Fu Yuan looked at Scáthach, who was recommending a spear to him, and shook his head. "I don't like spears, and I think fists are good enough."
With speed capable of breaking the sound barrier, carrying a weapon would only get in his way. He was better off with bare fists.
Besides...
Fists striking flesh.
One punch piercing the heavens.
That was a man's romance!
The character templates Fu Yuan currently possessed were...
Valkyrie: Vermilion Knight.
Valkyrie: Vermilion Knight [Amplifier Core].
Shadow Knight: Moon Halo.
The character templates he had yet to unlock were Azure Empyrean, Crimson Petal, and White Night Butler.
Although Fu Yuan knew these three character templates were also extremely powerful, the ones he had now were already sufficient.
Valkyrie: Vermilion Knight and its Amplifier Core had granted Fu Yuan the Great Void Sword Qi and the Inch-Heart Fist Style.
Shadow Knight: Moon Halo had granted Fu Yuan the ability to fly and terrifying lightning powers.
So now, Fu Yuan planned to save up crystals and exchange them for the gauntlets he needed—Nuada's Broken Light.
Nuada's Broken Light was a pair of gauntlets that could greatly enhance lightning power, increasing it by as much as forty percent.
And Nuada's Luminous Light, the PRI-ARM weapon, would work too... Fu Yuan wanted that as well!
The reason Fu Yuan had saved crystals before was to buy either the Shadow Knight: Moon Halo or Crimson Petal character template, but the Daily Quests had directly given him the Shadow Knight: Moon Halo template.
Now that he had tested the strength of the Shadow Knight: Moon Halo template, Fu Yuan felt that what he needed next was a suitable weapon, not another powerful character template.
With the preliminary test of Shadow Knight: Moon Halo complete, Fu Yuan looked somewhat troubledly at the courtyard ground he had crushed beneath his feet. "If I'd known testing Shadow Knight: Moon Halo would cause such a huge commotion, I should have tested it over at Mount Ensō."
Well, this was great... Fu Yuan had personally destroyed the courtyard he had carefully tended. Fortunately, the residence itself had not been affected, or neither he nor Scáthach would know where to stay tonight.
Fu Yuan's Fifth Meal
After testing Shadow Knight: Moon Halo, the sky gradually darkened. Fu Yuan put aside his helplessness over the courtyard and said to Scáthach, who was seated on the courtyard platform, "Scáthach, what do you want to eat tonight?"
"Hm?" Scáthach frowned slightly, seemingly unable to understand what Fu Yuan meant.
Looking at the queen dressed in a JK uniform, Fu Yuan explained, "I mean, what do you want to eat tonight? It's evening now, so I'm about to cook."
"This is your first dinner at my home, so I want to make something you'll like."
"There is no need for such trouble." After understanding Fu Yuan's meaning, Scáthach shook her head. "You need not prepare food for me. Having entered the domain of demigods, I can survive even without eating."
"Actually, I don't need food to sustain my body either, but..." Fu Yuan smiled at Scáthach. "Tasting delicious food is one of life's great pleasures. What matters to us isn't eating, but savoring the food."
Fu Yuan truly did not need to eat. He had discovered this while cultivating the Great Void Sword Qi at dawn.
Every time he finished cultivating in the morning, the true qi circulating through his body left him feeling full, so he had no need to eat at all.
But Fu Yuan did not stop eating just because he did not need to, after all, one of his hobbies was cooking.
"And Scáthach is a guest staying in my home. How could I, as the host, go eat dinner myself while leaving my guest with nothing to eat?"
"All right, then. Sorry to trouble you." Scáthach nodded faintly. Since Fu Yuan had put it that way, she no longer refused him.
Then Fu Yuan gave Scáthach a confident smile. "I'm not bragging, but I'm pretty confident in my cooking. So, what do you want to eat?"
"I do not have any particular favorite foods. Make whatever you are best at, Fu Yuan," said Scáthach, who had little interest in food.
"Alright, I understand. Sit here and wait a moment. I'll call you when the food is ready." Fu Yuan left Scáthach with those words before heading toward the kitchen.
"I remember there's still some A5 Beef in the System Backpack. Then I'll make steak tonight."
As Fu Yuan walked down the corridor, he murmured, "Come to think of it, after Scáthach eats the steak I cooked myself, I wonder if her cheeks will turn red like Aige's did."
Aige...
Hm? Aige...
Wait! Aige?!
Had Fu Yuan just mentioned the name of someone rather incredible?!
"Speaking of Aige, I wonder how she's doing now. Forget it. Perhaps I won't meet her until I leave this world."
As he entered the kitchen, Fu Yuan said something that sounded suspiciously like a flag.
The "Aige" Fu Yuan had just mentioned was named Sajyou Manaka in full. She was... well, in short, an incredible girl!
With the help of the Honkai System, Fu Yuan had been transported to this world for over a year. Because of the Daily Quests, he had run around everywhere and gotten to know quite a few people.
And Sajyou Manaka was one of the people Fu Yuan knew.
Fu Yuan entered the kitchen and took out the remaining beef stored in his backpack. It was a piece of beef marbled with snowflake-like patterns.
The snowflake patterns marbling that beef were not actually snowflakes, but fat within the meat.
The fat in some premium cuts of beef was evenly distributed and as beautiful as snowflakes fluttering through the sky, hence the name "Snowflake Beef." The more evenly the fat, or "snowflakes," was distributed, the higher the grade of the meat.
A piece of beef with intricate, dense snowflake marbling would not have poor texture or flavor.
That was because the snowflake patterns were a mixed distribution of muscle and fat fibers within the beef.
Ingredients stored in Fu Yuan's System Backpack were effectively kept in a state of stopped time, so the A5 beef he took out was extremely fresh.
Fu Yuan breathed in the fresh, sweet aroma of the beef, then placed it on the kitchen counter and picked up the cleaver lying nearby.
After the cleaver had been thoroughly cleaned, Fu Yuan gave it a light swing. The sharp blade flashed with a glint of cold light as it swept past the beef resting on the counter.
A slice of beef as thin as gauze was cut off. Fu Yuan set down the cleaver, picked up the light, gauzy slice with his hand, and put it straight into his mouth.
Beef could be eaten raw, but only if it was fresh and its source was clear.
And most, most, most importantly, if one was not afraid of getting parasites from raw beef...
The gauze-thin slice of meat rested in Fu Yuan's mouth, and the rich, fresh flavor of the A5 beef immediately spread across his tongue, as wonderful as holding ice cream in his mouth.
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