255 Episode XII: The Kamadu Number of Din's House

In the morning, Tour-Din was driving down the path by the woods.

In the morning, or before dawn. The sun has not yet manifested itself from beyond the woods, and the world is surrounded by blue-grey dim darkness.

The truth is, I wanted to do something within last night, but my family Jas-din forced me so hard that I could wait for the dawn of the night to pop out of the house.

The other way is Fa's house.

There was a word I really wanted to deliver to Asta.

Running out of breath, I finally saw Fa's house.

It is a small house, isolated from every house.

Stand in front of Fa's house, soaking up the sweat on his forehead.

So finally, the original weakness of Thur-din's mind came to his face.

Wouldn't it be annoying to visit a house at such a time?

Even if it's important to Tour-Din, I don't know how much it is to the Astas.

Tour-Din was to tour and consequently turn to the side of the house.

(I guess I'm already awake... I don't think I'd be bothered that much if I hadn't even slept...)

I understand the disrespect and gently peek indoors through the window.

From the gap in the plaid of the tree, the view of the dimmer hall was seen than outside.

Gibba fur laid on the floor, kamado, iron pan, water bottle and...

And two shadows that lean in and sleep together.

Tour-Din snaps his neck in in advance and crouches straight to the ground.

(Uh... why are you sleeping in the hall or something?

The heart that was finally subsiding starts to rumble again.

There are only two families in Fa's house, so that would be Asta and Ey-Fa, not to mention.

Asta and Ai-Fa were falling asleep in the middle of the hall.

And - if I wasn't mistaken about Tour-Din, it seemed to me that I-Fa was sleeping with his head on its shoulder, holding Asta's left arm in his arms all the way.

(Two, you're not a couple, are you? Yet is it something that leans in and sleeps like that...?

It's kind of getting hot up to my cheek.

I feel like I've seen something I shouldn't.

Maybe I missaw something because it was dim - and with that in mind, Tour-Din woke himself up about time.

Then I make up my mind, and I put my face close to the window again.

Then...

The blue eyes, which housed a very strong light, stared back at themselves seriously from just beyond the lattice.

"Yikes!," he screams and butts.

Still, it should be noted that the blue eyes kept staring at Tour-Din.

"You're the daughter of the Din family. What's going on at a time like this?

It is ai-fa.

Ai-Fa, who should have been resting in peace until just a moment earlier, was staring at Tour-Din.

"What's the matter with you? Is there someone out the window?

And when I thought I heard a yawning voice, I even showed up next to Ay-Fa looking like Asta.

"That's Tour-din, isn't it? What the hell is wrong with you?

He was a calm, gentle voice as usual.

Still, after all, Tour-Din couldn't even get up off the spot for a while.

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"I checked out the window because there were signs, and this girl was just about to peek into the house."

While clawing one knee in the upper seat, Ai-Fa has stated that all along.

"Well, I wasn't even trying to kill my breath, so I didn't think I was some kind of harmful person, but nevertheless, I wasn't going to be surprised"

Still, I think Tour-Din would have been more surprised tens of thousands of times that.

Asta, sitting next to Ey-Fa, laughed as if she was frightened.

"You're a really reliable parent. I didn't even notice. Tool-din's the one that surprised you, huh?

"No......"

This was the hall of Fa's house.

Anyway, I guess I have some business to attend to, and the i-fa's have invited Tul-din into the house.

While feeling Totos' gaze round his back at the front door, Tour-Din just shrinks his body even.

"So what have you been up to since this morning? Was there something urgent for us?

"Yes... actually that... now the Lid ladies are going to be dowry to Gene..."

Relax deeply and ask your forehead how Asta is, and Tour-Din will try to answer that.

Asta tilted her little neck strangely.

"Gene is the family of a settlement in the north, right? I've never heard of a Lid, but I guess that's Zaza's family, too?

"Yes... Zaza's family is the most southerly family... and Lid and Din were family members before Sung and his blood crossed the border."

"Yeah. So does that mean Lid's got the house covered by Din? If so, the northern settlement feels a lot farther away."

"Yes...... so far Din and Lid have only bonded with Sung and have had little interaction with their northern clans...... now that they have lost the Sung family, they also need to bond with their northern clans anew because they are completely gone"

"Heh. So, Lid's dowry with Gene?

"Yes... in Gene, he was putting out a few young men to give the branch stuff left in Sung's settlement a hand as a hunter... so he invited the Lid ladies there to meet him"

"A pageant! If that brings us together, I'm sorry."

