episode_0353

As I thoughtlessly prepared dinner, the amount of food I ate grew beyond my imagination.

Looking at the amount of chicken porridge that seemed to be enough for 10 people at best, I felt dizzy as to what to do with it.

‘Compared to me, Ethan eats a little more, but he’s not a big eater to begin with… .’

Even if the two of us eat hard, we wonder if we can empty a quarter of this deep pot.

Matching the amount of rice and water to 1:1 may have been the beginning of tragedy.

‘When I think about it, the ratio is 1:1, and it’s not a recipe for two people.’

Considering the amount of broth made from one chicken, at best it is enough for five or six meals, and since it was boiled with a lot of rice, the amount doubled.

Considering only Ethan and I’s meal, we had to use only half of the broth to make a slightly watery risotto, and drink the rest of the broth lightly in the morning before leaving.

… Instead of making a pot full of chicken porridge with the carbohydrate ratio raised to the limit.

“, first of all, let’s eat as much as possible today, then eat it for breakfast tomorrow and then leave. If you keep the lid closed overnight, it won’t spoil overnight.”

“… I understand, Master Ethan.”

“If it still remains… It’s a pity, but I have no choice but to throw it away.”

“… … .”

Recently, I never failed to cook at a camping trip, so I felt confident.

The good news was that the dish itself was not a failure. The rice soaked in rich chicken broth spread smoothly in the mouth, successfully reminding me of the chicken porridge I had eaten in my past life.

I guess it was a bit comforting to know that there was nothing wrong with dinner, just that it was more than necessary.

“I understand. Well, first of all, eat before it gets cold… .”

-Dag-dak, dag-dak, dag-dak.

In the end, I gave up on Ethan’s solution and was about to roughly prepare dinner when I suddenly heard the sound of a carriage coming from a bit far away.

I looked around for a moment, wondering if they were people who, like us, were planning to use this area as a campsite. Two carriages with a somewhat familiar design appeared in front of us, and people with familiar faces, including the carriage driver, were also getting off the carriages one by one.

“I’m glad I arrived in time to a meadow where I could set up my tent.”

“I could have arrived 2 hours earlier as usual. … One of the carriage drivers said we could take a shortcut, but if we hadn’t suddenly gone into the forest.”

“It was a shortcut. The carriage was just too big to fit in.”

“No one calls a road that cannot be reached by carriage a shortcut, Miss Silena.”

“Noisy. You didn’t even drive. Don’t tell me to do this or that to the person you got from me.”

“In the first place, this carriage itself is owned by the imperial family?! And you said you wanted to go with the hero first, so you forced yourself to drive the carriage… .”

“You can’t fight, Princess Seraphine… . Sis, Miss Silena… .”

Their hero party is still happening today.

At first glance, the sight of the three main heroines bickering like that may seem problematic, but in fact, it means that the hero is managing the likeability of the main heroines amazingly.

If Gemmojoshegigot makes a gesture that shows he is particularly attracted to one of the three people, then it won’t just be a verbal rant like that, but a really bloody cat fight may break out.

The current situation can be seen as a state where both people know that they have a crush on the hero, and although I want to monopolize the hero’s love, I don’t want to give up my friendship with other women.

If you continue well until the end in this state, you can even see the harem ending.

‘… Actually, unless you’re going to see the harem ending, there’s no need to manage your likeability that much.’

As I continued my meal with Ethan while listening only to the story of the party of heroes whose intentions were still unknown, it wasn’t long before a story that caught Ethan and I’s interest came on the wind.

“… I’m hungry.”

“Thanks to someone, dinner got late, but it can’t be helped. First of all, we have to set up the tent before it gets dark, so I have no choice but to give up on dinner.”

“… what? Nonsense… .”

“Ah, Miss Agnes. If you’re really hungry, would you like to eat some raw carrots? Something I always carry with me in case I get hungry while practicing swordsmanship… .”

“… I’d rather starve than eat something like that.”

“… … .”

“… … .”

Ethan and I, who were listening in silence to the hero party’s story, quietly met our eyes.

… It was a moment when I had a great excuse to dispose of the unnecessary amount of chicken porridge.

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“… I don’t know if I can afford to eat dinner like this. I think I interrupted Prince Ethan and Miss Lilith’s meal for no reason.”

