Cooking with Wild Game, Volume 11 by EDA

Author:EDA [EDA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

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So today ended without anything happening again, huh...? I thought to myself as I stared out into the darkness through the big open window after finishing my work and returning to the room.

Before I even knew what was happening, I was heading into my fourth night here in this place.

Was Diel unable to slip out of the castle town after all? I was just stuck here passing the time in this new everyday routine thrust upon me, with nothing changing for either better or worse.

But the morning of the day after tomorrow, Cyclaeus would be returning. And so, regardless of what anyone had to say, this abnormal everyday schedule would be brought to an end. Yes, even at the most, there was only a little over a day left till this whole stupid farce was blown to smithereens.

Even so, that still felt so far away. Though I was able to suppress it somehow while holed up in the kitchen, the pain and sadness I felt seemed like it would crush my very heart.

Ai Fa... What must you be thinking...?

Whenever that name or face came to mind, my heart started beating irregularly.

It felt as if half of my body had been torn away from me. I was realizing with terribly painful clarity just how much I had come to rely on her.

Why was I even standing here? Were those really my feet there on the ground? Why am I even alive...? Such thoughts would normally never come to mind for me, but now my head was full to bursting with them. I felt as helpless as if I was adrift in space, and I was full of such despair that it was like my head had sunk deep into an inky blackness.

I wanted to see Ai Fa.

To hear her voice.

To feel the warmth from her fingers.

Even I couldn’t help but see how stupid I was being to let myself get so completely caught up in such pointless, obstructive thoughts.

How had everyone else spent these last few days, too? I of course wondered about the Ruu clan, who I had the closest ties to, but also the Rutim, Lea, Sudra, Fou... so many that I couldn’t even count them all.

And there were the folks from the post town, too. They all felt like distant memories to me now. It was as if I was drifting off into the sky while still alive, but was awash in my memories from life.

By immersing myself in cooking during the day, I was able to escape from such concerns. But when I was pulled back to this room, I was instantly swallowed up again by that empty, meaningless feeling. No matter how much I strove with my cooking research, that food would ultimately only end up making it to Lefreya’s mouth. Even though Diel and her father got to eat the dinners too, that certainly wasn’t enough to clear away that awful emptiness.

The one I wanted to serve my cooking to was Ai Fa. And the people of the forest’s edge, and the townsfolk from the post town too.

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