v1c23 - A very elaborate and delicious breakfast for some reason and the continuation of the cave exploration
“Good morning, Mr. Alex.”
“Alex, good morning!”
“Nn …… Good morning, Lydia. Good morning, Ellie.”
Ellie wakes up earlier than me, but Lydia, who usually wakes up later than me, wakes up very early today.
On the other hand, Nina, who woke up about the same time as me yesterday, is still sleeping on my chest, cuddled up to me.
“Nina …… it’s morning.”
“Nfufu …… Mister, you pervert …… Zzz.”
“What kind of sleep talk is that! …… Eh, no, it’s Nina’s sleep talk, okay!? You two, stop that look!”
When Lydia and Ellie came to wake me up, they gave me the coldest stare because Nina said the most unthinkable sleep talk.
“Mmm! Good morning, Mister! Hm ……? It smells so good!”
“I made bagels for breakfast today. Please enjoy them.”
“I made potato potage soup. Please eat it before it gets cold.”
Nina jumped up at the smell of the breakfast Lydia and Ellie had made and flew to the table with great speed.
I sat down with a wry smile on my face.
“Oooh! This soup is delicious! You seem to be more enthusiastic about cooking than when we were at the party, don’t you think?”
“What? I-I’m the same as usual, though? I’m good at cooking, after all.”
I enjoyed the soup Ellie had made.
“Mr. Alex. Won’t you have a bite of the bagel I made too?”
“Oh, I’ll have some …… Yeah! They’re good, too! Chewy and delicious!”
“Eheheh …… I’m glad they were to your liking.’
When I and Nina were eating the food they’d prepared…
“So …… Um, Alex …… Which was better? The soup I made or the bagels Ms. Lydia made?”
“They were both delicious. Thank you, both of you.”
“Hmm …… Oh, well. I’m glad you enjoyed them.”
Ellie asked me to rank the dishes, and I have to admit, they were both delicious.
Well, the fact that both Nina and I finished our meals is the best proof of that.
“Well, now that we’ve had a good meal and cleaned up …… let’s go!”
I explained the current situation to Ellie while preparing my sword, shield, armor, and the pseudo-torch I had made yesterday.
“I see. So you’re going underground to make baths and ironware, is that it?”
“Yes, that’s right. Yesterday, a large number of insect-type monsters appeared there. Fire and ice seem to be their weak points, so I want you to wipe them out with your attack magic.”
“I’ll take care of it! I’ll use my magic to wipe out all the bugs!”
When everyone was ready, we entered the tunnel Nina had dug and asked Lydia to remove the stone wall at the far end.
Just like before, I’ll add lighting effects to my shield and use my paladin’s higher defense skills to protect the three of them.
“Then, off we go.”
We proceed to the underground cave.
I immediately felt the presence of a monster, a green scorpion approaching.
“Ellie, please!”
“Leave it to me! [Firestorm]!”
Ellie released a whirlwind of flame, which instantly obliterated a large number of scorpions.
The iron scorpion that my sword couldn’t pass through last time was mixed in among them and turned into a lump of iron.
“Fufu… [Mining].”
Nina collected iron from the carcass of the iron scorpion, and the iron was gathered up quickly.
But even so.
I could see the cave farther than the lighting on my shield with the flame magic light that Ellie used earlier …… however, it’s really big.
From the glimpse I got, it seemed to be a large, large space with higher ceilings as we went deeper in.
The ceiling gets higher as you go deeper into the cave, and it seems to be a large and spacious place ……I hope there are no strange monsters living there, because a large place can have some large monsters.
“Oh, Mister! This is pretty good clay here!”
Nina started to pick up the clay, so we paused for a moment, and while Ellie and I were on the lookout, we heard something moving.
I turned my shield – the light, and saw a black rabbit with horns sprouting from its forehead.
“Oh, Mr. Alex! It’s the Assassin Rabbit! It looks almost like a normal rabbit, but when you get close to it, it uses dark magic ……”
“[Holy Cross]!”
“I-In one blow, huh. Unlike its appearance, it’s quite quick and difficult to hit, and it also has a lot of life force, but …… As expected of Mr. Alex!”
Lydia is praising me with a twinkle on her face, but there is something else on my mind right now.
Because…
“I got it! I finally got it! It’s meat …… meat!”
I finally got the thing I’ve secretly wanted since I came to this demon territory …… Meat.