264 The 19th of the Black Moon ③ - The House of Lew and the House of Fa

That's how we ended our work in Inn Town and returned to Luu's settlement first.

The time is two and a half moments down and, by my senses, around 3 pm.

It was my routine to stay in the settlement of Luu for only two hours from here and go ahead with the descent for tomorrow as well as the cooking guide.

"Hey, good day again, Mr. Tired"

When I pulled my luggage car and went around to the back of the main house, the big ladies who were at my salary welcomed me that way.

It is Barsha.

Barsha and Zida, freed from the castle of Genos, were still in the settlement of Luu.

"Because I've been exposed to the survival of the Red Beard Party, it's been a little hard to get back to Masala's hometown."

After a reunion with Zida, Barsha said so.

But wasn't the Red Beard Party heroic to the people of Shirai while buying noble grudges? "That's why it's so hard to go home," she asked.

Barsha then begged Donda-Lou to live for a while in a settlement by the woods.

I don't even want you to be a part of the people by the woods. I just hoped my son Zida would let me stay for a while until he raised his soul as a little more of a fine hunter.

"Forestside chief Donda-Lou, if it were for you, I think Zida could learn to live as a hunter, too. As a hunter, I don't have the power to be my son anymore, so I'm not sure I can guide you any better."

There was also the patronage of Mother Meer Ray, and Donda-Lou was to accept the plea.

Now Barsha and Zida live on empty houses in the settlement of Luu.

"Good day, Barsha. Are you still payroll today?"

"Oh. Because this job suits me best."

Barsha, who answers that way, was in a state of change.

The long brown hair that was tugged into the cucumber was loosely sprinkled and wrapped around a cloth outfit instead of leather armor or a man's footcoat.

He wears a poison insect repellent arm embellishment on his wrist and a leather curly sandal on his leg. There are no blessing necklaces around his neck. Others are the same costumes as the women by the woods.

"Because this outfit is easier while I'm at home," Barsha said, "but when I was first shown this outfit, I was a lot of surprises.

Not because it didn't look good on me. On the contrary. And when he was dressed in the ladies' outfits, Barsha only looked like a clean woman.

Of course, there's no change in his face as tough as that Tang Lion, and his arms and shoulders are buoyant with muscles like men. The figure thickness of the torso was also about unbeaten by Giza-Lou, and something taller than Dalm-Lou.

But still, Barsha was rarely a woman.

To be more precise, she was a "mother".

Even though his face and words and behavior have not changed, his eyes dwell in a serenity that had never existed before, and his strength is also felt by his strength as a strong mother. It was such an impression.

After the conflict with Cycleus, some change of heart may have come to Barsha as well.

Until now, I've been trying to lead Zida as a hunter, but I want to lead her as my mother in the future - maybe that's what I'm thinking.

Still, Barsha didn't abandon his job as a hunter.

Until Jomtien, where Gibba sleeps, he goes into the woods, hunting wild birds with Ziddah.

Of course, I'm getting permission from Genos. Hunting birds at the foot of the Morga Mountains, which do not feed Giva, was also not forbidden by the laws of Genos.

"It's not as bare as it sounds, but it's because there's as many fine birds flying as there are. Hey. I wonder why no one's ever tried to hunt him before."

I'm sure that's because the people by the woods ate Gibba, and the humans in the town were eating livestock Kimmus and Karon. Focusing on hunting birds without hunting Gibba would not have been tolerated by the people by the woods, and if I had tried to be a man by the town, I must not have been willing to hunt birds until I stepped into the woods ruled by Gibba and the people by the woods.

Thus the Balshas hunted birds in the woods, and through the polearths they exchanged their meat for copper coins. Which meat the two humans were hunting would not have disrupted the circulation of Genos, and there seemed to be a large number of favorites in the castle town who delighted in the meat of rare wild birds.

Moreover, after Jomtien, Zida also took part in the giva hunting job.

He was recognised for his exceptional power as a hunter and was recognised by Donda-Lou for participating in the giva hunt.

