The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 75
Episode 75: Tank Battalion (3)
After acquiring the [Absolute Taste] trait.
There is a lot more I can do.
Being able to utilize the characteristics of monsters was a huge advantage.
But that doesn’t mean I can do anything.
It’s not like that again.
‘I knew from the beginning that there were things I couldn’t do or were lacking in.’
What was the reason you first set the goal of growing the unit?
For me, who cannot stand alone, to survive.
in other words.
It was for times like this.
“Corporal Seo Soo-hyuk. “You do it.”
Guild members can solve things I can’t do.
Corporal Seo Soo-hyuk, who was pointed out, asked curiously.
“Why me?”
“Because he is the most qualified person.”
This guy is the best ‘gunner’ awakened in our unit.
‘Shooters’ are ranged type awakeners.
It’s a little different from similar types of wizards.
Unlike wizards, they do not emit extensive firepower.
but.
The penetrating power and power of each shot.
and.
‘It has the advantage in range.’
Seo Soo-hyuk, who is the commander of the gunnery team, boasts a shooting range that no magician or gunner in the unit can reach.
There are some jobs that this guy is the only one suited for.
“I’m shooting for those eyeballs.”
sniping.
It’s the most convenient solution to a troublesome problem.
* * *
Boom…!
“Sergeant Shin! “The food truck is ready!”
recent.
When engineers modify several vehicles.
I also had one thing to ask for.
Mobile cooking equipment.
…But first of all, this is the official name.
“yes? “Isn’t it a food truck?”
“It’s called a food truck.”
“…Both are correct. I don’t know. “Just feel free to call me.”
A large gas burner, oven, sink, and various cooking utensils.
A vehicle containing all kinds of cooking equipment.
Actually, it’s just a food truck.
When conducting large-scale training in the military.
Cooks receive field cooking training.
Since our unit was so small, we cooked in a cauldron using a gasoline burner.
‘Large units operated meal trucks. I was so jealous.’
A facility that allows authentic cooking outdoors.
In fact, in an ordinary military, there are many cases where you don’t even care whether something like this exists or not.
As long as I have it.
This is equipment that will be extremely effective in our unit.
‘I decided to leave the sniping to Soo-hyuk, but I don’t plan on watching while playing.’
Befitting his position as a supporter.
I plan to do my best to support you.
“I know your cooking buff is great. “Do we really need to prepare for something like this?”
Corporal Seo Soo-hyuk, who was to taste my cooking, was in a dazed state.
It seems like you’re overdoing it too much.
“The combat rations alone have tremendous performance, so I think that will be enough.”
“You bastard. “You sound sad.”
Lately, I haven’t had much time to prepare authentic dishes.
[Combat rations] basically provided buff dishes to the soldiers.
Thanks to [Absolute Taste], I was able to solve a few problems on my own.
Thanks to this, he seems to think that the high point of my cooking is not much different from combat rations.
Combat rations are basically preserved food.
No matter how delicious you make it.
Compared to freshly prepared hot dishes, there are limits.
‘Now that I think about it, has any soldier ever tried my authentic cooking after their stats have grown so rapidly?’
I don’t think there was anyone except myself.
Stat increase due to [Absolute Taste].
As the level increases and you become an [Intermediate Chef], your cooking characteristics also evolve to [Intermediate Cooking Skills].
This guy will be the first to taste my authentic cooking.
‘Consider yourself lucky.’
It’s been a while since I was able to serve a proper meal.
This time, I plan to cook with great determination and effort.
Crack, thump, thump.
The sound of the ingredients being prepared on the cutting board rang quietly.
“Sergeant Shin was right this time too.”
When you’re so focused on cooking.
The guy who was sitting and watching me cook said.
“I can’t believe I’m right. what.”
“The part where you said we needed to find out why they attacked us.”
“According to that, I wasn’t right either. “I didn’t expect a monster to be controlling the soldiers.”
“It was the right thing to find out. “If we had immediately gone into military suppression as I insisted, a huge disaster would have occurred.”
hmm.
I had never thought about that case.
“A monster with the ability to control others. Even if he had somehow succeeded in breaking through the fire and entering the tank battalion, he would have spread that fog-like energy at that time. “If that were the case.”
The only stats are the energy that I, a gangster, mobilized all my magical power to drive away.
It would have been difficult for about half of the unit members to escape.
An unintentional civil war would have broken out.
“I almost put the unit in danger. “And then I said nonsense to the sergeant… I’m sorry.”
“Are you sorry? “I’m sorry too.”
