357 Destruction and Regeneration ① - Whispering Tsubaki

So the days passed solemnly.

Even if the duration of the festival was only ten days, more than a month has passed since the opening of the Blue Sky Dining Room. In the meantime, the number of customers doubled and we were subject to various changes.

Eight or so people were added to fifteen, and the number of dishes that were 400 meals was increased to more than 1,000. On the holidays, I was to visit the Inn Town in the morning to sift the whole grill of Giva and also work on night sales. At the head of "A Seat of Gamleys," for the first time, we welcomed many people who spoke of Giva cuisine as guests, and furthermore, the oldest elder by the woods, Grandma Jiba, was to visit the Inn Town and Dalaim.

In addition, the opening of the Blue Sky Dining Room has caused a change in the sense of distance to customers. Many customers speak cheerfully as translucent vales and shawl-wrapped woodland ladies slip between their seats to retrieve used dishes. Besides, if the hunters in the escort role were Dan-Rutim or Gillan-Lillin or Rudd-Lou, active interaction with the people of the town has also arisen there.

In the first place, the Blue Sky Dining Room was implemented by Raina-Lou et al. to help them feel "closer to the delight of their customers," so it can be said that in that sense, it was time to achieve the right results.

Furthermore, the facades, which were skeptical of commerce in the Inn Town, were to act together for the first time during this period.

Giza-Lou or Sphyla-Zaza or Fay-Baim are the ones with the flashes on their faces.

Giza-Lou and others in particular have also taken part in stays in Dalaim and expeditions to the castle town. The next chief, Giza-Lou, was to feel with his own hands what thoughts and eyes the people of the town and the aristocracy had on the people of the forest today.

Not many of them have closed their hearts yet, like you and your uncle, Dora's father's mother. There will still be a lot of such people lurking, especially in Dareim and the Accommodation Town. Since many of the people visiting the stalls were travellers from the land of leeway, it is only a handful of people who think of it, such as customers, who are the people of Genos.

But still, the people who visit the stalls have no obsession whatsoever, and they eat Giva's food with a very happy face.

People by the woods are irrational barbarians, and people who didn't suspect that the meat of Gibba, etc. was stinky, hard, and not eaten, are laughing innocently and getting drunk by fruit liquor, making them look so happy.

Since I first put Giva food up for sale in Inn Town, it's been roughly six months - only six months since I was able to make the change so far, so I can't be dissatisfied with anything. In the eightieth year since moving from the Black Forest to the foothills of Morga, the people of the woods will be able to say that they have come to a great turning point.

No matter what you think, I have no doubt that my presence was essential to that transformation. If the path of commerce had been set so far, there would no longer be an obstacle without my presence, but if I hadn't visited the forestside settlements in the first place, the transformation itself would not have been effected. The fact that I was a spark, after all, couldn't move, even if it was a transformation with people from the Ai-Fa and Gazran-Rutim and Lou families who accepted heretics like me.

And of course, I don't feel cowardly right now. Forestside people should know the pleasure of a delicious meal, they should get a richer life, and they should spin the right edge with the outside world as well - believe it that way, I've come this far. Believing that I could be a drug, not a poison, and believing in it in the same way, I vowed not to get lost but to live hard for the Ai-Fas.

Misha, the white sage, said he showed up at Sims in turbulent times to bring peace and order to people.

Maybe there was no current sim without Misha. Running through mountains and meadows in tototoss without the skill of making bricks out of mud, seven tribes compete for hegemony. He may have threatened Selva or Jagal or Mahdra while remaining such a rough barbarian.

I wouldn't be as big as Misha to do that.

Whatever Misha was, I was just an apprentice cook. There is still a lot to be entertained in this land where food culture hasn't progressed much, but there is no way that the cook could have done such a great thing as peace in the kingdom. Nor do they want to do something as big as that. I was just hoping, within my reach, to bring joy and happiness to even one and many.

For Ai-Fa, who recognized me as a family, for the people of the woodland to which the Ai-Fa belongs, for the people of Genos, the border city to which the people of that woodland belong - and then for the travellers of Sim and Jagal who visit that Genos. and it would be more surprising to have put your hands up so far.

