11. First Go! (11)
After finishing his duties, the hawk—Takkun—returned to the mountain.
Ally, after some stretching, also crawled into the same bed as Stila.
Surely, in a not so distant future, Stila’s cheeks will become plump!
She cheered herself while hoping strongly.
The appearance of Stila as she slept with peace of mind was really cute.
“By the way, Abel, if you’re finished with your task, you can always return to the world of darkness, you know?”
“This world seems more interesting… besides, I’m manifesting without using Ally’s magic, therefore, you needn’t worry.”
“Well, if you don’t consume my magic, then that’s great. You can do as you please, but wake me up tomorrow at five A.M.!”
“That’s quite early.”
“Fufufu, I have a hunch that something will occur. Maybe I’m starting to develop some kind of foretelling skill. Good night, then!”
Abel was a dark apostle sporting long, black, hair. Other than living in a different world than humans, Ally also felt that he resembled a demon king…
It was a big concern for a lady to be in the same room as a man without an attendant, but she didn’t think it was necessary to consider Abel a man.
Ally fell asleep, her nose basking in the scent of Stila’s hair.
“Ally, Ally, it is as you say.”
“Uuugh, why did you wake me up…~”
She did recall asking him to wake her up, but she was sure she wasn’t the only person who would behave unreasonably upon waking up.
“Marianne, the head maid of the royal palace, is coming here along with eight large carriages.”
Abel, who kept manifesting without consuming Ally’s magic just because he thought it was fun, finally laughed.
“It seems that they come bearing the order to arrange this unseem villa before Duke Radphen himself makes his entrance so that they may contradict the accusation. It’s as Ally expected.”
“Nnn~ is Marianne alone?”
“No, there are men pushing the eight large carriages. They don’t appear to have magic—do you want to misguide them into the forest?”
“Can I rely on you for that? It would be a great help for me since I can’t afford having it traced back to me at all costs. Just thinking about it makes me nervous.”
“Of course, it’s an easy feat, you needn’t worry about the cost. Ally, you’re just like the late Almighty Demon King. Be it your personality or aura… it has been a thousand years since he passed—how nostalgic.”
“Alright, that I shall ask you then. Keep misguiding them until the hands of Duke Radphen arrive—and if you somehow change your mind later and say something like, ‘As I thought, I must demand payment after all’—you will be meeting my right fist, okay?”
Abel nodded as he exited through the window. Ally decided to go back to sleep after seeing his strangely excited back.
“Hey, Ally, you’ve done your utmost to wash my dresses, so why do I still have to wear this dirty one?”
“Please be patient for a bit, Lady Stila. This will help you appear more credible. No matter what anyone says, just nod weakly as a response—can you promise Ally that?”
After having breakfast with Stila and getting ready for the morning, Ally said such with a grin.
It was time for aristocrats in general to begin their daily activities. Therefore, it was also time for Duke Radphen, who was also the royal magistrate, Earl Gashim, to come.
A royal magistrate was an honorary profession, but with little function.
However, if a servant wants to accuse another servant of this and that on the royal palace grounds, the servant is supposed to deliver said accusation to the one who bares the role of royal magistrate.
If the royal magistrate were to side with the royal faction, no one would move at her accusation.
However, there was nothing more convenience for Earl Gashim—the king’s younger brother—to use to denounce the king than Stila’s current predicament.
***T/N:
“Uuugh, why did you wake me up…~”
She did recall asking him to wake her up, but she was sure she wasn’t the only person who would behave unreasonably upon waking up.
I relate with her on a soul level.
Too relatable.
To much effort just purge them all stay nice and cozy away from prying eyes then build up her strength and foundation away from scum that will work to destroy you due to that queen bitch…her prince maxipad can continue being oblivious…
Lol she reminds him of the late demon King and she totally ignored that comment.
“Of course, it’s an easy feat, you needn’t worry about the cost. Ally, you’re just like the late Almighty Demon King. Be it your personality or aura… it has been a thousand years since he passed—how nostalgic.”
Hmm, it seems to be a foreshadowing on Ally’s true identity?
An enjoyable read, the only thing I’m a bit iffy about is that the story doesn’t delve into her previous 9 lives to much. Like, what did she do diffrent in each version? Thanks for the translation!
It will unravel along with the plot i hope
Muffin, try the returnee noble lady and your highness the voice of your heart is leaking too
Aye aye captain, thanks for the recommendations.
And my favorite, most loved story, kingdom of everlasting night
Foreshadowing, wordbuilding, descriptive and narration are all above 10/10 for me.
Antoinette Vanessa-san, I’m sorry for reading your conversation with Gabe, but while scrolling down, I found something I just couldn’t ignore. That is why, I would to ask just one thing: org Indo?
