Does the mechanical girl dream of the Messiah?

Will you feel disappointed with such a conclusion, and will you do something to deny it?

After thinking about one question after another, Ashlee came to the conclusion that she shouldn't be told.

As for why she did this, I'm afraid even Ashatherine's own mind couldn't figure out the answer.

After all, the answer like "I don't want to make her sad" is not something that can be easily understood even if you realize it.

Although she didn't understand why Ashetherin suddenly stopped talking, and didn't know what Ashetherin wanted to say next, Lunicia still took her hand and let the five fingers wrapped in armor and the five fingers made of black iron fit together.

"Well... let's just sleep together, then there won't be any problem."

"Ugh?"

"That is to say, since there is only one bed, then two people can sleep in one bed."

"Is that so?"

She didn't think there was anything wrong with this suggestion in her mind - even if Ashlee positioned herself from the perspective of a "tool", this suggestion was impeccable. After all, sleeping with a sword, shield or pillow was not abnormal - but even so, Ashlee still felt that this suggestion was full of weirdness.

Naturally, she herself didn't understand why she had this feeling. This was also a black box that could not be analyzed within the mind. It was clearly there, but could not be opened no matter what.

"If the bed is smaller, you can just move closer to it."

It seemed as if Lunicia was completely unaware of the inappropriateness of this, and she just continued talking along the previous point. She seemed to be quite satisfied with this solution she had come up with on the spur of the moment, so she planned to eliminate problems and demonstrate its advantages one by one. Of course, this actually didn't make much sense, after all, it was she who made the final decision, and no matter how you look at it, she had already convinced herself.

"Lunicia, this is not appropriate."

Ashlee stopped her in a rare serious tone.

"Isn't it great?"

"No."

"Can't you?"

“…You’ll catch a cold.”

When Lunicia was grabbed by Ashatherine's hand and gently pressed against her pale and flat belly, Lunicia discovered the biggest problem in her proposal.

Ashlee's body... is ice cold!

Chapter 7: Winter and Stews Are Best Matched

Although Lunicia successfully proposed a solution to the problem that Ashithelin's body was too cold to sleep in a bed, Ashithelin thought this solution was not reliable in any way.

It’s simple to say—it’s actually just eating.

Generally speaking, to keep warm, you need to add more clothes and food, right? Of course, there are no extra clothes to add now, so you can only rely on diet to improve your resistance to the cold! —— This is the view put forward by Lunicia herself. In Ashleelin's opinion, this statement is undoubtedly irresponsible and inexplicable, but she can't come up with any other solution, so she can only let it go.

Of course, there is actually some basis for this statement.

Before debuting as an adventurer, whether male or female, adult or child, they all need to undergo a special set of training to increase their body's utilization of food, so that they can achieve the effect of strengthening themselves and speeding up recovery through diet.

For different groups of people, such training methods are also different. People with poor economic conditions tend to use exercise and herbal nourishment to complete it, while for people with good conditions, they can use more efficient magic transformation or prayer implantation methods to complete it.

In other words, for serious adventurers, even the most ordinary food has an effect beyond just filling the stomach, and foods that may require long-term consumption to produce effects can now produce effects after just a few times.

In other words, if you really eat food that has the effect of keeping out the cold, you can easily gain a physical fitness to cope with the cold - a meal that is eight-tenths full can sustain you for a long time, and you don't need to eat the same thing every day. This is really good news for Lunicia.

"It's just time to finish dinner, so let's just do this for free."

"If you need food - according to the map, there's an inexpensive pub on the right corner ahead."

Lunicia couldn't help but look at Ashatherine twice more.

Her previous almost out-of-control look had disappeared, as if nothing had happened. Her face was simply filled with a cold and superior expression, her dazzling golden eyes were calm, as if she was completely unaware of what she had just said or what emotions she had revealed.

It's like something was triggered, so I said those words and expressed those thoughts. Is it some kind of switch hidden deep in my heart, which, with just a light press, will reveal the emotions hidden in the deepest part of my memory?

"Affordable pub..."

"Yes, the name of the store is 'Carmen's Recipe'."

“Why do you even remember my name?”

"When I read it before, my mind had already read the entire map." Ashlee pointed to her eyes. "Everything from the districts, streets to store names are recorded. So Luna can put the paper map in the recycling area so that she can have her hands free."

"The mind is so convenient...but why do we need to keep our hands free?"

"Holding hands—the profile says that's what you do on a date."

"First of all this isn't a date, wait, what profile would say that?"

