Chapter 9: Kitchen knife? Evolve once before coming to the kitchen

Revive Herb? What is that thing?

"Yo?" Σ（⊙）?

Honedge expresses confusion, and Guang Tai lets it wait, soon taking out a box of pale golden diamond-shaped "gemstones" from the cabinet in the living room.

"Revive Herb. Although the shapes are all the same, some are minerals, and some are artificially made, but the effects are all the same."

"Using Revival Herb and Heal Grass, these two types of plants, after a series of processing, one can make Revive Herbs."

Guang Tai hands the Revive Herb to Honedge.

"Yo?"

Honedge grabs that pale golden "gemstone" with its blue hand, and then its eyes open wide immediately!

A strong life force radiates from inside!

Honedge's body radiates pale purple energy of the Ghost type, and soon the Revive Herb held in the blue ribbon disappears.

"Absorbed? Can be used without HP loss. Sure enough, it's different from the game world. The Revive Herb that can recover HP itself has magical life energy."

"Sure enough, it uses that blue ribbon-like hand to eat."

This guy's setting says it will wrap its blue cloth around the arm of the person holding the hilt to absorb life until they fall.

It seems that guy was just doing that because it was hungry.

This makes sense. In the Abyssal Ruins of the Unova region, there is such a passage from ancient times—eating is obtaining all life.

Those with mouths eat with mouths; those without mouths, then each shows their magical powers.

However, the price of Revive Herbs is about three times that of Berries, with an average price of 1500 Poké Dollars. It is quite a bit more expensive than normal food and vegetables, almost approaching those "large ingredients." If one eats Revive Herbs every day, it is not a small expense.

It seems that if possible, in order to save expenses, he should open up a piece of land near the small house and plant some vegetables and Berries himself. After all, he still has to work here for a long time.

"Hmm, you are full, but I am not."

The time is already very late. Guang Tai comes to the stove, looking at the stone chimney and the many firewood piled up in the kitchen. Those were chopped by the original owner when he went out.

Fortunately, the original owner did some work when he came back, otherwise he would have to face the situation of having no firewood to use.

Afterward, Guang Tai finds some ingredients from the storage box.

Canned chicken. Canned pickles.

Many onions. Many dried radishes.

And butter, a small bag of flour, Moomoo Milk.

And some Berries, and mushrooms picked back and placed in a paper bag not long ago.

During a long journey, it is impossible to guarantee fresh food sources. Except for Berries, the shelf life of ordinary vegetables is not long. Except for onions, undoubtedly, the shelf life of onions is one of the longest at room temperature, which can be as long as a month.

In contrast, Berries are really strange natural foods. They can be left for a long time without rotting or spoiling, and different Berries contain different nutrients.

Guang Tai decides to stew all these things in one pot. This is a very common cooking method, using cheap and easy-to-obtain ingredients, stewing them in a pot. Of course, to increase the taste and flavor of the stew, some ingredients will be pan-fried or stir-fried before stewing.

And in the Pokémon world, except for common ingredients, Berries can also be used as raw materials for stew.

In the distant Galar region, the curry there is stewed with Berries.

And Honedge, which is already "full," sees Guang Tai start preparing ingredients to cook, and immediately flies into the kitchen!

The new King is cooking personally!

As a knight, how can I not come to help!

If it's cutting vegetables, of course, using its sword blade to cut will be much faster. After all, it is quite "sharp"!

"Yo!"

Honedge comes to the cutting board, "clang" pulls its main body out of the scabbard shell, the blue ribbon hand grabs the falling scabbard, and a faint green sharp light rises on the sword blade!

Honedge uses the move "Fury Cutter"!

Super effective against cabbage!

Scrape scrape scrape scrape scrape scrape—!

The onion that was originally a round shape sags at a very fast speed, turning into fine onion shreds, and Honedge's sword blade is swung into phantoms!

Using Bug-type moves to cut vegetables is just so smooth and enjoyable. Who let vegetables belong to the Grass type!

"Oh! 'Fury Cutter' can be used like this. I haven't thought about using an ancient sword to cut vegetables... After all, you are not a kitchen knife."

Guang Tai is stunned, and Honedge is quite satisfied with its performance, its single eye opening wide and proudly raising its sword body, regardless of the onion crumbs and water droplets on it. Guang Tai hurriedly avoids it.

"Yo~ yo!"

Sharing worries for the monarch is the duty of a subject. It's just some ingredients. If needed, cutting them all is a piece of cake!

Guang Tai is somewhat surprised:

"Is that so! You are quite skilled at this kind of thing. Then the work of cutting Berries will be left to you too."

Didn't expect Honedge to have this skill. Guang Tai thought it only knew how to cut people after being bestowed upon a knight by an ancient King... Cutting melons and vegetables, is that how it's understood?

But in this case, it will be easier!

"Yo!"

Honedge hears Guang Tai's praise, and the fighting spirit flame seems to burn in its single eye!

ㄟ()ㄏ!

New King, see it! It's not that I'm not powerful, but your power is above mine. But if it's about cutting vegetables, of course, I'm better to use!

As for that kind of cheap kitchen knife, evolve once before coming to the kitchen!

Next day, June 7th.

Weather, sunny.

The early rain of summer stops, the sun rises, and this ancient land officially welcomes the moment of recovery.

This sleep was very comfortable, and the fatigue of yesterday was swept away. Guang Tai tidies up the bed and looks at the time.

07:35.

This is a beautiful morning.

Honedge is not put into the Poké Ball. This guy is standing sideways in the corner, with the sword tip pointing to the ground and the hilt against the corner gap. Just like soldiers in the past would place weapons diagonally at the corner of the wall for easy access at any time, Honedge seems to have retained this habit.

Guang Tai looks at the ancient sword with its eyes closed and ponders for a while.

Should he make a weapon rack?

In the Pokémon world, there is a profession that studies Pokémon ecology. Professor Birch and Professor Juniper are the leaders in this field.

Different types of Pokémon have different lifestyles they like. Although Honedge gave him the example of the Sword in the Stone yesterday, it is thought that no weapon really likes being stuck on ruin bricks and then enduring thousands of years of wind and sun.

Even the "Rusted Sword," the item of the Sword of Kings Zacian, rotted after 3000 years of time erosion. That was a real brave man's sword, and it turned out like this, let alone other ordinary ancient swords.

Today is still a busy day.

Inside the house, the warehouse, and the work area all need to be organized, and the land outside is the same.

Guang Tai goes to the warehouse first, taking out a board and a machine.

One of the necessary items for activities in the wild is a portable solar power supply.

Coming outside the workshop, he turns on the machine, bathes in the sun, and stores enough electricity.

It is a certain distance from the village, but not very far. There is a large piece of land in front of the door, weeds that can't be named, rocks of various sizes, and some branches blown from somewhere by the wind.

It rained yesterday, so he couldn't see the situation in the distance. Today is sunny. Guang Tai looks around and thinks of the map on the wall.

Tall ancient spirit peaks and ruin temples, distant villages, and several natural dirt roads and gaps leaving the valley.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 10 =====