The picturesque rice cakes are delicious today

Not good. Not good. I served the phoenix without thinking about the phoenix rice! This is exactly what I call "buying a bookshelf and then cleaning up the room"!

"... hey, you okay"

"Ugh, not yet, not yet asleep..."

Plus, I'm starting to look like I'm out of magic because I got the phoenix out. But no. If I go to bed now, no. I don't know how many days I'm going to sleep, so no! If I fell asleep here, I'd lose my phoenix rice!

At least, I think, on the drawing paper the phoenix just left, drawing bamboo fruit.

... I saw it in a botanical atlas before, so I know the shape of bamboo fruit. I remember very well because I was surprised that the bamboo would bear fruit.

So, later, just draw, so...

"Ugh..."

"... hey, if you're a subpoena, to some extent, you're just going to lift it up with water. I hear it won't drain so much health if it's in the Stone."

"But it's not much to come out and wait at home hungry for the first few days..."

Though my consciousness grew more and more hazy, for now, I drew.

Bamboo fruit. About 6. That was the limit......

I managed to paint it, come out please, come out please, and finish it... And then I saw that the bamboo fruit came out of the drawing paper, and I went to bed.

Yeah, good night......

When I woke up, there was a phoenix in front of me. Apparently, he's on the hammock with me.

When I was looking blurry, the phoenix rang and tilted her neck... then narrowed her eyes and rubbed her head against my neck muscle.

"Yeah, good morning......"

Gently stroking the phoenix's head, the phoenix squeals and sweetbites my earlobes at the tip of his beak.

The beak seems pointy, sharp and stiff no matter how you look at it, but it seems to be able to apply or subtract force well. It didn't hurt. It's just ticklish. Wow.

"It tickles."

I had it stopped because it was so ticklish. Then the phoenix stopped chewing sweetly... and then tickled my neck with feathers.

"Here, here. No, I can't."

... Apparently this phoenix has a prank-loving personality inside. In the end, I became the feather of being tickled by a phoenix while grinding on a hammock. Yeah. I want you to stop because the horse seems to remember something weird.

"Morning. How many days?

"Two days."

All right, Safe.

... When I went to see Laocles, I found out that apparently, this time the magic had run out in two days.

Wow. It was 6 days when I served Alicorn and Phoenix, but this time it was 2 days. Because I grew up, right? Or because the phoenix was on my stomach? Did you have the magic divided?

Well, good for whatever. If I'd slept too long, the phoenix would have almost made me hungry.

"Laocles. The phoenix was eating bamboo fruit?

"Oh. If it's the fruit you gave, you're right."

Laocles showed me the fruit in the cage.... it is 4. That means I eat one a day, I guess.

"... just one a day"

On the contrary, can I have one a day? Bamboo fruit, though not that big. The phoenix is about my size... but I wonder if I'm hungry.

Could it be like a bamboo fruit snack for a phoenix?

"Want some?"

I thought maybe a snack would do, so I offered the phoenix some bamboo fruit. Then, from my hand, the phoenix begins to eat with bamboo fruit.

After eating the bamboo fruit thoroughly, and eating until the last shard, he sounded in a good mood.

... and stare at the cage beside me. Yeah, I mean, a cage with bamboo fruit, what...

"... one more, do you want?

When I offered him another bamboo nut, he ate it. [M]

... In the end, all that remained, actually, went into the belly of the phoenix.

Uh, this, could it be that... you've been patient with me wanting to eat?

When the phoenix ate four bamboo fruits, it flew away as if to say no. He's been drinking the water from the fountain ever since, and starting to play with the horses about something. Yeah. Sounds fun.

Watching a phoenix that looks like fun makes me feel good, but... conversely, I think you've been patient and eating bamboo fruit before, and I feel so sorry for you.

"What's wrong, you look dark."

Laocles came next to me, so I'll talk to him.

"... if I accidentally collapse, this child will be hungry."

"But basically I hear that a thing called a subpoena doesn't require so much food. If you can live with water and magic, you don't have to force it to bear fruit."

Uh, I mean, is that, for Phoenix, bamboo fruit, after all, a snack?

But that's all I was eating....... hmm.

"I asked you to come out at my convenience. And I'm so sorry to make you hungry."

If you want to eat, I want you to eat a lot. Of course, I'd like you to take care of your health... but there aren't many people who can't eat what they want at my convenience.

"Then make sure you don't fall... is that a hard story"

"Yeah."

