Chapter 191 - 191. Not her

She looked around and then stared at the floor, under curious gases that Anita and Sirius gave her. After they transported everything inside they came to her. 

''What are you looking at?'' Sirius was quite curious. he recognized some plants in surroundings so he though she is looking for edible items.

''I was planning to make a warm bed for you, but I just realized that you came from a military family. Can you handle sleeping on a simple bed inside that place for just a couple of days? I think if we work together we can finish her task quite quickly.'' She was worried about others.

Sirius just nodded and took his bag out. ''My family trained me from small on to live in hard places. Actually, I found it quite bothersome when I was younger that I had to go through such arduous training. But after coming here I realized that everything has its own purpose. Anyway. These few weeks were not so hard for me. I use hanging bed anyway so I can just use it here as well and we just need to get dry wood inside. I can live here just for a few days.''

Kendra nodded. ''That is good. I like sleeping in a hanging bed but only in summer. Then go wash up and change clothes while we do the same. Then we will wash all the clothes together and dry them using Anita's power. Wait Sirius, what powers did you ask for?'' 

''Plant, water and earth. Like most of us.'' He smiled.

She nodded. ''If we all come together this or next year we can make a small settlement. We can't leave this place for the next few years and we need to survive like commoners. It's better if we are together. Don't you think?''

Sirius became solemn. ''I was thinking about the same thing. That is the reason I gathered so many seeds. Anyway, let's take care of these things first and then we can make some food. I have to admit I am kind of hungry.''

Anita started laughing. ''You are always hungry. Seriously, as cultivator you should feel less urge to be hungry, how comes you can be so addicted to food?''

Kendra started chuckling about their banter and they stopped realizing how they acted. With laughter, Anita and Kendra went inside to take a slight cleaning bath. Actually, what she did is to first clean themselves with a cloth and then Kendra used her power to disinfect their bodies with soft warm water vapor. On the end, Anita used her power to dry them up. 

Into leftover warm water, they put the clothes and started washing outside. Anita used her power under Kendra's instruction and dried it with warmth, making them completely dry. Of course, they could have done that inside the cave and just spread the clothes, but she wanted to see how much of control Anita had over her powers.

Luckily Anita was quite good in her power control. So when Kendra asked her to use her powers to dry Sirius she already knew what to do.

Anita took his dirty clothes and washed it in the river and then dried the same way. But when she came back, her face was a bit pale.

Kendra saw that and just smiled. "I just made simple porridge with fresh vegetables Sirius found. So much good food, look, Anita. After this, you can rest. You probably used up all your powers. You will need two days to recharge. But I found out if you cultivate before dawn and early in the morning before sunrise, the energy can be recharged within one day. So let's eat, wait for the evening and cultivate it together. Fine?''

Anita was actually tiered, but hearing that she could recharge her energy with that sort of cultivation she was curious so she accepted and was quite curious. The food they ate was just simple stew with the chicken meat, various vegetables and potato-like root. 

Sirius and Anita were stunned about the taste of such a simple meal. She turned curiously her eyes towards Kendra that was munching on a chicken leg. While ago she realized one thing. Even if she felt that in her world it's unfair to eat meat, but would that stop conscious carnivorous animals to eat other animals or humans? Not really. She liked meat so she let go of her hope that make a completely free-meat-eating world for now.

''Sirius, you saw me making the meal. I think later on such meals we can expand into more recipes. Only for now it's fastest to make it this way. It is getting late. Come let's find an open place where we can start cultivating. We need to recharge our powers as soon as possible.'' She looked at Sirius that had a strange excited expression.

She could feel his curiosity surge when he saw her cooking. Later on, he said that good recipes in their world were rare and could be seen as precious. That stunned her quite a bit but later on, she realized why. Most of her people were cultivators and were reaching for immortality. So the food was neglected quite a bit. Later when people wanted to cook, they realized that many recipes were lost in time. So they just made some meals just to cover hunger for the children and after growing up they stopped eating altogether. 

But seeing his eagerness to learn cooking was quite cute. ''After we find others you can ask for recipes from different kinds of people and races. You know Dragons love cooked food as well. And I met Demons that were real food lovers as well. So I have no idea who came from what world and what was it was before becoming cultivator in this kind of form but I personally love food.''

Anita looked at Sirius and could see a gleam of delight see inside and chuckled. ''I didn't know you like food that much. But when I think about it...'' her eyes looked at him with a small smile.'' ... most of the stones we use as an exchange you use for food. Not for cultivation. If you would raze your cultivation more, maybe you would stop that hunger of yours, right?'' 

She turned her eyes to Kendra that rolled her eyes. ''Sorry, but if he didn't even stop eating even after coming to this world, do you think he wills top now?''

Sirius poked Anita's cheeks and mischievously pinched it. ''Too bad we are already cultivators, or I would feed you bit ore to turn you into a beautiful plump lady.''

The two girls just stared at him with open mouth and then at each other realizing his words. Annita was at of loss of words while Kendra started loudly laughing. ''Whoa. Sirius, I would never have thought that you would have such preference.''

His light shrug could be seen as his voice seemed to hold a bit of absentmindedness. ''I like it when the girl has some meat on her. All I met is warrior girls that could beat me up or weak ladies that I always fear to even touch as they were frail. A plump lady should be nice and soft. Yes...''

Kendra saw on Anitas face huge change and chuckled. ''Oh, does that mean you look down on girls like the two of us?'' He turned his head in wonder and saw two faces that looked like they ate a sour lemon.

He shook his head and hands trying to explain his words. ''I said I would like to make her plump. Not other ladies. They are not her.'' But realizing his words he became frozen and redness suddenly started spreading from his neck until the top of his ears. He turned around and walked faster while he tried to hide his embarrassment behind his coughs.

Kendra glanced at Anita that had as well red cheeks and smiled.  She took her hand and pulled her behind herself. ''Now you know his heart. It doesn't matter how you look, for him, it's just you. Now let's cultivate and finish as soon as possible the task. We need to help others until wintertime. Let's hope Taskmaster will let us do it on time.''

Anita just nodded and followed her lead while dreamingly walked behind her with a foolish smile.

Kendra just sighed. Let's hope it will not be that bad tomorrow.