The argument last time.
If you think about what he said about me when I went to rescue the soldiers, it means he was worried about my life.
I was secretly worried that I was so excited that I said something harsh.
“…You didn’t say anything particularly harsh.”
“huh? what.”
“You said the right thing. That I shouldn’t put a number on human value or live that way. Honestly, I felt like I hit the nail on the head.”
The guy who sat looking blankly at the floor spoke calmly.
“What’s so bad about that? “To be honest, I still don’t know.”
This guy pursues practicality to the limit.
Pursuing practical benefit is not a bad thing.
Because I am also a person who wants to live only for the sake of profit as much as possible.
However, if there is a problem.
This guy has an overly cold-hearted side.
As long as we are human, no matter how much we try to pursue profit, we cannot help but be influenced by our emotions.
But this guy is different.
If it’s a profitable option, he’s a guy who can put emotions aside.
Seo Soo-hyuk is the unit’s best gunner and commander of the gunnery team.
He did not get that position simply because he was the first shooter to awaken.
This guy really has the best shooting skills.
‘This personality must have had an influence on his skills.’
Shooting a gun means taking the other person’s life.
No matter how good a sniper you are, there are bound to be moments when you hesitate to pull the trigger.
But even in those moments, this guy will make a cool decision.
As a gunner, he has the best virtue.
but.
‘It may not be good as a comrade in the unit.’
The reason why our unit was still able to survive.
I think it’s all thanks to the feeling of camaraderie.
I said as I put the prepared ingredients into the preheated oven.
“You said you thought it was best for the unit to survive if I led it.”
“yes.”
“I’m a chef by profession, so it’s hard to survive without the others. Because you can’t become independent with just a sword. “That’s actually a big reason why I prioritize raising my troops.”
“I thought it would feel something like that.”
“But what about you?”
A person who always makes decisions as calmly as possible, excluding emotions.
Why does a guy like that care about the survival of his unit?
“You could have acted alone once the bullets were secured. is not it?”
It’s not even a rear-end buffer like me.
Since he was a guy with outstanding skills, he could have left the unit and created his own force if he wanted to.
Monitoring of desertion by unit members has long since been relaxed.
If I went out with a few guns, I could have gone through the same steps as those deserters I met not long ago and built my own force.
Nevertheless, he remained in the unit and acted as an excellent soldier.
why?
“It’s not like I didn’t think about that in the early days of my awakening. no. To be honest, at first I planned to desert as soon as I escaped the mountain range.”
“That’s too honest. “Not now?”
“At some point, I began to wonder if there was any point in surviving alone.”
what?
“I didn’t think much of my former unit members. People with different backgrounds and personalities just happened to end up in the same unit. “I thought they were people I would never see again after I was discharged from the military.”
“That’s it. “It’s not wrong.”
“But recently, I started to feel a little attached to my unit members.”
Corporal Seo Soo-hyuk looked down at his hands blankly and muttered.
“It was an amazing feeling.”
It’s as if he himself can’t believe the change.
“It might be because we crossed the firing line a few times together. “Even I, who wasn’t interested in others, had something accumulated.”
“….”
“I feel safe when I’m in the unit, and I feel comfortable when we’re together.”
A story about a person who was always cold-hearted and realized the importance of those around him.
“I developed a belief that I could trust my colleagues.”
It’s a pretty touching story, though.
‘I feel reassured. I feel at ease. ‘You’ve become trustworthy?’
Keywords he said.
Peace of mind and trust.
this.
These are words I’ve heard a lot somewhere.
‘The dishes I fed to my unit members to manage their mental health.’
[Chef’s special sauce – peace of mind]
[A beginner chef’s seasoned bean sprouts brings peace of mind]
[Chef’s special sauce – comfort]
[A beginner chef’s salted squid for peace of mind]
[Chef’s special sauce – faith]
[Cakes out anxiety Beginner chef’s stir-fried pork]
The early days of the unit.
To prevent the departure of unit members who are mentally shattered by the sudden situation.
I actively used [special sauce].
I ate dishes with those effects at every meal.
“The day the Lizard Chieftain came with his troops. “Do you remember the battle that night?”
“Of course I remember. “How could I forget?”
“I felt strangely courageous that day. “If you judge it calmly, it was a battle without victory.”
That’s right.
‘When the Chieftain roams around the unit, the meal is made with ‘courage’ sauce.’
It is certainly.
The reason why this guy changed little by little.
It’s the influence of my [special sauce].
but.