And I will probably fall. [M] I think it will run out of magic. 'Cause we still have to get out at least one more' creature who's good at hiding '. Even if it doesn't, I'm pretty sure if anything happens, it'll be out of magic.

... so I figured out a solution.

To allow phoenix to eat bamboo fruit even if I don't draw bamboo fruit...

"I want to grow bamboo where bamboo fruit grows every day"

"... in the first place, what is bamboo? I've never heard of it."

"Uh, these plants"

I drew it for a moment and showed it to him, and Laocles peered in with interest. Apparently, he never saw anything called bamboo.

"It's beautiful inside that there's so much of this growing and shaking in the wind."

"Ho."

I like the view of the bamboo grove. It's like the sun shines green, that kanji. Every time the wind passes, it touches, and it sounds good. And then, Tamako is delicious. So I love bamboo...

"Then you can grow it. Could the fruit trees have grown?

"Yeah, I do..."

Yes. I wondered if I could manage to grow bamboo like bamboo fruits do every day so that the phoenix could live without getting hungry... I have a big problem.

"Bamboo is very fertile."

"... right"

Laocles has a face he doesn't quite understand. Yeah, I think so. That's why I have to teach him the bamboo threat.

"It stretches so much"

"Stretch...?

"It stretches about 30 cm a day"

30cm, I tried to describe it by hand and Laocles shut up.

"And strong. When it grows under the floor of the house, the floor of the house is breached."

... Laocles was out of line.

"So... more in the basement stem. If we don't dig up all the roots, we can't get rid of them."

You look like, "Is there such a horrible plant," but it is. I do. I do have plants that grow 30 centimeters a day, break through the floor, and grow with great momentum and have a lot of vitality.

"Is that... this forest will be all of its plants?

"... yeah, when the woods are bamboo groves, to boulders, sorry"

That's why I'm in trouble.

I feel sorry for the phoenix to be hungry, but it's also hard for this forest to be tough with bamboo.

"I wish the phoenix would have eaten this..."

I just told the phoenix that flew in nearby, "Want some teapot? 'I asked him, and he leaned his neck as he rang. Yeah, that's right. You only eat fruit, you don't eat freshly.

... Well, I can't help it. I also have to take care of bamboo more than I put out a phoenix.

If I have to, I think I can manage to return to the original state if I paint a picture of the bamboo disappearing forest... Yeah, sorry if there's a forest spirit, but just for a second, let me grow bamboo.

To grow bamboo, first bury something like a large stone plant pot on the ground. The one about the size of a hot water boat.

And I decided to grow bamboo in it. This way it won't spread that far, I think. When the roots come out, let's get rid of them each time.

And finally draw bamboo, for the record...

"Maybe it's harder than drawing a phoenix..."

"Not so much"

'Cause bamboo with bamboo fruit grows every day, right? I mean, it's fictional bamboo. Even a phoenix is a fictional bird, so a fictional bamboo is like a bamboo version of a phoenix.

What bamboo is that?

"I don't know, what kind of bamboo would produce fruit every day"

Don't ask me.

Hmmm...... this is trouble.

The phoenix was good because the image immediately came to mind, but what makes' awesome bamboo 'so awesome...?

... troubled, I began to draw bamboo.

I drew it very hard. You shouldn't be just bamboo. This has to be amazing bamboo.

It will bear fruit every day for the phoenix, and then it will be prettier than any bamboo, and then, if possible, it won't grow too much extra. I need you to stay bamboo like that!

... This is how I began to draw with tension, but I've been able to tell along the way, and it's been fun.

Yeah. Bamboo is beautiful after all.

Clear green. Shaking in the wind must be cool. And there is fruit there.

As much as drawing fictional birds, drawing fictional bamboo is fun.

This bamboo is amazing bamboo. So I knew it was fun to draw. It's amazing bamboo, so there's no reason it's not fun to draw.

"Done."

That's how the bamboo grew.

... has grown. I can't go back.

It's just... Bamboo was, unexpectedly, well received.

"Is this bamboo?"

Laocles looked up at the bamboo stretching upright and threw up a small sigh of admiration.

"... I wondered what kind of horrible plant it was, but I didn't know it was such a graceful plant"

Yeah. I might have over-emphasized the bamboo scare a bit earlier.

"Apparently, he likes the phoenix."

Then, the phoenix delighted the bamboo. I flew around the bamboo, and then I stuck with one fruit that was growing on the bamboo.... Looks happy.

