Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 29 by EDA

Author:EDA [EDA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-08-07T00:00:00+00:00

It’s been a year since then, huh? Well, there was that extra month this year, so it’s actually been closer to four hundred days, I thought to myself, my gaze shifting ever so slightly. Next to my chef’s uniform were two hunter’s cloaks. The first was the one Ai Fa had worn when she was young, and the other was the one she had been using from three years ago until her birthday this year.

The smaller of the two had been made by Ai Fa’s mother. Once, after her father had been injured and rendered unable to hunt in the forest, my clan head had gone out and captured a young giba in a simple trap. That giba’s pelt had provided the materials for her first cloak.

Naturally, it wasn’t a true hunter’s cloak. The pelt had come from a young giba, so it was only thirty centimeters or so long at most, and there was no way a young girl like Ai Fa would have been given a proper hunter’s cloak in the first place. Even so, Ai Fa’s mother had worked on that little cloak with all her heart, for the sake of her daughter who had saved their family from the crisis it faced. When I imagined Ai Fa at the age of ten or so wearing that small cloak and proudly climbing trees or running around the house, I felt warmth welling up inside me.

As for the other cloak, it was a memento from Ai Fa’s father. She had lost her dad at the age of fifteen and had hunted all alone from then on. She had taken down countless giba, but she hadn’t even had another clan member to tan the hides and make them into cloaks. That was why she had kept on wearing her father’s until Saris Ran Fou and the others had given her a new one for her birthday this year.

My chef’s uniform was hanging alongside those mementos Ai Fa had kept. This was something I saw every single morning, but today, it was making me feel especially emotional.

Well, I guess there’s no helping that today. After all, it’s the one year anniversary of when I first met Ai Fa.

I forced myself to look away, then picked up the basket of laundry and opened the door. But as soon as I did, a fist came flying right at my nose only to suddenly stop. Its owner shifted it to the side, and beyond it I saw Ai Fa peering at me.

“Ah, you’re done getting prepared? You were taking so long that I was about to knock on the door.”

I had figured that was it, but it was still rough on my heart even so.

With a composed look on her face, my clan head lowered her fist and turned the other way. “Let’s get going. I’m unsure how much water we have in the jug, so we should replace that as well.”

“Gotcha.”

After dumping out the small amount of water still inside, I set

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