Chapter 1514 – [Soul Chicken Soup for Souls]

Spiritual bodies do not feel taste. Because he is out of his body, he knows neither hunger nor satiety. The gluttonous Gulia feels intense hunger, but it’s more like phantom pain because the sensations from before life continue even after death.

Cogwheels spin in vain because they contradict each other. That was the situation that the gluttonous Gulia was currently experiencing.

Taste is a relative and physical concept. Taste is the sense for detecting nutrients and avoiding poison.

Therefore, the spiritual body or soul cannot feel the taste. So, even after Johnny, a similar elemental spirit, became a spirit in the original Abeth, he did not feel the taste. Although Yessto was at least a high-ranking spirit, he was able to realize his sense of taste.

Anyway, that’s the conclusion. How do you make someone who has no sense of taste feel the taste?

Wooooo!!!

“The menu is chicken.”

Eden took out a chicken among the ingredients he had brought. Considering the amount the gluttonous Gulia ate, it was only one animal, but it wasn’t slow, but he cared for it with all his heart.

Perhaps that figure instinctively sensed something, and the gluttonous Gulia also stopped urging with a loud noise.

This dish was out of the ordinary. A quiet but huge will is focused throughout the cooking.

“Cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces, season with salt and pepper… And fry it in oil.”

Chi profit!!!

Chicken on a pan heated with oil cooks quickly and causes a Maillard reaction. The smell of cooking chicken spreads everywhere.

“Concentrate. Spiritual characters respond to emotions and dwell in them. Then, they indwell spirits into food and create something similar to the spirit. If you cannot feel the taste because it is a spiritual body, you can still eat the spiritual body if it is the spirit of cooking. Will.”

Literally a dish with soul.

Spiritual elements, the three major substances that exist in this world and the smallest unit of the soul, are deliberately incorporated into cooking. With a high degree of concentration and will that cannot be said to be the sincerity poured into a single dish, he cooks not only the dishes, but also the youngja itself.

Because it is a spirit entity, it cannot be physically cooked. The only things that can cook spirits are emotions and will. Eden had to do two activities that required high concentration at the same time.

“Adding Vegetables to Stir-Fried Chicken.”

Potatoes and carrots, onions, mushrooms and garlic, etc. Add the chopped vegetables and stir-fry.

Vegetables cook faster than meat, so add them later. And as the oil and vegetables that came out while stir-frying the chicken started to emit a complex fragrance.

When the vegetables are cooked to some extent, pour the broth there. After that, all you have to do is bring out the savory taste of the meat and vegetables while slowly boiling over low heat.

At that point, the chicken soup started to smell very good that I couldn’t describe. Such a scent that automatically attracts people. The scent that spread in the wind attracted people, and they, who should have been in the middle of fighting her evil spirits, came to the place where she was cooking.

“It smells nice…”

“It reminds me of my hometown…”

“Heyhehe…”

There were even people who shed tears just by smelling the incense. The dish Eden made now was so excellent that it could be compared to the worst dish in terms of perfection.

It is not strange that the degree of perfection is similar because they cooked with the same sense of smell, touch, and intuition. It’s just that the concentration that went into it is different.

No matter how much she tried new recipes, Eden was more exhausted than fighting a fierce battle with one high-quality dish. Thinking about it, she knew what level of cooking the worst was, and how much the gap between her and him was now.

[……What the hell did you do?]

“Chicken soup of the soul for the soul. It’s important, so the soul went in twice.”

[No, it’s definitely not a creature, but it’s like a very small soul. Something unheard of, isn’t it?!]

Cooking is complete. All that remains is tasting.

The dishes made were at most one pot’s worth. The meat only contained one chicken portion, so it was only natural that the amount was small. But there was so much more than quantity in that chicken soup.

“Now, enjoy your meal.”

-…….

Gluttonous Gulia cautiously stretched out her tentacles. What he instinctively knew was that the aroma of the dish in front of him was enough to satisfy his hunger.

In fact, as much as you can’t feel taste, you can’t even feel scent. However, the aroma of food containing spirit particles… Even the soul can smell it.

The sense of smell, one of the most important senses in enjoying cooking, is felt, so the anticipation only grows. And unlike before, carefully pour the chicken soup into your mouth.

The sense of smell is felt. The rich aroma of meat and vegetables harmonizes without a nose, but comes through.

