Episode 5

**Curry, and Surviving the Winter** (カレーと越冬, *Karē to Ettō*) is the 5th episode of Farming Life in Another World anime series.

## Synopsis

With their homestead completed, they turn their focus to food preparation and just in time; Winter is coming.

## Summary

Hiraku's new house is finally finished. The girls then show him around the house and his room. Hiraku sees a room that has a bolt lock and wonders what is inside, but as he opens it and sees a bed for two, he closes it quickly and pretends he didn't see it.

The next day, Hiraku decides to make a dish he haven't made before, curry. Hiraku takes the girl to a section of his crops, where they see lots of unfamiliar plants and he explains that some of them are plants who won't grow in areas with any snowfall, but thanks to the almighty tool, he can grow them here. He proceeds to gather spice for the curry and first takes some cumin. He then gathers some turmeric and explains that this ingredient gives the curry its color. After that he gathers coriander and explains they need to grind the seeds into powder. He also takes some cilantro leaves, which smell turns off the dogs. The girls notice that decide it may be worth researching the plant. Hiraku proceeds and gathers black pepper and cayenne peppers.

Having gathered all the spices, Hiraku proceeds to with the next step, but sees that only Lea is there, who explains that Ru and Tia are busy with some research about creating a powerful protection talisman. Hiraku then starts cooking, heating the rapeseed oil they extracted and adds the rabbit meat. While that is cooking, he grinds all the spices to powder except for the cumin. Once the meat gets some color, he takes it off to not overcook it and then cooks the cumin with the leftover bits and juices from the meat. After that he adds diced onions, ginger and garlic. Next he adds tomatoes and keeps sauteing everything. When it turns into a paste, he adds the spices and some salt. After cooking it for a bit, he then adds the meat and boiled soybeans with some water. As he lets it cook, Hiraku feels he forgot something and then realizes its naan.

Hiraku explains its the same recipe as making regular bread right up until the part they let it rise, where they will roll the dough with a rolling pin. The girls return just a Hiraku is done cooking and they all sit to eat. He explains how to eat the naan with the curry and the girls end up enjoying it and decide to get a second. Seeing them, Hiraku hopes they leave some for him as well. Ru and Tia offer some curry to the dogs, but upon smelling it, the dogs run away.

With the winter coming soon, Hiraku prepares for it and gathers some firewood. He knows that Zabuton goes into hibernation and asks him in advance to make some extra blankets. Hiraku is having Ru and Tia preserve some meat by smoking it and drying it, especially since the dogs won't be able to hunt much during the winter. Hiraku is working on a way to preserve vegetables and creates a box with two floors. He will be putting the vegetables on the top floor and cover them in a blanket and snow, while any from the snow will gather on the bottom floor and keep the vegetables dry. Seeing the girls use magic, Hiraku wished he could use too, but its glad that they are around as they helped him quite a lot, as he is capable of only doing garden work and cooking. Ru states that he is the amazing one as now one has ever managed to live for that long in this forest.

When the winter comes, they are staying more inside and Hiraku decides to make some board games like reversi, chess and mahjong set. He explains the reversi game and that it ends when the board if filled and the winner is the one with more pieces of his color. Ru finds the game rules simple and wonders if it will be fun, but Tia states that allows it for a complicated strategies. Hiraku compliments Tia for realizing it and that annoys Ru who then challenges Tia. As they play, Tia is winning for sure, however, Ru flips the board acting like she did it by accident. Ru suggest they should start again as they don't remember which piece was where, however, Tia uses magic and restores the board exactly how it was. Ru flips it again, but Tia restores it again. Ru then suggest 2 out of 3 games and Tia accepts. Hiraku checks on the other girls and sees that Kuro is giving advice where to more a piece. He then notices other dogs playing chess and is surprised they not only understand the rules, but are playing it. He feels an awful energy coming from them and decides that he should never challenge the dogs to a game. Ru then comes and decides to play with the dogs, believing she can't lose to them, but ends up losing and doesn't flip the table as she is afraid of Kuro. Hiraku then plays mahjong with Kuro, Tia and Lea, believing that Kuro shouldn't have understood the rules that fast. However, he ends up losing badly, taking the last place, while Kuro wins. Feeling down, Hiraku decides to make a mini bowling. Since Ru wonders why they need to knock down the pins, he decides to name them as some bad guys. As they play games each day, the winter goes fast, and the spring comes.

One morning, Zabuton alerts them. Hiraku then sees that something big is coming from the sky. He guesses its a dragon, but Tia corrects him its a wyvern.

## Characters

* Hiraku Machio
* Ru Rurushi
* Tia
* Lea
* Kuro & Yuki
* Leef
* Lecott
* Leezay
* Leely
* Leeta
* Lees
* Lafa
* Lasa
* Lalasha
* Lalu
* Lami
* Zabuton
* Kuroichi
* Kuroni
* Kurosan
* Kuroyon