218 Lulu's Dinner Party (top)

And the world was enveloped in a light purple sunset.

It is a time limit for supper.

The dinner party was to be held in an outdoor square.

No matter how big the Luu main house is, it is difficult to accommodate this many people. Dan-Rutim and the others had a large group of 26 guests before they jumped in, so having dinner outdoors was pre-arranged.

The supplies needed for this purpose have also been purchased in the accommodation town.

That is, a rug of cloth to be laid on the ground and a large plate for placing dishes on it.

"We will buy this as it can also be used in future feasts"

So those copper coins were to be twisted by Raina-Lou out of the earnings of commerce.

Seven days have already passed since I started my own business at Lew's house. Simply calculated, given that its sales cost no more than 2,700 red copper coins and, moreover, no labor or giva meat in the Lew family, more than 70% of it should be in net profit.

Of course, that would mean the assets of the entire Lou family, not the Raina-Lou people individually, but they did not speak out against consuming copper coins in this way from Donda-Lou.

In that way, many large rugs were laid in front of Luu's main house, where wood dishes with numerous dishes were to be arranged.

In the middle, on a stoned table, is also placed an iron pot of soup.

Surrounding it are the attendees of this dinner party, which has swept up to 35 people.

The main house of Lew, twelve. The Sin-Lu family of branches, six.

Seven who were once Sung families.

Me, Ai-Fa and Barsha, three.

And seven new guests: Dan-Rutim, Gazran-Rutim, Lau-Ray, Dari-Sauti, Graf-Zaza, Fou's parents, Baim's parents.

It is indeed such a rash.

It's like a feast or something.

But there is no smile on the assembled people, and that aspect, lit by the burning fire and the burning fire, is all serious in itself.

It was about the young brothers of Limi-Luu and Sin-Luu who were happy to shine their eyes.

"Well, I'm going to start dinner..."

and Donda-Lou, forming himself in the upper seat, raises his voice heavily.

"Tonight's supper means more than just getting this day's life. Especially to you who were the blood of the great sinner Zazz-Sung."

That, the people who were the blood of Zazz-Sung, were lined up in a row in the lower seat at the front of Donda-Lu.

Zulo-Sung, son of Zaz-Sung and now waiting to be cut off.

Digga and Dodd, who are now made to work in the Dom family to redeem the sin of escape, not any family.

I became Luu's family, Mida.

It became Ray's family, Yamil-Ray.

It became Rutim's family, Oura and Zwei.

more than seven.

"Zazz-Sung has committed numerous sins while being a forest chief. The fact that you were even imitating banditry, like us, must have been something you didn't know about depositing - you've been ravaging the Morga Forest for over a decade, following the unacceptable rules set by Zazz-Sun."

Donda-Lou's sharp eyes glimpse each and every one of them.

"Even if Zazz-Sung falls into the devil and retreats from the seat of his parents and chiefs, the new parents are strong enough to keep their unacceptable code -"

Zuro-Sung can't move at all.

"The men have worked lawlessly both by the woods and in the town without shame"

Digga and Dodd didn't even try to look up.

Mida bells at the dish in front of her, but still stares harder at Donda-Lou.

"Nor do the women have the power to restrain the foolish men, and some shut their hearts -"

Oura was quietly listening to Donda-Lou with her knees back.

"Some people don't even realize what they're not -"

Zwei turns that way with his usual grumpy face.

"Some sought to bring further turmoil to the woods"

Yamil-Ray was faceless.

However, those eyes stare at Donda-Lou to soften it up.

"But the punishment for you has already been decided. To Zulo-Sung, who took over the seat of Parent and Patriarch, there was nothing else to ask him to buy sin with his life, but to his family, except that, he gave the punishment of taking away Mr. Even if Digga and Dodd, who bowed their knees before Zazz-Sung and others while becoming Dom's family, were to show their soul for a while now, there would be no more punishment for you by the woods."

And Donda-Lou poked his clenched fists at the Zuro-Sungs.

"Tomorrow you will stand before the nobility of Genos who desire further punishment. Speak with your own mouths that you will not be ashamed of yourself. As brothers by the woods, we add strength to that, but it is your own pride and conviction that will be tested. Without pride and faith in you as the people of the woods, we will not be able to help. Just be aware of that."

No one answers.

Donda-Lou slowly lowers his arm.

