Chapter 187 – Episode 187. Did You Reconcile
Waking up alone early in the morning is something I’ve gotten used to after entering the Demon King’s Territory.
But today, the person who caused it took the initiative to help directly.
“Is the table ready?”
“Yeah~ Now I just need to set the dishes.”
The preparation of the breakfast together with the favor was carried out much more skillfully than expected.
It was because she was continuing to cook while preparing the ingredients with a very skillful skill, even though the future that had fallen into madness was overshadowed.
“Smells good~ How is it? Do you think it went well?”
“Um, how are you?”
“How is it, what is it? I asked you to leave it to me this morning.”
She sensed that it was done right just by smelling it, but she was just getting drunk with a careless attitude as she was stirring the stew.
It was nice to see that it seemed brighter than before, but on the other hand, it also looked very bitter.
“Because the time I was alone was that long. I don’t know how many years it’s been since I’ve done cooking properly. From a certain point on, I didn’t even eat, I dug up corpses and lived…”
“…”
“… Ahaha, was this a bit depressing?”
Celica smiled shyly and poured a ladleful of stew into the bowl.
Afterwards, she put the spoon she had put down near her into her stew, and she smiled as she turned the bowl towards me.
“Well, you won’t have to think about that right now. So I thought it would be good to try these things when I had a chance… As expected, since I made it based only on my memory, I don’t have confidence in my taste.”
“So you want me to sample it?”
If that’s the case, you should do it anyway. It’s been a while since I tried to hold the spoon of the bowl that was given out. Before my hand reached out, Celica grabbed the spoon first, scooped out the contents, and gently handed it to me.
“Come on, ah~”
And the voice that comes out of the gaping mouth.
“… Celica.”
“My hand will fall, quickly~ Ah~”
“Ymir is watching.”
The moment when tension is overtaken by a sudden act of affection.
I couldn’t hear the conversation very well because of her distance, but I could immediately sense that she was staring at me, perched on a ledge in the shade.
It wasn’t a very good atmosphere.
In the yard where her face was hidden so far, the relationship suddenly improved and her face was revealed, so it would be natural.
“Huh~”
However, unlike me, who feels nervous about it, Celica lets her snort with ease. Her squinting eyes seemed to be up to something.
That too would be called playful. However, unlike what Ymir usually sees, do you feel something extremely ‘sad’?
“Then there is nothing you can do.”
Still, I’m glad that he seems to be listening to me well. I thought about it for a while.
“Whoa. Whoa~”
Celica, blowing her breath on her spoon as it was, she pointed the spoon back at me and said,
“Come on, ah~”
“…”
“What’s the matter? It seemed hot, so I just cooled it down.”
Her lips stretched out and her smile made her look like a fox.
Yes, a face that makes me want to.
“By the way, if you refuse this time, I’ll put it in your mouth and feed you. Isn’t it a bit like receiving breakfast with a French kiss from a party member’s daughter before breakfast?”
“… You are real.”
It seems that I came to the conclusion that I will stay calm until I find the witch through the conversation that took place this morning, but I think I was wrong.
It no longer threatens the party members, but the dark inside is still the same.
The intention was not pure malice, but I couldn’t erase the thought that the quality was bad in that it was good intention that abused others’ intentions.
“Are you really not going to eat it? Then…”
“I lost, you can eat it.”
But, well, if he is also a personality, then it must be a personality.
As she finally resigned herself and put the spoon she had given her into her mouth, a bright smile began to appear on Celica’s face.
“How does it taste? Are you okay?”
“… Mmm.”
A moaning sound coming out of your mouth.
The reason she couldn’t answer right away wasn’t because her cooking wasn’t particularly tasty.
Rather good. It’s even more than anything I’ve ever made.
Even so, the reason I couldn’t answer right away was because I felt that something was going wrong with the current dish.
“… Something tastes familiar.”
Have you ever eaten one?
Of course, she hadn’t eaten the dishes Celica made, but what she ate at that time was relatively mediocre.
Of course, in the future, even such an ordinary level could have grown to this point with the potential of a hero…
“You made it.”
What came out of her mouth was a story that was a little different from what she expected.
“… I?”
“Yeah, that was a dish I would make for myself someday. The taste is familiar, but it feels like you have never tasted it before, right?”
Celica smiled bitterly and served the stew one by one in her bowl.
There was a bit of nostalgia in her eyes as she looked down at her ladle.
