The SSS-rank Guide Doesn't Need Saving novel Chapter 62

Chapter 62: Eating ’Real Food’ for the First Time! (2)

Aisha focused, pushing a thinner thread of light into the meat instead of trying to flood it all at once. If the miasma reacted like something alive, then maybe brute force wasn’t the answer.

She needed to coax it out, the same way she’d coaxed the corruption out of Nykos’s mental sea.

Little by little, they gathered toward her instead. They were like moths drawn toward a flame as they slowly twirl in mid-air, looking like a twisted ladder. She guided it without the intention of purifying it, helping it along, until it saturated in front of her, turning almost solid.

Kylin fell on top of the meat with a ’plop’, unceremoniously landing on its butt as it stared in shock. It opened its mouth as if wanting to ask how she did it...

Aisha couldn’t entertain the inquiries of the spiritual beast. She held her breath, careful not to let her power spike, and watched as the last traces of that jellied mass lifted away from the meat. Holding it in place, she glanced around and finally settled on an empty jar.

The jellied mass of miasma moved erratically as she steered it into the empty jar, dumping it helplessly inside until not one drop was left behind. Finally, she closed it tightly with her own power.

As expected, it tried to struggle free, surging upward. But the moment it met against her power, it fizzled and a chunk immediately disintegrated. The rest were alarmed and stayed put below the jar, no longer trying to come up.

Exhaling slowly, Aisha looked at the meat on top of the countertop.

It was no longer a murky gray color that looked rotten. The meat now pink and glistening with no signs of miasma corrupting it. Not even 0.001 percent was left.

If someone were to see this, the entire planet would be shaken by this!

After all, no one has ever achieved a complete purification. Even the S-rank Guides who boasted a purification rate of 90 percent could never dream of doing what she just did.

Kylin stared at her then at the meat before finally settling over the contained miasma with astonishment.

"Finally," she exhaled.

Now came the part she’d been looking forward to since the first time she laid eyes on it back at the black market stall.

She went looking through the kitchen cabinets next, opening one after another until she found a stash of cooking oil, salt, and a few jars of spices she didn’t recognize by smell alone. Obviously, they were all something she had to test to know what they are.

And whoever stocked this place hadn’t expected anyone to actually cook here, but these were just enough to work with. At least, they weren’t expired.

She found a pan, washed it and set it on the stove.

The stove itself was made of ores that naturally emitted heat, by just adjusted the amount of ores and placing them in the ring, they’d become just like normal stoves in her past life.

She cut a thin slice off the meat first, testing her theory before actually using the whole piece. The knife went through easily without resistance or strange texture. Just like slicing regular meat.

Oil went into the pan and she waited until it started to shimmer and heated up before placing the slice of meat down.

The moment it hit the pan, a sharp sizzle filled the kitchen.

Aisha stood there watching it with arms crossed, feeling strangely nervous for something this simple and small. She wasn’t even this nervous when she fought against a horde of mutated people.

Turning the slice over after a minute, the edges curled and browned beautifully. The color deepened from pale pink to warm golden brown, and a thin layer of fat along the edge started to pop softly in the oil.

The smell hit her a few seconds later.

It was a strong scent she expected from a monster meat in this world. If anything, it was the faint undeniable smell of meat, rich, savory and sweet.

Her stomach growled.

She hadn’t realized how hungry she actually was until that smell filled the room.

Aisha turned the heat down slightly, letting it cook through. She sprinkled a bit of salt over it and let it sit for another minute before finally lifting it out of the pan with a fork she’d found in a draw.

She set the piece of meat on a plate and stared at it.

Saliva already flooding her mouth. It looked exactly like a piece of pan-seared pork with golden brown crust, faint pink center, and some fat clinging to the surface.

"Gulp."

She swallowed down and reached for it, unable to resist it anymore.

"Guru!"

Niblles floated in front of the plate, blocking her from getting into the piece of meat. The other spiritual best had moved closer too, shaking its head as if telling her not to recklessly put anything in her mouth.

"It no longer has any miasma in it," she told them. "You’ve seen me remove it."

Neither of them looked convinced. If anything, Kylin strongly shook its head.

But Aisha could no longer take it.

Ignoring their suspicious nature, she picked up a fork and cut a small piece. Hesitating for exactly one second, she finally put it in her mouth.

"!!!"

She chewed slowly at first, but the tenderness almost melted her tongue.

The taste of the meat was exquisite, exploding inside her mouth.

"So good!" Aisha almost cried real tears.

After years in her ruined old world, this was the first time she had actually tasted real meat! It was nothing like the canned food and whatever scraps she could find just to fill her stomach. This was... this was heaven!

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