Isekai Ryouridou
Harvest Festival and Birth Feast - The Beginning of the Feast
When the sun was about to set at the end of the west, and the sun and the darkness came down, the prepared pedestal was to be lit all over the square.
The time is not long, six moments down. In the square of the Lou family, the start of the feast is finally about to be announced. Once the unmarried women had returned to their homes, they were also dressed in vibrant banquet costumes.
In front of a yakura made of marutai, a huge ritual fire is also lit.
Now before that ritual fire, only Grandma Ziva and the three accompanying Vina-Lou, and Donda-Lou, stood.
"As the head of Luu's main house, Donda-Lu, the chief of the forest... I bestow a crown of blessings on you who have been chosen as the bravest of Luu's blood..."
Donda-Lou broke his knee and drooped his head deep in front of the eldest.
Vanilla is thrown into the ritual fire, and a grass crown gently broiled with its incense smoke is placed on the head of Donda-Lou, reminiscent of the lion's tenderness.
At that moment, a crazy cheer rolled up in the quiet square.
The power of the hunter was to be brought down in the victory of Donda-Lou.
But it was also the result of a battle that could be called a great battle.
Eight brave men were selected: Donda-Lou, Dan-Loutim, Gazran-Loutim, Rudd-Lou, Guillain-Lillin, Lau-Ray, Sin-Lou and Mida.
Zida was also unbeaten, but with two victories, she was timed up and could hardly climb to the throne of the brave.
In the first game of the tournament played that way, Donda-Lou defeated Gillan-Lillin.
Dan-Lutim defeated Sin-Lu.
Rudd-Lou defeated Lau Ray.
Gazran-Rutim defeated Mida.
That was all engagement, and it wasn't weird who was winning - and then Barsha told me.
The semifinals are Donda-Lou vs. Rudd-Lou and Dan-Rutim vs. Gazran-Rutim.
The game was an even bigger one, he said.
Both games were about four half-minutes - roughly fifteen minutes or so - as they once were between Ai-Fa and Dan-Rutim.
Still, Donda-Lou and Dan-Lutim were to beat their respective sons.
So, in the final game played after the break, Dan-Rutim seems to have lost in seconds of things.
The people who were burning in anticipation of how many heat fights could be waged seemed to have been eaten a lot of shoulder watermarks with it.
"Uhm! The wound should have healed completely, but I need you to listen to what my right foot says at all! Apparently I just beat Gazlan or Sin-Lu and I was the limit!
While rolling to the ground, Dan-Rutim said he was laughing.
"But that would be the same for you, Donda-Lou? You're on your shoulders, I'm on my feet! That's just what divided the battle!
Donda-Lou also suffered injuries to his right shoulder as a result of his death battle with the Lord of the Woods.
Donda-Lou said he was "humming" his nose as he looked down at the sleeping Dan-Lutim.
"Sure, my right arm doesn't move a lot. It's a normal hunt, and I've never been more vulnerable."
"Nothing surprises me! That would be more proof than anything else that hunters by the woods are tougher than Gibba?
Still, however, it was Donda-Lou who won, and Dan-Lutim who was the semi-finalist.
What the hell would have happened if Ai-Fa or Giza Luu had been added there - that was unthinkable to think about.
"Every battle was brilliant… Mother Forest would have seen the power of Luu's blood..."
When Grandma Ziva told her so in front of the ritual fire, people quieted for a moment and then cheered again.
Wait for that to settle down before Donda-Lou sounds like a grunt.
"And today is the eighty-sixth birthday of the eldest, Ziba-Lou. Before we begin the feast, I would like to deliver the words of celebration first."
Upon Donda-Lou's signal, Vina-Lou led Grandma Ziba over Yarakura.
Donda-Lou, who followed, breaks his knee by the heavenly edge of Yagura and offers Grandma Ziba a large red flower.
"Celebrate my oldest and grandmother Ziva had a healthy year and hope to have another healthy year"
"Thanks, Donda... I want to spend a long day with you guys..."
Grandma Ziva lowered her hips slightly as she pressed the red flower against her chest.
Donda-Lou also whisks a little further away.
That seemed to be the signal, and people from a hundred people pushed under my head.
Everyone even has flowers of blessing in their hands. Everyone delivers flowers to Grandma Ziva by hand.
"Asta, we're the last ones, right?
