55 ② Two paths

"We've been looking forward to your return. Family Asta to Fa's Parent Ai-Fa"

On a square face, a conspicuous nose with a large construction. Gazran-Rutim, who was not a beautiful man but seemed honest and honest, bowed his head deeply.

"It's good to see you. It was time to go back to Rutim's house."

Ama-Min, who brings his black-brown hair together beautifully and glances at the resourceful and energetic look in his calm, bows his head in the same way.

"To Gazran-Rutim, Ama-Min. What the hell are you doing in a place like this?

When Ai-Fa, who had not yet been able to be a bit of a parent's face, asked puzzled, the two smiled, as they had indicated.

"I came here with a ritual that I wanted to ask Ai-Fa and Asta to do."

To be clear, I only had a bad feeling.

If we were to talk about the wedding feast, we would have asked Donda-Lou to give us a definitely no reply on our way home today.

Still, after all, I only had a bad feeling.

"Anyway, I get noticed here. They're going in the house.... Asta, you are deposited with steel"

And, Ai-Fa took Poitan's bag from my hand with his hands lowering the fruit liquor, and he just walked into the house.

I hold the barbaric knife and small knife that Gazran-Rutim gave me in great haste.

"Doh, go ahead."

Since Limi-Lu, who visited here a long time ago, he has been a guest.

I have no idea how to handle it.

Eventually, back from the food bin, Ai-Fa lines up on the upper seat near the center of the hall, and the two guests sit back in front of it at a courteous distance.

I got lost, but I broke my knee next to Ai-Fa, and the sword I kept was in my hand.

I wasn't complained about, so, well, I guess I didn't have to mess up my woodland practices.

"Let me start by thanking you. Thank you for a wonderful feast last night. To Ai-Fa in Fa's house, family Asta"

"It was a really great meal....... No more words. It was an irreplaceable feast for us to celebrate, but that made it a truly unforgettable and happy night."

If I get that kind of acknowledgment from you two who seem honest and serious to see, I'm in the mood to bow my head to this one.

I mean... at this time when I just got back from a cumbersome lodging town, I kind of got the impression that these two guys, like a pure symbol, looked completely different from last night.

Who was Gazran-Rutim, such a straight eyed young man?

Who was Ama-Min, a woman with such a cool look on her face?

Whether it was households or personal differences, there were many types of people in the Lou family all exuded dazzling vitality, but what could be felt from these two was quieter, softer, more powerful, like a great tree rooting in the earth.

Finally recovering his harsh expression as a parent, Ai-Fa stares at a one-kneed agu.

"We are also delighted to fulfill our responsibility as our number one depositor over the house of Lou. - But what does it mean that we have a ritual to wish for? If it was about the wedding feast, I would have already said no through Donda-Lou."

The two bow their heads with a "yes" voice to the words of Ey-Fa, who doesn't seem to be furry either, such as willing to perform abdominal arts.

"Exactly on that matter - it was my father Dan-Rutim who wished to talk against the Forestside lesson as such, but we heard the story too..."

"Excellent, I thought. What a happy night it would have been if it had been possible."

From before the wedding, he is also the perfect breather.

From that look, from the look of our eyes, we can only feel the utmost pure anticipation and joy - and the honest and honest character that annoys us if we don't manage to convey our thoughts.

As far as I'm concerned, I just had to count on Ai-Fa's resolute temper first.

"But there will be no way for a fa person with thin edges, both Rutim and Min, to partition such a place. The joy of home is shared by the people in the house.... and Asta also said that yesterday"

Yes, that's exactly right.

I will also nod and show my consent.

Then Gazran-Rutim's straight eyes looked at me.

"Asta. I hear you're a family member of Fa's, but you're from an exotic country, not by this woodland. And in your hometown, you were working as a cook."

"Yes, it was just an apprenticeship to help my family with their work,"

"I'm not sure what kind of job that is. But is that, in short, the kind of work that sells meals that can be done in that lodging town?"

"Right. I don't think that's wrong."

"So - wouldn't you sell us that meal you make?

"... Yes?

I didn't quite understand what you were saying.

Cooking, selling - around the woods like this, how?

"So I'd like you to put up the role of holding up the feast in exchange for the corresponding price, not good intentions, generosity or blood connections. Let us buy you the skill, the knowledge and the effort to make your meal for just one night - we hope."

I don 't--

Not much, I didn't even have a voice.

"I cannot tell Asta, who is from another house, to celebrate us. I just met you last night. I can't help but impose goodwill and generosity on you. Then we thought there was no other way to gain your strength than to pay the price."

"That's... but..."

"I am willing to make the best possible price available to me. That's all your meals are worth. I want to share the happiness I had last night with Ama-Min and my father, Dan-Rutim, with the rest of my family. It needs your help, Asta."

As he said, Gazran-Rutim removed the fangs and horns that were hanging on his thick neck.

Multiple overlapping jewellery, which would extend to more than ten givahs, far greater than the eye-fa.