To put it in a bigger mess, I met an irreplaceable presence in this land, and all I wanted to do was live as the right presence in this world to which I belong.

Maybe Misha. 'Cause that's how you felt at first?

I couldn't get that much detail from Niya's song, but maybe Misha's first face in the land was the daughter of the chief of the Lao clan. To save that daughter's predicament, Misha was supposed to squeeze her powers, bring peace to Sim, and leave at its end - and that's how I had come to dream.

But that's an unfounded dream. Maybe I'm just obliviously overlapping myself with Misha.

It would be hundreds of years old, but also indulgent where the bard dreamed of what to tell the characters of the song. So this is a dream or a delusion, and a sentiment.

Whatever it is, I've decided to live my life as I believe it.

Don't just betray your feelings and the trust of I-Fa - even a tiny person like me can protect that much. Nor does it have the significance of being present in this world if it cannot even protect it. That's what I was thinking.

I take care of Ai-Fa, and I take care of this world to which Ai-Fa belongs.

On the occasion of an event called Easter of the Sun God, I heard a white sage Misha's song in the vortex, and I was supposed to renew that thought. So no matter how Niya felt, I even thought I'd heard his song as irreplaceable food for myself.

With such thoughts in my deepest place, I was finally set to celebrate that day - the "Day of Doom", the last day of the Purple Moon.

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The first to be spoken is the thirtieth day of the purple moon, the day before the Day of Doom.

We did our job in Castle Town two days ago, and we were able to safely finish our business in Accommodation Town that day.

All the food never sold out on time, and I was never hit by any strange noise. The seven ladies who have been set to help with business since this Easter period are also totally familiar with it, and they are working on cleaning it up thoroughly.

"This job, too, will come to an end tomorrow, won't it? If you think about it that way, you'll feel a little lonely."

It was the Ming women who, along with Ama Min-Rutim, kept the stalls of "Gibba's Mothpot" that said so.

I'll make you laugh while I move the hot iron plate to the luggage car, careful not to burn it.

"But even if the moon changes, you don't close the store. We'll just take the first day off, and we'll keep open as we see how things go from the second day of the silver month. So it's no surprise that we're suddenly returning to our original numbers, so some of us are going to continue to ask for help."

"Oh, really? Then I would love to help!

"Oh, so are we."

When the women of Gaz and Ratz spoke up, Fay-Baim, who was in my place, said he was leaning against me.

"Then everyone should be given a fair chance. Because we have to see the end of this with Baym and Dagola."

"Right. Work on your first day with the same facial rash you had until today, and then step in so that the order turns fairly. … please consult the Rayna-Luu family"

"Yes," they nod with a smile.

There seems to be no physical anxiety in the tenacious woodland ladies. Furthermore, if there is no mental exhaustion, there has never been a more comforting story.

"Now let's go back to the woods. Please share roles as usual"

Step out into the bustling streets, protected by the hunters.

but within a few steps, i-fa has raised his voice "wait".

"Rud-Lew, look at that one."

"Hmm? Yeah, something's wrong with you. Just in case, check it out."

Whatever the hell he discovered, Rudd-Lou whispered something to Dalm-Lou before disappearing across the crowd.

An eye-fa tried to go after it, frowning and looking back at me. I want to go after Rudd-Lou, but I don't want to leave by my side, that sort of thing.

"What's going on? I'll be with you if you want."

"Um... I don't think there's any danger... all right, come with me"

I entrusted the carriage of the stall to Fay-Baim and left the place with I-Fa.

It was in the direction of the tent of "A Seat of Gamleys" that Rudd-Lou headed. Whether it was me or Ai-Fa, if it was about them, I couldn't leave them alone.

but so it was not the entrance to the tent that Ai-Fa headed, but the space halfway between them hidden in the miscellaneous woods. Rudd-Lou has already set foot in the groves, beyond which we can also see another figure. It was apparently the presence of the shadow that caused the suspicions of the Ai-Fas.

"You used to discover that from a crowd gap. That's hunter's eyesight."

