[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-isekai-nonbiri-nouka":3,"chapter-isekai-nonbiri-nouka-isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-173":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Isekai Nonbiri Nouka",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1394978,1848,"Chapter 173 - Alcohol, Festival Executive Committee, and Kurumi","isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-173",173,"\u003Cp>A certain drinker said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「If you leave sweet things, it will naturally become alcohol. In other words, god wants to drink alcohol.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dwarf said that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Noisy. Let’s just drink.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is that dwarf Donovan?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「No no, I’m not being noisy. It is normal to act like this when drinking.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Donovan and I have come to the research center in the corner of the residential area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like what the drinker said, if you leave sweet things, it will naturally turn into alcohol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That drinker is fermenting sugar to turn it into alcohol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the theory is correct, we’ll have to rely on luck for the fermentation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Majority of the result: rotten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, they are still data that we can use for the next one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially when controlling temperature for yeast fermentation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeast can be obtained by fermenting grapes but I can use the AFT to clear that hurdle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank you, god.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the research center, we are doing various things to make alcohol from the fruits that can be harvested in the village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Me having come to this place means that it is time to decide whether to continue the production of the newly made alcohol or not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, they are carefully selected by Donovan first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m only doing the final confirmation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「From the right, pomegranate, tomato, and watermelon.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These are all Donovan’s recommendations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tasted them using a small cup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, I’m not that particular about alcohol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can say that it is bad or good but that will only for my taste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for these, they are all delicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It tastes like pomegranate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This watermelon…is a little….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tomato is good but it is not suitable for regulars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since there is no point in saying compliments, I will tell my review honestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with regards to production issue, I’ll give it an OK.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Donovan nods satisfactorily and puts out three fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Then I ask for a steady supply of these three fruits.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Alright but pomegranate supply will not increase anytime soon. Tomato and watermelon supply will increase next harvest.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Okay.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「After we’ve seen the market’s reaction, I’m going to decide if we need to increase or decrease the amount of production.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「The taste is alright but the problem will be the price.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Let’s consult Michael-san when he comes.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Okay. Anyway….there’s one more reason why I requested you to come here.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Hnn?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Donovan presented me a small cup with a full smiling face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is smaller than the one I used for the taste test earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「It looks like you’re confident.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took the small cup and put it in my mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Great!」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Right」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「This is … honey wine?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Yes. It is made from the village’s honey.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Michael-san absolutely requested you to stop, didn’t he?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honey wine is an alcohol that should not be brew without permission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is because our harvested honey is limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, although it is easy to make, it is quite pricey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honey is already pricey and the village’s honey is the finest honey in the market so Michael-san begged us to sell it to him as it is and don’t brew it into honey wine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, the honey wine in the village is usually purchased from Michael-san.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Don’t you think this will be our best seller?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「I think rather than selling, you plan on drinking it.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「We’re not brewing it so it can’t be helped. Honey is also used for cooking so it might look like I’m picking a fight with those maid girls.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Right. But our honey is certainly insufficient. We can only make a certain amount that might not even be enough to drink for ourselves so selling to others is impossible.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, excluding Michael-san, we are also supplying honey to Beezel, Doraim, Dors, and Ancestor-san.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「I know. This time, I used the honey I traded for my reward medal.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a self-funded study, and you let me drink it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words…..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「What is your request?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「I want to brew one for “village consumption”.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「One?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「One large cask per year.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…..hmmm. That’s a lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the taste is exquisite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It doesn’t taste like alcohol at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Understood. The honey will be prepared however, this will be strictly confidential.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「I know. Women’s weakness is sweets.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power of sweets rivals the power of alcohol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, we must do this in absolute secrecy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「They will be silenced by the taste.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, I ask Donovan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「By the way, do you have more?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Hahaha. That alcohol is so good, do you really think I still have some?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Surely. You must have prepared a certain amount for me.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Well, if that is necessary to persuade the village chief…actually, there should have been a glass full…」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「And you drink it?