I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

Thinking of this, Himeko had a blank expression on her face. But just then, Yuhaka finished searching the corpses. As for these guys who didn't have anything to eat on them, Yuhaka just spat at them with a "Pah!" look. After digging a bit in the sand with his feet, he ignored them.

“Yuyu’s back OwO~” Seeing Yuhaka hopping back, Himeko came back to her senses and hummed in agreement. Then she asked the caravan owner, “By the way, boss, do you know any local specialties around here? Especially food.”

Upon hearing Himeko's question, the caravan owner looked at Himeko with a puzzled expression. After all, Himeko was wearing an Inazuma-style shrine maiden outfit, and looked like a local from Inazuma. Why would she ask him this question?

Although she was full of questions, the caravan owner still told Himeko what he had to say. After hearing what the caravan owner said, Yuhaka nodded to show that she understood and wrote down the ingredients that the caravan owner mentioned. After figuring out these things, Yuhaka and the others said goodbye to the caravan owner.

"Big Sister Yu-Yu, where are we going next?" Himeko asked Yu-Haka, who was tiptoeing down to pick a violet melon from a tree. After all, Yu-Haka and Himeko had already visited several islands and done some food-related trade with some villages. Yu-Haka had also obtained quite a few samples of vegetables and fish. They would clone a batch of them when they got back and see if they could make something delicious from them.

Upon hearing Himeko's words, Yuhaka stuffed the violet he had picked into his dimensional portal and then picked up his tablet to check the Inazuma map. Unlike the Inazuma map in the game, the Inazuma Islands here had many islands. Of course, there were only a few large islands, and the rest were scattered small islands and uninhabited islands, with quite a few small villages among them.

Soon, through Yuhaka's search, Yuhaka and her companions learned that the place they were going to was an island called "Haiji Island." Yuhaka also inquired about the main islands of Inazuma and naturally knew what these islands contained. On Hachiyun Island, where Yuhaka and her companions were currently located, there was a huge snake skeleton. To be honest, Yuhaka's mouth watered at the sight of so many large snakes. In Yuhaka's mind, if such large snakes existed in this world, then other creatures must also be that large, right?

Just like back in the Godzilla world, many giant beasts became Eohaka's food.

"Umijima Island? I heard from those people that the land there isn't very good, and it seems like you can't grow any crops. If we go there, will we really be able to find anything good to eat?" Seeing Yuhaka preparing to go to Umijima Island, Himeko couldn't help but complain. For Himeko, an island where rice and other crops can't be grown really doesn't seem to have anything good to eat besides seafood. And the thing that Inazuma Island has in abundance is all kinds of seafood.

“Yooyo wants to go see it. I heard there are huge seashells there~OwO~” As she spoke, Yohaka gestured to show the size of the seashell. Yohaka wondered if there could be such a big seashell, then the shellfish and seafood there must be huge, right?

This is why Yuhaka is so eager to visit Haiqi Island. After hearing Yuhaka's explanation, Himeko thought it was possible. After all, she had heard from others that Haiqi Island was very remote and few merchants went there. They didn't know much about the situation on Haiqi Island, which led to Yuhaka and Himeko having some lack of information about it.

But it doesn't matter now, because they came to check on the situation.

P.S.: Sorry, I got carried away with the Seven Sages Summoning game and only got to the part where Shen He, the strongman, lifts the giant stone while trying to unlock the main story.

Volume 6 [Yuyu's Genshin Impact Journey]: Chapter 1986 [The Journey to Haiqi Island (Part 1)]

On the sea leading to Umi-no-Island, Yuhaka and Himeko were walking on the surface of the water. Well... although it looked very unscientific, it was quite magical.

Using the authority of the Water Spirit King, Yuhaka led Himeko on a leisurely stroll across the sea towards Haigi Island. As for why Yuhaka and Himeko didn't take a boat, it was because they couldn't find any boatmen nearby who could carry people across the sea, or rather, they couldn't find any. They were too lazy to look for one, so they simply used the authority of the Water Spirit King to get there.

