Shirou and the others followed Roxy's father, Rowin, into the Migurd race village.
After entering the village, Shirou realized that this village of a few dozen households had one major characteristic: it was extremely poor.
The shape of the houses was hard to describe specifically. It felt like they had dug holes in the ground and then put turtle shells over the pits.
Compared to this place, it was clear that the Asura Kingdom's building technology was much more advanced.
Even the building experts from the Asura Kingdom, if they came to this land where wood was impossible to get, would be stuck with no materials and would have to give up.
In the fields that could be seen from outside the village, plants with drooping, shriveled leaves were planted at regular intervals.
Considering they grew in this environment, Shirou suspected they were easy-to-grow vegetables like potatoes or sweet potatoes, which could survive in tough conditions.
By the way, in the corners of the fields, there were terrifying man-eating flower-like plants with teeth growing.
It was hard to tell if they were plants or animals. Uneven teeth clicked and clacked.
They were probably used to deal with harmful animals that invaded the fields.
Walking into the village, the environment was even clearer, and the Migurd race villagers gradually came into view.
Some villagers were starting fires to cook and wash dishes, some had just gone out to collect easily burned dry leaves, and some young girls were gathered around the fire, busy with something.
After Shirou asked Rowin, he learned that they were preparing food.
Because of the village's poverty, the Migurd race had a system of cooking in one place and then giving rations to everyone.
This was clearly a desperate measure caused by a lack of resources.
It's worth noting that there were almost no men in the village.
There were little boys, but only a few adult men.
With a little thought, Shirou realized that the adult men must have gone out hunting. More primitive tribes had this kind of system.
Men went out to hunt, and women wove cloth and cooked at home.
Having just experienced medieval life in the Asura Kingdom, Shirou had a hard time imagining that in the same world, there were places that were so poor and primitive.
However, considering the experiences Servant Emiya had, he had seen even bigger differences in his original world. In the same era, there were not only skyscrapers and extravagant lifestyles, but also poor people who couldn't even afford to eat in war zones, and even more primitive tribes.
It could only be said that a large world easily closed people's eyes, making it hard for them to imagine the different sights that existed in the same world.
As Shirou had these thoughts, Eris bluntly asked, "What kind of prey can they hunt here?"
"They can hunt monsters."
Ruijerd answered Eris's question in the human language.
He had lived on the Demon Continent for a long time, so he naturally knew a lot about how to survive there.
"Monsters? Can you eat those things?"
Eris was very surprised.
At this point, Shirou couldn't help but respond, "Some monsters are edible. I used to know about it."
At Buena Village, Zenith had given Shirou a book about food from all over the world. From it, Shirou learned that in many places, monsters were also a kind of food.
Shirou himself had even tried to dissect and eat monsters when he hunted them in the forest of Buena Village, and found that they tasted almost the same as regular meat.
"Using monsters to make food, I can't imagine what that would be like..."
Eris said with mixed feelings.
"Then I guess you'll be able to eat it soon."
Shirou said in a strange tone, because he was ready to make monster dishes on the Demon Continent.
Before Eris could ask any more questions, the group arrived in front of a relatively spacious building, which seemed to be the village chief's residence.
"The village chief already knows you've arrived."
Rowin suddenly said.
"Huh? When did you tell them?"
Eris was very surprised.
Shirou was also confused and couldn't help but ask.
Then they learned that the Migurd race had a strange talent: they could sense each other's thoughts, even without talking directly.
Because of this, the Migurd race often served as scouts on the battlefield in the past. They could transmit information to the people who needed it, even across long distances.
Shirou was a bit surprised by this. He didn't expect the Migurd race to have such a talent.
But then he was confused because he had never heard Roxy mention that the Migurd race had this ability.
Did she think it wasn't necessary to say?
Shirou couldn't understand it and stopped thinking about it.
At this moment, someone using a cane, but looking like a child, walked out of the house with two young girls beside him.
Of course, because he was used to the general situation of this village, Shirou knew not to judge the age of the Migurd race by their appearance.