While smiling with a very soft face, Asta tilts her little neck again.

"So? I'm so sorry to hear that, but why did you want to tell us that?

"Yep... actually..."

Tour-din shrinks his body so much.

"I... No, we, the women of the House of Din, are to be entrusted with the feast of their wedding..."

"Hmm?" he nodded, then Asta rounded her eyes along the way.

"Huh? But at the Din's, they're making my hands-on dishes with gibberish meat that drains blood, right? The fact that you chose the Din family to be your number on purpose could mean that..."

"Yes, he said he wanted to leave it to the Din family to determine how powerful the meal Asta brought to the woodland... Graph-Zaza said that's what he said"

"That's amazing! You're a big player!

Asta shines her eyes and embarks on herself.

In acknowledgment of its appearance, Tour-Din was finally able to remove the power he was putting into his whole body.

"The story was that the newspaper could also be delivered to Luu and Sauti within the course of today. So before that, I wanted to tell Asta and the others with my own mouth, and I stuck around visiting the house at this inoperable time... I'm so sorry"

"You don't have to apologize at all! That's a hell of a story!

After saying that, Asta laughed at me with a grin.

"Besides, I'm so glad Tour-Din thought about it that way and visited the house. Thank you, Tour-Din"

"No......"

The words alone made Tour-Din feel like everything had been rewarded.

I tear unexpectedly, and I get so annoyed to hide it.

"Did you hear that, Ai-Fa? That Graf-Zaza finally got me interested in something so delicious! This guy's good news!

"Mm-hmm. I'm sure they reminded me of Asta's power at dinner at the Lou family that invited Zulo-Sung and others. It was a supper with as much power as that."

With a calm voice, Ai-Fa is responding.

But there, too, there was a clear tinge of pride in Asta.

"Dean's daughter, let me also say a word of thanks to you for having deliberately delivered such words before dawn"

"Yes, no... So, um, I'd like to ask Pha's parent, Ai-Fa, from me..."

With his hands on his occasionally pulsating left chest, Tour-Din made him state it that way.

"In the women of the Din family, we discussed what kind of dish to cook... so, um... to let Asta know if it's the right dish... hey, can you let me make you dinner at Fa's house today!?

At the end of the day, my voice got louder unnecessarily.

So when I lifted my gaze it was time - Ai-Fa was staring at me with a much nicer look than I could have imagined.

"Don't worry about it. I'm also very concerned about what kind of food the din women cook."

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Thur-din was the daughter who was raw to Sung's branch.

Her mother was the youngest sister of the head of the Din family, and she married Sung's family.

That should have been a proud event, as the Sung family was a chieftaincy muscle at the time.

But the Sung family trampled on the taboos by the woods and were a clan bound by the disastrous code set up by the previous chief Zazz-Sun.

The code was enacted, he said, a few years before the birth of a ten-year-old Tour-Din.

So Tour-Din was taught that at the same time, he was taught that this was a secret code.

If this secret were to be revealed to other families, all Sung humans would be skinned off their heads.

Why should only the Sung family of chieftains carry such secrets?

To defeat the vicious Luu family - and to gain the power to make the vicious northern clan obey firmly, the adults said so.

This is the right thing to do.

The Sung family must lead the people of the woods to the right path.

To do so, we must now keep secrets, even painfully.

While stating so, the adults all had vain eyes.

All the things of the family invited to the settlement at the feast and elsewhere were fierce and full of strong power, but all the things of the Sung family were lacking in vivacity.

But for Tour-Din, that was everything in the world.

My mother and others left a young Tour-Din in other worlds just because she couldn't stand such a raw thing, but she was also not allowed to mourn it.

There, Asta appeared with the women of the Lew family.

On the night of the Conference of Parents, the secrets of the Sung family were to be revealed.

The world of Tour-Din was to be crushed to pieces.

Now we're all going to be skinned.

While struck by that despair, Tour-Din was nevertheless also able to gain a tremendous sense of liberation.

Now I can come to my mother.

You don't have to be frightened of the eyes of other families anymore.

With that in mind, Tour-Din could cry with a grudge.

It was probably since I was a baby that I exploded my emotions that way.

But the Tour-dins were never cut off.

Those in the main house were to be deprived of Mr., but those in the branches with strong blood fringes in their families were allowed to become family members in that house.