It feels tactile. The heat of the freshly boiled hot soup is clearly transmitted.

I feel tasteless. The savory taste of the meat and vegetables was not on the tongue, but it definitely reached it.

And… I felt happiness.

Gluttonous Gulia even forgot her name when she was alive. Even the name Gulia was given to her by the demon king, and she does not remember who she was, what her name was, or even whether she was a man or a woman.

All he remembers is the painful hunger. He died of starvation without ever having had a satisfactory meal in his life. I can say with confidence that I do not have a single happy memory in my life.

But the happiness in her cooking was hers, Eden’s. I was able to fully reach it because I knew the emotion of happiness, and because I put that emotion into my cooking and cooked and delivered the spirit.

He could see the gluttony of Gulia. What it is to be full, what it feels like, and how happy it is then.

-Ah.

And he forgot his hunger. The hunger that had plagued him all his life was now gone.

The hunger that could not be satisfied even after eating a whole mountain was solved with only one pot of chicken soup. To be precise, with the soul and emotions contained within it.

The evil spirit, which had achieved what it had hoped for, soon began to shed its ugliness. The hideous spiritual body melted away and then gradually disappeared.

The souls of countless people who died of starvation, but at the center was a small boy. The skinny, boneless boy shed tears.

The first feeling of fullness, the first feeling of happiness.

-Ahhh……!!!

“It was tasty?”

The boy nodded his head at her question. When you see him smiling happily, you can know what he is thinking and how he is feeling. Because the happiness in that dish belongs to Eden.

The soul that had been a gluttonous Gulia began to attain Buddhahood. Although she will somehow pay for the sins she committed when she was an evil spirit, the food she served will surely remain in a corner of her soul even if she loses her memory and is reincarnated.

-Thank you….. Thank you very much…..

“Goodbye. See you next time I see you.”

If you have a chance, you will see it again. I don’t know when it will be, but someday if he remembers the taste of the soup he ate today.

Soon the boy disappeared, leaving a small orb of light behind. And it is sucked into the bosom of Eden.

“Oh, what is it?”

[I think he gave me something in return.]

“Is it similar to the one I received as a gift of ice ability in the past? I use that very usefully.”

Previously, Eden helped relieve the grudge of the vengeful spirit in the world of Ice Age Apocalypse and received the ability to freeze ice. Now that you have awakened to the circular theory, you might think that it won’t be very effective, but it can be stacked.

Since building an ice wall is several times more efficient than building an earthen wall, Eden could build several ice castles in one day if he made up his mind. Thinking about that, it was clear that the gluttonous Gulia was a good thing, even if he didn’t know what he left behind.

Just like that, one of the demon king’s four heavenly kings fell. No, he passed away satisfied.

With a new recipe that the Absolute of Creation will be delighted with.

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The recipe for Youngja invented by Eden was a recipe of a completely different paradigm.

There are countless cases of cooking using this ability, but it is because it can directly impress the person who eats it by making something like a pseudo-soul by dwelling with the spirit itself.

Dishes prepared with the heart of a chef who cares about the people who eat them. Once you try a dish that allows you to experience that emotion and happiness, any picky and skewed food critic could pour out favorable reviews.

The reason why people criticize the food carefully prepared by others is because they don’t know how much effort and mind is put into the dish. However, if you can feel it directly, you can understand and realize what is in the dish.

“Instead, I have to concentrate and work hard on it, so I can’t use Youngja’s recipe unless it’s at least as complete as Dad’s cooking. Anyway, is it delicious, Johnny, Crong?”

-Yes!!! It’s so delicious!!!!! This is my first taste!!!!

– Kreureung!!! Big!!!!

After the work is done. Eden once again made soul chicken soup for the soul and served it to his companions. Children who originally had a sense of taste may not know it, but Johnny and Crong expressed admiration for the taste they tasted after a long time because they abandoned their bodies in life.

However, if there’s one thing I can’t eat right now, it’s Adam’s side. Adam has a separate body, but he has no mouth, so he couldn’t pour it into anything.

-I am okay. Next, you can use a body with digestive organs to eat it.

“Should we even think about food that we can eat without a mouth?”

[No, Eden. It’s something beyond food, so let’s go there. Cooking is meaningful if you eat it, so how weird is that if you eat it even though you haven’t eaten?]

“Anyway, Mister Susanoo. How does it taste?”

