episode_0073

Yumina pointed to the box.

“I thought I was going to the gardening shop with my lady. What is this?”

It’s a gardening kit.

“Me too. But my mom gave it to me because she said there was something suitable.”

“Hmm….”

Yumina looked around the box. It’s a rectangular box with a handle, and the exterior design is neat and monochromatic, so it’s worth a look.

“I had no idea what to grow, so I asked my mom, and she offered to hire a gardening expert, but I declined.”

“That’s too much.”

“That’s right. I want to try growing plants, but why do I have to go to the trouble of meeting people?”

“I didn’t mean it that way.”

“Yeah, I hope you’re an extrovert.”

Yumina gently shook her head.

“My young lady seems a little strange.”

“That’s the charm.”

He raised one finger and smiled confidently. A blank stare followed me as if I was at a loss for words. We looked at each other for a moment and then slightly looked away. It’s the reaction I expected, but I’m a little embarrassed… … . It’s true, so there’s no need to be ashamed.

I opened the box in front. It’s separate from Yumina. My mom bought me two to share with a friend.

I don’t know what kind of plant it is. If possible, it would be better if it has a lot of leaves. Then you will feel good when you see it. It’s good to have something green in the room. Even in my past life, I had some coworkers who placed small flower pots on their desks. However, they were often replaced with artificial flower pots because they were considered cumbersome to maintain.

If there are few leaves, I would like to see flowers bloom. Since this was commercialized as a kit, it may not be in a box with a flower in full bloom for reasons of logistics management efficiency.

When I looked inside the box, I saw something that looked like a green onion stuck in a small flower pot. what. It’s very different from what I imagined. It looked like a green onion without any leaves, flowers, or even the slightest flower buds. Does this mean that you should grow them, cut them into green onions, and eat them? Green onion salad is delicious when eaten with pork belly.

Yumina leaned closer and looked inside the box. Then I looked at this person’s expression.

“Our young lady doesn’t know what plant this is, right?”

“Do you know?”

I never heard that Yumina has a hobby of gardening. But since I have wide feet, I might have made a friend with a gardening hobby somewhere.

“know.”

Yumina pointed to a small flower pot.

“This is a green onion!”

uh… … .

I continued to look at her in silence, but Yumina was confident.

“Green onion!”

No need to say it twice.

“It’s not a green onion.”

“I got hit hard.”

They say it’s true, but if you see the corners of their mouths twitching, it’s a lie. This is trying to make fun of me.

“what.”

If you don’t get fooled even if you puff out your cheeks, you’re not fooled. I poked the ball, let the air out, and looked at the plant.

It looks like a green onion, but it doesn’t really look like a green onion. Anyone who has seen a real green onion would not be mistaken because only the pointed end of the green onion looks like it is stuck in the ground. After reincarnation, I gained a taste for money, but even after this, I had a hard time in my previous life. After moving out of the house, all I had was a place to sleep, but I overcame it and became a self-made man. Who do you think of as someone who hasn’t even eaten a green onion? Although I haven’t bought anything in my life, I have been to the supermarket often.

I took the manual out of the box and checked the plant name. Stucky. It’s like that too. There’s no way it’s a big file. To be honest, I was a little anxious. It was by no means an anxiety caused by something being stabbed, but a reasonable anxiety considering the diversity of plant species. Since the plants are diverse, there may be green onions that are not green onions, but are like green onions. This is not a green onion, but a stukki. It’s definitely not green onions, it’s stukki. But isn’t this the scientific name for green onions, Stucki? … … Probably not.

When I touched the stucchi that looked like a green onion, it was hard, as if it was full, unlike the empty green onion. It was different from green onion in that it had a rough texture. I haven’t touched a green onion recently, so I’m not sure, but it’s not a green onion.

is not it? Could it be that green onions are a species that are scientifically grouped together even though they have different characteristics? The scientific name is Stooky, but if popularly it is just called green onion, it would not be wrong if Yumina calls it green onion.

no no. This is nothing more than Yumina’s scheme to exploit the rationality and limitations of reason. This is not a Stuckage scallion.

Looking at Yumina, she was calmly taking out various contents from the box. I looked at him as if I felt his gaze on me. Then he tilted his head and said.

“That’s not a green onion.”

“I know. I didn’t really ask.”

“Hmm.”

I’m embarrassed by the subtle gaze. I quickly took the contents out of the box. The composition is a large but empty pot, a small pot with a stuckey planted in it, two types of soil, three types of small stones, and a bag of things that seem to be used to decorate the pot. There are so many unnecessary things. I expected to move it to a larger pot, but it seems a bit much.

I picked up the manual again, which I had left aside after only looking at the plant name. I like reading about the history of Stuckey gardening, but I’m not addicted to print, even reading about topics I’m not interested in. If I get bored while taking a bath, I read the precautions on the back of the body wash.

After reading through it, I learned how to transplant a flower pot.

“First, put the plastic net over the hole in the large flower pot.”

“and?”

“Put something called Masato on the bottom of a large flower pot.”

“this?”

Yumina picked up a bag of rocks.

“huh.”

“Is it for drainage?”

“That’s right. They say it prevents the soil on top from being washed away when you water it.”

“But it looks like a rock, but why does the name have the character soil in it?”

“I don’t know either.”

Yumina poured Masato, which was not known whether it was rocks or dirt, into a flower pot.

“and?”

Instead of answering, he secretly handed this flower pot to Yumina using magic. Puzzled looks followed.

“I think I have a knack for reading. So wouldn’t it be better to share the work that suits my aptitude and aptitude?”

