for a while longer, but since I can’t be that selfishly to someone who I is indebted to, so I decided to wake up at the same time.

The first place that Rion heads for is, the altar where the stone statue of The Creator God is installed.
After praying for about few dozens seconds, she cleans the stone statue and check the state of flower bed. ……Although I think the colorful flowers blooming are beautiful, but the smell is a little harsh to me.

Then, while taking a morning walk, she make a round patrolling the base.
She check to see if the fence is broken, and of course fix it if it’s broken. Well, Rion is the one who fix it.
She check the bottom of the pitfalls, and if the monster survived it, she stab it to finish off them. She collect magic stones and materials dropped during the night. Then she repairs the traps and cover them with straw in the same way that it had been to hide them.
But these guys are falling down in the traps like every day… No matter how dark it is, monsters can see at night, so why is that? When they are being this dumb, I can’t help but laugh.
Also, she will check whether the automatic holy water spraying device works normally, to a extent that can be said to be obsessive. Apparently, she one time forgot to sprinkle holy water before sleeping and had a painful experience. If I had been there at that time, I would thrash the monsters around, without letting them hurt her…

Then next she goes to the ranch.
She collect milk from cows and eggs from chickens. At first, these guys were afraid of me and ran away (I wonder if it was transparent to them that I thought that they looked delicious?), but gradually they stopped running away, so I got a little attached to them. …But I still want to eat meat.
After finishing it, she replenish the automatic feeding device and automatic watering device and check if they are broken. Rion is automating a lot of things, right?

“That’s because, If you try to do everything by hand, no matter how much time you have, it won’t be enough. I want to automate these simple things so I can spend my time doing other things.”

“I see”

Rion is just like as expected from a Miko of the Creator God, if she has some free time, she will try make something by anyway possible.
Moreover, it is not just from a sense of mission, but her hobbies are mixed into it. I can be assured of that by how fun she looks while making things.
…Haa, I want to be able to make something too…
I’m the exact opposite of Leon, I can’t make things by anyway, and when I try to make things, I destroy both the materials and the tools in various ways…
Isn’t it okay to call myself the God of Destruction’s miko? Well, I won’t call myself that…

After that, we have breakfast with fresh milk and eggs.
It seems that today food is called French toast. I feel a little unsatisfactory, but it is very delicious with a slight sweetness.
However, Rion doesn’t seem very satisfied.

“I’ve learned how to make butter, but…I want sugar…or honey…I also want cheese or yogurt, I wonder if I can cause fermentation with alchemy… I would like to try to make some alcohol…”

Sometimes I can see her muttering things like that, what kind of spell is she chanting…?
Well, for me it’s a big welcome to be able to eat other delicious things, so I want you to do your best. But It would be nice If I could cooperate in gathering some materials.

After breakfast, she tends the fields.
After confirming the quality of the crops, if they are ripe, harvest them, nourish the soil in the emptied spaces, and sow the seeds again. But I feel like the crops are growing too quickly… And it’s not just my imagination. Could this be the power of a miko?
The watering of the field is also automatic, but it seems that she want to automate the harvesting and sowing in the future. You could automate these parts too, It’s amazing.

“That’s because various pla…Aah, people who love thinking about this kind of system have tested and developed in a wide variety of ways to the extent of making other people questionate ‘Is this really necessary?’ I’m just copying their projects.”

“……Fumu?”

The people in Rion’s hometown are amazing, aren’t they?
I’ve heard a glimpse of it before. Rion came from a far, far away place, all alone to fulfill the wish of the Creator God.
……When she told that, Rion’s eyes looked a little lonely.

??I wonder if she want to go back.

The next thing that she does is go hunting.
It seems that Rion didn’t go hunting every day when she was alone, but because of the increase in the number of people to feed, in other words me, she needed to increase the amount of meat to hunt… I’m sorry for bothering you.
In any case, even if I go alone, while I recently became able to adjust my strength to some extent, but I still often fail to control and my prey ends up in a terrible state… That’s one of my recent worries.
Today as well like everytime, Rion just laughs while saying “This much is fine” and collects the scattered meat that was my prey. No matter how many times I see it, it’s strange how it became a lump and disappears in a in the blink of an eye.