"And there are those around this forest who have begun commerce and so forth in the town of Inn, to bring more abundance to their compatriots. I don't have to explain it now, but it's Ay-Fa in Fa's house and Asta. It is only the family of Luu and some families like Fou and Sudra who still lend their help to it, but the fact that they are making bronze coins that are just getting stunned does not move"

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"Zazz-Sung tried to gain further richness by attacking the people of the town and vandalizing Morga's grace. Against the nobles of Genos, he sought strength and abundance, and that's how he went the wrong way.... So what about us? Is Fa's house or Lew's house on the right path? It is my belief that there exists both an obligation and a right to know that to you who were Zazz-Sung's blood. For that, this supper."

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"The foreground has grown longer. Anyway, it was a good time when some stupid dad was about to make a scene."

Donda-Lou laughs and Dan-Lutim, who was forming on my left hand side, gives a voice of dissatisfaction.

"I don't know who that is, but the food keeps getting colder and colder while you talk for so long, it's Donda-Lou!

Donda-Lou closed his eyelids and began chanting without any forethought, "Thank you for the grace of the forest..."

"I set the fire, thank Asta, Ai-Fa, Meer Lay-Lou, Sati Lay-Lou, Vina-Lou, Raina-Lou, Lara-Lou, Limi-Lou, Tali-Lou, Sheila-Lou and get life tonight..."

It was spectacular for more than thirty human beings to recite it.

That's how Donda-Lou completes his pre-meal chant, and he has raised doubts in a rare word for this benevolent.

"Now how are we supposed to eat? Looks like we've got a lot going on, but our arms aren't that long."

"What do you think? That's where I want you to survive in a spirit of help."

I can't get rid of the bitter air brought to me by the Zulo-Sungs, and I'll make them respond with a bright voice.

"Raina-Lou bought me a lot of dishes too, so take the dishes apart with that one. When you want to pick up a dish far away, why don't you turn the dish to someone nearby?"

Thirty-five humans are in their seats, surrounding the dishes. It could have been predicted before the execution that the Viking format while sitting would be difficult.

"In the meantime, you're only going to split the soup first. Enjoy yourselves."

"That being said, don't even know what to start with!

It was Rau-Ray who was on the right hand side with his eye-fa, who gave him a happy voice.

Huge plates like sloppy, lined basins are served with plenty of dishes of all kinds.

"Giva Berg" served with fruit liquor sauce.

Besides Aria, Tino and Pra also baked "Meermoo Grill" together.

"Giva's Square Braised" simmered with whole aria.

A 'meat chatch' sold by a mollusc chatch.

"Sautéed Guiba Arabiata Style" with chit fruit added to tarapa sauce.

"Giva Cutlet" served with a pile of raw salad.

"Giva's Spare Rib" carefully teriyaki with a special sauce.

And piles of 'baked poitan' stacked high and stir-fried vegetables of all kinds.

Sure, with this, we'll just have to look away.

When it comes to the abundance of dedication, it is undoubtedly the largest ever.

With this dinner party, we were to use up most of our savings of giva meat in Luu's settlement.

For half a month, the Lew family rested on the hunter's work, and even if soaked in pico leaves in the first place, the meat can only be preserved for as long as twenty days. The feast of the harvest, the dinner party of the day and even the meat for use in commerce were independently more amazing.

Of course, we don't run out of immediate food tomorrow or the day after, but if we hunt for a new giva in the near future, even the mighty Luu clan will starve. Then you can buy carons and Kimmus' meat with the copper coins you earn - and so on, in the people of the woods, you never will.

(Really, I guess it's just an extra hassle for hunters by the woods to quarrel with noble opponents)

With that in mind, I decided to take a seat and distribute the soup as the head chef's responsibility.

Let's start with the new "Giva Soup with Caron Milk".

This is also a dish that completes an approximate recipe at the Cycleus Mansion.

Giva's shoulder meat and various vegetables such as aria, tino, chacci and nenon were carefully simmered to take stock and thickened with even more raw poitan in conjunction with caron skimmed milk. The seasoning was only with salt and pico leaves, no milk fat, etc., so it could be made into a healthy and slightly neat milk soup-like dish.

Separating that guy into a wooden dish at best, Raina-Lou, who at some point stood in the same seat, first fed me from the upper seat.

There, he said, "Wow!" I hear the roar.

Looking back, Dan-Rutim, with a spare rib in his hands, was stiff in a glaring position.

"A, AS, ASTA, this scattered meat..."

"Yes. I've changed the formula of tau oil and fruit liquor a little bit. Besides, I have also used a slightly special ingredient called chit fruit, did it suit your mouth?

"Yummy! Deadly yummy!

