Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"(I may have run into a scattered eye... uhh...)"

Eve, who was forced to stop the work by the water dragon, seemed to be very dissatisfied with the current situation, while thanking the water dragon for stopping the work beyond its limits.... instead of forcing it to stop, there might have been another way to stop it - for example, by speaking up.

After the emergency shutdown of the machine, it was adjusted so that proper udon appeared again, and Eve, who cleaned his body with magic, managed to finish cooking in the morning by making it more efficient. But it's still not perfect... It seems that a few of them were to leave without cooking.

"(Why are customers so focused on Eve and the others...?)"

Even though they were not cooking in a particularly densely populated area, the evening bakery had an overwhelming number of visitors compared to other districts. Specifically, it was as many as two digits, and in other districts, it seemed that the idle birds were ringing.

Eve and the others who knew it seemed to have had a complicated mood.... the fact that there are so many people coming in as repeaters is welcome as a cook in itself, but there is nothing we can do about the current situation where too many people will impose a burden on ourselves and on those who come to cook.

As a result, Eve and the others decided to hold an operational meeting. The agenda is about further streamlining. Efficiency in cooking has already been achieved close to its limits, but in view of the current situation, we have not been able to take sufficient measures... We were looking for more efficiencies beyond our limits.

"It might be easier if you set a rule that you shouldn't participate in cooking places outside your area...."

Before we get to the point, let's just say Eve is right. If the quiet birds are ringing in other cooking places, why don't you just make the rules so that they don't come to Eve cooking in lots of spaces away? And it seemed that the others were nodding in her whisper.

However, her proposal was not very acceptable to those in other districts. In the sense of reducing the burden on Eves, it is a quick way to distribute the load, but when compared to densely populated areas and less densely populated areas, for example, there is a high probability that there will be a large bias in the number of people in the town that needs to be dealt with.... Now, it should only be annoying to make rules from other district representatives. Looking at Eve's tragic current situation, it must have been too much.

And most importantly, Eve and his group were the only ones attending the meeting. In other words, Eve and the others could not change the burden of cooking places in other districts on their own, and it was only one of the plans.

Therefore, the hunter, who realized that rule-making was unrealistic, opened his mouth in a sad manner.

"Even though we can propose to the neighborhood as a request, it's not up to us to decide, so it's hard to make new rules right away... At least we won't make it in time for lunch."

"Maybe...."

I have to think about lunch first... Eve turned his head full and tried to twist the idea for lunchtime cooking.

"(We may need to be more efficient, but if we go any faster, we may not be able to keep Eve's bodies...)"

The speed itself could be increased. Waltz's all-automatic udon maker is able to produce udon at a rate that exceeds Eve's health limits, replenishing wheat and water. If I could devise a way, I would be able to reduce the workload while increasing the speed than I am now.

Specifically, methods such as making it easier to supply wheat, water, and condiments that Eve is carrying were considered. However, even if Eve's burden decreases, the situation of the hunters in the downstream process gets worse... It didn't solve the problem.

But Eve was also aware of that.... She seemed to be thinking of another option.

"... we'll have to cook the whole town of Vixen with Eve, won't we?

Eve's remarks seemed to point in the opposite direction to resolving the current overload situation. Hunters who didn't immediately understand what she was saying react.

"No, no, Eve. What are you talking about? If you do that, it'll put an extra burden on us, right?

But Eve shook his head sideways.

"Yeah, you might think it's going to decrease.

"What do you mean?

"If we gather the people in charge of cooking all over town in one place and cook together, the people in charge of cooking who hardly have much to do because they don't have a lot of people come to cook, right? And vice versa, maybe the more loaded Eves work less, huh?

"I see... If you cook in one place and bring it to each district, you can improve efficiency and even taste. It's not bad."

"Yeah, that's what I mean. Eve and I may not be the only ones to decide... but can we do something about it?

Eve's proposal was the same idea as the so-called lunch center. By aggregating the facilities that can produce meals in one place, we can maintain the amount of food that we make while ensuring quality.

"That's right... Why don't we talk about it?"

The hunter who so decided took the radio. The contact is Cortex. I decided to talk to her, who could exercise her power, about how we could improve Eve, which we could not deal with alone.