I harvest sweet potatoes to help the students in the residential area with their food shortage.

With my “Demon Farmer(Mana Farmer)” skills, I can grow as many vegetables as I want.

I pile all the sweet potatoes in the field into a cart, leaving only the seed potatoes behind.

One cart wasn’t enough to hold it all, so I had to build another one.

“I could take them to the residential area, but the principal and vice principal have told me not to come in for a while.”

Can you get someone to help me?”

Akemi then called the boys around her.

They carried the heavy cart like worker ants, without complaining.

As I was watching them go, Monaka said to me anxiously.

“Are you sure you don’t mind if we take it? Leo-kun has worked so hard to grow these vegetables. ....”

“Don’t worry about it. It was fun.”

“.... Leo-kun is really .... really amazing.”

Not only did you build such a magnificent house all by yourself, but you also built my house .....”

On top of that, you saved us from the disaster and even the food crisis .....

It’s so great, I’m going to be .... overwhelmed. ....!”

Monaka’s eyes were becoming puffy, so I teasingly put my hand on her head.

“Hey, Monaka the crier is back? I used to pat you on the head like this when you cried.”

“M- Mou- I’m not crying anymore.”

Monaka is embarrassed to admit it.

She mumbles in a whisper, squeezing her chest with both hands as if to calm her raging heart.

“But I want you to stroke my .... head. ....”

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The three girls, Monaka, Akemi, and Kotone, say goodbye to Leopin and leave the forest.

However, once they leave the forest, hell awaits them.

The residential area is still filled with rubble, and the removal work is slow.

Only the pathways are barely open, but they looked like a garbage dump.

It is a far cry from Leopin’s house, which has been cleared and even has a field.

Akemi murmures in exasperation.

“I don’t even know which one is the garbage dump.”

There are two reasons why the removal work is not proceeding

Most of the students of the “Royal Pioneer Academy” are young men and women, so they’ve never had to remove rubble before. But that is only a minor reason.

The biggest reason is the fact that this place had been left with all the debris all over the place

It is the rule of debris removal.

The rule is that each class has to remove the debris from its own premises.

The students are only thinking about themselves, so they just removed the debris from their own property and left it on the property of other classes.

In other words, it was just a bunch of garbage going back and forth on the grounds. ....!

So, while the grounds of the top ranking classes were quickly cleaned up, the grounds of the lower ranking classes are still left with rubble.

Some of the students even begin to live in the rubble, making it look more like a slum than a pioneering academy.

The three girls make their way through the homeless students to Monaka’s house in the center of the school.

Monaka’s house is like a shelter because nothing had happened thanks to Leopin’s fence and because it is a large property.

The students become excited when they see a pile of sweet potatoes brought in on a cart.

They gather around as if they are receiving rations during the war.

They are grateful.

“Wow! That’s a lot of sweet potatoes!”

“We haven’t eaten much lately, so this is great!”

“That’s Monaka-sama and Kotone-sama! They brought us so much food!”

“Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

But their prayers are interrupted by the two girls.

“Please stop. We didn’t bring these sweet potatoes.”

“Yes, we did not. So you must thank him before you eat it.”

“What? You two didn’t get the food? Then who the heck did ....?”

“It’s Leo-kun” “Master did.”

The answers spun out are different. But the person they were referring to was the exact same ....!

“Leo-kun offered us the vegetables he is growing for himself because we are in need!”

“Oh, how generous the Master is!”

“So these vegetables will only be given to those who properly thank Leo-kun!”

“That’s right! Please take them with Master’s permission!”

“E- Ehhhhhh~~?

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“I’m so full of sweet potatoes.”

I think I’ll take a nap and continue my work in the field in the afternoon.”

I go back to the house and lay down on the bed.

As I was falling asleep, there was a knock at the front door.

“Hmm, what is it? Monaka and her friends again? I am feeling so tired. ....”

I get out of bed and open the front door to find a strange girl standing there.

“What’s up with you?” Before I could ask, she quickly bowed her head.

“Leopin-kun! Thanks for the sweet potatoes!”

I understand what she meant.

“Oh, don’t worry about it.”

I am sleepy, so I quickly shut to the door.

But the girl put her troubled face in the doorway.

“Hey, wait a minute! Please tell me “I am not in pain!/it doesn’t bother me/I am not hurt by it””

“What’s that?”

She says to me that if she doesn’t say thank you and I don’t say? “I am not in pain!”, she wouldn’t get the sweet potato.

“I don’t know why that’s happening, but you can just pretend I said it.”

The girl pointed to the window of my room with a troubled look on her face.

There Shinobuko is peeking out.

“Nin. I am making sure that I have said thank you properly, that I have been ordered by Monaka-sama-degozaru.”

“It’s a .... hassle, that ....!　You don’t even need to thank me. ....!”

But the girl is looking at me with a face like a hungry puppy.

“Ah, okay, ‘I am not in pain!’. Is that okay?”

Then the girl’s face fills with gratitude, as if she has actually received a blessing from me.

“Thank you, Leopin-kun!”

She bows her head once more, and then quickly disappears.

I think it is going to be quiet, but another male student pokes his head in the door.

He looks up at me with a pouting expression, waiting for me to say something.

When I didn’t say anything.

“Hey, just say, ‘I’m not in pain!”

“Who’s going to say it?”

“You’ve got to be kidding me! You’re a dropout from the special training class with a big attitude!”

“Who is the one who is trying to get this dropout to give him food?

If you don’t like it, you don’t have to eat it.”

“Oh, ...., ...., no! It’s a lie! Leopin-kun! Please, I’ll have a sweet potato, ....!”

“Then get down on your knees and ask for it.”

“Guh! ....　You bastard. ....!　Oh, ....!　Please, Leopin. ....!”

The first girl who came to me, who was able to say thank you properly, I said to her once, “I am not in pain!”

But for those who are defiant, like the next male student who came, I make him get down on his knees.

Some of them said, “Screw you! Who would get down on their knees for trash?” and left.

But they couldn’t overcome their hunger, and after a while, they came back, crying and throwing out their bodies.

“Please!　Please, Leopin-kun, no, Leopin-sama~!”

“I haven’t eaten anything good in a long time!　If Leopin-sama abandons me, I’ll starve to death!”

Uoooon Uooooon! (Sobbing sounds XD)”

I didn’t know that a single sweet potato could make them throw away their pride to this extent. ....

I am beyond stunned, I am even impressed.