I'm seven years old.
　Training from my father and [super recovery]. And thanks to my voluntary training, my physical abilities have improved further.

My father frequently examines my body with his medical knowledge, and he noticed the existence of [Super Recovery], and recently he has been building his body based on it.
　The existence of a skill itself is known in this world.
　However, there is a limited way to check skills, and apparently something called 【Appraisal Paper】 that some high-ranking blacksmiths can make is necessary.
　Since there are no artisans capable of making 【Appraisal Paper】 in the Kingdom of Alwan, they are said to have ordered it from other countries.

And today's training was a hunting exercise, and we were exploring the mountains in the territory.
　This is a training that also serves to secure food.

They run around in the mountains to train their strength and agility, and by hunting their prey, they hone their distraction skills, tracking skills, and the skill of reaping life with a single blow.
　Wild beasts are much more sensitive to signs than humans. If they can catch their wild prey off guard and kill them with a single blow, human assassination is easy.

In the mountains, where there is no human touch, it is hard to just keep going. There are no roads, and the grass is everywhere.
　We choose a route that we can follow, and watch carefully for the slightest trace of our prey.

Our quarry for the day is set.

Rabbit droppings, and it was only a few moments ago that I took a dump. When I looked around, I could see the remains of his progress and footprints in the grass.
　One of these rabbits is enough to fill my stomach.
　.........Even though it's a rabbit, Alvan's rabbit, the Alte Rabbit, is the size of a large dog.

It's not just a matter of time before you'll be able to get your hands on it.
　By wearing magic power, it strengthens its physical abilities and becomes a wind.
　Although he can't use magic yet, he is learning how to use his magic power. Just by wrapping it around his body, he can become an armor and move better in this way.
　In the middle of the process, he moves by jumping from tree branch to tree branch.
　If you use a tree branch as a foothold, it usually breaks off. But the moment you slam your foot down, you cover it with magic to make it a good foothold.
　It's nice. I can control the magic power like I'm breathing. That's why it's frustrating that I can't touch the magic yet for one reason or another.

After advancing for a while, I found my prey. About 30 meters away, a giant rabbit was digging up and eating yams.
　We couldn't get any closer.
　The rabbit's ears are good enough to hear the scent of the rabbit, but its approach would be noticed.
　He dangles from a tree branch with his foot and squeezes the bow on his back, oblivious to its presence.
　The specially made strings are strung so tightly that even the big man can't pull them off. It's a bow that is supposed to be strengthened with magic power.
　An arrow is released. ........The moment I released it, I was sure it would hit.
　It pierced his head with a single blow.
　Wild animals would move for ten seconds at least if they were pierced in the heart. The best way to kill them instantly is to destroy their brains.

''Alright, that's your quota for the morning.

I jumped down from the tree, draining and dismantling the giant rabbit on the spot, wrapping it in its bark and putting it in a basket on my back.
　While I was gathering wild vegetables and mushrooms, I went home.

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'Hey, Roug, let your mother cook today.
'I was supposed to be cooking the day you brought home your catch. Mother sit down.

When I returned to the mansion, I was quickly in the kitchen making lunch with the catch of the day.
　Since I was about five years old, I've earned my mother's trust by actively helping her cook, and now I'm allowed to cook on my own.
　This was not only for the sake of eating good food, but also for the sake of building a strong body.

In order to build a strong body, you have to understand nutrition and take care of your diet.
　In fact, second-generation athletes, for example, have had a personal nutritionist from a young age and have been thoroughly educated on nutrition in order to build a strong body.

As expected, the Touahade family doesn't have that much knowledge.
　So, every few days I would cook my own food and take in the nutrition I was lacking.
　I usually listen to my mother as honestly as possible, but today I'm not going to give in.
　After all, the effects of nutrition education are not significant until your body is ready. Otherwise, there is no way to get it back.
　Getting a strong body should be our first priority.
　It doesn't matter how much skill you have, in the end, it's all about the physicality.

Mmmmmmmmmm.

