157 – 157 – Colors rising from the sea # 3
157 – Colors from the sea #3
Enio’s shadow was usable like a pocket.
So, did Enio often put things in his shadow?
When escaping from the Sirens’ cave this time, Enio escaped with plenty of food in his shadow.
Among them, the one I pay attention to is the “sea apple”.
Even if you just eat it, it’s delicious.
This is a material that can show its true value when processed and cooked.
“There are so many sea apples here. What are you going to do with this?”
Enio reached into his shadow and pulled out about thirty sea apples.
Considering the cooking probability of the food I will make in the future, 30 pieces will be insufficient in many ways.
I wish there were at least as much as this.
About 60 of them.
It was then.
“Ah… !”
Someone made a strange noise.
Turning his head, Arnoy found Siriol and raised his hands high.
“Are you a nymph…? ?”
“It is like that… ! I am the nymph of the seawater, Cyril… !”
Arnoy and Ciriol approached each other and put their foreheads together.
When I was curious about the meaning of this bizarre ritual-like act, my wife Clarisse lightly explained the situation with a huhu-smile.
“Nymphs greet each other by touching their foreheads.”
It’s a unique way of greeting.
Arnoi said after the greeting.
“Meeting sisters on this remote island, this is a meeting of fate… ! What’s more, helping the chef, Victor, is a big credit… !”
“You are Arnoi… !”
“Why do you know the name of this Arnoi… ?”
“This is what I heard from Krepnoy… !”
“Krepnoy… !”
Arnoi trembled as if he had heard a story he couldn’t hear.
Then, with a terribly sad expression, isn’t it even shedding tears?
“Krepnoy… . I was a friend of this Arnoi… . Now I’m living with this Arnoi… . Arnoi is sure to be happy, even to Krepnoi’s share… !”
“Krepnoi is also said to be friends with Arnoi… !”
The nymph of the seawater, Ciriole, rummaged through the bag of seaweed stems she was carrying on her side.
What comes out of it is a large king crab.
– Kreb, Kreb.
Soon, Arnoy’s pupils widened.
“Ah-! Krepnoy… ! Hey, how did this happen… ? Krempnoy must have thought that he had become crab meat soup in the hands of the ruthless chef Viktor… !”
Arnoi’s bell-sized gaze turned to me.
how did it happen
The reason is nothing.
I didn’t kill Krepnoy.
I just bathed them in hot water to extract some of the broth and returned them to the sea.
“Arnoy, your friend is our friend. No matter how hungry you are, you can’t eat him. It was just helped by the broth in the soup.”
“I see, that’s what it is… !”
Arnoi hugged the king crab, Krebnoi.
It’s like welcoming a family back from the battlefield.
“I’m glad I’m alive… !”
That guy must have thought we had killed and ate the krepnoy.
It was then.
– Kreb, Kreb.
“Ah-! It means that Krepnoi knows where the “sea apples” grow in abundance… ! It’s about guiding you… !”
really?
I didn’t catch and eat it and sent it back, so I wonder if he’s thinking of repaying the favor?
Soon after, Arnoi and Ciriol dived into the sea following Krepnoi.
When they appeared after disappearing for a while, the bags made of seaweed stems were filled with [sea apples].
Thus, the total number of “sea apples” was 57.
Although less than the 60 I was planning.
Cooking, which has a chance of success, is luck.
To be or not to be.
That means 50/50.
If you’re lucky, you’ll succeed even if you only have one ingredient.
If you’re not lucky, even if there are a thousand, it’s a probability of failure.
“Then now I need to get the remaining ingredients. Nike, could you possibly go into the jungle now? I hope you have collected some of the plants I tell you about in the jungle.”
When I explored this island, most of the vegetation that was born and grew was identified.
What I want are 「Sunrise Flower」 and 「Lily of the Valley」, both of which are native to this island.
“The more numbers you pull out, the better. The night is dark. Go with Victoria. Victoriaka is good at light magic, so she should be at least lighting.”
“… Who said it was the light!?”
The hot Victoriaka.
The boy looked around and said.
“I don’t know when those sirens will come, so can I leisurely prepare a meal? Do you really have the confidence to convince those octopus guys?”
“must do it.”
If you ask me if I’m confident or not, I honestly didn’t know either.
But it’s dangerous if you don’t do it.
Whether you are confident or not, what you have to do is the current situation.
* * *
“Sea Apple” is an ingredient for Elixir.
Elixir is a powerful consumption item that heals all curses and diseases and replenishes HP.
However, since the ingredients were difficult to make, only the second half of the first playthrough or multiple playthroughs were able to use the elixir.
then.
Are “sea apples” a useless ingredient for people who can’t make elixirs?
No, not necessarily.
Items and crafting in this D&A are designed to evolve in a cascading fashion.
For example, there is honey shaved ice as an upgraded version of snowflake shaved ice, and you can make a dish called honey shaved ice harmony with the upgraded version.
The basic dishes that can be made with sea apples were the tier 2 drink 「Sea Apple Juice」 and the tier 1 drink 「Witch’s Potion」.
And the “witch’s potion” that appears here is said to be the ingredient for the elixir.
Of course, what I was trying to make now was not an elixir, but an ordinary “witch’s potion.”
If you put an apple and various herbs in a boiling pot and stir it… .
pop-.
“Have you failed again?”
The success rate when cooking a “witch’s potion” is about 2%.
By simple calculation, if you try with 50 apples, you have a chance to succeed at least once.