"So, you are the guests who have come from afar."
The village chief said slowly with a peaceful smile.
"It's not really from afar, we just happened to end up here."
Shirou said with a wry smile, trying to be polite and respectful, because the child in front of him was likely an old person who had lived for hundreds of years.
"As a human, you actually know the demon language."
"It's kind of my talent."
"Okay."
Everyone had accepted that Shirou knew the demon language, thinking that he might have learned it before, so no one was too surprised.
"I already know your situation. Nice to meet you, I'm the village chief of this village, my name is Rokkus."
The village chief said quietly, not showing much rejection of Shirou and Eris. "As you can see, our village is very poor. We have almost nothing to offer you, so although we can provide you with a place to live, the living conditions won't be too comfortable."
"It's very kind of you to provide us with a place to stay."
Shirou was not someone who would take advantage of others, so he immediately expressed his gratitude to the village chief.
After a brief conversation, Shirou and Eris were allowed to stay in the Migurd race village.
"What is this thing?"
As they were leaving the village chief's house, Eris suddenly pointed to a huge turtle shell on the house, about 20 meters in size.
"That's a giant tortoise, its shell is hard, but the meat is delicious, and the tendons can be used to make bowstrings."
After getting it translated, Rowin explained to Eris, "Here, only the giant tortoise and a few other monsters are the main prey, and also our food source."
"Food source..."
Shirou was particularly interested in Rowin's words.
In fact, after coming to the Migurd race, he felt that the living conditions here were too harsh, even for demons to survive.
If he could, Shirou would like to help the Migurd race people live a better life.
But right now, his ability was limited, and he couldn't even take care of himself, so naturally, he couldn't provide any help.
However, when he heard about food, Shirou suddenly had an idea. He realized that he might be able to start from this aspect and provide help to the Migurd race.
Shirou and Eris were first given a fairly comfortable room. The room was quite spacious, with furs on the floor and brightly colored tapestries on the walls.
In the center of the room, there was a hearth-like structure with a small fire burning inside, illuminating the interior.
Because the temperature difference on the Demon Continent was huge between day and night, a fire had to be lit at night to avoid being affected by the cold.
After confirming that there were no problems with the living environment, Shirou let Eris rest in the room, while he went to the place that the Migurd race used as a kitchen and found some Migurd race people who were cooking.
Faced with the arrival of a stranger, the Migurd race girls were undoubtedly very flustered and even afraid.
Shirou could only try to show a gentle attitude and use his most common gentle smile to prove that he had no hostile intentions.
Whether it was Shirou's gentle attitude that was too perfect, or that his appearance and temperament were more in line with the Migurd race's aesthetic, the Migurd race girls quickly trusted him, and even showed an overly friendly attitude, making Shirou a little uneasy.
Of course, no matter what the attitude of the Migurd race girls, Shirou's own purpose was only to borrow the Migurd race's kitchen.
On the way here, he had roughly confirmed the environment of the village and the main sources of food in the village.
The staple food was undoubtedly the strange vegetable that was grown, with the occasional addition of meat from hunted monsters.
It was barely enough to survive.
Shirou had no objection to the Migurd race's original cooking system, he just planned to further supplement their food sources.
The first was the types of edible monsters.
Having studied monsters in the forest of Buena Village since he was a child, Shirou knew a lot about the state of most monsters, which parts were edible, and which were not.
Later, after he went to Boreas Castle, he also specially studied many books about monster diets around the world, and summarized methods to turn inedible monster ingredients into edible ones.
Just like when Shirou was at the Greyrat house, teaching Paul and Zenith how to eat fish.
His simple methods directly increased the edible parts of many monsters hunted by the Migurd race.
Moreover, in order to allow the Migurd race people to adapt quickly, he personally cooked and took over the Migurd race's dinner.
This was not something that could be done casually, after all, Shirou was an outsider.
But because of his own affability and Rowin's help, he actually managed to personally make the Migurd race's dinner.
When Shirou carefully prepared the monster feast and confidently presented it to everyone, the entire Migurd race was excited.
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