Now, it's someone else's turn to be laid out in front of Raguna's house. Today's victim is wearing a nice-looking blue-green suit with matching top hat. She asks for water, so Raguna sprinkles some from his watering can. (Smooth move, playa...) Obviously, it's not what she wants, so he runs to Lara for help. The girl introduces herself as Selphy, and says she passed out because she ran away out of food. Yeah, not eating for a week will do that to you. Lara gets angry at herself for not taking care of herself, and the PANIC MUSIC! plays again.
While Lara orders Selphy to get some bed rest, she tells Raguna that she asked Sister Stella to stay in the village, because his carelessness worried her. Aww...
It's still 6 AM when Raguna leaves the infirmary, so he has plenty of time to work on his farm. Some more colored grass is growing in the yard, so he gets right to harvesting it for when he eventually purchases his lab.
Once again, he just misses Anette on her delivery run. Inside his mailbox are two letters: a welcome letter from Lara, and a turnip request from Erik. He still hasn't fulfilled his turnip request from Mist yet, so he'll have to wait until tomorrow to make his own deliveries.
He asks Kross to build a monster hut for him. It only takes Kross zero minutes to complete it. Kross the emo carpenter...what a guy!
Off to Whale Island. Raguna goes mining for iron so that his hammer and axe don't feel neglected about being the only tools in his box to be upgraded so far. He doesn't have much energy, so he doesn't get very far before being forced to retreat.
Mist tells Raguna that there have been a lot of weeds growing in front of her lawn, and asks him for help. The grass is just about as tall as Raguna is (and mysteriously disappears as he hacks away at it - sent to another dimension, perhaps?), but after Rags does some digging (and sneaks over to Melody's for a nice hot bath), he uncovers what appears to be an underground passage to a new set of ruins.
While in the village, Raguna bumps into Rosetta, who isn't yet prepared to collect the shipping crops. She tells Raguna that she ran away from home because her father wasn't treating his business as Serious Business. Raguna decides to sneak into these ruins so that he doesn't face her wrath for dumping his weeds in the shipping box again when he said he wouldn't. Luckily, he still gets his money for his hard work either way.
Before going off to bed, he buys some rice for Rita, and then does a bit of cooking and forging. Now, all of the tools in his collection have been upgraded from "crap" to "not so crap". He still gets a feeling that something is missing, though...
The next day, a new letter arrives from Kanno, who's amazed that Raguna has discovered the Green Ruins outside of Mist's house. He suggests that he take some Rune Stones down there with him.
The new and improved hoe and watering can allow him to till and water three spaces at a time. For each of these, Raguna breaks out some more Awesome Yet Practical moves (including a spinning spray attack from his tin watering can) to get the earth tilled and ready for...making grass grow.
He goes over to Mist and Rosetta's house, where Mist thanks him for mowing her lawn by giving him...more turnip seeds. Hooray?
Anyway, Raguna decides to eschew the trip to Whale Island to get a closer look at the Green Ruins. He fills himself up with bamboo rice, and heads down with his sword at his side. There are vines growing almost everywhere. Some have even formed barriers, which Raguna has to cut down with his sword. Some of the plant life is malevolent, and spits balls of goo at him. He chops his way through the living plants and acorn-tossing squirrels and heads downstairs, but is unable to open any of the other doors. Mission aborted, for now.
Raguna checks the infirmary for Selphy, but she's not there. He does eventually find her at the library. She asked Lara if she could stay there, and quickly "made herself at home", as it were. Bad news? The library is a mess. Good news? Raguna can now actually read a few of the books on the shelves, and Selphy will sell to him whatever she doesn't need. There's nothing for sale in her inventory yet, though, so Raguna soaks up as much knowledge as he can before finishing his day.
The next day's task: get those turnips off to Mist and Erik before they forget about them.
