The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 315

Episode 315 Really?

“Yes, I gave permission.”

“…Why are you reluctant to let even members of your group enter the kitchen?”

“Should I tell you that?”

Even when enlightenment was passed down to me.

It was Howard who used to say weak things like ‘I can’t do this~’.

‘When I thought about it, this guy…’

When I first met him.

I remembered him looking at me and shouting.

‘What are you doing, barging into the sacred kitchen with dirt feet!?’

Is it because he is the chef in the kitchen?

It seemed like he was quite temperamental.

“…That young man is from another branch. “It’s hard to keep an outsider in an important place like a restaurant for a long time.”

“Wasn’t I in charge of managing the kitchen and restaurant? “It doesn’t matter what I do in a place like that.”

“But there are things you don’t know. Cooperation for the stability of the group…”

“Cooperation?”

Howard crossed his arms.

“Mr. Yunseong. “I think you’re misunderstanding something.”

He said with a frown that already looked bad.

“This kitchen is my domain. “Respecting that right is correct cooperation.”

“Didn’t you just leave the last meeting without saying anything? Now, I am representing the president of the association…”

“You are taking on the role of leader of this branch? I understand that. “In fact, the president of the association didn’t even touch me about anything related to the kitchen and restaurant.”

“….”

“I don’t know if they are asking for cooperation because there is a problem, but they came to a place that was running well without any problems and suddenly interfered like this. “It breaks my heart so much.”

He seemed genuinely sad.

He said it in an exaggerated manner.

“My heart aches so much that I just want to go on strike in the kitchen. Are you okay? “I guess I’m the only one who can make a proper meal with the ingredients over there, right?”

“…don’t do that.”

“Hmm well. If the acting leader says so. “Let’s just endure it for a moment and move on.”

Howard sighs.

“Hey, Yunseong.”

“But why?”

“You were usually a quiet guy. “I don’t know if you suddenly feel a sense of responsibility because you have taken on the position of leader, or if you are just excited about power… Let’s not forget that your current position is only temporary.”

“….”

“Just as we have been doing. I take full responsibility for the kitchen. Even if a problem arises, I will take responsibility for it. So, don’t try to get too involved in this matter.”

“…Ha, I understand.”

He frowned and sighed.

Yunseong soon retreats and leaves the building.

“Tsk. Why are you suddenly interfering with the kitchen? “A man who doesn’t do that.”

After making sure he was walking away.

Howard also frowned.

“Oh, is it okay to do this?”

“hmm? “What are you talking about, senior?”

“No, that person. “First of all, I heard you have a leadership role now?”

I know you were trying to help me.

Honestly, I was a little surprised.

“I was wondering if it was okay for you to kick me out like this.”

“…Hmm. “Senior, you ignore me so much.”

To my question.

Howard responded as if he was dumbfounded.

“Well, I’m acutely aware that I’m an insignificant chef compared to my senior. “But I’m the only cook here.”

“huh?”

“The operation to find the epicenter of that cold… I didn’t have much influence on things like that, though. “In the case of operations around here, the buffs from my cooking have a greater impact than you might think.”

“ah.”

Come to think of it.

Compared to me, the effect is only weak.

This guy is also a chef.

You may be able to give a buff through cooking.

‘Roughly… I guess it’s a similar level of buff to the dish I made with monster meat when I was level 10.’

Considering Howard’s level is in the 20s, it’s an ambiguous number.

That’s because the person being compared is me.

In fact, that alone is incomparable to most buffs.

“Besides, you saw it, right? The food ingredients that come in here on a regular basis are limited. If I go on strike, people will either be forced to eat that tasteless food or starve. It’s one of two things. “I can’t claim the right to this kitchen for nothing.”

“…indeed.”

As long as it is in charge of food that is essential for survival.

Even if they say that their abilities are less than mine.

“I guess I’m getting more recognition than I thought.”

“Hmm, what. In fact, if I had been dealing with the president of the association, I would not have come out with this attitude.”

Within this group, its status is recognized in its own way.

“That guy just happened to be left alone and acted as a substitute. Originally, his position in the group wasn’t particularly higher than mine. So, it can come out like this.”

“Oh really?”

“hmm. He is a man who fights well enough to be considered an elite, but he is not particularly a guild official. Because he was not at the level of a leader commanding elite awakened people. “Maybe the level is similar?”

Although I am currently taking on the role of leader of the group.

