130-Chapter 8-6 Yakiniku Meet

It's a lot easier to dismantle them when you have all these people here.

We rented the dismantling place attached to the guild and dismantled the bicorn. The ones who actually dismantled it were me, Jin, Garratt, and Blanca. The whole instruction was given by Aguri, Grandpa kept the surroundings clean with water magic and wind magic, while the ladies and grappler ape and others did their chores.

''Even so, I didn't know they had a use for recovery magic like that...''

The use of such a spell was to cast a spell on the bicorn's corpse. In this way, the small wounds on the bicorn's body could be cleaned out. Probably, even if the bicorn is dead, by casting a spell on the body cells while they are still alive, the cells will be activated and the wounds will heal. However, if you cast a spell on a large demon like a bicorn, it will consume a lot of magic power, so it is difficult for an ordinary wizard to do so, and even if you cast a spell on something of low value, you will lose money in total, so it seems that not many people do it. By the way, Aguri told me this. Grandpa didn't know it either, and he looked a little frustrated.

'Gee.'

Geeee.

Gee.

The ones sounding like these combatants are Agri's grappler apes. I thought they were doing something with the water that my grandfather had just produced, but it looks like they were washing the guts of the bicorn with the apes. He finished that and brought it to me.

'Thanks. Wash your hands, then you can rest. Take this with you too.

""Geeee!"

I handed Ape and the others a bag of skewers and they all bowed their heads and took the bag with them. They are quite well behaved, perhaps because of the good education of Aguri. He looks at Ape and the others with envy, and I want my two dogs to learn from him.

When I told Aguri about it, he said, "They're in front of Tenma, so they must be quiet. Those apes know that I'm the master of Shiroumaru and the others, plus I've defeated the earth dragon and the wyvern, so they're trying not to offend me. In fact, they were three quite air-readers.

These apes are eating spit-roasted food with our servants. Since Shiroumaru and Solomon were drooling over the spit-roast, they couldn't put their hands on the spit-roast, so they served the same to all three of us.

The skin is done, Temma, take it with you. And here's the core, and here's the fig and the ball. The oil under the skin is in a bucket over here.

Jin calls me over and hands me what he's finished taking. I also put the other internal organs, such as the heart and liver, in the magic bag. Aside from the heart, the liver and other organs are probably not going to be eaten because of the concerns about parasites and because they can be used as medicine. To prove it, the intestines that Ape and the others washed were placed in a bucket of oil and separated from the others. There are five buckets of oil, and they must weigh more than 100 kilograms in total.

I forgot to mention that the bones must be cleaned off. Smaller ones as much as possible, but make sure the bigger ones are.

What's it for?

I was thinking of using it to repair the Tanikaze. The Tanikaze is almost completely broken and needs major repairs, so I thought I'd make some improvements as well.　

When I told my grandfather about the Tanikaze remodeling plan, he listened to me with great interest. The current plan is to use the bones and core of a bicorn to strengthen and lighten the inside of the body, and to use the scales of a ground dragon for the exterior to increase its strength.

That sounds interesting! If I had the materials, I'd want to make one too!

To make a golem as good as Tanikaze, it's impossible to do so with the materials you can find on the street. Furthermore, Tanikaze relies heavily on Slarin to start up, so there's no point in just making a container for it.

But this time, I'm going to try to make something that will have high performance without Slarin. The scorpion-shaped golem I made a while ago, which I gave to Jeanne and Aura, as well as a golem for royalty, are close to my ideals at the moment, so I'm going to try to apply the technology from that time. It might take some time, but Tanikaze is my precious family, so I must definitely do it.

Temma, we're halfway done. Why don't we take a break here?

I turned around when I heard Aguri's words and saw that the bicorn had been carved into a carcass and the right half of the bicorn had been blocked off by part.

'Right. It's about time for dinner, let's grill the meat and eat it.

""We've been waiting for you!"

The ones who reacted immediately to my suggestion were Jin, Garratt and Amur. And although they didn't say it aloud, Shiroumaru and the others were pleased.

The meat is cooked on the griddle, mainly the lean parts, the kalbi and spare ribs, and the hormones. I really wanted to eat it on the grill, but I gave up on it as I would have to go inside the dungeon or outside the city if I didn't have to worry about the smoke.

The seasoning is also basically salt, and the rest is just a sauce mixed with fish sauce, sugar, and sake, which is then poured over the meat and grilled.　

''Oh! Yum!

Half life is best!

