Near evening, Demi was going to town on various fresh ingredients, chopping and dicing with serious intent.
Beast blood and bug guts splattered everywhere, turning the kitchen into one hell of a messy battlefield.
"Demi! Why won't you let Master handle this?"
Pergina couldn't stand watching anymore.
"No way!"
Demi shot back stubbornly. She'd be damned if she was gonna hand over cooking duties to anyone else! Not even her master!
"Good grief..."
Pergina let out a long sigh, clearly at her wit's end.
Just then,
"Knock knock!"
Someone rapped on the door.
"A customer?"
She frowned. "Demi, didn't you put up the 'closed today' sign?"
"I sure did."
Demi wanted zero distractions while prepping ingredients.
Pergina trudged over and cracked open the door.
"Excuse me, is this Pergina's Alchemical Treasures?"
Standing there was some guy wearing an alchemical mask. Just looking at his threads, you could tell he had serious coin.
