Chapter 8: Scolding and a Whole Bunch of Food
“Are . . . . . I’m alive?”
Coming to, I find myself on top of the bed in my room.
Teacher is sitting next to with a gloomy expression on his face. The crease between his eyebrows is deeper than usual. (TL: like an ‘grave’ expression or sothing like that)
“Ah, Teachers. Good morning.”
“Aah, Good Morning. How is your body?”
His voice sounds like he’s in a pretty bad mood. I’m a bit nervous.
“Um? There’s nothing wrong with my ‘immortal’ body”
“If there’s nothing wrong, then that’s fine. Now then, ti for you scolding.”
Eh!? WHY?
“Why didn’t you run away?”
Teacher asks this in a deeper, heavier voice.
It’s a bit scary. Seriously?
“Eh, because I thought I’d be able to fight it . . . . “
“Do you not realize how fragile your body is? Since it was too dangerous to learn martial arts and [Body Strengthening], you have run away.”
This may be the first ti Teacher has yelled at since coming here.
Seeing slightly-frightened, Teacher stops admonishing in a low-toned voice.
“Yuuri, your body breaks at even the slightest touch. . . It’s truly as fragile as glass. You shouldn’t be thinking of getting into a fights intentionally.”
“B-but as long as I have Accel Boost, I an [Body Strengthening]. . . . .”
“I developed that technique to compensate when fighting at distances I’m not particularly good with. It’s not all that well suited for you with your all-around low basic abilities.”
In battle, both techniques and experience are of course important, but having several areas of high ability (stats) is also needed.
The strength to wield a weapon, the speed to make defensive movents, the dexterity to land hits. . . . .
Certainly. Since Teacher already has high basic stats, further strengthening his abilities should be able to make him good at close-quarters fighting. But with basic stats all at 1, I wouldn’t be able to do the sa.
For that reason, I ca up with the plan to use speed, but. . .
“B-But. . . . I co back to life. Even if it’s dangerous, I . . . “
“That doesn’t an you should expose yourself to unnecessary danger. Not only that, but in a magic depleted state, can you truly say for sure that you’ll co back to life?”
Oh yeah. That was the first ti I had run out of magic.
“Magic depletion . . . . . that was magic depletion? That was the first ti I experienced it”
“I told you that body strengthening was a double edged sword. Even if you call is one of God’s Miracles, it’s not sothing that can be activated freely, you know!”
“Are you talking about Gifts?”
“Gifts activate by taking in its possessor’s magic. However, this only applies to so gifts, and these gifts really only use up a minimal amount of magic . . . small enough that even a regular person would be able to provide enough mana for it.”
This is the first ti I’ve ever heard anything about this. This is pretty frickin’ important isn’t this!?
“I don’t know is your gift is the type that consus magic or not, but testing it to find out is too risky, don’t you think.”
“Of course! If it ends up being the magic consuming type, I’ll stay dead!”
“Ever since taking you back with , I felt that your magic was limitless. So I never thought you’d be able to run out of magic, but that shouldn’t be the case for anyone.”
“Well, it’s not normally an amount that should be possible to exhaust completely . . .”
Since it’s over 150 tis the norm.
“I didn’t think about the connection between ‘immortality’ and mana depletion. And for that, I must apologize. I am truly sorry.”
Teacher bows deeply, lowering his head to .
Seeing his bowing figure, I realized sothing. . . . I had made the sa mistake again.
Having received cheat powers from God, without considering the possible drawbacks from the powers I obtained, I though lightly of danger. . . . just like that ti. (TL: referring to Lilith Town)
I was just like a kid with a new toy with this new power.
That’s why — the one who’s in the wrong is .
“Please raise you head. It’s not Teacher’s fault! I was the one fought unreasonably. . . . n, are?”
Sohow, sothing in the conversation doesn’t make sense.
“Are? Teacher, you did think of the possibility that I wouldn’t be able to revive. In order to run away from danger, didn’t you teach martial arts? Yet, you say you didn’t consider the possibility of not being able to revive from magic depletion? There’s sothing weird about that line of thought.”