As I learned from hunting together several times, Rion claims to have average physical ability, but she has considerable stamina, and her bow skills are eye-opening good.
It’s something that I can’t help but be amazed everytime by how easily she can hit a prey that runs around with a single shot. There was a time when the arrow passed between the gaps of trees and finished the target in one shot, at that scene I couldn’t help but applaud her.
She was humble saying that anyone could do this much, but… is that the truth? Or is just that the people in her hometown are all special and her common sense became numb because it?

In addition to hunting, she collect nuts, wood, and medicinal herbs. ……I feel like there was a ton of wood in the underground warehouse, but is it still necessary?……It’s incredible how the area around here haven’t became bald of trees.
When I was wondering about it, Rion was planting seedlings and seeds in the same way as when she was growing crops.… Regardless of the seeds, where did the seedling come from …?
I was given a demonstration once, but how and why a stump became a seedling? I have no idea!
And in just a few days, the seedlings will grow into full grown trees, what is going on! And why is Rion looking at it as if it were a matter of course!!!

Is this the miko of the Creator God? ……How terrifying……!

We eat something called hamburgers for lunch.
By sandwiching meat between bread it can combine being both delicious and easy to eat. How wonderful food it is!
While I was impressed at it like that, Rion was smiled bitterly. ……Did I say something funny?
However, according to what she said, If something called shoyu was available, and when she became capable to make something called sauce, the hamburger will be more delicious… I swallowed my saliva in anticipation to this.

In the afternoon, she is mostly working hard on making things, the content is are from a wide-ranging patterns.
The first one, she’s rummaging around in the work room. Is this the most common pattern?
Well, I can see Rion’s various expressions, such as making her eyes twinkle (sometimes glaring), being satisfied with the finished product or holding her head after failing, so it’s fun watch.
However… there are many times when she get so caught up in the work that she often leave me alone. I don’t have anyway to help out with making things, so I have much free time. … At times like that, I sometimes go outside to exercise my body alone.
The second one, she was expanding or increasing facilities somewhere in the base. The underground warehouse was several times larger than what I have seen before and she was building a new workshop. As expected, the contents were still empty there.
The third one, she is improving something in the house. Before i knew it, glass was fitted in the wooden frame windows and the bath was remade a little wider. It seems that she made them with a large amount of magic stones obtained from the Chimera battle.

When the sun goes down, we eat dinner. Seafood soup is the main dish today.
The flavor that was permeated deep into the ingredients was very warm and gentle to my tongue. I still prefer meat, but this is also delicious.
I asked for more refills many times, but Rion just laughed and gave me more without any complaint.
The dinner is over and we going to bed… While I was thinking about doing that, she turned on the light and started working. Apparently she could complete her work with just a little bit more.
Probably because my stomach was filled and I became sleepy, I stared blankly at the situation with a blank head.
And??

“Rion… I’m sluggish…”

“Egh? Are you okay!?”

Even while I thought it would be bad to disturb her, I leaned against her back as she was working.
“It okay if you slept first, ok?” she said, but I feel most at ease when I’m close to her… However, it became troublesome to keep my body up.
Even so… I wonder what this sluggishness really is… I feel like I’ve never had this kind of state before.

“Well, it can’t be helped. I think I’ll go to bed too.”

“I’m sorry…”

“You don’t have to worry about it.”

My back was gently tapped as if to soothe me and I felt like I was floating in the sky. I guess she picked me up.
With a shaking felling my body sways in her arms. The reason why the shaking started to become gradually smaller is not because my senses started to dull, but because Rion is taking care of not disturb me while walking.
The feeling being gently laid on a soft futon and being wrapped in a blanket, made my body little warmer.
But I’m sure, it’s not just the blanket’s fault??

“Good night, Uru.”

A whisper faintly reached my ears, and my consciousness suddenly fell in darkness.