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「….m-maybe god wanted it.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hahaha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「It can’t be helped.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Donovan and I offer the new three different kinds of alcohol to the shrine in Big Tree Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Donovan apologized to god for using him as a shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the way, the alcohol offering to god was drank up by the wine slime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Village chief, the wine slime should receive capital punishment.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hahaha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Maa maa, it only means that those three alcohol are really good.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there is a delicious alcohol before them, the wine slime, like the dwarves, will not be able to endure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, you must not drink god’s offering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m not sure if it listened to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I examined this year’s festival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is one word written “tower”.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is a competition of piling up logs in a certain place and compete which one is the highest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is a festival that originated from a certain village with thriving forestry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was decided by draw lots again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Not good.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m unaware since I’m using the AFT when logging but cutting trees of the forest of death is ridiculously hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The high elves only managed to take down one tree with a diameter as big as a human waist after a half-day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The civil servant girls were not able to cut a tree at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「It is also fire resistant so we also can’t burn it with fire magic….isn’t this task impossible?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was decided that we should secure logs first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is important that we have piled up trees in advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, now that we’ve done it….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Even if we pile the trees up like a mountain, it will only scramble down.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Big trees are also hard to carry….should we ask the minotaurs?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「We don’t know how to properly pile the logs. Won’t the high elves be the sure winner?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The difference between races has never been this obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maa, just look at the harpies, they will not be able to participate since they don’t have hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What will become of this….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After various trial and error and brainstorming…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It became a game of balance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It became a team battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The staff will pile up logs and put a symbol on the top.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each team will draw one tree at a time and will lose if the symbol falls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, when the mountain of logs topples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is one problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「We’ll pile them up every time?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s a big problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since a mountain of logs will topple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Should we add another type of competition?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Let’s do that. Discuss it with others what should we add.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Understood. Let’s make it an opening performance for “tower”….This is a new festival, please give it a new name.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「It’s “mountain toppling” so let’s call it like that.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Understood. Then, next is…..the dimension of the logs and how should they be assembled.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「We have to think of it since we’ll pile them up high.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Of course.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The festival executive committee continued to work for the festival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>TN: Maybe “tower toppling” game’s name is licensed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walnut is a famous hard nut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is a technique for cracking it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How can this walnut be this hard?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the high elves taught me how to properly hold it and break it in two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You should break it on that place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like this….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about it, I’m probably lacking in gripping strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But humans are intelligent beings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walnut cracker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looks like pliers or vice or an iron ball holder but you can tell just by looking that it is made to crack walnut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the evidence of humanities’ battle with walnut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m already thinking of making this state of the art industrial object called walnut cracker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll ask Gutt to make a walnut cracker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After asking him to, he started to hammer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’s right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is better to use something existing rather than making a new one which is specialized in cracking walnut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The process doesn’t matter, what’s important is fulfilling the purpose of eating the content of a walnut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let’s not worry about the details.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, it seems like pliers will work so I’ll try it later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How about vice?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It will be difficult to use this because the jaws are too apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the way, excluding me, everyone here is eating walnut by cracking them with their hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mountain elves and the dwarves are particularly fast in cracking them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「It is a matter of life and death for us if we can’t crack them.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「It complements the taste of alcohol.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at them who are breaking walnuts like tofu while I’m struggling, I’m a little sad of my powerlessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a later date.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gutt’s walnut cracker is regularly used in Village One.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Comrade」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Eh? No, village chief, that…We’re not…」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Am I really alone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>TN: Looking for Kurumi? Kurumi = walnut. (???)\u003C\u002Fp>",1598,"2026-06-05T23:08:13.747Z",1,"novelbin.me","3e7820609f4b0fe226a66a9d4d5ad60ea6479ff609aac14fabd0cfaf093e238e","isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-174","isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-172",1036,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fisekai-nonbiri-nouka-cover.jpg"]