Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 54 : Aswad 1 of 15 “Self-awareness” (Part 01)

Ordoxi Nigrum's. In the kitchen of a new store located in the business district, Odo gathers with Elulu and Isla to reply about the cooking utensils they will use later. The two women had cooked in the kitchen yesterday for everyone's dinner, but the only tools used were the stove and pan to cook meat with milk broth.

The kitchen room itself is not too spacious, only covering one third of the entire floor of one store. On the right side of the counter table to receive orders, there is a door to the kitchen. In that place there is an L-shaped cooking table in the corner with two stoves that blend with the table, a cupboard to store spices attached to the wall on the kitchen table, a metal funnel on top of both stoves to direct smoke, and some other cookware. The design is quite similar to the kitchen in the Luke family Mansion, but seems more minimalist considering the place used is quite narrow.

Standing in front of Elulu and Isla, the young man in black hair asked, “Do you guys know how to turn on the stove?”

Elulu bends over to the stovetop table, then touches one of the knobs on the front of the kitchen table while saying, “Turn this, ‘kan?” The woman wearing the green dress with the double white apron turned it around, then lit the stove fire.

“Tap ...” Odo approached, then pointed to one of the golden yellow knobs as he said, “But remember, don't turn it too big. You see the line and the number, don't you? Turn on to two or three only.”

“Hmm?” Elulu turned the knob and turned off the stove. Staring a little astonished, the woman with brown-brown braids asked, “What's the matter? This stove is similar to the water heater that is often used by Miquator wizards, ‘kan?”

“You know that tool, yes?”

“Hmm, I once visited a witch's workshop in the craftsman district.”

At first glance Odo was silent, staring flat at the woman next to him because he knew that he went to such a place to follow. Feeling that it is no longer in question, the young man with black hair again explained, “The reason is because this stove functions differently ..”.

Odo crouched down in front of the stove table, then opened the door of the table under the knob to light the stove. It was indeed made of shiny polished wood, but on the other hand there was a yellowish iron plate and on the inside was not a place for storage. It was indeed like a small cupboard with all its sides made of iron, but there was a unique magic structure on its surface and dozens of small glass balls hung both sides of the table cabinet.

“I-It ... what, Mister?” ask Elulu wonder.

“Tools for manipulating temperature using fire, water, and air magic .... In short, exactly roasting or can be called oven.”

The woman looked confused hearing such an answer. Crouching next to Odo, he observed and indeed felt that it was similar to a roasting place. Pointing at the crystal balls that were inside, Elulu asked, “Actually what is glass? In the bathroom there is also, if the pool is almost finished it draws out water by itself. What is a magic tool too?”

“Indeed magic tools ...” Odo got up, pointed at the knob above the three-pointed oven door and said, “These two are yellowish to set the stove fire, then separate this metallic color to regulate the oven temperature. Actually I want to make the door with glass so that the inside can be checked, but glass that resists extreme temperature changes he said can not the Dwarves make.”

Elulu stood up, stared in surprise and waited for Odo to explain about the magic tool. Aware of the curious gaze, Odo sighed and said, “The magic tool serves to manipulate temperature, gas, pressure, and energy. Synchronous conditions all that maximize all the tools in this kitchen.”

Despite being told, Elulu still looked confused and clueless. Worse than the woman, the Demi-human woman, Isla, just put on a dumb face with a little sleepy. Realizing that the two of them did not know about magic or such tools, Odo decided not to explain further and focused.

The young man in black hair faced the desk cupboard next to the oven, then crouched down in front of him and opened it. As the iron hilt was pulled and the door of the small cupboard opened to the side, a chill instantly radiated out and made Elulu shiver.

“I-This .... The cold, in there ...”

The woman looked curious, looking into the cupboard which size is no more than 1 x 1 meter. While knowing there was snow and ice inside, both Elulu's eyes opened wide and excitedly asked, “This is also magic?”

“Hmm ...” Odo nodded, turned his head towards Elulu and replied, “Almost all the magic tools in this place are connected anyway more precisely.”

“Eng?”