Yumi, who had refrained right next to me, calls me with a smile.
I gave you a nod back.
"The last time a guest without a blood connection turns is by the woods. Why don't we line up a little bit more?"
"Yeah! I hope you're happy."
All I had was three guests and an eye-fa. Mime and Michelle, plus Zida and Barsha, will be waiting for their turn elsewhere again.
"Amazing. How the hell does it feel to have more than a hundred relatives"
When Terrier-Mass snapped like that, Yumi said, "What do you think?," he twisted his neck.
"But by the woods, if I give you a wedding alone, you mean relatives in the family gurumi. Then, well, is it natural to have such a large number of people?
"Even by the woods, it's hard to find a family with so many blood clans. And when it comes to Ziba-Lou, there may be very few known relatives."
When I snapped my mouth like that, Yumi said, "Really?" and looked suspicious.
"Yeah. 'Cause if the newest generation in the Lou family is Kota-Lou, the son of Ziza-Lou, it means that Ziba-Lou was that generation five generations ago. So, the Lew family makes a lot of children, so the blood of the brothers and children of Ziba-Lu should be branching from their generation to their families."
"Five generations ago! I just can't imagine that!
"Don't you? Dan-Lutim of the Rutim family, for example, is one of the grandchildren for Ziba-Lou. We're talking about Ziba-Lou's daughter dowry into Rutim's house and her blood bond. If Dan-Lutim's brothers and children had blood ties to other families, they would have inherited Ziba-Lou's blood."
"Wow, my head is kind of cracking! That's a huge story, it is!
After making such a noise, Yumi let down her mouth on the lid.
"But then the oldest must be full of happiness. So many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are celebrating."
Really, that may have been a feeling of happiness that we, the youngsters, and so forth, could never have imagined.
Lilyn, who has been a family member in the most recent years, is also dowried by Ur Ray-Lilyn of the Ray family. And Ray is a family that has long been associated with Lew and blood alongside Rutim. Then it was thought that the blood of Grandma Ziva herself, or of close relatives, was also passed on to the children born between Ur Ray-Lilyn and Gillan-Lilyn.
(If you try hard to weigh only the edge of blood, as Gazran-Rutim said, one day the debacle will come. But that's why we should keep the importance of the blood rim and change the code so that the other clans cross the blood rim)
I could have believed that.
I wonder if Donda-Lou was willing to accept Gazran-Rutim's proposal because he thought so too.
While I was thinking about that, the wave of people underneath Yakura was getting a lot sparse.
"Shall we go?...... Ai-Fa, are you okay?
"Uhm," I = fa said, still remaining stuck in his face.
After finishing the power comparison with Ziza-Lou and exchanging words with Zida, Ai-Fa has always had this face.
"Ai-Fa, I know how you feel, but if you looked like that, I guess you'd make Grandma Ziva worry"
"I know," he said, abandoning, ai-fa roughly lifting both his palms to his own cheeks. And then he starts to loosen up all over his face.
"... would have taken a little tension?
"Yeah, well, quite."
But I guess a dialogue with Giza-Lou is necessary to completely clear the feelings of Ai-Fa. Giza-Lou, who returned home for treatment, had not yet shown up at this point either.
(If Giza-Lou could tell me that he didn't bother to attack, I'm sure Ey-Fa would be a little at ease too)
Thinking like that, I put my foot on the Yakura stairs with the Ey-fa's.
Above Yagura are already full of flowers. Many flowers were also decorated on Grandma Ziva's hair and chest, but the flowers that could not be put on there were neatly arranged on her feet by Vina-Lou's hands.
"Congratulations, Eldest, 86! Keep living long!
"Congratulations. Let us offer the flowers of blessings."
"Grandma Ziba-Lou, please! Come visit me at Tara's house again!
In the order of Yumi, Terrier-Mass and Tara, new flowers are handed in again.
Grandma Ziva was laughing with a shitty little face.
"Thanks hey...... I never could have imagined having people in town celebrate my birthday... please keep spinning the right edge with the people by the woods, tara, yumi, terrier-mas......"
Yakura's four corners are also lit with fire. Grandma Ziva's smile, illuminated by the light, seemed really happy.
That's how he switches with Yumi and me and Ai-Fa kneel down in front of Grandma Ziba.