That's how living right as a people by the woods is a redemption for the Thur-dins.

Tour-Din, along with his father, became the family of the Din family.

So we were to walk new raw, surrounded by a new family that was tough and warm.

Then, roughly the full moon has passed and continues to this day.

The Zaza family, who became a parent on behalf of the Sung family, were in a position to question the conduct of Fa's house.

Still, the Dins were barely allowed to Asta to drain blood and cook at the mercy of cooking.

Will the deeds of Fa's house be drugs or poisons for Moribe? To identify it, Din's house was specifically allowed to connect with Fa's house.

And this is the case.

What did Din's house get from Fa's? To show it, he was commanded by Graf-Zaza, the head of the Zaza family and one of the new chiefs.

If we screw ourselves up, we may be cut off that after all, Fa's house is wrong.

Almost crushed by the blame, Tour-Din decided to glance at the wedding feast.

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The thirteenth day of the ash moon.

Tour-Din visited Fa's house once again before dusk with a large iron pan and three-person ingredients on a pull plate.

but only my parents, Ai-Fa, were waiting for me at Fa's house.

"Oh, thank you, Din's daughter."

Fa's house, like Din's, has been in a rest period since yesterday.

Apparently, he was in the middle of training. Ai-Fa, who was sifting a machete on the side of the house, quietly looks back at Tour-Din.

"Kamano firewood and iron pan can be used as you like. The water bottle was also filled in the morning."

"Oh, thank you.... Asta hasn't returned from Inn Town yet."

"Mm-hmm. He said he wouldn't be back until the sun was about to set today"

"Huh?"

He said, "If I could leave dinner to you, I'd give the women a cooking guide in the settlement of Lou until the end of time."

Thur-din was to lose his word.

Seeing how it goes, Ai-Fa tilts her neck like a pussy.

"What's the matter with you? For once, did you also need Asta's help to cook dinner?

"Yes, no. It makes no sense to ask Asta for help, so I was going to do it alone..."

It's just that Tour-Din had never really exchanged words with this Ai-Fa, so he just got carried away without saying goodbye.

Ai-Fa nods at Tour-Din as he holds his knife in his sheath.

"Don't guide me. I'll help you carry some heavy loads, etc. Until I welcomed Asta as my family, I wouldn't make any mistakes that would embarrass you."

"Yes......"

"Which does Kamado use? I kept firewood in my house and outside."

"Oh, now I'm going to use the outside kamado"

With the guidance of Ai-Fa, he turns to the back of the house.

So Tour-Din decided to open his eyes to a little surprise.

Behind Fa's house are two kamen. There was a large leather roof on the top of it, and the work bench and what I thought was arranged with a round thickness and splitting plate were mounted in a way that bordered the walls of the house.

Only a few days ago I had Asta at Fa's house give me a cooking guide, but nothing like this existed at that time.

Taking Tul-din's gaze, "Oh," Ey-Fa speaks up.

"I've been discussing with Asta that we should build a roof and a platform outside. So finally came a period of rest, so I could finish it this way"

"So, but the rest period starts yesterday, right? Did you finish it in just two days yesterday and today?

"Mm-hmm. There was no other rush job besides training."

Saying, I = fa taps the surface of the workbench with this one.

"It has been a hassle to put together the round-tails so that this platform doesn't lean into the ground, but I don't think there is anything like Aria or Poitan rolling over and falling off. If you're not anxious, use it."

"Yes. Thank you."

I guess the height of the table is aligned around Asta's waist position. It was a little expensive for Tour-Din to use, but still felt so much easier than working while sitting with a cloth on the ground.

Arrange the ingredients and tools you bring on the table, watched by Ey-Fa.

First, it was a look at the juice dish.

Add the iron pan to the top.

Peeping into its contents, Ai-Fa speaks up "ho".

"This is Giva's gut, right?

"Yes, that's what Din's men tailored me yesterday. Even the organ seems to be preserved with Pico leaves for about five days..."

"Right. You were the one who taught Asta how to judge her organs, the daughter of the Din family."

While nodding as he was convinced, Ai-Fa does not try to take his eyes off the iron pan.

"But this pan seems to be packed with a lot of different kinds of organs. Asta was baked, boiled or simmered depending on the area, but the idea is to simmer everything in this dish?

"Yes, because it seemed better not to be too seductive to tell the northern clan..."

This pan was packed with almost all of the organ suitable for consumption.

