CH 132

Warm Welcome

In the Sylphide House, a feast was arranged for dinner. Since there were many of us, I offered the ingredients from my Item Box.

「Takumi-sama, I will lend a hand with cooking too.」

「Ah, I will help too.」

「Lulu too.」

「I will help with the cooking as well.」

The Sylphide family doesn’t have an exclusive chef. A maid only in name and Freesia take on the preparation of meals. Seeing this, Maria, Akane, Lulu-chan, and Marnie said they would help. And so, I handed over a large amount of monster meats and stocked up ingredient stored in my Item Box. Seasonings in particular; It seems like they only use herbs and salt, so I gave Maria the soup stock I prepared when I had time.

Meat, vegetables, oil, eggs, salt, pepper, soup stock, and the herbs prepared by Freesia-san. Yep. No problems here.

I had the image that Elves were vegetarians, but Sophia generally likes meat. In the first place, Elves are famous for being excellent hunters of the forest, so of course they would eat the meat of their spoils.

「MasterHusband, I was thinking of making a bouillabaisse.」

「Okay, I’ll bring it out so you guys heat it up.」

I took out the pre-made bouillabaisse from the Item Box and gave it to Marnie.

Meat dishes, fish dishes, salad, appetizers, and soup; All that’s left is dessert.

「Sophia, I’ll prepare the dessert.」

「Takumi-sama will?」

「Un, it’s simple, after all.」

Saying so, I headed to the Sylphide family’s kitchen. Dante-san looked surprised, but it isn’t that outlandish if he think about it normally.

「…………Sophia, Iruma-dono appears to have gone to the kitchen.」

「Yes, Takumi-sama has the Cooking skill, so he cooks together with Maria-san and Marnie-san.」

Actually, the only members that don’t have the cooking skill are Sophia and Kaede.

Sylphide family’s dining room is just big enough for everyone to sit in, but it was an enjoyable dinner with delicious food and elven specialty wine.

「Un, it’s delicious.」

「Thank you very much. As expected of the vegetables grown by elves.」

「The elven specialty wine is delicious too.」

「Kaede thinks meat is delishh~!」

「「……………………」」

I gave my impression on the food that Maria and the girls made, while Kaede gobbled the meat as always. However, Dante-san and Freesia-san ate the food without saying a single word. Worried,  Maria timidly asked them for their thoughts.

「U-umm, was it not to your liking?」

「……, i-it’s splendid!」

「Very delicious! I have never eaten food like this!」

Fervently saying so, they then resumed eating with great enthusiasm. Un, it looks like it is to their liking so I guess that’s okay.

And dessert came after dinner.

「Uu!」

「T-this is…!」

「C-cold! And sweet!」

「Iruma-dono! W-what in heavens is t-this cold confectionary!?」

「Father, and Mother too, please calm down. This is something that Takumi-sama made with Maria and the girls and had preserved with Storage Magic. It is called “Ice Cream”.」

「…… Ice cream.」

「In the outside world[1], cold sweet confectioneries such as this exist.」

Ice cream, sherbets, pudding, and pancakes regularly come up to the dining table at our mansion, and we told Dante-san and Freesia-san that this is just at our house, but they were too engrossed with eating the ice cream that they heard none of it.

That night, from the window of the room I was assigned to, I gazed at the outside scenery illuminated by moonlight.

Maybe I was able to sense things because I had the Magic Perception Skill, I could feel a lot of presences that seemed like they were floating around me.

「………………are these spirits?」

「Takumi-sama seems to be liked by the spirits.」

A voice came from behind me, who was muttering to myself.

The one who entered my room was Sophia.

「You’re alright not spending time alone with your parents?」

「Yes, I am already an adult, and we can meet if we want to meet from now onwards, after all.」

When Sophia approached my side, she quietly snuggled up to me and we gazed at the scenery outside together.

The Sylphide territory located at in the borderlands of Yggurle Kingdom, with only 2 small villages, was by no means prosperous, but I felt the time pass very pleasantly. To Sophia who was born and raised in the royal capital, it might have been a new place, but I think returning to her motherland and to her parent’s side had brought about a good effect in her heart.