Translator: mii
Editor: sleepchaser
“…Minoru.”
I felt something cold press on to my forehead. My eyes flew open.
Before me was a handsome face. Beyond blond locks shining bright like the sun stretched a blue sky.
As I wondered dazedly why he was carrying me, he throws a bucket of cold water on my face.
“So cold!”
“It looks like you’ve come back to your senses. What a relief. I heard a scream before, what happened?” the hero asked, wiping my face with a clumsy hand. Meanwhile, my memory gradually returned.
A scream… That’s right, I was harvesting the potatoes and I couldn’t pull out the shovel… And then, from the soil, that thing―
“…A-ah, just now, there was something there!”
“Calm down.”
On alert, I jumped up and look and scanned the surrounding fields. However, the thing I had seen earlier had already disappeared.
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I felt someone rubbing my back. Naturally, it was the hero. With that, I came back to my senses.
“Glv sbe rff jc fjgatkbgw?”
“Pa’r cba rbwfatlcu jr meaf jr atja!”
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Cr P vfrmglyfv atf mgfjaegf P tjv rffc ktlif ufraeglcu klat ws tjcvr, atf tfgb bcis ibbxr veylber, ygbkr oeggbklcu lc qehhifwfca.
“Isn’t that an earthworm?”
“…Eh?”
The hero rose to his feet while carrying me, looking around the area with a shovel in his hand.
Then he stabs the shovel into the earth, digging up soil with a single hand.
The moment he raised the shovel, I could see something being lifted. A gigantic earthworm a shade of reddish brown, wiggling and squirming in discomfort as it turned its head toward us―Eeeiiiiiiiyaaaaaaaaaaa!
“Is this what you saw before?”
“Yeah!! T-that’s enough! I get it already, so throw it away!”
I pressed myself as close as I could to the hero to get away from the earthworm. I wanted to run away, but since the hero was hugging me like a child in his arms, I was stuck here.
I would never be mistaken. There’s no doubt that this creature was what I had seen earlier.
The hero lightly shook the shovel, causing the earthworm to fall to the ground. It squirmed fiercely and dug back into the soil.
“You don’t need to be that scared. It’s not a creature that will attack a human, but rather a wild animal that cultivates the field. Although the field is still small, the one that cultivates should be that earthworm, right?” said the hero. He patted my hair was his free hand, patting off some of the soil that had fallen into it.
Wait a minute. I felt like I’d heard a word that I couldn’t help but need clarification of.
“…Small? That means there are ones that are even bigger?”
“Do you want to see them?”
“No need!” I said firmly, scanning the area for that thing while hugging the hero’s shoulders. “I don’t want to see them, so stop it!”
If that thing from before was small, then the adults should be… I got chills just thinking about it.
The hero didn’t laugh at my miserable appearance. In fact, he fixed his posture and held me even more tightly. That’s right, he was still carrying me like a child. I had to get down soon.
“I’m sorry for making a ruckus. I’m fine already, so I’ll stand by my own…”
With that, I climbed down the hero who was being treated like a tall tree, my feet reaching the ground.
What caused me more embarrassment was how I couldn’t find it in myself to take even one step away from him. As soon as I recall that earthworm’s mighty figure, my feet would inevitably freeze.
What should I do now? There were still more than half of the potatoes left to harvest today…
As if unable to watch me moping around, the hero gently said, “How about I help you?”
I nodded, eyes teary.
“Uhm… That earthworm before won’t bite, right?”
“It won’t hurt even if you do get bitten.”
As the hero gathered potatoes by my side, he explained the teeth of that species of earthworm was soft.
So it bit after all? I hate that…
But since it’s a creature that helped cultivate the soil, I shouldn’t be scared of it since I’d be using the field a lot in the future. That’s right, let’s give it a name. How about Red Rosé? Everytime he drank the wine, he would remember that woman’s brave figure…
That day, I presented a matching straw hat to the hero who helped me harvest the potatoes.
Author notes:
Red Dragon: Commonly cultivated earthworm. Its body length is around 1m ~ 4m. Farmers’ guardian deity.
T/N: A worm as big as your thigh… If I’m Minoru I can’t even scream anymore ಥ_ಥ
The red dragon is not cute at all~ ＼(ﾟｰﾟ＼)
Minoru: hugging hero tightly (ಥ﹏ಥ)
Hero: Wifey is even scared of nice worms, I have to protect him well ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
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I’m sorry. If it were me, I would only water and cook. I cant. No worms for me.