I let him state that, but Ai-Fa pushes through the groves silently. It was an unfamiliar person who was doing it amidst the muddy woods that plunged in the leaking day, and instead there was the shadow of a smaller luggage truck.

"Hey, what are you doing?

When Rudd-Lou, who arrived first, called it that way, the person looked back in dismay.

The man was in the middle of nowhere near the leatherstrings that tied the cleavage of the tent. This is indeed a suspicious course of action.

"Huh? Bo, are you talking about me? I'm just trying to get into this tent..."

After all, he was an unrecognizable person. He's about the same height as me and Ai-Fa, and he's slightly skinny. Half-length brown hair is bundled back, and the skin color is ivory. The color of the eyes is pale brown. When I was a year old, I didn't get twenty years old, and my face was littered with blushes like Roy's, and what I was wearing was crude cloth.

All the eyeballs are just huge and he looks quite adorable. The rest is as thin and thin as it is, and there are no distinctive features.

but by listening to that voice, I decided to know the biggest features.

The person was a woman.

"Bo, I'm not a nasty person. I'm one of these travelers, you know, I'm a working man. If you think it's a lie, ask the people inside."

The woman said so in a mundane tone.

What you are wearing is a male outfit, and the chest and chest are peppery. Shoulder-width, stroking shoulders, and then poor posture on the back of the cat. It is a difficult style to think of as an elderly woman, but after all, the voice belonged to the woman, and the soft face of the line could only belong to the woman if she was aware of it.

"I heard there were thirteen travelers in total. Were there any other people besides that?... but even so, I can't miss the package."

And, Rudd-Lou pointed to the luggage car being placed in the back, saying in the usual subtle tone.

Roofless, crude, little baggage truck. The square carrier just has two large wheels, one toss connected to the front.

It was a huge cloth wrap that was loaded on that luggage truck, and somehow its surface was fluttering.

There's something huge wrapped in a cloth in it.

In size, it would have been just about the size of a human being to let in. Because his mouth is tied with cranberries, he cannot ask for the contents.

"Ko, is this the package? What the hell is this?

"What's in it, you're not human, are you? So, if he's Giva, we can't overlook him."

Rud-Lew overlapped the words that way, tapping the pattern of the bamboo hanging on his hips with his fingertips.

"The travelers were talking about wanting to catch Gibba, but I'm not supposed to have any forgiveness from the lord yet. And yet, if you stole our eyes and stepped into the Morga Forest, you can't leave this guy alone, can you?

"Chi, no, no! This isn't Gibba! It's a hell of a misunderstanding!

"So, what is it? If this stuff like Dillo gets stuck, I'm gonna laugh, too."

"Di, it's not even Dillo. This is Mundt."

"Mundt?" I chanted with Rudd-Lou.

Ai-Fa is not alarmed and keeps staring at that daughter's anxious face.

"Yes, it's a meat-eating Mundt. Did you know that there are leopards of gauze and silver lions of algra working in this one seat? If I gave them Kimmus and Karon meat every day, it wouldn't be enough to have any copper coins, and it's forbidden by town law to let them out of the tent... and they'd be weak if they didn't give them fresh guts too. So this is how sometimes we need to catch a nearby beast and feed it to life."

"Hmm, Mundt..."

"Yes, but of course, we haven't even taken a step into the Morga Forest! This is Mundt who set a trap in the back of the grove and caught it during the night! Until Niya attaches her word to the noblemen of Genos, we must never set foot in the Morga Forest, and the captain of the regiment has told us so."

"Okay, okay. But I'm sorry, can you let me check the contents? Unfortunately, that Gamray is not so trusted by the forest chiefs."

To Rud-Lew's words, your daughter reluctantly lowers her brow butt, "Ha..."

but didn't try to defy it any further, she put her hand up against the luggage car. As elongated clever looking fingertips twirled, they loosened the crawling grass - and along the way, suddenly a vicious beast stuck its nose out.

Like a pit bull terrier, it is a somewhat crumbling nose surface. Her face is square, her triangular ears are growing, and her little eyes are burning in anger. The extremely short body hair is pale brown and the neck is short. Its crushed nose was wrapped with crawling grass and its fierce looking beast was diligently freshly shaking its short head without being able to speak.

