Hi guys! Emperor93 here!
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***(Graeval's POV)***
Another full house, another huge profit. The morning service had recently finished, my employees and I were cleaning the kitchen. Of course, Arryn was there watching me and to my surprise, she was helping to clean up the room.
Suddenly, the door opened and some little girls laughed. Turning my attention to the entrance, I saw that two of the other girls I had saved had arrived.
""Good morning!""
We responded to the greeting and then the two, smiling and cheerful, ran towards the counter greeting Lilith and me. Then they looked around as if they were looking for someone... I guess who.
"Excuse me."
"Welcome back."
Sarity and Cordelia entered immediately afterward. They wore no flashy clothes or particular ornaments, but simple clothes and a straw hat, suitable for blending into a crowd of ordinary people. Usually, when officially touring the village, they wear refined and expensive clothes. Even when I asked Cordelia to come here to put a noble in line they wore fine clothes.
"Are you accompanying the two rascals?" I asked turning my gaze again to the two girls
"My mother asked me... after all 'We looked free'"
“Ahahah! Typical of her." I laughed it off
"Fufufu. True..." Lilith confirmed "even when I worked at her inn to better understand my work, she just made me work."
"I remember. You came back so tired that I had to feed you."
"W-what are you s-say!" she scolded me blushing "Graeval, bad!"
As she said those words to me, she had raised her index finger and waved it like a wand as her slightly red cheeks turned into a childish grimace after calling me bad. A pang took my heart and I felt in heaven. IT'S TOO CUTEEEEE!!! I would scream if I were by the sea.
"Fufufu. You love teasing your wife from what I see." Cordelia laughed
"How can I not do it?!" I said confidently looking at her. “Every time I do it she gets too cute. I can not do without it. I'm addicted to it!!"
“C-c-c-cute?! Wh-wh-what are you saying stupid!!"
Lilith covered her face that had turned completely red and leaned down as if she wanted to hide.
Even though I know perfectly well that she is ashamed when I do it outside the walls of our house, I really can't do without it. At this moment, the fallen Demon Queen was flanked by a little girl who was looking at her curious about her behavior. Perhaps instinctively, she began to comfort her.
"Lair for Arryn!" exclaimed one of the two girls
The girl with the dog ears took Arryn's hand and led her out of her hiding place which was in the back.
"Oh! Then little Arryn was here!" Cordelia said excitedly
At that exclamation, Arryn hid behind me scared... I would be scared too in her shoes... she almost looks like an old pervert! I understood why she preferred to spend most of her time here at the Moonlight. Or at least, one of the reasons if it is not the only one. I fear for the future of her children if she ever intends to have them.
"We haven't had lunch yet, do you want to keep us company?"
"Lunch?"
“What's good? What is there to eat?"
At that word, the two beastman girls were excited and their tails began to wiggle as their dog ears perked up. They are gluttonous.
By the way, since I haven't introduced them to you yet, these two little girls have typical animal ears and tails more like wolves than dogs. They are beastman members of the wolf tribe and among their peculiarities are those of being specialized in team fights and their nose is very similar to that of the species from which they acquired the traits. The girl who found Arryn is called Yumi, the other Dai.
Furthermore, the human child who had suffered the same fate was instead adopted by Bearnárd and his wife as her family had been killed in the latest bandit assault and was orphaned. In addition to asking as a personal favor, the couple couldn't have children no matter how hard they tried so until they did, Bearnárd and his wife agreed to my request and immediately treated her as if she were their legitimate daughter.
"From how you exclaim it seems that you haven't had lunch yet..." I said taking my chin and looking at Sarity
"Even if you usually satisfy the village's stomach, this time there were many customers at the inn and they are still disposing of them." Sarity said putting her hand behind her head as if to apologize.
"Don't worry..." I told her going back behind the counter "after all it has never happened that in this village there was such an influx of people."
After washing my hands, I looked at what I had on hand. At first, I wanted to make something based on pasta as there was leftover, then I saw some minced meat. A little idea came to me.
"Arryn." I called her "Would you like to help me?"
At my question, her eyes sparkled and smiling, she nodded her head to the point that I feared she might come off at any moment.
Helped by Lilith to put on her apron and tie her hair, I put the meat in a bowl, some onion I had chopped, eggs, and various seasonings. Explaining how to do it, I gave Arryn the task of mixing the ingredients and when finished, I showed her how to make a hamburger. In the meantime, I took some potatoes, peeled them and cut them into large pieces, and then fried them in a pan. Not long after, the dish was ready.
