#chapter 455

“Hey, Shin Yu-Seung. Let’s make a bet. Let’s see who can catch the bigger dinner today.”

“What are we betting on?”

“The loser grants the winner one wish, okay?”

“Call.”

The kids quickly sprinted towards the forest and Yu Sang-Ah called out to them. “Be careful.”

There was a small valley with a flowing stream next to the campsite; Gong Pil-Du sat on the fishing chair he brought along, and while looking at his lure in the water, he yawned out relaxedly. Han Myeong-Oh sitting next to him was muttering about this and that.

“If only we were out by the ocean, I’d have caught a seabream this big….”

I heard the refreshing sounds of water flowing in the valley as well as mountain birds chirping away. It felt as if the calming greenery of the overgrown mountainside was slowly collapsing on myself.

It was as if I was still dreaming.

I searched for Yu Jung-Hyeok.

He was actually cooking over there. Standing before a large grille, his hands were moving around in a showy fashion to grill some meat. Vegetables were sizzling and shuddering inside the frying pan. The [Breaking the Sky Swordsmanship] capable of destroying the heavens was now used to chop vegetables and meat.

I even forgot to call out to him and stared at that spectacle in a pure daze.

His sides were occupied by both Yu Mi-Ah and Yi Ji-Hye, their eyes filled with deep interest and anticipation.

“Now.”

Yu Mi-Ah opened her mouth, and Yu Jung-Hyeok moved his chopsticks with an emotionless face. He was like a mother bird, picking up a piece of meat to place it in her mouth. She grinned brightly.

“It’s really tasty.”

Yi Ji-Hye blankly standing around opened her mouth, too. He studied her for a moment or two, before placing more meat inside Yu Mi-Ah’s mouth, instead. That carried on for four, maybe five more times, and eventually, Yi Ji-Hye shut her mouth.

“Master, you’re too heartless.”

Unable to endure it any longer, she personally moved her chopsticks. However, his frying pan shifted according to the eye-catching trajectory of the [Red Phoenix Shunpo] to avoid her hands. She grew tearful first before getting rather stubborn about it.

“Oh, so you wanna have a go, is that it??”

He continued evading Yi Ji-Hye’s chopsticks and fed his little sister Yu Mi-Ah without twitching his eyebrows once, remaining utterly expressionless. However, there was something I could glean from that.

“H-hey, Yi Gil-Yeong!! We agreed not to use any skills here, didn’t we?!”

“When did I?! You gotta give it your best always!”

I heard the kids’ voices as they were returning with hunted prey.

Soon after that, I heard Han Su-Yeong’s loud call that reverberated throughout the valley. “Alright, then. The treasure hunt event will now begin! The prize is a Star Relic from the Black Flame Dragon!”

“Whaa, really? From that Black Flame Dragon?”

“I’ve hidden it somewhere in the valley, so the first one to find it is the winner! Ah, right. You’re forbidden from using your skills. Got that? Besides that, there are other prizes too, so…..”

“That Star Relic is mine!”

Han Myeong-Oh quickly discarded his fishing rod and jumped inside the stream, but a little while later, Jeong Hui-Won grabbed hold of his head and threw him out of the water. In no time at all, Yi Ji-Hye and the kids returning from their hunting trip all jumped into the valley’s water, too.

“Yo, hold up, Ji-Hye noona!! That’s [Ghost Fleet]! You think I won’t notice it just because they are tiny now??”

“Yi Gil-Yeong! Are you seriously taming water bugs? You cheater!?”

“Both of you, disqualified!”

How long had it been since all of my companions were smiling together like this? Maybe, this could be our first time. They were able to smile even though the scenarios hadn’t ended yet. They were able to chat away in happiness like that, and share their stories.

...

We looked over in the direction he was pointing at. And straight away, we became utterly speechless.

⸢They were now witnessing the essence of cooking.⸥

We all settled down quietly on the table like a bunch of mice that got entranced by the pied piper, and then, began rubbing our eyes in disbelief.

These were dishes created out of the monster that Yi Gil-Yeong and Shin Yu-Seung caught, as well as with the medicinal herbs Yi Seol-Hwa had found. No, hang on…. How could he even come up with a feast of this scale with only those ingredients?

I was pretty certain that the dining table of ‘Shi Huangdi who dreamed of Immortality’ wouldn’t be as flashy as this one.

“Wow. Master, you gotta come and cook during my funeral, okay?”

“Why your funeral, though? That’s really an ominous declaration, you know.”

The group began hurriedly chowing down the grub. Jeong Hui-Won, Yi Ji-Hye, Han Myeong-Oh, Gong Pil-Du, even Jang Ha-Yeong…. They were all seriously focused on eating right now.

Even Han Su-Yeong and Yu Sang-Ah, too.

“Hey, hold up. That’s my share.”

“There’s enough to go around for everyone. Why are you being so greedy?”

...

When I raised my head, I noticed that the once-noisy surroundings had fallen into an eerily silence. Yi Ji-Hye, Jeong Hui-Won, Gong Pil-Du…. even Han Su-Yeong was looking at me, her mouth agape.

Jeong Hui-Won was the first to fire the salvo. “….In that case, Dok-Ja-ssi, you’ll be paying for the house, yes?”

….Ng?

“Ahjussi, you’re really loaded, so you might be able to get a house in Gangnam.”

“I’ll sell you my land.”

“If it’s possible, somewhere close to the kids’ school….”

I had no idea that something I just threw out there would cause such a ripple.

And so, the group chatted about the potential house I’d buy throughout the supper. Stuff about how the interior should look like, or how many rooms it needed to have….

Washing the dishes was left to me and Jeong Hui-Won, the two losers from the rock-paper-scissors. I could have won by using [Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint], but of course I wouldn’t do that during this trip.

[You have acquired a new Fable!]

[You have acquired the Fable, ‘the One who Yanked Out the Conscience’s Fur’.]

Chapter 455

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