"If I was dealing with a gauje leopard in the mountains of Masala, I'd have worked hard for a few more years. I didn't want to be trained to hunt horrible prey like Gibba, so this is how I'm supposed to help you do your job as a woman."

That was the status quo between Barsha and Zida.

So, it was now the norm for us to return and participate in our work.

Incidentally, Li-Sudra, who had previously returned immediately for work at home, has also participated in this lower preparation and study group since she shortened her opening hours, which labor had been a contract with her for four hours a day, thus incurring an obligation on her to remain for at least one full hour.

"I appreciate the story. And thanks to Asta, I was able to sift through some delicious dishes to the people at home."

Li-Sudra is also one of the quite outstanding members.

I'm not too sneaky to do all the ratings, but I don't think Vina-Lou or Lara-Lou have caught up with me yet. Nowhere has it stood out more than Limi-Luu and Tour-Din, but I'm sure they had qualities from the beginning as Kamado numbers.

In addition, Sheila-Lou was waiting for her in the main house.

He laughs loosely at us, stirring the contents of an iron pan that emits a fragrant scent.

"Talapa's Aria is finishing, so grind the meat and rub it in."

"Thank you. Then we'll all finish it."

Four people will be there: Raina-Lou, Zwei, Morn-Rutim and Barsha.

These members, Tour-Din, Yamil Ray and Li Sudra, will first look down for tomorrow.

"As always, then, Yamil-Ray and Li-Sudra will ask you to do the baking work for Poitan. Me and Tour-Din will cut the meat."

I'll clean up the full story tomorrow morning, so all I needed the day before was those jobs.

Poitan was found to be well preserved even after powdered by research and investigation in Dalaim, so it was customary to boil it together for a few days.

Also, unlike Fuwano, Poitan never dried up to Kachikachi in one day, so it was his daily job to bake it within the previous day.

"I wonder what kind of gesture I'll give you today. I wonder if Touloudin has any hope?

Asking him that way as he cut the giva meat he had kept at the Lou's house into blocks, Tour-Din tilted his neck cutely as "hmm".

"Is it a new way of using ingredients after all? I think it's a lot easier to use things like tau oil and sugar, but I still don't know how to use Mammalian vinegar and Panam honey."

Ingredients that began to circulate to the Inn Town had also begun to circulate slightly by the forest.

Especially since seasonings dramatically change the flavour of the dishes in small quantities, they were also to be greatly welcomed by the woodland women.

And Din and Sudra and Fou and others also had as much wealth as they could buy those condiments by selling meat to Fa's house.

"Right. I don't know much else to use for Panem honey, either, do I? I wonder if Mammalian vinegar would be enough to make sweet vinegar, ketchup or mayonnaise or something other than" vinegar giva "."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Of course, I think you can apply whatever it takes, but you haven't come up with a dish like this yet, have you?"

When I was exchanging words like that, it was getting louder out there.

I wondered if the men were back early, but they weren't. And the men, even the men, were the men of the family of Lew.

"Hey, is Morn staying home? I didn't see any women in the main house, so I'd appreciate it if you could open this door from there!

"That's Dan, his father," Morn-Rutim rounds his eyes.

While Vina-Lou stuffed his dirty fingertips with cloth, he pointed his foot at the entrance and exit between the kama.

"Oh, I'll be in the middle of a job. What the hell!

At the same time that the doorboard opens, Rutim's head, Dan-Rutim, comes in with it.

Its lavish smile was no different, but Dan-Rutim had a sturdy looking grigi tree wand, with his right foot floating off the ground.

Dan-Rutim wounded his right ankle, just as we did when we reopened the business.

He fell off a cliff for anything and dislocated his ankle bones, which is what he walked for hours holding his wounded compatriots with those legs, so he hurt his muscles on a pretty serious level.

Still, they said it would heal back to normal as long as it took, but it looks really painful.

But he himself is still energetic, and he flies around every day with tototos bought from the Rutim family.

"What's wrong, Dad? Do you have something for me?

"Uhm! To you and Donda-Lou! But it looks like Donda-Lu hasn't come home from the woods yet, so I'm going to run some errands for you first."