Another.

You three, please eat on this side of the table.

The first to put the meat in their mouths were the three who were cheering. All three of them brought the meat to the table half-raw, so their hands turned faster than everyone else's. When Leena noticed this, she fixed the three of them in one place and made an effort to make sure they could eat slowly. Moreover, she was very thorough in arranging the vegetables between the three of them.

The hormones are good, but we can't eat so many of them.

Yeah.

Grandpa and Aguri were eating hormones and talking with each other. Even the wise man can't seem to compete with the waves of age.

Mmm, it's nice to feel like you're eating meat when you bite into a bone.

'You're right. But Garratt's bones look better on him than they do on me.

Of course. Here, Shiroumaru.

Blanca held the spare ribs directly in her hands and bit into them with gusto. He then feeds the bone, which still has meat on it, to Shiroumaru. Following that, Menace also handed the bone he was eating to Solomon.

'Gee-gee,'

Geeeeee.

Geeeeee!

Ape and the others ate their favorite parts, too. However, they occasionally threw the hot meat into their mouths and burned themselves, screaming.

Thus, they consumed dozens of kilograms of meat. The bicorn meat was low in fat, rich in flavor, and quite tasty.

However, if there was one problem, it would be that it smelled too good. The barbecue was done in a corner of the demolition place, so the smell reached the guild and the staff got angry at me.

''The butchers will be profitable today.

Everyone nodded at my mutterings. If we continued like this, we were going to be kicked out of the guild, so my grandfather and I set up a ward around it. This made it a little smoky, but the smell wouldn't leak outside. When the roast meat is finished, we can use wind magic to carry the smoke to the outside. Just be careful of carbon monoxide poisoning while roasting meat, but.......

I told everyone to take precautions, such as making sure there was plenty of ventilation when using the fire. They all stopped reaching for their meat after hearing my words, but Amur was the only one to say "umami-umami," and he took a moment to eat his share of the meat.

After that, a battle without honor and humanity over the meat ensued, and the guild officials were ordered to leave. Even though they haven't finished dismantling the bicorn yet....

At any rate, it's too dark and time sensitive to do it outside, so we're going to continue outside the city tomorrow morning. I didn't give everyone else veto power. Because I made them promise to demolish the bicorn meat on the condition that they eat it, and as long as they haven't demolished it, they're under contract with me. I won't allow you to eat away.

''Then meet me outside the south gate tomorrow morning. If you don't show up I'm going to unleash the Shiroumaru. You won't get away.

On!

Shiroumaru was motivated and barked at the djinn and the others. He seems to know which one of them, Aguri or the djinn, is going to break his promise.

''I won't run away!''

Everyone laughed at Jin and Garratt, who were the first to react. When the punchline was reached, they broke up, but half of them had the same place to go, so it didn't feel like they broke up much.

''Alright, now that we're all here, let's start the continuation of yesterday!

Yes! I'll do my best!

It was Amy who responded cheerfully. When I returned to the apartment yesterday, I gave her some meat as a gift, and she was interested in the bicorn at that time, so she followed me to the demolition today.

By the way, Aimee has no experience in demolishing demons, so she won't be an asset, but she will be asked to do her best as part of the scullery crew. Well, according to my grandfather, Aimee is close to my apprentice in terms of appearance, so it is my role to help her gain this kind of experience. By the way, Aimee's family members, Eee-chan and Shi-chan, are also with her.

It's a good idea to have a good time with them. I'll take care of tanning the skins, and the djinn will proceed with the dismantling as instructed by Aguri. The ladies will do miscellaneous tasks I'll have them build the furnace first. If there's anything else you need, I'll let you know. Slarin and the rest of the household are to stop or repel the demons and idiots who are drawn to our scent. I'll leave that decision to Slarin.

Thus began the continuation of yesterday's work. The first thing we did was to set up the demolition platform, which I made with my magic by hardening the soil and putting a wooden board on top of it. And I have two platforms. One for dismantling and the other for disposing of the skin.

'We'll disinfect the platforms first, everyone step away.

I'll burn the table with fire magic and disinfect the board with boiling water. Finally, I'll finish disinfecting with a final coat of cure and antidote as a precaution. Now we can get to work.

We waited until the heat of the board had cooled down, and then we dispersed to our work.

We'll take care of the skin, but first let's get the excess fat off.

