We’ve been planning for a few days, so this time, we can actually go say hello to the high elves.
After discussing it with Reina, we decide to take meat in bread that’s like simmered pork manju, and was popular with the divine beast people before.
“And it’s easy to carry.”
Like before, Reina prepares it, and I stuff the meat in the bread.
That was my role and mine alone before, but…
“Yay.”
“Ah, this one’s big, so this one’s Luna’s.”
“Luna! Reina will make something for you later, so focus… Mu, mumumu, it looks so good…”
The kids are here too.
And since Reina would have a hard time preparing for so many people, Livia, Xellos, and Erie are helping.
It feels so bright here.
The girls have been having fun talking about love lately, so they’ve been getting closer. At least that’s what Cara said, who doesn’t really seem to fit in.
But at least she seems to get along with the rest, if Merlin and the others are around.
It’s a group formed because we got so many new people. Seti and Arc are getting along pretty nicely too.
Aside from Zephir, who is already a friend of the demon gods, people who recently came to this island aren’t really that familiar with the island’s residents.
But I’m sure they’re going to form new bonds from now on, so I look forward to that.
“Hey Arata… Can I eat?”
“You’re just watching, so no.”
“You’re the one who said I couldn’t help!”
Luna spreads her arms like she’s protecting what she’s making.
“Now now, don’t fight. Come on Elga, help too.”
Luna and Elga start fighting, so it’s my role to stop it.
“Eh… So this is your job?”
“It’s nice when everyone’s doing it.”
Also, Luna said no because she can’t hunt on her own yet, so she doesn’t want Elga to take what she can do.
“Mu… Then Luna’s making even more.”
“Snow too!”
“Nuh, then Katima’s not losin’ either!”
The kids’ pace increases, and Elga smiles awkwardly.
There’s bear meat, deer meat, and rabbit meat, and we’re also using vegetables brought by Katima, so we have different flavors.
That one time, we only used emperor boar meat, but now that we’re more used to this island, we can use more.
And as I’m thinking that, Elga is about to eat what he’s making.
“Elga? Reina’s gonna be mad.”
“O-ou, hum… Ou…”
Normal Reina is one thing, but no one wants to go against Reina while she’s cooking.
Even Suzaku and Wil are wary of her.
Elga is hesitant, but leaves the bread with meat, and moves on to the next.
“All right, that should do it.”
With all the people here helping, we’re left with a lot.
I don’t know how many people there are in the high elves’ village, but this should do it.
“““…”””
The kids’ eyes are scaring me.
Then I see the sun is past its peak, meaning it’s lunch time, and these little hungry monsters are after the meat buns they just made.
“Yes yes, don’t look at them like that. Let’s all make our own now.”
Reina puts all the ingredients that are left on a big plate so they can all take their share.
The kids are all excited about being able to eat the combinations they want.
They jump at the table, and start making their stuff.
“Chicken deer bear.”
“Rabbit rabbit rabbit.”
“And what should…”
Everyone sings as they take what they want, but Snow is only going after the rabbit meat, despite them being small and not having a lot of meat.
“What does Arc like?”
“I remember him saying he likes meat without a lot of fat, so…”
I’m curious about the two girls talking about two boys that aren’t here.
Let’s go to the hot spring for men again and grill Arc about it.
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Everyone goes their own ways after the fun lunch, leaving me, Reina, Snow, and the three divine beast people to go to the southern forest.
“Tiltue should’ve come too…”
“The high elves are holding a grudge.”
Snow sounds sad, but Tiltue knows the high elves don’t like her because she took Yggdrasil nectar, so she’s not coming.
I guess the fact that it became Snow’s isn’t a bad result for the high elves either, so they should understand if we explain.
And then we can bring her next time.
“What we saw that time was really beautiful.”
That mystical forest that felt different from the rest of the island. I definitely want to have a picnic there with everyone.
We keep walking while I think about that, until Elga and the others suddenly change direction.
“Oh? Was it that way?”
“Yes. That’s the path we follow.”
Then we reach a clearing that feels a little unnatural.
Is it here? I wonder, but they pass right through it and into the forest again.
But after walking a little more…
“Wait. Are we in the same place…?”
It’s the same clearing.
Weird. We didn’t really turn, we mostly went in a straight line…
“Don’t worry ’bout it.”
Elga sounds confident, but then we enter the forest from a different place, and end up in the same clearing.
This repeats three times, but then when we leave the forest again, the scenery changes.
“Okay, we got through the barrier and into the high elves’ village… Ah?”
“Eh? What’s that…”
This place really is full of nature. It’s beautiful, even more so than the other places I’ve seen.
There’s so much nature that it loops back around to feeling unnatural, but that’s just what it is.
And where their symbol, Yggdrasil, should be…
“White mist?”
“What happened here?”
Yggdrasil in the distance is covered in mist, and barely visible.
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Even Suzaku and Reina are wary of her.
So reina is wary of reina???
Even Suzaku and Reina are wary of her. -> Even Suzaku and Vee are wary of her.
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