Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 24 Part 1 by EDA

Author:EDA
Language: eng
Format: epub

“You seem kind of tired, Ai Fa.”

Time had continued onward, and now it was dinnertime. In response to my comment, Ai Fa, who had been eating silently, gave a weary nod.

“I am... This is our sixth day of going out to visit other clans, is it not? To be honest, doing this may be more tiring than my usual hunts.”

“Oh, really? Are those Ravitz folks difficult to handle?”

The hunters had split into three groups in order to carry out this task. The Ran were handling the Dai, the Sudra the Suun, and the Fa and Fou the Ravitz. The Ravitz opposed the Fa clan’s actions, so Ai Fa had declared that she wanted to go to them herself.

“It’s true that the Ravitz clan head is a rather odd one. But more than that, I’m just not well suited to such work.”

“Ah, yeah, when you went to visit the Gaaz and Ratsu clans way back when, that seemed to make you pretty tired too.”

Ai Fa had trouble spending time with unfamiliar people, and trying to teach in general. As she bit into a piece of baked poitan dipped in curry, she nodded once more. “Indeed. On top of that, the Ravitz hunters frequently let giba slip away from them. They also won’t let myself or the Fou hunters lend a hand, so our attempts to teach them aren’t going anywhere. It’s incredibly vexing.”

“I see. That does sound like a troublesome job for you.”

“Still, I can’t start whining over something like this. And tomorrow we’re taking a break from work, so I should be able to recover a bit from my exhaustion.”

I found myself at a bit of a loss, since I had been planning on asking Ai Fa for something today. “Er, I’m pretty hesitant to raise this topic after everything you’ve said, but...”

“What is it? Are you planning on foisting another troublesome burden upon me?”

“Yeah. Well, it shouldn’t be that troublesome, but I do have a request I want to make.” Ai Fa was shooting me a reproachful look, making me feel even more apologetic. “I know I shouldn’t be asking you to do something on your day off, but it’s really been weighing on my mind. You see, it’s about Mikel and Myme.”

“Mikel and Myme?” Ai Fa’s eyes had been half-closed, but now they were wide open. It seemed I had really caught her off guard, but this was as much of a source of concern for me as Shumiral’s late return.

“Yeah. I haven’t seen either of them at the stall in the post town since the gold month started. Before then, we never went more than five days without seeing them, but it’s been around ten days now.”

“Hmm.”

“Mikel has his charcoal-making work, while Myme could be busy with her cooking practice, but the last batch of giba meat we gave them should have run out a long time ago... Myme’s supposed to be experimenting with giba meat, so how is she supposed to keep practicing if she doesn’t have any? That’s why I’m so concerned about them.

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