Just before serving, I praised Arryn and told her to go sit at the table Lilith had set. The smell of the cooked meat and the oil with which I fried the potatoes could be heard. What I served was a thick burger served oriental-style with a slice of caciotta-like cheese and a fried egg on top with fried potatoes.
""What is that? What is it?!”” Dai and Yumi excitedly asked
“It's called a hamburger. Now without delay..."
""""""Enjoy your meal!""""""
As soon as I put a small piece of meat in my mouth, I could taste the juice and fat of the meat melt in my mouth, while its salty texture danced along with the sweetness of the cheese and onion. It was a pretty simple burger but still soft, suitable for kids too. Plus the fries were cooked and crunchy just right. I'll have to try adding some spice like paprika, curry or the like... it wouldn't hurt if I start testing recipes to recreate ketchup and mayonnaise.
While my head was thinking about how to modify the plate, my eyes captured the smiles and satisfied faces of the girls
""DELICIOUS!!!"" the two beastmen shouted happily
Sarity and Cordelia were also enjoying the dish and every time I could enjoy their faces full of surprise. My wife... well, she can't stop smiling when she eats my dishes. Once I asked her why, out of pure curiosity; she replied because she can feel my love for her and my happiness in creating them. Well, I can't deny that when I cook for us, I always think of her when I do.
*Sniff*
I heard this sound coming from my side and when I turned around, I saw Arryn crying as she chewed. Worried, I took a clean napkin and turned to her, wiping away her tears.
"Something wrong?" I asked her
"No... *sniff*... hamburger... yummy. *Sob*"
Hearing Arryn cry, the others looked at her curiously. Hearing that response, they knew the food was to her liking, but for some reason, the tears kept running down her. I realized they weren't tears of sadness.
"Are you happy?" I asked her
"Yes... this dish... *sniff*... yummy... tastier... *sob*... ever eaten... it's *sniff*... warm..."
"He cooked it on the pan, obviously it's hot!" said brightly Dai
It wasn't just the two girls who didn't understand the meaning of those words, Sarity and Cordelia couldn't understand either. When I looked at Lilith, she had a motherly smile on her lips. Sighing and smiling at the same time, I began to stroke the little elf's head. She turned to me, surprised as the tears continued to fall.
"You were good." I began "We noticed it too... you were very good."
"*Sniff*...*sniff*... Uwaaaaah," Arryn burst out as she held on to my clothes.
At that scene I gently hugged her to me as if she were my daughter, Lilith did the same by placing herself next to me and while she gently held her hand, she placed her face on her head, softly whispering words of comfort.
I was once told, that when you eat a dish, it's not the taste that makes people happy, but the feelings with which it was prepared.
Others never noticed this because they always focused on taste. Lilith was no exception at first, but then she too realized what makes a dish truly delicious. In that burger, I felt not only my passion but also Arryn's feeling of gratitude for saving her from that nightmare.
***(Sarity's POV)***
Seeing them like this, I seemed to see the scene of a mother and father comforting their daughter. That despair... these feelings of envy that I felt 3 years ago... that I felt a few days ago... came back stronger than ever.
I put another piece of meat in my mouth... I felt a warmth permeate my body. It was not the warmth of the flesh, but something intimate and affectionate. I also felt something else dark and cold but that became... enveloping and noble. I don't know how long it lasted but when I recovered it was still there and I felt a tear run down my cheek. In a hurry, I dried myself and then looked at the dish. What was it?
When I took another bite into my mouth, I didn't get that feeling... yet, when I tried it just now, it felt real.
Sarity loved the mc then loved the hero... wanted to dump mc but because mc dumped her by saying he never promised to marry her.... and she already loved th hero, yet she acted out as soon as she was let go. And she still went through with her marriage with the hero.
Honestly it seems shes just upset that the MC isnt broken hearted without her. And that kinda makes her a bad person.
well put, it's like having a foot on two boats, when they start to row apart you're bound to fall into the water.
Indeed.
But you shouldn't hurry to criticize her. OR maybe you should aim at the fact at how crazy the brain or the emotions can be.
Love and all it's ramifications, is something ultra complex.
+ Also there is the fact, there are the 2 fighting theories of "Humans are fundamentally born evil" vs "Humans good but grow influenced by it's environment" (not exact words but basically, the 2 things said by philosophers makes it impossible to guess if a human is born evil or good).
