So after this mind-fucking revelation, you and Kohaku went back to the river to gather more iron sand while Chrome and Senku staid to fix the furnace and work to upgrade the huff-puff devices.
During that, Kohaku noticed that you were slower than usual and asked you about it. You quickly shook it off and pushed yourself to go faster after giving yourself a little pep talk, hoping she wouldn't ask again. Despite that little misstep, the two of you spent a nice afternoon with each-other. Though you did struggle to keep up with her level.

At the end of the day, Suika came back and the five of you sat around a fire to hear whatever information she got while eating grilled fish.
"First," she said. "the three sparkling sisters, Garnet, Sapphire and Ruby!"
"Oh! The prettiest girl in the village!" Kohaku commented.
"What these three want most is..."
"I sure hope it's something that science can make in this era..." Senku mumbled.

"Boyfriends!"
"Of course it has to be something absolutely impossible for science!" he exclaimed as you laughed.

"Oh my god!" you looked at him, smiling ear to ear. "Dress up montage?!"
"We will never do a dress up montage (Y/n)." he glared at your sparkling eyes. "I told you  3,700 years ago, and I'm telling you now."
"Soon~." you whispered loud enough for him to hear.
"No, never." he said, smiling a bit at your enthusiasm over something that will never ever happen.

"They each want a strong man, a handsome man, and a someone who'd feed her." Suika continued.
"They're harshly honest all the way down to their standards aren't they...?" Kohaku frowned before turning to Senku. "From the way I look at it, you're quite the handsome man Senku. But I don't think you're the kind of 'handsome' Sapphire is talking about."
Though he didn't react to it, he never does when it comes to compliments, you stared at her with no expression on your face, but damn were you astonished.

'Keep it in your pants girl!'

"Man~"Chrome leaned back. "this is why they say women just run their mouth saying whatever comes to mind all the time without thinking. That's exactly why I hate women."
"You're such a kid Chrome!" Kohaku went over to him. "Ruri and I are women too, do you hate us then?"
"You're no woman Kohaku, you're a gorilla."
And she made sure to make him regret those words.

"What about me?" you pointed at yourself. "You hate me too?"
"No!" he looked at you. "It's also different (Y/n), you're a wolf!"
"Huh?"  you frowned in your confusion.
He was about to explain, but he noticed something behind you and leaned back again, not saying anything more. You turned around and saw Senku, casually taking a bite of his fish as if nothing happened.

"Chrome, you should probably stop with the animal metaphors." you turned back to him.
"Meta...what?"
"Oh, yeah maybe later."

"I think I'll give a shot to the girl who wants a guy to give her food. What does she want?" Senku asked Suika.
"Like fish or something." she paused. "Ah! Speaking of food, the biggest eater in our village, Ganen, said he's so sick of eating grilled fish day after day that he could die. He's been looking for another food."
"Ah~!" you clapped your hands. "Two birds one stone!"
"I thought we said no more animal meta-thing..." Chrome mumbled.
"Kukuku, job well done detective Suika-sama!" Senku smiled. "Our target is loud and clear now, the science bait that we'll use to get ourselves allies."

The next day, Senku was looking through Chrome's shed while the three of you looked at him.
"You're really going to cook for them?" Kohaku asked.
"That has nothing to do with science."
"Actually no." you looked at Chrome. "The culinary art is technically science. Both of them are basically the act of mixing thing together."
"Just what so you think makes the 'umami' in that fish you eat everyday?" Senku asked. "It's glutamic and inosidic acid."

"Yeah! Science!" you pointed at him.
"(Y/n), dead meme. Come on."
"Whatever, all the memes are dead anyway!" you smiled widely.
Senku staid quiet for a moment before turning away, smiling faintly. He then noticed Suika having fun with a dog outside, playing with a very familiar plant.

"Oi Suika!" he called out. "What'cha got there?!"
"This?" she raised the plant. "This is Suika's friend, Chalk's favorite toy. It's a green dogtail!"
"I think you mean foxtail..." you smiled.
Senku's eyes widen and he quickly came down to the little girl.
"With foxtails, we might just be able to make it!"

"Really?! What?!" you asked.
He looked up at you, smiling.
"Something all the humans in our old world loved, the world's greatest delicacy!"
You leaned in the doorway and rested your head on the palm of your hand.
"There was a lot of great delicacies Senku! Be more specific, what can you do with fuckin foxtail?!"
His smile widen at your ignorance.
"You'll have to guess as we go!"
"Oh come on!" you smiled.

So you all went to collect two full baskets of foxtails and proceeded to beat them on rocks to seperate the grains from the plants.
"You can't possibly think of eating these are you?" Kohaku stared at them, unsettled.
"They're not edible like this, that's why we beat and thresh them." Senku explained. "Foxtails are ten billion percent a marvelous grain. They're the great ancestor of foxtail millet."

He looked over to you, who was deep in thought. He smirked.
"Still not getting it?"
"Wha-dude!" you sent him daggers. "Do you know how many things you can make with flour?! That's like THE base of almost all the food!"
"That is way off 'almost all the food'."
You just groaned and stared at his mocking face with puffy cheeks.