Astayi, liver in the heart, small intestine in the colon, stomach, rectum, cobclot, lungs, kidneys, diaphragm - etc.

Asta was kind enough to tell me what role those organs played in between the cuisines by what name.

"… first, I will use the guiva fat to lightly cook this"

Ai-Fa watched Tul-din's behavior with interest forever, so he decided to work with that explanation.

It seems a lot embarrassing to be imitating Asta, but I thought I should make sure the head of Fa's house, Ai-Fa, knew exactly what the dish was all about.

"If you do, and the fire goes through, now simmer with Tarapa's soba"

That had been prepared in advance by the Din family.

It is a sauce of tarrapa, braised with chopped aria and myrmu, plus fruit liquor, salt and pico leaves.

Transfer that from the leather bag that Jas-Din bought me in the lodging town into an iron pan.

"Hmm. Same procedure as Asta's stewed Tarapa dish."

"Yes.... so I decided to try adding Leelo leaves and chit fruit here"

"... Chit fruit?

Eye-Fa's eyes narrow sharply.

Tour-Din, who was trying to put something like I said in the pan, accidentally shrugged his body.

"Gi, Giva's organs have so many areas with unique flavors that I decided to add Leelo and Chit with strong aromas and flavors...... Um, did you notice anything?

"No.... but a qualitative northern clan would not do well to use less familiar ingredients. The fruit of the chit was supposed to come from Sims, the eastern kingdom, right?

"Yes. But the chit is actually not as rare or expensive as tau oil, so it is now normally used in din houses, etc. Then I thought the northern clan wouldn't take refuge..."

"Right. You're well thought out. I'm sorry I stopped you from doing your job. You can go on whatever you want."

Answering as such, the wrinkles engraved between the eye-fa's brows did not disappear.

"Um... maybe I-Fa doesn't like the fruit of the chit...?

"That's not true. But the first time I spoke of it, it made me look so painful."

And I = fa say in a shanky tone.

"Since then, I've only heard and smelled that name, and I've come to remember how painful it was. Still, I don't hate cooking with chit fruit, so I won't show you around."

"Really..."

The fruit of a red, small chit is an ingredient with intense spiciness. but if you don't even get the dosage wrong, it gives your tongue moderate irritation, just like Pico's leaves. Din didn't have anyone who hated it either, so it was strange and hilarious that Ai-Fa had such a difficult face.

(I don't think Asta would go wrong with the portions...... what the hell happened)

Stir up the contents of the pan, thinking about that.

Leelo's leaves, put together with chit fruit, are vanilla used when making dried meat. Asta said she would use this leaf when she wanted to reduce the flavor of meat, so Tour-Din decided to use this in her organ juice dish.

Tarapa's sauce also uses more myrmu than other dishes. It seemed easy to eat Gibba's guts even for the first time when the fragrance was strengthened with this much in mind.

"All you have to do is simmer slowly on a weak fire and finally season again with salt and pico leaves. … In the meantime, I would like to prepare other dishes"

"Uhm."

"First we'll make meat dumplings and vegetable stir-fry"

"Hanba-gu, meat dumplings"

"Yes, we often make meat dumplings in Din's house because it takes less effort than Hanba-gu"

Chop the meat and carefully wrap it with salt and pico leaves.

There are some ways to make the powder of Poitan and Fuwano and the eggs of Kimmus, etc., but this time I decided not to add anything.

At this stage, if you do this often until it becomes sticky, then yes, it will not break.

"Stir-fried vegetables use Aria, Tino, Pra and Nennon"

"Hmm. That's pretty fancy."

"Yes, it's a wedding feast, so I was wondering if this kind of luxury would be tolerated"

Colour is also important for cooking, Asta said.

When you use dark green pras or light pearlescent eneons, the dish does look gorgeous, too, just sautéed vegetables.

That's how I make sauces for sprinkling meat dough with fruit liquor, and Ai-Fa called out to me again.

"Speaking of which, daughter of the Din family, I still didn't remember your name. If you like, why don't you tell me that?

"Huh...? Wow, I'm Tour-din..."

"Tour-din? That's a nice name."

I come closer to Tour-Din, saying things like Ey-Fa and La Rara.

"O Tour-din, you shouldn't have had as much time to make out with Asta as the women in the Lou family, but you still seem to have a lot of feelings for Asta"

"Eh......" Thur-din is going to lag behind.

