[Part 4/5]
"Daikon soup today, huh?"
I correctly guessed today's main course as I gazed at the pot cooking in the kitchen of the hut I borrowed from Gorilla-san. Magoroku, who had been controlling the heat of the stove by blowing on it, turns to with a sweaty forehead and agrees with my answer.
"Yes," he says, wiping his forehead with the back of his hand. "I mixed the leafy part with the wheat grains for the rice, and I combined the carrots with egg and sesa oil afterwards."
"That sounds delicious," I respond, smiling at Magoroku's informative report on that evening's dinner nu. In this crappy world, als were a precious form of entertainnt and a source of nourishnt.
"Hmm?" A voice calls out from the back of the room as I enter, having left my sandals outside in the courtyard. "You're late, Yun-shoku-dono. Did you get sidetracked or sothing?"
I looked in the direction of the voice and made a reverse question with a stern look.
"You're the one who's doing the playing while Magoroku is cooking, aren't you?"
"I'm just a guest here, that's all."
The wolf-girl, who was sitting cross-legged and playing Go at the back of the room, was unperturbed by my remark. After finishing the training with the servants, Iruka had returned to this hut earlier and had been losing track of ti playing around without offering to help Magoroku. ...Well, if I asked her to help with cooking, she'd simply start eating all the food.
"Ah...welco ho, Tomobe-sama. I'm terribly sorry. I'll get you a change of clothes now...."
"Oh, don't worry about it. I can take care of that myself. Can you watch over her instead?"
Mari, who had been playing against Iruka, rushes to move when I get ho, but I stop her.
"But..." Mari protested. "Don't be distracted, okay?" I said firmly. "Look, she's trying to change the position of that Go stone."
"Huh!?" Mari exclaid in surprise. "Hey, don't reveal it to her!" Iruka whispered conspiratorially.
It seed that the wolf-girl were at a definite disadvantage, and I revealed that she was trying to cheat against Mari, who was blind. Mari frowned at Iruka with her eyes closed.
"Iruka-san, I may be a blind person, but please don't do such a cowardly act in the confusion," Mari said firmly. "It's really unbecoming of you."
"Hahaha, my bad, my bad," Iruka laughed sheepishly. "It was just a montary lapse, you know? You're really strong, though."
Mari scolded Iruka, her voice stern, and she weakly apologized. At first, Iruka had challenged Mari to play Hanafuda (Japanese playing cards) or Karuta (Japanese card ga), but her cheating was soon exposed and she was defeated, probably due to her mory, and recently Iruka had challenged her to play other gas such as Go. But as expected... her winning percentage wasn't improving.
"What a childish thing to do in a non-betting ga."
Laughing at Iruka's apology and flinching at Mari's anger, I took off my outfit and wiped away the sweat and dirt with a cloth dipped in hot water. Then, I put on the clothes that Magoroku had prepared for before sothing landed on my shoulder.
'Good job, servant... Looks like there won't be any problems today.'
A hummingbird perched on my shoulder and scrutinized with its beady eyes, checking to ensure I was still human.
"That's lucky thing. ...But I guess the spider needs to eat before dinner."
Seeing Mari and the others concentrating on playing Go for a mont, I and the hummingbird quietly slipped into the adjacent storage room. I then closed the sliding door, locked it, and retrieved what I ca for from the dressers.
'(ﾉ≧∀≦)ﾉ Papaｰ!! (. >д
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