Regressor’s Life After Retirement - Chapter 8

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[Mana Nutrition]

When we arrived at the market, we went to the nearest I went in to find a butcher shop.

“Welcome~”

After the First Gate, the corpses of monsters were used for various purposes.

Among them, the first field to be used was edible.

At first, I felt aversion to eating the meat of monsters from another world, but that was short-lived.

People had no choice but to obtain food themselves as most production facilities were destroyed and transportation paralyzed due to a national disaster.

They willingly began cutting out the flesh of dead monsters to satisfy their hunger.

And by this time, most monster meat was being distributed in the market. Later, even if we had money, we sold the parts that we couldn’t get at random.

Because I didn’t know its value at the time.

“president. “Do you have monster ostrich eggs and raptor tenderloin?”

The butcher shop owner answered, taking out a black egg the size of a human head.

“I have a few monster ostrich eggs, but no raptor tenderloin. customer. How about Mad Cow Tenderloin instead? “It’s much softer and more delicious.”

They said there was little demand for raptor tenderloin because it was so tough and had a fishy taste.

I really needed that meat.

To make Dae In-pyo’s special mana nutritional food.

“Then just give me the monster ostrich egg. “I’ll go buy the raptor tenderloin somewhere else.”

“It’s probably nowhere else. “It’s a part that doesn’t sell very well.”

It was just as the butcher said. Even when I went to other butcher shops, the situation was all the same.

“Raptor safe? “This is the first time I’ve seen a customer looking for that.”

“No matter how much money I have, I won’t eat that.”

“Please come a day early. “I threw it away yesterday…”

I had to stop by every butcher shop in the market to get two pounds of raptor tenderloin.

Raptor tenderloin is a meat that is not sold right now because there is no demand, but in a few years, it will become unavailable.

An essential diet for future superhumans.

This is because it is the base material for making mana nutrition.

I said this to every butcher I stopped by.

“If you get raptor tenderloin in the future, please contact me. “I will buy everything.”

Butcher shop owners were delighted.

“Then it’s good for us!”

I made a reservation for meat at the butcher in advance and headed to the vegetable store this time.

“Madame. How much is this?”

What I picked up was a plant that resembled spinach and was red as blood.

Of course, it’s not real spinach. It is a plant brought from another world, and its official name is Red Spinach. In the market, it is also called Poison Geumchi.

The market lady said as she filled a black plastic bag with poisonous goldfish.

“bachelor. Did you know that the roots of this are poisonous? You have to cut off the roots and boil them well before eating them. “If you eat it wrong, you’ll be in big trouble!”

I live to eat that poison.

Instead of saying what was on my mind, I answered with a good-natured smile.

“You know that. Still, this is cheap. “I can feed my younger brother as well.”

When I stroked the head of Lily, who was standing beside me – this tactless little girl showed her displeasure – the woman’s eyes immediately filled with sympathy.

“Ugh. Young man… I will give you a lot especially!”

The woman seemed sad that she was poor and was trying to eat a lot of poisonous goldfish, so she stuffed it into a black bag.

“You don’t have to give me that much…”

“It’s okay, so just take it!”

I was surprised to see bright red poisonous marigolds filled in the bag.

Everything was top notch.

Ingredients that you couldn’t get even if you had money later were just lying around on the market floor.

Monster ostrich egg. Raptor safe. No poison.

I went around the market and bought all the necessary ingredients needed to make mana nutrition.

And only at the highest level.

I looked back at Lily with both hands full of ingredients with a happy expression.

“So, shall we go home now?”

Lily grumbled with a dissatisfied expression.

“What about my clothes and book?

“Oh right.”

I was so excited that I forgot about it for a moment. Along the way, I stopped by a used bookstore and a clothing store and bought the things Lily needed.

Of course, I planned to return the favor I had shown today hundreds of times.

It was then.

“There, bachelor! Take a chicken! “I’ll give it to you!”

I was about to ignore it and just pass by when I saw Lily sniffling next to me.

“Do you want to eat? Do you want me to buy it for you?”

The little boy turned his head away, saying it was his pride.

“Who wants to eat something like that?”

Unlike words, the sound of “gulp” and passing saliva sounds like thunder.

“Wipe the drool from your mouth and tell a lie.”

At my words, Lily hurriedly wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. Of course, the saliva wasn’t flowing.

“mister. “Here, please give me one piece of fried food… no, two.”

After a while, Lily, who was holding the paper bag containing the chicken in her arms, was happy as she sniffed the chicken box. It was an expression that won the world over.

