Barter Trade Plans

Beastman Village...

Upon arrival, Beastman Village has the architectural style...of what passes as ancient architecture from middle-east.

So many tribes around of demihumans dressed like middle-aged people. And what're obviously dwarves.

Only Soren has a cozy cottage straight out of disney.

'Master Soren, welcome back!' they greeted as Soren flew down from the chopper, using magic to support Gokudera and his equipment.

'Guys, this person is from my homeland, Hayato. Hayato Gokudera.' Soren introduced Gokudera to them. 'Because I will return to my world soon, he is my tutor on a ton of things I missed growing up, so I can move back in seamlessly.'

'Eh? Didn't you say you'll never return home?'

'Well, its the will of his Holiness Elange. It helps that the Japan I know is the one connected to this world. My family is there.' said Soren. 'So I can go home soon after I finish research here about medicine and making sure everyone is OK, the new mothers and the newborns.'

'Heee...'

'Oh yeah, how soon are we gonna plant the new fruits Soren?' Gokudera asked her.

'As soon as we make space! We lack space! We need to do some logging if we wanna plant an orchard!' Soren snorted. 'I'm just glad the JSDF got me seeds of vegetables and berries I requested to trade off with medicinal plants here on Countess Formal's request, as well as livestock of a hundred male and female each of broiler chickens for raising as well as some livestock that has no disease.' she said. 'The problem with this world is food while it has valuable herbs in spades for medicine, but not good for sustenance. So food prices here are stupidly high one loaf of bread is already the equivalent of 2000 yen in Japan.'

Gokudera choked.

1kg of bread is only 620 yen in Japan.

Here its 2000? That's like exceeding three times the price!

'And the only meat here is Ma Nuga. The only edible meat specie that can be safely domesticated. So yep, I have serious trading to make and 1Lt. Yanagida and the government is doing the political bullshit for me.' Soren sighed. 'Research aside, I have to make appealing trades to other countries for healthy sheep, pigs and cattle! That means a whole lotta gold in exchange so I have to do some mining too in northeast of this continent!'

'That's a lotta work, but that's par for the course for us scientists and cultural exchange.' Gokudera shook his head.

Countess Formal demanded livestock in exchange for the herbs. Because due to a war prediction by her if the Empire keeps this up, there WILL be a massive food shortage and its her clan's job to feed everyone thus must have food supplies on hand. The attack of the army remnants who survived Alnus did severe damage to Italica and she was being pressured, even if Princess Pina did her best to protect her young ward.

But not even she, can do that much against the Emperor.

They settled down, but...

'...this is the bed?' Gokudera sweatdropped as the 'bed', is a pile of hay inside a space where a mattress should be on a wooden bed, plus a sheet on it.

'Yup, this is the bed. Its hard to carry furniture up the mountains, y'know. And we share this one large room.'

'...boys and girls together?'

'Yup. Get used to it. Nudity is hardly an issue here.'

Gokudera's brain crashed.

Nudity is hardly an issue here?

'By the way, its still rut season, the younger folk are starting to get horny, so don't be surprised if you see them have sex all over the place, even public sex is a usual sight here, so don't mind those.'

'What the fu...'

Days later, she was horrifyingly right.

He was red-faced the whole day while the other non-animal demihumans were like 'meh, this is normal' and went about their day like the usual. Even his student!

He was trying hard to endure all those sex moans and orgasmic screams while teaching kanji to Soren. She insists on language lessons first so she can actually read books! As he can't last past thirty minutes, Soren finally took pity on him and used magic on him to censor those out for him.

He didn't dare leave the house until rut season is over for real.

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Earth...

Its just as chaotic for the government, Sawada Family and Vongola.

Soren Sawada grew to adulthood before their very eyes. Her flesh and bones 'superheated' that she caused burns and blisters on her parents' hands when they tried to help her as her body itself 'melted just to grow', and she was forced to age to her proper age of 21 years old as she was originally an EARTHLING - not a native of the other side where she was 14. And due to foreign spies around looking for any opportunity, she insisted she be moved back to Special Region while she was still vulnerable from a fatal case of malnourishment she would have died, if she didn't get IV Bags on time. That way, no hostages against Japanese Government.