Saying so, Dan-Rutim leaned against the wooden wall.

"Actually, the men who were loaning to the northern settlements are back. The northern settlement, it seems, will be in a period of rest from today. The men of the northern settlement, who remained in Rutim's settlement, also went back to their homes with a replacement"

"Uh... so finally, now it's the ladies' turn?

The northern settlement exchanged three men at a time with the Rutim family and was handled by blood drainage, removal of organs, and washing of organs.

Although the position was to hold judgment on commerce in Accommodation Town until next year's Parents' Conference, Graf-Zaza also finally made the decision to incorporate something called a delicious meal into the life of the clan.

But Dan-Rutim said with a pungent face, "No?" He shook his head.

"As Dalm-Lou and Rudd-Lou once stated, it seems that the settlements in the north have built houses right next to the territory of Giva. Then the women must also be vigilant about Gibbs and Mundt during the day, so they are not in a position to lend the women of Rutim at last."

"Yeah? So... what do you do?

"Mm-hmm. So they're going to use this rest period to cut a little more around the settlement and get ready to get rid of the beast. So it's only after the job, maybe half a month after the break."

"Oh, I don't know..."

Morn-Rutim falls off his shoulders softly.

I don't know what's going on, but she seems eager to head out to the northern settlements.

If that happens, Ama Min-Rutim will probably take care of the help in Accommodation Town.

"Later, I'd like you to tell Donda-Lou this, but I wonder if I can ask you, the eldest sister in the main house, to give me a message, Vina-Lou?

"Yeah, I wonder what...?

"He wants one of the Dom women to be taken away during this rest period before he lends them to each other. Whether you are sitting in Lou or Lutim, you will first need the recognition of Donda-Lou, the head of the clan."

"Hmm......? I wonder what the hell those women are doing here...?

"I don't know, but I guess it means you're keen to get your cooking skills up. Wouldn't it be a lot of gut-seated women to get into a family by themselves?"

Dan-Rutim was laughing, but instead of me, Tul-din and Yamil-Ray were sneaking eyes at each other.

"Do there exist in the northern settlements, such as women who weigh that much of their work...?

"Yeah, it's kind of hard to think about."

Is it not true that in the northern settlements, the women also wear the skins, skulls, etc. of Giva's head?

In the meantime, I'm going to prepare my mind not to be surprised no matter how brave the women appear.

"If you'll excuse me, I'll run Totos and deliver the report to the north settlement! Tell Donda-Lou that."

"I got it. Wow... Dan-Rutim is already gone...?

"Uhm! I'm promising to do a Totos run comparison when Rau-Ray returns from the woods!

Morn-Rutim and Yamil-Ray sighed at the same time.

Is it the slight anguish of a family member who receives a parent who is too innocent, or something like that?

In the meantime, Dan-Rutim looked back at me.

"By the way, Asta, my tototos decided to name me Mim Char. Is that a good name?

"Is it Mim Char? That's a pretty name."

"Pretty? I hear it means' tomorrow 'in eastern language."

"'Tomorrow'?

"Hmm. Does Asta's name also include the meaning 'tomorrow'? And Mim Char. If I had a new baby, I would have named it that way, but I wouldn't marry my new wife!

That's how he cut me off, and then Dan-Rutim just left.

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It is night.

After finishing dinner with "Giva's Boiled Well" as the main dish under study, me and I-Fa used to relax, as usual, relying on the candlestick fire.

Ai-Fa loosens her golden brown hair and also sits against the wall.

I am in the position of sleeping Buddha in the front of it.

"... well that's why I'd like to invite that mime to your daughter by the woods, what do you say?

"That doesn't matter, but I don't really feel comfortable inviting strangers into my house in my absence."

"Yeah, it would be best if we could stick together for dinner if we were to reveal your cooking skills. As usual, I think it's going to be almost simultaneous with I-Fa coming back home"

"Right. Then there is no problem. If we have supper together, I'll send them to Turan afterwards."

Unexpectedly, Ai-Fa had expressed a friendly view of Turan's mime.

