Chapter 330: Inazuma's Unfortunate Adventure
The moment the door opened, the two smelled a pungent stench. Spider webs and empty milk tea cups were everywhere in the house, and the floor was covered with stains. A few mice were gnawing on apple cores on the ground. They were not afraid of the human voices, but just quickened their eating speed.
"Hey, why did the door open by itself? Ugh...what's that smell? It's so awful!!"
Paimon pinched his nose and floated back a distance.
Kong had a bad guess in his mind, but he said: "...Maybe the master is away on a long journey."
Paimon nodded and said worriedly, "Then we have come here for nothing, right? - Hey! Is there anyone there? Is there anyone here?!"
After shouting several times, no one in the house responded. Paimon hugged himself tightly and whispered to the air in a low voice:
"It seems that no one is really home, and I feel it's eerie here, as if someone is watching us... Traveler, what should I do?"
【choose:
1. "Go back to Mulou Teahouse and explain the situation to Thomas."
2. "Go ask the nearby villagers."】
Sora: "Go ask the villagers nearby."
Paimon: "Hmm! Maybe they know where the owner of this place went!"
"Who is it? Is it Takafumi's friend?"
An old voice came from behind him, with a few coughs mixed in the words.
Paimon and Sora turned around and saw a thin old man wearing shorts.
Sora: "Good afternoon, old man. We are here to visit the 'Hirasakura Rice Ball Immortal' in Konda Village on someone's behalf. If possible, we would like to buy some of the special rice balls here."
Paimeng nodded heavily: "Yes, yes, does the Rice Ball Immortal really live here?"
The old man narrowed his eyes, looked up at the two people in front of him, and then looked around: "'Scarlet Sakura Rice Ball Immortal'? I haven't heard anyone mention this title for a long time..."
Sora: "Are you...?"
"Ahem, I'm just a diner who is fascinated by the rice balls," the old man said with a nostalgic look, "I loved eating the rice balls here when I was young.
The owner is passionate about food. She carefully selects ingredients and uses the simplest ingredients to make the most delicious food. The most famous dish in the store is the 'Feiying Rice Ball', so she is also called the 'Feiying Rice Ball Fairy'.
Paimon lowered his voice and chatted with Sora within the team: "It sounds like 'Scarlet Sakura Rice Ball Sage' is already quite old."
Sora: "Shh, Paimon, keep your voice down."
The old man didn't hear the conversation between the two people at all, and said to himself: "At that time, this store was very famous. People from the next village would rather travel a few miles to patronize it.
The shop owner later had a child, a hardworking and motivated child who had learned the craft from her mother since she was young.
I once heard him say that he wanted to become the general's personal pastry chef with his own hands.
So he has been committed to developing various snacks. At the age of twelve, he thought of adding plum sauce to the Feiying rice balls to make the store's signature dish more popular.
From then on, we called him the little 'Sakura Rice Ball Immortal'. His persistence even moved the gods, and he obtained the Fire Attribute God's Eye. He was very excited and has been practicing using it to adjust the heat during cooking to make the food taste richer. "
Paimon whispered, "So Princess Egret should be looking for the second generation of the 'Scarlet Sakura Rice Ball Sage'."
Sora nodded, looked at the old man in front of him, and said, "But the issuance of the 'Eye Hunting Order' has ruined everything..."
The old man sighed helplessly, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to deepen:
"That day, the people from Tianling Fengxing came to the door. Although Guiwen was reluctant, he still cooperated and handed over the Eye of God out of respect and awe for the general...
Well, after all, what can small villagers like us do in the face of the shogunate army?
Since that day, Guiwen seemed to be in a daze. I thought he was just temporarily depressed and would get over it soon.
But after a month, two months, and half a year, he was still distracted. His mother and I tried to counsel him and asked his former friends and customers to talk to him, in an attempt to help him find himself again.
But you see, it had no effect at all. He never made another rice ball, nor did he ever say anything like he wanted to become the general's personal pastry chef again.
His mother couldn't accept him becoming like this, and she died of overwork last winter. If it weren't for me and a few friends who occasionally visited him, he would have probably starved to death."
After listening to the old man's explanation, Kong's expression became more solemn. He thought of the Thousand-armed Hundred-eyed statue he saw on Narukami Island. The eyes of God inlaid on that huge stone statue were actually the broken dreams of the Inazuma residents one after another.
"Looking at your attire, you must be foreigners who came here because of your reputation. I'm afraid you will return disappointed."
The old man couldn't help coughing a few times, frowning and saying, "Cough, cough, the smell here is too bad, how long has Guiwen not opened the window...
Well, I'm going to drag that kid out to get some sun. If you two have anything else to do, please go back first."
"We want to meet him," Sora said.
Paimon chimed in, "Yeah yeah!"
The old man opened his eyes slightly in surprise, then smiled and said: That's fine, come with me.
The two followed the old man into the inner room, which was indeed even dirtier. The ground seemed to be covered with grease, and clusters of mushrooms and a few sparse singing grasses grew in the corners of the walls.
Kong couldn't help but move closer to the wall, and wherever he passed, all the wildly growing plants disappeared.
[Get Mushroom x1]
[Get Mushroom x1]
[Get Mushroom x1]
[Get Mingcao x1]
...
The three of them walked to a wooden door.
"Guiwen, are you up? A friend is here to see you!" the old man knocked on the door and shouted.
Sora took advantage of this opportunity to pull up the sweet flowers near the door.
[Get Sweet Flower x1]
There was no one answering in the room. The old man frowned, said "We're coming in", pushed open the door and walked in.
"Isn't this a bit bad?" Paimon muttered softly.
Sora nodded, "This is a special situation. Let's go, Paimon."
The two followed the old man into the room, but after taking a step, they found that they had no place to stand - the floor of the room was filled with milk tea cups. These cups were not discarded at random, but were classified and stacked into a pyramid shape.
Paimeng was speechless for a moment. After she reacted, she was envious and surprised: "Wow! There are so many! How much did he drink?"
Kong narrowed his eyes, a little speechless: "They are all Water Princess's."
"Takafumi! Didn't I tell you to throw all these things away?!" The old man was heartbroken, "Get up! Have you forgotten the general you once admired the most?"
The person on the bed turned over dejectedly and muttered to himself: "...General? Who is that... I am Fu Linghua's dog... Old man, can you lend me 648 Mora again?"
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【1. “Being obsessed with imaginary characters is not a good thing.”
2. "Besides Fulinghua and the Battle of the Seven Kings, there should be more precious things in life, right?"
3. “How long has this symptom lasted?”]