23 - The New Friends

"I feel like I need more tama-hagane, but I don't have enough level to handle it."

"I have to blacksmith."

"Help me hunt lizards when I get up there!"

"Yes, sir."

"Yes, yes, yes."

"By the time I get up there, I'll be able to dig for tama-hagane."

On the way to the temple, I asked a resident how much he could get for it, and was surprised to find out that it cost quite a bit. I was surprised to find out that it costs quite a bit. I was told that it is sometimes brought in from abroad, but that it is not available in this country and can be sold in stores in the capital.

< is even higher than that, and it is almost impossible to find it in this country.

The difference in price between <> and <>,<> was close to ten times. I heard that <> can be found in the north of this town. If the selling price is ten times as much as the buying price, I wonder what the buying price will be.

We decided to improve our production skills and put off exchanging all of us for now.

"It's going to be a long time before we can get anything other than <>, so we might as well convert them to gold and use the money to improve our production skills.

After registering at the temple, we were looking for an inn as dinner was about to be served in the real world. After dinner, we will be free to do whatever we want, whether it be producing or fishing.

The liberated towns are connected to each other by regular carriages. If you kill a boss, register a transfer stone, and use the transfer gate of the temple, you can move around in an instant, but the fee for this service is high.

It is said that a user logged out in the carriage, went to bed in the real world, and returned the next day to find that the carriage had been left at the desired location. I wonder if there will be a lot of players sleeping on the cobblestones of the plaza.

I caught a resident on the street and asked him where the inn was, and when I went there, I found Roy and his friends in front of the inn, beckoning me. Why?

"Oh!　It's been a while!"

Leo greets him without a trace of disrespect.

"Ah, it's been a while. I ran into the black lilies here earlier, and they were getting into so much trouble that I had to switch lodgings."

"Bu, let's not go in there."

I agree, I don't want to get involved.

"I think that's a good idea, my name is Shirayuri."

She is a fluffy-looking beauty in a white robe. She is a thin blonde elf, slightly smaller than normal in stature. Her bosom, which is not exposed but has soft fabric flowing around it, looks soft as well, giving her an even fluffier impression. Her name suggests that she might be involved with black lilies.

I am Dawn.

This is a big stern man, though he is not so tall. He is a manly man with dark hair, dark eyes, dark skin, and scars on his face.

"I'm Claud."

This person is also human, and he has a cane, so he must be in the same profession or a recovery worker.

"I'm Momiji," "I'm Kaede.

They look like twins. Momiji is a boy and Kaede is a girl. They are the smallest in height, and unlike Kikuhime, Kaede has breasts, but not to the point of imbalance. They are both cat-type beastmen.

They each gave their names and followed Roy and the others, who said they had heard of another inn.

They had to replenish their supplies before going to defeat the boss, and when they went to the inn to rest, they met up with Kuroyuri. He learns that the residents will tell him the same inn when he vaguely asks them where it is. Next time, I will ask them about inns with good food and baths, etc.

"I was asked whether I preferred the inn with a bath or the inn with good food, and I gave priority to the bath because I stayed in the field yesterday, so don't expect good food.

"Don't worry, I'll take the food from Homura."

And beer after your bath, too, right?

"You guys can go to ......."

I don't mind that I'm getting most of the ingredients, but you're totally turning into a cook.

And Shin, don't reveal too much of your skills to others, you got pissed off by Ochazuke once in another game!

But Shin is stepping on his foot with a smile on his face. Yes, he seemed to be having a hard time with all the rude production requests at that time.

"Do you cook, Homura-san?"

Shirayuri looks up at me and asks, "What are you doing here?

"Homura," she says, "No need to say 'Ms.'" I reply, "No need to say 'Ms.' at all. I don't know why you're making the food for the party.

"Then you can call me by my name, too. I see that Homura produces while fighting.

"I was just grilling Leo's fish and everyone else's meat that dropped in."

"I've heard that it's hard to improve production unless you get a rating of 5 or higher, but isn't it hard to improve?

Clough interjects from the side.

Yes, you usually have to work hard to make low recipes. When you can make a recipe consistently, you move on to the next recipe and level up again.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

"Leo, is that the Leo you fished out of the Lord?"

Fortunately, the conversation switched.

"Maybe?"

"Is it a maybe?"

"I couldn't hear the world announcement because of a bug."

Singh comes to the rescue.

"He says he's got two titles, so I'm pretty sure it's this Leo."

It's amazing he didn't hear it himself."

I had the impression that the strategy group was a dry, efficiency-oriented group that competed for strength, but Roy and his group were friendly and open. There are others like Black Lilies, but I decided to stop being prejudiced. He even apologized when the black lilies, who should have had almost nothing to do with him, got involved with him.

"I did choose the bath," he said.

I don't think it's necessary for the food to be self-serve.

I'll ask him where the restaurant or the street vendor is.

"It's too hard to go outside now, Dr. Homura."

"I'll give it to you, but I didn't buy extra ingredients, so it'll have to be pre-made, and there won't be enough vegetables, okay?"

"By all means."

"Flesh and blood is welcome."

Roy's party is breaking down in what looks like a rest area with free-standing desks and chairs at the inn, where it turns out the meals are self-catering. Is there no cook here?

"You can have some of that if you want."

They will know that my cooking skills are a little weird, but it would be a little strange if I didn't invite them here.

"Oh, you don't mind?　Then I'll at least offer you meat."

Meat again.

Let's pick vegetables, pick vegetables.