"That looks totally filthy." Kohaku's face twisted as she looked at the basket of grains.
"There are little hair all over." Suika added.
"That's why we'll take 'em off." you said. "Then we'll crush them really finely into flour."
"And then?"
You turned towards Senku, glaring at him.
"You tell me big brain boy!" you exclaimed, making him chuckle.

Chrome brought a big jar of water. You poured the foxtails into it and gently stirred so that the hair would stay on the sue while the grain sunk at the bottom due to its weight. After a while you poured the water into another container but through a sieve to really seperate the two, then you used rocks to crush the grains into dust.
After hours of crushing, the five of you high-fived.
"Foxtail flour, complete!" Senku exclaimed.
"We crushed it! Oh." you paused, realizing what you just said. "Oooooh!" a smile progressively grew on your face.
Senku sighed, but smiled, which you considered a victory.

He cracked an egg into the flour before adding some other things, entering another of his monologue.
"Some ash lye, and some potasium carbonate and knead it all together." he began stirring the dough. "A nameless Mongolian around the 4th century also discovered this by coincidence. This is science's food." he looked over at Chrome. "Just like you Chrome. He was an insane fool who was ready to try anything and everything."
He left it rest for a while, once it was ready, he folded it up and started to cut it into green pastas. You, who's been staring at it all this time, gasped.

"Oooooh! Really?!"
Senku nodded, knowing that you figured what he was doing.
"Senku, can I... I mean, I know how to make it, so..."
"Heh." he smiled and handed you the cleaver. "Be my guest."
You smiled and gladly toke it, exited to get something done. Senku and Suika prepared the pots and you added the ingredients and some herbs for extra flavor.

"This...This aroma!" Chrome and Kohaku gulped, their mouth watering.
"We, the people of 3,700 years ago, ate this mind-blowingly delicious food of science!" Senku exclaimed.
"He ate it all the time when he was locked in his lab doing his experiments." you said.
"And we called it... Ramen!"
"And... done!" you placed the bowls in front of them, just waiting to be eaten. "Bon appétit!"

"Was this really made from foxtail?" Kohaku asked after her, Suika and Chrome took a bowl, she didn't sound convinced.
"Leave the poison testing to me!" Chrome raised his chopsticks. "Not holding back from diving head-first into new things is the essence of a sorcerer!"

He took a bite and his face made a very gross expression, but you understood that it was a positive reaction.
"SO FRICKING GOOD!!!"
"Wow! You can just slurp it up!" Suika exclaimed as her and Kohaku also tasted the ramen. "I've never eaten anything like this before!"
"I can't believe something like this exists in this world."
You giggled, happy to receive such praises. You turned towards Senku, unknowingly waiting for him to also try, given that his opinion mattered a lot to you, given that you're putting him on a pedestal, but all of this you didn't realized yet.
"Kukuku, I guess I should taste it too." he smiled.

And as soon as he did, he set the bowl aside and hung his head down. You were devastated.
"Shit-I'm sorry!" you quickly said. "I probably messed up somewhere, it's been so long since I've made ramen."
"No, nothing to do with your cooking skills." he sat back up. "It's primitive ramen made from foxtail. Nothing compared to the high-class ones from our time. So dry and bland." he stuck his tongue out. "And the after taste is so bitter and pungent."
Still...it hurt.
"But I guess to these guys..." he looked over at your friends, who were still processing their culinary experience. "This is like the food of the gods."
You smiled, it did cheer you up a bit.

"So, is this it?" you asked.
He chuckled.
"Spice was enough to fight wars over, that's how much food is the foundation of civilization." he said with his evil face. "We'll take over this village with ramen!"
"We were doing something nice and making delicious food for everyone to eat." Kohaku frowned. "But somehow, everything that comes out of your mouth sounds evil."
You, still looking at him, smiled.
"Sweet."

You were all ready to take the kart you built to the bridge, Suika went to get something and came back holding a seashell.
"To get their attention!" she said before climbing on the kart's roof.
"Mmh?" you noticed the holes and the way she held it. "Can I see it?"
"Sure!"

She handed it to you and you examined it closely. You softly gasped when you noticed it was a primitive version of an ocarina.
"It's...It's an instrument." you looked up at her. "And you made it by yourself?"
She nodded.
"And...you play it?"

She nodded again. As you stared at it, Senku glanced at you from the corner of his eyes, thinking you were going to try the instrument. Instead, you handed it back to Suika. He discreetly clicked his tongue and went back to whatever he was doing.
"That's amazing Suika. Good job!"
"Th-thank you."

"You should be honored Suika!" Chrome walked up to you both. "(Y/n)'s a magician from the world of 3,700 years ago!"
"Magician?" you frowned. "Dude, come on. You're overselling me."
"All those instruments you told me about, you can play them right?"
"Uh..." you remembered talking about them, you may have gotten a bit into it but you never told him that information. "A bit I guess. How...?"
"Oh, Senku told me."

You blinked twice, shocked.
"You guys...talked about me-?" you began to mumble, but Suika cut you off.
"(Y/n)-chan! Is it true?! You're a genius magician?!"
You made various noises, not really knowing what to say. You figured 'magician' and 'musician' were kind of the same thing as 'sorcerer' and 'scientist' for them.
"I-I think you mean musician but... Yeah...?" you replied, though your tone was slightly more interrogatory.

It made you wonder though. What else did Senku say?