164-Chapter 10-9 The guy is here!

Well.....

I decided to pick a day when it was snowing and no one from the King's Castle was coming to visit, and I decided to organize my magic bag and dimension bag. The reason for this was that I took my grandpa and his friends to a tavern the other day.　

It's a good idea to make sure that you're not going to have to worry about your own personal safety.

That was largely due to my mismanagement, but it was also because if I put them in the magic bag, I could keep them almost permanently, I guess you could say. So I decided to check what was in the bag and get rid of the ones I didn't need.

I have seven magic bags now, four used and three unused, for a total of seven. I have five dimension bags: three used and two not used.

The magic bags used include those given to us by the gods, and the dimension bags are the ones used by Slarin and his friends, the one dedicated to Raiden, and the one we use for storage. The Slarin's bag is the widest because it is shared by all of their families except for Raiden, followed by the dedicated Raiden bag, then the unused bag and finally the storage bag.

The bags that serve as storage are filled with items that need to be stored for time (pre-finished miso, soy sauce, aged meat, etc.), and when they need to be separated between room temperature and low temperature, they are separated using the spare ones. Right now it's just miso and soy sauce, so there's only one bag instead of a storeroom.

"Just from a quick check, there's a lot of food-related stuff in there...

Most of the food is in the Magic Bag, but just from a quick check, nearly a third of it is food-related. There are ingredients, seasonings, and finished products in the bag, so it would not be a problem if I left them in there, but I guess that's why I ended up with so much food in the bag.

For now, I moved all the ingredients into the empty magic box and looked at the next most common ingredient-related items.

''As for the ones with a large number of ingredients, shall we go sell them next time?

I've decided to prioritize rare and frequently used materials, and sell the easily collected and unneeded materials to the Adventurer's Guild. Basically, I'll be selling low-ranked demon materials, but there are some B-ranked (or equivalent) or higher materials in there, so if I sell them all together, they'll be worth a good price.

This is also a temporary transfer to an empty magic bag, but in the middle of the process all the empty magic bags were full, so I stopped the process of transferring the materials, once I transferred the rest of the materials to the magic bag given to me by the gods, then I resumed the process.

''I guess we have a break now.　

After about two hours of work, we finished separating the contents of the magic bag.

The contents of the magic bag are divided roughly by type, but since there weren't enough of them in the magic bag alone, we used an empty dimension bag as well.

The categories are "Food and Ingredients", "Materials", "Weapons and Armor", "Items", "Money", "Items for Sale", "Garbage" and "Others". Some of the items in "Others" are furniture and carriages that couldn't be divided into smaller categories due to the number of bags available, while "Materials" and "Items" contain ingredients for medicines and drugs, so I'll have to re-sort them soon.

There was so much 'money' in there that I got tired of counting it, so I'm sorting it into boxes of different types in dimension bags.

'The problem is this...'

The most troublesome part of the sorting process was the items that were not needed at this point in time, but that it would be a waste to get rid of.

It is mainly divided into 'weapons and armor', and although there are some scratches, etc. that can be repaired and used, the performance is not as good as the one you're using now, and even if you throw it away, you're very attached to it, but even if you sell it, you won't get much of a price. If I have to say, I'll keep it as a spare? And the first thought comes back to........

'I suppose the right thing to do would be to throw these things out with a bang but I can't........'

After thinking about it for a while, I decided to put an order on it for myself and then get rid of the lower order ones and repair the higher order ones. However, since there are some things that don't fit even if repaired, I decided to give those things to Amy. It's not surprising that the school has practice and practice in the academy, so there will be opportunities to use it, and since it's an apprentice, it's not surprising to give it to them.

I'm going to take Aimee to visit Kelly's place next time.......Kelly is probably not busy.

Less adventurer activity means less work for Kerry, who does business with adventurers. Some adventurers may be reviewing their equipment at this time of year, but even so, there won't be that many.

It's a very good idea to have a good idea of what you're going to do with the wooden and leather items that you don't want, and you can talk to Kelly about the iron ones. Some of them could be for sale if we hammered them back together.

With that, I finished sorting the 'Weapons and Armor' and put the remaining items together in the dimension bag that held the 'money'. Then, in the empty magic bag, I put the items that I would ask Kelly to retype and discuss the disposal of.

''Will we start consuming the 'food/foodstuffs' today... or will we keep some of them, and will we have a banquet soon to consume the meat and other things at once?''

I was able to organize this one easily. Basically, I buy quite a bit of food and ingredients in bulk in one shopping trip and consume quite a bit in one meal, so maybe it's because I feel like I'm getting rid of what's left over at that time. The only reason I left some of that stuff behind was so that I would have some left over to eat during my adventures and requests. Later on, it's better to keep the rare and valuable items, like the meat of the white wild beef, in case of an emergency. And it's a waste to serve it at a party where you're going to have a lot of drunks.

