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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
The 14th Floor was the Floor where the Ogres and Goblins were located.
Some of the goblins Kousuke had given blessings to had evolved, and one of them had changed into an Oni.
Surprisingly, they were even able to speak the language, so they could communicate with Kousuke to a certain extent.
After confirming this, Kousuke was unable to go check on the goblins for a while because of the many things that had happened.
Kousuke decided to visit the 14th Floor with Mitsuki to check on the goblins for the first time in a while.
The first thing that surprised Kousuke when he arrived at the 14th Floor was that the individual who had evolved into Oni when he came before had evolved even further.
No, there was nothing wrong with the evolution itself.
He had hoped that it could happen, and that was alright.
The individual had undergone considerable transformation when it became Oni, but this time it had undergone an even greater transformation.
Without the horns on its head, it was almost indistinguishable from a human.
His race had also changed from <Oni> to <Douji>.
That much was still within the realm of expectation.
No, of course, it was surprising enough, but if they were expected to undergo an evolutionary change, it would not be surprising if they changed to a certain extent.
More than anything else, Kousuke was surprised by a certain fact that he had not expected at all when he saw the individual in front of him.
“Welcome, welcome.”
The greeting, which was much more fluent than when he had come before, barely entered his head.
“Um… Is something wrong?”
“Oh, uh… Gabo was a girl?”
“? Yes, my lord?”
The child looked at Kousuke with a curious expression on her face, but her style was completely that of a girl.
Her face was even prettier than when we met before.
If she were to walk down the street normally, there would probably be men who would approach her.
However, she still retained the features she had when we met her before, so she was not different from the other girls.
On the contrary, Kousuke wondered why he had not noticed them before.
Thinking that a girl being named Gabo would not be a good name, he changed her name to Sol.
He was not sure if he could change her name properly, but when Sol accepted her name, her status display name also changed, so it was okay.
On the other hand, he wanted to know if Sol could have changed her name if she did not want to, but since Sol accepted it without hesitation this time, Kousuke could not confirm it.
Something unexpected happened from the beginning, but Sol guided them through the goblins’ village.
It was a village, not a stronghold. It was a village, not a base.
When Kousuke came there before, there was only what Kousuke had prepared using the tower function, but clearly there were more structures.
Of course, it was a simple dwelling(?). But it was still a big step forward to have individual living spaces.
Some of the goblins were also using tools to make things.
Since Kousuke did not give them those things, they have started making and using their own tools.
“Did Sol come up with all the tools you use?”
“No, no way. They were thought up by my friends.”
Saying this, she pointed to some of the individuals.
All of them were evolved individuals.
Some of the individuals she pointed at even bowed to him.
Kousuke was surprised at how many things had changed, but another part of his mind had an idea.
It was that perhaps if he taught them agriculture, they would start production.
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Kousuke had some business to attend to, so he went back to the Administration Floor and immediately went to Schmidt’s to get some seed potatoes for his farm.
Of course, it was to get some potatoes for farming.
Schmidt tilted his head and wondered what Kousuke would use it for, but he knew that Kousuke did a lot of work at the tower, so he took care of it without saying a word.
The seeds themselves were readily available.
After all, potatoes were the main product grown at the 5th Floor.
There was no way they would run out of potatoes.
After sending an errand to the production department, Kousuke spent some time chatting with Schmidt.
Since there were no new magical tools, Schmidt told him about the recent situation at Crown.
While they were chatting, Hewrick came in from the production department with some potatoes.
Hewrick was the current head of the production department, where the responsibilities were rotated among the representatives of the department.
It was unlikely that the head of the department would come all the way there just to deliver the potatoes.
He knew that Kousuke was visiting, so Hewrick went out of his way to meet him.
Kousuke at present did not have any authority, but he was still the ruler of the tower.
As the head of a department in the Crown division, with its headquarters in the tower, he would at least show his face when he knew that Kousuke was visiting.
After that, after some conversation with Hewrick, he returned to the Administration Floor with the potatoes.
After getting the potatoes, Kousuke immediately returned to the 14th Floor.
“… What’s this?”
“A potato. The simplest way to explain it is that if you plant it in the land and cultivate it, it will produce a potato.”
Kousuke explained it simply, but Sol’s attention went blank when she heard it.
Of course, Kousuke didn’t think that was enough of an explanation, so he started from the beginning.
“… That means we can make our own food?”
“Well, yes. It takes a lot of time and effort to manage and so on, but…”
During the conversation with Hewrick, Kousuke also asked him how to grow the potatoes that Hewrick brought with him.
However, Kousuke could not stay with the goblins for a long time, so after explaining the situation, he would let the goblins decide what they wanted to do.
Kousuke was still not sure if he would be able to properly grasp and work through the hassle of managing this project.
Simply planting potatoes where the land had been tilled and waiting for the potatoes to grow would be no different from what we have done in the past.
It was important to be able to properly manage the production.
After that, Sol apparently decided to assign another person to manage the potatoes.
Kousuke later confirmed that it was someone familiar with plants among her friends.
However, even though that individual was knowledgeable, it did not mean that the individual had any experience in agriculture, so the individual seemed to be confused.
Incidentally, since the individual’s race was already a Great Ogre, the individual had a certain degree of wisdom.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible for the individual to remember what grew where and where, as well as what could be consumed.
At first, Kousuke made a small field by himself and taught them how to plant.
After that, he only came to check on them periodically.
This was partly because Kousuke was not very knowledgeable himself, but also because Kousuke judged that it was necessary for them to gain experience on their own.
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In conclusion, the goblins were able to successfully grow potatoes.
However, it was not a first-try success, and at first, they ruined more than half of the potatoes.
But after a few harvests, they seemed to get the hang of it.
By that time, they were able to raise the crops without any intervention from Kousuke.
Even Kousuke did not expect them to really succeed so soon, so he thought that this must have been the result of the goblins’ hard work.
Now that they could produce potatoes regularly, the goblins’ lives became more stable.
As a result, the goblins obtained a stable lifestyle and their numbers increased rapidly.