My mother is understandably puffing out her cheeks and sulking.
　I was wondering what was going on when my father appeared.

'Esri, why don't you just leave it to the rogue? She's a quick learner of Touahade skills, but she's also a quick learner of cooking. He doesn't cook anything strange. That's probably thanks to the way Esri teaches him.
I'm not worried about the quality of the food. I'm not worried about the food, I'm sure it will be delicious. As a mother, I'm proud of you for being such a good cook, but you keep coming up with these great ideas, and I don't want to be a mother.

My mother is staring at me with still eyes.
　I open my mouth with a wry smile.

"Mother, that's too much of a compliment. My cooking still doesn't live up to your standards.
Well, not only do you have a talent for cooking, but you have a talent for flattery.
'Oh, Kian, you're terrible!

A happy family scene.
　My mother is always like this, and my father has a soft expression on his face when he's not at work and training.
　...not an ounce of evidence that he's a cold-hearted assassin. That's another hallmark of a top-notch assassin. He doesn't let his prey off the hook until the moment he kills them. That's why he usually plays the role of a rather good-natured and unguarded figure. But in my father's case, though, I feel like he's a genuinely loving wife and dotes on his son.

I'm making a cream stew.
　The rich cream stew goes well with rabbit meat that has a light flavor like chicken. The key to the flavor is the mellow broth made from homemade dried mushrooms and the milk of the goat that I squeeze in the morning and the butter that I use to make it.
　The mushrooms, root vegetables, milk and plenty of rabbit meat make for a perfect combination of nutrients for growth.

After all, the pot you made for me, Roug, is very convenient. It's magic to be able to make a melt-in-your-mouth, flavorful stew in just a few minutes. It makes me wonder about the hours of work I used to put into making the stew.
'The pressure cooker isn't magic. I just read a book I found in my study and tried the idea.

The principle of a pressure cooker is simple: apply pressure above atmospheric pressure by sealing the air or liquid to prevent it from escaping and then heating it.
　You can make it if you want to.
　It's a pain in the ass to simmer a stew for hours, so I converted one of the pots into a pressure cooker, and not only me, but my mother loves it too.

'But it's magic from my point of view,'
'After all, Lug is a smart man. I'm familiar with the concept of pressure and the phenomena it causes, but I never had the idea of using it in cooking. 'Flexible thinking is just what an assassin needs,'

In the meantime, the stew was finished.
　A white, thick cream stew.
　I'm glad I can use a lot of milk and butter from the goats I bought and started to raise last year.

'Father, mother, please sit down. Let's have lunch.

Thus begins a family reunion meal.

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The Touahades, unusually for a nobleman, have either my mother or me cook for them. That's because my mother loves to cook.
　About two years ago, when I told my mother that I wanted to cook, she was more than happy to teach me. .... but lately she's been getting a weird sense of rivalry with her son, who has overtaken her in that regard.

Even though I'm his son, I think he's a very young and pretty person.
　But please don't treat him like a child by going too far. Last time I saw him, I asked him if he'd like to have a boob job for the first time in a long time.　What did they say? I felt dizzy.

Perhaps it's because of the love he's given me as a rogue, but before he was reborn, he was unfazed by anything, but lately he's become more and more upset.
　That could be considered weakness, but it's not bad if you think of it as a process of becoming an assassin who does what needs to be done while still having the normal heart that his father says he has. The world looks much brighter when you have a heart.

Thinking about this, I set out the dishes.
　A cream stew filled with rabbit meat and mushrooms, salad and bread.
　It's simple for a nobleman's table.
　This is also a daily routine for Touahade, with bread and main course, plus side dishes, salad and soup. There are days when dessert is served.

'After all, Roug's special stew is excellent. You may be a genius for coming up with this.
So do I. We don't see this stew in King's Landing either. You'd make a fortune selling it.
'Your mother and father exaggerate. It's not that elaborate.
'You are too humble, Rougie. 'Yes!　We'll serve the Lords at this year's Harvest Festival!　I'm sure they will all be delighted!
''Mm, I agree. That way, even if we serve all the people in our land, it will still be within the budget of the harvest festival. And it should be a specialty of our land. It should be something that all the people of our fiefdom will love.