But the sauce of the fruit liquor was about to boil down, so that didn't quite work either.

"Wow, I do love Asta... but I think for myself that's a truth that no one can be ashamed of..."

"Of course, I guess you're right. That's why I wanted to tell you something."

With a serious face, Ai-Fa comes even closer.

Thur-din, his legs were going to tremble.

But - staring at Tour-Din, Ai-Fa smiled without a scratch.

"I'm glad you care so much about Asta. I'd like to thank you for your kindness."

"Yeah......? What the hell is that all about......?

Falling into confusion, Thur-din transferred the sauce, which was likely to burn, to a plate of meat dough.

Ai-Fa is narrowing her eyes and smiling.

"When Asta was safely rescued from the aristocratic hall and returned to the settlement, didn't you rejoice in tears? So I was supposed to get punched in the chest when you showed me Asta by so long."

"Oh, that..."

The day after he was rescued from the aristocratic hall, Asta, who was herself in the settlement of Luu, showed his face only once to show the Tour-dins how well he was too.

At that time, Tour-Din raised his voice and cried.

Asta was captured by a murderer and gone for five days. In the meantime, Tour-Din was to be tasted torn to bitterness.

So, too much relief and joy, I stuck to Asta's chest and cried heavily - but when I remember, my whole body gets hot as fire.

"There's nothing to be ashamed of. It's bad Asta that worried you so much. On behalf of the unfortunate family, I would like to offer you my apologies and thanks."

"Yes, no, that's not..."

"And because you once wanted Asta to give you a hand, you also got to move Graf-Zaza's mind. Maybe it was all a guide to the forest."

After saying so, Ai-Fa looks up at the sky, which began to stain with a pearl color.

"Well, it's going to be sundown. I think we should finish the rest of the dishes in the house, okay?

"Yes. I'm going to let that happen."

Who was Ai-Fa, a woman with such a warm heart?

Struck by small surprises, Tour-Din decided to bring the finished dishes and the rest of the ingredients into the house.

It was precisely then that I heard the gobbling and the tone pulling the luggage car from across the road.

"Hey Tour-din. How about cooking?

Asta, who got out of her luggage car in front of the house, giggles at me.

As he blushes his cheeks slightly with as much aftertaste as he did earlier, Tour-Din makes him nod "yes".

"One more item and it's done. Good luck, Asta."

"Good luck there. … Ah, Parent, we are returning now"

"Uhm."

An eye-fa armed at the entrance to the house is looking back at Asta with a strict parent-like face.

However, on the back of that expression, Ai-Fa had a very soft eye.

You must be sincerely pleased that Asta is back safely.

The conflict with the nobility has been settled, but without it, it is still dangerous for the people of the woods to go down to the lodging town.

"Now let's get to the last dish"

While Asta was cleaning up, Tour-Din set fire to the indoor teardrops.

As I'm transferring the lard of Gibba I brought from Din's house to the iron pot, Ai-Fa peeks in "ho" again.

"Is the last dish ridiculous?

"No, it's a much easier frying dish because it's hard to make a bulk out of my skill, even more so in the northern clan of women"

This was also, of course, the dish taught by Asta.

The dish 'Giba Katsu' seemed to be very popular in the settlement of Luu, but this is difficult to cook, as well as the variety of ingredients used. If so - and he devised such a dish for me.

"I was going to give it a name. I wonder what. I wonder what kind of fried Muniel-style giva meat is."

That's what Asta said.

Mix salt and pico leaves in flat cut meat as well, cover with fuwano or poitan powder, and fry and grill in lard. That's the kind of dish.

Cook hamburgers, steaks, etc., with a small amount of oil.

A dish called cutlets or croquettes is heated by hitting warm oil.

Deep-fried grill was the intermediate cooking method.

The meat uses the area of the back that Asta calls loin. The thickness is about the palm of Tool-din's hand, beating it with a wooden stick so that it is about two-thirds thin. Asta said that it would be more moderately chewy and the heat street would be faster so you wouldn't have to breathe extra oil.

Besides, season with salt and pico leaves and spill the powder of the poitan over, then soak in the heated lard.

The amount of lard is half the meat.

I like the tiny and playable tone.

"Giva Cutlet" was certainly a very delicious dish that Asta had a taste for only once, but this dish called fried grill also seemed like a good enough treat for Tour-Din.

"Oh, are you making fried food? Then use this."

and asta coming out of the food bin approaching his hand with some strange appliance.