"How to Make the Arrow of Admiration Point to You, published by Dulong Pianlin Press in 1161."

"What is that……"

……

If asked how they would rate Camembert's Cookbook, review magazines would usually say, "It is indeed a review pub."

Both the storefront and the interior decoration are about the same level as the most common equipment stores, or even worse. At least equipment stores don't make coal dust flying everywhere due to iron work in the shop, but as a bar and restaurant, Carmen's Recipe does cook in the store's back kitchen. Because of this, oil and similar stains can be seen everywhere, and diners never tire of driving away the big-headed flies that come to the door.

If this was a high-end restaurant, such an environment might have angered the customers, but this is a restaurant that uses affordable prices as a selling point, so such things seem insignificant.

After all, it was dinner time and there were a lot of customers in the restaurant. Lunicia finally found a double seat and quickly pulled Ashlee to occupy the seat.

Although it was Lunicia's first time eating out of the Central Cathedral, she quickly understood how this restaurant operated. From the flustered look of the waiters, she could tell that this was not an elegant restaurant where someone would come to the seat to help take orders. From the diners carrying trays, she could tell that this was the type of restaurant where you ordered at the counter and then picked up your food with your ticket.

"Welcome, what would you like to order?"

The cashier standing behind the bar was writing down the order in a notebook while putting bottles of beer on the tray next to him. He greeted the customers verbally but didn't even raise his head.

Lunicia did not answer immediately, but instead looked around at the customers in the store calmly.

It looked normal - ordinary noise, ordinary life. However, some of them could not hide their extraordinary temperament. Her paladin teacher had taught her how to distinguish normal people from adventurers, mercenaries and other special people, such as those wrapped tightly in scabbards, inevitable scars or disabilities, body shape, and unconscious smell of blood.

Only the smell of blood was hard to detect; this was a restaurant after all. But there was no doubt that many of the customers were risky people.

——Is it going to get chaotic?

Unable to figure out what was going on, Setin had to turn his attention back to eating.

"Any recommendations?"

After hearing this, the other party stopped keeping his head down and looked at Lunicia twice.

"Hmm... Is this your first time in Marie?"

"Yes, I am a traveler from Zerhal. Do you have any special food? It would be best if it can keep out the cold."

She spoke a little haltingly, as she was not used to talking to strangers.

"That's easy to say. I remember that Zelhar is... a follower of the Glorious Court. It seems that there are no taboos in his diet?"

Lunisia nodded: "Except for dead animals, the teachings of the scriptures do not forbid believers from eating other foods."

When she talked about the contents of the holy scriptures, her speech became somewhat fluent, but there was a hint of decline.

Of course, no one noticed - except Ashlee who was listening.

"No problem, no problem. We don't use that kind of stuff to cook." Hearing this, the cashier seemed relieved. "If I have to recommend something, it's Mari's specialty, the offal stew... It also happens to be good for warding off the cold, so you can try it."

Twenty il could buy a single portion, and if the price was increased to thirty-five il, a double portion of offal stew could be purchased. Although Lunicia felt that mechanical life forms might not need to eat this kind of food, she still bought a double portion in the end. Just by looking at the name, she couldn't tell what kind of food it was, but when she picked it up from the pick-up window, this food seemed quite simple and easy to understand.

Offal, as the name suggests, is a food made with offal, that is, internal organs.

It is very straightforward, direct and exciting. In fact, offal stew is to chop up the edible parts of pig and chicken offal, stew them with a lot of sharp red peppers, green peppercorns, red pepper oil, ginger, scallions, and a green leaf spice called broken thorns. Before it is cooked, add the washed green leafy wild vegetables, and finally serve it from the pot. It becomes a bowl of stew with bright red soup, spicy flavor and aroma.

In addition to the main dish, there is also a rattan basket with many pieces of hard bread. The staple food in the Mariai region is bread, which is cheap but hard to chew. It is mainly used to soak the soup of the offal stew and then eaten with the cooked offal after it is softened.

Not only does it meet the requirements of “Marie’s specialty”, it also meets the need of “warding off the cold”, so it can be said to be a perfect choice - it is better to say that these two options were the same thing from the beginning.

The Principality of Marie is close to the coast, and even though it is blocked by woods and high cliffs, it cannot withstand the Hyperborean cold current that roars in from the north. In order to cope with this almost unreasonable damp and cold air, most of the local specialty foods naturally carry elements of cold-resistant properties.

The extensive use of chili peppers, ginger and Sichuan peppercorns reflects this point: Mariai is not the origin of chili peppers, but it is a major chili pepper consumer after the colonial master, Murand.