"Congratulations, Ziba-Lou. I'm so glad you invited me on such a happy day"
"Thanks, Asta... Thanks to Asta for reminding me of the happiness of life..."
Grandma Ziva's eyes, half hidden in her dripping eyelids, look at Ai-Fa.
"And so did Ai-Fa... Ai-Fa, who was so small, has become such a fine hunter... even if I don't have a blood edge, I'm as happy as I am about my child..."
"... I think I've been taller since we first met, even though I said I was small"
Ai-Fa also smiled naturally at all this time.
"But whatever it is, I am also sincerely pleased to be able to celebrate the birthday of the Ziva woman in this way. I want you to continue to live a long life and lead not only the Lew family but all the people by the woods to the right path."
"I am the one who is leading the right way... it is my greatest pleasure to continue to be able to follow the same path with my family and i-fa..."
"Hmm. I feel the same way"
Ai-Fa handed Grandma Ziva a large, red Mizola flower.
Grandma Ziva pushes and holds the flower very importantly.
"I guess you're staying at Lew's today...? Let me tell you a lot of stories again at night..."
"Uhm. I'm looking forward to it too"
Ai-Fa pulls herself back and stands up.
Tara and the others had already put their feet on the stairs.
but Ai-Fa turned back to Donda-Lou without heading that way.
"Donda-Lou, I'd like to say something -"
"If you're talking about zizza, you don't need my words. Sometimes blood can flow between hunters of the same power. The thoughtlessness in your chest is punishment."
"No, but-"
"But there's no snagging. Besides, it seemed to me that the zizza that I couldn't do was more immature."
After stating so, Donda-Lou woke up with the sleigh of
"You're the last ones to offer flowers. Now let the feast begin.... the blood families from a hundred people are waiting hungry, so don't let it slip away any better"
Ai-Fa only beckoned and pulled back.
That's how we get off to the ground, and Donda-Lou's voice echoes.
"Now we begin the harvest feast! O family of Lew, give thanks to the forest, and make its grace your own flesh!
A cheering voice filled the square again.
I rush to my place of work. In the beginning, I have to have a caterer, too.
Even today, the square is equipped with simple kamadoku and platforms everywhere, surrounded by rugs. Eating and walking, calming down and enjoying the food, is the style of the recent Lew family feast here.
When I got to the scene, there were already a few women there, starting with Lara-Luu, who had started catering work for me.
"Oh, Asta, I've already started these two."
"Yeah, thanks. Be careful not to burn you."
On the table assembled in crates and boards, two dishes of the three species had already been spread.
pizza made of stone kilns, and kiln roasted giva meat.
The pizza fabric was a blend of fuwano and poitan, a small amount of salt and lettuce oil, and guillo. Just like when I was pasta, I was going to use it again to complete the fabric I deserved for pizza, combined with fuwano and poiton. I even added Guigo there because I felt that the ingredients in this world that I had not found East fungus were not enough to swell.
It took a trial and error to determine the ratio of those portions, but I think it was worth it and I could pursue a texture that was pretty close to the pizza I knew.
And the topping is simply a slice of caron cheese and ripe tarrapa, and intestinal meat and a fine slice of pra. Among the pizzas, it was a conscious choice of a kind known as Margherita.
Caron's cheese is mellow and less queasy like mozzarella cheese. I used ripe tarapa taken from Castle Town because it was too sour when it was a regular tarapa. Originally asked, this was also a tarapa made in Dalaim, and once we bought what was sold to the castle town, we bought it on Jan's route.
As for the meat, I was wondering whether it was bacon or intestinal meat, but this time I employed intestinal meat. It is laid at all costs with chopped bowel meat, so it will be good enough to eat. The intestinal meat, carefully cooked in a stone kiln, was only slightly stuck at the ends, and then the gravy floated and lit up.
Plas similar to peppers are only colours. Still, I liked pizza with peppers. I didn't really have much chance of baking pizza, but when I was able to rub pizza toast, I carved the peppers at all costs.
"If Pra was as much as this, you wouldn't mind even Lara-Lew, would you?
"Mm-hmm. I don't know. I don't think we should lose the plug."
Answering that way, Lara-Lew is cutting the pizza apart. As I expected, I already had my taste.
Of course Lara-Lew is also a banquet costume, so cute as someone else is usually. It's usually cute to be cute, but Lara-Lew was extraordinarily more girly just to unwrap the ponytail and let her bright red hair drip naturally.
