Chapter 877 – 877. Hero Academy (6)
‘Armonia, make some cooking utensils and ingredients.’
[All right.]
As soon as I spoke to Armonia, items suddenly started pouring out of my cloak.
All of the beings that poured out were items related to cooking.
Pots, pans, utensils, forks, spoons, chopsticks, etc…
And after that, various food materials followed.
I laughed hysterically as I watched something spill out of my cloak.
‘It’s like a versatile bag…’
[Enel is omnipotent.]
‘…’
I know…
I couldn’t bear to say that through communication.
I shook my head like that and started to organize tableware and food materials spilled on the floor.
Let me organize it like that…
“Did you carry all of them?”
Sung Soo-ah was looking at the spilled items with a surprised expression.
It wasn’t just Seong Soo-ah who was surprised.
“… What is that?”
Yeriel was also staring at me with her wide eyes.
No, it seems like I’m looking at the items spilling out from inside my cloak, not me…
I nodded and answered.
“Uh.”
“How is that possible? No matter how you look at it, it’s not at a level that can be contained within the cloak…”
As Seong Su-ah said, the items poured out now were not at a level that could be put into the cloak.
One pot was bigger than my head, and the frying pan was bigger than that.
If you had those two things in your body, you couldn’t know it even if you wanted to know it from the outside.
However, I went beyond that and took out a lot of breakable tableware and hard-to-maintain ingredients.
There were things even more absurd than them.
“That… Isn’t it a burner?”
“No, I think that’s right.”
Only four portable burners protruded.
And then…
“… Do you have a pressure cooker?”
“…”
I just covered it up with lies.
“I have an item to keep things.”
“Oh my god…”
“There is such an item… ?”
Seong Soo-ah and Yeriel looked genuinely surprised.
I was amazed to see the two of them.
‘… It’s not a big deal in Yggdrasil.’
In Yggdrasil, all beings can use the inventory by default.
Even the residents who live there are no exception.
‘But… Yggdrasil is a strange case.’
Come to think of it, I had never seen the concept of an inventory in any other world except for Yggdrasil.
And above all, inventory cannot be said to be an unconditional advantage.
The inventory used in Yggdrasil also had the disadvantage that it could not be used in other worlds.
Yeah, it’s much better than nothing…
With that thought in mind, I started cooking.
‘Armonia, show me the recipe.’
[Do you have a dish you want?]
‘Just simply eat stew and meat…’
What I was trying to make wasn’t a fancy dish that I couldn’t taste in my life.
All I wanted was a level of cooking that I could eat while camping.
‘In a place like this, these dishes are the best.’
The first thing I did was cook rice.
After washing the rice, I put water and rice in a pressure cooker and put it on the burner.
After that, I sliced up various vegetables, meat, and kimchi, put them in a pot, and started adding the ingredients step by step as written in the recipe.
The quality of the knife used to cut the ingredients and the timing of adding the ingredients to the soup, there was no corner missing.
‘Looking at it at a time like this, hand techniques are fraudulent.’
I checked my temperament window, admiring my cooking skills.
[Korean food LV 85], [Western food LV 86], [Lunch food LV 89]…
There were a lot of temperaments related to cooking.
I wasn’t particularly interested in it, but it was a temperament I developed when I occasionally cooked on a ship.
In fact, it would be easy to eat if the dish itself was made with Enel.
But I threw away that convenience and efficiency and started grilling the meat next to me.
As I grilled the meat, Yeriel, who was eating an energy bar next to me, muttered to herself.
“Steak with kimchi stew… ?”
As Yeriel said, the meat I was grilling was a great relief.
The tenderloin was already seasoned, and I was baking it with olive oil and butter.
The combination seemed odd.
But I gave a rough answer to Yeriel’s self-talk.
“I like it.”
“…”
Not kidding, it really was my favourite.
Rice, kimchi stew, steak…
Light rice, spicy kimchi stew, and greasy steak in between.
I’ve always loved that combination.
And Seong Soo-ah, who heard my answer…
“… It seems to fit surprisingly well.”
