v1c6 - Lydia is in a good mood after enjoying her hobby for the first time in a while.
“I guess that’s about it for now?”
“Lydia. You say that lightly, but it’s pretty damn awesome.”
“Ahaha. I usually can’t use a lot of spirit magic, but thanks to you, Mr. Alex, I can use a lot of it …… so I overdid it…”
Thanks to Lydia’s “overdid it…”, apples and tangerines grew around the cabin, and cabbages grew in the field behind it.
Honestly, it would have taken me several years, if not a year, to get this far on my own.
“But, aside from the fruit trees, the vegetables are thanks to Mr. Alex’s plowing, you know? Even with the help of the power of the spirits, vegetables don’t grow well if the soil is too hard.”
“Well, I have the strength and stamina. And there was also the farm equipment that the previous farmers had left behind. But without Lydia, the crops wouldn’t have grown so fast, would they?”
As we stand in front of the field praising each other, my stomach grumbles loudly.
Come to think of it, I had missed breakfast.
“Mr. Alex, should we have lunch soon?”
“I guess so. The food should be delivered by now.”
With that said, we both went back inside the cabin, and there was a large box on the floor where I had been transferred.
I opened the lid and …… involuntarily froze, thinking that this must be the food sent by the guild.
“…… Mr. Alex? What’s wrong?”
“No …… what can I say, they said they would be sending food, so I thought they were sending me bread, but ……”
There was no bread in the box, but a bag of what appeared to be flour, and what appeared to be seasonings such as salt and oil? contained in a bottle and water.
“Oi …… It’s not that I can’t cook, but even I can’t do something about this. At least send it to me in bread or pasta form.”
If Ellie were here, she could make bread or cakes from flour, but there is no use in begging for something we don’t have.
But what should I do with these things in this state?
“U-Uhm. Mr. Alex …… is that flour, by any chance!?”
“Sorry. I had heard they were sending food, but I didn’t expect it to be in this form. In the meantime, we can eat some apples that Lydia grew ……”
“Please! …… Let me cook that for you!”
Surprised by the sudden statement, I turned around to see Lydia peering into the box with a twinkle in her eye.
I asked her what on earth was going on…
“I’m sorry for being sudden. Actually, I enjoy cooking. But, while I was captured and enslaved by the humans, I wasn’t able to cook for a long time …… Oh, there’s butter and powdered milk in there too! With this, I can make a lot of things!”
Even as she explains, her gaze is directed toward the box, happily checking its contents.
After checking the contents to some extent, Lydia happily took out the food, and…
“Oh, I guess there’s no stove …… too bad. At any rate, I need some kind of vessel …… Oh, there it is. And there’s even a frying pan!”
In a corner of the room that can hardly be called a kitchen, she finds cooking utensils on a shelf and quickly makes something.
“Err, should I help you with something?”
“Hmm~, I’m going to bake now, but I don’t have a stove or even anything to burn, so I would have to keep emitting spirits. So, if you could share some of your magic power with me, that would be great.”
“Alright. That’s a piece of cake then.”
In fact, it would have been better to have something that burns when lit, such as deadwood or coal, but instead, we used magic as fuel.
We went outside the cabin with the frying pan with something on it, and Lydia immediately used her skill to start a fire.
She puts the frying pan on the fire, and after a while, turns it over ……
“It’s done! Pancakes!”
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Lydia showed the pancake on a plate with a big smile on her face.
“Thank you for the food …… Oh! Yum! The baked apples on the side go great with the pancakes, too!”
“Thank you very much! Hmm, it would have tasted better if I had eggs, but …… it was fun to cook for the first time in a while, and I’m happy that Mr. Alex was able to eat it too!”
“However, I’m really grateful that Lydia is here. If I were on my own, I wouldn’t have been able to come up with anything more than mixing flour with water and salt and baking it ……”
“That sounds like it would be delicious as it is if you let it rest properly, you know?”
With limited ingredients but a delicious meal thanks to Lydia, we decided to discuss how to explore the surrounding area.