Yep.
Ahaha dont be sorry, after all we chatted in public liek that.
Thnx for the chapter!
It is clear that Abel (clearly not a demon king) does not know how to properly wake someone up.
You have to cook food and then as the delicious smell reaches her nose.
Gently say, “Since you aren’t waking up, the food is all for me~”
If he does that to me he will seriously die.
If he does that to me, I’ll go back to sleep, then after waking up properly I will make my own food cause I am confident I can do better than him….LOL
*recall your sardine rice attempt
I–… Sure.
That was one time…..I repeat ONE TIME. I at least have confidence in my skills to make breakfast. Please don’t judge my cooking abilities based on the sardine rice incident…..I have no idea what I was doing at that time.
I see, Gabe has leveled up.
Yeah Gabe is good at making pancake
I am also good at making fried rice with garlic, fried rice with eggs and hotdog and rice porridge, just not sardine rice. Yes I am staying away from sardine rice.
I was just making fried rice! Im not sure how to add garlic to it. Do you dice it?
Minced or diced would work. Toast the garlic a bit in the pan until it starts to brown so the taste spreads easily to the rice but be careful not to burn it.
OKAY WHY DOES MY PRESENT FRIED RICE HAS A HINT OF COCONUT FLAVOR!?
How many garlics?
Uhhh???? What did you do???
I add sweet ketchup, sweet sauce, then a dab of white powder, and normal salty ketchup.
How many rice do you have if you only have one cup of rice 1 clove of garlic will do but you can always add more. I usually use 3 to 4 clove of garlic for approximately 2 to 3 cups of rice.
I see i will try it next timeee.
Dont you just hate how onion stings your eyes when u chop them.
What was that white powder???
Salt.
Oh! I got worried for a moment there….lol
So did you use a newly cleaned pan and other utensils?? If not the taste of coconut might have come from the pan or other utensils, if not that then check there might be something in the ingredients.
Yeah, onions does hurt my eyes. Some say freeze them before chopping it but freezing it makes the onion hard to chop and soggy after thawing it and I don’t find that advice good.
Hahahaha freezing them would only add more work.
I read in a magazine that you should chew gum while you chop it cuz gum has that chemical thingy inside that prevent your eyes from tearing up.
That’s new, but I don’t think I would try it cause I don’t like chewing gum it just tastes like rubber to me and chewing gum while preparing your meal…wouldn’t that just ruin your appetite???
I also heard from TV that not breathing while chopping it works but I think that method would make me tear up for a different reason. But personally, I find placing an electric fan diagonally behind me to blow away the fumes of the onion from me quite effective. I do this every time I make deep fried meat spring rolls which requires me to mince the ingredients finely.
What is the dish with the longest name from ur country gabe
I am not sure about the other regions, but most names of the food here consist of 4 to 10 letters and those that have longer names than that (except for the spanish influenced dishes) consists of three words which basically describes the way it is cooked and the meat or main ingredient used (ex. Ginataang gulay (vegetables cooked in coconut milk)) so I don’t think we have a dish that has a really long name as what you may expect. The longest name of a local dish I know based on the letter count is Sinigang na Baboy (stewed pork)
Which word means pork? Is it sinigang?
Baboy = pork
Manok = chicken
Isda = fish
Hipon = Shrimp (also what we call people with ugly face but sexy body, cause when you eat shrimp people throw away the head and just eat the torso)
Sinigang = stewed
BTW, every meat mentioned above except chicken canbe used for making sinigang.
The name of the dishes here are pretty straight-forward as if no one really bothered thinking of a proper name for it just take a Sinigang as an example. As for dishes from foreign influences we usually name it based on what we heard like Bistek or Beef steak in english.
The name of the cake here is ‘Lidah Kucing’–or in english, Cat Tongue. When my friend said she is eating cat tongue i was in some significant confusion.
Ooohhh!!!!! We also have that one here!!!!! We call it Lengua de Gatto which is cat’s tounge in spanish…It tastes really good right!!!!
I never eat it before… How does it taste?
Another weirdly name food here in my country is “tengang daga” which means rat’s ear and is a type of mushroom called black fungus in english, I once saw it in a dish from a restaurant I was eating and when I asked my dad what that thing was he told me it was “tengang daga” and I was horrified thinking it was literal rat’s ear.
WE ALSO HAVE THAT MUSHROOM, THE NAME IS TELINGA MANCIK, ITS INDEED CALLED RAT EAR… it honestly is… Tasteless?
