Meanwhile, in the peaceful cabin.

    Gio was examining his new family member.

    “ls this little one fully grown?”

    “Pyaarrr.”

    “How cute.”

    It was a cuteness that brought peace to the mind.

    As it flopped down and waved its four paws, Gio gently grasped Anticat''s two front paws. Earth cats usually hate having their paws held, but Anticat didn''t seem to mind much.

    Like playing with a newborn baby, he lightly held the front paws and waved them around a few times.

    “Purrrr...”

    “Doesn''t seem to dislike it.”

    “Meow.”

    “A cat is still a cat.”

    “Mmmeung.”

    “lt''s extremely cold.”

    Anticat''s body was cool, like touching a stalactite in a remote cave.

    “Honey, you''re the complete opposite.”

    “Coo r?”

    “You''re warm.”

    Perhaps because it evolved from Lulupu juice that grew under sunlight and moonlight, Honey''s tiny body was exceptionally warm. It seemed to have gotten even warmer recently thanks to receiving abundant affection from the Sun God.

    “lt seems like it''ll be hard to stick with Honey when it''s this cold...”

    Though he wasn''t sure if there was any scientific basis, doesn''t one sometimes think that if they grab naturally cold-blooded creatures like fish or frogs with human hands, it might burn them?

    “Tell me if it''s uncomfortable for me to touch you, little one.”

    “......”

    “You''re eerily quiet. Good girl, good girl. Very clever.”

    It doesn''t seem to be uncomfortable.

    “Looks like you understand what I''m saying too.”

    That was quite remarkable.

    ''The way it sparkles like a gem... it''s like some kind of identity.''

    Anticat''s body was like that of a few months-old kitten. Its physique contained a dense sparkle, like a well-cut diamond.

    Perhaps because of that, unlike the completely transparent Honey, it appeared opaque.

    “lmpressive.”

    “M i ew. - ”

    “You can even glow on your own, how clever.”

    Honey stared intently at Gio from the side.

    “......”

    “...Of course, you''re clever too, Honey.”

    “Coong.”

    “Oh, you''re so cute.”

    “Corr.”

    Raising kids sure is tough.

    “By the way, what does our youngest eat to grow?”

    From what he''d roughly confirmed, it seemed to live by sucking life force-and seemed like they were treated as a kind of ghost on Earth, but if ghosts were this cute, it might not be so bad to have life force sucked once in a while. RA?????O?BE?s?

    “l might need to make a cat tower soon...1 do have quite a knack for making hide-and-seek tunnels.”

    “Pyaa rr.”

    “There are plenty of tall, rugged trees around here that would be good for climbing, but Anticat will need its own territory inside the house too. If it takes after cats, it''ll be just as sensitive about its territory.”

    “Miaw.”

    “Since the youngest used to live in ''Gem''s Water Vein'', it might be fun to make a similar environment. I could make a hide-and-seek house like a dark ant tunnel, and put some gems inside... that might work well.”

    Now it was time to give it a name.

    “Spa rkl e...”

    “......”

    “...Deja vu?”

    It was a similar reaction to when he first thought of the word ''Golden'' for Honey''s name. A response that seemed to ask ''Are you serious, human?''

    Gio tried to be a bit more creative.

    “......”

    After a moment of silence, he muttered softly.

    “Da na?”

    Among Korean names, it has the meaning of''someone who always goes ahead'', but that''s not actually why he thought of the name ''Dana''.

    “1”

    And shortening it further to ''daa'' or ''dai'' seemed too unconscionable.

    “So I modified it a bit to Dana, what do you think?”

    “M mu ng. - ”

    “I''m glad you like it.”

    He passed the test.

    “Phew.”

    Gio dedicated this honour to name-givers around the world. Naming truly was no easy task.

    “Now let''s go prepare dinner.”

    “Coooorrrrr.”

    “We have rice left over from when Student Cha Ara was here, so let''s eat that.”

    “Corr.”

    “Meang.”

    Dana, who had shown little interest in food before, seemed to have had some realization after tasting the bone broth. It was quite amusing to see it following Honey around and meddling with the meal preparations.

    “As expected, nothing works as well as delicious food for kids....”

    Gio scraped out the rice cooked with bone broth.

