2. The new witch
Seeing Ruiji standing at the door in a daze, Shizuru temporarily stopped chopping vegetables and pointed to the carrots and potatoes next to him.
"Sister, I'll leave the washing and peeling to you."
These two are classic side dishes for Japanese curry, and the absence of one of them will make the curry taste dull.
Simple tasks such as chopping vegetables and peeling can be replaced by magic, and Shizuru is as stubborn as the elderly in some ways, such as cooking must be done by hand to have a soul.
Having a soul is one of the reasons, and the real reason is to conserve mana and avoid becoming a person who only relies on mana.
Her deceased mother taught her that a witch can't learn anything but magic.
As a result, there is an unwritten rule in the family's kitchen - no magic can be used to cook food. The sisters were trained to be "immersive" from an early age, imagining themselves in a state of no magic, starving, and having to survive like ordinary people with traditional skills.
Cooking is a very meaningful and practical course, and the witch school has been running for a long time.
"I can chop it for you by the way, too."
Ruiji opens the water valve and washes the dirt from the potatoes and carrots. The unwritten rules of the house inadvertently provided her with cover, and she still had no memory of how to use the washing magic.
"Then forget it, sister, you can't cut vegetables when you're so big, and you always cut your hands, and you have to use magic to cut them neatly every time, that kind of dish has no soul. If you were to cut it with your bare hands, you would definitely spoil such a good vegetable. β
My sister didn't believe that she could really complete such a difficult task, and she complained mercilessly.
However, the current Ruiji is not at all what she used to be.
Not to mention chopping and washing vegetables, some Japanese dishes that can be called famous are definitely difficult for her, and she is also proficient in many home-cooked dishes, and she also dabbles in Western food.
These skills are definitely impossible to show off all at once and will arouse suspicion.
"If you don't believe it, just look at it, and they all say, 'Shibetsu three days, be impressed', and I also worked very hard to learn how to chop vegetables in my cooking class, don't look down on people, Miss Sakuma Shizuru."
"Okay."
Realize be prepared to be disappointed, and then you won't be disappointed.
Shizuru knew that her sister couldn't make a big splash, so she turned around and continued to cut the chicken into dices. The kitchen knife at home is a bit blunt, and it is very inconvenient to cut flesh with bones.
"I'll go to the yard and sharpen my knife first. You'd better not blow up the kitchen, or you won't have pocket money for the next month. β
My sister's tone is very different from that of a 16-year-old girl, full of youthful vitality. In addition to her immature appearance, her way of doing things is very old, and there are few girls of the same age like her.
It is said that the children of poor families are in charge of the family early, and Jingliu's every move perfectly interprets the true meaning of this sentence.
"By the way, don't touch the onion, I'll do it myself."
"Yes."
Although she is verbose, Riji does not find it annoying.
It's been a long time since anyone has whispered or nagged in her ear, and man is a very contradictory creature, and when he has something, he doesn't cherish it, and he understands its value when he loses it.
In his previous life, his parents passed away one after another, and there were no other siblings in the family. After the death of his parents, he often did not communicate with his relatives, and over time he broke off contact. Ruiji has tasted loneliness for many years, and now she only feels joy and warmth.
When I woke up, I picked up a lovely sister for nothing.,I really can't think of anything else but obedience.γ
Obedience is obedience, and there is no less thing to do. Handling food is a basic skill as a human being, and if you can't do it, it will be a great problem for survival.
In a sense, witches are human beings with magical powers, and it is impossible to avoid the crucial aspect of eating.
In the process of peeling the potatoes and carrots, Riedy "recalled" some important things. About the laws of this world, and how witches are born.
Witches are a very special race that appeared in the Asuka Nara era in Japan, when witches were mutated from traditional Japanese shrine maidens. It is impossible to know which country the world's first witch came from, but she is the source of the birth of all witches, probably at the end of the Yayoi period in Japan.
The composition of Japanese witches is more complex and is divided into two types. One is to combine with Western witches and go to the floating island above the Pacific Ocean to make a sincere prayer to the Tree of Origin, wait for the sun to rise under the tree, and drink the half-blood offspring born of morning dew, and the other is to digest internally among local witches and give birth to offspring in the same way.
Unlike humans, the witch's offspring are gifted by the Tree of Origin.
Of course, witches don't have to be combined with witches, and they can choose ordinary humans. But witches pay attention to the purity of blood, and most of the witches with impure blood have weaker magic than pure-blood witches, and they will also be discriminated against among witches.
As we all know, witches are the most noble race in the world, and they are absolutely dominant, and even some of the most famous daimyo of Japan's Warring States period - Oda Nobunaga, Takeda Shingen and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, are all brave and good witches.