This is the first time I've seen it. but this was certainly Mundt's appearance as I had heard from Ai-Fa.

Yet another Mundt, who looked the same, sticks his neck out to contend ahead. Both are about a meter long and in oddly round shape, but only the extremities are unbalanced and thin. He looked completely unfamiliar to me, like a deer foot on a pig's torso.

"Oh, this guy sure is Mundt. I'm sorry I doubted you. The people of the woods, the youngest brother of the Lew family, let you apologize for your disrespect."

Not looking too bad, Rudd-Lou lowered his head with a pepper.

Your daughter finally looks relieved and laughs at herself.

"No, it's more than anything if the misunderstanding has been solved. My life has been so cold and sweaty."

"That's a little exaggerated. If you were me, wouldn't it be as easy as running away from me or Ai-Fa? Wow, you look so strong."

"It's outrageous. I'm such a waste of money."

Laughing at Hera, the daughter pushed Mundt's head back into the wrap with her unmade hand, and began to tie her mouth again.

An eye-fa staring at its loose side gets a "oh" twinkle on the fudge.

"If you think it's a sign you remember somewhere, you're that strange armored person - the one who was called Lolo the Knight King"

To that word, I was set to admire heaven.

but it was your daughter who looked up to you more than that.

I slowly look back at Ey-Fa while I lose a lot of blood while letting my fuzzy grin snap into its elongated face.

"Hey, what are you talking about? Bo, I'm a working man..."

"Nothing needs to be deceived. Your art was brilliant."

Then your daughter said, "Hia! screaming," I turned a bright red face full of blushes and held my head in.

"Please don't! Please don't! Oh, were you watching my art?!? How could you be such a terrible disgrace...!

"Humiliation and nothing. Is that what you do?

When Ai-Fa pursued her as she leaned her little neck, your daughter - Rollo, the unarmed knight king, was crushed on the spot without herself or the world.

"Bo, why do you think I'm hiding my face!? Oh, embarrassing, embarrassing! Anyway, I have no choice but to do such a funny trick! If that makes you angry, go ahead and hit him with a stone!

"So you're saying it was a brilliant art. What is it, you?

"I knew these guys were just crazy people."

Rudd-Lou also has his eyes rounded in a frightened manner.

"I know you're trying to keep your word. Sorry to interrupt your work. That leopard's a lion. Let him eat."

Still, Lolo won't try to wake herself up, so we decided to pull ourselves up big time.

In the streets, members who were not assigned jobs are waiting for us along with two luggage cars. We rendezvoused with it and made a report to Dalm-Lou before we started walking down the street again.

"I didn't think that woman was Rollo. Doga and the black monkeys kicked me or tossed me, it seemed like such a harsh art, though."

"Mm-hmm. That's pretty skillful. If we're bad, we might be strong enough to play each other with Sin-Lu right now."

"Yeah? You got such a fine woman? I guess Sin-Lew is a strength that's no different from Melfried right now? If you do that, it will mean that you have the same strength as Ziza-Lou did a while ago..."

"I don't know. but that much power seems to me. Damn, you're the ones who don't know what to do."

Saying, Ai-Fa gently presses his hand against his chest.

There was still a fixed belt wrapped around it just in case, but finally the day of full healing was approaching for Ai-Fa's injuries.

"I want to work out this body again soon, too. I have to settle for Lem-Dom."

"Oh, you did"

It is an eye-fa that is becoming more feminine than anywhere else, but I guess if I let him resume his training as a hunter again, his previous acumen will return. Not that I can feel that clear a difference, but still, there were no moments when Ey-Fa now behaved softly in a standing manner and, together, looked like a normal lady.

"... what are you staring at?

"No, I like both eye-fa"

After I said it, I was struck by amazement.

"Ah! I've got my inner crush on my mouth!

Ai-Fa turned his face bright red, no less than he had just done Lolo, and he snapped my back of the head.

People around me looked so surprised that I'm sure my words didn't reach my ears other than I-Fa either. That was so painful that it could be munchies, but it was fortunate for me and for Ai-Fa that I didn't have to expose myself to shame in full heaven.