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As the labe

As well as a table and chair set How considerate is he?

“Welcome dear customers Please sit over here”

He gently invites us to sit so I follow

A plate and spoon was prepared on the table, and in the plate was some kind of sauce

“Now, if you would allow ”

“Oh, cooking in front of us?”

You’re gonna cook now?

Ganglabe see to do…

Is that alright?

“Even if I say that, the stock is already done It’ll be done shortly”

Oh, so it’s just the finishi+ng touches

“This is where you place the tofu”

There he tosses in a white square shaped thing

Inside, so which looks like kelp sinks down No matter how you look at it, this soup, which only had hot water inside, was just starting to boil

“Bring it to a slow simmer to finish It’s boiled tofu”

“…Just this?”

After a little bit, Shuri stopped cooking

Ganglabe and I were both dumbfounded, unable to understand

“This is best eaten during the winter”

“I see, then, can you serve me a dish?”

“No, I won’t be participating”

“What?”

Shuri handed to ely shaped spoon

The spoon for some reason on the bottom had holes here and there

You can’t scoop up the soup with this No, it’s pretty much only hot water

“Serving it to each other, poking at the same pot

That’s the real thrill of hot pot cooking”

At this point, I finally understood Shuri’s plan

This dish This dish which uses the sa for the sake of your beloved other, can create a space for conversation

If it’s like this then you can naturally say out your worries, and above all you’re eating from the same pot so it’s easier to become more intimate

“Ganglabe, let me serve you a dish”

“Hn? Ah, thanks”

Bringing forth labe’s plate

I wonder if my worries will reach him

“In that case let me serve you yours”

“Eh?! Eh, then, ok…”

I never would’ve thought that Ganglabe would do this for me

I already can’t hold back my happiness

After receiving the saether

This tofu, using a spoon to lightly scoop it up would break,into the sauce

In front of rance tickles up my nostrils

I chew it in my mouth

So warm

Not just the outside of the tofu, the inside too was storing h heat

A savoury taste that I couldn’t quite describe, entwines with it the sourness of the sauce,it delicious

This sourness It has a citrus smell

Most likely, in the process of preparation he added the juice of the skin, leaving behind this flavour

Unable to hide the happiness, I s the tofu, warus, and stomach

It goes doith a slight burn

What remains is warmth and freshness

“Delicious!”

“Really… even though it’s so simple”

Even though it’s just boiling kelp and tofu

How is it this delicious I wonder?

“Ganglabe-san If this hot pot had no kelp added to it what to you think?”

“It’d have the saht?”

“No, the taste would be drastically different”

Eh?

At ht?

“I won’t go into toointo the hot pot is an extremely small factor which makes it savoury as it permeates the main lead, the tofu, which is what creates this taste

How is it? To the lead called Ganglabe-san, I wonder who it is that complements you?”

Not even knowing they’re there, and even if they did, not being acknowledged

That’s what Shuri implied

And he’s probably talking about me

Ganglabe also noticed so and looked at me

“No way, Ahrius…”

“…yes”

My face is hot This probably isn’t just because of the tofu

Finally, Ganglabe realised it This love of mine

What should I do? How should I reply to this?

I lowerto talk

“Ahrius, listen to me Look up, I want you to hear this”

It was a serious

I too resolve myself and looked up

Ganglabe looks straight at me

So manly, so attractive

Ah, I fell in love with a man who’s able to make a face like this

“I too, like you”

I feel like tears would fall

My love of several years Even though I thought first loves wouldn’t bear fruit

“But, we can’t be lovers right now”

Eh?

“I ht even die tomorrow”

What is he saying…?

“Not just tomorrow The day after, the week after, and the week after that I don’t knohen I’ll die”

“Please stop!”

“Listen to me!”

Ganglabe grabsmy escape as my tears flon in denial

“However, I have a dream”

“The country… right?”

“That’s right The country

A country where no one is hungry, no one is poor I’m not allowed to die before that comes true I can’t die That’s why When the country is in my hands, won’t you let me be the one to propose?”

That’s not fair Ganglabe, that’s not fair

This is the weakness of falling in love Just noasn’t I happy being able to hear those words?

There’s no way I can refuse if you were to confess willingly

“Is it alright to believe in that?”

“Yeah I will definitely… beco for you”

Suddenly, Ganglabe’s face came close to mine

Suddenly, my lips were stolen away before I had noticed

“This is, ht”

“Yes… yes… “

My tears won’t stop

My feelings have finally reached him

I have a feeling I can finally stand by the side of this person

The next day, I was delighted to thank Shuri

It seems that he disappeared midway

He ended up being considerate of us once again

Towards Shuri, I have a debt of gratitude which can never be repaid

But I don’t feel bad about it

Because if this person wasn’t here, most likely my love would not have come to fruition

But, there was that strange conversation

I wonder what that tiny savoury taste is?

In theabout

So so small that you can’t even see it with the naked eye, I wonder if so like that exists?

“Ahrius-san The world is s those beads are attached to”

When I heard this I couldn’t hide my shock

We are an assembly of beads And there are an uncountable varieties and aathered from all of this?

Truth

It’s not wrong even if you say it like that Shuri carelessly asserted that the world is composed like this

But, if you say it like this you can explain it

Magic craftsmasters can only interfere with icians can interfere with the beads in the air

And then, mana is the fuel which can interfere hatever type of bead it is

That’s why, h ination

I attained the truth

And then, in the battle after this I used that truth as the origins of ic with accuracy to a level which couldn’t be compared to the past

What truth is, is tofu

This phrase is on the verge of co to an end

Ahrius Denju Aprahda

As the wife of the first united elabe Denju Aprahda, she was also the first headic, and is praised as a ician

A peerless beauty, a witch of hellfire who scorches down the battlefields

With the ic she uses, the battle at the country of snow beca all the snow, leaving behind a record so bad that crops thought it was spring and starting sprouting

Even in the present, a ician who can surpass her, or even be on the same level as her does not exist

This is considered to be because of her heavy discipline as aable to attain what is called ‘truth’ froe

In the later years, it is said that although she accepted her three subordinates as disciples, none of the three were able to completely understand the ‘truth’ she spoke of Those three later went on to be called the ‘three sages’ but, even in the literary works they reported or the oral teaching they left behind, there were still unfinished topics to be discussed about the study of ic, and there was no consideration about howan answer

Furthermore, as the foothold for how Ahrius reached the ‘truth’, she points to one dish

That dish was spread by the great chef ‘Shuri Azu the empire’s winter

A dishkelp and tofu

She is fond of eating that dish, and says this each time she eats it

“As expected, only this tofu is packed with the truth”