Chapter 69: Farewell Bangquet

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Upon Senju's return to the base, he found them cooking taro on an electric stove. Yuuri, with beef jerky in hand, was ready to add it to the mix, but Chito intervened.

"Why not add some meat? It'll taste great cooked together," Yuuri insisted, eager to experiment, while Chito tried to discourage her with a sigh. "Yuu, it's not about whether it tastes good or not. Please, don't add things randomly."

Spotting Senju's arrival, she diverted Yuuri's attention, saying, "Look, Senju is back. He must know other ways to prepare the meat."

"Really?" Yuuri inquired.

"Of course, these meats were found by Senju." Chito looked serious.

So when Senju came over, Yuuri asked, "Senju, these meats are really delicious! Is there any other way to eat them?"

"Well, what other ways to eat it?" Senju thought for a moment, then saw the taro in the pot, which looked more and more like potatoes, "Ah, yes. Beef stew with taro, it is very delicious."

"Really?" Yuuri drooled on the side. Chito next to her had a headache again.

Why did she change back to this? No, she had to change the subject.

"Senju, what were you doing running around just now?"

"Well, I went to the Nether to get some materials, and then made some stones to build the portal outside."

"Really, but... the Nether? It's really strange there. What are these bright things?" Chito retrieved her camera, pointing at a photo of lava.

"This is lava, a specialty of the Nether. It's a very dangerous thing." Senju had initially considered a scientific explanation, but the nature of lava in this context defied conventional science. "By the way, let me show you some."

Senju constructed a trench in the hall, then ventured into the Nether to collect a few buckets of magma.

Upon his return, he placed them inside. As the magma settled in, a wave of heat radiated through the area.

"Everyone, be careful. The temperature of this is very high." Senju took out a piece of waste and threw it on it.

After a spark flashed, the waste burned up.

"Well, I'll be careful." Chito carefully looked at the bright lava, but after a while she used it as a stove. "Ah, it's so warm, just like a stove."

"Really, it's so hot you could bake something to eat," Yuuri exclaimed, finding an iron rod, impaling the beef jerky, and grilling it. She also set aside a few uncooked taro for preparation.

"Everyone, the taro is cooked," Ishii's announcement drew everyone's attention.

Yuuri hurried over, clutching the partially roasted beef jerky. Following Senju's addition of a layer of iron railings as protection over the lava, she joined in.

"Well, I've been grateful for all your help these days, so everyone gets two taros," Ishii declared after removing the pot. "Oh, one for you is enough, Yuu."

"Why, I can finish two!" Yuuri said while eating beef and staring at the taro.

"No, no, no, two of us can't finish it. We've already eaten some food," Chito complained, then looked at Ishii worriedly, "Ishii, is it really okay to have so much? Although there are still a lot of taro..."

"No problem, just treat it as a farewell party," Ishii said calmly, "And these taros were also found in your hut."

"..."

Chito bit the taro on her hand hard, but what she was thinking about was to punish Yuuri.

"Cheers!" the four people touched the glasses together again, but this time it was not water, but milk.

"Delicious!"

"Hmm, such a weird smell."

A the group ate taro, drank milk, and made a fuss for a while before the banquet was over.

After the feast, Chito and Yuuri headed for a bath, intending to spend the night in the newly constructed small house.

"I really didn't expect you to be able to do this," Ishii remarked as she observed the two heading for a shower, then engaged in conversation with Senju.

From her composed demeanor, it seemed the shock of the past few days had gradually subsided.

"I didn't expect it either. I can only say that luck is still on our side, and you've also been a great help."

"Luck? Meeting you is my luck," Ishii whispered, then gazed up at Senju. "It's quite late now; let's get ready to sleep."

"Well, I just want to give you something," the two of them ignored the fact that there was another room and naturally entered the hut where they had been resting for the past few days.

(T/L: ⁄⁠(⁠⁄⁠ ⁠⁄⁠•⁠⁄⁠-⁠⁄⁠•⁠⁄⁠ ⁠⁄⁠)⁠⁄)

After Senju entered the house, he placed a made box aside and put two buckets of milk and two sets of beef inside.

As Senju turned around to say a few words, he was unexpectedly embraced from behind by Ishii.

Listening to her subdued sobs, Senju's initially agitated heart gradually calmed.

"It's okay; we'll be back soon. You can wait for us here with peace of mind," Senju reassured her.

"Really? I'll be here waiting for you all the time." After a brief bout of tears, Ishii released Senju, wiped her tears away, and resumed her usual composure. "I might have been a bit rude, letting you see me like this."

"No, it's okay," Senju replied, momentarily lost in thought before comprehending her words.

He then gestured towards the box. "By the way, there are a lot of things here; see if you can open it."

After Ishii looked at Senju, she went over and opened the box. Then she saw that there were many spaces inside, and some of the spaces contained some shrunken things. "What is this?"

"This is a chest. You can shrink things and put them into grids. However, each grid can hold up to 64 of the same items, like this." Senju put more than a hundred taros inside, and there were two more inside. The grid shrinks the taro, "click on the item and you can take out one."

(T/L: "storage box" to "chest")

After Senju demonstrated to her for a while, Ishii also knew how to use it.

With this, food storage will become much more convenient in the future, so Ishii asked Senju to transfer all the taro in the warehouse.

(T/L: Again, OP irl...)

Senju had no choice but to hurry to the warehouse, transferring the taros there to the box.

It took some time to complete the task, and Ishii was unsure where he had gone.

Meanwhile, Chito and Yuuri, having finished their bath, happily entered the newly built hut and prepared to sleep.

Senju took note of his own condition, realizing he had been running around all day and was a bit dirty.

Opting for a bath, he entered the bathhouse and noticed the lights were still on.

"What two careless guys," Senju muttered before going in and seeing Ishii taking a bath.

"..." Senju didn't know how to react, "Hey, you're taking a shower too."

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