IKR?! I wouldn’t dare go near that field… ;n;)
i used to dig earthworms and play them as a kid but imagining that big earthworm is disgusting
I once worked out some stuff in my granny’s garden back in our village and a huge, well it was a few cm earthworm appeared. I dropped everything, and screamed the loudest in my life, tripped down the stairs, cut my chin, got a huge bruise on my leg, still ran and I hugged a pole nearby and sobbed. My granny comforted me saying it was normal but I was so frightened rip. Now I imagined that, and probably I would have denied life, fainted and I’d get a huge trauma lol. Mino-tan is a brave man uwu
why does this sound like something I would do 😂
You are both so valid lol
Same. I was helping mu mom with the garden and I saw rlly big and long worm screamed and dorped the shovel on my foot. Tripped while runninh up the stairs and hit my head. Never went anywhere near the garden till this day.
Bai bai~ to my hopes of a cool little dragon ;___;
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
I’d scream too! XD I’m somewhat disappointed it wasn’t actually like a small cute pet for them but him hugging the hero like that made up for it xD
They will have many other cute (cool?) animals as their pets later on! (つ≧▽≦)つ
Thanks for the chapter 😊
Alright, I had to leave another comment. Upon the first read through I was giggling at the tree comparison because “climb him like a tree” is an innuendo or code for intercourse/papapa/intimate relations xD
No cute dragon for us….. (Ó╭╮Ò)
I would never get close to that field again….
I think my comment on the last chapter wasn’t posted but I’m too lazy to type it again~
Thanks for the chapter~🌸
I wouldn’t go either… ～( >ロ<) (The comment was posted)
Σ(°△°|||)︴Worms!!!! Run away ~
Thanks for the chapter.
Ahh a worm. I’m not afraid but poor Minoru.
(🌸◔ ω ◔) *whispers hero-sama, dun touch Minoru’s tofu too much*
Thanks for the chapter! ^ ^
Red Drgaon = Earthworm
Expectation vs Reality 😅😅😅
Flies and mosquitos should just run into a meat grinder
And then make worms eat it and have the worms explode
An earthworm THAT big? Scaaaary!
Sig is OK If Minoru is all touchy Touchy, haha.
Thanks for the chapter!
whuaa… earthworm, i think it’s really dragon.
hiyaa minoru so cute~~~
well for me earthworm just a bait for fishing. if i want to go fishing with my family firstly we think are a bait. so if we want use earthworm, we must digging the soil to get that. but well its hard for now to use earthworm, so we change to another animal~~
Thanks for the chapter! 💕
This is too much fluff for me. I’m grinning like a weirdo while reading this (●´ω｀●)
The worm part made me remember a Huntsman spider that was like 15 cm big that I encountered on my trip to Vietnam… in my room… next to my feet. Trauma forever.
It’s scary even after knowing that the spider was harmless. Minoru, did great. If it was me I would have been like “well, that’s it. Adios! Never again!”
im weeping.
A worm as big as an anaconda? Heavens yea :v
i would just get the axe and chop my head off
Giant earthworms! Run away! 😱😱
Thank you for the chapter
What was that? He was doing just fine up till now, but as soon a hero wakes up, he suddenly need a help with everything…
Was he…really doing fine? I’m kind of starting to realize that Minoru may be an unreliable narrator. Also there’s a difference between him needing help and the hero purposefully helping him. Also, conspiracy theory: has God upped the difficulty in order to sail his ship?
If I ever see that worm I will never do farm work ever again. Worms are my greatest nightmares and my phobia..≥﹏≤
Damn the MC is basically just a girl, this is just a BG romance with “her” changed to “him”, ye im dropping this because I expect a little more realism
Bruh, large earthworm???? Eye— I’m scared too ma
I’m sorry for Minoru. If i was him, I will literaly faint.
Wha a hard NOPE, I cannot do slimy things, I feel for our main character ^ if I found a giant earthworm then I would simply have a heart attack and die
I am also afraid of earthworms or any insects that crawls it gives me chills in to my skin😫
Nah ah I would just get on my knees and beg god to just take me back instantly.
Eu imaginando um dragão fofo e poderoso kk
Ugh, even imagining that worm is bad…I used to pick up earthworms with my bare hands as a child and my mother would often wonder, how I could do that, but as an adult, even just the sight of them is freaky. And touching them? Especially a huge one like the red dragon? Hell no. I would probably just cry after screaming my head off.
I search for what those earthworms looked like, all my hairs stood up looking at it. 😖
If I see a big ass worm like that I’ll ascend to heaven right away hahahaha