"That's more than anything."

Speaking of which, only the houses of Fa and Luu buy tau oil and so on, Dan-Rutim should have kept only about the benefit of tau oil at the feast of the harvest in the first place.

"Asta, Asta, this flavour..."

"Right. As long as you have tau oil and chit fruit, you should be able to make the same flavor in Rutim's house. I'll talk to the owner of the inn to see if I can buy more tau oil."

"... how can Asta read my mind?

That's unknown to me, too.

Anyway, Dan-Rutim solemnly crushed the dark air, so there was to be a feast-like liveliness on the spot at once.

First take the dish close by and the ladies raise their gorgeous voices.

It still seemed that less familiar dishes were attracting people's interest than "Gibba Berg" or "Meermoo Grill", which already had that flavor.

"Wow, this is kind of weird softness!

And, I heard a loud voice from Dari-Sauti.

When I saw it, the wood plate had 'Giva's Horned Braised' on it.

"That's a stewed giva breast. After all, wouldn't that softness fit the hunter's mouth?

"No... I was surprised, but I have no complaints about the taste. Or I was surprised by how delicious it was"

Instead of him like that, Fou's parents, who apparently mouthed the same dish, were smudging and breathing, and furthermore, next to him, Baim's parents, who had 'Myrmu Grill' on their plate, were making their eyes black and white.

"This is... supposed to be the same dish that was sifted at the Parents' Conference, right?

"Yes, even though I use an ingredient called tau oil to change the flavoring a bit"

To put it further, what everyone was saying at that time was the dishes of the Sung family of women, handmade by me and Mother Meer Ray.

By the time I could work on "Myrmu Grill," the Sung family ladies were able to move quite a bit, but there would just be a difference in finish between this "Myrmu Grill," which Sheila-Lou put more on her arm.

Thinking about that, now from the rear: "Ouch!" I heard voices.

"Asta, your mouth hurts! Is this dish really ok?!?

It was Rau-Ray who was stirring, and on that plate was "Sautéed Arabiata Style of Giva".

"Yeah. And they use a spice called the fruit of chit, which the people of the east prefer. It's even a lot spicier than a commercial one, is it still spicy?

"Uhm. It's like when you accidentally bite a chunk of Pico's leaves."

Blurring, Lau-Ray grabbed another bite of meat.

"... it hurts, but it's delicious"

"Good for you then. If it hurts too much, you should have a mouthful of soup."

Next to Rau-Ray, Barsha had the same dish, whilst lavishly sprinkling fruit liquor.

"Isn't it petite to use chit fruit? If this guy's never been an East Merchant, he's hard to come by.... Nevertheless, your skill is a big deal, Asta"

"Thank you"

Like those guests, the people of the Lou family seemed to enjoy the food, without distinction between the main house and the branch.

The women are taking the initiative to turn the wood plates and deliver the dishes to the men. Limi-Luu and Sin-Luu's younger brothers, among others, were tongue-in-cheek at 'Meat Chatch' and 'Giva's Spare Rib' with a full smile.

Instead of Grandma Ziva, Mother Meer Ray and Grandmother Tito Min refrain from eating softer dishes such as "Giva Berg" and "Giva's Horned Braised", as well as a special menu, "Giva's Menchikatsu".

Rudd-Lou spoke up to Dalm-Lou, who was reunited with crackles, and looked like he was recommending 'Giba Katsu'.

What is on that Rud-Luu plate is "The Croquet of Giva Meat and Chatch," which was definitely begged and specially made.

Lara-Luu was sitting on the spot delivering soup to the Sin-Luu family, while he was starting to eat the food himself.

It is a sight that we don't see much of in a regular dinner, but it will also be at this time that seating is moved.

Donda-Lou was exchanging words with Giza-Lou for what seemed to be a serious face, and instead Satti Ray-Lou was giving Kota-Lou the juice of "Giva Soup with Caron Milk Tailoring" with a wooden spoon.

Finally, Kota-Lu also began to mouth her breastfeeding.

Perhaps that Kota-Lou will be the first generation to grow up with only the new meals I brought along by the woods.

Naturally, I felt tight.

Either way, except for some humans, they are all smiling.

Really, it's a busy feast.

So - Gazran-Rutim and I got eyes on each other.

I nod, I look around.

The soup went to all.

But there are people who don't try to take wood dishes this way.

Needless to say, it is seven people who have refrained from sitting in the lower seat.

And Graph-Zaza, who refrained right next to it, also appeared to be full of fruit liquor from earlier.

