Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 22 [Parts 1 to 5] by EDA

Author:EDA
Language: eng
Format: epub

Intermission: A Night at the Fa House

“It’s unbelievable, isn’t it?” I called out.

“Indeed,” Ai Fa said with a nod while voraciously eating the giba meat I had prepared for dinner.

It was currently night on the fifth day of the silver month, after I had finished my work in the castle town and returned home. On the way back, we had stopped by the Ruu settlement, which was where I had heard about the requests Melfried had charged the leading clan heads with.

“I never expected the Gamley Troupe’s request to be accepted so easily. No matter how strong their connections with the nobles are, it seemed like the sort of thing that would have been flatly refused,” I noted.

That was the first matter. The Gamley Troupe’s request to capture a live giba for their show had now been officially approved in the name of Duke Marstein Genos. Apparently, Neeya the minstrel had used his sweet voice to entice a noblewoman from a viscount’s house with ties to the house of Genos, which had allowed their request to successfully make it all the way to the duke himself.

However, that was something that had always been within the realm of possibility. The surprising part was how swiftly it had been approved. Why were they being allowed to go ahead with it so easily? When I asked, the answer I got back was that this had resulted from Marstein’s conservative and proactive sides getting all tangled up in a web together.

“The forest at the foot of Mount Morga is incredibly vast and the hunting grounds we people of the forest’s edge use only occupy a small portion... Therefore, there is no law that prevents people from setting foot in the forest of Morga, aside from the areas where we hunt,” Gazraan Rutim had explained to me in his usual gentle tone, having accompanied the leading clan heads. “However, setting foot on Mount Morga itself is absolutely forbidden. If the varb wolves, giant madarama snakes, and red savages that guard the mountain are angered, it could lead to the destruction of Genos. But the mountain where those beasts live is the only place that people are truly forbidden to enter. In the end, technically anyone can hunt giba at the mountain’s base.”

“I can see why. It’s no problem for Genos if the number of giba around decreases, so I guess they have no reason to go out of their way to forbid that.”

“Right. Of course, entering our hunting grounds without permission is forbidden by the laws of Genos too. That much is also only natural, as someone setting foot there carelessly could easily lose their life to the traps we have set. Although, thinking back, since Ai Fa first encountered you while you were caught in one of her traps, Asuta, I suppose you were breaking the laws of Genos right from the start.”

I rustled my own hair with an “Ah ha ha,” and Gazraan Rutim smiled, but then our expressions grew serious again.

“Returning to the matter at hand.

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