"It looks so tempting... Can I eat it, Ash?"

"'May' mean...?"

"I mean, eating. Do mechanical life forms have such a function? I have never seen it, so I don't know much about it."

"Of course it has such a function." Ashlee nodded slightly. "The idea of ​​replenishing energy needs to be diversified. In addition to absorbing free prayer particles for self-repair and energy supply, heat energy, wind energy, and light energy can also be used. I have a system installed in my body that is specifically used to decompose food and convert it into energy, so I can also complete energy replenishment through 'eating'."

"That being said, the purpose of eating is not just to fill your stomach."

"My tongue is just a decoration and a tool for correcting pronunciation." At this point, Ashlee closed her eyes. "It is not designed with a sense of taste. If there is a situation where I need to distinguish toxins, I can analyze them just by contact, so there is no need to worry."

"Then you can't get pleasure from food."

Lunicia looked quite serious. For her, having a good meal after daily training could effectively relieve her frustration and fatigue, so she attached great importance to gaining psychological pleasure from eating.

"It would be nice if it could be equipped with functions like taste buds..."

"If we can find a skilled craftsman, we can do this." Ashlee tilted her head, "But, is it really necessary? I don't feel the emotion of 'happiness' -"

"of course can."

Lunicia took a piece of hard bread from a basket nearby.

"If you feel sad, lost, and lonely, you will naturally feel happy and joyful. Is this how things should be in the world?"

Ashlee was stunned.

Even the slender hand holding the bread stopped moving. She just looked at Lunicia with a look of slight surprise and confusion, and the latter just responded with a gentle smile.

"Let's eat first. We'll be busy starting tomorrow, so we need to replenish our energy in advance—"

Put the hard bread into the red soup, let a corner of the bread absorb the soup, then pick up a piece of small intestine and put it into the mouth together with the bread.

"so spicy!"

Chapter 8 Passing By

"Luna can't eat spicy food."

"The normal kind is definitely fine, but this one is a little too spicy..."

When leaving the tavern, Lunicia had fully experienced how powerful this so-called "special food for dispelling cold" was - this cold-dispelling effect was further amplified by the action of the stomach and intestines, so that although it was clearly the middle of the snowy month, Lunicia felt as if there was a fire burning in her abdomen. Her originally fair face was dyed red, and she kept sweating in the cold wind, and had to wipe it with a handkerchief from time to time.

“Is the effect too much?”

"It shouldn't be so intense after I digest it..."

Lunicia's expression was quite subtle.

For her who had originally planned to have a good rest, this meal seemed to be quite a hindrance - the burning feeling in her stomach made it difficult for her to calm down, and it was difficult no matter how you looked at it to have a good rest under such circumstances.

"Want to take a walk after dinner?"

"The kind that helps digestion. When all the food in the stomach is digested, the effect of keeping out the cold will be fully manifested."

"But Luna looks hot right now..."

"This just shows that we haven't absorbed enough." Lunicia looked helpless. "Let's just wander around here. After all, everywhere is unfamiliar here, and we don't have to worry about it getting dark..."

Indeed, generally speaking, people would worry about the public security issues after the day turns to night, especially in places like Nosavi. Obviously, public lighting can only cover the main roads in the city, and it is probably not enough for those minor places. However, in the current situation, there is no need to worry about this problem at all, because in fact, the brightness of the night is almost the same as that of the day, that is, during the solar eclipse. Therefore, the problems that only occurred at night will undoubtedly occur during the day, and worrying about the night has completely lost its meaning...

“It’s a reasonable suggestion.”

Ashlee nodded and continued, "If you go straight to the right for one kilometer from here, you will reach the pedestrian street, which should be a more suitable place for a walk."

"Are there any other options?"

"Go left from here to the end of this street, and then turn right at the intersection, and you will arrive at the so-called 'rich area' of Nosavi. The sign says so, and the official name is 'Pars High-end Residential Area'."

"It sounds interesting..."

For Lunisia, the concept of a wealthy area was something completely new and unheard of.

In her thin understanding of the world, she could not understand why the rich would separate themselves into a special area. What was the purpose of doing this? What kind of environment was there? Could this kind of prison-like practice make people feel happy? These questions made Lunisia very curious.

"Will there be a place to stay, or a snack bar?"

"There should be some, but the price may not satisfy Luna."

"Hey?"

……

“In the end, they were not allowed in at all.”

"There's nothing we can do about it. If Luna really wants to go in, I can provide optical camouflage assistance..."