6 – Episode 6. Cooker Inventory
Before entering the game, I used to have some delusions every time I came to this tavern.
Won’t Dana be bored? What a useless delusion.
I don’t have to be bored because I’m working hard in the tower, and other NPCs don’t care much because their memories are reset the moment I die, but Dana-san keeps her memories even after I die.
What was she doing alone during that long loop?
I thought that setting that only applied to her was pretty awful.
But the reason why that memory comes to mind right now is…
At the very least, I thought I was filthy bored.
The smile never leaves her face.
“Ingredients? Curious about that? Shall I show you?”
“Thank you for showing me. But why do you look more excited?”
“Does it look like that? hehehe… But you’re the first customer to ask to see the kitchen, so what can I do? Come in here quickly.”
I’m a cold-blooded person who’s never been lonely in my life, so I can’t understand Dana’s excitement.
His eyes were always on my face, he tried his best to answer any questions, and even now, as soon as I asked about the ingredients for the stew, he grabbed my wrist and pulled me into the bar.
Even if you don’t understand it, it’s nice because it’s comfortable. If it were me, I would have received 20 gold per question.
A small door next to the fireplace.
As she stooped down to follow Dana, she caught her eye at the mountain of junk in her storage room.
“Wow, why don’t you clean up? What trash have you piled up like this?”
“Ah… I was coaxed to show it to you, but they treated me like trash…”
“Then, is this really what it is?”
“Yes, the shop owner unnie brings it to me every morning.”
Hu, it’s a mountain beyond the mountain. It’s not that surprising anymore.
This is a stew ingredient?
A cursory glance revealed that they were all organic. There were dried fruits hanging from the branches, dead bodies of some animals, whether it was grain or wild grass seeds, all that had not been threshed were all tangled up.
[Carcass of Thornhorn Blackbird]
– Monster corpses sold to collectors.
– It smells awful.
[Unknown tree berry.]
– A fruit that grows in the tower’s thickets.
– Bitter, spicy, and astringent.
– The collector exchanges it for gold.
Japtems that can be obtained instead of gold at the Tower.
Meaningless items that are hard to get more than 5 gold each even if you put them in your inventory.
There are some items that trigger an event when given to a designated NPC, but all of them are japtem items.
“So you’re saying you just whip this into a stew? Because you can’t cook?”
“Yes. My mom wrote down the recipe on the pot, so it’s automatic.”
What kind of recipe did you write down to cover all these ingredients, Mother?
No, but what kind of recipe would produce such waste?
When I went outside and checked the pot, I found this written on the note.
[Relic: Nicholas Flamel’s Alchemy Jar.]
– If you register a recipe, an item is produced whenever you add ingredients.
—-
[Recipe: Mama Stew]
1. Add ingredients.
2. Moe Moe Kyun with love!
3. Don’t starve and stay well, my daughter. Let’s meet someday.”
—-
Moe Moe is a disease. Daughter will get sick Mother.
Have you tried your best to make it a dish no matter what ingredients you put in?
I don’t know about that noble mother’s heart, but at least in my eyes, it was a food shredder.
“The stew is free, but what about the ingredients? I think it would be quite expensive for this amount.”
“It’s free.”
“What about equivalent exchange?”
“My pot belongs to my mother, so she must be paying for it?”
Mom? Are you in the tower?
Aha. That’s it. I get a rough sense of it.
As the TOE settings were applied to reality, a rather interesting situation occurred.
Since the stew pot was said to be a relic left behind by Dana’s mother, it was said that her mother would pay for the ingredients as well.
The authority of the [Golden Rhythm Guild], Which oversees the commerce of the tower, affects the entire tower even if no one is watching, so even the cost of ingredients purchased in this town means that the buyer somewhere in the tower is billed.
Then I can understand why Dana considers this store a treasure.
As long as this pot is working properly, can we find out that the mother is still alive somewhere in the tower? Probably for this reason
Anyway, the equivalent exchange system could be used like this… Thank you for the good information.
As I was organizing my thoughts, Dana suddenly grabbed my wrist and said.
It’s still narrow here, but the firmly fixed gaze is burdensome.
“Why?”
