After tgree days, Marin was in Free's residence sitting elegantly in a chair, sipping tea. Free was sittin in the opposite of him, his face serious as always.
"So you want me to make a stall for the village, a tavern?" he said, taking another sip and Free shook his head.
"I was thinking if you could help me make a ramen stall" Free requested, Marin places the tea on the table, intrigued. He stare straight into Free's eye with a serious look.
"Ramem stall? May you care to explain what is. Ramen?" he said.
"A ramen is like a rope but a small and fragile one. It's edible and tasty too" Free said, with a bow he places the bowl of ramen beside Marin's tea. 'A fragile rope? That's the best explaination than saying noodles in a noddleless world' Free thought to himself.
Marin slowly take the bowl of ramen in his hand, he sniff the fragrant smell, rich and smelling delicious. "Not a bad smell?" he takes a spoon from the table and takes a sip. His eyes lit up with sparkles, the world around him went quiet. "Chief Free, your dish ramen is-" Free gulped hard, as Marin was silent for a moment after he ate the noodles. "DELICIOUS! SUCH A DISH LIKE THIS EXIST!! IT FEELS LIKE HEAVEN JUST FROM THE SOUP ALONE AND THIS SMALL AND FRAGILE ROPE OF YOURS!! MAGNIFICENT!!" Marin screamed out, gulpong the whole bowl in seconds.
"So...about my request"
"Ohh yeah, i will make a stall for you, and i will fund it too!!" Marin said, wiping his mouth with a napkin, Free exhaled a relieved brathe . "But...i will also introduce it to the nobles too" Marin added.
Free hearing it quickly turn to Marin. "I think it might be a bad idea for that" Free said, Marin went quiet. There was a silence for a moment, Free and Marin were quiet, all that was heard was Lina cleaning the floor and Hinata and Hina's chaos playing in the garden. "This is a food for commoners not nobles. Even if you tell them this, it won't end well. Nobles takes thing seriously and giving them a commoner food won't end without consequence" Free finally broke the silence.
"So in particular your title as the village chief might be in danger if you let me introduce it to the nobles?" Free gave a nod, Marin sighs and take a sip from his tea. He thought for a moment. "Okay, i will only help you build a stall here, also if your ramen become succesful....your title will still be in danger" Marin said, he gets up and with a polite bow he exits the living room while Free was deep in thought.
'it won't become famous anyway' Free convince himself, just then Lina enters to take the bowl and cup of tea.
"So how was your discussion about the stall" Lina ask.
"It went well, Marin like the ramen. But he said i will still be targeted even if i didn't let him introduce ramen to nobles" Free said, giving a tired sigh. Lina frowned a little hearing it.
"Nothing will happen. Nobles are dumb anyway" she said, taking the tea cup and bowl, she exits the living room.
In the evening Free was infront of Sylvia's house door, he fixed his coat and knock on the door. Sylphia opened the door. "Is Sylvia here?" he ask.
"She is in Rael house, she is working hard for you and the village" Sylphia said, smiling she gave a small flick in Free's forehead. "Go meet her there" she said, Free gave a bow and left to Rael's house.
Free walked slowly, he was still deep in thought, not convinced of Lina's word. 'Should i really open a ramen stall' he walks past the crowd, the market until he reach Rael's house. He knock on Rael's door and she opens it.
"Ohh Free, Sylvia is inside" she said, unfazed as if she knew he was going to visit, Free enter inside the house.
Inside Sylvia was still correcting paperworks and financial documents, she check each of them and put them separately. "You're working hard..." Free said, Sylvia look up, surprise by Free.
"ahh! Free you scared me!" she said, cheeks faintly red. Rael just chuckles at the two and left the room.
"So how is your new position as the financial manager?" He ask.
"good" she mutter. "Why did you came here?" she ask.
"Just to see you" Free said, with a smile. "Also i was thinking of opening a ramen stall" Free mentioned.
"What's ramen?" she asked.
"Long story short, it's a food" Free explained, Sylvia was still confused but she didn't ask further.
"So you want to open a food shop?" she said. "And you also need my permission for a land because my father had lands inside the village too?" Free nodded. "You can open a stall as long as you had your own money, so you can open a stall as long as you give me thirty percent share" she grins mischeviously.
Free sighs but he nods, Sylvia giggles. 'She's giggling a lot' Free thought. "Time to teach you a lesson" Free mutter and he ga e her a kiss, Sylvia grins quickly faded and her face flushed hard.
"A-ahh what! Free don't do that suddenly!" she said, hitting him lightly. Free just gave a grin.
"You deserve it" he said, Sylvia pouts and she jumps into him. Both fall into the floor.
"Revenge time~" she said with her face still red, and gave a deep kiss without hesitation.
Outside Rael laugh faintly hearing the sounds outside the door. "Kids these day" she mutters.
1 week later...
Free was standing infront of the ramen stall in the village market, Marin was gazing at the stalls name. It was named Ramen stall. "Are you serious, chief?" he ask, Free nods.
"I am" Free said, Everyone were staring at the new stall Free made. Hinata and Hina were already licking their lips.
"The flour is ready, onions? Ready. Soy sauce? Ready other ingredients? Ready" Lina counted every ingredient in the stall storage, infront of her were two chefs Marin had personally recommended. "Remember what lord Free has taught you" she darkly said, both chefs nodded(they were taught by her–the hard way).
"Okay let's open the stall" Free said, the stalls open and the chefs start to bake the ramen. Slowly the smells attract attention from peoles nearby and they start to come.
"It's working!" Sylvia muttered beside Free and he was smiling proudly.
"What is this?" a customer said, smelling the fragrant scent of the ramen.
"Can i get one?" another ask, one of the chef nodded.
"1 silver per bowl" The chef places the bowl of ramen in the man's table.
The guy slowly takes a spoon and his eye lit up too while tasting the ramen. "This-this is heaven!! So delicious!!" she screamed out, other starts to drool too seeing the guy eating it.
"Can i get one!". "Me too!" other start to order and Free's ramen stall bloomed on it's very first day of opening.
To be continued....