197 – 70. I didn’t have to do at least one thing
It was a miracle.
The miracle of white turning into black.
The miracle of something soft turning into something hard.
It did not exist to change, nor was it treated to change, but such a change occurred.
In the hands of Elijah.
It was truly worthy of being called a miracle.
Elijah looked down at her own miracle and muttered seriously.
“… Why did you ride again?”
What was boiling black and black inside the pot was not a dark fireball drawn from the abyss of hell, but onion soup.
It is made by frying onions, adding water, and adding milk and cheese.
It was all white material, but the result was as black as the void of space.
“I don’t understand…” .”
Maria, who was watching next to her, had her mouth itchy.
It clearly told us the intensity of the fire and how long it should be cooked.
Nevertheless, Elijah performed the miracle of turning soup into darkness.
This is already the third time.
Maria calmly explained again.
“Ellie. So, you have to add the onions first and then fry them at medium power….”
“Umm…. I think I did that….”
Maria thought.
Is it because of magic?
The ‘mid-strength fire’ that Elijah saw here was about the size of the fire just before it burned down the entire kitchen.
Mary was by her side and only gave her advice to help Elijah do as much as possible on his own.
But if Elijah continues like this, Judah will starve today.
“Come on, Ellie. “Would you like to try it again with Mom?”
“Yes. Okay. “I’ll follow along really well this time.”
Fortunately, Elijah was not discouraged by her own failure.
She was burning with passion at the thought of preparing her food for Judah.
Before that passion burns up this kitchen, Mary decided to correct Elijah.
“Okay, okay. Let’s take it slow.”
Maria’s new teaching method was simple.
Maria starts the cooking stage first.
For example the first one.
Turn on the fire to an appropriate intensity.
Only after Elijah gets the same guess does she move on to the next step.
Fry the sliced onions.
Likewise, Elijah imitates Mary’s actions.
In this way, education was conducted one by one, adjusting the progress.
As a result, something that could easily be called a second miracle occurred.
Normal cooking has been completed.
“Hmm…. I see, the taste of food is determined by the combination of ingredients.”
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Elijah imitated Mary’s actions and understood her cooking theoretically.
“Texture is determined by the ingredients themselves, but it also has a big impact on how the ingredients are cooked and how much they are cooked.”
Ratio of spices, cooking time, degree of fire power when using fire, things like that.
When she was not imitating Maria, she had chosen things arbitrarily, but when she guessed them correctly, the results changed.
“Good job. Ellie. “You just have to do it like this.”
“Yes. “I think I know a little bit.”
“… Well, let’s try one more thing with Mom, shall we?”
“Yes, yes.”
Elijah followed Mary and completed two dishes.
Simple onion soup. And oil pasta.
It was a dish that guaranteed a minimum level of taste.
Elijah muttered after taking a bite.
“I wonder if even Judas will like it at this rate… ?”
At this level, it is guaranteed that it is worth eating.
I didn’t want to be satisfied with that.
If possible, I hope Judah eats delicious food and is happy.
His joy is his own joy.
Thinking about it made me smile.
It is a mysterious feeling.
What he is happy about is something that is physically independent of his emotions.
Nevertheless, if he is happy, he is happy himself.
Just imagining being happy makes me feel good.
He is a person who gives only beneficial experiences to oneself through his very existence, so it is impossible not to love him.
‘I thought about it and I miss you.’
It had only been an hour since we left, but my longing to see him soared.
I have to be a little patient today.
I still don’t have enough time to practice serving food to him.
It may seem bold for my first time cooking, but I was planning to prepare dinner for him today.
A hearty dinner after exercising.
… As I thought about him sweating, naughty thoughts quickly started to form.
Fortunately, Maria’s answer cut off the impure imagination.
“It’s enough to satisfy Judah.”
“I’m not satisfied with just being satisfied….”
“Judas will be happy just to see how enthusiastic he is. “Don’t feel too pressured.”
“Yes. Okay.”
Elijah smiled and answered.
Then she started preparing the next dish.
Pasta with minced meat and tomato sauce. And steak.
Soup with lightly cooked salmon added, etc.
It is different from previous dishes that were prepared with only very simple ingredients.
