Chapter 125: Encounter on the Road
In the end, all they had was boiled vegetables for dinner. The water was conveniently provided by Elmo using his Water Shot Spell multiple times in the air. Eventually it filled the pot Jonas had procured for this trip.
Elmo certainly wasn't impressed with what was available, but he also wasn't going to complain. He'd thought of trying to use his rock spray to get some of the rabbits he saw when he was picking up firewood, but he couldn't think of what to do after that.
He'd never gone hunting before, so he couldn't say what steps were needed to get it ready to be cooked. He could only say for sure that it wasn't a good idea to cook them as they were, not that it helped him any on figuring out what the second step would be.
Maybe if he could do an internet search he'd be able to figure out what to do, but since that wasn't possible, he couldn't say what else he could do about it. Not that he was too worried about it all. He was sure they'd be able to find something to buy that would work well enough once they got to whichever destination they were heading towards.
Though, while dinner was rather meager, it didn't compare at all with what they had available for breakfast: Leftover cooked vegetables.
While Elmo accepted that there was little they could do about all of it, he still didn't really like having to deal with this little amount of food. He felt like they should have been able to find more food available in the village they'd just left.
So, in the end, he decided to just endure what was before him. Not like he had much of a choice anyway. Reality didn't go away just because he found it inconvenient.
So, as they started out the next day, Elmo walked along, feeling like he should be searching for food, despite nothing other than wild animas that he could see being around them.
So preoccupied with his hunger and thoughts of food, he didn't even realize that everyone else had stopped. When he recovered a moment later, he looked past them and saw several cloaked people standing across the road in front of them. Almost like they'd been expected.
"Do you need something?" Jonas asks as looks at them.
"Come with us quietly and this won't be difficult," one of them replied.