After spending some time, Yuhaka and Himeko arrived at the edge of the sea near Haigi Island. Here, they saw scattered islands. Upon officially setting foot on Haigi Island, Himeko was quite surprised by the unique atmosphere of the place.

"Big Sister Yu-Yu, the environment here looks completely different from other parts of Inazuma~ It feels a bit like our Coral Highlands." Himeko exclaimed in surprise after looking at the environment of Umi-Giri Island. Yuhaka looked around and indeed it did resemble a Coral Highlands, but it was slightly inferior to a Coral Highlands. If a Coral Highlands is a land-based version of underwater coral reefs, then Umi-Giri Island is more like an island that is transforming into a Coral Highlands.

Looking at the blue vegetation around them, which resembled seaweed and anemones, Yuhaka and Himeko continued walking towards the inland part of the island. Soon, after they reached the edge of a cliff, they saw the scene in the center of Haigi Island. Unlike ordinary islands, the terrain here did not increase in elevation as you approach the inland. Instead, it had a huge basin-like terrain, making the entire Haigi Island look like a giant bowl.

Moreover, the surrounding seawater flows inwards towards the island, which is one of the main reasons why Haigi Island has changed into a saline-alkali land. Of course, this does not mean that there are no habitable places around. Although the center of Haigi Island is a sunken terrain, there are still habitable places on the edges, so that the residents of Haigi Island do not have to live in the seawater.

Of course, it's not that simple. Although seawater is flowing in, the interior isn't completely covered by seawater. Even though seawater keeps flowing in, Yuhaka and the others can see that the sea level isn't rising. It's as if the seawater is being drained away by some method, preventing the place from becoming completely filled with seawater.

After arriving, Yuhaka and her companions began to wander around the island. While wandering, they encountered an elemental creature called "Floating Spirit." This type of elemental creature also existed on Yuhaka's Guiding Island. However, Yuhaka was not interested in these elemental creatures that looked like floating fruits, because of the "Floating Crystal Cores" that these Floating Spirits dropped. These things could not be eaten at all. If these creatures did not only absorb elements to feed, Yuhaka would probably have wiped them out immediately.

However, these floating crystallized cores did interest the church's researchers quite a bit, and Mebius began studying elemental creatures after arriving in this world. As for the elemental spirits, since they were under Yuhaka's command, Mebius couldn't easily deal with them, but he didn't need to worry about these elemental creatures.

Although these floating spirits don't attack people proactively, you can still get hit if you get too close. But Yuhka doesn't need to worry about that. If these floating spirits come to attack him, Yuhka and Himeko can easily deal with them. Yuhka's authority as the Elemental Spirit King allows him to strip the floating spirits of their elements. Once their elements are stripped, the floating spirits are like balloons that have been emptied of gas. Himeko's Herrscher of Corruption ability is also effective against these elemental creatures. Therefore, it's a very simple matter for the two of them to deal with the floating spirits.

At least these floating spirits, by their ability to drift around, cannot hinder Yuhaka and the others' attacks.

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On the island of Haiqi, Ehaka and her companions strolled around, searching for ingredients and beating up any Hilichurls that got in their way. Hilichurls were a common sight in this world, and Ehaka's attitude towards them was simply, "idiots who like to get beaten up." When a group of Hilichurls wielding clubs charged at them, Ehaka snatched the clubs from them and fought back. Ehaka didn't even want to use the Baradion or Ester to deal with these masked creatures.

The Hilichurls, having been thoroughly beaten, naturally clutched their heads and begged for mercy from Ehka. Ehka simply chased these fools away, as she wasn't particularly interested in creatures that couldn't be exploited for food, and these guys didn't seem to know how to cook much either. Ehka generally ignored these Hilichurls.

Even so, these Hilichurls still foolishly provoke Yhwach and get beaten up by Yhwach. As for Himeko, it's even simpler; she just uses Foxfire to make those Hilichurls burn their butts and flee in a sorry state.

After wandering around for a while, Yuhaka and her companions came across a small fishing village on the beach of Haegei Island. This didn't surprise them, as fishing is an important food source for villages in island nations like Inazuma, and they often see many villages built near the sea when they are at the beach.