Originally, it wasn’t that high of a position.

“Now that I think about it, what kind of person is that guy?”

“huh? Mr. Yunseong?”

After hearing that, I saw it.

Something suddenly made me curious.

“well. I only know that it’s a warrior job. Did you use a greatsword like the president of the association?”

“Well, he seems to be a person with nothing special about him.”

“…Uhm, that’s it.”

To my question.

Howard thought a bit and then opened his mouth.

“It’s a bit odd to talk about it because it feels like I’m gossiping about others… but I’m not the kind of person who doesn’t talk about it at all.”

“huh?”

“You know too, right? “The reason he can act as our group’s leader now is because all the other elites and executives have disappeared.”

“Oh, that’s right.”

In the process of investigating the cause of that cold air.

Because all the elites, including my parents, are missing.

The only thing left was him taking on the role of leader.

“That guy was the only one who returned from that operation. “He was injured and returned before the operation began.”

“I heard that much.”

“The problem is… well, what should I say. “I say so myself.”

Does the feeling of gossiping about others really bother you?

Howard said, scratching the back of his head.

“Whether that claim is true… is actually a bit ambiguous.”

“what?”

Very much.

A very suspicious story.

* * *

“What do you mean, it’s vague?”

From what Howard said.

I asked with wide eyes.

“Uhm, that’s it. At that time, a large number of elite fighters participated in the operation. “It’s not just the elites, but almost everyone who knows how to fight to some degree has been drafted into the operation.”

“and?”

“But not even a few days after competing, Mr. Yunseong came back alone. “I heard you were injured before the operation even began.”

okay.

Jung-gu also said that he obviously came back because of an injury.

“The problem is that the injury… was not as serious as I thought.”

“…?”

“Don’t you know the vitality of awakened people? I was injured, but not to the point of missing out on an operation that took all my might… Just to that extent? It would have been better if other wounded soldiers had also come back together. “There was some talk that it was strange that he came back alone.”

In those words.

I said with a frown.

“It’s very strange.”

“Even if you hear it, right? “Well, at the time, everyone thought it was just like that and moved on.”

“You just overlooked this?”

“The world is too busy to worry about such things.”

The world is busy thinking about ways to survive.

There was no time to worry about something like that.

“Then, the other elites did not return and the president and executives of the association disappeared… First of all, it was said that there should be a representative for the organization, so it became Mr. Yunseong.”

“Are you saying that even though there was something suspicious like that, you were given the role of acting leader?”

“No, it was talked about at the time. It’s not like there’s any other option, right? “The only high-level combat position left was Mr. Yunseong, and in today’s world, strength is the most important thing.”

“…people accepted it?”

“Yeah…”

I asked with a blatant suspicion.

Howard said, scratching his cheek as if he had said something pointless.

“We had a bit of an argument just now, but that doesn’t mean he was a very ugly person.”

“….”

“I understand that he seems like a very suspicious person by saying things like this, but from the perspective of someone who was with him, I heard that he was a normal and friendly person to the point where I could just say that there must have been some circumstances. “Are you sure you don’t understand?”

“How friendly you are.”

The guy who told me to fuck off?

Let’s make an expression that says I don’t understand.

“…Now that I think about it, I don’t know why I did that to my senior.”

Howard too.

He tilted his head and said.

“Like you said, he was just an ordinary guy with an mediocre personality, right? I wasn’t the type of person to kick someone out like that. “He wasn’t very friendly, but he wasn’t particularly hostile to anyone… he was just an ordinary human being.”

“…You said that?”

“I was a bit surprised that he suddenly started an argument with his senior. “He wasn’t that kind of guy to begin with.”

In those words.

There was something that came to mind.

“You might look at me like a weird guy because of what happened today, but I’m not really that bad of a guy. “I’m a little worried because I think I may be creating a strange perception for no reason.”

Howard said that Yunseong is a pretty good guy.

My thoughts were a little different.

‘A man who was originally in an ambiguous position… suddenly became a leader of a group.’

The reason is that?

‘Because all the people who could act as leaders have disappeared.’

and.

The operation in which all of them disappeared.

‘That man also participated and returned alone.’

Although he said he returned from injury.

The injury was not serious enough to return.

There is no one else who can testify to its authenticity.

‘It’s so suspicious.’

Maybe as Howard said.

A man named Yunseong may not have originally been a bad person.

But…

this is what came to my mind.

