540 The thirteenth day of the green moon ② - Sweet afternoon

After that, we didn't get stuck in turbulence, and we went back to the woodland settlement.

Today was a day off for a study group at the Luu family, so members, with the exception of Tour-Din and Yun-Sudra, head back to their homes first. Those two names, who are particularly keen on culinary studies, are also allowed to join the study group at the Lew family.

Only one hunter from Sudra will accompany the luggage truck back home, and the remaining three will remain together. That's how they protect me all the time until Ai-Fa returns from the giva hunt. It was Lyelpham-Sudra's contention that he should not take his eyes off me, even in a forest settlement, although I was sorry to think so.

"If anything happens to Asta, we can't regret it. It's like we're doing for the peace of our hearts, so Asta doesn't have to worry about it."

Lyelpham-Sudra said that to me.

Even the day I have a study group at Fa's house, this is how they protect me. Then it wasn't worth rescheduling, so I was allowed to continue my study group at the Lew's for a day.

In the first place, at a time like this, I didn't even think it would be a good idea to snort at a culinary study group - but I just snort at other jobs when I stopped studying, so it doesn't make much difference.

Besides, Malstein also gave me the thankful saying that the people by the woods don't need to give up any life. It was a story that we should do so in order to inform the auditors of the fact that the people of Moribe are not disturbing the harmony of Genos even as it is today.

"Hung! But if those bunnies and the soldiers were wandering around, there's no way this one would ever be the same, sir!

It was Zwei-Rutim who was so blurred as he headed to Kamadu's cabin in the main house.

About three days ago, the Zwei-Rutims were in the City of Meat. For the third time now, in the city of meat, the Zwei-Rutims had taken the men of Fou and Run to the lodging town.

Originally, the soldiers of Wangdu sleep in their quarters until about Jomtien. But that day, only twenty soldiers were visiting the square to inspect the people by the woods participating in the City of Meat.

Of course, that didn't create any rubbing. However, the figure of the soldiers of the king's capital and the hunters by the woods should have left no less than those who had participated in the city of meat.

"How long the hell are they going to be sitting in Genos, sir! If there were 200 of them, they wouldn't be stupid enough to just pay copper coins for the inn. Sa! Damn, they're dumb, yo!

"Right. Travel and accommodation alone are going to be a huge amount of money. … but they also brought large quantities of ingredients during the inspection."

Genos can really buy different ingredients from the Wang capital. Most of them are carried in by visiting missions only once or twice a year. Other than that, as active as some Sims' chambers such as Silver Pot and Black Wind Cut Feathers were, most of them relied on by this inspection team.

"Hum! Then you just have to do business and go home, Sa. Those people, I can't wait to see you!

Moreover, Zwei-Rutim said, his mother, Oula-Rutim, tilted her tender gaze.

"Zwei is worried about Asta. It's okay, the Chiefs won't give Asta to nobles."

"What are you talking about, Sa! Atashi's not worried about that. Yo!

Zwei-Rutim freaked out with a metallic voice.

At the same time, Raina-Lou, who was walking in the lead, opens the door to Kamadu's cabin.

"Oh, welcome home. We're all safe, above all."

In the Kamado cabin, the people of the Lou family were encouraging the descent for tomorrow.

The summariser is Sheila-Lou, and I can also see Mia Ray's mother, Lara-Lou, and Michelle. Michelle must have gotten me together for a study group. When he discovered his father like that, Mim let his eyes shine and ran over.

"Dad, I'm back. Didn't you change anything?

"There can't be anything. You're way more dangerous down in town."

Michelle remained on the top of the Buddha, placing her hands on Mim's head.

Again, I guess Michelles can't be in the same mood that everything has always been. During the interrogation, my presence was eventually supposed to be strongly eliminated, but Michelle and the auditors put me in a position where I had no doubt.

"How was it over there? Anything unusual?

Meer Ray, my mother's asking, so I'm supposed to be the explanator. Regarding Sanjula and the modest behavior of Chief Thousand Lion Ruids.

"Was Ruid the head of the soldiers? Were there any strange noises in Inn Town?

"Yes. On the way home from business, I saw the soldiers, but it didn't seem particularly unusual."

In Jomtien, Doug and Iphius also visit the stalls. But even then, they never looked different.

(Well, even if my superiors were giving me some new orders, they're not gonna get us that.)

