121 ③ Gibba Soup - Greedy

When he left Kama, the man disappeared.

Well, as I twist my neck wondering where I've been, Rayna-Lew leans softly over me.

"The men headed to the sacrificial hall. We still have time for the parents' conference, but Sung's family complained about not wandering around the settlement with a knife on it."

"I see," I nod.

"Asta. What should we do now?

"As planned, let's split into three squads and work on creating soup. … so I want you to give the Sung ladies a taste at the key points."

"Taste, is it?

"Yeah. And I don't care if you talk to the public or whatever, can you try to get the work going while you interact with them as deeply as possible? Cooking is about feeling. If you stay apathetic like that, you'll blur to the taste of cooking."

"Oh...... that's somehow, I know. The desire to cook delicious dishes makes them delicious."

"Yes, yes. Exactly."

When I nodded loudly, Rayna-Lew smiled happily ever after.

"Okay. We, too, may have been a little too preoccupied with the fact that the other party is the Sung family. As the same woodland lady, I'd like to take a peek at it to feed the woodland men some delicious food."

After all, it is Raina-Lou, who is better than human beings and yet also has wisdom.

I told Mother Meer Ray and Sheila-Lou the same explanation, and then I joined the members of my squad.

Vina-Lou and Lara-Lou.

"Now divide the Sung family into three parts, too. People in the same house should be as good as possible with each other in the same house."

There are five women of Sung, and this one is formed in platoons of eight men each of three, carrying the necessary amount of aria and meat, to go between the divisions.

As the ultimate modest means of self-defence, our squad allowed us to choose the house furthest from the Sung main house.

"Well. Let's carve Aria first. To cut it, I would like to cut it in dashi. This is how you cut it."

Aria used in "Giva Soup" has two single heads and 150 grams of Giva meat.

So, in one squad, we make soup for 44 people, so Aria has 88 pieces, and Giva meat is about 6,6 kilos.

"Speaking of which, Mida-Sung is that physique, so I decided to prepare a dish for ten people, but is there just too much juice for ten?

I speak to the women of the Sung family, behaving more brightly than I did when I was in business in Inn Town.

One of the women responded apathetically, carving Aria into pieces, "Come on... what do you think..."

"Well, it's better than not enough. Overall, I plan to make a little more.... Mida-Sun, are you in the house? Or is it the woods?

"Come on... what do you think..."

"I've actually never met my parents, Zulo-Sung, either. What exactly is Sung's head of household, who is also the chief of the people by the woods?

"... he is a fine man..."

Arm push on goodwill means this?

Both Vina-Lou and Lara-Lou are silent, without grasping the thread of the conversation.

I decided to change the target.

"Hey, how was the meat earlier?

This squad also had a mix of girls as young as ten.

Eating giva meat, he was moving his expression the biggest, it's that girl.

The girl looked at me all the time, still carving Aria like a machine.

"... tasted completely different from regular giva meat"

"Don't you? You know, I'm draining my whole body of blood before Gibba's completely out of breath, and then, you know, I'm draining my guts in the right steps. That way, Giva can eat deliciously up to her torso."

"... hah..."

"Even in Sung's settlement, I guess Giva's torso has been dumped in the woods? Giva's feet are delicious, of course, but there's plenty of delicious areas in her torso, too, right?

The girl, with no expression, shakes her neck to the side.

"... I will not throw away my torso"

"Huh?"

"My head, my torso, I'm eating. It smells so much stronger than my legs."

"Hmm. Really? Ah."

While I answered lovingly, I felt discomfort swelling up in my chest.

(Even the humans in the branch, eating Giva's head and torso... isn't that a little strange?

Indeed, Ai-Fa said that the Sung family had monopolized Genos' bounty and had not done their job as hunters properly.

I guess that means buying arias and poitans with that prize money, and Gibba and the like put themselves in a diet where once they hunt one, they shave it to the bone -. Then I can reduce my dangerous work as a hunter to the point where I can play and fall in love with the rest.

But isn't that just for the people in the main house?

Are you sure you're getting yourself into such a lazy life, even the person at the branch?

When I think about it in a lot of specifics, I think that's too unrealistic.

That's probably because doing business in the lodging town has made me into a gold account habit.

(Is the bounty from Genos that huge?

In this one case, I was able to know exactly how many Sung family members I had.

There are eight people in the main house and 33 in the branches, the total of which is 41.

Let's assume that none of these 41 have hunted Giva.

The minimum intake of one human aria and poitan is three and two in a day. The amount includes 1.2 red copper coins.

