Chapter 28

Chapter 28

At the unexpected item display despite the gazes of the younger siblings and Ara I examined the explanation for a moment.

[Sweet potato mattang imbued with mana]

Obtain physical strengthening LV.1 for 3 hours.

The explanation was short.

But it was clearly different from just sweet potatoes.

‘It was weak physical ability rise for 3 minutes but it changed to one awakening ability being attached completely.’

Though 3 hours, that too only level 1 but one more awakening ability appearing was an amazing thing. Something regarded as impossible unless dual awakening like me became possible just by eating food.

“Crazy.”

“Why, hyung?”

“One awakening ability is attached to the cooking you made.”

“...What do you mean?”

Jaeseong’s eyes shook.

At the same time Seona looked at the mattang with an excited expression.

“Awakening ability?!”

“I don’t know if it has effect on ordinary people too but for now the explanation says you can obtain the awakening ability called physical strengthening for 3 hours.”

“Can we eat this?”

Whether Seona who was excited came to her senses hearing my words she regained calm.

Then Ara who was still dripping saliva made a tearful face and said.

“Can’t eat?”

“Ah...”

For a moment Seona’s expression shook.

I smiled toward such two and said.

“Just eat. Anyway if making again it would be fine.”

Whether the same effect would come out if making again, whether it can become an item was unknown but anyway it didn’t matter.

The more good food, good items fed the stronger Ara’s ability becomes. That the efficiency drops a bit can’t be denied but...

‘Seeing Ara and the younger siblings happy eating delicious things is also a reward for me.’

Whether having settled to some extent the heart wasn’t urgent. Anyway with my ability I could produce results far exceeding the gain from seeing with one such mattang.

“Let’s eat.”

“Hyung, before that can’t we make once more? Who knows.”

“Then it will cool.”

“Originally mattang is delicious even cooled.”

Jaeseong and Seona sent intense gazes.

These guys unlike me seemed to have no mental leeway. Fully understandable.

“Ara, can you endure a bit more? If making one more that one Ara can eat all alone.”

“Ugh... Understood.”

Seona wiped under the chin of Ara who was still dripping saliva.

Like that bringing sweet potatoes again and until cooking a hell-like time of patience continued for Ara.

In the meantime I thought maybe feeding about one mattang would be fine but rather fearing reverse effect and eyes flipping I endured.

“Waited long right? Mattang completed again.”

“Mattang! Mattang!”

The long-awaited moment.

I examined the newly made mattang again.

[Sweet potato mattang imbued with mana]

Obtain physical strengthening LV.1 for 2 hours 13 minutes.

Oh? The time changed a bit.

“How is it, hyung?”

“Done. The item display appeared.”

“Jackpot!”

Seona cheered in place of me or Jaeseong. As much as knowledgeable about awakeners it seemed she realized how amazing this was.

“But earlier it was duration for 3 hours but now it appears as 2 hours 13 minutes.”

“Ah... this time because making a bit urgently the quality dropped a bit is it because of that?”

A reasonable statement. In my view both looked delicious but Jaeseong who cooked directly would know better.

‘By the way if making cooking with my crops it becomes an item... This would sell well?’

I don’t know if mass production is possible but if doing this well later when Jaeseong opens a restaurant there seemed no worry of failing. Of course even without such effect just competing with taste there was sufficient winning chance.

“Mattang!”

“Yeah, yeah. Sorry for making you wait long. Now let’s eat.”

We decided to try eating the sufficiently cooled mattang made first first.

The mattang coated with starch syrup and the outside hardened like candy still hadn’t lost that golden appearance. Rather seeming to sparkle more...

‘Must have been dazzling when cooking.’

Making useless impressions and the moment putting one in the mouth a familiar sweet taste was felt.

Up to here it was an ordinary feeling but the moment chewing it changed.

““Uum!!””

We simultaneously leaked moans and looked at each other’s faces. Faces as if you felt it too? seeking empathy.

The sweet taste was much more prominent than previous sweet potatoes. But that absolutely didn’t break the balance.

The concentrated sweet potato’s flavor and sweet taste that was hidden coated with sugar and starch syrup exploded like bursting a water balloon.

That dramatic direction was an experience not of eating food but as if feeling the climax of an orchestra performance.

“It’s not food...”

When I muttered without knowing Jaeseong nodded fiercely as if understanding.

“I could feel the emotion of course cooking with this one piece of sweet potato mattang! This is a revolution in the cooking world!”

Excited Jaeseong picked one more mattang.

But not putting it in the mouth and holding it in hand he examined piercing.

“If composing course cooking as intended with foods like this this would become not simply the act of eating food but one life experience like watching a play or an orchestra’s performance.”

Seona was savoring the mattang with eyes closed regardless of us talking and Ara was inhaling like possessed with her small hands.

“Lee Gyuseong Gyuseong! Mattang is too delicious!”

Whether feeling my gaze Ara shouted with mattang full in her mouth. Then flinched and held the bowl containing the second mattang.

“That Ara can eat all alone.”

I thought Ara was being greedy but the guy did an unexpected action.

“Going down and sharing! Delicious things are eaten together!”

“Ah!”

Blinded by the fact of being an item I couldn’t think of the slimes in time.

I quickly helped Ara holding the mattang piled as much as her body with her small body.

“Haa, how is our Ara thinking also this pretty.”

“Why is Ara ‘our’ Ara?”