Camua-Josh and the others were heading out to Castle Town, so I asked Terrier-Mass for a message. But one thing about Sanjula was intertwined, so it wasn't until nightfall that I would go into more detail.

"Then I'll tell the parents the story of one street.... Oh man, I want this troublesome story to be over."

While stating so, Mother Meer Ray was laughing powerfully.

As for the auditors' suspicion that I was not the spy sent in by the Marquis of Genos - it had been conveyed to the people by the woods without anything being hidden, but no one existed as one to change their attitude towards me with it. On the contrary, the majority of people just smiled "it's a stupid idea".

Of course I take that for granted. The auditors are just talking about the airspace on the plane. If I had seen in what way I had been involved with the people of the woods and in what way I had built my current position, I should have been able to understand that there could not be such a ridiculous story.

But it's a different story, and I can still feel warm. We were able to build a relationship of trust that never wavered when such suspicion was raised. The people I trust are trusting me about me the same way, that couldn't have made me unhappy.

"Shall we start a study group then? What are you going to tell me today?

"Right. This being said, I don't have any special ideas...... on the contrary, any ideas from you guys?

Then Sheila-Lou raised his hand to the calf.

"If that's the case, I'd like to learn how to make sweets...... how about that?

"Is it confectionery? Specifically, do you have any suggestions?

"Yes, I want to learn about this - something called Shingeki. As Asta has taught us before, I'm guessing Tool-Din could have finished it again in a better way?

To Sheila-Lou's words, Tour-Din shrunk to "outrageous".

"Wow, I just used Kokokimu, so I could never make something better than Asta..."

"But can Tool-din skillfully make a tiny bit more than Asta?

"Right. Now I'm asking Tour-Din about the amount of ingredients."

After that, I let him look at the totals.

"So today, let's study how to make chocolate cream and chocolate sauce and how to make sweets that apply it even more"

"Yes. Plus, can you tell me how to make a new treat?

"Yeah, thanks to Tool-Din, you're able to make great chocolate sauce, so you want to develop it again,"

Tour-Din, who was shrinking, was looking up at me as he sparkled his eyes in anticipation. Next to it, Yun-Sudra is similarly blinking her eyes.

All in all, the first was a recipe for chocolate cream and chocolate sauce.

Rayna-Lew writes down the amount of Thur-Din describes on the books. The brush and the book were brought to the woodland, about twenty days ago, but in the Lew family, Rayna-Lew was the most able to use the instruments of that civilization.

Imaginarily, I thought maybe around Sheila-Lou would be good at this kind of work, but Raina-Lou made me show unexpected aptitude. It was a story that Raina-Lou was already able to read and write numbers and several culinary names, and that he also had quite a few grades in terms of multiplication ninety-nine.

"I see. You seem to have more milk fat and caron milk than you did when you learned from Asta before. And were the Gigi leaves so carefully shredded?"

"Yes. Gigi leaves also seem to contain some oil...... when carefully shredded, that oil alone makes the powder of the gigigi snug. Then I feel smoother around my mouth..."

"Amazing. When it comes to confectionery making, it's not at all about Tour-Din"

Rayna-Luu smiled and said, Thur-din made his face red again and he got upset.

"So what kind of confectionery can you teach me to make this time, Asta?

"Yeah. I've been working on chocolate sauce into fuwano dough before, but I'd like to try to make that ratio higher for a more intense flavor. In my hometown, it was called gato chocolate."

Lina only used melted chocolate, hot cake mix, etc., to rub that sweet. I was going to recreate it.

The truth is, I wanted to make chocolate itself, but I don't feel comfortable in this land without refrigeration equipment, and there's no way I know how to make chocolate in the first place. I also wondered whether it would be more constructive to make a decent gateau chocolate if the powder of the fuwano dried in the sun.

"In the meantime, let's rub the prototype with the chocolate sauce this Tool-Din made us with an example. I think it feels like adding milk fat to this chocolate sauce and mixing the same weight of fuwano dough together."

"Oh, is it only a matter of time - do you make the same amount of fuwano? It's going to be... a lot sweeter."

"Yeah. So if it's too sweet, now I guess I should try the sweetness of chocolate sauce"

Speaking of which, I think Lina also used bitter chocolate when making Gato chocolate. Still, because I was adding sugar to the dough, it didn't have an overly bitter finish.

"So this time, let's make it without adding sugar to the dough. Just add caron milk and eggs to the fuwano and match it with chocolate sauce."

"Yes, I understand. I'll borrow this pot."