…is this really the fire witch?

***

That evening.

After finishing grocery shopping, we returned to the tent.

While Lily was organizing her luggage, I showed off my skills for the first time in a long time and made a mana nutritional meal.

It’s been almost 10 years since I made something by hand. Because I bought it all later.

“Then let’s open it.”

When I opened the lid of the pot on the burner, the contents inside were bubbling.

At that time, Lily, who was reading a Korean book on one side, covered her nose and said.

“It smells strange.”

“That’s what’s good for your body. And if you don’t eat this, I won’t give you any chicken.”

“Ugh…”

Lily sat at the table with an expression like a cow being dragged to the slaughterhouse.

I turned off the burner and put the pot on the table.

On the table was a pot dish that boasted a visual appearance beyond imagination.

…Why did this happen?

“I don’t want to eat…”

I scratched my head at the obvious reaction.

“weird. “Maybe it’s because it’s been a while since I made something myself.”

Inside the large pot was a hotpot dish with a visual reminiscent of a dead body submerged in blood.

Well, it’s a little different from what I expected, but…

“All you have to do is eat it and it will be effective.”

Phew!

I boldly dipped the ladle into the pot. Then I scooped up a ladleful and put it in my bowl. And I also put it in Lily’s small bowl.

And then he spoke to Lily, whose face became pale.

“It will be okay if you eat it with chicken.”

After eating a whole chicken upon her return earlier, Lily declared that she could no longer live without chicken.

“…Can’t I just eat chicken?”

“If you complain about side dishes, you won’t grow taller.”

“It doesn’t matter. “You can be short.”

“If you don’t listen, I’ll throw all the chicken in the pot?”

“That can never be done!”

For a moment, Lily glared at me as if I were her parents’ enemy.

Then he closed his eyes and said.

“It would be better for me to go into the pot.”

What on earth are you talking about? He seems like a crazy kid.

After some wrangling, I succeeded in getting Lily to hold the spoon. This was achieved with chicken used in threats and appeasement transactions.

“Then let’s eat.”

I took a bite of the ingredients, put it in my mouth, and chewed it.

“Well… it’s not so bad that I can’t eat it at all.”

It was spicy, salty, disgusting, and had an inexplicable fishy smell, but it was still edible if you blocked your nose.

It feels like tears are coming out of sadness.

“…Fuck.”

If I hadn’t gone through regression, I would have retired and been enjoying delicacies from the mountains and the sea at high-end restaurants every day.

When I thought about that, I couldn’t help but curse.

Lily, who was crunching on her plate, tilted her head and asked.

“But what the fuck do you mean? “Like before, a lot of other people in the market are using it too.”

“Fuck….”

How to explain this magical Korean language that can express all human joys and sorrows?

“It has many different meanings. This is what they say here when the food is delicious. Do you know what an exclamation is?”

Lily nodded and suddenly started making exclamations.

“Then fuck the chicken! Fuck! Shibaal! “Chicken is delicious!”

“hey. That’s not it…. Oh fuck. I do not know. Yes, fuck it!”

A couple of hours after finishing that difficult meal, my body began to sweat and the effects of the nutritional food began to show.

“It’s faster than you think?”

I was quite surprised by the burning sensation of Danjeon (some people call it Mana Hole).

I told Lily to look at the Korean study book I bought while shopping, and I quietly sat cross-legged in a corner.

“…….”

I closed my eyes and concentrated my senses on the Danjeon.

Ssssssut.

I could feel the newly entered mana moving around the Danjeon, which was slightly larger than a snot, and had not yet been mixed.

already?

Doesn’t this work really well?

Mana nutrition is not like an elixir. It was literally just nutritional food.

It’s easy to think of it as a protein supplement taken when exercising. Although the food contains a small amount of mana, its main effect is as an aid to help superhumans grow their mana.

That’s normal, but

what is this abnormal amount?

The amount of mana seeping into my body was at least five times greater than what I knew.

Is it because it was not long after the First Gate opened?

I remembered hearing that in the past, the mana contained in the atmosphere was much purer and denser.

…Well, whatever it is, whatever it is.

I decided not to think too deeply.

If I can get stronger faster, that’s fine.

“Seup- hoo-.”

I straightened my posture cross-legged and started breathing.

At this level, I felt like I could start training the mind right away.

For reference, Simbeop was a technology that was spread to Earth five years later after the martial arts community was connected to Earth.

[Mana Nutrition] End

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