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Published at 2nd of May 2023 11:14:24 AM


Chapter 521: - Episode 519 The Bells and the Intermediate Spirit

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The day after the banquet was over, I left home to clean up and check on the intermediate level spirits. The banquet hall had already been cleaned up, and when I talked to Dolly who was there, I found out that the spirit kings and the great spirits had cleaned up. At the same time, the play that was so well received at the banquet will be continued in the future. A new specialty may have been born in paradise.

We are happy to hear that paradise is going to be even more lively, and we leave Dolly in a good mood to check on the intermediate spirits.

Since they like to be on their best behavior, they are not likely to stay at the cafeteria since there is still time for them to get lunch.

They might be at the inn or the general store, but I'm curious about the new facilities they have built, so I'll start from there to check on them.

When I arrived at the newly built facility, I could hear them enjoying themselves inside.

It seems that the spirits are also enjoying themselves inside.

......Wonder where and what they are enjoying?

This facility was supposed to be like an arts and crafts room at first, but they added a lot of things and made it huge and incomprehensible.

Well, we're here to check it out, so let's just go inside and see what it looks like.

The first room is the arts and crafts room.

There are several large work tables and basic tools for arts and crafts.

Simple things can be made here alone, but if you want to do special processes such as adding decorations to your work, you need to buy them at the general store.

It is a place where you can enjoy making and shopping.

I think ...... the middle class spirits are very serious and the atmosphere is different from what I imagined.

Floating spirits and lower level spirits are making creative things with tools that make little sense and are happy. This is close to what I had imagined.

But some of the middle class spirits were seriously reading how to use the tools on the wall, some were drawing what looked like blueprints with a ruler, and some were concentrating on cutting wood with a saw.

They are working with an air of ...... apprentice craftsmen.

Meral seemed a bit more excited, but I wonder if that was because she and Mel had a heart-to-heart and were getting excited.

Maybe this is the kind of atmosphere I get when I work with Mel on blacksmithing. Let's see what Mel does next time.

By the way, most of them are humanoid spirits. I guess it's hard for animal type spirits to do detailed work and use human tools.

I don't want to disturb them, so let's go to the next room.

The room is just a large space separated by a dirt wall, but even so, the atmosphere of the room changes drastically, and the next place looks like a showroom of a furniture store.

Since the inn alone is not enough to fully experience human life, the rooms have been recreated in the style of a living room, a bedroom, a study, an ordinary house, an aristocrat, a royalty, etc., respectively.

I had no problem with the general house style because I could understand it somehow, but I followed Sylphy's advice for the aristocrat and royalty styles.

I left it to her because she was curious enough to look around the various places, but the aristocratic and royal places were very gorgeous, generously decorated with treasures of the labyrinth.

Sylphy seemed satisfied, but my guess is that some of them are more extravagant than the royal residences.

Because some of the decorations that were said to be national treasures and therefore unusable at the clothing store in Beryl's kingdom are on display. National treasure class is usually a treasury, right?

Well, paradise is safer than the treasury as long as the spirits don't accidentally destroy it, so there is no problem to display it normally, but I have a feeling that Marie and Sonia would have a stroke if they saw ...... this place.

The middle class spirits are testing the furniture with interest and observing things that look like light or art, and the lower class spirits and the floating spirits are tinkering with the things that they find interesting.

What can I say, ...... the white wolf lying on the sofa is very cool. Also, it's kind of funny to see a snake poking its head out of an expensive-looking jar.

A red snake would have been perfect.

"Yuta!"

"Coo!"

As I was looking around inside, Tulu and Tamamo came flying in.

"Tulu, Tamamo, good morning. Are you two alone now?"

My kids, including Moon who is above my head, are very close, so it is quite rare for them to be separated from each other.

"Yeah. "Yeah. We're all together now."

"Coo!"

Guide? Oh, yeah. You asked me to guide them so that they can enjoy the paradise.

In my mind, the job was finished yesterday, but Tulu and the others have been working hard today.

Thank you, Tulu, Tamamo. Are all the intermediate spirits having a good time?"

"Yes."

"Coo!"

Tulu and Tamamo's faces showed confidence. I guess they can tell that the children of the intermediate level are having a good time.

...... probably, the children of the intermediate level spirits are enjoying themselves, including the guidance of Tulu and Tamamo. But if they are enjoying themselves, there is nothing wrong with that. 

"Well, keep up the good work on the tour."

I pat Tulu and Tamamo on the head and return to guiding the intermediate level spirits.

Tumamo seems excited, but Tulu is calm and will not bother the intermediate level spirits by being too enthusiastic.

I see Tulu and Tamamo back at the guide, and I head to the next room.

"Koo!

"Cue."

