Chapter 198: A Brilliant Young Boy (2/2)
“Hmm… How to put it… It’s not just with slis. What I find fun is being able to do sothing that I couldn’t do before or learning sothing that I didn’t know before. Do you get what I’m saying?” [Ryouma]
“Ah, yeah. I think I can relate. I was also really happy when I was able to climb a tree for the first ti or finish building my secret base. I’m also having a blast right now too!” [Niki]
Oh? He’s having fun right now? As I thought, Niki-kun has potential.
“Then do you want to try raising slis?” [Ryouma]
“Are you sure?” [Niki]
“Of course. Although slis just need water and feed to live, it takes quite a bit of effort when there’s a lot of them. The slis waiting to evolve also need to be fed accordingly, so it would help a lot if I got your help.
I have enough feed for the slis, but I’d still prefer to get so other feed from here and experint a little too…” [Ryouma]
“In that case, let’s ask mom! At the bare least, we have so trash!” [Niki]
—And so, Niki-kun and I went around town. As a result…
“We sure gathered a lot…” [Ryouma]
After gathering everything we’ve accumulated so far to a corner of the square that we borrowed, a mountain of junk and garbage was able to form.
Niki-kun was never the reserved type and has always been inherently amiable to people, so with his help, we were able to ask a lot of people to give us their junk. The villagers must have also found it easier to talk since Niki-kun was there to diate between us. Niki-kun was a huge help to .
Moreover, when I showed the things we’ve gathered to the slis, so of them reacted.
Looks like there’s even a new feed here that they like!
“Uhya… That sure is a lot. Onii-chan, you had this many slis with you? Dinsion Magic sure is amazing.” [Niki]
“This isn’t really the ti to be surprised, Niki-kun. First, let’s confirm what among this pile of junk the slis have taken a liking to. If we don’t hurry, the sun will set before we know it.” [Ryouma]
“Yeah!” [Niki]
We worked together and segregated the things we got.
The people of the villagers looked on at us with curiosity from afar – of course, the children playing in the square too – but I didn’t pay them any mind.
Word of the situation has already spread through the village, so I’m sure there’s no need for any further explanation.
Let’s focus on the work at hand.
“First cos this.” [Ryouma]
The trash from the gutting place.
Various inedible parts of a myriad of different types of fishes, such as bones and guts, were mixed altogether.
The slis most interested in these parts are the scavenger slis, the acid slis, and a lone bloody sli.
The scavenger slis will want the damaged guts and the feces within the alintary canal. The acid slis will want the bones, so not much different from the usual.
But the blood sli… At first, I thought it was interested in the leftover blood inside the guts, but the other bloody slis showed no interest, so there might be a branching path here to another evolution.
With that in mind, I gathered the parts it was reacting to, but unfortunately, that only counted for a small portion of the garbage accumulated. It didn’t seem to care much for the types of fishes or the part. Even when I took out the sa gut part in one fish it reacted to from another, it showed no reaction.
It was at that mont…
“Onii-chan, I think I got it!” [Niki]
“Oh! What is it?” [Ryouma]
“I think it’s probably the parasite… We have to be careful of them during this ti of the year, but my parents told that there are certain types of fishes that we have to especially be wary of. The parts you picked out are pretty much that.” [Niki]
“I see. Parasite, huh… ‘Identify’.” [Ryouma] 」
“Mountain of fish guts”
A pile of guts from different types of fishes. Within the guts of these fishes are the eggs of parasites from Ratoin Lake, so of which have just hatched.
“Bingo! Niki-kun, you got it right! I used Identify on it, and it told that all of these have parasites!” [Ryouma]
“Really? He he. But parasites, huh…” [Niki]
“Is there a problem?” [Ryouma]
“Well, parasites are annoying.” [Niki]
Now that he ntions it… They’re already a pain normally, but to a village that makes its livelihood from fishing, they must be especially annoying.
“But you know if you look it from another point of view. I gathered this mountain of guts only after looking at the reaction of the bloody sli, and I couldn’t tell at all that there were parasites inside these until I used Identify.
In other words, slis that can eat parasites can tell whether there are parasites in fishes or not.” [Ryouma]
When I said that, Niki-kun’s eyes opened wide, and even the adults watching around us cried out.
“I see! If you can tell which fishes have parasites, then it will be safer to eat fishes!” [Adult 1]
“Fish without parasites? If we could tell them apart, we could even eat them raw…” [Adult 2]
“Dear, could you please stop that? I’m the one who’ll have to take care of you if you end with a stomach ache.” [Adult 3]
“Of course, there’s no one stupid enough to eat fish raw right now, but co sumrti…” [Niki]
When the adults heard Niki-kun’s words, they beca even more boisterous.
“Niki-kun. Do you eat raw fish around these parts too?” [Ryouma]
“When there aren’t a lot of parasites, fishern eat the fishes raw. My dad loves to eat raw fish, but because of that he ends up with stomach aches every year. There might be less parasites in so seasons, but that doesn’t an they’re completely gone.” [Niki]
“I see.” [Ryouma]
It’s probably a similar feeling to those people from the Edo Period who wanted to eat fugu even though it was forbidden… Well, in this case, they won’t die even if they ingest a parasite, so I guess it’s not as desperate.
But enough of that. What’s more important right now is the evolution of the bloody sli. What will happen to it when it eats the parasites? Will it turn into a parasite sli? Will it go inside the body? The body of the bloody sli is blood. And blood goes in the body. Wait. Does that an it can transfuse blood?
…As I pondered on that thought, I realized that the bloody sli would enter the body through a wound every ti it sucked blood. But the blood inside wouldn’t coagulate. I an it doesn’t, right? After all, it’s able to suck the blood so smoothly. I hear blood coagulates when a different type of blood is mixed in, but… Wait a second. In the first place, what even is the blood type of the bloody—
“—chan! Onii-chan!” [Niki]
“Oops. Sorry, Niki-kun. Spaced out there.” [Ryouma]
“I know. I can tell from looking at you. Anyway, since we know that one’s a parasite sli, let’s continue.” [Niki]
“Yeah. Let’s do this!” [Ryouma]
There’s still a lot of garbage to go through. But that pile of garbage was reflected on my eyes like a mountain of gold.
It wouldn’t be long before that overly positive interpretation of what was otherwise a pile of trash would be proven correct.
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