However, the village encountered some problems. Yuhaka's keen senses could detect a sense of panic in the village, so she and her companions rushed over to check on the situation. When they arrived, they saw the villagers gathered in a group, looking flustered. Yuhaka's keen sense of smell detected a strong stench of blood in the air.

P.S.: I'll get some rest early tonight and adjust my sleep schedule.

Volume 6 [Yuyu's Genshin Impact Journey]: Chapter 1987 [The Journey to Haiqi Island (Part Two)]

After Yuhaka and the others pushed through the crowd, they saw several injured villagers lying on the tatami mats. Seeing the miserable state of the injured villagers, Himeko couldn't help but cover her mouth and exclaim.

"Oh dear—that looks terrible, the injuries are so severe! How did it get like this?" Hearing Himeko's words, the villagers beside her explained to Himeko and Yuhaka, "It's all because of those sea monsters. Recently, for some reason, those sea monsters have been appearing in the waters near Haiji Island, just like now. We fishermen have to be extremely careful when we go out to sea..."

As he spoke, the villager sighed, clearly feeling worried and helpless about the current situation on Haiqi Island. Upon hearing the villager's words, Yuhaka immediately gave him an "OwO!" expression, obviously as if he had heard good news, since that was what Yuhaka was thinking.

[Sea creatures = Seafood = New ingredient!]

Thinking of this, Yuhaka's beast ears started swaying. Seeing the injured villagers, Himeko, who was standing nearby, felt a pang of sympathy and quietly asked Yuhaka, "Hey, Yuhaka, why don't you help them heal? It should make asking about that sea monster much easier later, and it's a new creature, right?"

Hearing what Himeko said, Yuhaka also thought it made sense. Then he used his ability to heal the injured villagers. With a green light, the injuries on the villagers who had just been lying on the tatami mats groaning were immediately healed. After groaning for a few seconds, the villagers suddenly realized that their bodies were no longer in pain and looked at their suddenly healed bodies with a bewildered expression.

This scene was witnessed by the villagers. Yuhaka stretched out his hand, which emitted a bright green light, indicating that it was someone who had just healed the injured villagers.

After the villagers recovered from their injuries, many were very grateful for Yuhaka's help. Although they had sent people to the Coral Shrine for help, it would take some time for the rescue to arrive. It was uncertain whether any of the injured villagers would succumb to their injuries and die before the rescue arrived. Moreover, the loss of even one of the few able-bodied people in the village who dared to go out to sea to fish would reduce the income of the entire village, which was not a good thing.

Yuhaka wasn't particularly interested in the villagers' gratitude or the Mora they offered as payment. More than the reward, she wanted to know where the sea monster was. After hearing that Yuhaka had refused their offer, she even inquired about the sea monster. This led the villagers to believe that Yuhaka and Himeko were kind-hearted people who didn't ask for anything in return and were happy to help others. After all, Yuhaka and her companions seemed completely uninterested in Mora and were instead looking for trouble with the sea monster – wasn't that the mark of a truly good person?

Moreover, hiring mercenaries or adventurers to deal with the sea monsters would cost a lot of money, and as for the incompetent residents of Umijima Island under the Inazuma Shogunate, they shouldn't expect them to accomplish anything.

After hearing that Yuhaka was interested in the sea monster, a villager volunteered to risk taking Yuhaka and the others there. Hearing that someone was leading the way, Yuhaka ran off, and Himeko hurriedly followed after seeing Yuhaka run off.

Soon, with the villagers' boats at their disposal, Yuhaka and her companions set off to deal with the sea monster problem.

After Yuhaka and the others left for a while, Coral Palace Heart Sea arrived with her people.

"Where are the injured?! Take me there quickly!" Upon arriving in the village, Coral Palace Heart Sea hurriedly asked the villagers to take her to see the injured villager. After all, it was quite far from Coral Palace Shrine, and upon hearing from the villagers who came to report that there were seriously injured people, Coral Palace Heart Sea rushed over here as quickly as possible, fearing that if she was a step too slow, someone would succumb to their injuries and die.

