44 Lesson 43

The next morning the woods were dark and I didn't know what time the hell it was, but Aeta was waking up to the time I could call it early morning.

Ethereum began to prepare breakfast with Arezel and Ed still asleep on the sidelines.

Cut the vegetables and meat on the slab and keep the vegetables with strong ash juice in a bowl filled with water.

While cutting ingredients, take the dashi by simmering out the vegetable crumbs that were too much.

When finished cutting, add the vegetables in the broth and cover the pan and simmer.

Aotearoa waited for the vegetables in the pan to boil, taking care of the iron sword.

After a while Ed wakes up, but when he makes sure Arezel is still asleep, he doesn't speak out and just keeps saying hello to Ethereum with a facial movement.

Aotearoa doesn't speak either, just snorts back.

I can boil the meat where the pan is boiling and the vegetables are softening. Because I imagine pork juice, I used Bore's meat.

Boa's meat tastes slightly closer to that of a pig than that of a pig.

Where the meat has gone through the fire, melt the seasoning very similar to the miso.

As the aroma of pork juice drifted around, the smell caught me and Allezel woke up.

"Huh, was that Mr. Sota awake? Oh, my God."

Arezelle woke up physically while she was stretching.

"Good morning, it'll take a little longer for you to make it look like breakfast, so you can still sleep."

"No, I'll wake up too and help you with something. Or is it something like breakfast? Aren't you making breakfast?

"It's normal for me to have this kind of thing for breakfast, but I thought maybe Arezel wouldn't be able to eat it."

Take the lid of the burning pan and show the contents.

With a large amount of loosening, the aroma of pork juice is released at once.

"Wow, that smells good. Looks delicious!"

Arezel tries to climb out and peek inside, but Ethereum closes the lid.

"Not yet. Just a little bit more time to eat. Before that, you should wash your face because you have water in your bucket."

Apart from Ed's drinking water, I have water in a slightly smaller bucket and a towel.

"Thank you. I don't know what I'm getting from, but I'm just getting more thankful..."

I said it in the second half in a voice so small that it didn't sound like Ethereum.

As Arezel washed her face back, Ed had already started eating.

"Sota, is there anything I can do to help?

"No, I'm done making it, I'm fine"

Arezel was sorry that he was only letting his benefactor do his job. Let's not let him down. I drooled.

"Uh, it would help if you could help me clean up when I'm done eating. I'm hungry and washing is a hassle."

"Yes, I'm good at washing things, so leave it to me!

When Allezel raised his face vigorously, he ripped his chest and slapped him with his fist with Don.

"It's always my job to clean the instruments I used in alchemy!

"He's reliable."

Alchemy also has precision instruments, so being entrusted with it did not just mean that it was being handled in a chore, but showed that it was being handled politely.

"Shall we eat because it's time to boil it? Here, take this and sit down."

Encouraging Arezel to do so, Aotearoa leaves a pork broth in the vessel.

Remove freshly baked bread and jam with pork juice broth and pass to Arezel.

The combination I used to eat at breakfast when I was in Japan, but Aotearoa surprisingly liked this.

It's the first time for Arezel to carry it slowly into his mouth.

"Hot! But...... it's delicious. Something relaxing."

"Maybe it's a cat tongue? I had a lot of heat at dinner yesterday... see, I should drink some water too"

Contains a little water handed to you in your mouth and distracts you from tongue paralysis.

"Yes, things that have been hot for a long time are a bit..."

Tongue out, hands up.

"It's what I was in the pot just now, so you should eat it after it cools down a little"

Aotearoa told me so, and when I put the vessel down, I put my hand on the bread.

The bread was also bought freshly baked, so it was something else but not enough to cause burns.

"It's so soft and delicious. Fluffy and other, amazing bag."

"Well, yeah. I think that soup will go with the bread, so take your time."

"Yes!"

Arezel mouths it with a huffle of cold.

"Yeah, it's delicious after all! Would it taste good if I put bread on it?

I tear the bread in my hand, dip it in a pork juice broth and carry it to my teat.

"Yum, I've never had this soup before, but it's good! Is it the taste of Mr. Sota's hometown?

"That's what I used to make at home. The ingredients and flavorings are slightly different."

"Um, it's nice to be good at cooking. I'm not at all..."

Arezel doesn't stop eating while depressed.

"When you're ready to make it, you can do it at some point, because Arezel's still young, so practice it."

Until he was about twenty years old, Elf had a similar way of being a human race, where he stops growing once.

People are different after that, but many elves remain young after hundreds of years like Karena.

"Yeah, right? Good luck!"

Then they replaced the bread. The two of them filled their hunger.

As declared before the meal, Arezel was in charge of the washing.

At the end of the washing process, prepare the dishes for the journey.

"Well, you don't forget anything. Time to leave."

"Yes! Today is the day you want to get out of the woods. Maybe, but at a distance, I think it's time."

"Yeah, well, if it takes too long, I'm gonna come out with your search party or something"

"Right. I managed to get before that..."

Arezel sweated on her forehead.

Upon completion of the checking of the luggage, Arezel boarded first, and Aotearoa watered the bonfire, covering it with dirt and extinguishing the fire.

"Come on, let's go"

Ed leaves when he responds with a honking response to Ethereal's words.

The atmosphere was the same in the woods, but that's why we keep walking smoothly without anything happening.

Then I went on for a while and saw the light outside.

"Ah, Mr. Sorta. Outside! You can finally get out!!

"Oh, it's been a long time since you've seen the sun."

The two of them and one of them were able to get through the woods before noon.

The meadows were spreading beyond through the forest, and far beyond that the valley showed itself.

"Through that valley, the land of the elves"

"Yes, there's an inquisition at the entrance to the valley, so I think if we go through there, the rest will go smoothly"

Aotearoa heard it and sighed.

"Ha, you mean that examination is the problem..."

"It's okay! I'm here, and I have a letter, so I'm sure you'll be fine!

Allezel says so strongly, but Aotearoa remembered her anxiety and stared at the distant mountains.