The remaining 'food and foodstuff' was put into the magic bag given to me by the gods, and I decided to leave the portions I consumed with Jeanne and Aura. There's a decent amount there, but I've given the two of them a magic bag as well, so it wouldn't be a problem to give them all of it.

When I looked for them to organize the magic bag, I was in the middle of planning a dinner menu in the kitchen, and although they were pleased to see the increase in available ingredients, they were taken aback by the sheer volume of the bag. In addition, Shiroumaru and Solomon, who were waiting in the kitchen to get a snack from the two men, consumed nearly 10% of the food on the spot.

Sir, I picked up something weird!

Just as Shiroumaru and Solomon were finishing their snack, Amy came to the dining room, feeling flustered. Whatever it was, he picked it up just before the mansion, but I had to tell him not to pick up anything too strange.

'Amy, what if it's something dangerous?'

'I'm sorry ... but this strange fish (...) was frozen in front of the teacher's house with the 'teacher's family crest'!

I was about to pay attention first, when Amy released a disgusting word that I had a bad feeling about.

'Amy, get that (...) out here now!

Yes!

Amy tried to empty the mouth of the dimension bag that Oichan-Shih-chan is always in and take out a strange fish on ice from inside, but it's too big to move even with Oichan-Shih-chan's help, it seems.

"How did you get this in there, (...)?

Turning to Amy, I looked in my bag to get the strange fish out, and as I expected, I found Namitarou's iced fish inside.

'I asked the golem at the gate to help me.

Come to think of it, Amy, who could come and go in and out of this mansion at will, could give simple orders to the golem. Maybe it's because I usually refrain from doing so, but Aimee doesn't use the golem much, so I forgot about it.

''That reminds me.......good, right!　

Even I couldn't drag Namitaro out of the stone, so I summoned Gigant and took Namitaro out.

''Isn't this frozen to the core?''

It's very ticking.

Amy checked the hardness like a knock on the door, and next to her, Hai-chan Shi-chan was poking at the ticklish Namitaro.

'Temma, not dead on the stone, this?'

As expected of Namitaro, this isn't going to work for him...

Jeanne and Aura, who had been watching behind me until then, seem to think that Nami Taro, as expected, is unable to do so in this state. But the opponent is that Namitaro. This is not the kind of thing that will kill you.

"I'll take you to the bathroom now!　Thaw!

I feel like I could defrost it naturally, but it would be faster to defrost it in hot water. Sure enough....

The water could be hotter!

After coming up for air, Namitaro began to enjoy the bath. Jeanne and Aura, dumbfounded by its life force, went back because they had some work left to do.

Aimee seemed curious about the creature she was seeing for the first time, but perhaps because of my last 'dangerous thing' comment earlier, she didn't approach it carelessly.

'So why were you out in front of the mansion again with all your strength?

It was impossible for the fish to move through the snow. I managed to get right up to the mansion, but that was my limit!　You almost turned into 'Luive the Carp'!

I wouldn't eat it, even if it had become a rouve, and even if I had to eat it, I would always fire it up.

''It looks kind of big, doesn't it?''

'What the hell!　There has never been a fish with a more delicate taste than I have!

Namitaro tsked at Amy's slightly off-putting words without missing a beat. That caused Aimee to hide behind me, but Namitaro didn't care, he was enjoying his bath.

.........auch!

It seems that Namitaro jumped out of the bath with a lot of momentum and slipped and went straight into the changing room and crashed into the changing room shelf. When I examined the shelf later, I found that quite a bit of it had been broken, mainly where Namitaro had hit it.

'Sorry about that,'

That was the first thing he said after rescuing Namitaro from the shelves I was quite annoyed. I decided to take Namitaro to the parlor for repairs next time.

However, Namitaro is a self-aware stranger's house, leaving Amy and me behind, and sliding across the floor in a swift manner... I touched the floor just to be sure, but it wasn't wet or covered in slug-like mucus, so I didn't want to get wet or have any mucus on it. I felt strange about how it was going, but I decided that since it was Namitaro, it could happen.

'Sir, what is a Namitaro?'

In case you're wondering, someone seems to know that she participated in the tournament as my family member, but she doesn't know the details.

To Amy's question, I said........

Actually, I don't know much about it.

I'm sure you'll understand that Namitaro is one of the seven wonders of this world.

Well, all kidding aside, we should get going too. If you leave Namitaro alone, there's no telling what he might do.

As I said this, Amy laughed and hurried to meet me.

'Wow!'　Wassup!

As I approached the parlor, I heard an ominous call that gradually grew louder and louder. I opened the door to the parlor and looked at Namitaro, and it seems my premonition was right... not happy at all...

Well done, Namitaro!

I take it back. I was so f*cking happy. Because....

