Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 30.4

Side chapter: It seem to be increasing steadily? : First

In order to bring back the residents of Grosso Village (the name of the Regulus’s village) I sent Regulus and Lieze with a safe and secure travel set?a large amount of sleeping bags, holy water, food, LP potions, and starting from poison antidote, several types of status ailments recovery items?so that they could bring all the residents together.
There was a story of asking for help from other villages, but it seems that one of them was that Kuala Village(fishing village), and the other was about a day’s distance northwest of my base. I guess Regulus and Lieze deviated from their path a bit and arrived at my base.

Later, when I visited that village, it was a village with a population composition of half humans(hyuman) and half beastmen(beast) and… It was fairly peaceful. Well, That’s a good thing.
Ah, but, they were in a panick state because the words of the residents of Grosso village who came to ask for help, and when Regulus and the others went to pick them up, they were in a completely unprepared state to do anything, their sense of crisis had faded too much with the peace and that might became a problem someday. …… Hmmm, what to do about them?
It seems that the reason why that village didn’t have any incidents was because it was quite far from the great river. Most monsters are weak to sunlight, and if they try to move while the sun is shining, they will weaken and return to the ground. So it was a rare situation where they can survive for two days and attack Grosso village.
…… I wonder if the appearance and disappearance of monsters is the same as in the game. If I don’t verify it sooner or later, I’m going to see a painful eye someday.
In any case, they didn’t seem to be in that much of a problem, so I just remade the statue of the creator a little bigger, installed the usual automatic holy water, and fixed the broken things in the village and told them to go to my base or to Regulus if something happened and I made a return stone and came back.

When I was passing my days with my usual making, harvesting or upgrading things. I thought it was already about the time where should go see how things were going and visited Grosso village.

“Miko-sama?”

“The person who made the medicine? The pain is gone!”

“Thank you for the home!”

“The horned person is really amazing!”

… How could be~
There was… a paradise.

Come to think of it, Lieze said at that time “The people who can’t fight and the children have been evacuated.”.
In other words, that most of the residents who were recalled are children.
In fact, even now, about ten children including infants, are gathering around me and Uru. In addition, there are some people watching from a distance.

Please think about it.
A beastman is a person being with the characteristics of a beast.
They all have furry ears and tails…!And what more, they are small!
Imagine being surrounded by kittens and puppies, and you’ll understand how soothing this is…!
The children that resembles a human are also cute, but the children who are close to a beast looks like a bipedal animal… I want to pet their fluffy hair and is so unbearable!

“Haha, Miko-sama is popular.”

“It’s been a long time, Uru-san.”

Regulus and Lieze stopped my consciousness that was on the verge of going into a trip. It was Dangerous, it was dangerous…
Then, Regulus scatters the children, saying, “We have to talk to Miko-sama, so you guys should go play somewhere else for a while.”…… Aaaaaaah Bye bye Mofumofu …….
While I was lamenting, Uru was wiping the sweat from her forehead.

“I-I was saved…”

“… Uru, are you not good with children?”

I remember that her behavior was stiff when she was in the Kuala Village.
Uru answered my question with a slightly blank look.

“Umu… how to say… um… I felt like I was going to hurt them by accident if I moved…”

“Ah……”

Actually, I also had my LP cut down sometimes.……It might lead to a big injury if it’s a child.

“A Injury… hey… hey Regulus, did such a skinny little girl really defeat that chimera?”

I heard some sharp words, and I finally realized that there were three adults behind Regulus and Liese.
The person who uttered this line was… what he is, a wild boar? A middle-aged man with large fangs and hoofed legs. His arm seems to be broken and is wrapped in a bandage and hung with a cloth. You didn’t use a potion, did you?
The rest were a slightly thin young cat-like beastman woman, and an old cat-like beastman man with a cane. They are labeled with “like” because is hard to tell what they are…

“Uncle Boa, that’s rude. Uru-nee-san is really strong!”

“Hah… How about that…”

“Hey calm down…”

They are arguing…It’s not that much to say that, but they are all trying to calm down the one called Boa.……This an atmosphere where trouble is likely to occur.
While putting the people who are arguing sideways, I called out to Lieze who was flustered in a distanced position.

“Ah, Lieze. Do you have something to talk about with us?”

“… That’s right. The adults in the village, um, there are people who can’t stop their work, so it’s not everyone, but we thought to give our thanks to Rion-san again.”

“… Like that?”

“…… Like that.”

When I pointed at the person who wasn’t showing an attitude of gratitude, Lieze got embarrassed and looked a size smaller. No, I’m not blaming you, so don’t worry abou it.

“Geez, Regulus-nii, mother, grandfather and Boa-san, do you have forgotten what you came here for!”

“Hyee”

“Oh my… I’m sorry.”

At Lieze’s words that finally became angry at them, I involuntarily widened my eyes. By the way, it was Regulus who raised the strange voice.
But you mother looks young…. That means that the two are not cat but lion beastman? If you look closely, they does seems to look like Lieze a little bit.
When I was staring blankly at them, my eyes met her mother’s eyes, and while helping the grandpa, the two walked over to me.

“Miko-sama, Uru-sama, nice to meet you. My name is Ryza, Regulus’ aunt and Lieze’s mother, this is my father, Liot, and as Regulus mentioned earlier the one behind me is named Boa.”

“Ah, nice to meet you”

Since she greeted me, I bowed and greeted her back. Uru too made the same movement for the time being.

“For subjugating the chimera, and for repairing the village that was thought to going to die out, thank you very much.”

“Miko-sama, from the bottom of my heart, thank you very much…”

As the two bowed their heads deeply, the person behind them who seemed to don’t be liking the situation came into view, but for the time being, I will pretended not to have seen it.

“No, I’ve done what I can. Please raise your head—”

I can’t help but feel itchy when someone who is clearly older than me humbles themselves towards me like that.
Even so, the two kept bowing their heads for a long time, but at Regulus’s voice “Rion is becoming troubled by it” they finally lifted their heads up. Nice assist.

“By the way, is Lyza-san sick?”

By being here probably meant that she was one of the ‘adult who couldn’t fight’ that fleed.
Liot-san seems to be having trouble walking and Boa…-san is probably here because of the injury in the arm.
On the other hand, Lyza-san wasn’t looking like something was wrong with her body, but she looked a little pale, so I asked her.

“Is this could be called a disease?…At the beginning of the battle, I was contaminated by miasma…”

When Lyza-san rolls up her right sleeve, the bandage reveals itself, but…it was supposed to be white, but it was dyed in a reddish-black color. Wuaa… It looks really painful…
LP potions restore LP, but miasma damage will continue for a long time unless another treatment is taken…

“I tried using the potions and holy water I got from Rion, but it didn’t healed much.”

Regulus scratched his head and added an explanation.
The quality of the holy water is not that good due to skill level and material issues. So unfortunately, I don’t think it’s very effective against miasma. But.
If that’s the case… When I was about to suggest—

“Hah, as if a medicine made by a suspicious little girl like her should work.”

Another sharp… No, a clearly malicious words were thrown at me.