[Okay, just looking at the taste of the dish itself reminds me of your dad’s cooking. Of course, strictly speaking, it is slightly lower, and there is also a problem of efficiency.]

“I know that.”

Obviously, the level of perfection in the dishes that came out when Eden was focused was close to the worst, but I feel that the taste of Susanoo, a newcomer, is slightly inferior. Unlike Eden, who gets tired once he cooks there, at worst, he cooks just enough to focus for a moment.

There is still a big difference in level and mental strength. Although he reached the top once, there were still many peaks to conquer.

But that was only the evaluation of the dish itself.

[A dish that any race, even a spiritual body, can enjoy deliciously if it can be consumed somehow. It seems that he destroyed the concept of taste and created the field of taste by mixing spiritual sense with taste.]

“What I made this time reduced the weight of my emotions and increased the weight of cooking. You can probably get a rough idea of ​​what’s in it and how it was cooked, right?”

[Yeah, so it was better. A dish you know just by eating it without any explanation.]

Just as there are many variations of one dish, there are many ways to cook Eden’s Youngja recipe.

The food that was fed to the gluttonous Gulia was to deliver happiness and satiety, and now it was more focused on the taste of the food. Thanks to this, it is safe to say that her cooking has risen to a higher level, as you can enjoy it with a spiritual sense as well as with all five senses.

Then I wonder if people without spiritual sense can’t enjoy it, but that’s not the case. Even a human without spiritual talent can instinctively feel it when eating her food.

[And besides, this… Is this what you were aiming for?]

“What?”

[Seeing you say that, I really didn’t expect it.]

“What is it!!! Let me know!!!!”

[After all, this is a recipe that temporarily coagulates spirit elements to infuse pseudo-souls into dishes. However, over time, that pseudo-soul will also volatilize and disappear, right?]

“Yeah, that can’t be helped. If the quality of cooking decreases, the spirits dwelling in it will also scatter.”

If you freeze time and store it, you don’t know, but if you just leave it alone, the dish will rot and spoil. Even such a dish is not delicious, so if the condition of the dish changes rapidly, the pseudo-spirit that dwells in it will disappear.

Just like when a person dies, the soul leaves the body. The cooking is the body, the quasi-soul is literally the soul of the cooking.

[Then where does that quasi-soul go if you eat it?]

“……What?”

[Cooking is eating after all. Living things eat rice to obtain and absorb nutrients to obtain the driving force to live. Then what will happen to the quasi-soul of the dish you made?]

“If you eat it, it will be broken down into spirits and absorbed into your body?”

[To be precise, it is absorbed into the soul.]

“Five!!!”

It sounds like a simple story, but if it becomes known to the dimensional civilization, it is a story that has quite a big ripple effect. Being absorbed into the soul means that the level of the soul goes up.

Of course, it is meaningless to have only the soul enlarged. Since a soul is like a jewel, even if it is small in size, it can be upgraded through a craft called reincarnation. However, even so, if the spirit grows and raises the rank, it means that the size of the gemstone increases as a result.

It is up to the person to decide how to do the work, but it is clear that everyone will choose a gemstone with a larger gemstone.

[It helps to raise the spirit level, and since it’s a dish, you can eat it every day. It would be more efficient than elixirs or something like that. It’s really not a joke.]

“When I open the store later, many people will come.”

[It’s not a matter of coming and going, but rich people from dimensional civilizations will come every day to stamp their money.]

“I can see why the absolute man of time came to make a reservation.”

[Really, even absolutes will come to eat it at least once. It’s not a matter of rising spirituality, but because the concept of taste itself is a different level of cuisine. ]

Even if you are not an absolute but a load, you can live without eating, but because of that, there are many absolutes who consider eating as a hobby. If they are, they will definitely visit the restaurant that Eden will open at least once, and there will be some customers who will become regulars.

The absolute who will become a regular is already one absolute of time, so even if one more person is added there are two. It may even grow beyond that.

“I don’t think there will be any worries about guests.”

[It’s not really the customer’s problem.]

Susanoo thought about the fact that the soul of the truth would disappear in units of spirits or become something that did not exist in the entire timeline. Anything is possible if it is an absolute, but if two or more people come together, it will be possible to fuck the absolute of fate and destroy the law of cause and effect.

What if you come as regulars, run into each other, and then come out and hold a reunion among absolutes?

At Eden’s shop, it seems that even Rod can’t be honest.