646 Episode 636: Letters from Amy and Layla

"In the meantime, we're going to be able to live in Slime's cabin and Cora's on the test platoon's property.

"Yes.

Well, I didn't say anything to the exam platoon.

Takeo laughs bitterly.

"That's where Takeo has to convince me well.

"Yes, I know.

Takeo nods.

And when the door of the guest room is knocked and Grandpa Elvis gives permission, the maid comes in with all the tea and the breakfast of Takeo and the others.

And when he fed everyone before, he left.

"Hmm... still eating delicious food today.

Everyone laughed bitterly at Grandpa Elvis for tea and meals.

It won't be long before it's both over.

"Ha... I'm sleepy.

I even had breakfast and sweets. Mia says so and dives into the nostalgia until Ku is asleep.

Ku also falls asleep again, opening his eyes slightly for a moment but doesn't even seem to care.

"Dear Takeo, I have received a letter from Wang Du to Takeo at the first of the morning.

and Frederick pass the envelope to Takeo.

"Yes, thank you.

Takeo tilts his neck when he sees the sender unwritten and immediately opens the envelope to check inside.

"By the way... Leila sent me another letter.

That's what Grandpa Elvis whines about while Takeo reads the contents.

"Laila, your sister always sends you with someone.

Smith is stunned.

"It's not about Leila.

Anyway, 'Bye. I guess I'm writing to the extent of "".

"By the way, is it another trouble?

Smith asks with a bitter smile.

"No, it's not.

Ask what comes to the wholesale market.

And I'm asking Alice and the others, "Is there something interesting going on?"

"Hmm?... Mr. Elvis, is Mr. Leila asking?

I was wondering what you'd sell?

Takeo asks Grandpa Elvis face to face.

"Um, I'm asking.

Takeo, who was it from?

Because they sent me with Leila. I don't think he's suspicious.

"It's the 2nd Prince family.

"... the other day His Royal Highness the First Prince, today His Royal Highness the Second Prince...

All the royals, including Leila.

I don't know him as well as a rookie nobleman.

Grandpa Elvis sighs.

"Dear Takeo, what did His Highness Neil say?

Alice asks.

"... they want me to share a cooking recipe for soybeans and beans.

I think everyone "at a good time" for Takeo's whining.

"Well... what is it?

Indeed, Miss Alice has told me that one dish or so needs dishes that no other home serves.

"Hmm. I'm not sure that can be the strength of the house, but...

Well... of what's going on.

Grandpa Elvis makes a complicated face.

"What is Master Takeo going to do?

Smith asks.

"Soy dishes can be taught, right?

"Well, not from kikuchi powder and soy milk.

"Yes, and His Highness Neil's realm faces the sea, so you should be able to make new soy milk dishes.

"Nano!?

Takeo! Can't we do that?

"You can't.

We need ingredients that we can't get without facing the ocean.

Even if you get it, you'll have to teach me how to manufacture it, so...

Either way, you can't keep it a secret.

Then why don't you tell us how to make the ingredients and negotiate so that we can wholesale them?

That way we can eat even at home.

"Hmm, yeah.

"The problem is the beans, right?

The crushed filling... it's nowhere to be found at the moment, is it?

"Mm-hmm. The beans themselves are not noble lands facing this demonic kingdom.

When Takeo found it in the King's Capital, and when His Royal Highness Neil inquired, the production area would be under His Highness Neil's command.

To a large extent, they may be made in aristocratic territories facing the Willip Union.

"That must be soy too.

"Um, it's natural to think so.

Takeo, doesn't this crumbling filling have to be taught elsewhere?

"So the crushed filling system is only on Elvis territory for now?

But someday the manufacturing method could become known.

"Master Takeo, you did say something that would eliminate the texture of the bean skin if you filtered the crushed filling, didn't you?

Frederick says as he thinks.

"Yes.

You call the crushed filling a lump.

"Why not serve crushed fillings only to the Elvis family and commercially to customers and the city?

I don't think I will know until manufacture even though I know that I use beans if it is stuffed with pepper.

"Hmm... that might be a good idea.

Takeo, why don't you teach His Highness Neil how to cook soybeans for now?

"Right... shall I also write down different dishes instead of beans?

Oh, then let's get some fish soy made at last.

"Hmm? Is that the new breed of sauce Takeo found in the Wang capital?

Is that good?

"Yeah. That's fish salted (...) in the first place, right?

It will be easier to manufacture them over there because they just salt and ferment sea fish.

So as far as we are concerned, should we even buy a barrel that has become a finished form of fish soy?

"Hmm... is it good that Takeo found it?

"Yeah, I'm going to get rice.

I'm planning to make another sauce out of soy and rice in a few years, so I don't even think I need to force myself into fish soy.

Takeo makes a sarcastic problem statement.

Everyone on the spot solidifies.

"What!?

Takeo, is that true!?

"Yeah.

I will use soy and rice so it will no longer smell as raw as fish soy, and I plan to have a lighter sauce.

Because I grew up with something called 'soy sauce', which was basically made of soy beans.

Maybe if we could make this soy sauce... hmm, dozens more recipes, right?

"Mmm... Frederick, we have to successfully import and make rice.

"Right.

And so that you can grow soybeans on a regular basis... oh, so Master Takeo teaches His Highness Neil how to cook soybeans.

Frederick nods.

"You are right to teach cooking to make soybeans on a regular basis, but it is also true that soybeans cannot be successfully prepared without the use of ingredients made from the sea so far.

Then I just thought this dish would be better developed over there than in my hands.

But how to make soy sauce can be a secret to the Elvis family.

"Um, yeah.

If wheat and rice production stabilizes, I'll try making soybeans on a trial basis next time.

That way, we will be able to produce what Takeo calls soy sauce in a stable manner, and we will likely be able to sell it outside the territory.

Grandpa Elvis says with a hock-face.

"But you need a lot of soy to make soy sauce, and you'll have to create a dedicated craftsman in a dedicated building.

"Um... right.

A few years from now. Frederick, can we have all the personnel by then?

"Hmm... you start thinking that if this happens too, you might want to create a single village to specialise in the intensive production of rice and soy and the creation of soy sauce with soy.

Frederick says with a bitter smile.

"Hmm... talk to the directors.

There will be good and bad things to focus on.

"Yep. Good and bad to disperse and good and bad to concentrate on... now what do each director think?

"Oh, I forgot, but you can also make alcohol from rice.

It will be a completely different alcoholic beverage than wine, brandy or whiskey.

"... Frederick, how many villages do you make?

"... how do you view the budget later.

Grandpa Elvis and Frederick began to think seriously.