"It's Ash. I'm going out of town now, but are you coming with me?

As I was cleaning up after breakfast, Grandpa Maurice talked to me.

I would usually be happy to follow you, but I have something else to do today.

I'll leave you a message today.

"Right. It's rare."

The master is a little disappointed.

"If there's anything I want, I'll buy it..."

"Not particularly now, I guess."

I really want a magic wand (Withers Rod), but it was visible that 'it's too early for you' would be turned down.

If I tell my master, I'm still immature.

Until that day, when my master will recognize me, I will train my body day and night.

"When are you coming home today?

"Don't go back before sundown. Then leave a message."

"Yeah. Be careful. Go away."

That's how I dropped off my master, and when I finished cleaning up, I left the house.

Around houses built in the woods, trees thrive.

"Well, we have to be ready by evening."

It's my master's birthday.

I always take care of you, and it's my chance to repay you.

Even so, all I can do is cook.

So I decided to make an extraordinary treat and please my master.

I don't have any money, so I procure food in the woods.

I've been living here in The Devil's Forest for seven years...

For me to train in the woods like every day, this place is like a garden.

I know where and what, and I won't get lost.

I go deeper and deeper into the woods and spend a few hours collecting mushrooms and collecting flowers that I think I can use to cook.

"We got together... but now we can only make mushroom stir-fry"

Instead of a treat, the usual dinner is more luxurious.

You can go all the way to the river... but meat sounds more like a treat than fish.

I hope you're a boar somewhere.

Kiiiiiiiiiin!!

Walking in the woods in search of meat sounded like a scratch on the blackboard.

It's a space-time distortion.

"Just fine. I hope it's a demon that's going to eat..."

I'm heading toward the sound.

The space just cracked and demons appeared.

It was a giant covered in crimson scales that appeared in the woods as if they had overthrown the trees.

The one with the big wings and the sharp claw fangs...

"Whoa, you're the Red Dragon!

It was a monster that hit meat dishes!

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!

Red Dragon shook his tail like a munch.

Daiki makes a noise and blows away, and can fan-shaped further ground.

Continuously the Red Dragon opened its big mouth and flamed its mouth.

Firebrace.

"The woods will burn!

I release an upper on the chin of the Red Dragon.

Then, cut the meat from the belly of the red dragon, which is only on the torso, to an affordable size with a hand knife.

The book said that the scale of the Red Dragon was the hardest in the world, but it cut sakurakura.

Well, rumors have a tail on them.

"All right. With all this, my master will be hungry."

That's how I got the meat. I was on my way home.

When I got home, the sun was completely tilted.

I sliced the mushrooms thin in the kitchen, then finely chopped the roots and stems of the flowers.

I would love to eat the stem raw, but if you fry it, it will suck the juice and soften.

And the root produces garlic-flavored juice by heating it.

All you have to do is fry it with butter, and you can fry mushrooms with garlic butter.

"I can smell the room when I make it here, and I think I'll fry it in the garden"

I assembled a barbecue set in the garden and when I started the fire at the match, I heated the iron plate and melted the butter.

That's how I was frying mushrooms, and my master came home.

"It smells good. Stir-fried butter tonight, isn't it?

"Welcome back, Master. That's not all. Here!"

I hold the fat meat in my hands and show it to my master.

"Whoa. That looks delicious meat!

Yay! My master is happy for me!

"It's my master's birthday. I'm making a treat."

"Right. Is it my birthday today? Really, Ash is a good boy."

The master is moisturizing his eyes.

I can't believe you're happy to be here... we have to celebrate next year.

I hope the Red Dragon shows up again then.

"Still, what happened to that meat? I don't think we had that kind of expensive meat..."

"I procured it in the woods."

"You went out of your way to hunt animals for me... Are you hurt?

I tell my anxious master to laugh.

"Because you were weak. I didn't even have to use my master's direct magic - wind knife."

"Oh well. You're not my apprentice."

The master somehow distracted himself from his gaze in an awkward manner.

It wasn't until four years later that I found out why.