The next evening, Lucoa came to visit Tohru again.
"Satou, what's wrong with you two? Did you have a fight?"
Lucoa looked at Satou with her different colored pupils, asking curiously.
Satou turned his head, glanced at Tohru who was sullenly making tea at the kitchen counter, and said, "No."
"Then why does Tohru seem a little unhappy?"
Lucoa asked with a smile.
Satou was actually a little puzzled too, because Tohru was fine yesterday, but this morning, she seemed to have something on her mind. Although she forced a smile in front of him, Satou could still tell.
"Because Tohru is afraid that person will come."
Kanna, who was eating candy nearby, suddenly said.
"That person? Which person?"
Satou was stunned.
"It's that Titan from yesterday."
Kanna said with a natural innocence, "Tohru said, 'Although we can go look for Satou, what if we can't find him?'"
Satou was a little speechless. Was Tohru still worried about this? He had thought she had already figured it out.
"What are you talking about?"
Lucoa asked, a little strangely.
Satou had no choice but to explain what happened yesterday to her.
"Oh, so that's it."
Lucoa couldn't help but laugh, "Tohru is actually a child who is easily sentimental."
"Yes, she is."
Satou nodded.
"After all, Tohru is only fifty thousand years old; she's still a child. Find a chance to talk to her."
Lucoa said with a beaming smile.
"Fifty thousand years old..."
Satou was quite speechless, but among the long-lived dragon race, she was indeed a child.
"By the way, may I ask, how old are you this year?"
Satou suddenly became curious about the true age of the beautiful woman in front of him.
"Hmm, I've forgotten too. I remember I was born a little before the separation of heaven and earth."
Lucoa showed a thoughtful expression.
"...Alright."
Satou said helplessly.
The next day, Satou thought of a way to try and counsel Tohru.
Before dinner, Satou called Tohru into the bedroom.
"Satou, is there something you need me for?"
Tohru asked curiously.
"Look, what is this."
Satou showed her the prop he bought online, the Infinity Gauntlet.
"This is..."
Tohru's pupils immediately contracted, and then she looked around nervously, saying stealthily, "Satou, quickly hide this, don't let that Titan see it."
"Yes."
Satou nodded, then handed her the gloves. "Here, Thor, you can keep these gloves, so you don't have to worry about me disappearing."
"Mm!"
Thor solemnly took them, but as soon as she held them, a glint of cunning flashed in her eyes, and then she breathed fire, incinerating the gloves.
A sly smile appeared on Thor's face. "This way, that Titan will never get these gloves again. No one will ever be able to make Satou disappear!"
With that, she joyfully leaped up and hugged Satou.
"Now, no one can take Satou away from me!"
She exclaimed happily, giving him a big kiss on the cheek.
Satou was a bit speechless. He hadn't expected Thor to be so cunning, thinking of destroying the gloves, but he also felt relieved. This finally resolved Thor's emotional knot.
After a few days of leisure, Satou received a new mission from the system.
"Host has received a new mission: Awaken the Seven Star Knives' Souls!
Mission Description: Awaken the Seven Star Knives from their slumber with your burning passion!
Mission Reward: Unlock the hidden attributes of three Seven Star Knives, receive one gourmet gift package.
Unlock the hidden attributes of five Seven Star Knives, receive one gourmet gift package, and one random Seven Star Knife.
Unlock all hidden attributes of the Seven Star Knives, reward unknown.
Mission Time: None yet."
Satou was slightly surprised when he saw the mission.
"Awaken the Seven Star Knives' Souls? It must mean uncovering their hidden attributes, right?"
Satou murmured to himself.
He remembered that the last Wenqu Knife had unlocked its hidden attributes only after processing one hundred ingredients.
"It seems that unlocking hidden attributes means processing as many ingredients as possible with them."
Currently, Satou has a total of four Seven Star Knives: in addition to Wenqu, there are Tanlang, Wuqu, and Severing Army.
Severing Army is the one-meter-long great cleaver, while Tanlang has the shape of a traditional Chinese kitchen knife. Wuqu's design is a slender blade with a curved edge, suitable for cutting large pieces of meat, and the curved blade can sometimes be used to remove scales from large fish.
As for Wenqu, it is the kitchen knife Satou usually uses, small and delicate, very much like a traditional Japanese deba bocho, but even smaller.
In Japan, kitchen knives are called bocho, likely influenced by Zhuangzi's essay "The Butcher Ding Carves an Ox." However, the original meaning of bocho was 'cook', but in Japan it became 'kitchen knife'.
The kitchen knife Yukihira Soma usually carries with him is a very ordinary Japanese kitchen knife.
This type of kitchen knife is very suitable for processing fish and vegetables, but it cannot cut through pork or beef with bones, which is also related to the Japanese diet, which often includes more fish.
Satou's other Seven Star Knives were fine; he could deliberately accumulate usage, but the huge Severing Army Knife was a bit problematic.
After thinking for a while, Satou found Erina Nakiri.
"Huh? You mean a large slaughterhouse? What do you need that for?"
Erina Nakiri looked at him with some confusion.
"Oh, I want to practice the technique of butchering large livestock," Satou said.
"Is that so? But practicing this doesn't seem very useful, does it?"
Erina Nakiri frowned slightly. In her opinion, being a chef should be an elegant and noble profession, creating works of art in a clean and tidy kitchen.
But butchering large livestock clearly seemed like a butcher's job.
It wasn't necessary for a chef to practice this, because in modern kitchens, pigs, sheep, and cattle are already butchered and delivered.
However, despite thinking this, Erina Nakiri still obediently said, "Far Moon has such a place. I'll take you there."
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