Squid, octopus, horse mackerel, mackerel, sardines, bonito and tuna!　Snapper and flounder and flounder, scallops and clams, clams, oysters, turban shells, abalone and sea urchins!　It's seaweed and aosa, hijiki and kelp~.................boom!

For me, as a former Japanese, it was a very happy souvenir. Kombu might be the most delightful souvenir among them. The fact that it is dried properly is a high point. I've heard that there are also dried squid and octopus, and other marine products other than the ones Namitaro was singing about, and I've heard that less than half of the souvenirs offered here are from this place.

'Doyah!'

I offered Namitaro the potato kettle in my magic bag as a token of my gratitude, and he snatched it from my hand with great vigor and threw it into his mouth.

"Shall we use it for dinner tonight?

Thinking about the various cooking methods, he threw them into the magic bag in the order in which he received the souvenirs from Namitaro.

"The squid is good...

While I was working, tearing and snacking on dried squid on the way, Shiroumaru and Solomon came soothingly to my side, all together opening their mouths. However, the two didn't seem to like dried squid, as they tend to swallow it quickly because it doesn't taste good unless you chew it well.

Jeanne and Aura also seemed to be interested in the seafood, but apart from the octopus they had eaten before, what we have now are raw, seaweed, and dried squid, which seemed to be a bit confusing to reach for, so they decided to wait until it was cooked quietly. In addition, behind them, Amur is taking a bite of the dried squid.

It is said that there are not many opportunities to eat squid in the south, but he said that if you can eat octopus, it's okay to eat squid, and snatched the one I was snacking on from the side. Incidentally, since I was tearing the dried squid off with my hand, the indirect kiss that Amour wanted was never achieved.

'Sir, are there chestnuts in the sea too?'

Aimee seems to be interested in sea urchins, but it seems to be more for their appearance than for their 'taste'.

So when I cracked one of the sea urchins in front of her, Aimee, who thought it was a chestnut, was quite surprised. She had never imagined that she would eat the yellow stuff inside, and when I scooped up the sea urchin's ovaries (testes) with my finger and ate them, she was a little taken aback.

Incidentally, the sea urchins Namitaro brought to us were cooled down to below zero, so they seemed to have excellent freshness, and there was no problem eating them raw. The sea urchin was so delicious that I wanted to eat it on rice as it was.

I hadn't eaten sea urchin in a while. A big bowl of rice.

Me too, please.

Mine too.

Sir, I'm with you.

And the sea urchin struck the hearts of the ladies beautifully. Shiroumaru and Solomon came to me and begged me for it, followed by Amur, Aura, Jeanne, and finally, without hesitation, Amy lined up behind Shiroumaru and the others.

We had no choice, so we prepared a large number of sea urchins and made them into a bowl of sea urchin rice to make them feel as full as possible, but that didn't seem to be enough. We had already eaten enough for five people and five sea urchins (to our surprise, we even ate Slarin, Gol and Jill), and we had consumed nearly half of the sea urchins that Namitaro had brought. By the way, Namitaro had eaten enough sea urchins in the sea, and he didn't want any more sea urchin bowls.

I'm quite hungry, no more sea urchins. I'll make a seafood bowl with other sashimi instead.

It would be a problem if they consumed only sea urchins, so they decided to put up with other fish.

When they were told that the sea urchins were finished, they looked disappointed, but when they saw what I had prepared, they started to put them on the rice with pleasure.

The image I had in mind was a "self-serving bowl of rice". You can choose what you want, and since you can put various things on it in small quantities, you can taste all kinds of things at once.

If you don't, you can't keep them all to yourself. Otherwise, there will be people who will try to keep it all to themselves...

When I said that, I looked at Amur, who had only put the same thing on the table from earlier, and Amur gently put the deep dish containing the tataki tuna tuna back on the table. I say tataki tuna, but to be precise, it is a mixture of medium-finished and skinned meat, which I consider to be the equivalent of the main item in my preparation.

When I asked Amur why he went after all that, he said

Even the salmon was good there.

That was it. When the others heard that statement, they hurriedly reached for a plate of tuna tataki, but it was Jeanne who picked it up first.

'Yes!'

He was moving faster than everyone else, probably because he was originally aiming for Amur next. Aura was next, followed by Slarin, Amy, and last was me. The order was the order in which the hands arrived at the spot where the plate was (Slarin was the tentacle), and I was the judge.

The only thing that surprised me was that, given Slarin's personality, I thought he was going to give up the lead to Amy, but he didn't.

While I was thinking about that, Jeanne finished her scoop and it was Aura's turn to be next.

''Hmph.......Jeanne is sweet.''

For some reason, Aura smiled wryly and lifted the spoon stuck in the tuna tataki and lifted a pile of tataki sneakily from the bottom of the deep dish.

'This is what I call scooping!