Elulu doesn't seem to understand that. Turning his eyes and recalling the words of one of the Dwarves who had come to the store, the woman said, “If not wrong, then, people from the Red Dwarf Union once said that this place is full of combinations of magic formulas or something like that.”

“Yeah, more or less that kind.” Odo woke up, pointed at the metallic colored knob located quite far away another knob and said, “This is to regulate the temperature of this refrigerator. You know what it does, ‘kan?”

“Cooling ..?” Elulu turned her eyes and thought. Putting on a surprised face upon realizing something, he clearly said, “Ah! To store food? Like fishermen who often hire witches to make blocks of ice while sailing!”

“Tap ...” At first glance turned towards Isla who looked increasingly sleepy due to the cold coming out of the refrigerator, Odo squinted and reprimanded, “Don't hibernate, loh ..”.

“Eh? Ma-Sorry ..”

The demi-human type less was flinched, immediately wiping his eye dung with the sleeves of the brown dress worn. The golden brown woman's long back hair was indeed like that characteristic, subordinate to the element of the slow loris made her unable to stay awake for too long.

Trying not to care about it for now, Odo walked up to the cupboard next to the refrigerator and opened it. The moment it opened, a coldness emanated and the young man said, “This is also a refrigerator, but the function is different because the temperature regulator is not there. Especially for storing meat to keep it fresh.”

Unlike the oven and refrigerator, the freezer is longer to the end of the kitchen table. On the inside there are also glass balls arranged in a magic formula, serves to absorb high temperatures and make the temperature of the cabinet down to a minus point. The absorbed temperature goes into the circuit at the back of the table, then it can be reused into the Magic Reactor or it can also be for the heat source from the oven.

That is what is called synchronous magic tools, because basically all magic tools in the store are connected by magic structures with the main energy source of Magic Reactors located in the basement. On the walls behind the magic tools were all threads of quartz stone, serving as a conductor of energy and information for all magic tools.

Odo stood up and slightly stretched his body. Looking towards the wooden plank that was fused with the floor, the young man narrowed his eyes and momentarily thought about the Magic Reactor that was in the basement. It does look so practical, but of all the formula arrangements made there is a fatal deficiency because the replacement of the components must be done quite often.

Realizing there was something less than the kitchen, Elulu asked, “Keep for the seasoning put where?”

“Above,” said Odo pointing to the cupboard hanging over the kitchen table.

In between the cabinets, right on the stove there is a funnel to channel the smoke that comes out when cooking into the chimney outside. Just understanding that it was a spice storage cabinet and not for kitchen tools, Elulu nodded and asked again, “Keep the knife and such put where?”

Odo held the wooden handle at the other end of the L-shaped kitchen table, then pulled it out of line and showed a kitchen shelf that could be used to store kitchen tools from knives to plates. The rack with the main material of wood and metal consists of four levels, has a section to hang the cookware on both sides and also store the dishes on the shelf.

“Hmm, it turns out there ...” Elulu nodded lightly, stood up and looked at Odo in slight astonishment. At a glance turning her gaze to look around the kitchen, the woman asked, “But, instead of being too narrow? It's a shop, isn't it? If in the inn Porzan kitchen is bigger and plates more.”

“Indeed too narrow, huh? Eng, I feel that way too. Later I will consider that the plate is placed elsewhere ...”

Odo chose not to explain further, that the plate is actually a tool that is not needed in his store because the sales system is slightly different from most stores in the city of Mytla. Walking towards the other side of the L-shaped kitchen table, Odo said, “Then this, you know how the sink works?”

“Oooh! Right, the!” Elulu looked very excited, immediately approached and pointed at the sink while saying, “I was surprised if it could get out the water easily! It feels good and fresh again!”

“Eh?”

Odo was surprised and immediately knew that everyone who stayed at the store must have used the raw tap water to drink. Turning his gaze away and feeling that it didn't matter as it came from the Ether changes being squeezed into Mana then being turned into water, the young man in black hair briefly fell silent.

“Why silence, Mister?” ask Elulu.

“I-Yes .... This is also the place to wash dishes.”

“Eng?”