I decided to put "Giva's Spare Rib" and "Meat Chatch" on the extra wood plate and point my foot at you.

"Zuro-Sung.... and Digga and Dodd, too."

Digga, who was nagging, cursorily raised her face.

I take my breath out of the blue with all that crap.

Even though it was a big, meaty diga, I have lost about as much weight as Fou's parents.

The eyes are dimpled, the cheeks swept, and the shade is thick on the face that was originally topped.

Hair is blurred, beardless around the mouth - as if it were someone else.

Dodd didn't change his appearance that much.

I don't know. I seem to have lost weight, but I'm sure my skeleton is solid. There are no major changes in the face like a dog or in the small, sloppy shape.

I just wasn't even, like, hectic.

And it is Zuro-Sung.

With this person, that was the face to face since the Conference of Parents.

Zuro-Sung, who was originally bigger and fatter than Diga, is completely numb. I'm sure one of them will be getting smaller.

So the skin on his face, which was saggy, became so relaxed that he looked like an airy toad.

And under his eyelids, which were scuffed under his eyes, two tiny, dark eyes were clouding like dead fish.

as if they were once Oulah, or the people of Sung's division.

(This... sounds worse than I expected)

In this, only Zulo-Sung is condemned to death.

The punishment has not been enforced for more than a month, only because Cycleus kept insisting that he should be handed over.

There was no way I could understand the human mood waiting for a confirmed death - but Zulo-Sung was dead anyway, and he was dead when he was a living corpse.

Moreover, the wrist is rubbing off the skin and the red blood is all over it.

Not all Zuro-Sung. Digga and Dodd, that's the same thing.

Furthermore, the ankle is wrapped with leather strings that are still 30 cm long. It is a restraint for sinners, which can walk but cannot run.

In front of numerous dishes, they were just sitting around like puppets made of mud.

(... that and this because I uncovered the Sung family sins)

Against Diga and Dodd, no regrets. They are the ones who repeatedly imitated so badly, so I guess some rough treatment is needed. If they hadn't been in such a pitiful state of affairs, I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to forget the grudge of being exposed to Ai-Fa forever.

But only Zuro-Sung, it was different.

When I argue that one person's life is compromised - it makes me feel like my stomach is scratching.

Trying to convince myself that there was no other way to do that isn't something I can quite break off.

But still, I can't distract myself from this poor thing.

And it was the chiefs of the woods that made it a mortal sin: and the people of the woods followed their statutes.

All of our compatriots by the woods were determined to bear the death of Zulo-Sung.

I managed to excite the feeling that I was about to screw up and I put the wood dish I brought with me in front of Zuro-Sung.

"... could you please eat my dishes, Zuro-Sung?

Zulo-Sung, don't move.

Do you see me in those cloudy eyes?

Mida and Yamil-Ray were seated on their right hand side and Oura and Zwei were seated on their left hand side, but there is no way they were put on their plate either.

Even Mida hasn't spoken of the dish yet.

"Mida, aren't you going to eat? Today's cooking is all about confidence, isn't it?

"... yeah..."

Mida's small eyes stared at the Zulo-Sung's appearance.

Mida didn't seem to care much about Zuro-Sung or Diga's departure, so I was wondering if he wasn't as important an opponent as Yamil-Ray or Zwei's - but Mida still just stared at her former father and brothers with a slightly chopped eyelid, holding a huge belly that was ringing.

"... you must have heard what Donda-Lou said."

Eventually, Graph-Zaza, arrayed in a position not far away, called out to the bottom.

So Digga and Dodd limp.

"To redeem the sins of Zazz-Sung, your father and grandfather, we are about to confront a nobleman named Cycleus. Don't you have the pride and conviction to embarrass yourselves?

"Oh... I..."

"Zazz-Sung betrayed us, hid from us, and bewitched the men of Genos. Whatever the way it is done, that's how Asta in this fa's house strives to get along with Genos disrupted by Zazz-Sung. Therefore, Donda-Lou thought that you should also say something about the dishes Asta sells in Inn Town. … So much so that you decide on a strange face?

"Hey, wait a minute, Graf-Zaza. If you're questioned like that, everyone will atrophy."

While I greatly appreciated the contents of Graf-Zaza's words, I said so.

"Forced to eat, the food is not delicious. Anyway, have fun."

"... what are you talking about, you"

Graf-Zaza opens his fruit liquor with his eyes glowing like a fire.

After I breathed, I turned to the Zuro-Sungs.

