The picturesque rice cakes are delicious today

"... are you going to eat this again?

That night too, the bird came to feed me the fruit of the tree. I want you to stop it.

"... you know, it's really annoying to eat this."

I tried to sue the bird for damages, but the bird pushed the nuts down a lot. Hmm... let's not waste resistance.

I decided to go to bed early that day. After eating the nuts, it starts to irritate you, so you should go to bed before that.

Quickly, I decided to fall asleep as soon as I could, so as not to worry as much as possible about the tingling and strange body. [M]

Of course, so that you can warm the eggs while you're asleep, you can properly roll the eggs and change the orientation and place, so that you can make a good setting.

... yeah. Good night. Good night.

The next day I was fed a strange tree nut.

... more often than last time. Last time, I had a bit more of a heart attack. I wonder. It's the second time, so I don't care anymore, right?

And Laocles and Crowe came to see me in the morning. The two visitors are very happy because there is no change when they hold their eggs in the nest of birds.

"I checked the atlas, but I didn't see any such creatures."

I see.

"I wonder what kind of egg it really is. This"

... and there's no clue about this egg. Yeah, well, that's what I thought.

So, is it really just that the color of the shell is different?

"I guess so. Fufu, it would be fun to have a different color chick."

Crowe is laying eggs next to me and giggling. [M]

"... it's kind of calming down when I touch this egg."

Yeah, that's right. For some reason, when I hold this egg, it calms down, and I feel that the itching is relieved a little.... what if this is maternity? I don't like the idea of maternity sprouting on boulders.

"Then I heard that Faye was coming after noon today. Do you mind if I tell him about you?

"Yeah, you can tell him. You'd mind if I wasn't around, and I don't think it's possible to keep it hidden."

And then it looks like Faye is coming to the woods today.... I've been taking care of you a lot lately, so I'd like you to take your time sometimes. Yeah, it's a corner, so I want you to laugh at the news that I was grabbed by a bird. If they laughed, it would have been worth it.

"Speaking of which, Mr. Corn. Aren't you hungry?

Huh?

"I brought you a sandwich. Eat?"

... Claire opens the basket and shows me the sandwiches inside.

Look at that... Speaking of which, I realized I haven't eaten anything but nuts since I was grabbed.

"Uh, I'll eat."

"Please... I'm sorry, I should have known sooner."

"Yeah. Um, I just got a meal from the birds, so it's okay."

The sandwiches are sandwiched with ham, cheese and lettuce. Yeah, it's delicious. However, I thought after eating it, I'm not particularly hungry.

When I think about it carefully, I think it was the same thing last time. I didn't eat anything but tree nuts, but I was still alive. Does that mean... that the nuts that the birds give me are really nutritious?

The sandwich Claire brought me was cut into small pieces, but after all, I could only eat about two pieces. Are you saying you're full?

Originally, Mr. Crowe didn't think I'd eat it all by myself, so he grabbed the sandwich. Eventually, Laocles also picked up a meal for all three at the bird's nest.

Yeah, eating in places like this isn't bad either.

Laocles and the others left, and then I was fed strange nuts, and I got feverish and itchy.

But while I was doing that, another egg hatched. Normal Robin's Egg Blue hatched.

I was greeted with the birds, and I was given regular delicious tree nuts. Uh, yeah. It's delicious.

The bird went looking for food to feed the chick, or soon disappeared from the nest. The parent bird is in trouble.

"... what hatches from my eggs?"

Now, all that's left is a mysterious pearl-colored egg. What kind of egg is this?

I was excited to know what would come out when this hatched, and I stroked the pearl egg.

... that's when it happened.

"Whoa! Don't hatch that! Don't hatch that!

Fei's voice sounded like it, and a red dragon came from above.

Huh?

I wonder what that means, looking at Fay... Fay said, changing his blood phase.

"It's a spiritual egg!

... eh?

In the meantime, the eggs of the Spirit were wrapped in a blanket and let go of me. I thought the birds would get angry when they saw it, but because Fay made a lot of swords, they thought it would be better to interrupt the warming for once.

"Um, corn. Maybe you're warming it up. It's a spiritual egg."

Yeah, I heard that. But I don't know what spiritual eggs are. Does this egg contain spirits?

"Spirit eggs are like this... to put it simply, eggs for a new Spirit to be born."

I see. Then there are spirits inside..... "

... I wonder if it contains a Spirit Chick? Spirits are birds in the first place? No, you don't. No, but because there are eggs like this, spirits are egg raw...?

"... no, that's fine. No, not really. Ready? Corn. This egg is," An egg for a new Spirit to be born. "There's no need for spirits to come out when they hatch."

"Huh? What do you mean?

It's as if you're in trouble saying something you don't understand... Fay looks nervous and puts a book out in front of me.

In the book is a picture of a pearl-colored egg. It's like a bird's egg, it's like a plant's seed, it's like a jewel, and so on. Well, it seems that spirits also have different shapes.

... but that's not the problem.

It was written under the picture of the Spirit's egg.

Spirit eggs take a lot of magic other than spirits to hatch, so many hatch over a long time. However, in environments where there are mineral deposits rich in magic stones, grasslands of magic grass, or creatures other than spirits with high magic powers, they may hatch in about a week. "

"If spirits like something nearby, they may hatch eggs after giving them favor and increasing their magic."

Spirit eggs hatch in each form and become new spirits. In addition, it seems that people who hatch eggs sometimes invest in spirits and turn them into spirits. "

... wow.

"I'm scared...."