When that comes to 41 names, 49.2 red copper coins.

So, the prize is distributed every three months, Gazran-Rutim said.

Three months, roughly 90 days.

49.2 for 90 days, that's 4428.

Let's also weave in the calculation that Giva is hunting to get the minimum amount of meat needed.

Assuming in a bowl account that a single human consumes 500 grams of giva meat in a single day and 40 kilograms of the mass of meat that can be taken from one head - hunting one head every two days would calculate that it is well enough.

Twenty-four red copper coins in two days, obtained from their horns and fangs, and fur.

For a month, 360 sheets.

For three months, 1080 sheets.

Pull 1080 from 4428 and it will be 3348.

In three months, there were 3348 red copper coins.

In the year, 13392 sheets.

If as many as 41 human beings play and live, at the very least, they need that much prize money.

"It's a prize money and other insignificant things," Camua-Josh said.

"That's why the Sung family monopolized it," Ai-Fa said.

But - would this be a figure that could be called a "meagre sum"?

Besides, this is the minimum amount you need to live.

The person in Sung's main house does not find himself in a boring life.

Dodd-Sung had been wearing fruit liquor since daylight.

Mida-Sung seems to be paid a penny for one piece of white copper coin once a month.

Then it seems that the Sung family doesn't rely solely on the prize money either, but which giva is hunting for it if there is one - and now the testimony that they are "even eating Giva's head and torso" goes crazy.

Paradoxically, if the prize is less than the amount you just received, you will have to hunt one or more giva in two days, and as a result, the meat should be calculated to be excess.

Something's just sitting a little bad.

Something, just a little bit, chiseled.

Besides, I don't know why only a divided person has such an apathetic look.

I knew the bounty was exclusive only to the person in the main house, and the person in the branch was forced to keep the secret - I imagined the structure. Isn't that what this is about?

"... Asta, now Aria is gone...?

To Vina-Lou's voice, I give back to me.

"Yes, then, next time, it's giva meat, right? For juice, use Giva's feet and shoulder meat."

I shook my head gently and decided to concentrate on the job in front of me.

Unless you know how much I twisted my head, the amount of the prize money, and the total number of givahs the Sung family is hunting for, you won't get a quick and accurate answer.

Except - I doubt it, I think I'll keep it tight in the corner of my head.

"Cut Giva's legs so that the white fat spreads evenly, as I just let her cut it. It's about this thickness."

No reply.

I said, "Whatever it takes to talk to the public," but I don't know what kind of topic to get excited about for the first time, and for this kind of apathetic people.

Let's just pretend to be a fool and ask him about Zukezuke and Sung's inner feelings in the main house, or something, when I thought about it...

Lara-Lew said, "Wow!" He shouted out loud.

"Bi, I'm surprised ah! Who are you? When the hell did you get in here?

"How long have you been here? It's blunter not to notice, Sho."

Kiki, tall, sounds like a bird chirping.

I was very surprised, too.

While there were supposed to be only eight of them, when were the intruders loose?

Very small, a bunch of women.

But - I'm having a hard time figuring out how old I am right now.

Height is smaller for one head than Lara-Lew. It would be about 130 centimeters at most.

My arms, legs, torso are thin, only my head, oddly large.

He has brown hair tucked away on the top of his head like an onion.

White-eyed eyes, just big. The tiny, insidiously glowing eyes are black.

His nose and mouth are also small and his mandible is caught in a triangle.

Wrapped around that little body is somehow a cylindrical piece.

The fabric has a whirlpool pattern, but the style is that of the town.

"... an exotic named you lived in Fa's house, sir?

An insidious three-white eye stares at me.

"Yeah. Apparently, the people of the west, sir. The colour of the hair, though, looks east. Are you a mixed West and East child?

"No, I'm from a farther country. - Who are you?

I didn't have to ask, I had a prediction.

If the theory that the arrogant shore is that the human being in the main house - is correct, the correct answer becomes limited every second.

And the women said the answer as I expected.

"Atashi is the youngest sister of Sung main house, Zwei-Sung. Yo.... If you're asking people for names, isn't it polite to name them yourself?

"Oh, I'm Asta, the family of Fa's house. Maybe you're here to help, too?

Then that little girl, who calls herself Zwei-Sung, hung her thin brow and got angry.

"Why do we have to help the people in this house?" Oh, shit, sho in a branch job? Don't say anything you don't really know, sir!

"Oh, really? That's how the Sung family works."

The human presence in the main house meant that I also maximized my alert level - but the impression was that it wasn't as bad as the rest of my brothers.