Tool-din takes the lead and gets to cooking.

When he was enthusiastic, he was also a Tour-Din who hissed his usual weakness.

It was once difficult to even look people in the eye and speak, Tour-Din, but now it has grown to the point of being left to the feast of the northern settlements.

(Speaking of which, Din and Lid's ladies said that Tour-Din looks so much more solid where I'm not)

Otherwise, I guess we can't partition the feast of the northern settlement or something.

I'd love to see Tour-Din brave if I could, but I can't sneak up on him, and it was a hard part.

"Uh, what are you doing!? Maybe study sweets!?

And when we were all rubbing the prototype, suddenly the voice of Rimi-Lou sounded.

Seeing, Rimi-Lou, who drew Kota-Lou's hand, stood at the entrance to Kamado's cabin. Kota-Lou, a two-year-old, accidentally narrowed his eyes to the aroma of chocolate sauce drifting from an iron pan.

"Is that why you're simmering sushi in an iron pan? Why? Why? What happens when you simmer!?

"This is just a little warm to mix the milk fat. If you don't warm it up, it won't mix well."

"Mix the milk fat, what do you do? If it's too greasy, it won't even taste good!?

Limi-Luu became a hunk of curiosity and was likely to jump forward.

But we can't bring Kota-Lu into the place where we're dealing with fire, so we're treading the estate on the spot. Cota-Lou noticed that, laughing joyfully, he was flighty imitating Rimi-Lou.

"Ugh. Rimi's got a job on Kota amulet, right? It's not safe, go that way."

When Lara-Lew returned the words like that, Limi-Lew said, "Because -!" and flew up on the spot. Kota-Lu still smiles and imitates it.

"Damn, it's so loud when sweets tease you... if you care so much, why don't I take your amulet?

"Uh, okay!?

"It's better than getting noisy there. If it's a treat anyway, Limi can make it better."

And, a gentle Lara-Luu with a bad mouth, walked away with Kota-Lu on his shoulder.

Rimi-Lou rushes into Kamadu's cabin, shuddering "wow".

That's how we got comfortable reinforcements, and once again we worked on Gato Chocolate's prototype.

Add eggs and caron milk to fuwano flour of the same weight as chocolate sauce and stir. It should have also put cocoa powder and the like in here, but the substitute does not exist.

The eggs decided to split white and finish in meringue form. I can't remember how Lina used to handle eggs, but even though it's a heavily textured gateau chocolate, I still thought the dough should be lighter.

"All you have to do is mix it with chocolate sauce and bake it. I think we should probably cook this in a stone kiln."

Pour the dough into the large plate of heat resistance used to make the gratin. The fabric got a lot thinner because the dish was too big, but how difficult was all this together?

The stone kiln is outside the cabin, so only me, Tour-Din and Raina-Lou move over there. I decided to ask the other members to keep the new Gigi leaves grinded within the present.

"Hmm? You use a stone kiln?

And Lyelpham-Sudra, who was serving as an escort outside Kamadu's cabin, looks back at me like he's in pain. Instead, there were also the appearances of Lara-Luu and Kota-Lu, who had just left.

"Yeah, I was going to bake you this sweet. Lara-Luu, is Kota-Lu okay?

"Yeah. I teach you to stay away from stone kilns.... hey, Kota, that stone kiln is so tiny."

"Ah chi," Cota-Lou nodded with a smile.

It is a cota-lou that is getting quicker and bigger, but rather, as it grows, the range of emotional expressions increases, and it seems to look so innocent. Speaking of temperament, I felt more active and messy than the Aim-Fou family.

"... How are the children of Lyelpham-Sudra?

Asked that way after finishing the set of stone kilns, Lyelpham-Sudra nodded "umm" with her eyes done to the Kota-Lou's.

"Both Hodureil and Asura are growing up fine. More and more meat, and it seems to get rounded up."

That was the name of the twins born in the Sudra family.

Hodureil-Sudra is the boy and Asla-Sudra is the girl. Hodureil meant "unbreakable sword" in the old word, and Asura was talking about - choosing the name used around the woods that sounded most like my name.

"I named it that way, hoping it could be a splendid Kamado number like Asta's. Can you forgive me?

Previously, when I sent Yun-Sudra over to Sudra's house, Li-Sudra told me that.

Of course, there couldn't be anything different about me, and it was so hard to shed tears that I was about to spill.

"... were you talking about that Luu family toddler being two years old?