"Anyway, this was delicious. I'd like to feed Satie Ray as soon as possible."
"Sati Ray-Luu?... Oh well, she liked Poitan."
"Yeah, I think I'd be just as happy with this as I am with you."
A large crowd had already packed it in front of the table and grabbed the pizza from by Lara-Lew's cut it off. Eventually, in it comes the yummies who have just broken up.
"Wow, so much cheese, that's fancy! It's a delicious thing to do!
"Really, it looks amazing!
Ooh, so I lowered my gaze, and instead of Tara there was another Remi-Lu figure. When did they do it, they rendezvous?
"Lara, hurry up! Limi, I'm hungry!
"Ugh. It's so hard, this."
With that said, Lara-Lew uses iron skewers and cooking knives to cut the pizza into a pretty good feel.
"If you're hungry, eat your food first. You just serve it on a plate."
"Hmm? This one, Giva's meat?
"Yeah, but it was kind of delicious."
It is the kiln roasting of giva meat.
It is carefully roasted by soaking all parts of Giva meat in pickled juice such as fruit liquor and Nyatta distilled liquor, tau oil, kelp root, myrmu and chit fruit. The chatches and eneons that I threw in with them are also finishing up in a mollusk, and are served exactly on a large plate.
It would also be an unbeatable finish to the previously made 'Roast Giva'. The bounty of the stone kiln is obvious.
The best part was the chunks of loin cut into as large pieces as possible and then the boned abalone meat.
Ah Variant meat, the so-called spare rib, is carefully cooked in a stone kiln and softened to the inside. It is as soft as boiled meat, and then easily detached from the bone. Even the hunters by the woods, who prefer hardened meat, were not likely to complain about this texture.
"Yeah, yummy! This guy's gonna get drunk!
"Yu, Yumi, don't drink too much, do you?
"Oh, my God! I'm a strong drinker, aren't I? 'Cause you'll never look like a fool!
The yummies are pounding their tongues as they raise their shaky voices.
So finally, their share of the pizza was cut.
"Yes, please wait. I don't think it's that hot anymore, but be careful."
"Thank you, Lara-Lew! Wow, that looks so delicious!
As Yumi glued to the pizza, the cheese, which still seemed warm enough, pulled a thick thread.
The Rimi-Lou and the others are similarly cheeky with pizza. It didn't take much time for the grin to spread across his face.
"Yum! You're nothing like a normally baked Poitan!
"Yeah! Tara, too, loves this!
Kiln-roasted giva meat, cheese & ripe tarapa pizza all seem to be popular.
After I saw it through, I looked back at the eye-fa I had secretly refrained from behind.
"Then let's bring the last dish too. Ai-Fa, can you help me?
"Uhm."
The last dish was kept warm in a fire-extinguished stone kiln.
When me and I-Fa cooperated to carry it, the Remi-Lu's, who were still there, voiced "Wow".
"That's a big plate! Did you bring it from Fa's house?
"Yeah. This is a dish that won't break if we cook it together in a stone kiln."
It was a large plate that seemed to have a diameter of as much as 60 cm. Um, it's what was packed in the crate. That was a total of six plates, but now I was carrying only three of them on the board.
It was the so-called gratin that was boiling hot air in addition to that plate.
Many people were cheering on the intense aromas of caron milk and cheese as well as rimi-luu.
"Wow, this guy! Are you even using cheese over here?
"Yeah. That's some gamma cheese over here."
Gamma cheese has a taste close to Camembert cheese. And they covered it with caron's milk from the top of the white sauce, and baked it in a stone kiln.
The cheese, which covered the surface, had been baked in Paris to the point of scorching because it had caught fire firmly.
The ingredients sleeping beneath were Aria, Chacchi, Nanar, Giva's Bacon, Bunashi Mejimodoki and Mushroom Modki, and specialty pasta.
This pasta is also a newly developed gnocchi type, not the spaghetti type I usually use.
Thumb-sized flat dough with a gizzard indentation on the surface. They have forked dishes when crushing them, as the sauce often teases them.
Yet in the usual pasta, eggs were used in addition to fuwano and poitan, but here the chatch was used. Using a chatch that resembles a potato gives it a unique texture.
"This is so hot, eat carefully. If you get burned, you won't be able to enjoy other dishes."
