Chapter title:?The rabbit’s favorite food are rainbow carrots

「Come on, come on, this way.」

After the village people sent us away with warm parting words, we walked through the forest with the aim of reaching a human village.

「Are there really such vegetables?」

Serena raised an eyebrow at Marie as she strode forward.

「There are, you know. If we’re not going to be back here for a while, we should collect some.」

We were currently walking with Marie in the lead. She knew where to find the rainbow carrots, a very rare vegetable.

Rainbow carrots are high-grade vegetables, they can be used as ingredients for alchemy, and they are a rare item which can only be found on rare occasions when walking around outside the city.

It’s an ingredient that can dramatically increase the effects of potions and other items, and even when cooked normally, it tastes superb, so it is sometimes fought over by alchemists and gourmet enthusiasts.

Marie knows of a place where such ingredients grow, so she goes to collect them before leaving the Lost Forest, and that’s how this commotion started.

「With master’s stock, we can collect the roots. And since we’re traveling, there’s nothing better than a good meal.」

Marie proceeded to change the color of her eyes. Now that she was a rabbit beastman, I wondered if carrots were her favorite food.

After following her in silence for a while, we came to an open area.

「There it is. It;s here!」

Marie shouted cheerfully and started running. There was a purple leaf buried in the ground ahead of her.

「Here we go!」

Marie pulled on one of them and a rainbow-colored object appeared from the ground.

「Wow, that really is a rainbow carrot!」

Serena exclaimed in surprise.

「Come on, Master. I want you to eat the one that Marie picked for you.」

Marie flicked her ears as if she wanted a compliment as she approached me.

「Thank you, Marie.」

I stroked Marie’s head, thanked her, and went to eat the rainbow carrots.?1

「Hold on, Elt. I’ll get you some water now....」

Serena ordered the water spirit to wash the rainbow carrots for me. She washed the carrots to get rid of the mud.

「I’ll take it.」

It was the first time I had eaten such rare, expensive food. I took a bite of the carrot while Serena and Marie looked on.

「....It’s delicious. It’s so sweet, I can’t believe it’s a vegetable. It’s fresh, and the clean taste is better than any carrot I’ve ever had.」

「Marie will eat, too. It’s delicious.」

「Oh, that’s not fair. Me too...... It’s so good.」

They both look happy as soon as they put it in their mouths. Looks like they like it.....

「Could it be that rainbow carrots can be found in this entire area?」

It was amazing to find such a large flat area in the forest, but there were purple leaves spread as far as the eye could see.

「Yes!　We should collect them all here.」

「Yeah. I like it too, and we should pick it up.」

The two of them hit it off perfectly. Apparently, eating good food creates a sense of solidarity.

Well, since we don’t know when we’ll be able to get them again, we might as well collect them while we can.

I wanted to hurry up and get out of the village, but I ended up liking the food too.

The three of us picked up all the rainbow-colored carrots we could find.

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