This is the story of Canette the Witcher. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info belongs to a parallel world.

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It's a desolate wood.

Canette sat on the stone and fell into deep thought.

Next to her lies Dire Mael.

Al's eyes gleamed with wisdom (mistakenly), not knowing what he was thinking.

The demon hunter, on the other hand, drooped his head as if he was about to fall asleep.

And his expression can clearly be seen to be full of hunger and confusion.

and a lot of resentment.

That's right, he hasn't eaten for many days.

Roughly estimated to be three or four days.

But three or four days rounded up is a month.

I haven't eaten for a whole month, and normal people have long since died.

This barren forest is full of barren trees along the way, and there is nothing to eat at all. Even hares and other things are rare, and they are simply dead ground.

I had a chance to catch a little mouse before, but I accidentally let it die.

Now, Canette was too hungry to walk, so he sat there and stared at Al. Of course, Dire Ponies have bigger eyes.

Because Canette starved to death, the whole play ended.

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Of course, it's a joke, people don't die so easily unless they do it themselves.

Because he felt that there was nothing to eat while sitting and waiting like this, he had to reluctantly get up and move. After all, Al can eat grass, so he can still carry Carnett so that he doesn't have to spend any more energy.

After talking for a long time, why did he have no food?

It stands to reason that although he is very poor, he still has the money to buy food. Usually, he always carries a lot of dry food with him. Canette is not a person who values food too much and is very inclusive of food. So no matter how boring the dry food is, he can eat it day after day.

In this way, the guys who have been wandering outside the country and have no fixed place will usually have food prepared.

In fact, just think about it: this guy's dry food is lost.

Where's it? No.

In fact, it was stolen.

That's a long story. One night the other day, while Canette was sleeping, Dire Mael, who barely needed to sleep, was supposed to be in charge of keeping watch.

But that night, Al was suddenly drawn to something and left Cannet's side.

In just a few moments, Cannet's bag of dry food was stolen.

No one witnessed the murderer, and the dry food was gone anyway.

The loss of enough enough dry food for a month was bad news for Canette.

And Al is reluctant to explain why he left his post now, but just by looking at it, the guy now regrets it. So I've behaved a little bit these days.

Carnett's strength has long since passed. Realizing this, Al began to be unscrupulous again. However, compared with the original lawless personality, it is still a little more restrained.

According to what the witcher knew about her, once the creature waited for him to find food, what little guilt he had left would be lost to the horizon at the same speed as the dragon hunting arrows.

By the way, Al is actually chasing fireflies. Most of the time, she was silent because she felt embarrassed to say it.

Well, it's childlike.

Of course, Al also vaguely felt that the food was stolen by fireflies. However, it seems that she ignores the problem of fireflies not eating hard biscuits.

That's right, the dry food brought by the demon hunters is hard biscuits.

Dry food that adventurers fear the most.

Hard biscuits are made using only flour and salt.

To put it bluntly, it can't be considered a cookie at all, it's a dough cake.

There is no taste at all.

And it doesn't bite at all. It is extremely hard, and it is difficult to bite out tooth marks.

If you eat it with hot water, it's barely acceptable. It's just that even then it's unpalatable to death.

In the past, such things were basically eaten by sailors or soldiers. At first glance, it is a product of utilitarianism.

You can make money by deducting the cost of military rations.

For this hard biscuit, if you want to eat it, you have to use a weapon.

Carnet used a knife to cut it painfully every day and ate it.

Of course, complaining is complaining.

The days when you don't even have to eat such hard biscuits are naturally more painful.

Too hungry, almost more painful than a scurvy sailor.

When it comes to scurvy, although vitamin C supplementation is sufficient, there are other ways. For example, use magic, potions, or keep an Adam mascot on the boat. Just by getting close to Aya, you can be healed by the purifying effect that emanates from Aya's body, which is really convenient. (Some minor ailments can be cured when Aya approaches)

However, it is not advisable to tie Aya to the flagpole as a mascot (some captains believe that the ship's mascot should be tied to the flagpole, so there have been cases of Aya crew members who use it as a kanban being tethered to the flagpole during work and fluttering in the wind). It is said to work well, until one day when Aya was almost blown away during a storm that stopped this dangerous behavior)

Speaking of hard cookies, the question may arise again at this time: Why did Canette have to eat hard cookies?

That's a good question, it's because you're poor.

Well, I can't afford bread anymore. He could only buy hard biscuits that no one wanted. To put it bluntly, it is the only law that cheap is not good.

Before he went to Jinyang City last time, he could still eat bacon and bread.

This time, there are only hard cookies.

So logically......

He was probably going to starve to death.

You think, is there anything worse than a hard cookie?

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Stop, perhaps, but you can't lift the bar anymore. Otherwise, you won't be able to continue the plot.

Although this guy wanted to eat some grass roots and bark, after looking at it for a long time, the places he walked in this barren forest were all trees that could not be eaten.

So neat that the man suspected that the trees in the woods were all in cahoots with each other.

Something like this.

Talking with a King James Tree A: Hahaha, I suddenly came up with a good idea. We're all going to grow into trees that can't be eaten, and starve to death some retarded person who goes here without food and gets lost!

Waiting for the opportunity to usurp the throne tree B: Ahhh

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Well, that's pretty much it, it's better to pass by unanimous vote in the whole forest. Those who oppose it are deprived of their political rights for life.

After all, political correctness is important.

"Damn! I see! It's all a conspiracy of this wood, just trying to kill me!" Canette suddenly felt that he had seen through everything, and screamed in annoyance, "They can't eat it just to trap me!"

Faced with Canette's sudden mournful roar, which at first glance made people stunned and think about the bullshit that made sense, Dire suddenly understood something.

That's when Canette finally goes crazy with hunger.