"Yes, that's what I hear"

"In just two years, that's what you grow up to be. I've never seen a toddler grow up in his own house."

Lyelpham-Sudra's words crept into my chest with different emotions.

"Speaking of which, it's going to take a while to celebrate the harvest festival."

"Yeah. You seem to have a lot of forest grace left in the hunting grounds of Fa, Fou and Run. After all, thanks to the hounds, are we able to hunt Giva efficiently"

"I'm sure it is. Din and Lid were about to run out of forest grace, so then they told him they were going to head out to Sung's hunting ground."

Previously, Sudra's hunters had left for Sung's hunting grounds for a few days. But in order to fulfill the role of escort, I was supposed to pull my hand from that job.

"Over there, the hunters of Lid and Din's bloodthirsty Havilla and Dana have also become visible. Gene and I will have a great opportunity to deepen our bond."

"Is it Havilla and Dana? You don't interact with the people of your family at all."

"They live more north than Sung. Until now, I've only seen my face at a meeting of heads of state. He seemed like a really nice bunch of people."

The side of Lyelpham-Sudra, who talks like that, felt like she was getting a much more serious look.

"Meet Asta, and deal with tototos and hounds, so that the people by the woods can live stronger and more rightly than ever. How could the nobles of the king's capital not understand that?"

"After all... isn't that because I don't feel like understanding enough? From the very beginning, it seemed like they had decided that I was masterful."

"Damn, that's ridiculous. The nobles of the king's capital don't know how hard Asta has lived."

That's how I kept waiting for Gato Chocolate to bake up as I exchanged words with Lyelfam-Sudra.

It was completed approximately fifteen minutes later - when I pulled out the iron door and removed the large plate from the stone kiln, the unwanted aroma was unleashed around me.

"That smells amazing! The fragrance alone makes me feel sweet."

Raina-Lou has a pleasant voice, and Tour-Din stares at the contents of a large plate with a serious eye.

The fuwano dough with chocolate sauce was grilled to a stunning black brown color. Though it was originally black and brown, there was even more baking color there, and it smelled very fragrant. The intensity of the fragrance felt like it was out of the group, even for those of us who had previously rubbed various baked treats.

"Wow, that's amazing! Me and Kota can taste it, too, right?

"Yeah, I need to cool it down a little bit, so wait there"

Upon returning to Kamadu Hut, cheers also rolled up there.

Limi-Luu and Yun-Sudra, among others, have already become all too clear with expectations.

"After all, it doesn't seem as fuzzy as regular baked confectionery because of the large amount of soy sauce"

"Right. I think it's because of the texture."

But that would be the flavor of Gato Chocolate. If that doesn't match the preferences of the people by the woods, we can only aim for lighter chocolate cakes by reducing the amount of chocolate.

Leave it for a few minutes for now, and after the coarse heat has been removed, apply the bottom of the dish to the water and cool further. So it cooled to a temperature of about human skin, and then we took away the cooking knife.

When you plug in the knife, the feel is still heavy. Finished cutting from end to end, pulling out the knife, the body was swamped with moist black and brown fabric.

"You don't seem to be completely consolidated. Should we have spent more time on fire?

"No, I don't think we'll have a problem with this for now. As far as I'm concerned, it's close to ideal."

I remember Lina saying that, even without suppressing the amount of chocolate, too much viscosity would be lost on the fire, resulting in a finish close to the normal cake. When making Gato Chocolate, it seems that fireworks are important.

Whatever it is, I'm going to cut the dough out of the plate. There were more than a dozen Kamadoku attendees at the study group, so the amount of one head was only about one mouth at a time.

"The contents, too, are a shade that hardly changes. It looks so sweet even though it's so black."

"Yeah. I think it's the sweetest treat I've ever made. But it's only a prototype, so I'm gonna do it."

That's how we finally got to mouth Gato Chocolate.

As you can imagine, fiercely sweet. Moreover, the flavor of the cocoa-meted gigigi was accentuated by the fact that it was caught on fire.

The texture is also dull and heavy. It is an unbeatable sense of weight that I know of Gato Chocolate. If you equate the amount of chocolate with the amount of dough, this is the natural result.

As far as I was concerned, it was still too sweet.

Because the texture is heavy, it feels too sweet. I thought it would be better to reduce the sweetness a little bit, but also to take advantage of the flavor of Gigi.