“Lastly, I tried to make use of the taste that Dave served me in my own way. It’s been so long I can’t remember… It’s nice to hear that it still tastes good.”
She talks about it as something that will happen someday, but for her, it will be nothing but the past.
No matter how much she returned to the past, it happened to her, and there is a possibility that all of those things will happen in the future.
“… Then.”
If so, will she have to live with that bitterness forever?
Am I unable to completely fill her emptiness?
“Then, I will try to make something more delicious than this in the future.”
No, if you knew, you could just fix it.
And the future that she fixes will go in a completely different direction from her memories.
Even if you feel nostalgia, it is so intense that even that longing fades.
“Anything tastier?”
“Well, because I am obligated to take care of the party’s nutrition and taste. Couldn’t it be said that not meeting the standards of a party member is not qualified?”
More than anything, I do a lot of things and I’m proud of the skills I’ve learned.
Considering that this is the stage I will reach in the future, it is only natural that there will be a desire to make it better.
“Whoa, what is that?”
Celica burst into laughter at my words and hit her with her elbow.
“To think you’d cook enough food to satisfy me, who already has the power to defeat the demon lord. Anyway, isn’t Dave being too cheeky?”
It was an obvious provocation, but I didn’t think it was too bad.
At least in her now, she didn’t show the same melancholy as before.
“No matter how accomplished you are as a warrior, I didn’t expect the topic to come out of your mouth. Aren’t you becoming too arrogant unlike before?”
“How are you going to save the world without being this arrogant?”
The hero’s refutation of failing to save the world.
But there was no concern in her eyes as she looked back at me.
“So, I’ll be looking forward to it.”
Unlike then, I know that I am not alone now.
While looking at her positively as she regained her composure by taking comfort in that, she began to feel the gaze of someone who had just come out of her cave.
“… Celica?”
It was Verdia who followed Ymir.
Normally, she wakes up earlier than me and devotes herself to her training and prayers, but perhaps because she had exhausted her stamina in her actions last night, there were quite a few parts that were disorganized in her appearance.
“Ah, Verdia unnie~ Good morning~”
Celica greeted Verdia lightly.
Afterwards, her gaze moved to the food lined up in front of Celica and me, and her eyes began to twinkle.
“Serica, that… Are you okay now?”
“Are you okay? What?”
“That, so… If you look at Dave’s face…”
“Ehehe, I’ll explain that to you while we eat, so would you like to sit down for now?”
Celica casually pointed her hand at the table.
Facing that bright appearance, Verdia hesitated, but she nodded and started to approach Yumir.
“Ymir, do you know what this is?”
“I don’t know, it must have been a bout while we were away.”
Ymir grumbled and drank from the glass of water in front of me. It looked like he still had a corner where he wasn’t kangi, but he didn’t seem to be in trouble right away.
Of course, the story may change depending on how the conversation goes later, but…
“Don’t worry.”
While I was worried about that, Celica smiled bitterly at me and said.
“At least I will continue acting pretending to lose my memory. Of course, if you meet her witch, you may have to reveal it.”
“… Yea, I got it.”
Yeah, at least until she met the witch.
Until I know whether all problems can be solved, whether it is true or not, there will never be a discord between the party members.
Around the time I felt that promise was getting stronger, another party member who had escaped from the tent started to approach this place rubbing his eyes.
“Heira, are you awake?”
“… Huh.”
Shaggy hair and half-closed eyes.
As if she thought the weak elf girl was cute in the morning, Celica bent her waist to meet her at eye level, and began to show her bright smile.
“Hey, good morning~ I made breakfast, so let’s eat together~”
“…”
Heira silently blinked her eyes at Celica’s greeting.
After that, she stared back and forth at Celica with her blank eyes, then tilted her head and began to ask.
“Two people… Are you reconciled?”
As soon as she wakes up, is it that she asks.
As he subconsciously met her gaze, Celica let out a cheesy laugh and shrugged her shoulders.
“Reconciliation, if anyone hears it, they’ll think it’s a fight.”
“Oh well, it wasn’t a fight. I was the one who was unilaterally harassed.”
“Hey, are you mad about that? Dave also splendidly avenged yesterday.”
“No, it happened because you were too attached to it…”
The moment when we laugh and tease each other.
A smile gradually began to be drawn on Heira’s sleepy face.
“… Whoops.”
Very quiet though.
A smile that shined brighter than the sunlight that fell over the campsite.
