Chapter 74: A Look That Could Kill

White rice.

Monster-based cooking using soy sauce and miso.

A natural hot spring dug up by their adorable kitties.

“The Eastern Empire is heaven... I kinda wanna live here...” Emma muttered with utter satisfaction as she held a perfect traditional rice ball with umeboshi in it in one hand.

“Yeah. That might be the move,” Leonard responded, and the rest of the family nodded in agreement.

“Lady Emma, I’ve prepared some tea.” Joshua gently served Emma a tea they called “ryokucha” in the Eastern Empire. While he was initially surprised by the green color of the tea, after seeing Emma drinking it so happily, he’d bought the tea leaves without any hesitation and learned how to prepare it himself.

“Thanks, Joshua! The tea you make is always so tasty. And I mean both your black teaand ryokucha. I wonder what makes it so different?” Emma grinned, now with a rice ball in her right hand and freshly poured ryokucha in her left. “Man...Rice balls and ryokucha really are a match made in heaven...”

“You can say that again...” George and William responded with expressions of pure bliss.

The Tanakas were currently enjoying their lives in the Eastern Empire to the fullest. They couldn’t have all the rice they could eat, but they still were able to have it once a day.

The Eastern Empire really was heaven.

“Lady Emma, I’llgladly serve you tea every day for the rest of our lives!” The reason Joshua’s tea was so delicious was that he was using the highest-quality tea leaves he could procure in the Eastern Empire (even with its food shortages), preparing it perfectly by the book, then serving it at the exact temperature and steep time that Emma liked. For Emma’s smile, Joshua would not skimp even on tea preparations. That was just how Joshua was; he would keep up the hard wo