Kays Translations
Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 29. I Just Want to Toast First
The next day, the mystery was surprisingly solved.
Well, I don’t fully understand it yet, but I think I got the gist of what was probably going on.
It was still early in the morning,
Jude-san came over in a hurry and asked me to come over to his house, who had asked me to come over quickly. What I saw in Luna’s room was:
A bunch of tiny tomatoes, so densely packed that their stems looked like they might break.
The Japanese spinach seemed to have grown just a bit too big also—I mean, the kind of leafy greens like baby leaves, which are usually harvested while they are still small, but here they were all crowded together, tall and leggy and can no longer be called baby leaves—lettuce, mustard spinach, beets, all mixed together.
Strawberries that looked like they had way more fruit than their leaves could support—I just wanted to shout, “How many berries are on this?! It doesn’t balance with the leaves at all!”
And that was it.
I was so surprised, I couldn’t even find the words right away.
I wanted to shout, “What the heck is this?!”
Luna, whose shining smile was as adorable as ever, said:
“I was really trying hard and praying for them to grow big!”
I see!
Does that make sense?
While I was stunned and surprised, Martha-san and Jude-san went to another room to sit down and discuss.
“Probably, it’s some kind of green magic,” Jude said.
Yeah, there’s no doubt it’s some supernatural activity. I’d heard of the magic that helps plants grow, after all.
“But, do you think green magic can make plants grow like that?” Martha asked.
That was what I was concerned about, too.
“Normal green magic wouldn’t cause this,”
Jude explained. Usually, it’s magic that helps plants develop better. It can improve growth, but there is a limit to how much it can do.
“That’s not normal,”
No matter how you look at it, it’s definitely not normal.
“Yeah, something like that would happen only because of an elf…” Jude trailed off, lost in thought.
Elves, huh? So they exist. Well, it’s easy to understand why elves would appear as users of green magic.
“Luna might be an elf,” Jude, who had been deep in thought, started to say.
Apparently, there was an elf in Jude-san’s great-grandma’s great-grandfather’s family, or something like that.
Oh, I see, this is the genetic inheritance that he explained to me yesterday.
I thought, but it seemed like it was something that should be impossible .
According to the explanation from yesterday, there are exceptions to how different races produce children and how their traits appear. Elves are one of those exception races.
It’s said that if an elf mates with another race, the offspring will only be of the partner’s race—the elf’s traits don’t pass on, even over generations.
So, elves are strict about pure bloodlines and rarely marry outside their race.
But even if something is said to be impossible, every rule has exceptions, and if they really do exist, we have no choice but to accept it.
“Now that you mention it, Luna does have silver hair,” Martha says.
Elves are often depicted with light-colored hair, like silver or blond, and they’re usually beautiful. Luna is adorable, so that fits.
And,
“I thought her slow growth was because she’s physically weak…”
Slow growth and dislike of meat? Hmm, I see, I see.
It seems like yesterday’s serious talk was resolved with this explanation.
I don’t quite get it, but a beastman who can’t transform is a big issue, but apparently, there’s nothing wrong with elves having cat ears.
Honestly, I don’t understand at all—really, I don’t get it—but that’s apparently how it is.
When he said that, I, who has no idea about the customs of another world, can only forcibly accept it.
Anyway, I’m just glad!
Oh, this probably solves the problem of Luna not being able to eat vegetables.
Martha quickly prepared the plentifully ripened cherry tomatoes, water spinach, and baby greens in Luna’s room so Luna could eat them easily.
And Luna ate them eagerly, saying:
“Delicious!”
I don’t quite understand why, but it seems Luna’s dislike for vegetable was somehow related to this green magic.
Basically, green magic is used to grow vegetables.
The conclusion the three of us came to was that Luna’s green magic and the magic used to grow vegetables might not be compatible.
It’s like putting diesel into a car that runs on gasoline!
I think we’re probably on the right track.
In other words, Luna can eat vegetables that were grown without the use of green magic, or vegetables that she grew with her own green magic. That’s a cause for celebration!
Of course, no green magic was used on the vegetables from Japan, including carrots!
They should be safe to eat.
But then, a problem arose.
The land I rented was—
I rented a plot of land that was “hard to use green magic on”
—that is, it’s difficult for green magic to take hold there.
In other words, “they’ve been applying green magic to the land, right?”
If I keep growing vegetables there, they might not be suitable for Luna to eat.
It’s hard to do, so the impact will likely be small, but it’s unclear how much green magic it would cause Luna to have a rejection reaction.
But wait, the pot that Judo had prepared, and the soil inside it, had probably also been enchanted with green magic.
If Luna was able to eat the vegetables that grew in that soil, then perhaps if she applied some green magic to vegetables grown in that soil, she might be able to eat them.
“I’d like to try that once Luna is a bit more energetic and can come to the field,” I proposed.
“Okay!” Jude nodded in agreement.
Wow, I’m really relieved.
For now, let’s have a toast to this good news!!