Earth With Dungeon: Saving the World With an Economic Boom

e in a good mood as she patted Sakimori-san on the head with her patpat, Sakimori-san was looking at the field without paying attention to her.

The first potatoes dug up were placed in a pot of water to be boiled.
It turned into wobbly hot water, and the potatoes danced in it.

“Jun, can we eat potatoes too?”

While I was digging the potatoes for a while, Hana, who was also digging potatoes next to me, gulped and looked expectant.
It sure looks delicious.
I wondered if the first one was almost ready to be boiled, but it was scooped up in a colander and drained on the colander from the hot water with a splash.

I sprinkled salt on it, and Sakimori-san scurried around, looking for someone.

“Oh, you’re working hard, Ooki-kun.
I think you dug the most potatoes.
Here’s a present from me.
Eat it.”

“Eat it!”

“My name is Oki, aniki…”

Sakimori-san presents a boiled potato to a man with a large frame, smiling at him.
The young girl on his shoulder also mimicked his mouth happily.

“Um, this is a verification on the human body.”

“It looks delicious.
It’s so chewy!”

“You did it, Ooki-san! Freshly picked potatoes.”

“Oh, that looks so good.
We’ll have some in a little while.”

With a bang and a tap on the shoulder, the people around us gathered to encourage him to try it.
Ooki-san’s mouth tightened as he made up his mind to eat it.
His mouth was gaping open as if he had made up his mind, and he took a bite of the potato.

“Ah-hothothot.
Oh, this is delicious.
It’s so soft and sticky.
I’ve never had such a delicious potato before!”

As Ooki-san commented on the delicious-looking potato, letting his cheeks huff and puff, Sakimori-san carefully observed the situation.

“I see.
Do you have any physical symptoms such as dizziness, fever, feeling sluggish, headache, etc.? Do you hear any auditory hallucinations, feeling like you’re going to grow an arm, or that a mouth will sprout from your hand?”

“The last one is extremely bad! I’m going to be a monster!”

I think it’s awful, no matter what.

I put away the harvested potatoes in a wooden box, fussing about something or other, and sit down on the ground after finishing my work for the day.
It was hard work, he says and wipes the sweat off his face.

Before, when I wiped my forehead, my sleeves were so dirty that they turned black, but now they are clean because they have been washed.

My stomach gurgles from all the hard work I’ve done.
Hana is next to me, smiling wryly.

“You’re hungry, aren’t you?”

“Yes, I am.
I could eat a potato.”

There was no emotion from the resignation that had been there before, that there was no food today and that she was hungry.
It’s the sound of anticipation for the upcoming dinner, of being hungry but having food.

Before, I was always hungry, but now I get food, and even if I’m hungry, I can rest assured that there will be food.

I chew on the happiness of being able to eat food as a matter of course.
I have seen many of my friends who died or adults who starved to death because they couldn’t eat.

“Hey.
I’ve boiled the next batch of potatoes.
It looks fine, so eat it without worry~.”

“It was human experimentation after all, wasn’t it?”

The people laughing at each other, saying, “It’s okay, it’s okay,” don’t seem to be in a bad mood.
Sakimori-san isn’t concerned but crosses his arms behind him and watches the scene.
The little girl got off his shoulder and was already biting into a potato.

We all lined up to receive our plumped potatoes.
Each of us was given two, but they were so hot that we had to take a bite while playing with our hands.

The potatoes were not too hard and tough, not too skinny and small, and not too dry.
I’m surprised by the sweetness spreading through my mouth.

“It’s delicious.”

“Yes! Delicious, delicious.”

“I could eat as many as I want.”

I was so absorbed in eating them that I could eat as many as I wanted.
I’ve never had such a delicious potato.
It’s sticky, and I like the way it feels in my stomach.

“I wonder if I can eat a lot more rice from now on?”

Hana asks me gingerly as he bites into it, and I nod vigorously.

“I think we’ll be fine, man.
I believe our lives are going to get better and better.”

I think our fate has changed since we wandered into that building last year.
Luckily.
If we hadn’t wandered into that building, we would have moved elsewhere and not had this life.

Thanks to Sakimori-san.

“Sakimori-shan, it’s delicious!”

Smiling, the little girl shows the potatoes to Sakimori-san.

“[Lucky]…… I see~.”

-Sakimori’s POV-

Jun resumes chatting with Hana and the others, thinking it’ll lose its effect as soon as they become aware of it.
Some things are better not to know.

As I watched the people chatting over their potatoes, Sakimori contemplated his plans for the future, and his mouth curved.

“Well, this is the end of the potato harvest.
We can harvest regularly, and then make a deal through Karin.
Once we have the capital, we can build the market.”

[Yes, that’s right.
If we have a city and a grain warehouse, we can use the pioneers to build a market at a lower cost.
Let’s build a city]

“We can’t because it’s not a game.
In the meantime, we’ll have to prepare the market, and leave that to Shingen…”

[Let’s head to attack the dungeon.
Let’s go to the dungeon for the first time].

The floating Shizuku laughs mischievously and gives a thumbs-up.
Sakimori’s eyes narrowed, and his mouth turned into a thin smile, thinking that now that the number of goblins was decreasing, they might be able to conquer the dungeon.