+ The first love can be something ultra important for someone (asians in particular).
BUT. Like you said, if we ignore all this big thinking, she indeed looks like a bad person that is angry about the MC was so unaffected by her "breaking up with him". It is too easy to be petty about stuff. I guess the fact she saw MC discard her so easily, birthed a "heart demon" (chinese slang/term. Can also be named a thorn in heart, or a shadow in heart) in her heart that gonna keep staying until she finally find a way to get back at him/MC who is the reason of why the "heart demon" appeared.
Or by making MC have a trash life.
Or by making him confess he regrets not being with her.
In fact it is too common IRL (and some mangas) : "when a person you care about, become popular you feel bad about it". There are multiple possibilities that can happen after that.
Because like i said "humans emotions are really complex", even it's a good or evil person. Just like the fact a good person can turn evil or a evil person to become good, because of emotions.
Also slightly my non-cannon oppinion but they (MC and childhood friend) were basically probably DESTINED to be together until the "goddess" decided to change that by turning the childhood friend into the saint so she is separated and her even summoning the HERO.
@Tsuru even if you add your "big thinking" it will change nothing, you're implying motive and sincerity of the situation.
@BLuU Kinda am neutral about it but slightly feel more inclined she is just a bad person.
Not surprising though because of how common or how big is the % of bad person on earth (especially in recent years with how modernity/technology/internet developped). Proof of how common there are bad humans around. So as a medieval isekai, humans are still humans.
@Tsuru I won't comment on motives or deities because I'm much farther ahead
@Tsuru I'm saying that she is selfish... so she wouldn't go out of her way to hurt MC if it affected her negatively... which it did. She's not evil, she's naive and stupid. The MC also is stupid because he didn't fight for her or even attempt to be with her. He was also selfish, his desires for a quite life meant millions died that he could have prevented. And he could've prevent led his childhood friend going to war....
Being selfish isn't evil however.
@BLuU O_O
Your slight spoiler makes me think that maybe the series was badly/wrongly tagged "heartwarming".
I even wonder if author knew that his series was not heartwarming and purposely added the tag to fool the readers that want a sweet series like me.
Also be honest, if we ignore the big dark moments and the dark beginning, a few minor-hidden details show it is not a heartwarming series
Because : which heartwarming series would write a MC having a "sweet family" but never showed them AT ALL ? which heartwarming series would have the FL appear and never showed us the development of MC with FL ? which heartwarming series or in fact romance series, would write a MC encounter each other and suddenly timeskip 2 years and being loveydovey ?
All this sarcastic/euphemist questions for proving : "This series is totally not heartwarming, and is basically a series done by author just to show the badassery of MC."
To nutshell it even further : "It is not sweet series. It is simply a isekai-fight-focus series."
If it was a sweet series, all this big dark stuff shouldn't exist or at least MC being mega op and preventing all that, and also we would have gotten at least dozens of chapters about seeing MC growing up with his family or playing with his childhood friend. And if there is romance, we should have seen dates in details.
@Tsuru...... If I make ANY comment to ANYTHING you just said..... it'll cause a spoiler.
But the heartwarming moments happen... but it is so rare and end abruptly that the tag is a little unnecessary
@Tsuru
@BLuU Thx. No need to spoiler XD
Don't worry, as a veteran reader, i kinda guessed there are some heartwarming moments.
I totally agree with you saying the tag is unnecessary.
WARNING. RANT :
Because : A heartwarming series is not a series where the majority of it is "drama, fights, isekai stuff, MC doing cool stuff" and adding some heartwarming moments on the stuff like a spice/salt/sugar.A heartwarming series should make you relaxed and happy of reading it. And sure maybe there are some NU series that got drama despite heartwarming tag ; but overall you feel sweet when you exit the work ! And even if an author wants to have a dark world but be a heartwarming ? He would simply hint of the background being dark but mega focus on the (F)MC and the other person traveling together, making you forget the world behind is dark !
Here, "guardian chef", it's just a isekai series with decent originality with a lot of darkness.
It feels like as dumb if someone brought a quite bitter dish and add a spoon of sugar in it, and say "IT'S SWEET !"
If this series dare to tag itself "heartwarming", i bet lot of other series should deserve it too.