When I entered the room, I saw Belle, surrounded by middle-class spirits, holding an egg high in the sky. Next to her, Rain was cheering her hard.

Belle slowly and carefully hits the egg on the table. She has a serious expression on her face, which is hard to imagine from the usually smiling Belle.

When she confirms that the egg has cracked, she holds the egg with two small hands and opens it with a nervous look on her face.

The egg falls into the heated frying pan and makes a sizzling sound.

"Like this!"

Belle, who has overcome the most difficult part, is proudly showing her chest to the intermediate level spirits with a tremendous smug look on her face. She looks so cute.

The middle level spirits around her also seemed to think so, and they were applauding her, praising her all the time.

Belle's expression is on the verge of collapse from all the praise.

But it's no wonder she's so happy. Belle worked very hard.

We set up a cooking room-like space, and Ruby responded by setting it on fire.

She said she would prepare recipes and ingredients so that even beginners could enjoy cooking and eat well.

I understand that there is a shortage of spirits who can cook and a desire to increase the number of fellow spirits who can cook.

But we had to stock up on food for the big feast, establish and mass-produce recipes for four new menu items, deliver the food to the sake island, and develop new desserts.

As expected, we were too busy, so I was put in charge of the simple dishes.

A novice spirit who had never cooked before was put in charge of the menu.

I chose fried eggs.

The procedure is easy to follow, and if it is steamed, there is little chance of failure.

I wrote down the procedure for making a fried egg on a piece of paper and asked Belle and the others to try it.

A lot of scrambled eggs were produced.

It was easy to grease the frying pan. It was no problem to warm up the pan and let it cool down so that the oil would become absorbed into the pan.

But cracking the ...... eggs was the hard part.

The belles, eager to do what I asked them to do, were smashing the eggs with all their strength.

The most clumsy of them all was Belle, who was the most clumsy.

Rain was able to crack eggs dexterously with her fins after a few tries, and Tulu also learned how to control her strength, although her shells fell into the pan at first.

Flare, Tamamo, and Moon also learned to crack eggs a little later.

Moon, for example, wrapped the egg with his body and moved his body with a "pnyon," and somehow the egg was neatly broken into two pieces. I still don't understand the principle.

But Bell can't help but smash the eggs.

She understands that she is over-exerting herself, but even though she knows that she is over-exerting herself, she seems to put in a lot of effort.

Nevertheless, Belle keeps on trying and finally manages to break an egg.

Knowing her efforts, Belle's smug face looks very cute.

Rain, who has been watching Belle's efforts, is also overjoyed at her success.

......All that's left to do now is to cover the eggs and steam them, and the fried eggs are ready to be cooked. ......But she seems to be so busy showing off the properly cracked eggs that she forgets to cover the lid.

If this continues, the fried egg will fail.

"...... Moon. Can you sneak out and tell Bell and the others to put the lid on? Also, tell them to lightly grill the bread."

Moon shook above his head and flew to Bell and the others. 

Moon pulled behind Bell and hastily put the lid on the pan.

As usual, I don't know how Moon and Belle communicate with each other, but now the fried eggs are safely done, and the fried egg toast will be ready.

Fried egg toast. Simple but delicious.

Ruby and the others will be very happy if more of the middle class spirits take an interest in cooking.

I want to storm into that group and praise Belle and Rain a lot, but Belle seems to be a teacher now, teaching the intermediate spirits how to make fried eggs, so I mustn't interfere with her.

Moon is back, so let's go to the next room.

...... Gina, Sara, Marco, and Kikka are teaching handbells to the intermediate level spirits.

It's right because the room was made to serve as a music room, but I'm sure Gina will give me a reproachful look when I enter the room because of last night's encore.

......I don't want to disturb her, so let's not visit this room this time and leave the facility.

Whew. It seemed like a chaotic facility, but it was a good one for the lack of unity.

If that place is used effectively in the future, more and more spirits will be interested in various things.

"Huh? Come to think of it, I haven't seen Flare. Moon, do you know where Flare is?"

Since we would never miss the always energetic Flare, she was probably not at the facility.

Moon took off overhead. He seemed to have an idea what was going on.

"I'm going to make mountains, I'm going to make mountains!

I followed Moon to the space that he had provided to the intermediate spirits, which they were free to do as they pleased.

There, Flare was making an impassioned speech to the intermediate spirits about building a volcano.

No, volcanoes are volcanoes?

...... it doesn't.

If and Flare lived in a volcano, they might want to recreate that environment, but a volcano in a paradise would be absurd.

In fact, the middle class spirits look a little troubled.

They seem to be old enough to like to be proper, and they won't build a volcano out of the blue, will they?

Sorry, we will collect the flares, so feel free to have fun.




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