melodiesofkupo | [Text] The Hardest Part is Cleaning Up Afterwards

Glad that's all over. I really didn't need another reason to hate Mondays, but there it is.

So it's time for me to come clean: I didn't spend all my money on potions and chemist stuff. On the off chance this was the time we took care of team Ramaamut, I took the liberty of marinating and slow cooking a few summer favorites, including the shawarma. We're gonna have us a well earned vacation, boys and girls! But we could do better than the restaurant, right? I think so. Instead, we're booking the hot springs in Myste Aura, get ourselves a nice, early take of summer. Sound good? Sounds good.

Also completely unrelated, but Bass is insisting I tell everyone the mortgage I took on Dante Must Fry a few days ago. Pretty worthwhile investment, right? No one died, except for when Phoenix gave us a mulligan. Turns out this zora's not gonna be the only thing red here in the restaurant!

Bass really didn't like that joke.

So in case anyone knows about a little freelance work somewhere, I'd appreciate a point in the right direction.

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The one with the sword stabbing Bahamut's big dumb face?

That's the one.

I'm thinking it might be cool to get that printed on shirts and hand 'em out to heroes as like "yeah, we did that. I know, we're amazing."

Good idea. "I survived the end of the world and all I got was this awesome t-shirt". Lemme get the picture

Yeah, that's the one.

Baha Blast didn't see it coming.

Go ahead and take it. I can have Mocha send over the stencils I used.

But you'd better at least use a LITTLE of that profit to help yourself.

You know some of that profit would go right back to you, right? It's your design.

Honestly, I'm not thinking of selling 'em to fellow heroes of light. Shouldn't charge em for something they already wore proudly, you know?

Okay, okay. They should be free. Jeez, you push a hard bargain.

[...but he's right and Red knows it.]

Got any particular kinda work in mind?

Freelance, mostly. Hunts, gathering, catering, whatever works. Wouldn't be my first time getting my hands dirty.

Keeping up with the heroes has kept me on my feet, so I'm feeling pretty good.

Stop saying "keeping up with" the heroes! You ARE one of the heroes!

Heck, you were making Bahamut's attacks look like a joke tossing around those postions.

Alright, alright. It was a group effort. Expensive, but a hell of an investment.

Speaking of worthwhile efforts, you looked comfortable punching out Ramaa.

So we've gone from trying to out-stunt each other to trying to out-compliment each other?

But thank you. It'd been too long since I'd actually put the DAHAK to proper use.

I kinda feel bad you're always stuck on healing, though. I never get to see you bust out that chef's knife.

Chemist turned out to be more useful than I thought. Don't mind it; Job Lore's great.

Doesn't mean the chef's knife's gone dull any; got Gourmand completed after all of this, so I can do the things no one wants to see.

That's

Nice.

How often do you have to actually DO that?

Not often. Something most people don't know? Gourmand's actually kind of a magic class. Based on an old arcane tradition called Blue Magic. It's about learning attacks monsters can do and using them yourself.

Gourmands can kinda learn 'em from for a while if they're hit by it, but learn 'em permanently by eating them.

Don't get me wrong, that sounds REALLY cool, but

I've never SEEN the eating but just hearing it nearly made me lose my lunch. Is it as bad as it sounds?

Let me put it this way:

Each guild occasionally does demonstrations, right? Part of the Gourmand guild's is an entire banquet. The other half

They suggest people not eat until after sitting through the other half.

So

Why do you WANT to do that? These moves better be worth it.

Honestly? Main reason I picked it up a while ago was for the cooking. Curti Center needed a few extra hands. A friend pointed me in the right direction after the hamster incident, so I figured "why not? Chemist and Gourmand play two roles." Got to open up my own place after that.

It was too late before I realized the blue mage part, but I'll take what I can get. You've been around long enough to see what kinda monsters are around; I think you know how useful it'd be to have some of 'em on our side.

How are you gonna get that them on our side by doing THAT to them?! Are you hoping they'll be too scared to fight us when they hear about it?!

Not them! Their moves. You know: a cactuar's thousand needles, a malboro's bad breath, a wyvern's white wind...things like that.

Well of COURSE you'd get bad breath from eating a malboro. I don't wanna know how something like that tastes.

...What monster IS the tastiest? Do they teach you that?

Depends on your tastes. I'm a fan of Ochu myself; I like using them in shawarma since they got this nice earthy taste to 'em. Kinda like steak and mushrooms, but without the mushrooms.

Merrow's my go-to for seafood. Nice all-around hunk of fish. Little secret, though? Elementals make for great seasoning.