The meat we received was sheep sheep, which is definitely lamb.

It was on the bone, so I thought it was supposed to be grilled as it was, so I made it into a herb-roasted rib steak. The only vegetable was watercress!

By the way, the herbs are herbs that I bought to repel insects. Don't worry, it's also good with meat.

And now, Shin and Roy are ready. They are having a conversation that, from the outside, seems to be going badly, and they are getting excited in a mysterious way.

Ochazuke is drinking coffee while watching. Leo is already sinking after drinking a beer even though he can't drink.

Kikuhime and Dawn are drinking without any hesitation, but Dawn is a bit taken back by how much Kikuhime drinks. She is a good drinker, as they say, "Beer is water. She's winning against the big guy! I don't know what she gets out of it, though.

And I served the loquat tart after dinner, and Shirayuri was smiling at me, but I'm afraid she's still eating it. How many are you going to eat?　I couldn't help but make more!

Peter is looking at the day lilies, and the twins miss him. Loli-shota!

Peter looks at me with a shiver, as if he heard my heart.

Rorikon

I gave him a smile and a mouthful, and he was muffled.

"Are you always like this?"

Claud speaks to me. In his hand is a cup of tea with brandy, one of the few tea drinkers in the group.

"It's always like this, how about you?"

"I didn't know that Shirayuri has such a sweet tooth, let alone Roy."

He is looking at me with concern, beyond a don't-know-what. I'm raising the light level in the room with the light as well as raising my own light magic. They must think it's a strange party.

"Homura-san's cooking is delicious no matter what you eat.

Clau smiles and compliments me. He's the type of person I've never seen around me before, and I've always wondered if he's actually black-hearted when I see someone so calm. It is completely because of Ochazuke and Peter. Peter is not so much black-hearted as he is refreshingly awful.

"I have yet to achieve a rating of 10, even with the initial recipe. Is Sheep Sheep a demon of secant?　And please don't call me that."

"Thank you. You can call me by my name, too. Yes, I'm a demon widely distributed in the grasslands of Sekan. We used to have a cow on the farm. Are you from Sir?

"No, actually ......"

When I tell them that Leo wanted to have a big adventure and went straight through the forest to the north, they pause and then start laughing with their mouths clamped shut. Yeah, it's weird.

"No, excuse me. We thought that defeating new enemies and bosses was fun and an adventure, but I guess there are adventures like that. That sounds more fun than camping out on the streets."

After a short laugh, he says in an amused tone.

We then talked about novels in the real world, and we discovered that we share the same reading habits, so we had an unexpectedly pleasant conversation, sometimes becoming polite as we were caught up in Claud's polite language. In the real world, my tone of voice is naturally different, and talking with Klaue is a trap that makes me feel like I'm revealing my true self.

After all, talking with Shin was a lot of fun, we are going to defeat the black lilies before the black lilies!　Roy and his team changed their plans to take a break after the defeat. I gave them a simple map that I had drawn and traced while looking at the map, so it should be somewhat easier to find the boss, even though there are no landmarks.

We then packed breakfast for Claud and sent him on his way.

"Well, good luck with the fight!"

"Have a good day!"

Thank you!　See you later."

"Well, I'm going to take a bath and go to bed.

There were room and large bathrooms. The baths are open to the public during the daytime, just as the innkeepers at Fast open their dining rooms to the public during the daytime. At the moment, we are the only guests in the inn, so we are occupying the large bath.

Kikuhime is alone next to me.

I don't think it would be a big deal if we took a bath together, though, since she is wrapped in a bath towel and is in another dimension.

"I want an open-air bath.

"I'm looking forward to the Japanese implementation."

"Sake..."

"I'd love to moon-watch sake in the open air - I don't think I could do that in the real world."

Give me a beer now instead!"

Leo is swimming and can do whatever he wants just because no one else is around.

"Homura is quite muscular - I couldn't tell by his robe and coat.

"Shin not only has stubble, he's got shin hair, too."

"It was a set with a stubble skin, so I used it as is."

"Is Peter a thin macho man?"

"Normal, normal. I'm an elf."

Something about looking at each other's characters.

"Ha-ha-ha-ha!"

Leo, well, he's not going to say anything. Don't splash us.

After Shin and Peter are boiled, we get out of the bath and go to our rooms to talk about the day's harvest.

Don't drink in the bath in the real world, it's dangerous and you'll collapse.

"Oh, by the way, the bracelet you gave me was a Vit.

I guess it's the same.

Are all the bosses in the town opening the same?

"Lizard Slayer does 1.5x damage to lizards. Does lizard include dragons?

No, of course not.

"It seems like all the slayer types do 1.5x more damage and the whole party is compensated."

"If there are six people, is it six times more?"

No, that's not true.

"I've got a short cane from Dade Lizard, do you want to use it for oatmeal?"

"Use it, use it."

"I got a dagger. Do we all have different weapons?"

Shin had a dagger, Leo and I had a dagger, and the rest had gloves.

While Ochazuke and Shin exchanged their daggers and gloves, I exchanged with Peter. I don't need either the glove or the dagger, so I just sell them off.

"Speaking of which, what was Homura's magic?"

"[The power to turn] is the reward for the announcement of the release of the riddle. I'm not going to go into detail because it would be too much like explaining the riddle of the temple.

"It's nice and flashy!"

"Please do it for the next boss.

Ochazuke's eyes look like ³ marks.

I've finished preparing dinner during the day and just need to heat it up, I'll take a bath when I log out, it should be morning here if I log in around 19:00.