Look at "The true endgame" on scribblehub. VRMMO game. The MC had a mediumly sad past, the earth is kinda quite on the verge of destruction but stopped in time as humanity try hard to reverse it. But basically, this stuff is barely mentioned at all.
In the series, he get harem which kinda surprise him as he is just a random dude ! FLs with different personalities, being ultra high quality girls but some different problems each.
THIS ! Deserve better a heartwarming tag. As the MC get a better life, get courage, finally get girlfriend(s), girlfriend(s) that never had boyfriend(s) finally finding their soulmate.
@Tsuru agreed
@BLuU and @Tsuru, I appreciated your discussion.😁 It is always a satisfying thing to read about other opinions.
@Emperor93 well at least you didnt rage against us. Which is nice.
Bc kinda trauma from the r18 author whizz-something that did a slave harem novel and when we pointed out typos, he trash talked to me and some commenters. As if reporting typos are more hateable to him compared to killing his family.
@Tsuru it happens. I appreciate criticism as long as it helps me grow
@BLuU and @Tsuru as a sage said: "Correct a wise man and you will make him more cultured, correct an ignorant one and you will make him your enemy."
@Emperor93 that is an unnecessary level of enlightening. Like damn
@BLuU 🤣🤣🤣 Anyway I corrected the tag. Thanks again.
@Emperor93 no problem l hahaha.
@Emperor93 Really nice idiom/golden sentence.
But It is not that he is ignorant but just that he said : "It is pointless to comment i do typos. I just wrote them and made them pdf and so it is ultra annoying to go back and modify them. So f*ck off and stop calling for typos errors."
something like that of logic he replied with. I forgot what he said.
@Tsuru if he said something like this... That author is a lazy person and above all rude
@Tsuru yeah thats pretty f*cking rude
@BLuU @Emperor93
That is why me and another guy were so speechless at his reply and hate him (and lot of people too i bet).
[Edit : i checked, looks like he deleted the fight but you can still find some comments of mine in https://www.scribblehub.com/read/27541-my-dungeon-life-rise-of-the-slave-harem/chapter/33092/
ch54 of slave harem. if you check some early chapters before ch54, you could even see me liking the series normally and even was moved for one chapter]
Also SURE, he did his series some years ago, but you can still find out the guy did a looooooot of meh-written moments.
Anyway, gl with your series, Emperor93.
@Tsuru thanks. I can't wait to read your comments on the other chapters.😁
@Emperor93 Sorry. Because you probably won't >< (not sure if you talk about my comments in slave harem series or YOUR series)
I started reading your series because of cooking+heartwarming tags and a slight expectation (but also doubt of the worse, being a discarded beginning) that the childhood friend will be with MC.
But i saw you just focus on "coolness" and superficial heartwarming-sweet writing, i won't continue reading it. >< In fact seeing this flirting right after their encounter and a BIG TIME SKIP, kinda makes me feel a personal gigantic feeling of discordance with the demon FL.
I half-began to decide to drop the series when i saw the "big time skip" right after FL was healed. If a sweet-slice of life writer was here, he could have written a dozens of chapters of slow sweet romance for just this "skip".
The thing that "pushed the nail" on my decision is the spoiler that : bunch of problems later + MC could have prevented it + childhood friend still being a pain + heartwarming lvl that probably won't go as high like i expect + lot lot of fights that gonna happen and i am tired of seeing deadly fights. Because of being a veteran MTL reader, seen so many novels where MC need to survive.
In fact, i even prefer a currently-read favorite series where a chinese MC is in a VRMMO and got talent of slow probability of getting passives of mobs. Also author surprise readers that he also added a quite good luck stat to MC's character (and chinese series that use "luck" plot are rare).
Despite being chinese web novel, it made me understand why in korea the VRMMO series are so popular. Because it's refreshing knowing MC can't be dangerous during a fight.
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In fact i started reading your series with the kind of expectation to see just fluff of a always-smiling omnipotent MC being a cook with his "EARLY ROMANCE" wife in a small restaurant during the day, and at night, going out with a camouflage mask to purge some bad people while being cold-emotionless-feeling, trying to protect the city so he can keep his peaceful life.
Wife knowing and being fine with it as they are childhood friends, being like kindred souls. Lot of relaxing flirting. And 1 chapters of purge-evil every X chapters.
Sadly i forgot that i should never get expectations up as expectations are near never realized because of my bad luck.
@Tsuru I see. It's a shame.