The change in emotions caused by [Special Sauce] is only temporary.
What remains even after the effect ends.
It’s not the emotion contained in the special sauce.
A remnant created by those emotions.
“For the first time, I felt camaraderie.”
I have never fed my unit members food that conveys the feeling of camaraderie.
The emotions I got from my cooking.
The result of the remnants coming together and influencing him.
This is said to have manifested itself as attachment to colleagues.
“That’s why I didn’t want this unit to disintegrate.”
“….”
“The reason I gave Sergeant Shin so much advice was because I thought there was a risk that what you were doing could cause the unit to disintegrate.”
“I understand. “What you said wasn’t particularly wrong.”
In particular, he gave himself up to save the soldiers.
If I had died by mistake, it would have been a really big problem.
“no. “It was wrong.”
But he seemed to think differently.
“The reason you were suitable as a leader was because you were the type of person who would run out to save the soldiers. “If he had abandoned the other soldiers there, his position as leader could have been shaken even a little.”
“I didn’t run out for that specific reason.”
“I know. Whatever the reason, the sergeant was right at that time. “If you think about it, you always come up with the right solution.”
I’m not sure.
It seems like he has received some recognition from this guy.
“I hope Sergeant Shin will remain as the corps commander now. “Forget all the nonsense advice I gave you.”
“Is that so?”
“There will be no confrontation from now on, so just order anything.”
With your head down.
Corporal Seo Soo-hyuk takes on an attitude as if he is waiting for orders.
Order anything.
‘hmm. ‘If that’s the case.’
[Arachron white spider deviled eggs made with the care of an intermediate chef]
“This is the first order.”
“yes.”
“Enjoy your meal.”
“…Ah yep.”
I thought as I watched the guy putting the food served as an appetizer to his mouth.
A guy who only calculated everything with numbers and was extremely cold to others.
However, it seems that the ’emotion’ of the dishes I accidentally fed him is changing him little by little.
‘A similar thing happened to Gwangil.’
Corporal Jeon Gwang-il, who had a gentle personality, turned into a berserker.
I still feel guilty about that, thinking it was my fault.
Gwangil wasn’t the only one like that.
‘Especially because this guy… is in a transitional period where he is changing from a cold-hearted guy. It might be confusing.’
Your feelings toward others other than your unit will still remain the same.
Let’s kick out the survivors who tried to settle near the base.
The soldiers in the tank battalion have no hesitation in saying things like asking if it is okay to kill them.
but.
This is the world.
‘Steel Legion… The attitude of thinking only of allies may actually be desirable.’
I was looking at it with that thought in mind.
The guy who went beyond the appetizers and finished the main course put the last dessert in his mouth.
Just as I ordered.
[The course meal is complete.]
[A – Aracron White Spider Deviled Egg]
[B – ….]
[….]
[….]
[A common trait was discovered among the magical powers in the dish. has been completed.]
[A themed course meal has been completed.]
[Common magical properties – senses]
[Shin Young-jun’s self-made course meal – ‘Sensitivity’]
[All of the taster’s senses are greatly amplified.]
[For a specific target . This is a prepared dish. When the target consumes the dish, the effect increases significantly.]
The effect I aimed for in the course meal fed to Seo
Soo-hyuk was ‘sensation.’
It’s a complicated calculation. Seo Soo-hyuk, the awakened master, will take care of it.
I thought my job was to make his senses sharper than ever.
Wind, air, etc.
To be able to more accurately understand the flow of elements necessary for sniping.
and.
The reaction was immediate.
“Big… big gasp.”
Corporal Seo Soo-hyuk starts shaking after eating all of his food.
I suddenly felt like my breathing became heavier.
Soon he lowered his head and covered his eyes with both hands until he convulsed.
“Seo Soo-hyuk!”
I panicked at the obvious abnormality and approached him.
I wondered if there was something wrong with my cooking.
“It’s okay.”
“It’s okay. “Something was wrong with my cooking.”
“It was so delicious.”
“what?”
“Really… there is no other way to describe it than that it tastes heavenly.”
That doesn’t seem to be the case.
“Then what’s the problem…”
“It’s because my senses are so clear.”
Corporal Seo Soo-hyuk raised his head and looked into space.
Inside the pupil were small dust particles.
“I can see the dust in the air… I can feel the flow of air on my skin. The smell of rotting corpses all over the city is quite terrible.”
Only then did I realize why he was in pain.
Overly sensitive senses.
That was difficult for even an awakened guy to handle.
This.
‘It’s too good even if the effect is good.’