Adventurers Are Obsessed With My Cooking

Episode 38. With their tails wagging

The hungry children left the clearing one by one.

The last child had just returned home, and the young wolves, with their bloated stomachs uncovered, gathered under the eaves and fell asleep in groups.

It is a very peaceful village.

“Shall we sort it out soon?”

Taemin spared no ingredients and made plenty so that all the children could eat their fill.

But it was so delicious that there was almost no leftovers.

However, after trial and error at first, there was a large barrel full of leftovers from the failed cooking.

Putting the whole thing in your inventory and pressing the delete button will destroy it, so it’s not a big deal to deal with it.

Of course, the ingredients are a bit wasteful, but it is unavoidable for a novice cook.

“By the way, if the pork is this good, how about beef bulgogi? hehehe… It must be really delicious, right?”

Taemin started tidying up muttering to himself.

There was someone watching him from afar.

He was hiding behind an old building that was used as a prison, with only his head sticking out.

The pointed ears above his head are the symbol of a beastman.

However, compared to other beastmen, its tail was twice as long.

And the most unusual thing is that the colors of the ears and tail are distinctly different.

It was green but not blue, black but not dark.

Like a shallow lake, like the dawn sky just before dawn.

Her big eyes were also the same color, like a mirror reflecting everything in the world.

Right now, only Taemin and his stalls were reflected in the mirror.

I was a child.

“Ah…”

The little prisoner girl couldn’t be more restless as she watched Taemin organize the stalls.

His expression was very sullen.

One of the wolf’s children is so full that he can’t eat it all, and the little leftover food just becomes garbage and falls into a large container.

Eventually, the lid was closed, and the barrel disappeared in an instant.

“Ugh…”

Tears welled up in her big eyes.

It drips down.

“Hmm?”

It was only then that Taemin noticed the suspicious gaze.

He turned his head and looked around.

In the place where someone would have been standing a moment ago, only something dark blue was rustling as if swaying in the wind.

‘…Tail?’

The young beast girl quickly hid herself behind a building, but was unable to hide her tail.

Taemin found the tail.

But he didn’t pretend to know.

He took out the pork again, and all kinds of vegetables and seasonings.

Profit-

At the delicious sound that started again, the little beast girl who had been hiding her body pricked up her ears and pulled her head out.

“Ugh…”

Her delicious scent haunts the tip of her nose.

Saliva flowed from his open mouth.

Rumbling-

There was thunder in the boat.

Steamed rice rises in a bowl full of rice on a clean plate, and hot pork bulgogi is served with a ladle on top.

The soggy sauce in the frying pan dripped down over the rice, and even the remaining onion pieces were gently scraped off and served.

Another bowl of delicious-looking pork bulgogi rice bowl is ready.

“This one looks particularly delicious, doesn’t it? After all, the more you cook, the better?”

He placed the finished dish on the empty table.

“Oh, but I’m too full to eat. Who won’t eat for me? This is difficult.”

The young prisoner girl could not stand it any longer.

It wasn’t about thinking and moving.

It was instinct.

The girl jumped out from behind the building and ran towards the Toddler Bulgogi.

It was to the point where the people watching were more nervous, wondering if they would fall down if they were watching.

‘Huh? How old are you at that?’

She was definitely younger than 10 years old, and in terms of global standards, she was a very young child, not yet enrolled in elementary school.

Taemin picked up the dish he had put on the table.

Then the girl who came running sat down on her floor and started crying.

“Don’t cry kid. The table is too high. I’m bringing it myself.”

The child, who couldn’t understand her words, stopped her tears only after Taemin put her plate right in front of him. She

She then looked back and forth between the bulgogi on her plate and her Taemin.

“Eat.”

Taemin indifferently turned around.

She finally heard the sound of eating.

‘I thought it was a peaceful village, but what the hell is that kid? Orphanage?’

The outfit was lousy.

The clothes, which I can’t even imagine when they were changed, were dirty in places, to the point where the inner skin was clearly visible.

This is a village on top of a mountain.

It is very chilly at night.

Even a beastman would catch a cold if he was dressed like that.

Even that child looks very young.

How old are you?

‘You can ask the village chief about that child.’

Taemin started cooking Bulgogi Rice Bowl as a gift for the village chief.

* * *

Melissa sticks out her breasts and opens them up.

“It’s a water buffalo from Lake Eupore, and I caught a lot! I’m sure you’ll be surprised if you see it.”

“How many did you catch?”

“No!”

My gaze, which had been staring at Melissa, naturally turned to Mumu, and at last an appropriate answer came back.

“There aren’t that many of them. About 20 in total? But since they’re so big, how many hundred servings will come out of one? The beastmen take five, and we have fifteen.”

“You gave me a lot. Did you say hello?”

“Of course. If only we had gone, we probably wouldn’t have caught it this neatly. Unlike the guy who pulled the cart, he was very ferocious. They also ran in groups, and if it weren’t for Lemon and the big wolves, we would have been in big trouble.”

“That’s right. Good job.”

I gently stroked Mumu’s hair.

“hehehe…”

Melissa also jumped up and came in front of me.

