Hyōen kind of wondered how a sandwich would taste like. Yes, he never specifically ate a sandwich, let alone see one be made. He could see it from the seat here as there was an opening through the cashing board and into the kitchen. The bread was… surprisingly soft-looking and bright. They weren’t like those that his mother used to bake with her bare, rough hands. Those kinds of bread were darker and looked more sturdy than anything else. They were also made atop a bonfire, with sticks to keep them above them without risking burned hands. She learned Hyōen about how to form them in a spiral-like facon, so that the breads would be easier to chum. He never got how that made it easier, but screw that, it was his mother’s way. Even now, after years of solitude, he still tended to set something on fire at an opening somewhere in the small shrubberies around each town, igniting some woods and making bread just like old days. It was a good way to remember the things that his dear mother learned him, and a good way to honour her teachings.
He also gave Coda some pieces of the bread. Those two were like close siblings who shared many things. Coda would enjoy the meat as she was pretty much carnivore herself, and Hyōen could get off with being a good pet owner. Coda chummed the piece happily in her shiny, bright beak, while it was Hyōen’s turn to take a bite of the first sandwich. His teeth would quickly drill into the soft, bright bread as his nose scented a flavour in it. He didn’t know that bread had such a good, strong flavour; he thought that it must have been from the spices that were following up, before his teeth would even finish drilling through the bread and reaching to the meat. Ah… it was a relief to feel that his stomach/body didn’t react to it as some kind of foreign organism, activating the pains like earlier. That would have been a pain in the ass, especially since all the things that happened. Well, back to the sandwich; it was his first bite of a sandwich ever, and he wanted to savour all the flavors. Now, his teeth could feel something flat and stiff… salad, iceberg or just some other flat salad piece. It made the sandwich get a colder flavour as the water drops from it were still apparent, there for his mouth to feel. It was refreshing to get some water supplies from salad like this, but just in case, he did have some water bags ready. Now, easily ripping through the salad, his teeth reached the spices that covered the meat and made it feel like biting onto a mine; it exploded with taste and strong flavors like chili and pepper. It was almost too strong to be savoured at once, but luckily, his mouth could withstand it. His nose, on the other hand, felt a little funny… he had to take a quick break and scratch it a little, before returning to devouring to the sandwich again. Oh, it was actually very tasty. The meat, especially, tasted just as head-batting as it always did, and the spices didn’t seem to annoy him too much this time. Happily, he drilled into the meat, the familiar taste
of meat from the Worth Woodsea. He could taste that it was the same kind of meat from the types of aurochs that roamed around his home too, perhaps from a female this time. The meat was a little raw in the middle, which also triggered his curiosity.
During the journey across sandwich land, he heard Ana’s words. She was from Lamia Scale, too… now, Hyōen felt a little guilty. He should have known given that they were guildmates, but perhaps he was too out in the other corners of the world to have been looking around his own, damn guild. “Aha… I should’ve known. We’re guildmates, after all,” he kind of excused while looking a little awkward as he scratched the back of his head again, “I guess I’m not that much around Orchidia. Maybe I should check the guild hall out another time.” While saying that, Coda went in for another bite and savoured just as many flavors as he did, and she loved it. She even peeped with a lovely rhythm as they both enjoyed from the very same sandwich. “It’s actually the first time eating this. How do you make one?” he asked, his face suddenly lightening up a little as he was feeling more and more confident with being around another Lamia Mage…
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