Sighing and ignoring this, the young man in black hair again explained the kitchen tools. He took some tools from the storage dimension on the robe, then put them all on the table in the section to process the cooking next to the stove. Seeing that Elulu and Isla approached out of curiosity, some of them had never seen before.

“First, this is a manual meat grinder,” said Odo while lifting the grinder with the rotary lever. “Enter meat in this funnel, then turn it so that the meat can be ground,” he explained while turning the lever.

“Hmm, I understand how it works ...” Elulu stared near the tool, nodding and returning away with a still curious expression to see the tool used directly later.

“Really?”

“Really ...” The woman immediately stared at the tools that Odo put out on the table, then curiously asked, “If all that for what?”

Seeing Elulu's curiosity high enough, Odo felt that she had high enough potential to become a witch. Turning his gaze toward the tools the woman pointed at, Odo again explained everything.

Such tools include coffee ore smoothing, practical ice dice molding, grater with various types of grating holes, egg whipping tools, various forms of spatulas and food tongs, and, teapots are large to keep temperatures high, and some unique tools that Elulu or Isla have never seen before.

One of the unique tools that they never encountered in the kitchen was the cobek and ulekan stone that usually existed in the research place of an alchemist. In addition, there is also a manual blender that is mechanically almost the same as a meat grinder. All of these tools were not made by Odo himself, but the artisans in the artisan district with the basis of the blueprints he gave them.

After explaining all the tools issued by Odo, for a moment the atmosphere was quiet and they were silent and confused to say what. The tools are indeed very simple when viewed again, but they never imagined there would be practical tools like that in the kitchen.

Gaining the gaze of the young man, Elulu immediately turned her face away which instantly turned red . The woman immediately diverted her mind by looking at a device that was fused on the table right next to the stove and oven. While pointing at the tool, he looked at Odo and asked, “Master, if that's what's it for?”

Odo stared at the square-shaped tool made of metal. It blends into the table like a stove, but up to the bottom and on the top has square holes up to 2/3 tools as deep as a few over 50 centimeters. While scratching the back of the head, the young man in black hair replied, “That's Deep Fryer .... Tools for frying, the mechanism is almost the same as the oven. Use heat for cooking. You can fill it with cooking oil for frying ..”.

“Tools for frying?”

Elulu got closer to the device, looked into it and felt that it was too much volume later if it was filled with cooking oil. Looking towards Odo, the woman curiously asked, “Not later be wasteful if the size is this big?”

Odo sighed again, then finally explained the device and told him what it was for later use. It took a long time to explain it because it could be said to be completely new. Finished explaining the tool, at first glance Elulu and Isla were pensive with faces not believing that they would be the first to use unique tools in the kitchen later after Odo himself. Isla does not really know how great it is, but Elulu clearly understands that these tools must be a rapid development in the kitchen area later.

“Pak Porzan who has been decades in the kitchen alone can never make new cooking tools,” Elulu's mind with a dumbfounded look. Making cooking innovation is a more extraordinary thing than making new dishes, because the emergence of new cookware is the same as making the broad potential of the birth of various types of new dishes.

Odo turned around from the two women, then stepped on the wooden board in the middle of the kitchen and said, “Then I go down to the basement first. There's something I need to check under.”

The shifting cogs of sound rang out loud. The board was pushed a few centimeters down, activating the mechanism on the underground door. When the young man with black hair raised his right leg, the key that held the door on the floor opened and the door board itself lifted up. Below is clearly visible a wooden staircase leading into the basement.

“Eh? Ah .., yes.” Elulu shook her head, trying to stop dumbly after getting Odo's explanations verbally.

Looking up at the golden brown haired woman, Odo lightly said, “Although you guys have authority in the kitchen, but I suggest you do not need to go into this basement.”

“Eh?” Elulu looks confused, then curiously asks, “Isn't sheds downstairs? If you need cooking ingredients later, how should we?”

“This is not a warehouse. The warehouse is in the attic .... Just tell Matthew or Totto later to bring him.”

After uttering the words, the young man stepped down the stairs and went down to the basement. Leaving Elulu and Isla still looking confused, by itself the mechanism of the basement door was active and closed again.