"Isn't that frightening..."

Looks like I'm about to be turned into a spirit. [M] Scary.

"By the way, what does it mean to be a spirit...?

"Now... I've never seen a spirit either. I have no idea what's going to happen."

Oh, I see. Well, that's right. Fei, I told you the first time I saw you. I've never met a spirit. In general, there was no description of spirits in the drawings. This is a very unusual piece of information...

"Well, I don't know if the corn is about to be turned into a spirit. Look, even if you don't have to be a spiritual, it's nice to have a spiritual chick in this egg...."

"... but at that time, I suppose you'll think of me as a parent by imprinting on my eggs."

I don't like being a spiritual person, but I don't like being a parent.

"That's right... hmm, but that bird, you went all the way to pick a corn and hold an egg, right? Then I guess you wanted to do something to Corn...."

"Well, you were about to hold an egg."

"I don't know... Ah, but maybe it reacted to the magic stones that Corgo had? Simply took the magical stuff back to the nest and tried to hatch the eggs!

Yeah, well, it's a bird. Maybe he likes light. I have two crystals stuck in my bag. [M] I wonder.

"In the first place, I can't guarantee that the bird is a spirit. Maybe the spirits were laying eggs on the birds."

In that case, I would be a subcontractor. [M]

Well, that makes it a little easier. Yeah, that's right. Rather than thinking that the bird is a spiritual person, it is better to think that the spirits have laid eggs on the bird...

"Was there anything strange about that bird?

When Faye asks me that, I answer with some ease.

"Yeah. Well, they warmed the eggs... and then they ate weird nuts to warm the eggs."

But... Fay has a strange face.

"... eh? Weird monkey ate you?

"Yeah. It's like a spicy persimmon... and when I ate it, I got a fever and I was lazy, and this time my magic was all over my body and my body was itchy."

"That's right...."

Faye turned into a completely troubled face.

"... aren't you the favorite of the Spirit?

... hmm?

"Look, the doctor said that before. In the case of sudden increase in magic, when you received the favor of the Spirit.... he's a traitor, but he wasn't a bad doctor, and I think he deserves to be trusted."

Oh, that doctor. Yeah, I think I did. I didn't think so, so it was possible to cut it off first... no way.

"That bird is a spirit...!? No, no way!

"No, I don't want to admit it either. It's full of feelings, but maybe that's what it is. Normally, there's not such a big bird."

No, there are flying horses and stabbing horses, so big birds...

... no, yeah.

Looking back now, the bird brought me proof to punish the poachers. Well, maybe it was something you did to protect the forest.

So... after all, that bird is the spirit of this forest?

... certainly, there are some things like a big attitude, a grand attitude, or a splendid attitude.

"Well, because of the nuts that the bird ate, the magic grew, right? I wonder if that bird is a spirit after all. If you're not a spirit, you can't do that."

"Spirit Favor"?... I wonder if it's love, that. "

"Look, bird feeding is an expression of love."

Is that what you're talking about, courtship feeding?... if the bird is feeding me nuts with that intent, it's very troublesome.

"No, that nut tasted like nothing but love....."

Was it the whip of love? If that's the case... hmm, I'd like you to refrain from next time.

"No, I don't think it's the taste I'm afraid of. First of all, it will prove that the Spirit likes you."

Yeah, that's why I'm in so much trouble.

"And, look. As long as I hear your symptoms, the nuts are shaking your magic and increasing it, right?

Well, maybe. Does that mean that bird wanted to increase my magic? The reason I wanted to increase it...

"When you increase your magic... there, it gets closer to the spirits from humans..."

Ahhhhh! I hate it! Stop it! I want you to stop talking scary!

What should I do? It seems that if I keep going, I will be turned into a spirit. [M] Or the spiritual parent.

Either way, I don't want to fall.

... the teacher said before. Because "God" is neither absolute nor good for the Japanese, "I like God" is quite scary.

"May God protect you" and "The Goddess of Victory smiles", which are common in foreign novels, are a little scary for Japanese people... when you think about them carefully.

Yes, perhaps the protection of Japanese gods has disadvantages such as "leaving humans" or "damaging God's mood and being cursed", and people who are "smiled at by the Goddess of Victory" are liked by the Goddess of Victory and encounter divine concealment. Mm-hmm.

In other words, if you become a "spiritual" or a "spiritual parent", you will probably graduate from human studies. No, I'm not graduating. Probably dropped out. I don't like human dropouts.

... to me, the "Spirit" of this world is such an image. And apparently, Faye and the others are the same.

If I think about it carefully, I don't know much about the religions of this world, and I don't know whether there are religions in the first place... Whether the religion is monotheistic or polytheistic, it is certain that there is a "Spirit" underneath it. As far as the atlas and so on are concerned, it seems to be a substitute for "Japanese God".

"Spirits" in this world come in a variety of shapes, sometimes on their own. Love, jealousy, kindness, malice, lewdness, nervousness. It's kind of "a little human", isn't it? Probably.

"When I first saw you, I thought you were a spirit... no, I didn't think you'd really become a spirit."

"I don't want to be. Scary."

I don't know what spirits are in the first place, but I'm troubled if they let me do that. I'm afraid I'll be replaced by something I don't understand.

"Well, there's nothing we can do for now, let's negotiate directly!

"... it's a bird."

"It's the mysterious power of corn."

I can't. I can't. What, the mysterious power?

... but I have to get hungry.

To keep humans from dropping out. Don't turn it into a mystery you don't understand.

Yeah. The birds are back...