ăWell okay, come outside and show me what else you can do right now. Iâll teach you anything that you canât do.ă
Rofas-san grabbed Bryce-kunâs arm and dragged him outside.
People could learn how to manipulate mana to use magic once they reached level ten?
Does that mean I could learn how to use magic as well?
Uwah, thatâs great! I want to try using magic!
I better work hard and level up! Then, if I learn how to use ice magic, I might be able to create some sort of freezing system so we wouldnât need a fridge!
Alright! Now I had more goals to accomplish.
At the very least, I should get to level ten!
When I made fists to pump myself up, I heard a loud noise outside.
W-what?
I got ready to head outside to look, but heard a crackling noise behind me by the stove. Oh, the rice was done!
I quickly shut off the flame.
ăGood morning, Yuuri-oneechan.ă
ăWhat was that noise just now? Did it come from the outside? Iâll go take a look!ă
Kirika-chan and Kurtz-kun were awake and had come to the kitchen.
However, Kurtz-kun quickly ran outside to check what the loud noise was.
ăKirika will help with you with the rice.ă
Kirika-chan must have been thinking about the phrase I taught her, âhe who does not work, neither shall he eatâ. She put in a lot of effort in mixing the cooked rice to fluff them up.
Ah, now I wished we had a rice scoop. That consequently made me think of chopsticks.
Kurtz-kun slammed the door open in a somewhat excited state.
ăThat was amazing. Bryce-niichan only recently learned how to use magic, but he could use all the elements! Fire, water, wind, earth, light, everything! Since all of them were at level one, there wasnât much power in the spells, but still, thatâs so cool!ă
All the elements?
Level?
Power?
Hmm, there were a lot of things I didnât quite understand in what Kurtz-kun said. Iâll need somebody to teach me about them later.
ăDonât you want to eat? You wonât get anything if you donât help out.ă
Kirika-chan warned Kurtz-kun like she was the big sister of the family.
ăAh, I will, I will! What should I do, Yuuri-neechan?ă
Todayâs menu was rice with boar shogayaki. Oh, some cabbage would be nice.
ăCan you gather some cabbages from the field for me?ă
ăOkay!ă
Cabbage would suit the shogayaki well.
In the meantime, letâs make onigiri and wrap the meat around them. Todayâs lunch was meat-wrapped onigiri.
My plan was to place some of the onion from the shogayaki into the middle of the onigiri, and then wrap the boar meat around the outside of the rice.
If I didnât make the onigiri now, I had a feeling that all of the shogayaki would be devoured by the end of breakfast.
ăKirika will help you!ă
ăCan you help me wrap the meat around the onigiri then?ă
ăOkay~ă
I wet my hands and scooped up some rice. I spread it out on my hand and made an indent in the middle. Then, I placed the onion into the sour plum-sized indent and formed the rice into a ball. Grip, grip. I didnât grip the onigiri too tightly, so it was still airy.
I wondered how many I should make.
I needed to make enough for everybody to eat at lunch, and some for Rofas-sanâs bento.
Two onigiri were enough for me, but Rofas-san would definitely need more than that. Assuming that every person ate two, I would need to make at least ten for five people.
In that case, it would be best to make twenty just in case. If there were leftovers, we could snack on them later.
Once Kurtz-kun returned with the cabbage, I chopped it thinly. All the preparations were done.
ăBreakfast is ready!ă
I opened the front door and called for Rofas-san and Bryce-kun.
Huh?
Was it just me, or did the ground look strange here and there? There was even a hole in the ground.
What on earth did those two do?!
ăHahh, that was a good workout.ă
Rofas-san suddenly pulled off his shirt that was drenched in sweat.
ăGyah!!ă
No wait, I wasnât young enough to be embarrassed to see a man half-naked. No, but still, it was just really surprising to see muscles pop out like that at point-blank range.
ăGyah?ă
ăRofas-san, dungeon rule! You canât take off your clothes!ă
Nice support, Kirika-chan. Thatâs right, it was a dungeon rule.