Love eventually flows like water

A thousand years after the Undead Empire vanished, the little skeleton who used to farm was still tending to his fields, until the summoning portal reopened.
"Are you guys hungry? I’ve been farming for a thousand years and have stored a tiny bit of food."
"Have these fields been deserted? Can I plant things?"
"The princess's city on the hill doesn’t allow farming? Then never mind, I won't go."
"They want to tax me but won't let me farm? Wipe them out!"

Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton

Turning around, Luther threw the bean into his mouth before he could stop him. He crunched down and instantly made a bitter face: "It's so bitter."


Regrettably, he'd already chewed it to bits. Unable to spit it out, he swallowed it down instead and complained: "Lord Nage, when did you collect these crappy beans? How could they be so awful?"


Negris didn't know what to say and asked apprehensively: "Apart from tasting awful, do you feel anything else?"


"Anything else? It's bitter, bitterly bitter," Luther replied, pulling a face.


"Here, come wipe your nose. You're nosebleeding," Negris pointed at Luther's nose and saw a trickle of blood seeping slowly from his right nostril.


Luther wiped it off, saw that it was indeed blood, and said without a care: "So I am bleeding. Been eating too good, probably got a little heaty."


"I think you're, like, running on empty," Negris blurted out.


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