The djinn take the fat off when they peel it off, but it's still on the smallest parts, so I use a mithril knife to scrape it clean off. Once that was done, I washed it once, and now I shaved the surface hairs. That's the end of the prep work. And the last thing.....

Slarin, please.

It's all thrown to Slarin. To begin with, they say that to tan the skin, they use alum or tannin from the salted skin. They say there are other ways to tan the skin by chewing it, but I don't know where you can get alum, and I don't know if you can do it with tannin, although it's in tea and so on. And you can probably chew it if it's a small one, but not if it's this big.

So I'm relying on slarin' when I'm in trouble. The tanning process removes fat and protein from the skin to soften it, so we ask Slarin to melt the fat that we couldn't remove and soften it while we're at it. The soap made from Slarin's bodily fluids would have a moisturizing effect on my hair and skin, so I think it would work better than I thought. If it fails, if it doesn't work with Slarin, there's no way around it.

Slarin took the bicorn skin I gave him into his body and went straight back to Shiroumaru and the others.

I looked at the rest of the work as this one is finished, Emilie is piling up stones to make the hearth, and it looks like it's only halfway done. However, the three women are making the hearth on their own, so there are four hearths in the process of being made. Well, since there are so many of us eating at the same time, there is no need to have so many cookers. In fact, we may need more than four.

As for the djinn, it looks like the dismantling of the whole thing will be finished in a little while. Jin, Garratt and Blanca are the only ones working on it, but all three of them have more physical strength than anyone else, and since they went through the whole process yesterday, they are working fast.

Grandpa is sitting on a chair of his own making and using magic as needed. He doesn't have much to do because of the warding in the beginning, and he seems to have the most time on his hands.

Slarin' and the others seem to be playing around, but they are doing their job properly by taking up a position between us and those who are looking at us. Occasionally some of them would try to go around and look at us, but when they got closer than a certain amount, they would bark and get closer to us as a check.

'Temma! We're almost done over here, so go ahead and get the barbeque ready!

Jin said loudly, so Shiroumaru and the other foodies came to me at once. At the same time, there were others who tried to approach us, but Slarin was the first to notice them and instructed Shiroumaru to return them to their posts.

With Shiroumaru and his friends at my side, I put the wire mesh on the hearth that Amy and the others had made. I bought this wire mesh at the grocery store on my way home yesterday, and I bought a few pieces of it with the intention of using it a few times in the future. The wire mesh was a bit large compared to the stove, but it didn't seem to cause any problems, so we assembled the wood in the stove and lit the fire. I asked Menas and the others to take care of it until the fire was settled, and then I headed over to Shiroumar and the others.

'Slarin, we've had enough of this place. I'll get the golem out for you all.

Saying that, I took out a few golems and created a wall of dirt with a radius of about fifty meters around the hearth. It's roughly one meter high, so it's easy to climb over it if you want to, but the moment you do, the golems will knock you out. Even if we were to outsmart the golem, it would still make us its enemy.

This is not a bad thing, it's just a normal thing for adventurers to do, and if they come closer to us than this, it's an indication that they will be considered a hostile act. Those who know the rules would never come in.

Thus the second barbecue contest was held. Three men, four women, Aguri and Aguri's household, and me, my grandfather, and Slarin', who are frequent eaters, were assigned to use the hearth.

Today's barbecue was not only bicorn, but also leftover beef (from when we met Tida and her friends), pork (from orc and wild boar), and a few vegetables. The meat from the bicorn alone is not nutritious and I would get bored of it. And it's a waste of money...

Use the salt and yesterday's sauce. Okay, cheers to that.

""Pleased!"

This is how the yakiniku competition started, but there was quite a bit of unevenness in the way the amount of meat was reduced. Jin's group was the fastest, followed by the women's group with Amur, then me, and finally Aguri's group. However, the vegetables go down the other way around, with Aguri's place being the fastest, Amur and I's next, and Jinn's place last.

'I forgot to mention that we only have as much bicorn meat as we're serving. The rest of you can have the beef or pork.　

At these words, Jinn and Amur were complaining about the boo-boo, "We can do without the meat, you know? I said, and it quickly subsided. Everyone else looked like it was natural and started concentrating on the few bicorn meat pieces they had.

They say that people become silent when they eat crab, but it seems that they get noisy when it's grilled meat. It was so noisy that a crowd was beginning to form, in a position where the golem wouldn't start moving. Some of them mistakenly thought they could eat if they paid, and the golem was blocking them. But most of the crowd seemed to know the rules of the adventurers and were careful to watch out for those who were being blocked by the golem.