As I told him so, I split the large plate of gratin into small wooden dishes.
If you notice, there's a queue in front of you. Of course, the same can happen elsewhere, but just a couple of 30 people got together, and I felt a lot of noise.
"Ah Chichi! This guy is really hot!... but it's so delicious, Asta!
"Thanks. How about Terrier-Mass?
"Yes, it's delicious! You can cook such delicious dishes with something called a stone kiln!
Terrier-Mass, who is clear and calm compared to Yumi, had also set his cheeks on fire and raised a voice of joy.
"Wow. Look, look, look, look, look, look, look! Leave me alone, Asta?
Lara-Rue's got a slightly worrying look on her eyes, so I made her laugh, "It's okay."
"For that, I only got half of it out of the stone kiln. The other three plates will be served in about half an hour."
"Yeah, roger! Limi, don't just eat yourself, and take it to Ziva or Donda's father, okay?
"Okay -! If it's meat, even a Ziva woman is going to eat it!
Finishing a taste of the street, Rimi-Lou began to secure a plate for the old ladies of Ziva.
In the meantime, up to two large plates of gratin will be empty. The cooking of the stone kiln, which was unknown to everyone, seemed to have been able to be very well received.
There, the voice of Ai-Fa, "It's Asta," echoes.
I said, "Huh?" Looking back, the smaller pieces of pizza shoved into his mouth.
"I say it every time, but you talk about cooking properly yourself"
I was a little impolite, but I was supposed to continue my catering job while eating my oral pizza.
The pizza was calming about the warmth of human skin, but delicious enough. The aromatic flavour of caron cheese, the better acidity of ripe tarrapa, and the flavour of intestinal meat and prague bitterness make the tongue entertaining. The surface was Paris and the contents were very pleasant, as was the texture of the moist fabric.
The people of Lou's blood are smiling and eating my dishes.
It's been a big feast since our own harvest festival. My chest was going to be filled with immense fulfilment.
(I knew a festival was fine)
While I was thinking that way, Gratin quickly disappeared. Pizza and kiln-roasted meat also have only a few left.
"Asta, are you still cooking over here, too?
"Yeah. Many of you haven't spoken of it yet, so why don't we go out with Gratin later"
"Okay! Now we can enjoy the food too!
A few minutes later, all the food was gone beautifully.
Limi-Lu and Tara have also already disappeared. I'm sure he's circling the square in search of other dishes. Me and I-Fa were also free to move for a while now.
"Well, shall I entertain everyone else's cooking then? Or do you want to go to Grandma Ziva's now?
"No. It would be that there are bloodlines gathered there. I can still exchange words after a feast, so I don't have to worry about it"
"Right. Then..."
And, just what I was about to say, I-Fa looked back at the sidelines like a hack.
From the darkness of the horizontal, a great shadow approaches.
I wrapped a grey bandage around my head, it was Ziza-Lou.
"Giza-Lou...... you can move now"
"Mm-hmm. I was sleeping in Rom's leaves, but I finally woke up"
Ziza-Lou, at a distance of about a meter, stopped.
Her eyes as thin as thread, staring quietly at Ai-Fa.
"Compared to the power, I hear Parent Donda won. I wish I could have seen the battles of the other brave men."
"... how's the wound? I don't need to be dragged out..."
"Oh. I don't need to show you anything. Because even a few scratches of the head can cause a lot of blood. By the end of the rest period, I think I will be able to work with the same force as before"
"Well," Ai-Fa brought his head.
"Let's say thank you to the forest. And unto Ziza-Lou shall be my word:"
"No, I don't need my word.... If I were to be frightened, it would be mine."
To Ziza-Lou's words, Ai-Fa faintly shook his shoulders.
"What do you mean? There will be no need for Ziza-Lou to frighten me with a hand wound. Or, no way -"
"Hmm?"
"... are you even going to dare say that you suffered a hand injury to defeat me?
Jiza-Lou shook his neck to the side with a smiling face.
"Nor can such a humble act be tolerated in comparison to the power of the woodland. But - for a moment, those thoughts drove me crazy. That was my immaturity."
"The immaturity of Ziza-Lou......?
"Oh. I was seriously going to take you down. The way you shook off your arms was also captured at the edge of your eyes. At that time, that shallow thought turned my head only for a moment. If you don't keep doing this, I'm sure I'll get a hand wound and you won't be allowed to continue comparing your powers."