However, compared to the anxious Coral Palace Heart Sea, the villagers seemed relatively calm. After all, the injured people had already been healed by Yuhaka. The villagers told Coral Palace Heart Sea about this, and when she heard that someone had healed the injured villagers, Coral Palace Heart Sea was stunned. She hadn't expected that someone would actually heal the injured villagers.

The reason is that the number of people who possess the Eye of God on this island is quite limited. Coral Palace Kokoro basically knows what abilities those Eye of God users have, but those who can heal are extremely rare, and they are all located in the village of Nozomi-taki near the Coral Palace Shrine.

Coral Palace Heart Sea immediately understood that the holder of the Eye of God had come from another island to Haiqi Island. Coral Palace Heart Sea was a little puzzled by this situation, since few people, apart from merchants, would come to Haiqi Island. This place was not only very remote, but also had very scarce resources, and there were very few things worth mentioning.

Of course, because of the Coral Pearl, there are quite a few treasure-hunting groups here. However, Coral Palace Heart Sea doesn't think that a God Eye holder would join a treasure-hunting group, especially one with healing abilities.

Then Coral Palace Heart Sea asked where the "kind people" who had rescued the injured villagers were. In response to Coral Palace Heart Sea's question, the villagers explained, "Those two gentlemen have gone to find the sea beast. It seems they want to hunt it down."

Hearing the villagers' words, Coral Palace Heart Sea couldn't help but show a hint of surprise. After all, sea monsters are manageable on the beach, but fighting them on the open sea is extremely difficult. Humans cannot fight in or on the surface of the sea unless the opponent's God's Eye has the ability to allow them to fight in the sea. Otherwise, fighting sea monsters at sea is very difficult.

Regardless, Coral Palace Heart Sea first checked on the injured villagers' recovery. After checking, she found that the villagers' injuries had all healed, even their old wounds. This surprised Coral Palace Heart Sea, because although the Eye of God could heal the body, she herself couldn't heal old wounds. She couldn't help but find it hard to believe that this kind person's skill with the Eye of God was so high.

Just then, Coral Palace Heart Sea heard the villagers' surprised cheers. Hearing the commotion, Coral Palace Heart Sea was slightly stunned. Then, looking in the direction of the cheers, she saw a girl holding a harpoon-like weapon aloft on the beach, raising the pierced sea beast.

P.S.: Sand pupa is damn hard to find. There's no map to look at underground. It feels like being in the Layered Rock Abyss, but the latter is even more disgusting. Without a map, it's like a weasel crawling around underground.

Volume 6 [Yuyu's Genshin Impact Journey]: Chapter 1988 [The Journey to Haiqi Island (Part 3)]

Some time earlier, the villagers had sailed Yuhaka and Himeko to the waters where sea monsters roamed.

"This is it. My companions and I encountered sea monsters and were attacked in the waters around here."

Hearing the villagers' words, Himeko looked at the calm sea with a puzzled expression and said, "Hmm... it looks very peaceful here. It doesn't seem like there are any sea monsters around..." The villager who was piloting the boat twitched his lips after hearing Himeko's words and said, "Uh... sir, the appearance of sea monsters will not affect the weather or the sea conditions. They are not powerful monsters."

After hearing the villagers' explanation, Himeko nodded with an "I see" expression, then looked at Yuhaka beside her and asked, "Big Sister Yuhaka, have you seen any sea monsters?"

"No, OwO~" Upon hearing Himeko's question, Yuhaka did not find the so-called sea monster, well, except for the sea fish swimming in the sea.

Upon hearing that Yuhaka had not found the sea monster, Hishimaru scratched his head, looking around with a troubled expression, and said, "What should we do? Should we search for the sea monster's trail in this area?" Hishimaru felt a headache coming on at the thought of this, since finding a sea monster in the ocean would be quite difficult, wouldn't it?

But it didn't matter. Yuhaka naturally had his own way. Under the questioning gazes of Himeko and the villagers, Yuhaka pulled out a "ball" from somewhere. Of course, it wasn't a ball at all, but rather bait that Yuhaka used to feed the fish.

