Chapter 59: Questionable Procurement (Rewritten)
After such a delectably filling meal, Sunny inwardly sighed in satisfaction.
’Ah... who would have thought that something as stupid as fish soaked in jam could taste so heavenly?’
After a few seconds, he froze, realizing where he was.
This was the Underworld of Belobog, a place that was not only isolated from the rest of the Universe, but was in a mystical ice age. And in this lower part of the city, the conditions were similar to the outskirts on Earth, which the people that inhabited the place barely lived better than a beast. Even then, that was up to interpretation.
So how in two worlds did the Underworld have such delicacies? Actually, Sunny had started to notice that Boulder Town was strangely well off — my much more than the area he had first arrived in alongside Sampo, where children were starving.
How would they even be able to obtain fish? Sunny understood that the crab they used seemed to have lived between rocks instead of within oceans, but unless the fish somehow had a way to swim through dirt and mud, or magically developed legs, then there would be no way to obtain them — all the oceans on Belobog were frozen after all.
There were two possibility that he could think of.
The first of which was that there was sort of farm for fish. If a large amount of fish was put in a supervised body of water that was safe from the effects of the Eternal Freeze, then they would be able to healthily reproduce, creating a sustainable food source for the people of Belobog.
The second possibility was that the fish was obtained outside of Jarilo-VI. However, the planet was completely isolated, as the Astral Express was the first visitors in centuries.
So only the first option was possible.
’...Why does this even matter?’