Although there was a bit of a commotion, the barbeque tournament ended successfully, and once we finished cleaning up, we decided to disperse on the spot. Well, just like yesterday, half of us have the same place to go home...

I'll be back in a minute.

Here we go again, Temma. I'm coming up on you.

I'll follow you.　　

Oh, I'll be there.

So I guess we're done here, then.

This is the fifth time I've stopped by. I've been stopping by every time I saw a grocery store or weapons store since a while ago, and finally my grandfather was taken aback by it. I've been told that the Sword of Dawn and Blanca are also leaving before me, and Amour and Amy are the only ones following me.

I'm looking for Mithril, and I've been buying all kinds of Mithril products since a while ago. They don't sell a lot of quicksilver, but I need a little bit of it to repair the Tanikaze. Ideally, I'd like one ton, but I'd like at least half that. The previous Tanikaze's body was mostly made of magical iron, so it sank before the bicorn's lightning magic. So this time, I'm thinking of focusing on Mithril to increase my resistance to magic.

It's not much more than a hundred kilograms when combined with what you have on hand, but it's a long way to go. Shall I talk to Master Ganz about it?

They say it's a good day to have an idea, and we'll go now.

We've arrived!

So we came to the master's workshop, and for some reason Aimee followed us, although Amour was just as I imagined, but for some reason Aimee followed us.

'You could have gone home first.

It was good.

Amur repeats my words as if he were imitating me. His voice has some spikes in it.

''I finished earlier than planned, so I'm bored. There's nothing to do when you return and.......couldn't I just follow you?

I can't say no if you say so. Amour also saw the sad expression on Amy's face and didn't say anything else.

''Is Master Ganz here?''

Temma what do you want?

When we visited the workshop, the master was writing something on the ground, but when he noticed me, he erased it with his foot. I guess it's something that can't be leaked to the outside world.

''I need a mithril... do you have one?''

Yeah, I got it. How much do you want it? Of course, I'll take the money.

The master laughed and opened the bag and stuck his hand in it. It was probably a magic bag that stored the material.

''Well I need about a ton of it.''

Are you kidding me?

Afterwards, he was lectured by his master. However, when I told him why I wanted it, he forgave me. After all, he said he could understand why he wanted a mithril as a craftsman. He said that every craftsman has experienced at least once that he couldn't make something because of a lack of materials, even though he knew how to make it.

He said, "Well, I'll sell you 20 kilograms or so. I'll ask my neighbors, but don't get your hopes up. Let's leave the money on that stand.

With that, the master took the mithril ingot out of his bag, placed it on a stand, and walked out of the workshop. He is going to ask me now. While the master was returning, I put down 2 million g, which is an additional 2 million g on top of the market price of 10 million g (500,000 g per kg, equivalent to 20 kg). Even though I put this much out, it doesn't hurt because I still have some reserves.

I'm back. Temma, I've managed to collect a hundred kilograms.

When he returned after about an hour, the master moved the money from the table to the edge of the table and left the mithril in the empty space.

I'll take it if you can get it now. If you can get it out now, I'll take it, but what do you want?

I heard that some of my master's acquaintances have studios in complicated places and are difficult to work with, so he or his apprentice should take the money with them. So I decided to leave the money with him with a word of thanks. By the way, the amount of money that I added to Oyakata's account was pushed back to me. My master said, "I can't have this money on top of my own.

As I left the workshop, I saw a few craftsmen who were ready to finish their work and go home. Since we had come all the way here, we decided to go to a shop and do some shopping and then go home.

I'm not sure what we'll have for dinner today.......since we had meat yesterday, we'll focus on vegetables, right?

Solomon squealed in protest at my muttering, but Shiroumaru remained quiet. Amy was surprised by this, but when I told her about yesterday's incident, she was convinced. However, it was Solomon who was most surprised by Shiroumaru's behavior. He seemed to be amused that his companion, who always took the initiative to protest, was quiet today. In the end, Solomon was the only one who made a fuss, so we decided on a vegetable-centric menu for dinner today.

I went straight home after shopping and said goodbye to Amy in front of the house. I gave her some bicorn meat as a gift, so maybe Amy and her friends' dinner will be barbecued meat... I thought it would be tough for Amy to have barbecued meat for two meals in a row, but she didn't seem particularly bothered by it.

Later on, when Amy's family found out that the bicorn meat was a super high quality product, they were going to be extremely concerned about it.