I didn't know we had a plan!　But if you think about it for a moment, you will realize the danger. And sure enough, what I had feared was about to happen. It was.........

Oh....

Aura moved the spoon with the pile of tataki on it a bit towards the bowl, and the pile of tataki collapsed from the base and fell onto the table.

''........''

'Aura, you're out!　Spoon, confiscate it~!

After looking at the fallen tataki, Aura tried again as if nothing had happened, but Amour and Jeanne took the spoon from Aura with a breathless voice and movement, clanked what little tuna tataki remained on Aura's bowl of rice, and handed it to the next slarin.

Slarin took the spoon and immediately thought he was going to take a scoop of the tuna tataki, but first he moved the rice to just beside his plate.

'Mine too?'

Slarin then reached out with his tentacles in front of Amy and accepted the bowl and placed Amy's bowl next to his own, stabbing his spoon into the tuna slices with a flowing motion.

''Oh!''

I'm done.

When Slarin lifted the spoon, it formed a bigger pile than Aura's earlier. Me, Amour, Jeanne and Amy marveled at the sight, but Aura was the only one who sent a curse to Slarin.

However, Aura's prayers were not answered, and without dropping a speck, Slarin placed a pile of tatami on Amy's bowl, followed by a similar sized pile on his own bowl. Well, there were people who were on the verge of being corrupted, but they seemed to have just barely stepped away.

''There's hardly any left...''

Finally, it was my turn, and there was only a small amount of tuna whacking left after Amur's concentrated attack, Aura's self-destruction, and Slarin's two critical shots. Most importantly, even in that state, it was more than Aura's.

For now, we decided to aim for the next one when the tuna smack was finished, but a new rule was added here. The new rule was that everyone had to point to the next target at the same time, and if the target was not covered, they could scoop it up first, and if it was covered, they had to play rock-paper-scissors to decide the order. And if you finished scooping first, you had to wait until everyone else was finished.

Except for tuna tataki, sardine, horse mackerel, mackerel, sardine, and sashimi of bonito are popular, but shellfish and white fish are not so popular.

After repeating this process until most of the items were gone, Amour and Aura's bowl of rice was filled with about twice as much garnish as the rice, I had about half the garnish and half the rice, and Jeanne and Aimee had less garnish. As for Amur and Aura, I was like 'I knew it', but the one that surpassed them was Slarin.

Slarin's garnish was three to four times the size of the rice, and the garnish was miraculously balanced to create a large mountain.

''Slarin's greed~!

It was Amur and Aura, who were always said to be greedy, who were on a roll with it. They were enjoying tinkering with the slarin', putting aside the fact that they were big enough to be told that they were too greedy to serve themselves as well...

"Slarin', gentle.

Another plate. All right.

What a surprise, Slarin began to share his bowl with Shiroumaru and the others. The bowl that Slarin made was divided between Shiroumaru, Solomon, Gol, and Jill and his own, so in the end there were fewer ingredients than Jeanne's and Amy's.

Amur and Aura, who had been fiddling with Slarin, couldn't stand Jeanne's cold and unsatisfactory gaze, and Shiroumaru and Solomon's covetous (biting) gaze, so they were forced to offer garnish from their own bowl. Incidentally, I decided to proceed with the attack on my own bowl while Shiroumaru and Solomon's eyes were on Amur and Aura's bowl.

Amy had taken refuge beside me as well, but she couldn't compete with Shie-chan and Toku-chan, who were peeking out of their dwelling dimension bags, and I had to share most of my bowl. And when I saw Aimee looking sad with a bowl that was less than half full, I had no choice but to share my own bowl with her. Well, I originally served more, and since the other person was Aimee, I didn't have to give her that much.

''Hm?　What were you all eating?

As if he hadn't finished eating, his grandfather, who had gone somewhere, came back and saw an empty plate on the table.

It's my souvenir!

It's a good thing that you're not the only one who can make use of the leftovers to make a 'white seafood bowl' of whitefish and scallop sashimi.

It was delicious, but I wanted to eat something other than white.

My grandpa seems to prefer tuna and bluefish to whitefish, which have a milder taste, and he seems to be feeling a little unsatisfied with them.

A few days later, Maria, Tida, Luna and the others came to our house out of the blue, and all the sea urchins were gone, and most of the tuna were gone.

I'm sorry teacher. Luna-chan asked me what I had eaten, and I couldn't resist telling her...

And that was that. When he was playing with Luna and Tida, he was asked if they had eaten anything unusual recently, and he told her about the seafood bowl, which led her to Maria via Luna.

Maria said that she sensed something was up when she saw Luna fidgeting, so she accompanied Aina and Chris to Luna and the others.

And Maria-sama said to me with a smile. And, by the way, he also said that I wouldn't have to tell the king, Lyle-sama and Ernest-sama because I'd lose my share...