Chapter 138: Restaurant 'Aurora.”

Chapter 138: Restaurant “Aurora.”

Irasshaimase! Welcome, we will bring your food to your seat. What would you like to order? giving a bow to two men who stood still to smell the pleasant aroma lingering around the area, Tasianna spoke to them and directed their attention to the table with seats.

Order? Oh, right; you sell food, right. What exactly? As he asked, his and his companions stomach growled. They shrugged and sat down.

Tasianna, keeping a professional and reserved smile, answered their question, We serve two dishes plentiful enough for the daily hard worker. The first is curry rice a stew-like dish with meat, vegetables, and spices added to a generous amount of brown rice. The second is stir-fried rice.

Curry rice?Stir-fried rice? What are those? they asked.

Firwood, and I presume the Duchy of Greenveil as a whole, had multiple ways to prepare rice that resembled Mediterranean dishes, so Italian or Spanish. There were even rice soup and rice crackers that Saori managed to find when she wandered around the town.

The mother of invention is a necessity. Rice was a staple food for the dwarves, but as time went by and with the dwarves bordering Artorias to the north, the use of rice as another grain eventually trickled down to the south, to Firwood and the surrounding villages. With another food type, people became inventive and began creating dishes with it.

Sure, some dishes wouldnt be known to them like curry rice, which was more a levianewt food according to Master Kush and the saurians. The dish stir-fried rice wasnt known as a word, but Saori mentioned locals sauteing food, though it was mostly reserved for more expensive taverns and inns where chefs could afford the good oils vegetable, olive, sunflower whereas the everyday worker had to compromise by using stinky monster fat or old butter to fry, so most tended to avoid sauteing and stir-frying.

However, if we ignore dishes requiring ingredients of higher quality, making some good food with cheap stuff was simple enough. You just need one hungry person to experiment a bit and boom. It would be more realistic to assume Firwood would have dishes Ive never seen before than them not inventing anything at all.

Tasianna, understanding their confusion, directed their eyes to the massive wooden stall standing in front of the group of tables and seats. From that direction, a stew-like dish was bubbling in a massive metal pot while a black-haired wolfkin woman dressed in a white work outfit reminiscent of a sushi chef was stir-frying some rice in a pan. It was the source of all the mouth-watering smells.

Behind the wolfkin was a dragonewt girl cutting vegetables and chunks of meat with a knife, the ingredients for the stew. I mean, curry. And yes, I am that dragonewt girl, and the wolfkin is Saori, of course.

Man, that would have been a good promotion video if we had a camera. I can envision it already, hmmu hmmu.

Jokes aside, team Aurora was currently preparing our weekday job, or city job, as I would like to call it. Which was our food stall with other services. Saori was the chef, Tasianna was our only waitress in a cute waitress outfit, and I was the, well, star of the show, kinda.

Ok, I think I added everything, Saori. Ill be starting the show now, I told her, going outside the kitchen. Our kitchen was actually our stall, a simple construction made out of four wooden beams and a tent to protect us from rain. A table for the cooking wares and an oven was added for Saori to use. As you would expect, everything was transported here with my storage.

This was a mobile store, after all. Zeather understood what we described when we ordered everything from him. He kept the pieces easy to build up and transport, as size mattered for the mana consumption of my [Storage Magic], and besides, we had to rebuild our store every single day, so the easier it was to put down, the better. This included the tables and seats.

As I left the tent, I saw the drooling faces of the workers, all too focused on the food to acknowledge me. Tasianna, taking their hungry faces as confirmation, told them the prices. Curry Rice would be 40 Davi, or four medium copper coins, which includes a lot of vegetables, meat, and a mouth-watering experience. Stir-fried rice is 10 Davi, or one medium copper coin, which includes all that I said before. Also, included are complimentary additions.

F-Four mid coppers?! What da hell, why is it so expensive!? I can get myself multiple meat skewers and ale for that price! one of them blurted out, standing up from his seat.

True, true. Also, one mid copper for some cooked rice? A bag full of rice grains is seven small coppers and itll be enough to feed my whole family for a week. Why should I pay 10 smalls for a single meal? He looked like he was about to leave.

As we all expected, there was a commotion. Our restaurant-slash-food stall was located in the middle district closest to the merchant district, as our targeted demographic werent wage workers who had to live off paycheck every day, but rather locals who could live relatively comfortably compared to those in the slums. They had proper professions involved with the craftsman guild or were working for a merchant, which meant they had some money to splurge to improve their lives.

It was pretty hard to get this spot until the chefs guild received a notice from the church, specifically the High Bishop in his role as the brother of Firwoods lord. With what I presume was a bribe, the guild permitted us to open our stall here. Legally. I think the High Bishop could have coerced them through authority alone, but I think he understood that using appropriate methods was less tyrannical. Although, is a bribe actually ok? Dunno, dont care.