After Yuhaka threw the bait into the sea, the fish attracted by it swarmed towards him like bees drawn by the scent of nectar. Seeing this, Himeko and the villagers couldn't help but look on in surprise. Just then, Yuhaka sensed something and took out the Baradion sword, which had transformed into a harpoon. With the surge of the seawater, a huge sea beast emerged from the water.

The creature resembled a sea dragon, but it looked more like a mythical creature such as a jiao (a type of dragon-like creature). Upon seeing the sea beast, the villagers piloting the boat were so frightened that their legs gave way and they collapsed onto the boat. Pointing at the enormous sea beast in front of them, the terrified villagers exclaimed in panic, "It's...it's that! This is the sea beast that attacked our fishing boat!"

Although he heard what the villagers said, Ehaka paid no attention to it at the moment. After all, Ehaka's attention was entirely on the sea monster. Unlike the Teyvat elemental creatures that Ehaka usually saw, this sea monster was not an elemental creature, or rather, a creature made of a large number of elements. This also meant that it had flesh on its body.

This is very important. Moreover, the sea monster looked like a giant sea snake or eel, which made Yuhaka's mouth water. The sea monster that Yuhaka had labeled as a "giant eel" felt a sense of unease for some reason, but unfortunately, this sea monster was not very intelligent and did not connect the ominous feeling with Yuhaka and the others.

Before the sea monster could launch its attack, it saw a harpoon looming large before its eyes, and then its consciousness was plunged into darkness.

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When Yuhaka and her group returned, the villagers cheered upon seeing the unfortunate sea monster they were spearing. Clearly, the villagers were overjoyed that the sea monster had been killed; after all, the death of one sea monster meant that they wouldn't have to worry about encountering other sea monsters in the surrounding waters for the time being—though only temporarily…

Regardless, the villagers were extremely grateful to Yuhaka and her companions for helping them hunt down the sea monsters, not only healing them but also killing the sea monsters that had attacked them.

This greatly increased the villagers' goodwill towards Yuhaka and her group, and they showed them great respect.

When Coral Palace Kokoro saw Yuhaka, she inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity. She was very puzzled by this feeling. Why did she feel this way?

Coral Palace Kokoro didn't think she had a lost younger sister... Moreover, Yuhaka's dragon horns and tail were quite conspicuous, which made Coral Palace Kokoro think that the other party might be someone with a special bloodline like herself.

However, when Kokoro saw Himeko next to Yuhaka, she was taken aback. The reason was that Himeko's appearance was very similar to that of the priest of Narukami Shrine. Not only her appearance, but also Himeko's fox ears and tail made Kokoro think that the other party was a priestess sent by Yae no Miko.

But the problem is, they don't seem to have any reason to send a shrine maiden over.

After all, Coral Palace Kokomi had met that "Lord Yaeguji," who had invited her to work at Narukami Shrine, but she had refused. Coral Palace Kokomi could clearly see that the other party wanted to recruit her to work there. However, Lord Yaeguji was a bit unpredictable to Coral Palace Kokomi, but she could vaguely sense that he was someone who, like her, liked to stay behind the scenes and slack off.

However, Sango Mikoto was a little confused as to why the other party would send a shrine maiden, since these matters were not within the scope of Narukami Taisha's management.

At the very least, the people who come should be members of the organization, right?

Just as Coral Palace Kokoro was pondering what was going on, she was suddenly interrupted by a noisy commotion. When she came to her senses, she saw the dragon-horned girl emerge from somewhere with a kitchen set and begin to deal with the sea beast that looked like a giant eel. Seeing this, Coral Palace Kokoro was stunned, clearly not knowing what Yuhaka and the others were doing.

After Coral Palace Heart Sea came to her senses, she realized that Yuhaka and the others were processing ingredients. Although Coral Palace Heart Sea had heard of using sea monsters as ingredients before, this was the first time she had actually seen it. This made Coral Palace Heart Sea a little curious about what Yuhaka and the others were planning to do.