“I don’t even know your name yet… what should I call you?”
“Lee Do-hyun. My last name is Dohyun. If it’s annoying to memorize, you can say it, call it whatever you want.”
“hehehe… It’s an unusual name. But I definitely memorized it.”
It’s a very common name.
What’s unusual right now is not my name, but my actions.
Usually, I would have been around Leonardo, Hyun Bin, or just about any other name, but this time I felt a strange sense of guilt, so I said my real name.
I don’t know why I did that either, but maybe the real Dana-san has a crush on me.
She always remembered my name, so I don’t think she wants to betray me even if she’s good.
It’s probably something like this.
Ah, after being locked up in the corner of the room for too long, my over-immersion is almost at the level of a psychosis.
Let’s forget about Dana coolly and think about the future.
Finally, I asked Dana.
“Can I try putting the ingredients in the pot?”
It is a natural procedure.
If I experiment with the ingredients I bought with my own money and throw them away, bloody tears will flow, so it’s only natural to look at how the cooking skill is used here.
But Dana seemed to have taken it in a different way.
“Wow. Do you want to work here?”
“Not at all.”
“Ah… that’s unfortunate. But if you try and enjoy it, stay here… I’m bored…”
Don’t say that.
It hurts because I think Dana-san would have been lonely too.
Ms. Dana, Dana, is just an NPC in the game. Being here makes him feel like an idiot and it’s hard to bear.
I’ll have to look around and leave soon.
I went back to the warehouse and chose the ingredients to put in the pot.
The [Corpse of the thorn-horned starling] That I looked at a while ago comes into view.
It has feathers, and even its beak and claws are attached. I like that because it looks like the hardest thing to eat.
If you put this in, you’ll be able to properly see how the pot cooks.
But the moment I lifted the starling’s leg, somehow the room felt bright.
Back?
“Whoa, are you that bag artifact? Is it light?”
“What bag? My knife bag? Uh?”
I was wondering where the sunlight came in, but it’s my knife bag that I was carrying on my back.
Of course, it’s not a relic, it’s an ordinary knife bag that a senior bought for me when I succeeded in developing my first menu at a restaurant when I was a junior.
There’s no way this will shine.
And at that moment, a voice came from inside my head.
That voice I heard when I first fell into this world.
『The conditions for unlocking job characteristics have been achieved.
The [Cook Inventory], Which is the job characteristic of Chef Liu Liu, will be converted to a usable state』
Unlock job characteristics?
Come to think of it, Tilda’s information window had job characteristics written on it, but mine was locked.
Since it’s my first time working as a production worker, I thought it might not have any characteristics. It was unexpected luck.
Maybe touching edible ingredients with your hands like a chef was the condition for unlocking it?
The function of this characteristic is…
[Cooker Inventory: Own a dedicated inventory to store cooking utensils.]
It was a dedicated inventory.
‘Wow, how many times have I seen this? Is it the fourth?’
Is this the reason why the potential is S rank for a dung job that only has D rank combat power and survivability?
All characters in TOE start with a basic inventory, but there are characters who start the game with their own special inventory with an extremely rare probability.
Sword inventory of S rank [Holy Sword Collector] And flask inventory of B rank [Drug Addict] Are representative.
It cannot be said that the dedicated inventory is directly related to performance, but fun is guaranteed.
Because there are exclusive events that can never be seen with other characters, and you can get exclusive items at each time.
Even the knife bag I brought wasn’t empty.
There was a knife inside.
While I’m counting my items as characteristics, wouldn’t it be possible to include that as well?
Even after disposing of all of her maker knives, I couldn’t abandon her until the very end.
[The total number of tools stored in the current inventory is 1.]
She was my first kitchen knife that someone gave me as a gift when I was young.
An old soldier who is now so shredded that he is only half the original size. A partner who has been with me for half of my life.
When business went downhill and everyone turned their backs on me and betrayed me, only she was on my side.
hahahaha. It’s a knife, so of course.
I couldn’t be more happy to see you here.
Just as I have a new job in this world, she has been given new abilities.
[Jessica (Chef Knife): Cut out the edible parts from the collection and make them into food items.]
I think the knife will become a humanoid artifact.