"Why did you come out?"
Lilith did not answer. Instead, she briskly gathered some firewood and sticks from nearby, piled them together, and lit them with a snap. Then she took out five large dried rats, skewered them on sticks, and began roasting them beside the fire.
"Huh? What's that?"
Isabella came a little closer. "Where... did you get those?"
Lilith watched the dried rats, turning them now and then with her little hands. "I had them hidden on me. They're dried rats."
"Rats?"
Isabella jumped in fright, and her gaze immediately filled with sympathy as she looked at Lilith. "Ah, have you been eating rats all this time?"
"Yes!"
"That's so sad."
Lilith gave her a puzzled look. "Why? Rat meat is delicious."
"How could it be?!"
The words had barely left her mouth when she caught a faint aroma of meat. Looking again, she saw fat sizzling out of the five dried rats. They looked extremely tempting.
Then Lilith took out the Barbecue Powder and sprinkled it evenly over the roasting dried rats, making the aroma even stronger.
Soon, the three children inside the house followed the smell outside as well. "Wow! That smells so good! What is it?"
"Rat meat."
The little girl, Alisa, widened her eyes. "You can... eat rats?"
Lilith nodded. "Of course. Rat meat is the tastiest meat in the world..." Her voice grew a little weaker as she spoke. After becoming human, rat meat... no longer seemed to be the tastiest meat in the world.
The three children immediately came forward and sat around the fire, staring at the roasting rat meat and swallowing repeatedly.
"You can't eat rat meat!" Isabella cried. "I-I'll definitely find a way to get you something good to eat tomorrow!"
Lilith handed the roasted dried rats to the