It took her a week to fully-recover after getting enough nutrients to keep her functioning, and blood donation from her parents to help her anemia.

And now a trade between two worlds must be made.

Because the herbs need a specific place to grow and conditions, the Japanese Government must choose countries to trade with.

Medicinal Otherworld Herbs plus a crate's worth of gold from Special Region, in exchange for particular livestock their country has. Preferably healthy with no disease. 100 each of male and female. Japan will trade vegetables and fruit seeds on the other hand...no cheating, or the Gods in Special Region will be pissed as evidence of godly work, was Soren herself who aged to her chronological age upon stepping foot back home after several years away, aged up by the god she worships so she can go home without much complications after she gets tutored enough that she can go to College afterward. Her problem was language, scientist earth lingo and technology and she was already a scientist on the other side!

Well, given her birth date, it'll be strange if she appears the same age as her younger siblings...so yes, she was aged as soon as she steps foot back in Japan.

By December, the goods will be ready.

Hereford Cattle for meat and Jersey Cattle for milk from Britain.

American Jersey for meat and Italian Leghorns for eggs.

Meishan Pigs for fast pork production.

India, we're looking at you for spices!

France for Red Wine grapes.

Japan has a huge Deer problem, contributing to agricultural damages. Heck, they're also roadkill on train tracks in the countryside! So why not ship some of them off? 100 pairs can easily be chucked away. They also have to give 1000 each of seeds of various vegetables for cultivation. Leafies, Roots, Tubers and Aromatics.

That, and the other world also needed plant clothing species like Cotton and Ramie which is ideal for their climate.

Hot dang. Then again, Japan can't hoard everything or lose political international relationships...particularly from superpowers. With their current listings, that's four of ten superpowers.

Soren and Countess Formal basically saved them that whole load of trouble by proposing a trade between two worlds.

Valuable medicine even Earth doesn't have, 48% of which, have powerful antiviral properties! Earth can only go as far as low-level antivirals in discovered species which aren't even enough for current known viral diseases they're still working to defeat, what a find and Earth must have it! But the herbs needs specific conditions and soil type to grow. Hence this trade-off that nobody can argue about and making things fair.

However, thanks to this, the Sawada Family are in dire need of protection now, that Vongola spread it feelers and Japan does its fair share of surface world protection of their citizen while Vongola deals with the Underworld side. It took some muscle work, but managed.

And so, come December...

'Ah, back to Earth again after a few weeks up in the mountains...' Gokudera didn't need to complain about heat in the mountains...they are so high up its natural airconditioning! Its comfortable, and its actually nice to sleep in a bed of hay, if done right. Its both a pillow, bed and blanket if you do it RIGHT.

The tough part was everyone sleeps in a pile, sharing a large room full of hay. These people have no sense of nudity shame. The beastkin sleep naked he's seen enough large tits and bits, he just can't comment. Soren thankfully doesn't sleep naked, and wears pajamas with socks, as 'hay feels uncomfortable on bare skin' that wearing clothes is a must, as well as long hair...or put a large cloth where your head should be. Thankfully hay-species mites don't exist here...

The beastfolk are also nice and friendly folk he even had some drinks with new friends after a tutoring session. Just that, males stay away from mated females and all is well. So he really has to stick to Soren's group for his own good or get hurt by protective instincts of furry husbands.

The problem was altitude. He had to adapt to oxygen levels too. The beastmen are trained that they're used to having little oxygen up there while being at peak physical condition...that they're scary at combat skills. Gokudera retrained himself every after lessons to survive the mountains in physical training. It helps that Soren magically cleaned his blood vessels and lungs that his performance shot up. His lanky body also got sculpted while still staying lean. Soren guides his training with her magic, to properly work out and develop muscles the right way.

His supply of Ma Nuga meat is also restricted, to ensure that while he did develop ideal musculature.