“Melissa and Melissa did a great job!”

“Lie. Melissa used magic from the beginning, so the buffaloes all ran away and had a hard time catching them.”

“It’s fun! Moo-moo couldn’t do anything.”

“That’s because when I wield a big knife, the meat gets scarred…”

“Huh? If you fight, I won’t stroke your head anymore.”

“I didn’t fight…”

“We don’t fight! Melissa is nice!”

It has become a habit since he was a street vendor, and now it has become a natural procedure to stroke his hair whenever he compliments him.

Because the kids like it and I enjoy it too, I foresaw this in advance.

It really is the moment when everything loosens up.

“Lemon did a good job too.”

“What…”

“Do you want Lemon to stroke your hair?”

“…What kind of stupid thing are you talking about!? In front of the kids!”

“Really? I’m asking because I’m envious.”

“I’m not jealous!”

“Don’t hate it.”

Her face is burning red.

If she wasn’t in front of children, is she asking to be stroked?

Her Melissa speaks to her without notice.

“Come here too. This feels great.”

“…Ah, no. Melissa does a lot.”

“Where is your sister? Her face is red.”

“No… I don’t blush…”

“It’s red…”

I prayed for Melissa’s rest.

Even if they don’t know now, if the two of them get close later, Lemon will definitely try to take revenge for this moment.

“But mister!”

“Yes.”

“What about the new menu?”

I grinned without answering.

“You’re done!? When will Melissa eat? When will she let me eat?”

“What lake water buffalo did you say you caught today? I’ll make it right out of that meat.”

“Wow – Exciting!”

Perhaps he was also curious about lemon, he immediately started talking to him.

“What’s on the menu?”

“You’ll know when you see it. Wash your hands before coming. You can smell water buffalo blood next to you.”

“I’m going to wash it!”

Again, his lips are sticking out sharply, but that guy suits him that way.

I hope you don’t say cheesy things like last night.

The more you do that, the more you want to torment him.

The two girls also sniffed the smell from their bodies and shot out.

I also got up from my seat and started preparing dinner.

The dinner menu is beef bulgogi.

‘But I still can’t see that child.’

That suspicious child I saw during the day.

The child is nowhere to be seen.

After I went to the village chief’s house, it disappeared.

‘Hmm…’

I heard from the village chief that he lives in a cave deep in a remote mountain with his old grandfather.

The reason is that the family is a blue wolf clan, not gray, unlike the wolf beasts in this village.

‘Who would have thought that Fenrir was originally just an ordinary wolf?’

* * *

Fenrir.

A giant wolf that devours the gods in Norse mythology.

Now, it has been transformed into various forms and appears frequently in various fantasy stories.

Of course, in this game, I borrowed his name to create a monster.

One of the strongest boss monsters in Abyss Dungeon that has nothing to do with the original story.

But it seems he had a background story that I don’t know about.

Well, since it was like that, it must have been a disaster and appeared in a dungeon in a beginner area like this a while ago.

‘I was a little surprised to hear that the blue wolf hill was named after the color of its fur.’

I was surprised because I had never thought that his hair was blue.

‘Ah, it definitely looked blue in the pattern of spewing lightning…’

Anyway, the outline of the story is as follows.

He was originally the head of the blue wolf clan, but he borrowed the power of the devil to kill Kashkari, a sorceress from the ancient kingdom who was harassing the wolves.

The revenge was successful, but at the cost, he eventually became a demon sealed in the Abyss after being corrupted.

Since it is an ancient kingdom, there must be a complicated story like Kashkarini, but the general story is like this.

And that the little beast girl I saw earlier is a descendant of the blue wolf clan.

Ah, one more thing. The Blue Wolf Clan is now rejected by the Gray Wolf clan.

No, it is said that not only now, but ever since Fenrir became a demon.

But that doesn’t mean the gray wolf clan is bad.

It is said that not too long ago, a huge wolf from the blue wolf clan was corrupted by a disaster or an ancient specter and became a demon.

Even from the perspective of the gray wolf, it must have been an inevitable choice to protect his comrades.

‘But that child…’

Corrupted ones may be a problem, but the real problem is the demons who corrupted them.

That’s why they’re evil, and that’s why they’re monsters, and that’s the story and directing of the game.

‘Even if you write a story, it’s a story about a child like that being bullied…’

Although it is a common repertoire, it seems that it is inevitable as a human being to get a fever.

[Special Request: Child of the Blue Wolf Clan]

– You found a child of the blue wolf clan starving. I think something might help. Hurry up to find the kid and solve the problem.

– Goal: Forming a bond with the child

After talking with the village chief, I was wondering what to do next while checking the information on the request that was suddenly automatically accepted.

Should I wait for the child to appear, or should I inquire about the location of the cave where the blue wolf clan lives?

‘A bond? That’s easy.’

Perhaps it has already accumulated a fairly high liking.

Because that little boy has already tasted my cooking.

And as if my thoughts were not wrong at all.

While preparing dinner for lemons and children, I felt the crowd again.

‘It appeared again when it was time to eat.’

The little girl reappeared behind the building over there, again wagging her tail.