"From your words, are you blaming us humans and our goddess Ainur for prolonging this matter?"
"No, I don't blame you about your beliefs and your goddess; it's just that your view of this is different, and it won't work..."
"What do you mean by that? What we want is simple: world peace and peace among all the races...Still, how dare you question our beliefs and our goddess?"
"Surely, your movement and your idea of peace are admirable...Not gonna lie, it's amazing of you to try to bring harmony among all races. However, reality is much more complex than what you envision. Achieving world peace requires addressing deep-rooted conflicts, historical injustices, and systemic inequalities that have plagued societies for centuries. It cannot be achieved solely through belief or a desire for peace. It requires comprehensive efforts, understanding, and cooperation from all parties involved...Yet your solution to achieving this peace is to make other races in your way or your goddess's way, not in their way..."
I saw her face become more frustrated and confused as she tried to comprehend my perspective. It became evident that our differing viewpoints on achieving world peace were causing a disconnect in our conversation...
Immediately, she looked at the others beside her and said, "We are out from here..."
At once, the archmage stopped while she was eating the cake, and the paragon choked while he was drinking the coffee... Their reactions were unexpected, and I could sense the tension in the room escalating. It was clear that my words had struck a nerve, challenging their deeply ingrained beliefs and forcing them to confront the limitations of their worldview. As they hastily gathered their belongings and put some silver coins on the table...And they left...
I took the coins and cleaned up the table...I brought all of it to the sink and did the dishes...The place was empty without any noises, not like yesterday, when was Chistera still in here...Now Varania took her out to where she belonged...
As time passed by, I looked at the front, the sun was already gone...I thought it was time to close up...I locked the front door after I straight went to my room... I lay down on my bed, feeling a sense of exhaustion wash over me. As I closed my eyes, I couldn't help but feel a sense of desire to know about this conflict matters...It was my first time encountering the same species as humans each other, but in our first time encounter, we just had different belief systems and ideologies...Hope this difference did not make that saintess have hurt feelings towards me, especially her goddess...I closed my eyes...
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I opened my eyes...As I opened them, I quickly got up from the bed...I did some simple stretches and prepared myself for the day ahead...Next, I took some toiletries and my towel...Swiftly, I went to the bathroom to take a bath...Different from other cultures, where taking a bath meant you were soaking in the bath, but here, taking a bath meant you used dipper as true South East Asian people...
I enjoyed the refreshing sensation of the cool water as I poured it over my body...Hot water was for cowards, we used cool water...I even, needed to take a bath at 5 am, when I was in high school, because an event in school needed the student readied at school at 5.30...
I quickly dried myself off with my towel, relishing the feeling of being clean and refreshed. Despite the early hour, I felt invigorated and ready to tackle the day ahead...What would happen today? After taking a bath, I dressed myself in a simple plain white shirt as Aella said peasant shirt...
Remember you, the reader, I am a man, not a woman...Just imagine I am just a plain man because the author is too lazy to describe my appearance, despite my name being Darya, it's a masculine name in my homeland, it means virtuous, I don't know if Darya is a feminine name in a different part of the world...It's from the Sanskrit language, like the previous chapters, the words I wrote to Aella and Noella, are a different version in my homeland over the Sanskrit language, we called it "Aksara Jawa.."...Now back to my own story...
After I got well dressed, I went down and straight to the kitchen, to prepare my breakfast...Yesterday, I made a chicken porridge...Because of this chapter, about me, I want to see in the inventory system if some ingredients can make my traditional dish...
I opened my inventory, and I tried to find some ingredients that could make the dish...Somehow, there were the ingredients of it, what an amazing system...
The ingredients were; young jackfruits, combrang flowers, grated coconut, chillies, bay leaves, lime leaves, garlic, coriander, red onions, candlenuts, pepper, aromatic ginger, and some tempeh, Now, let's cook all of these ingredients...
First, I needed to chop and finely slice the jackfruits, didn't forget to slice the combrang flowers too finely...
Second, I made the ground spices with garlic, red onions, chillies, candelnuts, salt, pepper, aromatic ginger, and coriander...Before I ground all of that, I remembered I had a mortar and pestle, so I ground all of that in mortar, and I used peste to grind it...Now, I had the ground spices...
Third, I set up my steaming pan. I added the slices of jackfruits, and combrang flower into the pan, followed by bay leaves, lime leaves, grated coconut, and the ground spices...I stirred it until everything was completely mixed...
Fourth, Steamed it for 45 minutes until an hour...
That was for the rice, I still didn't have a side for the rice...I sliced the tempeh until I got 4 slices...I added salt and pepper, and I fried it...
But wait, I still haven't cooked the rice yet, and I haven't taken out the rice yet...I opened the inventory system and found the rice...I took out it, and it came with a package for one portion...What a convenient...I prepared the rice cooker, and put the rice to cook...
Some cooking moments later...
I checked the steaming pan, and the scent was great...I put it into a plate...but before putting it into a plate, of course in my culture, this cuisine you needed the banana leaves...I checked the inventory system, and what an amazing thing! There were some banana leaves...I took them out and stuck them above the plate...After that, I put the thing from the steaming pan onto the plate...
Now the cuisine of Megono was already prepared...It wasn't complete without the rice and the tempeh, so I put rice from the rice cooker, and the four slices of tempeh from the strainer...The name of the cuisine now changed, it was Sego Megono...
I took the plate to the front counter, and I ate it in there...
"It reminds me of home, which I used to eat this every day for breakfast, a rice with megono and a slice of tempeh...Especially the banana leaves remind me of home because I ate this cuisine from banana leaves wrapped...
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