CH 41

“For now, this should be enough.”

With the help of the skeletons, they quickly made a decent amount of pottery from kneaded clay.

When the skeletons gave up on kneading the clay with their bone hands and started stretching it out with their detached bones, it looked gross like udon noodles. But I didn’t say anything. Barbera and Chloe were playing and not contributing to the effort, but I didn’t comment on that either.

“Anna-san, what are we going to do with these now? Take them to town and have them baked?” 

“No, that’s not it, Naoya-san. Barbera-chan, please take care of it.”

“Understood.”

Barbera put down the strange object she had been making and stood up. Following Anna-san’s instructions, the skeletons moved away, and Chloe and I stepped back as well.

In the parking lot filled with clay, there were rows of clay dishes that had been shaped from the clay Barbera brought. I couldn’t imagine them becoming proper dishes even if they were baked.

But then, Barbera took a deep breath.

“Fuuhh!”

With a voice that sounded like it was losing energy, Barbera breathed out flames like a flamethrower. The flames stretched out in lines, like Red Dragon’s Breath.

“Wow, Barbera, that’s amazing! That’s the Red Dragon’s Breath!” I exclaimed.

“Barbera-chan, be careful not to hit the pile of clay with your breath,” Anna-san warned.

The clay dishes were engulfed in flames. Valvella shook her head slightly, and the flames spread, covering all of the dishes.

“No, no, no! It’s not the Red Dragon’s Breath! Barbera is in human form now! She’s a little girl who looks 10 years old, breathing fire!” I protested.

“What’s wrong, Naoya? Did something seem strange?”

“Naoya-san, Barbera-chan is a dragon. Even in human form, her essential nature as a dragon doesn’t change. She’s still just as strong, you know?”

“Ohhh! A 10-year-old girl breathes fire! The special skill of an employee at the Aion Mall in another world is Dragon Breath! This other world is nuts!”

“…And, done.”

While I was scratching my head, it seemed that Barbera’s dragon breath had already ended.

Placing her hands on her hips and puffing out her chest seems like something a child would do and it’s cute, but her breath was turning into smoke, perhaps due to residual heat.

“Are you kidding me? No offense. Besides, firing ceramics in flames isn’t something that can be done easily… Huh? What?”

There were clay plates lined up in the exposed dirt parking lot, which were supposed to have been there.

After Barbera’s dragon breath, all that was left were ceramic plates.

“What the heck? There is no way this happened. They were fired with that? Not a single one was broken? The process of firing ceramics includes drying, removing debris, and firing once. “

“Hehe, Naoya-san. The dragon’s breath causes the ‘burned result’ desired by the dragon who cast the spell. Until Barbera got used to it, the image of burning was too strong, and she ended up burning the target to ashes and the ground was in a terrible state.”

“Come to think of it, even though the breath hit the dirt parking lot, it’s still just dirt… What the heck is this? It’s scary because I don’t understand the meaning of it and it’s too different from my world.”

“As expected of Barbera! In short, she burned them with her breath! Red Dragon are amazinf!”

“Chloe, you don’t seem to understand. Your eyes are wandering.”

I was dumbfounded, and Chloe was caught red-handed trying to match the conversation randomly. Barbera pressed her head against me, wanting to be praised, so I petted her head without thinking.

Anna-san handed me a browned, simple plate that had been baked, which had a lid that I had made.

“How is it, Naoya-san? Can we use it?”

“Huh? Ah, yes, probably.”

When lightly tapped, it makes a loud sound like “kan”.

I can’t say for sure until I try it, but it seems like it can be used without any problems.

If we put cutlets, hamburgers, and beef stew in this dish and sell it…

We’ll need to test how durable this plate is, even if we make a system to give a discount or refund if it breaks without being dropped.

By the way, there is still some leftover soil that Barbera brought.

That means we can make pottery dishes without spending time or effort, and maybe even without needing materials cost…

“Huh? What if we just sell this dish as it is, not as a side dish or bento box?”

“You can sell a midday meal with this, Naoya! Everyone will surely love cutlets, hamburgers, and beef stew!”

“I’m looking forward to it, Chloe-san. Everyone who tasted it asked me, ‘When are you going to sell it?'”

“…Delicious. Everyone, happy.”

Glancing at the three people who were delighted that they could sell cutlets, hamburgers, and beef stew with the newly-made dishes.

I can’t say it now.

I can’t just say, “Hey, why don’t we just sell these dishes?”

“Well, we’ll sell them anyway! Alright, let’s prepare! We’ll start selling cutlets, hamburgers, and beef stew tomorrow, and we’ll also sell these dishes!”

The three of them supported my half-hearted shout.

It’s the seventh day since I became the manager of the Aion Mall Otherworld Store.

Finally, it seems like we’re going to have more products to sell starting tomorrow.