Now I have already turned 40 apples into black charcoal.
Now, there are 17 apples left.
“Nike, prepare the next ingredients.”
Charleuk.
Discard the contents of the pot and prepare a new dish.
step by step from the beginning.
calmly…
“Hey, Victor!”
Victoria called me.
Concentration is broken because of this.
“Why are you calling me?”
“There are sirens coming up from the sea. He’s got a weapon too! Everyone looks very angry, but you really have the confidence to convince them, right?”
Did the sirens come all the way here already?
When I looked at the shore, there were really a lot of sirens coming, just like Victoria said.
A rusty trident or hook is gripped in each of their tentacles.
Calypso, the bespectacled siren, stepped forward and spoke.
“Yes, man, how dare you kidnap the Goddess… ! can’t forgive… !”
They seemed to think I kidnapped Enio.
Didn’t he think that Enio had escaped on his own?
I decided to tell the guys the truth.
“Enio is not your goddess. Your goddess is not here. Even if Enio has a child, a siren will not be born. A cute human baby would just be born.”
“… … !”
Elder Calypso was very perplexed.
Soon, the sirens who were listening to Calypso’s surroundings said, “It’s not a goddess…” ?” or “Somehow I didn’t have fins… .” began to whisper.
Did these guys also have a vague sense that Enio was not their goddess?
Maybe I just wanted to close my eyes even though I knew it wasn’t.
Maybe he wanted to turn his eyes away from reality and believe in something transcendent.
It must have been so crowded.
of course.
The problem is not solved that way.
No matter how painful it is, you have to look at the affected area and cut it out or treat it.
It is this that faith alone does not cure the disease.
In that sense, I decided to become a scalpel to awaken these guys to their reality.
“Of course, it must be a sad story for your kind who pin their hopes on the goddess. But that’s the reality. Your goddess is not here.”
“Elder, is this true?”
“You said that child is our goddess?”
“Clarification… !”
Perhaps all of these situations were caused by the siren named Elder Calypso.
Calypso, however, did not approve.
“… it’s a goddess i can tell I can feel the goddess’s vivid magic. that guy is lying Foreigners always do. They are liars!”
Calypso’s cry echoes along the shore.
“Audir, think back to the past. You, a certain pirate once promised to marry you if you find a pearl box sunk in the sea. But what did he do when he found the pearl box?”
“Yeah, I ran away. You can’t live with a monster like me… .”
“Yes, there is no news from the corps who said they would bring men from the mainland if you lead the ship through a typhoon. they’re all liars You can’t listen to that man… !”
indeed.
The sirens seemed to have been tricked by people with lies before they knew it.
“That guy is lying to steal the goddess from us! Don’t be fooled everyone! Since it happened like this, plunder them all! The Goddess is also taken away again!”
The elder’s cry seemed to have an effect.
The sirens who were agitated fixed their weapons again.
A situation on the verge of imminent attack.
It was then.
“It is not!”
Someone summoned courage and shouted loudly among the people.
The guy was Nike.
“Of course, people lie a lot… . A lot of people don’t believe it, but Victor is different… ! Viktor is someone who at least tries to keep what he said… !”
Nike was a shy person.
I always hesitate when I speak in front of people.
It was the same even now.
However, Nike’s trembling voice somewhere in the sea of the sound of the waves at night contained a strange power.
“Victor said he wanted to break your curse… ! And he said he wanted to join forces with you to defeat the monsters on the other island… !”
A lie is like a loud thunder.
But the truth strikes like a silent thunderbolt.
Nike’s awkward but appealing sincerity made Calypso stop his sharp momentum and ask us, as if he would rush at any moment.
“Hey, weird pink-haired kid. Is that true?”
“I said it before, but Viktor is a lie—”
“It is real.”
I stepped forward and said
Hiding behind Nike is also funny.
So I stood up proudly in front of everyone and said.
“Your goddesses are not on this island. However, the way for you sirens to survive and prosper is not necessarily limited to goddesses. I know how.”
The guys said that having eight legs was a ‘curse’.
Curses are generally ‘status abnormalities’.
All status ailments in the game can be resolved.
how do i know that?
That’s because a lot of old people, including me, have changed time and ruined them all.
“I will break the curse of your people. Even if you can’t break it. I will do my best to help your people prosper again.”
Soon, Arnoi stepped forward as well.
“Chef Victor is someone you can trust… ! And he is a friend of Arnoi and Krepnoi… !”
It wasn’t a very convincing story, but the sirens were agitated.
“Is that guy a nymph?”
“… A nymph trusts you. It seems to be real.”
The atmosphere is leaning a lot.
As the weapons in their hands drooped toward the floor.
Elder Calypso sighed.
“Now you’re an arrogant man with barely enough fluff. If we can’t break the curse even though we trusted you, how will you be held accountable? Will you be the West of monsters like us?”
“no.”
I shook my head.
As Calypso shook his head, “So-” I added.
“You are not monsters. Human. I am just a person who wants to believe, be betrayed, love, and live a normal life.”
“U.S… .”
“And marriage is not a matter to be taken lightly. A bar that can only be said after sharing a lot of stories with each other and having a heart to like it. If you like this country, tell me. Please take it seriously.”
These mermaids are also human beings.
There will be eyes to see.
I thought that no one would propose to a man like me.
But did my own sincerity work well?
The mermaids put down the weapons they were holding.
I told them
“Then let’s go, to face the real monster.”