It doesn't look good, it doesn't look honest, but it's kind of a humorous look that's a little unfamiliar.

I also feel Dejab somewhere. Would there have been no characters like this in some kind of cartoon or anime?

"Hmm! Well it's what exotics do, so I forgive you wa.... Yeah, that's magical giva meat, sir?

"No, I'm nothing. I'm not a wizard or anything."

"What are you talking about, Sa! Why do you say that you are selling this Giva meat in the Inn Town of Genos? What is it other than magic that you can do that with the meat of Giva abhorred by people in town yo!?

And I thought I'd twitched hysterically, and now I'm going to narrow my big eyes and squint.

"Hey... so you really mean you're earning 200 copper coins a day? I can't believe it at all..."

"If you don't believe me, you don't have to."

"Fine, answer properly, yo! You lied to me, because it's something we can find out anyway, sir!

I've never been unfamiliar with him, but he's too noisy and quiet.

How does everyone feel about watching this act?

Vina-Lou was staring at the side of the intruder, narrowing his eyes like he was asleep.

Lara-Luu even flickers at the same person, whilst hissing his eyebrows uncomfortably.

So - the ladies of the division were silently slicing the meat, laying face down as impatiently as ever.

Stick around, I don't even see how Zwei-Sung's appearance moved my mind.

"Hey... How many days have you been doing business in Accommodation Town?

And Zwei-Sung leans over at me.

"Mida started crying, like, ten days ago, sir? Does that mean you've been in business for ten days now?

"Well, I guess that's about it."

It's actually 13 days with a day off in between, but I wouldn't even have the in-laws to teach so politely.

"Ten days! So 200 a day means you're already making 2,000 copper coins, sir!

"No, about half of it disappears because of the cost of ingredients and stuff, and I didn't earn 200 sheets from the first day..."

I panicked and tried to correct it, but apparently I didn't get the word at all.

The color of the girl's eyes has changed.

I don't know, these eyes.

It is a very sticky eye, gleaming like a starving beast.

"A red copper coin, 2,000 pieces - if white copper coins, 200 pieces - silver coins! If it's silver, two!

"Oh yeah, so, it's not like the copper coins you earn are all your own..."

"It's a dream story, sir! Fa's house where I got you won't be crippled with copper coins for the rest of my life... Yeah, it is, sir..."

"Hey! I was wondering if you could listen to me!? What the hell is that copper coin?

"What? What sa? Humans live to earn copper coins, Sho? Then you're the number one brave man by the woods! 200 red copper coins a day is the same thing as hunting eight or more Gibbas a day! It's also based on the premise of getting rid of the fur properly, sir!

You're a calculated daughter, like me, and I shut up a little bit.

Maybe the identity of that sticky eye - obsession with copper coins, is it?

"I can't believe you're living to earn copper coins. I don't even think it's the word of the people by the woods. I guess the hunters by the woods are hunting Gibba to protect the western capital?

"What are you talking about? Even hunters are hunting giva for copper coins, yo! No, if there's such a hunter, he doesn't deserve to sell fangs and horns, sir! Whatever beauty you say, man can't live without copper coins, Sa!

"No, that may be..."

"So, the problem with more gibberishes is that they attack the fields. Why, Sho? You have trouble getting attacked in the fields and eating up vegetables, Sho? You're in trouble because you won't be able to sell that vegetable and earn copper coins, Sho? Look, it's all for copper coins! Humans live to earn copper coins, yo! If you don't like that, you just have to abandon God and be Morga's wildlings too, sir!

Weren't wildlings like apes, fighting over the hegemony of the mountains of Morga with the wolves of Valve and the serpents of Madarama? I don't know much about it.

At any rate, no fine dust seemed to exist in this girl named Zwei-Sung, such as pride and dignity as a people by the forest.

"Um... I don't think so, but your mother doesn't belong in town...?

"Huh? I said something barbaric again, sir! People in town are going to be dowry by the woods!

"That's right. No, the shape of the clothes they were wearing was a bit like town style. It's like talking to someone in town."

"This is - I don't care about the outfit by the woods, so I just rebuilt it myself sa"

And Zwei-Sung stuck his lower lip like a plump.

Finally, from that slight eyeball, the sticky light disappears.

Ok.

If you think you've seen it somewhere, it's me. You know, you look like that shitty girl in that old cartoon where fairies like Kaba come out.

(Well... in the Sung family, I guess?

But I guess that's because I'm not a people by the woods.

If she was a person in town, though she can't even empathize, it's not enough to induce disgust. So much so that the worshipperism ends with shrugging shoulders.

but - by the woods, this idea would be heretical.