…………
"It's a moment of stray. I didn't mean to extend such imitation. But if you distract yourself even for a moment, which is paired with a hunter with mutual power, it will take your life. When I realized I was looking up to heaven bleeding."
So Ziza-Lou - that Ziza-Lou, turned to Ai-Fa, bowed his head.
"As a result, I guess I've tarnished the hunter's battle. And I'm going to make you feel careless. It's all about the immaturity of my heart. I'm really sorry."
"No, there's no need for Ziza-Lou to bow his head. I drove Ziza-Lou to such feelings because I joined forces in comparison to lightness."
Ey-Fa said so, frowning in bitterness.
"Let's be honest. I was rude to lose to Dan-Rutim in comparison to my former powers. And I was beginning to wish to make sure to the fine hunters like Donda-Lou and Giza-Lou and Gazran-Rutim how common their powers were. That must have been a mistake in the first place.
But it was Donda, the blood lord, who allowed you to participate.
"It was foolish of me to sweeten that Donda-Lou's heart. Even if Donda-Lou forgives me, my side should have weighed itself in."
Ai-Fa closed her eyelids once and then looked ahead to Giza-Lou once again. The eyes were lit with a resolute light.
"I also began to hold harvest festivals with those of my nearest family. How the hell would it feel to be seared with a mindless flame if there were a human being of a family of extra space to take victory in comparison to all power? I do not think it is right to bring such feelings to bear at a harvest festival that deepens ties with our fellow countrymen. So I think - I should not be a part of the Luu family's harvest festival in the future."
"Not to the power comparison, but to the harvest festival itself?
"Mm-hmm. It makes sense that while attending a harvest festival on a hunter's own, he doesn't participate in comparison to his powers. After all, we shouldn't have let the rest of our family celebrate."
Ziza-Lou was listening to Ai-Fa with a very quiet face.
"I've been thinking the same way. Parent Donda recognizes Fa's house as a friend, but I wonder if it might even be an act that would jeopardize that bond by allowing her to participate in comparison with the power of the harvest festival."
"... Now I can feel the word right too. Speaking of which, there were times when a young hunter from Rutim felt close to hostility towards me for nearly five minutes of battle with Dan-Rutim. If I were to be chosen as the bravest relative to the power of the Lew family and so on - I guess not many hunters would think the same way."
"Oh. The people by the woods, they're all compatriots. It would be the right thing to do to deepen bonds without hating each other with any human of his clan. I suppose we should stick to that hoarseness."
The look on Ziza-Lou's face remains the same.
But from that big body, I felt some strange air.
Um, with the same mass as the breath clogging compression, a completely different air - again similar to Gazran-Rutim, which is as snug as a tree, it was a loose and powerful sense of strength.
"I still don't know if the path you and Asta aspire to overlap with the path I aspire to. But... at this moment, I can clearly see that I have the same thoughts"
"Uhm."
"I'm so happy to have the same thoughts as you."
And Ziza-Lou returned the calumny, and showed us his side.
On that side, there was a smiling expression - and I could probably feel that way for the first time, that it represented the emotion as I saw it.
"Then I will deliver the flowers of blessings to the eldest Jiba. … Before I do, I'd like to tell you one last time."
"Hmm?"
"I appreciate your feeling that you will not participate in the harvest festival in the future compared to your powers, and I think you are right. But in other parts, you don't have to pull yourself back. A lot of people want you to join Lew's blood banquet."
That's what Ziza-Lou said as he turned his foot to the center of the bright square.
"Tomorrow, in the moon of Huang, the birthday of Rimi is withheld. Limi is waiting for you to come that day, so please don't make me sad."
"... if Donda-Lou and Giza -Lou will allow it, no matter how"
"There's no way Parent Donda makes Limi sad. I feel the same way."
That's how Ziza-Lou walked away from us.
Ey-fa, who was dropping that back off, looks at me.
"... I'm sorry you made up your mind about the future, Asta."
"I'm a parent, so you don't have to worry about anything. I have no objection."
I make you laugh.
"Then let us enjoy the food of the people of the Lou family. Ey-fa, 'cause your stomach must be peppery, right?
"Uhm," Ai-Fa smiled.
of Ai-Fa, who had a harsh look all the way from the evening, it was an unyielding smile that showed crackling.