This means that I will read the manual and ask you to run it for me.

“How about our young lady learn the joy of the process?”

“I know the pleasure of capital gains, so wouldn’t it be okay?”

“It’s not okay at all.”

However, looking at the way she fills up the flower pots here, Yumina is also very kind. I’m worried that I might go somewhere and be taken advantage of.

I leaned back against the footrest of the sofa and flipped through the manual.

“Please pour half a bag of the first potting soil and compact it appropriately.”

“this?”

“Something else than that.”

Yumina also poured half a bag of this flower pot.

“And I want you to pull out the stucky from the small pot and place it where you want.”

“How do I pull this off?”

Yumina looked at the small flower pot. There is a button on the flower pot, so if you press it, it comes off leaving only the plant. There is no such thing as a button. It’s just a flower pot.

“They say just grab the body and pull it out.”

“Don’t you need a trowel?”

“Aren’t green onions usually just grabbed by the body and pulled out?”

“This isn’t a green onion.”

“I know.”

“There’s a trowel somewhere, but we couldn’t find it.”

Yumina went out to look for a trowel that might be hidden in a gardening kit. In the meantime, I read the manual carefully and it said that it was a strong paper, so I had to pull it out boldly. is it?

I put down the manual and grabbed Yumina’s Stucky with my hand. One hand held the flower pot and boldly applied force.

“for a moment……!”

There was a sound of soil breaking and Stooky was pulled out of the flower pot. Judging by the roots holding the soil in the shape of a flower pot, it is indeed a strong species as per the instructions.

“And what if it gets damaged!”

“Well, it’s not mine.”

I just respected the opinions of horticultural experts. huh? It seems like my inner thoughts and what I say have changed. Does it matter?

“I already gave you a name!”

“In what name?”

“Succulent.”

Succulent? ah. Now that I think about it, the manual says that Stuckey is a succulent plant.

Poor naming sense.

“What name are you going to name our girl?”

Should I even give my pet plant a name?

“hmm…….”

Schrödinger… … There is. Laplace… … It already exists. Are there any other people famous for their thought experiments? Maxwell? Descartes? Rolls? smith? Personally, I’m more familiar with Adam Smith.

“If you’re worried, I’ll make it for you. How about that?”

“Good. Tell me.”

“green onion!”

not good.

“It’s good?”

“not good.”

“But it’s a name that really resonates.”

“It’s incredibly touching.”

“Then do you have a good name?”

hmm… … .

Umm… … .

ah… … .

I don’t feel confident calling my pet plant Adam Smith.

“……There is none.”

That’s how Stooky became a big hit.

* * *

I looked into the finished flower pot. A green onion-like green onion was planted in the center, and red stones filled the area around it. It was filled with red without a single trace of soil visible. The red one looks like boiling lava and is pretty. I wondered if there were some red stones in the flower pot, but when I poured them all in, they were pretty.

“Now is the time to tell me.”

“what?”

“What and how are you going to teach this green onion?”

Ah, did I say that before? I remember something for nothing.

“I was a little excited when I came today. I thought I might be talking to the spirits living in the plants.”

“You have a really good imagination. If there was such a thing as a spirit, I would have thrown out all the flower pots in the house.”

“If you really have it, you shouldn’t throw it away.”

I’m picky.

“The eviction order is my own.”

“That’s a decision that’s a little bit against the law.”

I immediately heard a rebuttal, fearing that someone might be the daughter of a judge’s family.

“Anyway, green onions are not animals, so I don’t plan on teaching them how to walk.”

That’s a natural expression.

There’s nothing I can’t do for a walk. There is no need to express these thoughts.

“I’ll show you first. Then you’ll understand.”

He pointed to the green onion with his finger. I blurted out a word as if giving a command.

“Stay still.”

A moment passed, but the green onion did not move. I have a lot of patience.

“Look. Are you listening well?”

Yumina looked back and forth between the green onion and this and blinked.

“She’s cute, but I think she’s already sorry enough.”

The words are harsh. I folded my arms.

“Where are you dissatisfied? Green onions followed orders. What more do you want from here?”

“But in the end, the green onions didn’t do anything.”

“You didn’t do anything? Do you think it’s easy to just stay still?”

“Then, if the green onions move from now on, I’ll believe it.”

hmm. Move? It was natural to see green onions, but they stayed still. There is no need to move in the future. Because it’s a plant.

Yumina bobbed her head as if to tell me to move quickly. You are asking for the impossible.

“Don’t force too much on the green onion. Why do you expect so much when you haven’t even given it a drop of water?”

“But I was the one who changed the flower pot!”

The high tone of his voice seemed to indicate that he was a little dissatisfied with going to the flower pot alone. I feel sad that my hard work was ignored. Even after seeing this, I even read the manual.

“That’s your wish and green onions won’t like you, right?”

If you ask Dapa, of course there is no answer. The flower pot was shaken with magic. There was a rattling sound.

“Look, the green onion gave a positive signal.”

“No. It’s magic!”

She herself is a magical girl and is coming to a very reasonable conclusion about the amazing sight of a flower pot moving by itself.

“That’s right. The signal the green onion sends is like magic.”

“That doesn’t mean anything at all. It’s magic.”

“Are you saying you’re going to ignore Daepa’s opinion now? How could you be so cruel?”

Yumina looked at Stucky in front of her. The name is succulent.

“Successful child! Please comfort me! I have doubts about my relationship with my young lady.”

Yumina hugged the flower pot tightly.

Plants are not intelligent beings.