"But let me just talk to you a little bit from me, Zuro-Sung. Plus Diga and Dodd.... Between us, there was only a bad edge. You were trying to bring disaster to Fa's house, and we were supposed to play a role in uncovering the Sung family's sins, so I don't think you were able to have any love."

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"But picked up by the Ai-Fa in Fa's house, I hope to live as part of the people by the woods. I want all the people by the woods to think that I'm one of them, and that I'm one of them.... and Donda-Lou said you are fellow forest brethren too rarely. Then I want to be one of you."

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"Zazz-Sung has stepped off the road too much worrying about the fate of the people by the woods. Can't you join forces with everyone to get that path back in the right direction?

"... I wonder if Zuro-Sung still has the power to understand such a difficult story"

and - Yamil-Ray stood up to the fence and proceeded to walk next to me.

Then, kneel before Zulo-Sung and take up the wooden dish of soup.

"Come on, drink. Even you are no less than Mida, and you must have had no eyes for something called a delicious meal, Zuro-Sung?

Zuro-Sung looked at Yamir-Ray with a vain eye.

"Nothing in the Morga Forest had very good fruits and vegetables.... but which Asta dish uses the grace of a better field?

Zulo-Sung receives a wood dish at his trembling fingertips.

After looking at it satisfactorily, Yamil-Ray looked at Diga sideways.

"Diga, you liked something called Kimmus meat that you buy with copper coins, didn't you? I didn't even have the courage to go down to Inn Town myself."

"Huh... I..."

"But Asta's bulky giva meat tastes better than that. Couldn't the Parents' Conference dish have been enough? I'm sure today's dishes will satisfy you."

That's how Yamil-Ray pushed the dish of dishes I had brought before Diga.

"I guess I lost that much weight because I wasn't happy with the meal that would be sifted around in Zaza and Dom's house anyway, did I? Eat this dish."

Digga, too, takes the wood dish scared.

Yamil-Ray looked back at Dodd.

"Dodd, you too. Fill your mind and body with a decent meal, because your favorite fruit liquor is no longer allowed to be spoken of."

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"Can't you hear me?

Yamil-Ray's eyes blinked a snake-like light just for a moment.

Really, Dodd screams faintly, "Hiya."

"Totally, nobody and he are unwilling. Without the title of chieftaincy, you wouldn't be able to behave resolutely."

Yamil-Ray rose loosely.

And now, look back at Mida.

"Mida. Eat fast, too. If they're bluffing, they'll all be eaten by Lou and Rutim."

"... yeah..."

"Can I finish so many treats without being able to eat a bite?

"Yeah... I don't like it...?

"Then eat. I'll get it for you."

Yamil-Ray returns the Bliss.

Like that, the cleaver's eyes looked at me.

"Asta, aren't you eating anything, too? You never get hungry with these people."

"Yes. But isn't Yamil-Ray eating anything?

"I was drinking fruit liquor"

Turning away a lot, Yamil-Ray began to take the dishes apart.

So, he stares at Oura behind the nagging while remaining in a colorfully bent position.

"Oura, could you help me? I don't have enough on my own."

"Yeah... right, Yamil... no, Yamil-Ray..."

Oura gets up and starts lending Yamil-Ray a hand.

So I decided to help with that, too.

"Thank you, Yamil-Ray. I couldn't possibly do anything alone."

I called it that way in a whisper, and it made me laugh with cold eyes.

"I'm not in the mood to be thanked. It's just that they're getting so angry."

In a time when I was once a family, I wonder what kind of business was being done in the Sung family.

A crude second brother willing to drink to his parents, who were at the extreme of decadence, and his elder brother, who was clawing on the seat of the trail. My youngest brother was always pompous, and my youngest sister had no doubt that the rich Sung family was the hegemony of the woodland - and my parents' daughter-in-law and his father had eyes like dead fish.

In that, how the hell was the eldest sister who, while being seen as her true successor by the ancestral parents at the root of all evil, wished for the doom of the Sung family in the depths of her heart?

At least, I don't think he acted like he looked angry and split the dishes for his family.

"Hey, Mider, are you eating right?

and the little kids came running over with a big wooden plate.

Limi-Luu and the brothers of the Sin-Luu family.

"Look, 'Meermoo Grill'! They were going to eat it all when I left them alone, so I brought it for you!

"Yeah... thanks...?

"Mida, share it with the Zweis."

To Yamil-Ray's words, Mida shivers her cheeks, "Yeah......"

It seemed that the light was finally starting to shine on her eyes as small as that little pig.