Rising Of The Shield Hero Web Novel ver

Before the Storm

Old Man: "Lad, your armour is not ready yet. If you are here to use the kitchen, I would like to ask you to refrain."
Naofumi: "Why? I thought you gave me permission a while ago."
Old Man: "If you want to use my kitchen, some compensation is required."

After separating from the child soldiers, we stopped by the market to purchase large quantities of food.
Then we proceed to impose on our handy equipment store acquaintance and start cooking up a storm.
Is this food not my sincerity and gratitude for equipment store for providing cheap weapon and armour?

Filo: "Food! Food!"

For a while now, Filo has been consuming the roast meat and skewers that I have been making.

Old Man: "This smells great! Everyone who entered the shop was tempted by the smell. I went and checked when they left and they all went to the market to buy food."

Raphtalia brings the old man some food while he is making my armour at the counter.

Old Man: "Furthermore, some idiot stole some food from the dish the missy brought me, how did you produce such a taste! There is a crazy commotion since a while ago."
Naofumi: "Just kick the guy who stole food out."
Old Man: "The guy who stole food was generous and bought a weapon. Lad, with you here my sales record for the month is going through the roof."
Naofumi: "That's good. Take it as my thanks to you."
Old Man: "Alright. Wait no! This isn't some restaurant, it's an equipment store!"

For an equipment shop, you sure have a lot of additional pots and quite a big pan.
Thanks to that, I am borrowing a cauldron to make this world's unique curry.

Strangers: "......"

An aunt from the neighbourhood peeks through the ventilation window, along with several other adventurer-like guys.
I close the ventilation window with a bang.
The smell drifts to the front of the equipment shop.

Old Man: "Lad!"

I heard the old man's shout.
Seriously......
After the curry was completed, we were evicted from the old man's kitchen and thus end our cooking session for Filo.
Filo still seems dissatisfied and wants to eat more. There are only half of the contents in the pot left.
Due to the pot left behind, the equipment shop later had a rumour about it having absurdly delicious food, but that is a story for later.

Filo: "Master, Filo wants to eat more food~"

I bought some skewers for Filo who inflated her cheeks with a dissatisfied expression while wandering the town for cheap food.

Naofumi: "Hmm, should we just go make something by the riverside?"
Filo: "Meat again?"
Naofumi: "Yeah, you're getting tired of it?"
Filo: "I will not get tired of anything Master makes~"
Naofumi: "Sure sure"

We head back to the equipment shop to borrow an iron plate, which Filo carried.
Well, we will probably become familiar with this place since we will barbecue here in the future too.
I buy the proper materials and start barbecuing by the riverbank.
Filo is concerned about insufficient meat so she went to the forest to horde Usapirus
tsl note: Rip poor Usapiru population
We had to barbecue for a while until Filo was satisfied and started discussing about what to do next.

Raphtalia: "This is the first time we took it easy"
Naofumi: "Now that you bring it up, yeah it is"

Every day in this abnormal world has been a battle and now looking up to the blue sky gives off a very peaceful feeling.
Makes one forget about the wave of disaster that is only a few days away.
Unexpectedly, Raphtalia plays with the ball that I purchased for her a while go

Naofumi: "Isn’t that...... the ball that I bought for you?"

Raphtalia smiles when I point at the ball.