Ai-Fa seems to have a strong appreciation for Michel for teaching Zida the location of Count Turan's mansion.

Well, for sure, I don't know what would have happened to me without the presence of Zida and Michelle, so I guess I should be thanking them more, too.

"Still, you don't move one eyebrow when you hear Mim might be better than me. Rayna-Lew, it was pretty puffy."

"I'm not that narrow of a person. The world is vast, so some of it can exist even if it's better than you."

That's how I say it, and then Ai-Fa quietly stares back at me.

"Besides, when you were about to be caught up in Rayna-Lew's arms, you quickly gained more power than that."

"... is that what you're saying, Lord Parent, even if Mim is better than me?

"Can you allow a number to exist even better than yourself, Asta?

There is no change in the eyesight of Ai-Fa.

"Besides, you once said that your skill will be sharpened because of the presence of good enemies. Was that word false?

"No, it's not false..."

"Then nothing's wrong."

Ai-Fa, who used to burn his antagonists to make soup that was better than Raina-Lou's, is now staring at me with a full-width look of trust.

Whatever it was, it seemed to be an eye-fa who didn't even have this kind of feeling about allowing his family to be chronic or lazy.

"Of course I'm not going to miss training either. I'm supposed to be entertained by Moribe and Genos, but I'm half clean."

"Hmm. You would be stating that with humility, but you don't speak those words very outside, Asta."

"Oh, why not?

"Nothing, you are victorious over the Castle Town cook by comparison of flavor. If you despise yourself like that, doesn't it mean that the person you lose to can't be anything less?

Saying, I = fa loosely lifts her forehead.

"With me, I'm not happy with my power. But if I despise myself, it will despise all hunters who have not been given a better harvest than I do. Humans should live with pride in their hearts, without humiliating themselves."

"Yeah. I'm gonna be proud of you, too."

"I know that best. I'm not a proud loser like you."

After saying so, Ai-Fa was able to relieve her mouth much better.

"So I never mishear your words, but if I'm someone who doesn't know you as well as I do, I risk being insulted. That's why he's holding back his mouth when he's out in the open."

"I get it. Kind of more dignified today than usual, huh?

"Oh, my God, you always told me I was a kid."

And all of a sudden I get my lips squeezed in dissatisfaction.

That part is childish, but I don't have a problem with both eye-fa because they are important to me.

"Nevertheless, it's a rush to the next. If you think your business in Inn Town is finally settling down, now you're the daughter of a cook who's young and has more than the same skill as Asta."

"Oh, that's Michelle's daughter. I just wanted to try Michelle's cooking once."

"... that's the first time you've ever said something like that"

"Really? Whenever Jan revealed her new dish, I was looking forward to it.... but that's not what Mim cooks."

What I have with Jan was exotic or curiosity and interest in cooks from different worlds.

But what I'm feeling for Mim - regardless of her identity, her position, etc., was just a vision of being able to create purely delicious dishes.

No hostility whatsoever.

It's just getting hot around the nagging and chest area.

It may have been an emotion like a sense of fellowship towards someone with the same sensibilities, or it might have been an emotion of joy finding someone who could incise with the same eyes.

"... whatever it was, it would have been a pleasure for you to meet her."

And I - Fa - have said it as if I had seen through my heart.

"Then I, too, would like to welcome the daughter. Looking forward to the day her daughter will visit, Asta."

"Yeah, I'm sure Mim would love that.... So it's time to go to bed."

"Uhm."

Ai-Fa turned off the window candlestick and then fell asleep in front of me once again.

That hand is going to grab my fingertips.

"You don't have a bad dream today, Asta."

"I don't want to see it if I can, too, but this is all lucky."

"Whatever nightmare you have, I'm in your place. Don't forget that."

In the dark, Ai-Fa's blue eyes glow calmly.

"Don't be afraid of anything. You're all right, Asta."

"Yeah."

With the same force, hold back the fingertips of Ai-Fa.

It's all right.

As long as Ai-Fa's with me, I'll be fine.

That night, I could sleep through the morning without dreaming of anything.