@Tsuru
*this will contain spoilers since you said you'd be dropping*
yeah I didn't wanna spoil too much for you. I'm still very irritated at a lot of things that happened in the story. Most significantly being the childhood friend..... I hate how she felt she had a right to speak about MC marriage... how she was obviously jealous that the MC was married after she made a big scene about her marriage to the hero... about how she hesitates to have kids with her husband seemingly hoping the MC would prove to her that he wants her.... finding out she was taken away from the MC because of the goddess and not realizing that her love for MC was real but heroes for her husband was generated because of a goddesses will.
I also hate the MC... who wanted a normal life but refused the most common way of a normal life. Marrying his Childhood friend.... and then for so many years of being low profile and all his years of life in his previous life, decided to marry a demon queen after knowing her for such a short time.
Too many things were conflicting and involved too many FORCED decisions to move the plot forward.
I was almost insulted as a reader by all the forced plot points to keep the drama goin and the MC just refusing to kill everyone....
UNTIL THE MC FINALLY BROKE THE f*ck DOWN. When he and his wife finally had an argument. I was so instantly relieved that they were both very frustrated at everything. That they just want to be left alone and how they hate how everything kept happening.
Seeing the anger and frustration and the fact that he was willing to kill his childhood friend, made me feel better about his character.
The slice of life fluff happened more often as well. So im.just saying if you're just frustrated at how the MC acts with others. I'd recommend you read it a little longer until the hero tries to subdue the MC's wife.
Becomes like a wuxia novel with a lot of face slapping.
@BLuU for hide the sopiler you have to click on the red S when you write your reply
@BLuU Thx for spoiling. But it reinforced my oppinion of not continuing to read. (also warning to use the "S" spoiler function like the author just commented)
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about how she hesitates to have kids with her husband seemingly hoping the MC would prove to her that he wants her
URG. annoying
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finding out she was taken away from the MC because of the goddess and not realizing that her love for MC was real but heroes for her husband was generated because of a goddesses will.
Sigh... that is why i am not fan of the "changing destiny and separating 2 destined people"
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I also hate the MC... who wanted a normal life but refused the most common way of a normal life. Marrying his Childhood friend.... and then for so many years of being low profile and all his years of life in his previous life, decided to marry a demon queen after knowing her for such a short time.
Hmmmm kinda not siding with you there. Because MC really did have a normal life early on during his reincarnation. He was just a cook and using some good "previous life" recipes. And marrying his childhood friend is basically impossible as the goddess basically made her a saintess. MC staying low couldn't simply say "I AM OP, LET ME JOIN THE HERO PARTY !". So or he reveals he is op = no more normal life as everyone crave his power, OR he stay low and we repeat this plot where she is taken by the HERO. BUT ! there is also the small possibility where MC could simply have eloped with her and using his powers so they are not caught by any pursuers.
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Ah. @Emperor93 How about trying to write a suddenly bonus chapter .5, where it is a "WHAT IF" ? What if the goddess is still in love but choose another possibility ? By that i mean
[by not making the childhood friend become a saintess, the goddess being not stupid and trying to befriend MC during his meditation -> which makes him fall for her as she truly exposed herself as a slightly weird-and-ruthless-but-awkward girl that got a crush on him (as he understood she is quite similar to himself in fact), and the demon queen still appearing at the forest because the kingdom did an assassination on her and SOME REASON she used a rushed-teleportation spell that made her appear there, also her getting together with MC because she stayed with him at first by curiosity as WHY 2 gorgeous women (childhood friend + goddess with human form) stay with MC and also fell for him. And thx to plot armor, MC keep having a perfect normal life by having him+goddess using a "recognition" spell that makes people not feel weird about the situation WHILE MC sometimes go out at night to kill people (and will reunite with the small girl + the 3 women will go KYA KYA seeing her cuteness)]
The problem is that you risk angering the readers that still continued reading, and makes them think "Godamnit author ! Why the heck couldn't do it like this ! THIS "what if" LOOK MORE ATTRACTIVE TO ENJOY compared to how you badly done it !"
Because there is the saying that if there is no comparison you basically can't know the quality of the goods (lazy to remember the correct words).
Readers by seeing the perfect "heartwarming" version of your story will make them angry as clearly there are surely lot of players that didn't appreciate the meh moments in the story.