“. . . . Yuuri, you’re like a grandchild to . Is it wrong to be worried about you?”
Otto. The heart of the matter is a bit unexpected. Your face is getting a bit red you know?
“It’s because I’m cute, right? You know, it’s alright to adore more.”
“. . . . . Now then, you should be hungry. I’ll make so food –“
As if the trying to deceive , Teacher ignores my teasing and says this in a monotone voice. How rude!
The rice gruel and stir-fry he brings are very tasty.
First, the rice gruel. It’s simple with the taste of being lightly seasoned with salt. The rich aroma wafts up to my nose. . . . I wonder what type of dashi (Japanese Soup Stock) was used?
As a forr Japanese person, food is really important to .
As I thought, what was really nagging at since coming here was the absence dashi. It seems like even in the West, no one used dashi until rather recently.
Perhaps it’s so sort of soup mixed into the rice. It has a very rich flavor.
There are also small cut-up vegetables and lots of piece of chicken-like at.
As for the stir-fry, instead of vegetables, there is a whole bunch of crispy at mixed in.
it’s probably so sort of innards.
I know that liver has a dislikable poignant sll, but this doesn’t sll much, so it might be very fresh.
Actually, I quite like it from because of its unique texture.
Additionally, so fish egg-like things are also mixed in. The lumpy texture makes it the highlight of the dish. This one is also delicious.
“Teacher, this rice gruel is delicious! It’s even tastier than usual.”
“Right? I used so really good ingredients.”
“Did Gustar-san co again? He just ca by the other day… how strange.”
“Gustar? He didn’t stop by.”
“Eh, then these ingredients are. . . . “
“Keratos”
Kashan —-
I unintentionally drop my spoon from the surprising information.
My mind freezes, and several minutes pass until my brain restarts.
“If you don’t eat quickly, your food will get cold.”
“This, this is the one I defeated. . . . ”
“There were two. I defeated one, you know.”
“I see! So this at if from that lizard? . . . . Then this stir-fry, too?”
“Keratos innards. Since its delicious fresh, this is a feast you can’t get just anywhere.”
Maa, I was almost eaten also, wasn’t I? Eat or be eaten is the way of the wild. Yup.
In Japan, I ate whale, sea cucumber, and even puffer fish ovaries.
There isn’t a single Japanese person that can’t eat repulsive-looking marine food products.
At this point, a Keratos or two is no big deal . . . . .
“For the soup, I simred together pureed brain tissue. Quite a rich taste.”
“Gobuh!?”
For the Japanese people, known for eating repulsive things, even eating brain tissue is a sowhat common thing. . . . . .
There’s no way that true! (TL: he did a tsukomi on himself. If you’re familiar with tsukomis, then you probably understand, otherwise he’s just saying sothing like ‘yeah we eat that, too. Just kidding! Lol. There’s no way that’s true!’)
“Though I’m the one who gouged out its brain . . . . . rest in peace Keratos.”
“The rest of the at I put in ice with [Freezing], and tomorrow we’ll smoke it. Having preserved food is important.”
“Teacher, could it be that this is a battle field?”
“What the hell are you saying, Yuuri?”
Since I’m a light eater, the amount of food I require isn’t too much, but I’m a bit greedy.
Well, there were two — each 5m tall. If we keep them frozen with Teacher’s magic, we shouldn’t be needing more food for a while.
“And these lumps in the stir-fry? What are they, fish eggs?”
“Uugi eggs.”
“. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .”
UUgi is a type of winged insect similar to a fly.
They lay their eggs in the hollows of trees, so their eggs are actually relatively easy to acquire.
During tis of famine, they becos a valuable source of protein.
“Teacher, you lived a long ti on the battle field, didn’t you.”
“A long ti ago, yeah. Why?”
While eating the delicious al, I swore in my heart that I’d be the only one to do the cooking from now on.
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