Chapter 252 252 Lunch after months
[El's POV: ]
"I finally feel alive~."
He had a way with food that I will never be able to understand. It just hits all the right spots unlike any other celestial delicacies I have had until now~.
"I absolutely agree with Miss Auriel. The things you make, however, simple looking, it always feels like I am eating food that has been enchanted by the divine sorcery of some thousand-year-old master."
"Ummm… yes. I feel the same as mister Ras does."
Cathy, well not just her but all of us here can never get enough of Ras' unique way of wording things.
He is just too good when it comes to saying things in the most unique ways.
And eating with all of them like this, under this pretty tree, and in this beautiful atmosphere of the spring garden, is always fun.
"Brother Lucy~! What is this thing called~? What did you make it with~?"
Lucy was the chef as usual and he was cooking in the magical kitchen that we keep with us all the time. It is one of the handiest things we have on us, and it isn't that costly so even though it could only be used a few times, we don't go broke when buying them in bulk.
'And after getting some good portable magic kitchen artifacts in the future, we won't even need these temporary ones.'
But it was handy. And thanks to that, we were eating a new set of delicious things that tasted extra special today since my baby bastard had been a while ago.
'He makes better things when he is sad, lol.'
The talk with the headmaster wasn't the best thing that happened to us today, however, it had ended and I do not want to think much of that anymore.
Making fun of my nessy should make the mood better.
"Hmm? Are you talking about the Srtglob Kanteo that you are eating?"
"Yes~! This is delicious~!"
"I knew you would like it, hehe."
"Yeiiiiii~. But what exactly is it?"
Lucy made special things for everyone. Special things that they would like especially well compared to the others. And Nessy, as we knew, loved the bowl of rice 'like' thing she was eating.
But it wasn't exactly rice though.
And when Lucy was about to explain what unique thing she was actually eating, I stopped her.
"So, you see, Nes…"
Just a glance from me was enough for Lucy to understand I was going to do some tomfoolery now, and he didn't even try to stop me this time.
Even he wanted to see what her reaction would be like when she listened to me.
"The thing you are eating is actually a very~ rare kind of 'item' that is born very~ rarely in the species they belong to."
"Hmmm…? Item? An item is born?"
"Yes… the sole purpose of their birth is ultimately their deaths, so, they are considered 'items' from the moment they are born. And to the moment they become what is on your plate right now."
The ones here always like when I am talking dramatically since whenever I am in this mood, using this specific tone, everything seems to have gone still, and a heaviness fills the atmosphere where every word from me feels more impactful…
'One can read back on the same thing I just told her while imagining this kind of 'vibe' and they will get what I mean actually.'
I am good at this, everyone knows.
And despite the fact that she knows me the best among them, she always falls for this 'dramatic' tone.
"W-w-what do you mean? I… I don't… I don't understand El." She threw down the spoon on the table after taking one last bite of the meat in the gravy below the layer of rice.
"You don't, sweetheart? Then let me elaborate it for you."
She was eating that bowl of rice with the biggest spoon we had here, and she was savoring every bit of the flavor until I told her that.
And now, her eyes were big as she doubted what the hell in the world had she eaten just now.
"So you see… in a faraway land, there exists a kind of plant species that lives in large communities. Have families, and also villages. However, they are plants at the end of the day."
This is true. That place is just three planets away in this very solar system as well.
"However, there is a tradition among those creatures who have as low of an intelligence as trolls."
"Tradition…?"
"Yes. A tradition…
Every month, these creatures gather every single one of their kind's people, children being a priority, who possess a white head and offer them to the 'Large beings' who live there.
And they have a black head if you want some reference, but I know you don't, right Nessy?"
"…what are you talking about, El?! What are these 'Large beings'?! And why would those creatures give away the children and their own kind to someone else?!"
"Because of the delicious fertilizer these 'Large beings' or, as we all know them, Humans, provide them."
"H-h-humans?"
Now, my Nessy had a disgusted look on her face along with a deep sense of regret.
"Yes, humans. Humans that discovered that place one day, started living there. Hunted the 'food' on that planet, and, in that time, they found out just how delicious these white-headed plants are when prepared with the finest meat of newborn Swinklin D, a pig-like creature, old shrimps of the deep sea who had almost been on the verge of natural death, and, the special spices that they make by grinding some of the rarest kinds of insects-"
"Stop! Stop El stop! Just stop! Please don't tell me any more! And I don't want to eat this! Ughhhh! Why did you feed me something like this, brother Lucy?! Just why?!
Don't you care for those pitiful whiteheads?! Those babies?! And old shrimps?! Really?! Why did you do thisssssss?!"
Now she was crying… haaaa. A soothing sight to my poor heart.
"Hehehehe, she is just joking Agnes."
"Kekeke, ptfff."
"Ahem. That wasn't the best joke, miss Auriel. However, I must commend the old shrimp part. That was personal, wasn't it?"
"W-why are you people laughing?! Uhun uhun! Don't you feel any shame?!"
"Lily… it was a joke. Calm down please-"
"You shut up!"
Only Lily didn't understand this joke. She really was a funny little loli.
"Howwwww couldddd youuuuuu?!"
But still, my Nessy was crying.
And it brightened up my little bastard's mood completely as well.
And, since it was over-the-top dramatic, it will be fun calming down my little Nes.
"Nessy darling. I was just joking you know?"
"Nooooo! You were serious! I know you were!"
Of course, lol. What I said was true in a way, but not exactly how I said it.
But she was better off not knowing that for now.
The fun had just begun, after all.
"Okey, okey. The part with the baby pigs and old shrimps was a lie."
"See! I knew ittttt! You bad bad person! I don't-"
"They use the babies that have freshly come to life and shrimps that are just about to see the light of the afterlife. And yes. They are quite thorough with their ways, you see. They first-"
"Shut up! Just shut uppppp! No! I don't even want to be here anymore! You are just a bad person! Hump!"
She doesn't like dark humor, lol.
That's what makes teasing her so fun~.
"Hehehe. No, baby. Don't go. Come here. I'm just joking."
"No!"
"Let me tell you the truth then. Don't you like that thing? It's delicious, isn't it?
Is it right to leave the thing that Lucy made with sooooooo much care, just for you?"
And emotionally blackmailing her was even more fun, hehehe~.
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