Udon

Author: Ryusui
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2121hw/30/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

After finishing the morning stream, I teleport to Japan past noon. The destination is Mami’s house.
When I teleport onto the balcony and go in, Mami and Chii-chan were eating something. Plenty of water in the bowls, and they’re slurping something whitish and long and thin. First time I’ve seen it.
Mami notices me and her eyes go round.

“Eh? Rita-chan, why?”
“Why… Would it have been better if I didn’t come?”
“That’s not it. I was watching the stream, but the government people?”
“Mm… Later. I’m not in a hurry.”

After the morning stream, we only decided a meeting place. They said they want me to come when my hands are free, so I thought I’d do what I need to do first.
In other words, magic instruction for Chii-chan.

“Eeh… Is that okay…”
“Mm. No problem.”

It’s true I want to look into Master, but I can’t leave a disciple hanging. If I did that, Master would get mad.
But before that.

“What’s that?”
“Udon. Want some?”
“I’ll eat. I want to eat.”

Lunch first.
Mami stands with a wry smile, says wait a bit, and leaves the room. Left behind are me and Chii-chan.
Chii-chan is blowing on it to cool it and eating the thing called udon. She’s slurping churu-churu, and it looks kind of delicious. I’m really curious.

“Chii-chan. Is it good?”
“It’s good!”
Chii-chan with a bright smile. This, I’m really looking forward to.

While I was talking with Chii-chan as she munched udon, Mami came back. On the tray in her hands is the same udon the two of them were eating. She set it on the table.

“Here, go ahead.”
“Thank you.”

Let’s try it right away.
Translucent water, steam rising so maybe hot water. And the white long thin things the two of them were eating. Besides that, um, what is this. A little brownish, thin thing. I’ll know if I eat it, maybe.

“Itadakimasu.”

Hands together properly. All right, right away.
I use chopsticks and pull the udon. It’s really long. I just slurp this to eat it?
I slurp zuru-zuru. Because it’s freshly made, a little hot. But not so hot I can’t eat. The flavor isn’t strong, but it’s really easy to eat. Delicious.

“How is it?”
“Mm. Delicious.”
“I’m glad.”

Mami shy and looking happy. No really, she’s good at cooking. According to her she just follows the recipe, though.

“What’s this?”
“Eh? Kitsune-age. Also called udon-age, I guess. You might hear usuage too.”
“Eeh… Isn’t that too many?”
“Ahaha… Better than some Japanese sweets…”

Why does the same thing have that many names.
When I bite it, it’s faintly sweet. And, I don’t know. The taste of water? That’s mixed in too, I think.

“It makes the water taste better too…”
“W-water…? Ah, yeah. The taste of dashi is easier for other people to get.”
“Dashi.”

Dashi. I feel like Master mentioned it. That it’s really important.
I slurp udon zuru-zuru together with Chii-chan. Chii-chan is more churu-churu. When I look at her she flashes a grin at me. Cute.

“By the way, Rita-chan.”
“Mm?”
“Is it really okay to keep them waiting…?”
“Mm…?”

What Mami points at is the television. Amazing, right, a machine lots of people can watch faraway things on. Like magic.
Anyway.
Emergency press conference, contact succeeded with the rumored presumed alien, talks scheduled after this… letters like that on the screen. And a person in black clothes talking while being bathed in lots of lights.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, um…

“What is this.”
“Ahaha… Ever since Rita-chan’s stream a little while ago this topic has been all over. Finally contact with an alien, or actually a huge prank, or you can actually see magic, that kind of thing.”
“Uwah…”

Eeh… Is it something to make a topic of? It’s kind of scary, actually. At this rate the meeting place they specified is going to have a huge number of people too…

“Maybe I should just not go…”
“Eeh… C-come on. They’re going to look for Master’s birth family, right?”

It might be different from a birth family, but that’s true. That’s really big.

“And look. Everyone knows Rita-chan likes eating delicious things, so I’m sure really expensive delicious food will come out!”
“Expensive…”

Food that’s expensive and delicious. Yeah. That’s good too. I’m pretty satisfied with Mami making all kinds of things, but I’m a little interested in expensive food.
Hmm… Well, yeah. All right. I’ll go.
But for now, concentrate on the udon. Delicious things have to be properly savored.

 

After eating udon and resting a little, I teleported, seen off by Mami and Chii-chan.
The destination is the air over Tokyo. What I see below is lots of clusters of buildings. The meeting place is the rooftop of one of them. Looking there, in the middle of a mark for a herikoputaa? to land? that kind of thing, about three people in pitch-black clothes were standing in a line.
I looked around that area, but there don’t seem to be other people. TV cameras, is it. Doesn’t seem like those either. Maybe they were being considerate.

That said, yeah. They were in the sky, though.
A few helicopters are flying, and cameras are pointed from there. They seem to be pointing at me and saying something. It doesn’t feel great, but worrying is probably a waste. The viewers said even if there’s mass media don’t worry about it.
Oh right. I should stream.
When I wave my hand, the familiar sphere of light and black board come out. Comments start flowing right away.

‘Rita-chan what are you doing lmao’
‘It’s starting to play like crazy on TV’
‘Making them wait and prioritizing the stream is truly lol’

“Mm. I mean, the viewers are more important to me.”

‘Rita-chan…!’
‘thunk…’
‘Aren’t these people too easy?’

The kind that makes you worry about their future.
With that, prep is done. Now then, let’s go.