I was gulping and staring at my cooking process.
Before anyone knew it, Seongsuah and Yeriel ate half of the energy bar (food developed for eating in the dungeon) and did not put any more in their mouths.
‘Okay, keep watching.’
This was the reason why I deliberately made cooking utensils and ingredients out of Enel rather than finished dishes.
In terms of efficiency, it was convenient to use Enel to prepare already-prepared dishes.
But I felt that if I did that, the two women next to me would distrust my food.
Try the kimchi stew and steak suddenly boiling in the cloak.
Who would want to eat…
No matter how much you want to eat, the thought of holding a spoon will disappear without knowing what is in the contents.
In contrast, I was cooking next to the two of them, revealing everything like an open kitchen restaurant.
Every time I was cooking, Sung Soo-ah and Yeriel, who were next to me, threw words at me as if talking to myself.
“… It is not very efficient.”
“Right, it’s cumbersome.”
“In a place like this, this… Energy bars are better.”
“… Okay.”
The two sympathized with each other and exchanged conversations, but the energy bar they were holding in their hands was only half eaten and they did not put it into their mouths anymore.
I smiled at the conversation between the two.
“I don’t want to eat something so tasteless.”
“… Really looks like a kid And it tastes better than you think.”
“As you said, my taste is like that of a child. And it doesn’t look appetizing to me.”
“Ugh…”
I focused on cooking again, smiling at Sung Su-ah and Yeriel’s grumbling.
After cooking like that, all the dishes were completed before I knew it.
After I cooked rice and soup, I put the well-grilled steak on a bowl, then I put the asparagus and paprika that I had grilled with the steak.
Then he took out a folding table from his cloak, unfolded it, and placed the food behind it.
“It’s fine.”
As I said that, I put a spoonful of rice and a spoonful of kimchi stew into my mouth.
“Big… After all, the one I made is the best.”
It wasn’t empty talk.
‘And… I made it, but it’s really admirable.’
It was funny to say this with my own mouth, but it was sincere.
If I had worked hard and had a talent for cooking, I wouldn’t have said this.
The feelings I felt now were similar to when I used Yeonho’s ability to use swordsmanship.
It feels like playing a game with cheat keys.
As I ate the food with such admiration, I heard a pair of saliva dripping from the side.
“Gulp…”
“Gulp…”
Ignoring the sound of saliva going down, I sliced up the steak and popped a piece into my mouth.
He chewed on the meat I grilled and never stopped praising.
“After all, the meat is the best.”
“…”
“…”
I glanced at the two of them staring at me as they continued to eat.
They didn’t seem to realize that I was looking at them because I was wearing a cape.
Even Yeriel… I even drool at times.
‘… Is my personality declining because of my young body, or is it just like that…’
I laughed inwardly and observed the two of them.
How to say… It felt like eating while watching an interesting video.
As I ate like that, the rice bowl, the soup bowl, and all the food on the plate were empty.
“Ah, I ate well.”
“Ah…”
“Ah…”
The two of them made a desperate expression as if their souls were being sucked into the end of a fun mukbang.
Then, suddenly, they started staring at the energy bars they were holding.
No matter how efficient the energy bar was, it was just an energy bar in the end, and it’s not that it doesn’t taste bad… It was an energy bar after all.
After looking at the food I ate, I looked at the energy bar and couldn’t seem to put it in my mouth.
I smiled when I saw the two of them.
“Would you like to eat those?”
“… Do we look like people who eat leftovers?”
“Would you mind feeding me what I left behind?”
I didn’t talk about it with a joke as much as this time.
“Usually the three of us eat together, so out of habit, I made several servings. It’s a waste to throw it away, so why don’t you eat it?”
To get rid of any justification for refusal, I lit the burner of the kimchi stew, which was still hot.
As soon as I lit up the kimchi stew, Yeriel stared at her pot and opened her mouth.
“… Do you know what’s in it?”
If you’re going to say that, why don’t you turn your eyes somewhere else?
I replied with a laugh.
