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"The Southern Thai cooking techniques are authentic, but the flavors are more tailored to the tastes of our Western human world," said the young War Witch named Xiao Meng, the first to confirm Malin's culinary skills. Although the tastes were different, the girl still found the meal thoroughly enjoyable.

In her words, coming to the Northern Kingdom with the delegation from her father's land, she had prepared herself to eat black bread laced with sawdust. She never expected to be able to have a taste of her hometown cuisine on the very first day.

With her remarks, the locals from Sudel and Rhodes, who had been hesitant about the dishes, and the protective duo of Colson and Nim, were quick to join the fray for food—thanks to Xiao Meng's fluent command of the common language of the Western human world.