It was a flat plate full of gaps, made of a combination of thin bars of metal.

"This is called a gold net. Put the fried meat on top of this and the extra oil will fall down."

"Thank you. Let me use it."

Transfer the fried meat over there and throw in the next meat.

During that time, Asta stood beside me.

"Round pans make it inconvenient because you can only cook fried grills one at a time. I'm going to buy a flat pot at Fa's house."

"Flat pot?"

"Yeah. That's a pan with a flat bottom. I don't see much of it in boarding town, but I used a lot more flat pot in my hometown."

Asta's homeland - I wonder what kind of country it is.

In that hometown, he said, he was just an apprenticeship cook for half a serving, such as Asta. To Tour-Din, it was a hard story to believe.

"Okay, that's it. Sorry to keep you waiting."

"I have nothing to be sorry about. I've never eaten Tul-din's food before, so I'm looking forward to it."

When people hear those words, my stomach shrinks up all the time, and at the same time I feel heat in my ears and cheeks.

Either way, the dish is done.

Transfer the oiled meat into a wood dish and arrange it into a rug in the hall.

Giva's gut juice dish.

Giva meat dumplings.

Stir-fried four kinds of vegetables.

Deep-fried grilled giva loin dish.

Serve this with the Poitan I've been baking at home, over.

Sprinkle the fried grilled dish with the fruit juice of the seal cut into rings.

This sour fruit juice goes very well with fried grilled dishes as if they condensed the taste of Giva.

"On the day of the feast we plan to prepare some normally roasted meats, but this is all about the dishes we like to cook"

"Yeah, this is a huge dedication. I didn't lose any of the dedication I made at Rutim's banquet."

Asta is laughing with great pleasure.

Tour-Din lowered his back to the lower seat as he played his hand to the occasional noisy chest.

It was already dark indoors, so I waited for Ai-Fa to light the candlestick and Asta meets her hand with the bread.

"Thank you for the blessings of the forest and give thanks to Tour-Din, who set the fire, to gain life tonight. … will do."

So Asta put her hands on the juice dish of the organ first.

"Heh. Are you using moths for tarapa juice? This guy looks delicious."

Tour-Din watched Asta carry a wooden spoon into her mouth as she clenched her fist all the way in.

Asta's eyes open with a little surprise.

"Yeah, you have better chit fruit. And this flavor... do you use Leelo leaves?

"... Yes"

"Leelo suits Tarapa. It's delicious."

Asta has a gentle temper, so Tour-Din was still not at ease.

I = fa is more juicy with a difficult face.

"Oh, this guy's a hare, and this one's a harami? It's fun to taste all kinds of textures. Hey, Ai-Fa?

"Hmm. The amount of chit fruit seems just right"

"I'll stick to the fruit of the chit. You haven't felt any pain since then, have you?

"Don't remind me! Though my tongue will hurt!

With a scary face, Ai-Fa turns.

But it seemed to the proof left that at any given time the sober Ai-Fa would reveal his emotions in that way, with an open mind against Asta.

"Um... how about the flavor?

"Yeah, it's delicious! I wonder if this would please people who eat organ food for the first time."

Saying so, now pinch the meat dough.

"Yeah, this meat dumpling is impeccable, too. Is the sauce simply fruit liquor based?"

Asta is sometimes right and sometimes uses words that don't make sense. I'm sure it's Asta's home language.

Together, and then Asta and I-Fa went about the dishes with an impetus that no longer beat the men of the Din family.

It is quite an appetite, even though we are both idle. Toor-din was worried that he'd overmade it a little, but all the food seemed to subside in Asta's stomach without being able to.

"... how was it? Please give us your candid opinion of whether this was a deserving contribution to the culinary feast."

himself managed to empty it on the plate, Thur-din asked.

After pronouncing the unheard word "it was a treat," Asta arms up with "hmm."

"The flavor was impeccable. To be honest, I hadn't imagined Tour-Din was the arrangement so far. Din and Fou didn't have that much of a clue."

"... Yes"

Asta had plenty of opportunities to stay in the settlement of Lou, during which time she and the ladies had a commercial look and dinner.

After all, the Tour-dins could only visit Fa's house and acquire only a few trainings. Since it was a woodland lesson to rub the supper of one's house in the shadows of one's own house, he brought home the skill learned from Asta and tried to put it into practice himself.