'I know you're not a body-builder. You're an assassin-type of fighter. Speed is your most valuable asset.' Soren would tell him. 'Thus growing bulky muscles will actually be to your demerit. Ma Nuga is a high-class protein...while also just-as-high-class in cholesterol levels. It's why I cleaned your blood vessels magically before letting you eat Ma Nuga meat and bone marrows to strengthen your bones, improve your blood levels and skin.' this was to Gokudera's gratefulness. 'I have to teach the spells to Countess Formal's most loyal mages, so the beastkin and demi-humans here are extremely hardy.'

'Thank you very much!' Gokudera kowtowed to her.

So now that he retrained his body, his years of martial arts and free-running skills improved by many levels as a result of the frigging Superfood.

Gokudera taught Soren all she needs to know in being an Earth Scientist, plus things she's missed. And thanks to her patron deity, absorbed everything like a sponge, that she devours books.

Gokudera told her about her...lineage, that horrified Soren, and her younger brother Soran inherited when it should have been her. But being a MALE made him successor by default over her, the eldest child so she and her younger sister can live civilian lives, god-willing. Thus she must know many languages, martial arts, and things she missed in Japanese School, while knowing English better. She also devoured dictionaries and encyclopedias, and other difficult books.

Considering how this world's magic works, she's a master of physics magic. She could have been an Archmage thanks to Gokudera's lessons. But as far as she goes in this world, she can only be the ultimate Pharmacist. Her knowledge of magic is TOO DANGEROUS. She can only teach a trickle of her discoveries that will NOT cause insane upheavals and a massive body count.

Then she got an idea. An insane idea.

'Heee...that's an interesting idea~' Rory mused as back at Alnus, at the living community, she talked about her idea to Rory.

'Lord Elange really has a good reason to wish me out of this world and be back home permanently, but surely you can understand my frustration as a mage...everyone in Rondel is frustrated, no thanks to war-happy humans of this world!' she complained to Rory. 'We cannot publish our hard-researched spells that could have improved standards of living! But I don't want my work to disappear forever either...' she moped. 'My lady, in 39 years you'll ascend, right?'

'Yeees?'

'As much as I want Lelei to be my inheritor of my massive research, she'd be too old to become an apostle, age 54 unless she lives a life of training and strict diet I have in mind, so she's in peak shape and form to become your apostle, and inherit my research to become Goddess of Magic in the future...'

'You would make a great goddess yourself, but alas, your mind is too dangerous in this world for now.' said Rory wryly. 'That's why you gotta go, once your destiny in this world ends with the JSDF, before you Japanese leave our world permanently.'

'Yes...' said Soren sheepishly.

'I will safekeep your tomes of magic when you're done with making them when the time comes.' said Rory. 'And Lelei will be your successor. She will understand when the time comes as well, so she'll have to endure Rondel Frustration till she becomes my Apostle on your request.'

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Japan...

'Japan...I'll be here for a short while due to ahem, testimony-making.' Soren mused as she got off of the jeep with Rory, Tuka, Lelei and Gokudera. 'Itami, is Dimensional Barter Trade successful?'

'It was.' said Itami. 'The other nationals are thanking you for the opportunity to step into the other world, and visit Italica for the trading to be feasible. They even got to see the beastkin in Italica to give them a fantasy-feel of the other world. But other countries haven't gotten the medicine from you yet, so you'll have to deliver soon.'

'I know. It'll take me two years to make trade equal.' said Soren. 'I got video proof thanks to supplies of batteries and tapes when Gokudera-kun records me at work!'

'Yup, in the meantime Gokudera will stay with us to make sense of his videos, as well as editing things to make it available in theaters in Tokyo that only scientists worldwide as well as politicians can watch. A Documentary of your life in the Mountains and your Researching Days.' said Itami. 'A group will escort you home to Namimori in two days after that planned televised show, so you can spend time with your family till New Year's Eve, before you're escorted back to Ginza.'

'Alright...'