Nitpicking Seona’s words we all went down. Then whether smelling the smell the slimes rolling in the field gathered.

Considering Ara’s appetite because a lot of mattang was made the amount to share with the slimes was also sufficient.

Wriggle! Wriggle!

Pop!

Mattang smelled less than roasted sweet potatoes or steamed sweet potatoes. Instead all that flavor and scent concentrated inside.

So the slimes looking at the almost odorless mattang seemed just happy at the fact that food came.

“Hehe. You guys. This is exactly sweet potato mattang.”

“It’s mattang!”

Together with Ara I shared the mattang with the slimes.

A total of 15 slimes.

Level 3 was Mark Two and Dokdok.

And level 2 became 8 in the meantime.

The remaining 5 were new recruits.

Pop? Wriggle?

Brrrr!!

The slimes who ate the mattang soon reacted. Unlike the crops eaten until now trembling their bodies as if ‘What did I eat?’ reactions.

“Hihi! Everyone likes it! Indeed mattang is invincible!”

Ara who understands the slime’s language rejoiced as if her own matter and ate one bite herself too. Then clenched both hands and trembled.

“Delicious! Indeed younger brother of Lee Gyuseong Gyuseong Lee Jaeseong!”

Watching the rejoicing Ara and slimes I also ate the mattang. A taste like snacks yet high-class. A sense of happiness as if melting the body.

Yeah, this is happiness what else is happiness?

‘I want to convey this emotion to other people too.’

The first that comes to mind is of course parents.

Later I’ll pack some crops in the storage for the younger siblings and tell them to eat together with parents.

And next of course hyung Yeongseong and awakener Kang Hanul.

Just in time I was thinking of contacting so I’ll go out after a long time.

Besides that I also wanted to spread this happy emotion to unknown people.

‘After resolving the dungeon first I should quickly help Jaeseong open a restaurant.’

Just imagining the heart already seemed full.

* * *

After the mattang commotion ended I packed the luggage.

Regrettably the mattang’s effect didn’t appear on ordinary people Jaeseong or Seona.

“Hyung, how about just taking Ara out too?”

Jaeseong worriedly asked me who was preparing to go out. Seona also added strength to such Jaeseong’s opinion.

“Right, oppa. Ara would like it too...”

“I also want to take her out but because Ara’s appearance isn’t ordinary...”

Golden straight hair and eyes with tiger ears.

Moreover overwhelming cuteness.

Should I say fortunate, though there was no tail even so a very eye-catching appearance.

If someone felt something strange and reported the moment how to resolve that situation was worried.

“For now one method comes to mind.”

“Hm? There’s a method?”

At Seona’s confident words I urgently asked. Beside such me Ara tightly holding my leg shone both eyes and looked at Seona.

“Entering a guild.”

“Ah...”

“Anyway there are various kinds of awakeners right? Among them there are many with summoning type abilities and taming awakeners too. Oppa also finishing registration of that kind and taking Ara around. Completely legally.”

“That would be the right theory. Of course even so it would stand out.”

I had never heard of human-type summons yet.

Of course overseas there might be human-type summons or familiars I don’t know but at least in the Republic of Korea there weren’t.

“You have a connection with Ara Hongryeon Guild right? How about receiving consultation once?”

“Hmm...”

While eating mattang I generally told the things that happened until now. Jaeseong whether inspirations about cooking kept coming up listened or not but Seona was very interested.

“If that is burdensome for now try talking to Kang Hanul.”

“Hyung Hanul? Um, I’ll think a bit.”

Whatever happens if not raising Ara only in the dungeon for life someday it’s a problem that has to be resolved.

Moreover after Ara grows the two would also do dungeon subjugation so before that I should think in advance.

‘Anyway there would be almost no people who can see Ara’s information.’

There are awakeners who can see monster information but very rare. Not the degree of very rare but there was only one even in our country.

While thinking this and that Ara rubbed her face on the leg.

“Lee Gyuseong Gyuseong.”

“Hm. This time too I’ll go and come soon. I’ll buy lots of delicious things too.”

“Hm.”

Seeing the lively Ara speaking with a dejected appearance I felt like I became a great sinner for no reason.

...Anyway I should try having a meeting with the Ara Hongryeon Guild through hyung Yeongseong or awakener Kang Hanul once.

“No. Just let’s go together.”

“Together!?”

Ara raised her head with a jerk and shone her eyes.

And the younger siblings also smiled as if knowing it would be so and nodded.

“As hyung said it would stand out. Still in an era like these days there seems no need to worry too much.”

“Right, oppa. In my view oppa is too doting.”

Well looking at awakeners’ appearances these days an appearance of Ara’s degree was a case that couldn’t even fit in the individuality axis.

There were many who hung equipment and accessories obtained from dungeons dangling or whose appearances even changed due to ability manifestation.

Unlike the past this atmosphere becoming familiar was the current era. As the younger siblings said it was right that I was worrying too much.

‘I tried not to become a doting parent...’

In the end hearing doting parent words from Seona.

But seeing Ara anyone would have no choice but to become a doting parent.

“Still should cover the ears?”

“No, if only wearing the straw hat as is it’s okay? Probably won’t think they’re real ears and see them as decorations attached to the hat.”

“Lee Gyuseong Gyuseong! Going together! I’m a guy who listens well!”

Worrying if there was more to prepare for a moment I soon nodded.

“Yeah, let’s go!”

“Uwa! Going out!”

Like that Ara’s first outing was decided.