Summary
Stella, find and break the cursed jar! pleaded the tiny beings Stella met while held captive in the Credion Empire. Charmed by their earnest request, Stella decided to help. Inside the jar was a pickaxe. “It’s a pickaxe blessed by Goddess Terra! Now, Stella can become a noble farmer!” Farming, of all things. Stella, a bastard far removed from agriculture, simply shook her head in disbelief. Yet, as time passed, she found herself inexplicably drawn to the pickaxe and felt the garden outside calling her. Strange, why do I suddenly want to farm? Kai, focused only on expanding his rule, found no interest in anything else. One day, he stumbled upon a mysterious field in a corner of the imperial palace and was drawn to it by an inexplicable fragrance. There, he found… carrots? “Why are there carrots here…” “What’s the matter, hungry? You seem like a low-ranking knight; take a carrot to eat.” Stella, holding the pickaxe and speaking kindly, prompted Kai to instinctively bite into a carrot. That night, he wondered, “Why can’t I stop thinking about that carrot?”