Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 19

Chapter 13: It seems that I caught a glutton again.

“Rion, please give me a second serving!”

“It’s delicious… it’s delicious… Oh, please give me a second…”

“…Umm…”

Being vigorously. While being hesitant, but quickly. While being embarrassed.
Three people held out their empty bowls to me.
How many times has this happened…I twitch at the corners of my mouth.

“Nuah! I can’t do this anymore! Creation(making)!”

At first, I was earnestly cooking by hand, but the large amount of meat stew that I made ended in no time, so I decided to use a skill because it was troublesome to remake it.

“Wha…!?”

“…!”

Except for Uru, the other two people let out voices of surprise as they saw that the stew that was instantly created with my skill.
I’m sorry for them, but I’m getting tired of that kind of reaction!

“Yes yes, we’ll talk later! If you want to eat, eat!”

“I’ll enjoy having this!”

“Y-Yes…”

By the way, Uru had already stopped being surprised, so she started eating first.

“Fumu? Using the skill doesn’t change the taste? Why you always make the food by hand?”

“The cooking secret ingredient is love… I would like to say that, but it’s because the skill experience that I get increases if i made it manually.”

It is an answer that has no body or lid*¹.Well, cooking is becoming a hobby these days. I also added more cooking ingredients.……But the number of cooking utensils has not increased…
Cooking skill give buffs to the food as the level increases. So before a boss fight, you can gain an advantage by buffing while recovering SP, so I’d like to train it at least until that level.
In addition, since the buff and the effects of potions overlap, I would like to increase my skills in that direction as well.

Perhaps convinced, Uru just spoke “I see?” and resumed her meal.
Now then, why is this happening? The time goes back a little.

“Uwaaaaaaaa!!!”

“Huh!?”

When I heard the screams of a person??not a monster from the warehouse. I hurriedly followed Uru and checked the inside.
Ahead of Uru’s eyes, who was frozen in confusion in the middle of the attacking posture was…
A pair from the beast(beastman) race??It is a general term for races that have the characteristics of some kind of animal??It was a boy and a girl who have animal ears.

The boy has a slightly dull blond hair and orange eyes. It’s hard to tell because it’s mixed with the hair on his head, but he has round animal ears.
The girl has a semi-long reddish blond hair with similar orange eyes and ears. I wonder if the two are brothers and sisters, the overall color and atmosphere are similar.
And they both… had carrots in their hands. And it got bite marks on it.

“Ah… Perhaps you guys are thieves?”

At the words of my speculation, Uru quickly spoke “What?” and returned to an attacking posture, the two reacted to it, moving quickly they??

“”I’m so sorry!!””

Demonstrated a splendid dogeza*².

The boy name is Regulus and the girl name is Liese, They are cousins who grew up together like siblings.
Also, they were from the lion-type beast man race. Their features are beast ears, tail and claws so their form is quite close to that of a hyuman(human).

Apparently, these two hadn’t eaten a properly food for several days and when they found my base (or rather, my field) while wandering the plains hungrily, they couldn’t resist the temptation and stole from it. After that, they hid in the warehouse and when they are eating Uru came… And it was apparently what happened. By the way, the pitfalls were too obvious to an intelligent being to be caught in them and the sanctuary has no effect in being that are not monsters.
The odd feeling that I felt in the field was that it was ragged but not broken. Monsters don’t eat crops, they just destroy anything that they encounter on the way.
Hmm… I’ve never encountered a thief in my gaming days, so I completely forgot about it, but it would be a problem if the materials I had saved up were stolen… Should I take measures about that as well?
Anyway, they apologized properly and didn’t seem to have any malice toward us, so I decided to serve them a meal. And that was the flow until the present

But, to not only Uru, even the two are gluttons too…Well, I’m not complaining because it feels good to see my food be eaten with a satisfied expression.
The wheat and some of the vegetables have become fairly stable to harvest, but meat is still dependent on hunting trips. I wonder if it will be enough…

“Thank you for the meal.”

First of all, it seems that Lieze’s meal is over. When i said “I’m glad you enjoyed it” maybe because she just now noticed that she was too engrossed in the food, she blushed and crouched down with a red face.

“Umu, Rion, the food was good today too.

“Puhaa, It was a good food! Thank you for the meal!”

Uru and Regulus just finally finished after two more servings.
It’s bad for you who is patting your stomach and looking satisfied, but we’re going to continue the questioning.
After brewing the herbal tea??the ingredients were obtained from the fishing village (It seems to be called Kuala Village)??I faced the two of again.

“Well, let’s continue with the questioning.”

“Wait, could you listen to me first?”

Regulus opened his hand and thrust it out signaling to me, so I handed the flow of the talk to him.

“Judging from the technique(skill) just now… you are the miko of the Creator God, right?”

“That’s right”

I affirmed it because it can’t be hidden now even if I lied or acted out.
He was half convinced already, but he was still surprised at my reply or maybe he was just a little stuck in my too light reply, Regulus blinked his eyes several times.
After giving Lieze a slight wink and being nodded back, Regulus put down his hands and head on the desk with a loud ‘bang!’, Lieze also (although she didn’t make a sound) took the same posture.

“Please! Please save my father… Please save our village!”

“Please……!”

“… Raise your heads, first could you explain the situation?”

It’s good that they can’t see my face with their head down, I’m not surprised by the sound ok? I urged the talk forward while pretending to be calm.
Hey Uru-san, can you please stop grinning there?

“Um… from here, our village is about four days across the river and from there… but from there is.”*³

“…It’s okay to use a normal tone.”

It’s just useless time to get stuck in the middle of the talk and rephrasing every time, I know that he is just trying to demonstrate respect, but is just feels itchy to being treated so respectfully.
Rather than saying that my self-awareness as a miko is lacking, I haven’t achieved anything as a miko yet. So I feel like i’m just riding on the authority of The Creator God.
Oops, I have to listen to the talk.

“If you move about two more days from there, you’ll come to a large river and from the wilderness beyond it, monsters have been invading since around the last year.

While riding on the back of fish-like monsters they were crossing the river and the monsters strength varies greatly every time that they come, the weak ones are just at level of kobolds and goblins, but the strong ones are at level of garms and ogres.
For a while, we had been defending ourselves properly, but we were becoming weaker and weaker due the attrition from the endless attacks, in order to put an end to it, we should come out and cut off the source at the roots! That story came out two months ago.
We don’t even know the scale of the opponent! there was such opinion, that it was too dangerous to go in such a state, but even so, there was no future to us if we just stood still, doing nothing.
In the end, including my father, with about 20 warriors from the village, they decided to make an offensive against the monsters…and after that…”

Having said that much, perhaps because it was difficult to say further Regulus paused for a moment. Whether it’s frustration or sadness, he’s clenching his hand tightly.
I expected him to talk about them losing to the monsters and never coming back, but… What Regulus told me with an anguished expression was even worse.

“…Both my father and the warriors came back as an abomination.”

*¹Translator note: no body or lid (??????) it’s a saying that indicates a straight word with a direct reason, without any decorations or excuses.

from a jp site(by google translate):
No body or lid means that the expression is too blatant that became tasteless, that I don’t even have anything more to say.

*²Translator note: (by google): Dogeza is an element of traditional Japanese etiquette which involves kneeling directly on the ground and bowing to prostrate oneself while touching one’s head to the floor. It is used to show deference to a person of higher status, as a deep apology or to express the desire for a favor from said person.

If it’s not enough explanation, google it.

*³Translator note: Regulus was using a informal tone to talk, but tried to change to a more formal tone. It is difficult to translate formal japanese tone to a english tone that is not medieval so i will just translate all as informal when is not needed.