Volume 6 [Yuyu's Genshin Impact Journey]: Chapter 1989 [The Journey to Haiqi Island (Part 4)]

Yuhaka placed the sea monster she had hunted on the table. Because the sea monster was quite long, it required several tables to carry it, but this was not a big deal for Yuhaka, as she had plenty of tables.

After preparing the necessary items, Yuhaka began to process the sea monster. Although it was quite large, it was relatively easy for Yuhaka, who had processed seafood many times before. The first step was to clean out the internal organs of this sea monster, which resembled a large eel. Yuhaka usually didn't eat these things. Of course, if there was a way to process the liver or other internal organs into a delicious dish, Yuhaka wouldn't mind keeping them.

Seeing how skillfully Yuhaka handled the task, Coral Palace Xin Hai was a little surprised. After all, she had assumed that one of the two was skilled in medicine and the other in combat, but she hadn't expected that one of them would be so adept at handling prey.

Could it be a hunter or something?

Coral Palace Heart Sea thought it was possible. Soon, after Yuhaka finished treating the internal organs, it was time to remove the bones. However, before removing the bones, Yuhaka discovered that there was spinal cord in the sea monster's spine that could be extracted. He pulled out the spinal cord from the sea monster's spine as if pulling a rope. Seeing Yuhaka pull out a thin, water-colored spinal cord from the sea monster's body, the surrounding villagers couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. After all, in their eyes, Yuhaka was like pulling out a legendary dragon tendon, so it was normal for them to be surprised.

However, the Coral Palace Sea doesn't have such legendary properties. For the Coral Palace Sea, Yuhakana can extract something that looks like a dragon's tendon, which is also the spinal cord that can be extracted from some large fish. However, this thing is not easy to extract. If you are not skilled at extracting the spinal cord or the spinal cord is not very tough, you can easily break the spinal cord.

The technique and the quality of the spinal cord are very important; they are practically indispensable. However, the way Yuhaka pulled out the rope as if it were just a random gesture made Coral Palace Heart Sea feel a little ashamed. If it wasn't something he did casually, then Coral Palace Heart Sea felt that his technique was truly very skillful.

After Yohaka finished treating the spinal cord, he looked at the water-colored spinal cord in his hand with a puzzled expression. Yohaka had eaten a lot of spinal cord, but this one with a strong water element made him a little confused. Was it something made of pure elements or something like slime gel?

However, Yuhaka didn't throw it away. He decided to take it back and cook it into a delicious meal first. After all, Yuhaka had seen things like dragon spinal cord that could catch fire when exposed to air, so something like this was relatively easy to deal with.

Next, Yuhaka had to process the sea monster's bones. Compared to the bones of ordinary fish, the sea monster's bones were much harder and quite large. Since Yuhaka was going to use the sea monster's meat to try making kabayaki, the bones had to be removed. Of course, it didn't matter if they weren't removed, but Yuhaka personally preferred to eat meat with few bones, since that way he wouldn't have to spit out the bones.

...Although it's said that chewing bones is no different for Yuhaka than chewing bread...

The villagers watching from the sidelines couldn't help but gasp in amazement as Yuhaka skillfully removed the sea monster's bones. Yuhaka's technique was as smooth as removing a young girl's stockings, without a single pause. Moreover, there were very few bits of meat left on the bones, and the bones remained intact and connected.

Upon seeing this scene, Coral Palace Heart Sea broke out in a cold sweat. At that moment, a strange thought crossed her mind: could the girl in front of her who was processing the sea monster be a chef?

Thinking about this, Coral Palace Kokoro felt it was a bit outrageous, but then she saw Himeko-maru preparing the barbecue grill. Watching him skillfully light the fire, Coral Palace Kokoro's lips twitched a few times. But then she thought to herself that it wasn't unreasonable for a shrine maiden to know how to cook.

However, just as Coral Palace Kokoro was wondering if the other party was really making some kind of dish, a smell that smelled like barbecued meat wafted out, causing Coral Palace Kokoro to look in the direction from which the smell was coming. There she saw Yuhaka placing the prepared sea monster meat on the barbecue grill.