Vina-Lou is narrowing his eyes in an increasingly alarming manner.

Lara-Luu also has a very unpleasant looking face.

There's no way a human being who denies the hunter's pride can muster respect by the woods.

"Um... I finished cutting all the meat..."

and one of the branches has stated so in a voice with no emotions.

Against Zwei-Sung, everyone and he are the mask of thru.

"Thank you. Now let's light a fire on Kamado."

Transfer the water from the water bottle into an iron pan and light the firewood with Lana leaves.

Even until that water boiled, Zwei-Sung did not try to shut his mouth.

"Totally come on! After eating your food, the Mida one was really loud every day, yo! If I feed you something, I'll be quiet, but if you're hungry, cry again! That's the only way Digga or Dodd got mad, then. Sa! I know you didn't mean to be brought here, too, but I was annoyed by the impotence over here, so I'll take the blame for that, yo!

"Responsibility, hey.... Speaking of which, was Mida-Sun really chained or something?

"N? Yeah, the first few days, I was trying to get down to town alone, so that could have happened, sir"

"Well, you didn't see that, did you?

"I haven't seen it. The chains are only in Yamir's house."

Yamil-Sung's - home?

"Is Yamir-Sung out of the main house? I think she was dressed as an unmarried woman."

"I'm unmarried, yo. But the house is full, so Yamil and Diga are given their own homes, Sa."

I see.

So, if Mida-Sung was really chained, you're saying that it was Yamir-Sung who connected it like no other?

I wonder what. When I hear that word from Yamil-Sung's mouth, I feel so bad about my chest, but when this girl tells me, I get the oddly obvious impression.

Maybe this girl named Zwei-Sung is a good match for me.

While I was thinking about something like that, the contents of the iron pan began to boil.

"Okay, so first, put in the giva meat.... then something called white 'ash juice' floats on the surface, so you will remove it with a wooden spoon. And then this is going to be a delicious pan."

Teaching how to make "Giva Soup" is really about crackling.

In Kamadu on the other side, Lara-Luu is at the mercy of two ladies, and this one coaches three ladies along with Vina-Lu.

"... Speaking of, how old are you, Zwei-Sung? Though I'm seventeen."

Trying to call in between cooking, Zwei-Sung stuck his lower lip out in a grumpy manner again.

"Atashi is twelve, yo. What's that, Sa?

"No, I just wondered which one is older than Mida-Sung"

Twelve. Still, it's a lot too small, but at that age it's surprising that the phrase "humans live for copper coins" and so on pops up.

"Hum...... there's no way Atashi is older than Mida. Mida's mother died, and this is how Atashi was born."

"Huh?"

"Mida's mother is dying right after giving birth to Mida, yo. My current mother is my only mother."

"Ah... Really?

Hunting men often lose their lives young. Therefore, I heard that it is not uncommon for women who have lost husbands to receive new husbands… was it the opposite pattern in Sung's main house?

But.

In the words of Zwei-Sung, which followed, I was to be drained of my temper.

"Yamir's mother died as soon as she gave birth to Yamir. Both Diga's mother and Dodd's mother died as soon as they had a child. But don't just die on Atashi's mother. She's still alive. Atashi's mother isn't even that strong, but it's strange, sir."

So you're all different mothers?

"Right, yo. What's wrong with that?

"What's wrong... I've never heard of a woman by the woods dying so early."

"Hmm? Then the Sung family is cursed by something, isn't it?

Saying horrible things like that, Zwei-Sung shrugs his broken shoulder like it doesn't matter.

"Or maybe I'm too bored to live, sir.... you guys look like you don't know if you're alive or dead, too, sir? If you look like that, you can't live long enough, yo?

The second half of the words were, of course, directed at the ladies of the division.

While doing the ash removal foolishly, they still just return the "ha" and careless words.

"Oh, I'm already upset! Being with you guys makes me feel so spicy this way Yo!

"... then how long should I leave Kama...?," Vina-Lou remarked, as he could at last.

"If you're not willing to play any part, there's no reason to be in a place like this...? What the hell are you doing here...?

"Hung! Atashi just came to worship the face of the number one brave man by the woods Sa!

And, Zwei-Sung dazzles the colorful face of Vina-Lou, far above.

"Until this exotic named Asta showed up, parent Zullo was the number one brave man! That's why the Sung family ruled the woodland!... From now on, maybe that means Fa's house will rule the woodland, sir"

"... I'm not going to have a decent conversation with you..."