"On top of that, I'm going to advise you on a few things."

"Yes."

"First off, you said earlier that you were going to cook meat in addition to these dishes, but what about the juice?

"Is it juice? I didn't think of that other than this Tarapa dish..."

"Oh well. At Rutim's banquet, I prepared a dish called Tarapa's stew, which was not foolish because of the cost of ingredients on top of the time it took to get down there, so apart from that, I also prepared regular juice."

Saying, Asta is stroking her mandible in depth of thought.

"This Tarapa's gut dish also seems to be on close terms. How many families attend the feast?

"Yes, I think Zaza's family was between 70 and 80."

"It's hard to prepare that number of organs, isn't it? Din is in the period of rest, but who prepares meat and organs?

"Yes, Din's men, who are in the period of rest, are going to head out to his family's house to free up blood loss and handling of organs there. Though I think it will be a closer clan, not a settlement in the north."

"I see. Well, even if that's enough to prepare, I guess I've never gotten past having regular juice. It also enhances the taste of other dishes when you have refreshing dishes like that, and the juice can consume vegetables efficiently, so I think you should use Aria or something."

"Yes."

"And then... it's a very cozy story, but you might want to mix the powder of Poitan or Fuwano in the sauce of fruit liquor to be served on the meat dumplings. Because then I think the sauce will make a good tease of the meat dough"

"Yes."

Carve Asta's words firmly into your heart.

Then Asta grinned abruptly.

"Yeah, that's about all I can say."

"Huh?"

"As far as meat dumplings are concerned, I'm sure Tour-Din has the attitude that he doesn't want to use as much extra ingredients as possible, so I think either is fine. I think that's enough if you add regular juice dishes to your dedication."

"So, but what's the point of not getting anywhere else...? Not only in terms of the content of the contribution, but also in terms of flavouring…"

"Seasoning is perfect, just like I said. Isn't that a hundred points at this stage?

As Asta flew her gaze as she inquired, Ai-Fa nodded "um" too.

"It was felt to me that it was a better dish than the one served at Rutim's feast and at the Parents' Conference. I think it's amazing how much food Asta can cook even though she didn't help herself."

"Right. That's not exactly what Rayna-Lew and the others are doing, but if you think about the time and content you've been handed, this is the best you can do."

"So... so if I too could be more hands-on with Asta, would I be able to raise my arms more?

Tour-Din got himself out of there by accident.

Asta rounds her eyes like a surprise.

"Ugh, yeah. That, of course. Tour-din's only ten years old, and he's got as much room left to grow."

"Then… I would like to be more at the mercy of Asta"

I wasn't going to reveal this to Asta until after the feast.

But Tour-Din was no longer able to contain his feelings.

"Asta must be hearing it from Graf-Zaza, too, right? My family, Jas-din, gave me a wish for Graf-Zaza... that the Din family would not be able to help with the business of the Inn Town either... if I could satisfy Graf-Zaza with this feast, I'm sure the wish would be fulfilled, Jas-din said so"

"Yeah, I'm sure I'm listening, too. You said you couldn't afford to get rid of that story until you got rid of the trouble with the nobles.... well, that's why Graf-Zaza is finally going to get her heavy hips up too"

"Yes...... so Jas-din said to me that I was to blame for this feast"

Ten-year-old Tour-Din is in charge of Kamadoku?

"That's right. So if I could correctly show Asta's power, the heads of my family, including Graf-Zaza, would also allow me to help Asta with her work... and I told Jas-din that I would grasp my hope with my own strength."

Before I realized it, my body was trembling.

Tour-Din twitches his knees to cover it.

"So... if I could do this one job... would you let me work under Asta...?

"Yeah, of course, Tour-din"

Asta smiled gently, but said so in a very serious tone.

"Actually, we were just talking about getting more manpower here, too. I was going to settle in to talk about whether I had to borrow from around Ray and Minn because I already had a lot of manpower out of Lou and Rutim and there weren't any extra women in Fou and Run, but if I were Tour-Din, I'd be perfect."

"... is that true?

"Yeah. So do your best to hold on to the feast kamadu number, Tour-din"

My tears almost spilled.

But you shouldn't cry now. Tour-Din hasn't done anything yet.

If I ever accomplish a feast job and help Asta do her job - will I be allowed to cry for a little while then?

With that in mind, Tour-Din made me say "thank you".

Asta and I-Fa were staring at me with such a warm look at myself that I had no more.