The world is moving forward under the rule of witches, and witch civilization is the mainstream of the world.
As one of many witches, Ruiji is looking forward to a new life, and her peeling hands are brisk. It is not impossible to get rid of the chicken feathers of the previous life, start a new life as a witch, and go to the door to a new world.
"Since there is no better option, we can only go with the flow."
Ruiji is not quite used to the body of the girl witch, delicate hands, green white arms, everything can only be described beautifully. The water in the sink reflects her delicate face, and no matter how many times you look at it, you will be fascinated.
"Why am I so good-looking......
She resembles the Nacissus of Greek mythology. Ever since he saw his beauty reflected in the water, Nacissus could no longer walk, and finally died of depression by the river, becoming a daffodil.
These two things are different in nature, and Riji will not die admiring her beauty and will live the good life she dreamed of in her previous life.
Resisting the urge to test the water with magic, she cleaned the vegetables from the sink, peeled off the skin with a peeler, took a lightweight kitchen knife from the wooden knife holder, and cut it into evenly sized cubes.
The benefits of rebirth are vividly reflected, not only the skills of the previous life have been inherited, but even the skills possessed by this body can also be used, reflecting the effect of 1+1>2.
Then, with a skillful knife, Riki slice the onion into thin strips and put it on a plate.
The rice is steamed in a rice cooker that has been used for some years, and a series of white mist is emitted from the exhaust holes, and the sweetness of the rice is intimate. The eating habits of Japanese people are very similar to those of China, and life is incomplete without rice.
She is glad that she has traveled to Tokyo in the witch world line and has become a Japanese witch who can eat hot meals every day, rather than a European and American witch who can only nibble on bread every day. If you are unlucky enough to become an African witch or an Indian witch, you can only have "clean and hygienic" pilaf, which is scary to think about.
"This is the last pieceβ"
After cutting a whole onion and cleaning the kitchen knife with clean water, Ruiji found that the chicken had not been cut yet. Now that the rice is about to be cooked, the longer you let them sit in the rice cooker, the drier and harder the rice will become.
My lovely sister is busy with all kinds of things every day, and the memories in her body tell her that she must do something to share the pressure of the former.
It's just that it's just because of the meat, and it's not hard for her, a new beautiful girl witch. She hadn't been practicing magic for two and a half years, though.
When Shizuru came back from sharpening the kitchen knife, he found shredded chicken and diced vegetables neatly laid out on the board, and his lazy sister rummaged in the refrigerator for curry cubes.
Obviously, I didn't care about this kind of thing before. In addition, she also found a problem, Ruiji cut vegetables never as neatly as it does now.
"Wait, you guys use magic, right? I'd rather believe in mosquito extinction than in that you can cook. You...... Could it be that she fell in love with which witch in the class should be asked to be a bride and prepare to start a family after graduation? β
Shizuru only felt a chill.
That kind of sister is too scary, even more terrible than the S-class weirdos living in a narrow room. You must know that the S-class weird talk is the most dangerous category, and it is not even as scary as the Riji that suddenly became "normal".
"It's just...... I want to try the skills I learned from the chef witch in the cooking class, and just show off a little. I usually read food columns on the Internet, and the witch gourmets I follow often share cooking tips, so I read more and learn faster. β
Rieki knows she's a witch now.
Not only is he beautiful, but he is also very talented in learning things, and it makes sense to use talent as an excuse.
"Also, it's not surprising that you don't spend so much time with me every day, and you learn something unexpected."
In this regard, Shizuru did not doubt it excessively. In her opinion, Ruiji just doesn't want to learn, it's not that she can't learn. Relieved to be relieved, his face still did not show the slightest flaw.
"Next, I'm going to make curry sauce, sister, don't get in the way in the kitchen, go clean the yard when you have time."
"Yesβ"
Riji is kicked out of the kitchen and goes back to the house to get her broom.
Witches and brooms are always inseparable, and when she watched "Little Witch Academy", she also fantasized that she would one day become a witch, riding a broomstick and running around.
Now that the opportunity is right now, you have to enjoy it.
The classic way of sitting is to straddle and the broom's pole looks like it will hit itself, but it doesn't. It's as soft as a car's cushion, and there's absolutely no weird feeling to sit on.
When the tail of the broom hits the ground, the flight mode will be deactivated, and as long as you pick it up and hang it flat in the air, the broom will automatically levitate and wait for its owner to sit on it.
"It feels pretty simple."
Placing the broom and keeping it at a height where she could easily sit on it, Ruiji took advantage of the still stream and flew away from the courtyard on the broomstick and into the sky.
This was the first time she had seen the entire Sakuma Shrine.