Chapter 3: The Healing Magician Kitchen
Past noon I had a lecture while we ate lunch with the usual members of the group. Prioritizing facilitating conversation, I prepared sandwiches and soup. This time I cooked, instead of the high quality ingredients from the castle I used the ingredients that I had in my backpack and that I gathered during our trip, and used them in the main dish. The reason why I’m cooking is to improve Ellen’s physical condition at least a little and because she said that she would love to eat my cooking. And I used the ingredients from the trip because Ellen said that she missed those moments. By the way, Guren is sleeping in another room.
A while ago I gave her the special quality meat that I promised him in the battle against Bullet. She then began to eat immediately and when her stomach swelled up, she fell asleep. Ellen put her hand on one of my sandwiches.
“Um. Waa Kearuga-niisama’s food is delicious. This is exquisite after all.”
Ellen was pleased with my effort. She made three kinds of sandwiches. Egg sandwich, hamburger sandwich and vegetable sandwich.
“This is really delicious. I love this egg sandwich. The egg is fluffy and thanks to the spices it has a very intense flavor.”
“Nn, it’s delicious. Today’s food is more elaborate than usual. Setsuna loves it, this one that has a lot of meat, it is good that it has the taste of various meats.”
“The vegetable salad is crisp and incredibly juicy.”
Kureha, Setsuna, and Freya who have a good palate seemed to have noticed the work behind these sandwiches.
The egg sandwich didn’t have chicken eggs, instead I used the ones I got from a wild bird in the mountains, they have a strong flavor. After breaking the eggs I mixed them with a special dressing. The dressing is made on the basis of vegetable oil from seasonings and medicinal plants that I got during the trip. Of course I am not only concerned about the taste, but also about the medicinal properties. The patty in the hamburger sandwich is made with various types of salted or smoked monster meat, washed, minced and mixed with an exquisite proportion of spices. You can enjoy the texture because the thickness of the ground beef was adjusted for each type of meat. For the salad I speed up the maturity of the plants with 【Recovery Heal】 and use the fresh crops, and the dressing is also special. Even though it’s a simple meal I worked a lot on it. Since my wife had gone to such lengths to taste my food, I wanted to do this right.
“I’m totally recharged thanks to Kearuga-niisama’s food! Now I can do my best.”
“That’s good. Then I will also leave you this recipe.”
“Yes please!”
I made the sandwiches so we can talk while we eat, but everyone was so engrossed in eating that we’re not having our meeting. I didn’t say anything because it would be rude to interrupt them. I tried the soup. This is also a good result. I used the hot water with which I washed the salted meat and dried meat with various leftover meat and vegetables, but it is of great quality and delicious. Having finally achieved peace I realized something. I like to cook. It might be a good idea to open a small restaurant after it’s all over. I have so much money that I could even give it away, I don’t need to worry about profits. I would start by making whatever food I wanted with only a small profit margin in my little shop. That store would be my hobby.
“Not bad.”
Common and happy days surrounded by my women. Maybe that was what he was looking for. …Well, that’s a story for later. Since among those who surround Eve there are those who try to manipulate her to get the influence of the Demon King and those who try to assassinate Eve to support a new candidate for Demon King. Even the Dioral Kingdom needs to be rebuilt. There is also the fact that the demonic territory and the Dioral Kingdom were scrapped and lost their power, if I leave this situation, the world will be engulfed in flames again.
That would make it impossible to realize my dream of a common and happy life. And although I don’t have a sense of justice that makes me risk my life in order to achieve world peace, I believe that in order to create an environment where I can live happily with my women, I should seek world peace.
“They are finished. I wanted to eat more. What a pity.”
Poor Setsuna dropped her ears at the sight of the plate that had run out of sandwiches.
“Even though it was too much, I ate it all. That Kearuga-sama’s food is so delicious is really dangerous.”
“It’s true… I must work hard in my training. If I eat that much while we’re not traveling, I’ll regret it later.”
“Uh, that’s scary. I don’t want to get fat.”
I smiled bitterly. They worry about getting fat. Has this world become so peaceful to even think about that?
“You should eat a little more meat, Ellen. It would improve the feel of your skin when hugging you.”
“Just ‘a little’ is fine, right? I’m taking care of myself.”
“Yes, just a little. Now you lack muscle mass, but if you eat too much, all that tenderness that characterizes you will disappear.”
Since Ellen wanted a detailed figure, I will give her a proper answer. Actually, that’s a very typical Ellen thing.
“It is understood. Those are the likes of Kearuga-niisama. Now, let’s move on to the main topic. The food was so delicious that we took too long to eat. Today’s topic is what kind of country will we make.”
“What kind of country we will make is something important, but shouldn’t we first define how we will carry out the coup?”
Although we could certainly meet it, it is necessary to come up with a proper plan first.
“That’s right. But actually, I’ve already finished the preparations. It only takes Kearuga-niisama’s permission and the Dioral Kingdom will be yours.”
“Oh, since when are you working on this? It can’t be since we got here, right?”
“I started the preparations since we started the transfer of the command center from the capital. I had guessed this would happen a long time ago.”
“As expected of Ellen.”
Anticipate the development of events. That’s Ellen’s power.
…No, it’s not guessing in advance, more than guessing, Ellen’s true value is the power to attract the desired flow of events by herself. Since she is not a psychic, a perfect prediction is not realistic. After all, people and countries with complex beings and ruled by reason take actions without meaning. But it is possible to guide these people through any of the possibilities that one thinks of. In that sense she is really trustworthy. Perhaps she predicted this course of events when we executed King Dioral. You might even think that this development was also to be able to purge once and for all the stubborn and inefficient authorities of this country, turning them into war criminals. Ineffective allies and traitors are more dangerous than any enemy. Thanks to the fact that we eliminated them in advance, it was possible to move the capital and be reborn quickly, creating a new country.
“So what kind of country will we make? To begin with, would it be a monarchical kingdom? a republic? That alone will completely change the country. No matter which one we do, I want to firmly decide.”
The difference between kingdom and republic. If I were to explain it simply, the kingdom is “a monarchical nation in which the king becomes the monarch and rules the country.” In other words, the king has absolute authority and the country moves as the king wants. And the republic is “a nation where there is no monarch and what is decided by the intention of the people is done.” More or less, the people in charge of politics are chosen through elections, and they decide the direction of the country through dialogue. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, it is not clear which is better. At this time the monarchical system is overwhelmingly dominant, but there are cases of some advanced countries that adopted republicanism. Also, in some countries citizens’ dissatisfaction towards royalty and nobility flared up after a revolution. Without a doubt those are important stories and this will be a point of no return for this country.
…What is important for this country is also important for me.
If I choose a kingdom I will be the king, I will formally obtain a new country and at the same time I will acquire responsibilities. If I choose a republic this country will belong to the people, and in the near future it will be vacant for some stranger. I will not be able to control this country, but I will have freedom. I must think not only about what will become of the country, but also what I want to do, before giving an answer.
Otherwise I might regret it later.