This was the reason why humans in Gyeonggi-do had at least three people as group leaders.

‘Either being manipulated… Because it can be replaced.’

I got up and

I thought as I left the kitchen.

‘If what Beomseok Jo said is true, there is a traitor among those who know information about humanity well.’

How to find it.

Of course, there is no sense of inspiration either.

It was a headache because there was no one suspicious.

‘If a suspicious person appears.’

There is no need to waste time.

‘Just checking.’

I immediately.

I decided to go in and check it out.

* * *

This is the first suspicious person to come out.

but.

There was one problem.

I wonder if this is an army.

For me, Gyeonggi-do is unknown territory.

Here…

‘It’s a little difficult to confirm that suspicion.’

What if something like this had happened inside the Legion?

I just gave orders to my troops.

Kidnapping a suspected person and immediately imprisoning him in a cell.

This could have been solved by force-feeding him food.

But it’s different here.

‘I don’t think they’ll eat it even if I suddenly hand it to them.’

Even if you succeed in feeding them that way.

Right now it’s just a suspicion level.

Now maybe he isn’t a traitor.

If I take that approach, it will be the most unpleasant skill I have.

The identity of the ‘special sauce’ is bound to be revealed.

so.

The method I chose was simple.

“Environmental assimilation.”

Sreuk….

dark night.

A time when there is no light except for the firewood burning here and there to maintain the temperature.

I killed everything.

With [Environmental Assimilation] applied, he hid in the dark and began to move.

The goal, of course.

‘Is it over there?’

A man named Yunseong stays.

It was right there.

He would most likely be asleep right now.

Let’s listen once we get there.

…new liquid….

from the inside.

A gentle breathing sound was heard.

‘An awakened person’s senses are very sensitive.’

Right now, I could hear the breathing of the man in that room.

It was possible to get this far through [Environmental Assimilation].

What goes into it is completely different.

The moment you open the door.

If you are a person with sensitive senses, you will immediately open your eyes even if you are in a deep sleep.

so that.

‘Go back to the mission.’

‘yes!’

Vampires in the shadows.

They appear briefly and soon…

[Fog]

Transforms into a blood-red fog.

A skill that anyone would envy as a combatant, nullifying any material attack.

The advantage of this skill was not just that it could ignore attacks.

Sigh –

something like that.

Fog can pass through even a thin gap in a door that would normally be impassable.

and.

When you turn into fog, any equipment or objects you have also turn into fog.

[Honest feelings-]

In the hands of the vampires who sneaked into the room.

There was a dish I made.

The brother and sister, who entered the room through the fog, only removed the fog from the dish.

I brought it close to Yunseong’s sleeping body…

and that was enough.

[Forced feeding]

The food I made.

I could see him quietly melting into the sleeping man’s body.

‘I’m not sure whether it will work or not.’

A dish of honest emotions.

Although it is a dish made with a lot of effort by renting a kitchen.

Actually, the ingredients were a bit disappointing.

If you are awake.

An original high-level awakened person would have been able to resist to some extent…but.

‘When you’re sleeping like that, you don’t even think about resisting.’

With fog maintained.

The two vampires whispered in very low voices in his ear while he was sleeping.

“Who is the one who betrayed humanity….”

“Do you know?”

Don’t wake up from your sleep.

A voice so small that only an awakened person can barely hear it.

and.

Those who have consumed the emotion of [Honesty] will want to answer all the questions they receive.

That’s not even.

Even if his mouth was blocked, he had the power to somehow open it and make him answer.

“betrayer…?”

That power is like this.

It was said to be enough to make even a sleeping person open his mouth.

“You traitor…”

I stood outside the door.

I raised my senses and listened to what the man said.

‘uh?’

and.

‘…really?’

When I heard what he said…

I couldn’t help but be truly shocked.

* * *

After then.

I continued to go to work at the restaurant for several days.

“If you do this part like this….”

“If you use the characteristics you have in this way….”

Improve my cooking skills.

Helping my juniors develop their [cooking] skills.

Ask him for some meat from the monsters in the central branch.

I pick out the things that seem useful and keep them in my shadow.

“The unification of the troops is complete.”

Doing that kind of work.

Because I lead a busy life.

Suddenly.

“Everyone is heading out!”

“Open the wall!”

With the humans of the central branch.

The realm of humans closest to the epicenter of that cold.

The day to head to the southern branch came.