Early in the morning, Hyuga Kagami arrived at the Forest of Death with a bulging pack.
He had thought it would take some time to find the little boar, but the moment he reached the small pond where it often appeared, the little boar darted out of the grass.
Rather than saying he had found the little boar, it was more accurate to say that the little boar had found him.
The little boar was clearly a size larger than yesterday, though the fur on the back half of its rear had been bitten off, exposing bare skin. It seemed to have been thoroughly taught a lesson by some other beast in the forest.
Looking at the limping little boar, Hyuga Kagami smiled. "Who did you provoke to get beaten up this badly?"
After laughing, Hyuga Kagami set down the pack on his back, took out a large chunk of meat, and cut it into strips with a short knife, arranging them on the ground.
The little boar sat off to the side, staring greedily at the strips of meat.
Once the meat strips were laid out, Hyuga Kagami numbered them one by one, then took out five bottles of paralytic toxin and injected them into strips numbered one through five.
The poisons used in these five bottles of paralytic toxin were the same; only the proportions of their components differed.
What Hyuga Kagami planned to test today was which of the five bottles had the strongest toxicity. Based on the results, he would make further fine adjustments to the paralytic toxin.
Once everything was ready, Hyuga Kagami tossed strip number one to the little boar.
The little boar had been drooling over it for ages. It hurried over with snorting steps, wolfed down strip number one in just a