Cocorosa knew many people believed that if she took their Emotional MSG, it would act like a pheromone, forming some kind of fate-related connection to its source.
So they instinctively resisted.
But although Emotional MSG was born from human emotion, it carried none of the stories behind those emotions.
It retained only their rawest, purest flavor.
Of course, some people wondered why she bothered gathering Emotional MSG from different people if it carried no stories. Why not raise a group of emotional slaves instead?
Cocorosa would never do that. The reason was simple: the flavors differed.
Take hatred, for example. Some hated out of jealousy, some out of love, and others for no reason at all.
Extract those different kinds of hatred, turn them into seasoning, and add them to food, and each would taste different.
Even hatred born of love varied wildly with the depth of that love, the way the hatred took shape, and the personality of the person who felt it.
A thousand people's hatred yielded a thousand different flavors.
And to bring out each one perfectly, Cocorosa would need to create a thousand different dishes.
That was why she would never raise emotional slaves. It would be far too monotonous.
A thousand people, a thousand flavors. That was the seasoning she sought.
Through Extrasensory Perception, Angel could tell that Cocorosa was probably telling the truth.
Emotional MSG really did not carry stories.
There was no need to worry about memories being hidden in it, or about those memories being pried into.
But Cocorosa's claim that Emotional MSG formed no fate-related connection?
That was another matter.
After all, a Gourmet Wizard's word alone was hardly convincing on that point. He would need at least a pillar-level prophet to vouch for it.
Still, what she had said