"Hung! That's because you don't see the truth about this world, yo!

At the end of the day, Zwei-Sung left for a little while.

The unspeakable silence lingers for some time.

"... the people in Sung's main house are all unique, aren't they?

I've spoken to the ladies of the division, but after all, the only answer is "ha".

If this were the case, Zwei-Sung might still be easier to handle.

"... All right. When you're done picking up the ash juice, close the lid and wait a while. Cook carefully over low heat, then add aria at the end"

One of the ladies tries to take up a square plank of wood and put it on the pan.

From that hand, the plate slipped off and crashed into the pan.

"Ah!" he screams, the youngest girl lagging behind.

The boiled water jumped on its face and arms.

"Ahhh!" The girl rams onto the workbench, and in its detachment, some of the decapitated aria spills onto the ground.

But there was no looseness in the matter, and I grabbed the pattern that was soaking in the water bottle.

"Are you all right!? Don't move!

Whispering, punch the patterned water over the girl.

I've dealt with it a little rampantly, but I have no choice.

The girl, "Oh..." weakens and goes straight into the ground.

"Are you okay? Didn't you get into your eyes or something?

"... it's okay..."

The girl was dressed to cuddle her left arm, biting her tight lips off.

From his left shoulder to his two arms, and from his left cheek to his throat, he became clearly red.

"Wow, that looks painful! Look, keep it cool now," Lara-Lew says, pushing a wet cloth over the girl's cheek.

"... thank you..." the girl laid her eyes down weakly.

There comes a voice with no emotion whatsoever: "... sorry, Tour-Sung..."

"You come on! Do you really think it's bad? What are you going to do if you get a scar on your face!

Lara-Lew stood up looking like he had already flushed his furious hair completely.

Originally, temperament is intense Lara-Luu, but this may be the first time you've seen me so angry.

But the coarse-looking women only stood faceless, and the girl called Tour-Sung, "... it's okay..." she grabbed on Lara-Luu's arm.

"It's also bad for me to be blurry... more than that, I have defiled my precious aria... I am so sorry..."

"I don't care about Aria!... No, I don't care!

Lara-Lew shrugs her head, and I breathe deeply too.

Sure enough, Aria was trampled on the ground with our own feet, so half of it was useless.

"It's the only way. If you can't use it anymore, let's cut it again. I'm more worried about burns than that. Shouldn't you be applying medicine or something?

"It's ok... you can't use precious drugs..."

"No, but..."

"... really, I'm fine... Um, thank you..."

And, Tour-Sung looks a little frightened, comparing me to Lara-Lew.

That looked like a very anxious eye - but still, it felt extraordinarily human rather than having dead fish-like eyes.

"I think I'll have to cut back about ten pieces... I'll bring the extra from the main house..."

Vina-Lou told me that, but I let him shake his head "no".

If you can do it, the women besides me should refrain from acting alone.

"The main house is far away, so let us have the aria of this house separated for a moment. Um, whose house was this?

Then Thur-Sung, who was nodding in front of me, responded, "… it is my house…".

"Right. Then I'm sorry, but could you split about ten arias? Of course, because I'll return the same number later."

"… Aria, there is no…"

"Huh?"

"I'm just hanging up... sorry..."

From Thur-Sung's eyes, the light fades quickly.

As if sludge were spreading in clear water.

I stared back at those eyes for a while, which became cloudy again, and then I looked back at the women who dropped the lid of the pan.

"Then can you separate the aria in your house? It's closer than home, isn't it?

"... I'm sorry... even my house has just been cut off..."

I get up and look around the other three in turn.

"Then anyone is welcome. Can I borrow Aria?

"... I'm sorry..."

"Even our house has just been cut off..."

"If it weren't for the Parents' Conference today, I would have gone shopping out to town..."

"Really?" he said, making me smile.

"I'm surprised Aria is out of stock at all houses. In Sung's settlement, after we run out of food, we go shopping?

"... hah..."

"By the way, is it possible to borrow Poitan?

"... no... we have also cut off the poitan..."

"Really?" I said again.

"Now let's get the aria we brought. There are still spares left, so there are no problems. You and you, can you bring me about ten arias that you keep on the body of the main house?

"Yes......"

Two ladies leave cursorily.

Staring behind me, I felt the discomfort I had left sealed in a corner of my heart swelling up again.

Something's wrong.

Something is crazy.

Is this really a settlement of people by the woods?

Without Vina-Lou and Lara-Lou in my place, I might have been caught in the fear that I would have been flown into a new, different world.

This place - everything was screwed up.