483 - - Episode 481 Liberation from Dilemma

After giving up on the arbitration between Sylphy and Dineh, the last remaining house of Vita was set up in Mohammed Kingdom. I was surprised at Vita's taste in choosing a house that matched the forest regardless of the price of the house, but, well, it's eel time.

"This is ...... impossible."

I went to the cafeteria in the village of spirits to ask for Ruby's help in cooking eels. The cafeteria was packed with little spirits who had come to visit paradise, and they were chomping down on the food and desserts with delicious looks.

It's a very peaceful scene, which is why I can't ask Ruby, who is busily cooking the dishes, to cooperate.

If I do so, the expressions of the young spirits who are excitedly waiting for their turn at the counter will be tinged with despair.

I can make it myself. It would be less trouble to explain to Ruby and have her make it for me, and I could change it to a later date, but ...... I can't help it since my stomach is craving for eel and won't accept the change.

I quietly leave the diner and head for the soy sauce warehouse.

I arrive at the soy sauce warehouse, soothed by the floating spirits and the lower class spirits that sometimes come by to say hello.

It is very moving to think that the seasoning that is the soul of the Japanese is completed in this brewery. The miso warehouse next to the soy sauce warehouse also attracts me, but I go straight to the soy sauce warehouse because my main dish today is eel.

I guess miso soup with eel is fine, but it would be a waste if we don't enjoy miso as the main dish.

Miso soup is a given, but just adding miso to stir-fried vegetables is delicious, and meat miso, pork ......, or even oak meat marinated in miso would be irresistible. Oh, just thinking about it makes me want to eat it with hot white rice.

"Aww?"

I hear a questioning voice from Sakura, who has been sitting on my chest, perhaps noticing my disturbed state of mind. Oh man, I was going to indulge in the charms of soy sauce today, but now I'm about to flirt with miso. I'm going to try eel today.

I open the door to the soy sauce cellar, patting Sakura's head for reminding me of my original intention. I wonder if it's just me and Sakura now, since we've all left for our own paradise. This is quite unusual since Belle and the others are usually with Sakura.

I temporarily put aside this unusual situation with Sakura for a moment, when I smell the aroma of soy sauce wafting from inside the soy sauce warehouse.

"Oh, that's right. ......"

I look into the vat of soy sauce with excitement, but realize that I have forgotten the most important thing.

The vat is still in a state of . I have to squeeze out the soy sauce from here.

But, well, it's all right. If this was in Japan, it would take longer, but this is another world. Other worlds have their own convenient means. We can simply ask the water spirits to separate the soy sauce.

Well, the question is whether to ask Dine or Rain.

Rain is probably playing with Master Water, and Dine is probably still struggling with Sylphy.

...... yeah. Rain. It's a pity to summon him while he's playing, but it's too scary to leave the soy sauce to Deanne, who's probably very excited.

"Cue?　Cue!　Cu-cu!"

What happened to Rain who summoned you?　After tilting his head, he asked, "Are you working?　Are you working?　He is happy to see her. Intensely cute.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you while you're playing with Master Water. I need you to separate the sludge into liquid and solid like Dene did when she tasted it.　

"Cue!　Cue cue!"

Rain salutes with a "yessir" as he flicks his fins. I'm glad that he is working so hard, but I'm a little sad that he hasn't forgotten the black history that he committed in the heat of the moment.

"...... I'll put the jar of containers out here, and you can have half of this."

"Cue!"　

Raine, with a motivated reply, stares at the vat and flaps his fins. The mash in the vat slowly swirls and the long-awaited black liquid begins to separate in a whirlpool.

It's not supposed to be a pretty picture, but the thought of the black serpentine liquid being soy sauce makes it all the more beautiful.

"Cue!"

I check the inside of the urn, which is filled with unyung and soy sauce, and find that about half of the urn is filled with black liquid, just as I requested.

This is the state of the soy sauce, right?　He takes a teaspoon out of his magic bag and tastes it.

...... Yeah. The slightly different feeling I had when I tasted it before is gone, and I can taste that this is soy sauce. I feel like my lacrimal gland is about to collapse. .......

Well, I think it's saltier than my image of soy sauce, but that can be adjusted later.

"Thank you, Rain. You did a perfect job."

"Cue cue. Cue cue!"

The dilemma is that he can't use soy sauce for fear of running out, and he is starved for soy sauce even though he has it in his magic bag.

I am now completely freed from this dilemma.　

I stroke Rain with pleasure. Sakura, who had asked to join me in petting him, joined me in petting him even more.

I think I cried while I was stroking Rain and Sakura, but I'll pretend it was my imagination.

Today is a memorable day!

"Phew. ...... Well, I'm going to be a little busy now, so Rain and Sakura, go play with the others."

"Cue!"

"Ah!"

Rain and Sakura fly away in a good mood. Sakura didn't want to leave me until a while ago, but she was satisfied with my full nudging.

It's possible that she was just concerned about my crying, but I'll pretend I didn't notice that.

I'm now ......1 a person, but here's the real deal.

