Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Eon's POV: ]

"The dinner was amazing~ Lord Axion~! How do you make something so amazing~? And what do you make all those things from in the first place??"

Titania danced around us with a joyous expression and went around as we walked out of the house and into the front yard.

"There's nothing special in the concept of cooking itself, you see Tia. It's all about time, ingredients, and the techniques.

Experience matters but if you have a good grasp of timing and the balance of the flavours, you can practically make anything taste good."

And if you have a bad, or very bad sense for these three things, you can make anything taste worse than poison like my mom does.

Cooking is simply a philosophy. Everyone has their own. Senses and questions just make one good or bad with it.

"Yup~. It's all about the timing, technique, and ingredients. Haha, you wouldn't believe it, Tia but there was a time we sneaked out onto a hill in our estate in the south and he made me one of the most special dinners I have ever had in my entire life, all from the ingredients around us~.

It was amazing~. He used only the things from around the area, and nothing, practically nothing else.

Can you believe that~?"

"If I did not know vice captain Lucifer and Captain Uriel, I would have certainly had a hard time believing it, but those two tell us some crazy stories sometimes in such believable manner that I personally don't think they have ever lied to us.

But then again, those crazy stories are much more fascinating than the one you are talking about, Lady Elle."

"Awwww… you think Uriel is better than me as well, hun~?"

There was a fundamental difference between the stories we can tell them when we are our real selves at the moment, but since the identities of Lucifer and

Uriel are completely independent and belong only to us, we usually tell them many good things over lunch and dinner.

We talk about our past experiences with creatures or places, the adventures we have had as 'adventurers' and the stories of how we spend time together.

'Tia and others still thought Uriel and I knew each other for a very, very long time and that we got engaged only after living with each other for not just a few years, but for at least a decade or something.

That was the kind of picture they had in mind for us. On the other hand, We were different.

'They knew we had been close for a while, just like everyone else in the world knew, but they also knew how we had not been together for more than a few years.'

The story of my separation from my family has been a famous story and everyone knew about the empire's young hero that sacrificed his own young self to save his parents.

They knew how I was separated from my family for many years so even if Rein and I knew each other, we wouldn't have known each other for more than three or so years.

So by that logic, they just considered us different from their two amazing friends from the academy.

"Oh, right! You already know Vice Captain Lucifer and Uriel, right~?! You have that-"

"Yes, yes Tia. We do know them. Perhaps, we know them better than any of you and that's why I can say confidently that my Eon makes better food than that Vice captain of yours."

Now Rein was putting fuel in the fire by saying that. Which was not good so I grabbed her hand and begged her to stop with those things.

We don't have to compare ourselves with our own other self, and giving a chatterbox like her weird ideas about comparing our two selves was definitely not a good thing.

I for certain did not like to be compared with my own self about matters related to food.

'I make everything with all my heart so it's not like I intentionally make things worse when I am cooking for them in school.'

As I said just now, the ingredients and the techniques make all the difference when it comes to the flavours, and I try not to use any fancy materials or complex techniques when I'm Lucifer.

The food I make in that way is much more cost effective and at the same time, on the same level as the things I make with the costly ingredients here.

Those both things are right in their own places, so saying my oneself was better than the other was no good thing… alas though, the arrow had already left the bowstring.

"Whattttt? You cannot say that, Lady Elle! He made me many special things that I never thought I would ever be able to eat ever again!

Lord Axion is good but the vice captain has something about his cooking that is very special! It's warm and feels cosy!

Lord Axion's cooking is overwhelmingly majestic, mind blowingly delicious, and completely otherworldly, I agree! But the things that vice captain Lucifer makes are in no way any inferior to any of them!

I would want to eat what he makes every single day without caring about a thing! But when it comes to maker Axion's cooking, I want to save even one bite of that delicious heaven for a later date if I possibly could.

I want to enjoy his food while when it comes to vice captain Lucifer's food, I want to eat as much as my stomach could hold, and much more!

Saying master Axion is better is not fair! Hump!"

"And I agree with Tia on this, Elle. That was a mistake. You should apologise."

It was better to not speak about this matter in the first place, something that she understood well, but still, she went ahead and played with my patience.

This wasn't fun if the results could turn out to be harmful for our precious friends, so they were better of not knowing our identities until the time comes.

"I understand… it was a mistake from my part so I apologise. However, I never intended to say Lucifer's cooking is any bad.

I know very well how good he is. I personally consider him on the same level as Lady Empress."

"Lady Empress…? You mean, Empress Madelian?"

Tia was stunned when Rein compared my other self directly with the best chef in the empire and perhaps on the entire continent.

It was too much now, and again, this wasn't good… thankfully, this entire topic was going to be forgotten now.

-Ta-ting~!

[ "Howdy~ young friends~! How have you been~!" ]

Ast jumped from the Astral realm to the physical realm and appeared right before us with her pink stardust sparkling as attractively as ever.

"You're finally here~!"

And Rein greeted her first with a gentle hug to her little self.

-Ta-ting~!

[ "Hehe, hello to you too Elle~. It's so good to see you both after so long~" ]

We understood what she was saying since we had already learned to decipher her tinkles but, the fact that she couldn't speak the common language still remained a fact.

She was a fairy after all, they can't usually communicate with normal people. Tia was the oddball that somehow had the ability to do so, but it was unique among her kind.

'And she only got this ability after she bonded with her special familiar, a holy beast that Anna has taken quite a fancy of, so perhaps it was a unique gift born from their bond.'

It resembled a dog, or a wolf to be precise, and since there was no doggies in this house, she was having fun playing with the big dog, bigger than her mister Lizardman.

"You… no way…"

Anyway, Tia could talk while Ast could not, but it mattered little to us who could understand and talk with her.

She was a friend for us, a close friend of our grandparents, and… a famous adventurer, influencer, explorer, and relationship expert that countless young fairies and ladies from all around the world admired.

"Lady Astilbe?! Why… Lady Elle! Why is the great Explorer here?!"

[ "Aha~. Is that Young Lady Titania? You're so pretty~." ]

We were in the front yard, beside the fountain on the bench where we had first met her, and since it was late night already, the three of us were the only ones here.

"Haha, didn't he say you would like to meet this person? We have heard how much you admire her, so we just thought you would like seeing her before tomorrow's tea party."

"L-Lady Astilbe will attend the tea party?!"

[ "Of course I will~. Haha, how could I ever turn down my lovely little Anna's invitation~?" ]

"You… Anna…?"

Tia was flabbergasted right now.

She was standing before her ideal, one of the only people in this entire world that she admired and looked up to. Someone she never thought she would get the chance to meet, someone she talks about all the time.

'She is practically obsessed with Ast, her articles, and everything related to her.'

For her, this little pink stardust is much more admirable than all the novels she has read, and all the knowledge she has on the topic of love, relationships, and couples.

She loves her, the way she sees the relationships and the way she explains her experiences with all the worldly elements she explores all the time.

"Ummm! Hello! I'm Titania! I'm a big fan-"

[ "Haha, of course you are~! I know you already, miss Crimsonwing36." ]

That was her Maginet ID that was also her ID she used in Ast's fanclub. I had told her about Tia a while back when we were playing the <NO>.

She knew Tia was her fan, so… before tomorrow's 'grand' tea party, I wanted Ast to meet her as well.

And give her some personal time with the person she admires so much as a thanks.

'Anna liked her familiar a little too much so she was keeping the poor creature now. I can at least do this much for the new kind of joy she gave to my lovely little one.'

Besides, why wouldn't Ast want to meet a potential future queen of her kind?