But other than that, that's the point. In the meantime, your physique as a gato chocolate is preserved, and nothing unsavory at all. The moist, heavy texture is also a great success in the sense of reproducing Gato Chocolate. If I hadn't melanged the eggs with this, I would have just had a texture that was too heavy.

"What do you think? I think I was able to reproduce roughly what I was aiming for."

With that said, looking back at everyone, there were roughly two different expressions waiting.

One of them is a look of amazement, the other is a look of intoxication.

"No, I'm surprised it's so sweet. I don't think there's anything sweet about losing sugar or honey like that."

As the representative of the member with the look of amazement, Mother Meer Ray said so. Raina-Lu and Sheila-Lu, Zwei-Rutim and Yamir-Ray are also in this group.

"But it's so delicious! Rimi loves this treat!

After all, about half the members, headed by Rimi-Lou and Yun-Sudra, had inadvertently narrowed their eyes and tasted Gato Chocolate. The same is true of Kota-Lu, who had come to taste at the entrance to Kamadu cabin.

One of those difficult expressions was Tour-Din.

"Sure, I think it's delicious.... but isn't it a little too sweet?

"Er!? I think Rimi is delicious!

"Yes, but if I eat as much of this as I would normally leave this alone - etc., I feel like I'm going to have a bad chest. Not only is it sweet, but the texture is also very heavy..."

Which gato chocolate was still left in half in the wooden dish of Tour-Din, which would be mentioned as such. With one mouth alone, Tour-Din had come to those conclusions.

"Of course, if you don't actually try that amount, you can't say for sure...... what do you think of Asta?

"Yeah, I agree. Even in my hometown in the first place, gato chocolate is a heavy treat, so you don't eat as much as hot cake. But even if I subtract it, I think it would be ideal to reduce the sweetness more"

"Oh well. Then I wonder if Gigi leaves make me bitter?

"Of course you need to adjust so it doesn't get too bitter. I wonder if you could change the amount of milk fat as well as sugar."

"Right...... and you were talking about the fact that you were supposed to add sugar to Fuwano as well?

"Yeah. That's how you were made in my hometown. I originally used more bitter chocolate."

"Maybe even if you use the same amount of sugar, the sweetness quality changes depending on whether you use it for a bite or for a fuwano. Come on, let's make it bitter and add sugar to the fuwano."

Tour-Din had a very serious look on his face.

Though it is originally a serious tour-din for Kamado's work, it seems even more polished when it comes to making confectionery. And that seemed to become more pronounced with each deepening bond with Odifia.

(I guess the desire to deliver delicious treats to Odifia is making Tour-Din enthusiastic at best)

Thinking like that, I made Tour-Din laugh.

"Well, shall we get to the next prototype? Ask Tour-Din for sugar."

"Yes, then let's start by halving the sugar we use to do it. So I want to make sure it tastes good with fuwano with half the sugar and fuwano without the sugar."

"Copy that. Let's start with the Gigi leaves."

And I was about to say, "Asta!" The pressing voice rose.

Looking back, Lyelpham-Sudra stands around the entrance.

"The soldiers of the king's capital came to the settlement of Luu. There seems to be about 50 of them."

"What?" It was Mother Meer Ray who responded.

Its eyes, with a strong glow, look more at Raina-Lou.

"Rayna, you're not moving here. I'll ask you what's going on. Lara, I didn't use the fire, so you stay here with Kota."

"Yeah, okay," says Lara-Luu, who holds Kota-Lu, stepping in. And with the replacement, Mother Meer Ray jumped out of the cabin.

"Asta, stay with us. They might want to expose Asta."

"Wow, I get it. But why are the soldiers of the King's capital in the woodland settlement?"

Answering like that, I was remembering Sanjula's words.

I'm sure Chief Lion Ruid was giving this order to the Dougs.

(But there's no way the Kings in the capital know I'm in the Lou family. So, the purpose was the Lew family from the beginning?

I rushed over to Lyelpham-Sudra in a sensation of unsporting anxiety.

"Lyelpham-Sudra, I have spoken with the commanders of the soldiers. Shouldn't you be with Meer Ray-Lew, listening to them?

Lyelpham-Sudra lay her eyes down just to get lost for a moment, then snapped, "Right."

"If you don't know what they're after, this one's hard to move either. If you have a problem, run into the woods and turn a blind eye.... Look, you're never leaving me."

"Yes," he nodded, and I jumped out of the cabin again.

By that time, there had already been a tenderness coming from the square.