Lengua de gatto tastes good, it’s milky and buttery and you can eat a lot of it without noticing but would cause you to have a sore throat if you ate too much. When my friend went to a vacation in the north they brought me a ton of it and I was eating it in class, the next day I had a sore throat from eating it too much.
Lidah means tounge right??? And Kucing is cat??? I noticed Lidah resembles our local word for tounge which is dila and Kucing also resembles our local word for a baby cat which is Kuting.
Uhuuuhhh. In my language pig is babi, which is similar to baboy too!
On a side note, which would you choose? A dish with small portion but extravagant taste, or a dish with big portion but with subpar to delicious taste?
I choose the one with the bigger portion cause an extremely delicious food with very small amount will just make me more hungry so I would rather have the bigger portion, as long as it is edible I’d probably eat it.
BTW, Just a question what is garlic in your language?
Bawang putih, or in english “white onion”.
Here we call garlic as bawang, so I am guessing putih is white which is the same as puti or white in our language………the resemblance in the language amazes me.
Hahaha, mahal kita means i love you?
In my language mahal means expensive and kita means us.
Yes……don’t tell me it means the same in your language or it resembles the local word for I love you in your country???
Mahal can also mean expensive here (hence why love, because people treasure expensive things), mura is cheap, kita is you (cannot be used for everything so alternatives like mo and ikaw exist) while tayo is us.
In my language i love you is aku (i) Cinta (love) kamu (you)
We dont have the word for she or he, we just refer to both gender as ‘dia (she/he)’
We also have the word Cinta but we spell it as Sinta and is much more often used like how one would use darling or dear and me or I is ako.
And here we also don’t have gender pronouns like he and she (hence my confusion when my mom taught me english), we have……insert drum roll……. *Siya. Sounds like dia right???
I LOVE LEEK ITS OFFICIAL.
Cant believe bawang is also bawang there.
And what does salt translate in ur language?
Do u like hot cocoa gabe
Salt is “asin”.
Yep. I like hot cocoa, specially when pour over my rice.
If its to describe the flavor, we call salty asin too. But how bout the spice. We call it garam here.
HUH!? You can do that to rice!?!?
This how we call the spices here
Salt = asin
Sugar = asukal
Pepper = paminta
Vinegar = suka
Soy sauce = toyo
As for the flavors
Sweet = matamis (used to describe the taste(ex. This is sweet = ito ay matamis)) or tamis (ex. There is sweetness on it = mayroon itong tamis)
Salty = maalat or alat (same usage as above)
Spicy = maanghang or anghang
Sour = maasim or asim
Bitter = mapait or pait
Sharp taste (acrid, can be bitter but not exactly bitter) = mapakla or pakla (this one is a word commonly used in my hometown but not so much in other regions of the country so it is a bit hard to describe)
I used to do that when I was younger when I grew older I started pouring instant coffee over my rice…..it tasted a bit sweet and a little hint of bitterness on it but I won’t recommend it if you can’t handle this extreme food preference.
Gabe you are such a unique person!!!!!!!!!!
Like i wont be brave enough to do that
Like I said as long as it is edible I would most probably eat it. It works best with fried rice with garlic or a day old rice.
Presumably, he woke her earlier than when requested. That was the impression I got anyway.
“This world seems more interesting… besides, I’m manifesting without using Ally’s magic, therefore, you needn’t worry.”
Can you please elaborate on why that world seems more interesting to you Abel??? Is it Ally’s fault???? Please tell me why do I sense the ML aura from you????
“It was a big concern for a lady to be in the same room as a man without an attendant, but she didn’t think it was necessary to consider Abel a man.”
Ally, darling I was just saying something about sensing ML aura from Abel, why does it feel like you are denying my theory??? Is it because I am correct????
“Of course, it’s an easy feat, you needn’t worry about the cost. Ally, you’re just like the late Almighty Demon King. Be it your personality or aura… it has been a thousand years since he passed—how nostalgic.”
Is Abel like Sebastian (from Kuroshitsuji not little mermaid) and Diablo (from Tensei Slime), you know one of those “one hell of a butler” type.
“Alright, that I shall ask you then. Keep misguiding them until the hands of Duke Radphen arrive —and if you somehow change your mind later and say something like, ‘As I thought, I must demand payment after all’—you will be meeting my right fist, okay?”
Ally is the only MC, I know who can threaten a high ranking being of darkness.
“Please be patient for a bit, Lady Stila. This will help you appear more credible. No matter what anyone says, just nod weakly as a response—can you promise Ally that?”
After having breakfast with Stila and getting ready for the morning, Ally said such with a grin.
All knows what she is doing. Clearly Ally knows how to make the most out of the situation. She is starting to terrify me but at the same time It makes me want to see her beating the THOT into a pulp.