Still, even if the people around this area could pay more for food, it didnt mean they wanted to. So, we needed to show them exactly why we were charging them for more money. We didnt announce our shops opening beforehand, so the first impression had to be perfect. It was lunchtime, workers were coming out in dozens.

Taking out my borrowed geigler, a Peolyncian violin, I sat down on my fancy chair and put on my white mage robe. Closing it to look like a priestess, I began bowing my instrument to produce music.

Huh? the two let out, baffled to hear music suddenly playing. When they saw me, they were initially surprised to see me, asking why a priestess of Aurena was here, but that blew away once both sound and smell overwhelmed their senses.

People were already gathering due to the outburst from before, but even more, people surrounded our stall the moment I started playing music. Like the Pied Piper, I was gathering all the hungry little humans and beastmen with the allure of my music.

Its just a simple harmony. I havent even played anything complicated yet, but people are just coming. Nice!

Sir, that is one of the complimentary additions. Our Mistress has allowed us to serve these dishes, so I can assure you of the quality. You will feel full and satisfied before returning to work. May I ask again which dishes you wish to order? Tasianna took advantage of the situation.

With the smell of curry wafting through the air and my music to accompany it, the two workers swallowed and sat back down again. Lets treat ourselves and Smells better than the skewers at the marketplace, they said as they caved in and ordered the curry with a mix of hope and worry.

Once Saori received the order, she began making the two dishes. Meanwhile, Tasianna brought the two workers ice water and steaming hot bread each. They were flustered as they thought they had to pay for them also, but Tasianna calmed them down after telling them this was also part of the complementary additions. Cold water made with Tasiannas magic and bread right from the oven using yeast to give it a nice spongy texture.

Once Tasianna returned to the table with two bowls of curry rice, she couldnt help but let go of her professionalism for a split second as she scowled in disgust at our two customers. They were devouring the bread as if it was the first thing theyve eaten for months, exclaiming how sweet, soft, and delicious it was with their mouths full to Tasianna. Once they were finished, they hesitated a bit about drinking the water, but after confirming how clear it was, they wetted their throats with it. They were impressed, just as we anticipated.

Firwood didnt have a proper irrigation nor a water purification system, so the only way for commoners to drink water was to either boil it or through fruit ale heavily diluted with water. It was not only for safety reasons but also because the well water wasnt the cleanest. However, that wasnt the case if you had a water mage who could produce pure water with the flick of a finger. Of course, these people werent adventurers, they were simple yeomen, so they probably didnt know about this fact.

Woah, jeez, whats with this bowl. The portion is huge, one of them said.

True enough. We also got free spoons?! Damn! the other pointed out.

However, to stop them from thinking it was theirs, Tasianna spoke up, Please, take a look at the insignia. We are lending you the bowls and utensils, so please leave them on the table once you finish. Also, please do not bother our Lady. She is here to give a pleasant experience for everybody and that is all.

Directed by Tasiannas finger, the workers saw the H insignia at the spoons and bowls bottom, realizing that both belonged to me, the person in question. With the many embroideries on my white cloak and my insignia on my tools, they quickly realized what Tasianna meant with it. They had thought I was just a priestess before, but now they figured out I was a noble.

They sweated, began using more appropriate speech, as they tried to excuse themselves from their tables. The onlookers also looked like they were about to leave also, however

.

Come, follow my voice

The dark, scares you, too.

Ill be your guide

Oh, I wont leave you alone.

Come, sing with me

Collide our voices

To break through this silence,

Till morning arrives.

.

[Music Resonation (Minor)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

I sang Till Morning Arrives and played the tune on my violin with closed eyes. If there is one thing that Ive gotten proud of, its that I can draw people in with my singing. It was always gonna be harder to attract normal workers, as most were either scared of nobles or uncomfortable around them, but we needed to make my name spread. Not only for the High Bishop but also in general.

After what I did at the tea party, there is exactly 0% chance that I will not be known among the nobility now, at least in Greenveil. I experienced how much the girls gossiped and most of them were there intending to get to know me for their parents. Hiding wasnt an option anymore, and I was slowly even considering divulging the fact that Im a dragon, but Saori and Ellaine stopped me. Supposedly, dragon slayers were not only a profession, but also a System Job among some members of the hunters guild. Yeah, I didnt want them to know about me just yet.

With my song calming everybody, the two workers shrugged and picked up their spoons, saying, Our wives would smack us if they knew we were wasting food before digging in.

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Bio: Hey there, AbyssRaven here. I'm just an avid Light Novel and Fantasy story reader who randomly thought of a story and began writing about it.

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