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Chapter 11: It’s not Normal After All

“Oh, this is delicious! It’s so sweet!”

　Oh, yes! Rio Saito here, 25 years old spinster, who was whipped when she tried to use ‘appraisal’. I am having dessert now. What a surprise, strawberries existed in this other world!

　I was getting irritated with “Appraisal”, so I asked “Search” to find something sweet, and the place it pointed to bouncing on the screen that said “It’s easy to find something nearby” turned out to be really nearby. What was there was a strawberry field. What’s more, they’re bright red, large and shiny, just like strawberries. ──────However

“Kya~something’s here!”

“I’m sure it was attracted and overcome by my charms.”

“What~ I’m more be-au-ti-ful than you~!”

　───── it talks a lot.

　 They don’t have a mouth, but they talk a lot.

　 ‥‥‥‥but I’m a tomgirl anyway.*

“What? You’re so Cheeky!”

“Hmph, Shut up, you child!”

“I am, the best.”

“It’s me!”

“It’s me, you know!”

“Of course it’s me!”

　Some kind of fight broke out.

　male voice in strawberry form. I was not so bad myself that I could not help but half-glance at it.. I called up “Appraisal”, which replied, “It’s a little noisy, but it’s strawberry! Just snap them and they’ll shut up.”

　─────Snap, snap 

“It’s big and pretty tasty.”

　The strawberry fields have become quiet, and I am enjoying the taste alone. Strawberries? I harvested all of them?

“I’m next!” “It’s me!” Because it is so noisy, I quickly picked them all and put them in my item box. “Yah – it’s quiet now,” I said as I was enjoying the strawberries, and “Search” came up on its own.

“I’ve got something sweet for you.”

　Beeping while pointing to a certain point. “Search” gave me some motivation, so I decided to move  to the next location to see if I could get respond.

“Oh, what’s this? Where am I supposed to go?”

“ it’s up there! Above: just a little higher up.”

　What appeared in front of me was a wall of earth. “It’s huge!” I looked up, but a vertical wall of dirt stood in my way. As I squinted my eyes to see what was on the edge of such a cliff, I suddenly saw that there was a really big depression right where the “Search” was pointing, ‘you see, you see’. 

　You want me to go to that place? a little higher? It’s way up high, can I make it? Oh, I can do it, I can do it.

“okay. ───── what a relief! I’ve arrived~!─────  Ehh!?”

　When I reached the hollow, I found that it was wider than I had expected, with an open area of about fifty meters square. What surprised me even more was that there was a magnificent peach tree at the far end. As I wandered up to the tree, I saw that it was so large that I could look up at it, and it was full of fruit.

　It looked and smelled just like a peach. ───── However, this is a different world.

　It’s kind of slightly “glowing”.　

　As someone who has been struck by the violence of light ever since I came to this world, I find this glow is somewhat comforting. It also smells sweet and delicious. I tried to pick one of the berries nearby, and it looked just like a peach, just with a slight glow. Above all it, “does not walk,’’ “does not eat,’’ and “does not speak.’’

“C-Can I eat it.”

“You can eat it!”

　hooray! I rejoiced and said “thank you for the food” and bring it to my mouth, Fainting in agony from the overflowing fruit juices and the aroma that wafts through the nose. I ate it all up in no time, saying, “Yummmm, this is so sweet!”

　After my stomach had settled, I sat down and looked up at the peach tree.

　The whole tree is slightly glowing, so it is easy on the eyes and I can look at it for a long time. But how old is this tree? As I looked at the plants, thinking about how well they grew in a place like this, with little sunlight, and a new image came to mind.

“Do you want to protect this tree? →Yes.”

　 ───── Wait a minute.

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