Sock It to Me

Prologue

The God of Beginnings created "souls": "Giving rise to smallest insects to the running rapids and the magnanimous mountains, these souls fused with the living and the inanimate."

After a long time, war between souls and humans broke out, upsetting the God, which created negative/evil energy, so they sealed themself away along with the ability so summon living and inanimate souls. It didn't contain the energy however and Fallen Angels were born.

The Magic Academy was finally able to awaken new souls from food and balance was restored.

Main Story

Gloriville

Rice and Ingredients: Rice is "Master Attendant" aka MC's new Food Soul. MC is started a new restaurant. Wanting to be useful, Rice goes out looking for ingredients, gets lost and runs into Ichi, who happens to want to be a cooking attendant. The MC finds them and they all are lost lol but a hooded stranger helps them.

Sudden Hostility: The stranger wants Rice as Payment and sends Boston Lobster after them when they refuse.

Introductory Present: In return for letting him stay at the restaurant, Ichi decides to make dishes for them. Ichi is a pure-hearted boy with a strong sense of justice.

Assessment: MC's restaurant is being turned into a guild branch along with others to make it easier for guild members to complete missions and take down Fallen Angels. Ichi has to complete a trial set by Olivia to become MC's cooking attendant.

Chance Meeting: Ichi encounters a standoffish blond man in the forest who may not be a human. (Hmmm could this "person" really be a... could that race from the legends, still have survivors?)

Light Kingdom

Tiramisu: Ichi passes the official test. Olivia wants to remodel. She sends MC out with the Food Soul Tiramisu to get building materials.

Cooperate and Get Through the Area: Thanks to Sky City, Light Kingdom is protected from Fallen Angel and the citizens live in harmony with nature.

MC and Tiramisu talk about how Food Souls work and how Olivia taught them to think and do for themselves. Their 'subjective thinking' can be different than their contractor 'to the point that it might contradict the contract'.

Follow: MC tries to talk to Rice about subjective thinking but she's confused. She's just barely learned to talk more clearly. They set off to save Food Souls who were accompanying the person delivering building materials and were attacked.

Clear the Way: They think it was the hooded stranger and investigate the area.

Doubts and Suspicious: We see Food Spirits can die. Boston Lobster to the stranger: With this act, you've reached the point of no return; your hands are stained with the blood of the pure. There is no turning back now. You must complete this journey to gain your freedom.

The stranger says that Food Soul bodies are needed for him to survive. He tells the group that Fallen Angels were originally Food Souls. Boston Lobster turns on the stranger and kills him before injecting the dying Food Soul with a syringe, and it becomes a Fallen Angel.

Rice is upset at the truth and starts to spill something: All this time... I..

From what I remember, Rice was one of the Food Souls in the war long past, so she may thinking of all the Fallen Angels they killed. She has amnesia so she doesn't remember much.

Ichi sees that the stuff in the syringe was made by 'Nevras Academy'. They study magical tools and made the crystals that are used for summoning Food Souls.

It's nice to be back in this world especially without having to worry about battling. I'd like to get this again for my next challenge to continue. I'm not sure how I'll do the event and other stories.