    After scooping out all the fluffy rice grains, he neatly scraped off the nurungji left at the bottom. Thanks to the oil from the bone broth used to cook the rice, it came off very cleanly.

    “Who wants nurungji?”

    When Gio asked, rolling the nurungji into balls to make a simple snack, both creatures responded.

    “Corrrrr. Corrrrrrr.”

    “Mang, myaak, aak... Meungmangmangmang.”

    “...Let''s split it.”

    Though there were plenty of murmurs, could there be a choice as timelessly wise as solomon''s? Gio neatly split the nurungji rice ball in half. At that point, the two companion creatures finally stopped muttering.

    Taking advantage of their distraction with the nurungji rice ball, Gio finished preparing the meal.

    “For the bone broth rice, I should try making one grilled rice ball.”

    Even if he said this, it didn''t mean he would truly grill just one.

    “For side dishes, grilled eggplant with soybean paste... and maybe simmer a soup?”

    Gio headed to the backyard he called his vegetable garden but considered a monster field.

    The pea plant vines still seemed to have a firm consciousness.

    “.......”

    Enough to greet him.

    “...This is getting ridiculous.”

    Rustle.

    “Yes, nice to meet you. Lovely weather, isn''t it?”

    “.......”

    “Thank you for guarding the garden again today.”

    Having received Gio''s greeting, the vines calmly settle back down.

    ''... Though pretending to be normal pea vines at this point doesn''t make it look normal anymore.''

    But Gio decided to respect the pea plant vine''s privacy. He naturally overlooked the fact that ordinary bean stems couldn''t move.

    Anyway, Gio picked four eggplants and assorted vegetables from the garden. After washing them thoroughly, he sliced the eggplants to a moderate thickness and salted them, peeled a radish and chopped it into chunks, and shelled and washed the peas.

    “...Still, adding jerky seems a bit much.”

    Gio brought out some sausages.

    “Honey, you don''t like spicy stuff, right?”

    “Coorrrrrrrrrr.”

    “Thought so.”

    It was a mildly seasoned sausage.

    “Aeng?”

    “Well, we''ll test your spicy tolerance another time. Since I''m only making one soup, adding spicy sausage would mean Honey can''t eat it.”

    “Meuk.”

    “I''II grill some spicy sausage for you later.”

    Though it might be an unfamiliar combination to Koreans, adding sausage to soup and boiling it together can be surprisingly tasty. Of course, using pink sausages or ham like spam where you can''t even see the shape of the meat particles might be a bit awkward...

    “Shall we peel it now then?”

    Gio prepared the sausages.

    By slightly cutting off the end of the casing membrane and gently pushing it out with the back of the knife, the meat bits filling the sausage came out intact.

    During this time, the spices had infused properly, giving off a deep aroma, and Gio sliced the inner flesh and casing membrane into appropriate sizes.

    “Now, just need to throw everything in.”

    He added a bit of water to the concentrated bone broth, then placed radish, peas, and the prepared sausages on top.

    The peas grown in the monster field were plump but smaller compared to others, and the sausages were already sufficient to eat raw, so they would be ready to eat once the radish was cooked.

    “And next....”

    He lightly grilled the rice balls and made a sauce with ingredients like fruit syrup, soybean paste, and soy sauce. After coating the eggplants with the sauce and placing them in the wood-fired oven, by the time the soup was roughly finished, the rest of the dishes had also finished cooking.

    “Let''s eat.”

    “Corrrrrrr.”

    “Aeeoook, mmngmangmangmangmang....”

    Gio had never heard Dana cry this long before. It was heartwarming to see her love meal times so much. Kids were the cutest when eating.

    “Dad will go offer tribute to the Sun God and come back, so go ahead and start eating first.”

    “Meeaang.”

    “Corr.”

    Gio headed straight to the 2nd-floor artwork storage room. Several landscape paintings hung there. Gio walked directly to the ''Breathing Sea''.

    As expected, the Sun God was extremely pleased, and ...

    “.......”

    Gave a gift.

    “...What is this? A certificate?”

    “”

    “Then shouldn''t I not receive it? It wasn''t originally mine to begin with.”

    “”

    “...Yes, I understand.”

    Though unsure what it was, it didn''t seem harmful, so Gio decided to gratefully accept it.