Chapter 369

[Aaron Side Story Episode 40]

5. The light of the heart (2)

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Flash!

As Aaron put wood into the brazier below, the fire grew stronger.

Acrid smoke rose along with the flames.

Chijik!

The iron plate on the brazier began to make the sound of cooking ingredients.

“Coke! Coke!”

Aaron coughed.

The windows were all open, but the smoke did not escape.

Should I build a new chimney?

‘Let’s see here...’

Aaron waved his hand and looked at the cookbook next to him.

‘Do you add the right amount of salt and pepper?’

right amount?

What is the right amount?

Aaron took out salt and pepper at random and poured it over the pan.

‘Please put the right amount of cheese when the eggs are properly cooked?’

ripe enough?

Do you put the right amount of cheese?

Aaron frowned and took a handful of cheese and put it on the pan.

Then he grabbed the handle of the pan and stirred it.

‘Please take it out after an appropriate amount of time.’

right time?

Wouldn’t it have been that much?

Aaron appropriately took the frying pan out of the griddle and laid out the properly prepared dishes on the plate.

it’s okay.

The omelet was properly completed.

It’s a little different from the picture in the cookbook, but I’m sure it was made according to the recipe.

‘It smells strange.’

It doesn’t matter.

I made it according to the recipe, so I’m sure it will be delicious.

“Master! Come out!”

“Ah? Are you done already?”

After a while, a boy with tousled hair appeared in the restaurant.

The boy yawned and sat down in a chair.

“The omelet is complete.”

“hmm?”

The boy frowned at the dishes on the table.

“What is this?”

“It is a dish called omelet. It is a popular food of the earth where eggs are properly grilled and eaten with steamed rice.”

Aaron shook the cookbook he was holding.

[Let’s make it right! Appropriate earth-style cooking]

[Author – Yurnet Sid]

The book contains recipes for various earth dishes.

These were pretty useful things for Aaron, who is new to cooking, to refer to.

“ha. It’s annoying. Isn’t Byeokgokdan enough to create an atmosphere?”

“It’s not possible.”

A pot in one corner of the restaurant is filled with unknown pills made from fallen leaves.

so-called Byeokgokdan.

It was said to be a substitute for a meal, but there was no substitute for anything like that.

‘I have to get my human life back.’

According to Aaron’s determination, several measures were taken in this cabin.

The most significant measure was the creation of a special warehouse directly connected to Niflheim’s storage.

To put it simply, you can use things from Niflheim here as well.

Aaron’s request was granted by the therapist.

Therefore, in the storage room on one side of the cabin, there was a pile of various ingredients and supplies that Aaron had requested.

The warehouse is automated with advanced dimensional magic, so you can call in any kind of item you want.

It had one purpose.

‘To help Master.’

The dimension called Luanan was special.

First of all, time passes more slowly than outside.

You don’t even need to sleep or eat.

However, if you ignore human needs, your mind will be devastated.

had to get it back.

human life.

The omelets and frying pans here were the result of Aaron’s hard work.

Somehow, they succeeded in bringing in cooking utensils and ingredients.

Eating is the most essential human element.

Eat even if you are not hungry.

Eat when the time comes.

eat even forcefully

“Come on, Master. Try it!”

Aaron also sat in the chair opposite.

Hot steam came up from each plate on which the omelet was placed.

The boy looked at Aaron as if he was tired, then took a spoonful of food.

“How are you?”

“Is this like that?”

“yes?”

“Did you mean to torment me by saying you would get your heart back?”

“What do you mean? I did my best.”

“You try it.”

Aaron also took a bite of his portion of the omelet.

Really appropriate...

“Eup!”

Coke! Coke!

Aaron coughed a couple of times because he had a sore throat.

There was silence for a while, then the boy spoke.

“From now on, I will cook, so you wash the dishes.”

“...yes.”

Here, too, Aaron was not dexterous.

Soon after, the boy presented a delicious stew with leftover ingredients.

I couldn’t tell who was helping.

after the meal is over.

Aaron grabbed the boy’s sleeve as he was about to disappear.

“Where are you going?”

Aaron’s strength is incomparable to that of a boy.

There was no option to take the place of the teacher.

‘If I become stronger.’

If I could completely take over my master’s footsteps.

Wouldn’t the master be able to leave this place and retire safely?

“What you looking at?”

“it’s nothing.”

Aaron ignited a quiet determination.

I had to be strong.

Even more.

Time passed again.

Aaron went through several fables, but the complete break in his memory didn’t happen like before.

still remembered

your own goals.

Aaron’s poor cooking skills improved little by little.

It was because he learned the skill by glancing over the boy’s shoulder.

Before I knew it, various flowers were blooming in the garden in front of the hut.

In terms of karma, the unit of time was meaningless.

the flow continues

Just as flowers bloom and wither in a garden, Aaron also builds up his dreams by repeating death and birth.

‘How much room will I have left?’

Time passes more slowly here than outside.

But it was flowing slowly.

Can we stop the flow of time altogether?

lack.

More time was needed.

to get stronger.

to help Master.

It was in the meantime.

Suddenly it appeared.

“...”

Aaron was lying on the bed, wrapped in a blanket.

Physiological activities such as sleep are not required here.

I just lay down and pass the time.

It was imitating human life.

Even if you are not human.

“Dream.”

Yes.

Karma is, after all, a collection of pure dreams.

From the standpoint of the dream, Aaron’s personality was nothing more than an impurity.

It was trash that had to be removed.

“To be strong.”

“To be pure and strong without being hindered by anything.”

Someone whispers.

“Strength for what?”

“Strength to gain something?”

“Wasn’t it strength to become strong?”

Aaron didn’t look back.

someone was behind

“Wasn’t this the ending you wanted for yourself?”

“Didn’t you give up your family as well? To achieve your dream.”

Aaron gave up prioritizing Nina.

It was because I wanted to become stronger.

But come now?

“When do you wish for pure strength?”

“Do you want to have a heart now?”

Purity is.

that nothing else is needed.

Excluding all filth for the sake of one and only.

even your own heart.

“True strength is not bound by anything,”

someone said.

「You have to let go of insignificant human emotions and desires.」

「In order to become pure and strong.」

Mental illness.

It’s a mental illness.

“Shut up...”

“Your obsession is proof that you are weak.”

Aaron got up from the bed.

“Hehehehehehe...”

The middle of the room.

Someone is standing by the bed.

“Damn...”

A shadow stands.

It was red like blood.

The red shadow looked at Aaron and laughed at it.

On the subject of wishing for pure strength, he criticized the contradiction of Aaron, who now wants the human heart.

‘Master.’

Aaron remembered the boy’s words.

If your dream of becoming strong is really pure, you don’t need to have a personality.

The original mind disappears and the ghost takes its place.

If so, the identity of the shadow is clear.

‘Was it like this?’

Did the tombstones without names gradually increase in this way?

Aaron glared at the red shadow.

“I will tell you.”

The red shadow held out its hand.

An insidious voice that seemed to scratch the inside rose up.

「I will tell you about pure strength.」

「Unfettered by anything and unrestrained, more pure than anything else...」

Pak!

Aaron raised the silver spear by the bed and struck the shadow.

The red shadow disappeared.

“....”

Annoying.

Aaron snorted.

Sometimes delusion is annoying.