It was the realm of proper cooking that required the use of multiple ingredients.
Mary carefully guided Elijah one by one.
Difficulties also came to Elijah, who she quickly began to understand.
It was a knife cut.
It is no longer that difficult to memorize the combination of ingredients and follow them exactly.
But cutting a knife is a realm of experience.
Elijah, who was new to cooking in his life, had of course never held her knife in his hand.
Because it was such a dangerous task, Maria spoke firmly.
“Press your wrist down and move it back and forth as if you are slicing. At this time, you have to be careful not to slip and get hurt. “There are many cases where beginners get injured while cutting.”
Elijah did not answer but concentrated.
She starts to think again.
The food ingredients that always appear on the table are completed through this kind of labor every time.
There is no easy task in this world.
Of course, it would not be a big deal to a chef who has been doing this repeatedly for a long time.
Then I suddenly became curious.
Mom, since when did she become good at cooking?
She wasn’t like this back in the days when she lived alone in the little tree house.
With her thoughts rising and Mary’s eyes on her, Elijah finished cutting her with difficulty.
The salmon meat was cut into appropriate pieces, and the beef for steak was cut appropriately.
“Good job, Ellie. “You can just cook it like this.”
“Whoa…” .”
Elijah wiped his sweat and sighed.
For some reason, it is much more difficult and tense than when she went out to the demon world and fought.
What makes sense is that Elijah does not go into battle and fight.
She sweeps the battlefield with her magic.
This is a one-sided bombing, so it cannot be called a fight.
She quickly came to her senses and started cooking.
One thing at a time, step by step.
Although she was well versed in fire through magic, handling fire for cooking was another area.
Still, she persevered and did it.
Thinking about how this dish will end up in her Judas’ mouth.
Those luscious lips…. No, not now.
I was only nervous for a moment.
Elijah had some free time before he knew it. So much so that she can talk while cooking.
It had a big impact on changing her cutting method.
With her fingertips, she repeatedly rotated blade-like, dense blades of wind for a certain length and used them in place of her kitchen knife.
He was using a sophisticated magic control ability for cooking that would have shocked other wizards if he had seen it.
‘This is enough. ‘It’s much easier than holding a knife.’
Thanks to you, I feel more relaxed.
Elijah suddenly became curious and said.
“Mom, when did you learn to cook?”
“Huh? Ah. “Well, I’ve never cooked anything like this when the two of us lived together, so I guess I’m curious.”
Maria smiled sheepishly and looked up at the ceiling.
As if looking back on the old days.
“She learned when she started helping Ellie. At the main residence. She wasn’t good from the beginning. She learned by being scolded a lot….”
“Who is scolding whom?”
In an instant, Elijah’s voice lowered coldly.
For some reason, the ladle in her hand looked like her weapon.
Maria quickly threw up her hand.
“I don’t even remember who it is. Maybe now….”
After Balak’s death, the Bebel family collapsed.
A few people have moved to branch homes, but they are only a very small number.
The rest did not end well.
“Hmm…. “If I had known in advance, I would have scolded you.”
“Just those words are reassuring and thank you.”
Almost 10 years.
This is the period when Elijah did not know Mary.
Until now, the two had a thorough master-servant relationship.
Only extremely business-like conversations took place.
It was a time when there was no such thing as communication.
It was a little late, but now it felt like her mother and daughter were sharing a family-style bond.
I was just happy and grateful that we had reached this moment.
Elijah blurted out while stirring the soup with her ladle.
“… “It must have been difficult.”
The time when she pretended not to see herself.
Maria’s mind would never have been at ease.
Elijah understood her helplessness.
Maria was in tears, but she managed to get her mind together.
“Ellie had a harder time.”
“… ….”
“But, mom is okay now. “Because we met again like this.”
Tears formed at the corners of Maria’s smiling eyes.
Looking at her, Elijah also smiled.
“Yes. “I’m fine too.”
It was bitter and painful, but now I can talk about it like this and put it in the past.
You can move forward without clinging to the past.
Thinking of Judah, who had helped her achieve this, Elijah smiled happily.
*
“Hmm….”
While preparing dinner, Elijah continued to think.
‘Food that Judas would like.’
I can eat just about anything, but is there anything I particularly prefer?