"I wonder if you like horses, too"

Even stranger, the horses looked at the bamboo and stopped by. I wonder why. Is it because it is unusual?

... Well, I'm glad you liked it.

It's just... this bamboo was, after all, a little strange bamboo.

... it was discovered after nightfall.

"That, Fluorescent"

At night, I looked out the window and the bamboo area was glowing. Fluffy, shiny things look like fluorescence, but something is weird.

I was curious, so I went outside and took a look.

... Then.

"From bamboo, light......?

It was out of the bamboo branch leaves. Bamboo shakes in the night breeze, and every time, there is a very pale light.

It's like a fluorescent dance, and then it's even more dull and ghostly.... This is similar to the light of the moon.

That's right. Isn't this the light of the moon? There is still a big moon out in the sky tonight, but the light of that moon gathers in the bamboo and falls to zero in small chunks. It seemed that way. No, I'm too immersed in a fantastic world, is it?

… I reach out softly to the strange light. Then, as soon as I touched my fingers, the light dancing out of my face disappeared to melt.

At the same time, my fingertips get a little warmer. Tingling. As I have been given the strength.

This is... not bad.

When I was touching the light and cheering up, the horses came to my senses.

And the horses are also exposed to zero light from the bamboo, making them happy.

"You like it?

When I asked, the horses rang, hissing, all together. Yeah, good if you liked it.

The next morning. Somehow I'm feeling better, and I wake up.

When I went outside, the horses also looked somewhat in a good mood. I wonder if the moonlight bath was good.

"Morning."

Speaking up to the horse, I also see how the bamboo is doing.

There were no more bamboo in the boulder because it was not after the rain. Good.

"That's fast."

Laocles also comes there. He's up earlier than I am. I wonder if he was even swinging his sword today.

"Bamboo is... unchanged"

"Yeah. Maybe."

Raocles also came to see me worried about bamboo. Yeah, if this forest could get eroded, you'd be wondering...

"This is a beautiful plant."

"But because it's still a plant that grows a lot. I'll cut it somewhere. 'Cause it doesn't seem like overstretching is a good idea."

"Hmm... don't feel sorry for me"

Talking about bamboo, Laocles looked a little lonely, stroking the bamboo.

Well, that's a shame, isn't it? Sure. No, it stretches very well, and I'm pretty sure it's going to be a big deal if I don't cut it...

"Uh, after you hang up, there's a way to take advantage of it. It cracks straight, so you can make it look like a stick, and so it can be like an umbrella bone or a kite bone..."

Laocles said, "The bamboo? 'You look like,' but, uh, yeah. I think I'll make it when I cut bamboo one day. In this world without wires, kite flying will be fun inside.

"And bamboo, if it cuts well at the verse, we can have a cylinder. They used to use this as a water bottle or cook with rice and water in it."

"Right. The more you ask, the stranger the plant is."

Sure, there may be no other plants like this.

... um, it's a corner, and if I cut bamboo, I'll use it for that cylinder, something. It would be interesting to use the brush as a washing container, or you could try it as a water bottle. It might be fun to try cooking rice. Oh, and then I have to draw rice, though.

And then... bamboo pen, let's make it. It's a type of pen that I put on, and I think there was one that made a pen tip out of bamboo. Yeah, it'll be fun to try it once.

Then......

"But bamboo is fine, but it's time to decide on the next subpoena."

Oh, it wasn't bamboo. Yeah. Right.

I'm anxious to have one phoenix, because that means... yeah, I figured, the one who's good at hiding, I want to get it out.

"What would you like?"

"A little creature would be nice. They say carbuncles and such are small."

Carbuncle, for sure, is a creature stuck with a beautiful red gem. I'm not sure if it's a cat or a squirrel.

"You might as well be a fairy. You'll be good at hiding. It seems a little whimsical."

Fairy...... uh, the one Carnelia said looked like me. Hmm. That's somehow......

"... well, a creature that's not so big, quick, and moveable would be nice. Whatever, little dragon."

"What's a little dragon..."

"Right. Can we have a dragon big enough to get inside this bamboo barrel?

Laocles laughs when he says so. Yeah, sure, it could be cute. Bamboo cylinder dragon. Though I think I can get it out if I draw it.

... that.

Speaking of which... creatures who like to get into bamboo cylinders, or monsters,... weren't there.

Uh, sure, a pipe fox, something like that.

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