“I don’t play with food.”
“…”
“And I was going to eat it too, so you thought you were playing a joke?”
“… But.”
Yeriel also had seen her from the side, so she didn’t have any strange suspicions.
I lit the stew and started grilling the meat right away.
As I started to grill the meat, Seong Soo-ah asked with a surprised expression.
“Why is the meat suddenly… ?”
“Eat whatever you were going to eat anyway.”
“Ah…”
Seong Soo-ah and Yeriel did not say anything of refusal anymore.
It looked like he really wanted to eat it.
It didn’t take long to complete.
It was because the rice and soup were already finished, and the meat needed to be re-roasted.
After I finished the food, I put it on the table and told the two of them.
“Eat.”
At my words, Sung Soo-ah and Yeriel slowly approached, holding the half-eaten energy bar tightly in their hands.
Like mice approaching to put a bell around the cat’s neck…
Sung Soo-ah, who arrived at the simple table, asked me a question in a low voice.
“If… Do you do this to your colleagues?”
“Uh. I am in charge of the meal.”
“I am surprised… You look like a leader at first glance.”
“I am the leader. It’s just that I like to cook.”
“… Okay.”
Seong Soo-ah answered like that and sat down on the floor, while Yeriel sat down next to Seong Soo-ah and looked at me carefully.
“I’ll tell you just in case… I hope I didn’t do anything weird. For each other…”
“As I said before, I don’t play with food.”
Of course it’s fake
I do not choose any means or methods against those who are judged to be enemies.
Of course, you can play with food in the process.
But one thing is for sure…
“… I believe you.”
It was the fact that they did not do anything strange to the food of the two now, but rather did their best to cook.
Yeriel took a spoon and said to Seong Soo-ah.
“Sua, I’ll eat first.”
“Yes? Why… ?”
“No matter how suspicious you are, it’s a situation. Just in case, I’ll check the basics.”
“Well, if that’s the case, I’ll check… !”
“No. Even if you look at it like this, my drug resistance is higher. Follow me.”
“… Yes.”
Sung Soo-ah started waiting with a slightly sullen expression.
Yeriel started eating slowly, leaving Sung Soo-ah, who had become calm.
Yeriel took a small spoonful of rice to suit her body type, and after that, she also ate a spoonful of stew.
At first, eating food calmly to match the appearance… I knew it, but
‘… He’s like a real kid.’
He ate a spoonful of rice and soup, then a piece of steak, and suddenly he started eating like crazy.
It wasn’t a joke, it was the momentum to overwhelm Sung Soo-ah’s food.
Surprised by Yeriel’s appearance, Seongsuah slowly opened her mouth.
“Yes, Miss Yeriel… ?”
“Ah!”
Yeriel came to her senses at the sound of Seongsuah’s voice and checked her condition.
Yeriel, who said she would only eat one spoonful, had eaten more than half before she knew it.
Even the person himself didn’t know it, but there were a few grains of rice stuck in his mouth.
At first, I thought it was because of my original personality or excessive hunger, but…
“Big… That’s great. I never thought I would make food that tastes like this in a place like this.”
Yeriel was genuinely admiring the food I made.
Yeriel, who was praising me in the middle of the day, said to Seong Soo-ah, who was sitting next to her.
“Sua… Try it too.”
“… Yes.”
Seong Soo-ah, who started eating after Yeriel’s permission fell…
“And… !”
She started eating my food quickly, admiring the same way as Yeriel.
Seeing the normally quiet two people admiring the food like that, I shrugged my shoulders without realizing it.
“How is it? Do you still think those energy bars are better?”
“…”
Seong Soo-ah, who heard my words…
“Rain… In an emergency, this is also important.”
She slowly began to put the energy bar in her hand into her pocket.
And then…
“Daddy, let’s eat quickly, Miss Yeriel. The other colleagues will be waiting for you.”
“… Okay.”
Only then did Yeriel smile, put her energy bar in her pocket and start eating her food.
For reference, it took less than 3 minutes for the food to disappear from the table.