Eels are natural. Ruby has them processed, skewered and grilled.

Then, all that's left is the sauce. It is difficult to make a sauce with the depth of a specialty restaurant, but if I make a sauce that ruins the taste of the eel, everything will be ruined, so I cannot make a mistake.

In front of the soy sauce cellar, he takes out a grilling rack, makes a fire, and gets ready to cook.

Now, the sauce for kabayaki eel is simple to make, so I know the ingredients. All you have to do is mix soy sauce, sake, mirin, and sugar, and boil them down ......, but the problem is the cooking sake and mirin.　

Grilled eel on the kabayaki grill is sure to be a big hit with the spirits.

Then, even if we make sauce with seasonings brought from Japan, it will not last. Then we will have to make it with ingredients from around the world.

Here are some ingredients that could be used for eel sauce.

...... Soy sauce and sugar are no problem. Cooking sake and mirin can only be made from distilled liquor made by ...... nomos. ......?

It sounds incredibly difficult, but it's just like mixing curry. You just have to add seasonings little by little and adjust the taste.

You only need a few ingredients, so you can handle it!　It should be .......

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I managed.

The amount of liquid in the sauce increased, and the amount of liquid in a small pot increased from a medium pot to a large pot, but I managed it.

I don't even understand what and how much I put in to get this taste, but I managed it.

Well, Ruby will do the mass production on her own, and now that soy sauce can be mass-produced, I'm sure Toruku will be interested in it. I guess we'll just throw it all in his face.

All we have to do is bake it.

Three years on the spit, eight years ripping and a lifetime of baking?　I don't think we can make the best kabayaki because none of them are quite enough, but since we have worked so hard, we should be able to make a kabayaki that we are satisfied with. I believe that.

I take out the kabayaki from the magic bag and place them on the grill. Since the eel is freshly grilled, the fat of the eel seeps right out from the charcoal and falls down to the coals.

The aroma of eel rises with the white smoke.

With that aroma, the shiroyaki is lifted up and plunged into the jar containing the sauce.

Now the fat of the eel will mingle with the sauce and the flavor of the sauce will deepen. If you keep adding the sauce over and over again, you will have a great sauce for eels. This is the first step.

"Hmm?"

Come to think of it, the lifespan of a spirit is so long that even Sylphy and the others don't know, right?　If it's bad, how many tens of thousands of years of eel sauce will eventually be perfected?

I can't even imagine how good it would taste, but it makes me feel a little sad to think that I won't be alive when it happens.

Such sentimental feelings were instantly blown away when the eel sauce fell on the charcoal fire.

The aroma is violently appetizing.

The smell of burning sweet and spicy soy sauce sauce is supposed to be a nostalgia-inducing scent ......, but for me who is starved for soy sauce, it is now a criminal scent, and just smelling it makes my mouth water and my stomach rumble.

Can I take a bite of this already?

It's only been dipped in sauce once, and it shouldn't have been cooked long enough, but it looks shinier than a gem.

My heart is about to run out of control without shame or shame, but I force it down with my tiny conscience that wants to taste it with everyone else, and one after another, I dip the rest of the shiroyaki into the sauce and put them on the grilling table.

The aroma of kabayaki gets stronger with each repetition. ...... The thick natural eel glows brown from the sauce and the fat that seeps out, and the aroma of the slightly burnt sauce fascinates me with its ineffable charm.

This kabayaki eel may have a magical charm that even surpasses those of Beryl's succubus. My reason is on the verge of collapse.

I can't wait any longer!

I take out a bowl of white rice from my magic bag and pour some eel sauce on the shining white beautiful rice.

The shining white rice turns brown and gives off an ineffable, immoral allure. I could have had another bowl of rice just for this, and then I put the shiny, shiny kabayaki on top of it and remove the skewer.

Now ......

"Eel bowl, done!"

Unintentionally, I raise my bowl of eels to the sky like some lion king raising his cubs to the sky.

"What?"

I should be looking up to the heavens with my bowl of eels and being blessed by the sun, but for some reason ...... all I can see is a tightly packed wall of spirits.

Yeah, why for a moment?　I thought, well, of course. It's the same reason why the smell of curry attracts the inhabitants of the labyrinth city.

As a proof, the smoke rising from the grill was so thick with spirits that I suspected it was pressed.

And among the spirits gathered there are, of course, my contracted spirits and lower class spirits, as well as my disciples' contracted floating spirits. There are also the rubies who are supposed to be running the store, and the spirit kings.

The spirit kings, perhaps to make their presence known, are giving off an incredibly conspicuous air, and the lovely spirits who have come to visit Paradise are looking at us with a wink.

No, they are staring at the bowl of eels that I hold up to the sky.

I couldn't stand it any longer, so I was going to eat the bowl by myself, but the atmosphere was unforgivable. Even imitating to eat it is a life-threatening situation. .......

"Well, I'm going to grill a lot, so let's eat it together at night..."

Amidst exploding cheers, my hell begins. Amidst this hunger, I'm going to grill eels and endure until nightfall?　I could die: .......