"Ah... Wish Fulfillment really is convenient..."
Xu Yanwu thought this as he waved the brush and began seasoning the roasted meat.
"Where did all these seasonings come from?"
Cang Xuan immediately caught Xu Yanwu.
She had seen it clearly just now. Those bottles and jars had suddenly appeared in Xu Yanwu's hands.
And they even had brand labels on them!
What kind of brand was Haitian? Was there even such soy sauce...
"..." Xu Yanwu's hand awkwardly froze over the roasted meat. Oil dripped from the brush into the campfire, sending up a puff of greasy smoke.
Xu Yanwu wore a cheerful smile, but inside, he was cursing his head off...
Damn it, had he gotten too full of himself...
He had actually forgotten about these two girls... no, Danzhu was fine. She only had roasted meat on her mind right now. But he had forgotten to hide it from Cang Xuan.
If his Wish Fulfillment ability was exposed, wouldn't they find out that he was the one who had lifted their skirts?
No way... I still want to see more... cough, cough. I still want to travel with them and see the magnificent mountains and rivers of my Land of Shenzhou in the Honkai world...
"...Since you saw through it, then I won't hide it from you anymore, Cang Xuan!" Xu Yanwu declared grandly. "Actually! Long, long ago, at the end of the Honkai, I was a warrior who faced the Last Herrscher head-on! And the power I possess is Spatial Ability! Those things from before had been stored in my personal space all along!!"
Well, I really had faced the Last Herrscher. Nothing wrong with that.
After listening to Xu Zifu's nonsense, Cang Xuan covered her mouth with her sleeve and laughed. "Oh~~ So that's how it is?"
"Yes, yes, exactly. That's exactly it."
Xu Yanwu laughed along shamelessly.
"Then."
Suddenly, Cang Xuan's smile vanished. "I never told you my name, did I? How did you know I'm called Cang Xuan? Don't explain it with precognition. I haven't even considered using the name Cang Xuan in the future."
"...Actually, I heard Danzhu call you that, so..."
"Danzhu has always called me Sister." Cang Xuan mercilessly interrupted Xu Yanwu.
The scene instantly fell into an eerie silence.
Until the meat burned...
"Ah! Xu Yanwu! The meat's burned!"
Danzhu's shout broke the awkward atmosphere, conveniently giving Xu Yanwu an excuse to call himself over.
But before he went to save the meat...
"Listen, Cang Xuan, I don't have any intention of harming you two. I really do know part of the future, and I wasn't lying about that... If there's anything you want to discuss, how about we wait until we've dealt with our stomachs first? What do you say, young lady?"
After leaning over and whispering those words into Cang Xuan's ear, Xu Yanwu hurried off to save the roasted bear meat.
Cang Xuan, however, was slightly surprised by how straightforward Xu Yanwu had been.
Five minutes later...
Once Xu Yanwu realized he had already been exposed, he stopped trying to hide anything. He simply rubbed the wall, producing several stone plates, then pulled a stone table and three stone chairs right out of the rock wall.
With Wish Fulfillment, something as simple as changing the surface structure of matter was effortless for Xu Yanwu. All he needed to expend was the stone that made up those objects, along with energy drawn from the air.
Incidentally, the wooden skewers for the roasted bear meat had been made the same way.
"Wow! Xu Yanwu, your ability really is so convenient!" Danzhu watched curiously as Xu Yanwu moved over the stone chairs. She sat down directly, her eyes shining as she looked at him.
"No problem, no problem. Basic operation, nothing more than basic operation.
No need to be so surprised." Xu Zifu secretly reveled in it, though he still waved a hand to display his greatness.
"It is indeed a very convenient ability, but Xu Yanwu."
Cang Xuan mercilessly began tearing Xu Yanwu down. "If you had this ability, why didn't you just make a stone slab to roast the meat on earlier? Wouldn't that have been much easier than roasting it directly? And less likely to burn?"
"...Eat, eat, eat. Let's not talk about that anymore. Cang Xuan, you divide the meat."
Xu Yanwu sat down awkwardly, and the stone chair sank directly into his round body.
"Mm... It looks all soft and squishy..."
Danzhu bit the wooden stick she was using as chopsticks and said this as she watched Xu Yanwu's body.
"Of course. I condensed it from energy, after all. It doesn't actually have physical substance... Wait a second! Cang Xuan, why is my plate full of the burnt pieces!"
Seeing the chunks of scorched roasted meat on his plate, Xu Yanwu's mood immediately plummeted.
"You only have a head, don't you? You don't even have digestive organs. What do you need good roasted meat for?"
Cang Xuan picked up a small piece of roasted meat, slowly put it into her mouth, then covered her mouth as she chewed. "To you, isn't there no difference between properly roasted meat and burnt meat?"
"Of course there's a difference! There's nothing wrong with my sense of taste! I still have a tongue!"
Xu Yanwu shouted in indignation.
"Hmph. Why don't you think about who burned the meat in the first place?"
Cang Xuan swallowed the meat in her mouth and snorted coldly.
"But I was the one who hunted this bear!"
Xu Yanwu had wanted to keep arguing, but Danzhu spoke with her mouth stuffed full of meat.
"But Xu Yanwu, even if you swallow the roasted meat, it'll just slide right out, won't it? Wouldn't it be a waste for you to eat it?"
"Pwah—"
Danzhu's words felt as if they had stabbed Xu Yanwu right through the heart, leaving him in unbearable pain.
Far away, Jiang Zhu: Hm? Why is Liuli moving again?
Using his current round body, Xu Yanwu lay facedown on the ground beside them in a pose of utter despair. "Even so... even so..."
"I haven't eaten meat in such a long time either—!"
However, Xu Yanwu's words were utterly useless. He could only watch in heartbreak as the Cang Xuan and Danzhu sisters ate the little mountain of meat he had roasted, bite by bite.
"Why do you two have such huge appetites?! Aren't you girls?! Can't you leave me a little?"
Xu Yanwu looked utterly desperate. Was there anything more despairing than having meat right in front of you while only being able to watch someone else eat it?
"Shut up, you old man!"
Danzhu's little face flushed red. She had only eaten so much because she had been too hungry.
"You mustn't waste food, Xu Yanwu."
With her expressionless face, Cang Xuan carried Xu Yanwu's plate of burnt meat over to him. "Come on, ah—"
Although a beautiful girl was feeding him, between her utterly cold, expressionless face and the roasted meat on the chopsticks that was as black as charcoal, Xu Yanwu had absolutely no expectations for this scene!
There really was something more despairing than having meat right before your eyes while only being able to watch others eat it...
That was... watching others eat delicious roasted meat while you could only have burnt meat forcibly stuffed into your mouth...
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