Ama-Min also smiles quietly and removes his neckline.

I guess my parents gave me a necklace with three fangs and horns.

It is a hunter's pride.

The necklace, a testament to my parents' love, is given to me.

"The feast will gather not only Rutim, but also all the more than a hundred of the family members of his parent family, Luu. As a price for those meals, that's not enough. But in the feast seats we can bless them one from the other. If you go with Ama-Min, it's 200 bottles. If it's still not enough, I'll always hunt for a giva for what I'm missing -"

"Wait! This kind of thing is so unacceptable!

That's what I shouted at, almost out of fear.

"Oh, I'm half immature. Such a big job is unworthy... and after all, I'm a leftover! I still don't understand what's going on in the woods, and I'm entrusting such an important task to..."

"You've already shown that power. No anxiety for us."

"Chi, power is about yesterday's steak, right? Then, as I said yesterday, it's a dish that can be made solely by the power of the family! If you want to make it, I can tell you right now."

"But does it take work from the phase of capturing Giva to produce that kind of flavor? You said that last night."

"I'll tell you! I'll teach you to drain and dismantle blood! Even I still have four heads, even with my old experience, and only one giva has ever been judged! If you guys are originally skilled in skin peeling, you can learn it right away!

"I used to say it every time last night, the dish called Hanba-gu..."

"That tastes like you don't have to know. If possessed, it can also be poison!

"We're not going to be that stupid"

Phew - and Gazran-Rutim, smiled.

It was a powerful grin, full of masculine confidence and majesty.

"If you say that is a poisonous meal for hunters, you will never speak of such a thing. But you said there might be nothing you could do where you ate 1,000 or 2,000 times, didn't you, Asta?

"Well, that's only speculation, so I don't know. But if you're eating all the soft stuff, your teeth and jaw are weak, which I'm sure is an unmistakable thing -"

"If there is a man who, being told that word, still rots his soul, it is the weakness of that man. I'm not talking about you being sick. I guess that's why you told us that word, huh?

Gazran-Rutim has gently put one fist on the floor and ridden himself off.

Though I didn't see any change in that honest look. Maybe this young man, too, is quietly exalted.

"I'm a hunter. So I can't explain it as well as you - but anyway, I wanted to share this feeling with everyone. If the joy of living deepens, it also strengthens the power to wish to live. Your power has empowered me and Ama-Min. I want to convey this power to everyone. Not only to Rutim, but also to Lew, to Min, to Ray, to Maam, to Lilyn, to Mufa - and this is when we have to be stronger and fulfill our stunt as hunters."

At a time like this, is that - is that talking about the decadence of the Sung family?

But now I'm not going to be able to turn my head that far or anything.

"So... my technology, I'll tell you everything. If you want to drain and dismantle blood, and how to bake Poitan, or how to make steak yesterday, you can tell them enough in six days. Every technology we have is already passed on to the women of the Lou family."

"... about a meal called Hanba-gu?

"That's nothing, you don't have to remember it. Too much cuisine wouldn't be worth the woodland, would it?

"With all due respect, it's the people by the woods who decide whether they deserve it or not.... No, I'm not taking your words lightly because you're already a family member of Fa's house, too. But I also want us to show the way. I want us to choose what we feel is right, what we feel is not right, and which path to take."

"No matter how much effort it takes, if that gives us stronger joy, we'll choose that path"

For the first time, Ama-Min also opens his mouth.

"To live, what to exchange. Do you collect firewood, dry pico leaves, or smooth the fur? To live richer, what to exchange and which path to take, that's what our parents and our parents have thought about and told us for eighty years. I hope to give birth to this Gazlan child sooner or later, and show you a happier path."

"There are no human beings who put the hassle of eating into putting other jobs aside. If you still want to go through the hassle, that's because you feel that much meaning and significance in that hassle. If you're a person who can find meaning in Hanba-gu, you'll work hard to make it, and if you can't find it, you won't make it. That's all."

"No, how come you guys are so stubborn that you've never even had a hamburger...?

"I'm not only adamant about Hanba-gu. I want you to work hard on everything."

That's what I said, Gazran-Rutim.

"That's why I'm asking you. To you, not to someone who learned the moves from you. I want you to show us all the power you can have, just for one night - the price for it."

"Wait. I'm..."

I can't go on with any more words.

Then Ai-Fa, who had kept his mouth shut until then, said quietly.

"Apparently Asta is tired. Looks like this guy only has the strength of a 10-year-old. I think I've exhausted all my energy just by bringing my stuff back from the lodging town.... I'm sorry, could you wait until tomorrow for this reply?

"Oh, sure. - So, Asta, can we just do one last thing?"

"... Yes"

"You said last night that you wanted to be a drug, not a poison. I sincerely thought so, too. This power must not be used as poison. If this power is used as a medicine, the people of the woods may gain further joy of life, further bonds and further strength. That's how I've thought about it, and I've been wishing for stories like this. If you will, let me and your path overlap - now if you'll excuse me."