After thinking about it, I reached a conclusion without difficulty.
‘Food eaten in the past world.’
Before she came here, all she had to do was cook the dishes he liked to eat.
She didn’t need to ask Judah what it was.
Elijah once watched all of Judah’s memories.
She stored the experience in detail in her mind.
As if she were opening her dictionary, she could glimpse his memories as if they were her own.
And the conclusion reached.
‘… ‘Stir-fried pork?’
The conclusion was simple, but it was not easy for her to implement it into reality.
‘A food made with pork cut into appropriate sizes and stir-fried in spicy seasoning with vegetables…’ . ‘It’s not a dish that can be made with the ingredients available here.’
If it simply meets the requirements of ‘pork’ and ‘spicy seasoning’, you can imitate it similarly.
However, it was impossible to reproduce that specific taste.
‘If I had thought of it earlier, I could have tried it…. ‘It’s a shame.’
First, I decided to try to imitate something similar using the materials I currently have.
“Ellie? “What are you going to do?”
Maria asked as Elijah suddenly tried to cook with spicy spices and pork.
“What Judas likes.”
“Huh? “Did Judah tell you anything?”
It was a question that was difficult to explain.
What a different world.
She would never have believed it if she hadn’t glimpsed Judah’s memories.
So she decided to gloss over it.
“It’s not like that. “I thought about the things Judah liked to eat, and I thought he might like something like this.”
No one would observe Judah as closely as Elijah, Mary was convinced.
A dish where meat is simply stir-fried with seasoning.
It wasn’t difficult for Elijah either.
But the result was completely different from what Judah remembered.
‘The color should be darker…’ . ‘The concentration of the seasoning is also the same.’
Unlike the food in his memories, the meat was light in color.
The scent is not refreshing either.
‘… Did you do it for no reason?’
Elijah became a little afraid.
*
After finishing his workout, Yuda took a quick shower and immediately went to the restaurant.
Because it was dinner time.
Normally, she should have come to meet Elijah right after he finished exercising, but for some reason she didn’t today.
She found out the reason only after arriving at the restaurant.
“… “Ellie did all this?”
The dinner served on the table was a little simpler than what we usually eat, but the quantity was no different.
Although he is not an expert in cooking, the quality of the food appears to be decent.
Elijah spoke from the side.
“Well, I didn’t do it all alone. Her mom helped out a little too.”
Judah looked at her and laughed.
‘I heard it’s cute in many different ways.’
Although she said it as if it was no big deal, the corners of her mouth kept going up as if she was proud of herself.
As if he was embarrassed, he avoided her gaze and couldn’t keep her feet still.
It’s so adorable.
Maria, who happened to be nearby, said.
“She said she wanted to cook for Judah and came to me in earnest.”
Elijah pretended not to notice her, curling his lips inward and closing them.
“Is this why you didn’t come to pick me up today?”
“Hmm, well. “You can say that.”
The sight of her pretending to be calm to hide her shame until the end was so obvious that Judah ended up laughing.
“It’s so cute I’m dying.”
“What am I…?” .”
Elijah, who couldn’t get used to her saying that she was still cute, quickly blushed.
“Let’s try the first dish of His Majesty the Glorious Emperor…” .”
“Wait a minute, let me feed you.”
Elijah hurriedly sat down next to him.
Her first bite was salmon soup.
Thin soup with salmon cut into pieces that are easy to eat in one bite.
It is a food with a strong unique flavor of salmon, cream, and ground onions.
Elijah took a spoonful and slurped it, then she put it in Judah’s mouth.
“How do you feel?”
Maria also waited nervously for his reaction.
Judah’s taste is not picky, and Elijah’s cooking skills are objectively good.
Even though she knew the answer would be that it was delicious, she was nervous for no reason.
“Mmm, mmmm.”
A savory flavor that spreads throughout your mouth. And the savory taste of salmon.
Judas nodded her head and spoke rather plainly.
“Hmm. Oh…. “Is it delicious?”
I was belatedly wondering if I had been too calm.
Although she was sincere, she should have shown more joy for Elijah, who cooked for the first time.
But Elijah immediately recognized his feelings.
“It looks really delicious.”
“… How did know.”