“No. There are plenty of meals, so please eat them, Princess Seraphine.”

“Okay. Lilith was already in trouble for making too much dinner. We are truly grateful if we have more mouths to feed.”

Ethan and I had already cooked so many meals that we had trouble handling them, so the group of warriors who showed up at the right time were truly welcome guests.

Moreover, since there were 8 members of the hero’s party, it was exactly the perfect opportunity to cook all the dishes that had increased to 10 people.

“Did Lilith do this?”

“Yes, Miss Agnes.”

“… It’s my first time trying it, but it’s pretty decent.”

“Thank you, Miss Agnes.”

Well, in this world, chicken broth dishes are chicken stew or chicken risotto, so this might be my first time eating authentic Korean chicken porridge.

In the first place, Agnes rarely praised others, so this should have been considered a pretty good result.

Even though it was Korean style and contained a lot of garlic, everyone seemed to be eating it well. Later, Silena and Agnes compete to the point where they feel that the amount is not enough.

“Aren’t you eating too much meat as an elf? You stop eating meat.”

“The only vegetarians in the elven forest are old elders. And since I am an elf and still growing up, I need to eat a lot. Unlike you, a human who has barely grown up to that level.”

“… No matter how much an elf grows, his chest will always be a wooden plank.”

“Your breasts are smaller, human.”

“No, you are smaller.”

“I will grow, and you stopped there.”

“If you were born as an elf, there is no chance of growing up there any further. This has already been proven by reports on racial characteristics from various academic societies… .”

“Is it meaningful to talk about breast size at the dinner table? Since genes account for more than 80% of human physical development anyway, this is a meaningless story… .”

“Noisy, chest monster human.”

“Yes, it would be nice for you to grow up.”

“… Well, there’s nothing bad about it.”

“… … .”

“… … .”

To make small dogs that bark furiously quiet, bring a tiger in front of them.

In 『Luminor Academy』, there were two people competing for first and second place in terms of breast size, so as soon as I intervened in the conversation, they kept quiet and focused on eating, and it was Thomas the spearman who opened his mouth first to change the topic of conversation, which was embarrassing for men. It was.

“Keuhum. Well, by the way, I feel really sorry for Lady Lilith and Prince Ethan if you take it like this, but is there anything we can do to help you in return?”

“That’s right! I’m definitely very sorry to both of you for just getting the better of me!”

“Well… ? As I said before, I really only shared it because I had too much leftover food, and I wasn’t expecting anything in return. There is no need to worry, Mr. Thomas.”

“Ah, if you don’t mind, I would like to do a swordsmanship sparring with Lady Lilith in return… .”

“That’s just what you want to do, Natalie. … You can ignore what Natalie just said, Miss Lilith.”

“I will accept your heart, Miss Natalie.”

“… … Yes.”

… Maybe it’s because they lost two games in a row to me, but they seem very angry.

If it was a sparring session inside the academy, I could have accepted it since there were safety measures in place, but if I sparred with Natalie incorrectly outside of this, there could have been a real disaster, so I politely declined.

For reference, Natalie’s growth rate was slightly slower compared to the original. The fact that I reached the entry level of Sword Expert so suddenly was a factor in my catching up with my skills, but that was not the only reason.

First of all, in my case, I was leveling up at a density so high that I couldn’t even imagine Lilith in the original, through experience farming in the Witch’s Forest, the Witch’s Pendant I received from Lara, and a week of survival training in a natural science class. , whereas Natalie… .

‘A good event to level up as Natalie is the Lilith Rescue Operation in Part 2, or the Secret Event at the Auguste Mansion in Part 3… .’

In both events, it was a good battle to use Natalie as the main tank, as the sword-using enemy was the mid-boss and the final boss. … The problem is that neither of those events occur in this world.

Ethan’s rehabilitation, and Lizzie’s survival.

Just as there are pros and cons, Natalie in the world where Ethan and Karaham were not corrupted missed out on a major growth event, and as a result, her initiation into a sword expert and her development into a sword master were delayed.

‘It would be nice if we could somehow develop Natalie into something special.’

I wonder if this guy knows Natalie’s growth status now.

It was a day where no matter how much I tried, my useless worries only deepened little by little.