Which bring the possible drastic measure : @Emperor93 you could simply say [f*ck IT ! I totally f*cked the series as i see this complaints everywhere !], and do a gigantic reset plot armor where the goddess see MC die because of something and/or because she saw how she lost all possibilities of getting together with MC and do a time rewind to the time where MC wasn't even born and by plot armor coincidence there was a couple in the village that had a baby dead at birth (no soul) and so reinforced the body of the mother and inserted her soul (imposing lot of seals too to her divinity) to the foetus so she can also be a childhood friend with MC but slightly younger (lol, cliche slightly awkward cute twintails tomboyish blonde girl ?) + maybe or not a bonus plot that by inserted her soul in a body, there was a XX% high chance she could have truly died but because she still did it because of LOVE and later is discovered by MC by himself that she could have truly-died/erased. (Heck i moved myself and had one silent tear fall)
Compared to simply redoing the series, the goddess by rewinding time until beginning is quite a big reversal and bring a "rebirth plot" to the mix where goddess kinda know future plot, ALSO it basically can help redeem the goddess and childhood friend. Because they are not bad people but just that EMOTIONS and A SMALL CHOICE can simply f*ck up a person you know ?
The most basic analogy-example : during a fight, just because you were too heavy in attacks or angry, you killed someone and defacto lost the destiny where you had a happy life with a wife, because you were sent to prison. Here the goddess just did a bad stupid move because she is awkward as she NEVER FELL in love before AND the childhood friend too is not bad because she basically should have been destined with MC, and to be honest, IRL childhood/best friend/friendship stuff is quite complicated as indeed it is really common to be weird/stupid/jealous because you are possessive of someone.
The best point of this "rebirth", is that it is CANNON. There is a chinese author that did a good awesome series during all chapters, but was temporary-ret*rded and did a crazy shitty ending that destroyed the whole likeness of the series the readers had. Author deleted it and rewrote a decent ending. BUT THE PROBLEM is that people can't forget about it and human brain feels the first ending is the TRUE ENDING or the ENDING that author truly wanted.
But by rebirth plot that i suggested, it solve this problem. Btw Mushoku tensei,
the time travel of old self of MC that show the reader ITOGAMI is a DOUCHEBAG that made future-MC HAD THE WORSE POSSIBLE LATER LIFE BY SIMPLY OPENING A DOOR by suggestion of ITOGAMI, is a reversal that also helped the series affirm his position of masterpiece work in history of isekai series.
@Emperor93 dammit. My bad. I've never used it as a reader
@Tsuru although the idea itself is interesting, the problem is that I should practically rewrite the story from 0. Unfortunately I do not have the time and together with The Guardian Chef, I am also writing a second novel.
Again, your "what if" is interesting, but at the moment my brain would start to merge if I start to write this "what if".
@BLuU no problem. Just fix it now by putting the spoiler cover, otherwise I will have to report your message as a spoiler.
@Emperor93 Because to be honest, you did a few wrong decisions when you wrote the series. And sometimes you can't guess what the readers wants.
[Just like the fact the CEO of Hololive "Yagoo" is sometimes liked even more by Hololive Vtubers' fans compared to the Vtubers themselves, where even you see lot of jokes/memes/videos about him (his dream of idols being crushed/Yagoo being BEST GIRL...etc).]
The "what if" got a BIG FLAW. If the goddess do a time rewind, it would make the series turn the protag into HER. But luckily there is a solution to that. Not her doing it but protag because [insert reason here that caused the death of goddess/waifu demon queen/everyone he cares about] and somehow learn a lot of details of the truth, possibly by a fragment of goddess' memory entering his mind after her death. Causing him to slightly wonder if he had some feelings for her or fell because of knowing all this memories as the goddess love him a ton and she got quite pitiful past.
But if he rewinds, it would be weird if he fakes to demon queen and others that he doesn't know them. Solution would be to have MC time rewind being flawed or rewinding while having some personal sealed-messages to himself that appear at certain moments important. But the problem is that the goddess without knowing infos, will still act stupidly AGAIN by annoying MC during his meditation.... The solution : MC could also prepared and have memos appear to her during 2nd time life OR simply MC say something during his first meditation so she doesn't act stupid from now on.
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Speaking of chef MC, I recommend you to read the MTL of the wholesome completed chinese novel "My Restaurant Connects with Myriad Worlds". It is not high quality/masterpiece but it is quite good if you think the author is a first time writer and that 90% of chinese novels are terrible.