“I’ll know it when I see it.”
Changes in wrinkles between the eyebrows.
The beat of nodding and the look in your eyes at the food.
The time it takes to appreciate the food is answered only after the speed of chewing and the full taste of the food.
Elijah knew nothing about Judah, and his intuition was fully demonstrated even at this moment.
“I’m glad you enjoyed it.”
Elijah smiled brightly.
“I really am grateful for preparing this. “Thank you for helping my mother-in-law.”
“No, no, I was just helping.”
The full-scale dinner began in such a friendly atmosphere.
Not only the first bite of soup, but all the food was excellent.
Judas felt something similar to the absurdity.
“You’re even good at cooking…. Fortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any damage to the hand. But I think it’s okay to be bad at at least one thing.”
Elijah said indifferently.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re good at all areas, right?”
“Hmm. “That too.”
At first, she kept the fact that she failed several times a secret from him because she was ashamed of it.
A secret that only her mother and herself know.
During the meal, Elijah suddenly stood up.
“Oh, that’s right!”
“Huh?”
Then she quickly went to the kitchen and came back.
What she brought was a plate with a lid covering the contents.
“What is that?”
“Umm…. I made this to give to Judas, but I forgot. Actually, I didn’t do that well….”
“What do you think?”
“Si, can’t you be disappointed?”
Judah generously nodded her head.
She opened the lid of the plate in front of her and tried it.
For a moment he couldn’t believe his eyes.
‘This is…’ , Is it really Jeyuk?’
Elijah whispered in his ear.
“I made it by referring to what I remembered.”
“Is that possible…? .”
It is different from the real meat, but it looks quite convincing.
Judah swallowed her saliva and took a bite.
Objectively, it doesn’t taste like beef.
It is something that cannot be helped.
There is no seasoning called red pepper paste here.
But even so, I could feel that she tried to bring out the taste as much as possible.
Even though it wasn’t meat, it didn’t mean it wasn’t tasty.
“… “It doesn’t taste like that after all, does it?”
Elijah became a little glum.
“To be honest, yes, but does it have to taste that way? “I’m fine with everything Ellie does.”
“… Hmm. What is that.”
Even though I spoke bluntly, my cheeks turned red as if I was happy.
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Judah suddenly kissed her on the lips.
“… Sigh!”
Then Elijah flinched her body as if startled.
Judas was embarrassed.
Normally, she would have just smiled and accepted.
“Why, what’s wrong?”
“… “It’s spicy.”
Elijah grumbled, rubbing his lips against hers.
‘It’s spicy? … Ah.’
This is not spicy for Judah, but she is different for Elijah.
When she realized that, she immediately burst into laughter.
‘Everything is cute…. It makes me want to kiss you even more.’
Elijah, who met Judah’s playful eyes, pulled her upper body back in surprise.
“… Why do you look at me like that? What are you thinking about?”
“Well?”
“Oh, eat quickly. “It’s all going to cool down.”
“Before that, I want to give you a kiss.”
“Ugh….”
Even though Elijah hesitated, she lightly touched Judah’s lips and she fell immediately.
“It’s spicy….”
“Okay. “I won’t do that anymore.”
Judah smiled at her and handed her her milk.
Even though Elijah puffed out his lips in displeasure, she was secretly pleased with Judah’s reaction of loving her.
Seeing the two of them suffering because they liked each other, Maria just smiled happily.
As long as Elijah was happy, that was enough for her.
*
Bright sky.
The sun is shining.
The middle of summer is quickly approaching.
Judas smelled the strong scent of the sea.
A slightly salty and fishy wind from the dock.
And a very large ship anchored at the dock.
Judah was spellbound as he saw the sailboat filling his field of vision.
“Wow….”
Elijah said with his arms crossed.
She is the one who does not separate her body no matter how hot it is.
“This is a ship that will supply supplies to the midpoint of the Demon World. “After the conquest is over, it will be used as a trading ship.”
“That’s amazing….”
A sailing ship about to set sail for the first time.
Elijah decided to board the ship and check the actual route and performance of the ship.
“Shall we go?”
“Yes. “I can’t keep you waiting, so let’s go.”
And this was also Judah and Elijah’s first sailing trip, although they came for work.