Seeing how goofy the father's son is, is this really the head of the assassin nobleman Touahade?　Sometimes I think.
　I just don't hate them.
　I don't hate it, so it doesn't bother me to act as a son who is loved by these people.
　Besides, I enjoy eating in my second life much more than I did in my first.

I was able to cook reasonably well in my previous life. I often used the profession of cook because it was convenient when I walked into a party hall where there was prey, and I got the skills and certifications because I needed them.
　The food I was making myself, and the food I ate for research, would probably taste better than the cream stew I made today.
　Still, it tastes better today. It's probably because of emotions I didn't know in my first life.

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When the meal is over, my mother goes to the kitchen with the plates to clean up.
　It's a rule in our house that the one who didn't cook the food gets to clean up.
　My father examines my body with a serious look on his face.
　Once a week, my father checks how much my body is growing before the afternoon training. That's how he decides what the training should be.

'If you've grown up to this point, you can be treated. Roug, I will give you the magic eye of Touahade.

Gulp and gulp raw.
　At last. I only knew of its existence from the documents I found in my study.
　My hair is silver, like my mother's, but my eyes don't look like either of my parents'. My mother has bright blue eyes, while my father has gray eyes, but they are black.
　My father was an acquired taste, because he went from black eyes to gray eyes.
　That's the magical eye of Touahade.
　A surgery to give him a special eye that was perfected after human experimentation with hundreds of condemned prisoners.
　It's an extremely difficult operation that uses magical power, but if it succeeds, you will receive a high-performance eye.

"Father, please.
Are you scared?
No, I have faith in your skills, father.

Yes, he's a silly and kind father when it comes to family reunions like this, but I know he's a real professional when he's acting as a Touahade.

Trust me. I can assure you that you will be successful.

My father was already there as head of the Touahade family.
　As long as that was the case, my father would not fail.

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My face is bandaged and my vision is closed to darkness.
　The surgery is over while I'm asleep.
Thanks to the [Super Recovery], I've already recovered to the point where I can remove the bandages.
　When I open my eyes, I'm amazed at the change in my vision.
　My vision is enhanced.
　It's not just that I can now see things in the distance, it's the kinetic vision that captures moving objects, the deep vision that controls perspective.
　With these eyes, you could see through even a rifle bullet.

In addition, you can now see magic power. Magical power is essentially invisible to the eye and can only be felt when you are quite close to it.
　And yet I can faintly see the magic power emanating from my own body. When you gather them together in a single point, you can understand the movement of magic power.
　If you can see the flow of your opponent's magical power, you can see the initial move and react quickly.
　It's an eye that could be called foul.
　However, my brain couldn't keep up with the amount of information that increased all at once due to being able to see too much, and I was screaming.
　After a while, with the power of 【Super Recovery】 and 【Growth Limit Breakthrough】, my brain will grow to be able to withstand that information.

''Father, I can see very well.''
That's good to hear. I'll teach you this procedure in time. One day, Lugues will perform it on his own children.
Yeah, I'll take over.

This is a secret art created by the head of the family three generations ago.
　This is one of the best kept secrets in Touahade.

"And here's the good news. I can finally do what the rogues have always wanted to do.
'You don't mean to tell me you've found a master of magic?

It's something I've been waiting for for a long time.
　Magic cannot be learned without a master.
　My father and mother couldn't teach it either, because the person who teaches it has a special background. That's why, even though they are used to handling magic power, they can't use magic.
I, who can create magic with [the one who weaves formulas], wanted to know and be able to handle magic as soon as possible.

''Mm, the magic teacher will come next week. You should stop training for a while and concentrate on preparing for that one.
Yes, I understand.

Magic, a power that wasn't there in the original world.
　It would be the key to killing a brave man.
　But more than that, I had a genuine interest in magic. I was looking forward to learning magic.