CH 163

We won’t be eating together for some time, so I also called Dean to the dining room.

「Ahh, we can’t eat Jean’s bread for a while, huh… 」

Dean was dejected.

「Eh, I thought you’re gonna miss the meat more than the bread. 」

「I also love meat, but ever since tasting Jean’s bread, I like drinking while munching on bread and cheese. 」

I’m a bit happy that he likes it more than I thought he would.

「I’m going to sell medicines to the guild from time to time, so I’ll just have Noth — 」

「Lil bro’s not gonna leave even after one month is over if he gets a taste, you know. 」

Retze cut me off before I can say I’ll leave it to Butler.

「Allow me to bake the bread for the meantime — please bear with it for a month. 」

Noth can reproduce the dishes, but the inferior taste isn’t because of his skills, but rather due to the ingredients being different in the first place.

「Just eat a lot for now. 」

I heaped a huge pile of bread in the basket, put some olive oil and butter in saucers, and placed a jar of raspberry jam on the side.

Butler poured the wine from the barrel into a decanter then placed it on top of the table while I removed the lid of the center.

「What’s this? 」

「Preparing for teppan-yaki. 」

「Huh? 」

They all stared puzzledly at me. Retze looked like he couldn’t wait to figure out how the setup works.

I placed a brazier inside just like in a yakiniku store, and put a good amount of burning coals from the fireplace, then placed the plate on top.

「Okay, okay, you mix it like this, then grill it like this. 」

Once the iron plate was hot enough, I poured the contents of the bowl onto it in a circle, then handed them two more bowls with okonomiyaki stuff in them. It’ll be too much if I gave them one bowl each.

「Like this? 」

It’s funny seeing them meekly following my instructions while mixing. Ash’s brow furrow…

You don’t have to do it so seriously, you know?

There’s also Butler’s resistance to letting Ash do the cooking. I didn’t consider that.

I’m going to let them take over once they get used to it, but for now, I’m busy sprinkling the ground pork and serving them in turns.

While they’re doing the okonomiyaki, I fry the asparagus on top of the stove, take it out, add some mayonnaise and crumbled boiled egg and serve it.

「Ooh, I like this mayonnaise stuff. 」

Dinosso’s in a good mood. Making it is easy, but yep, the eggs here have salmonella, so, yeah….

They’ll have to use a lot of vinegar to kill those, so it won’t taste the same as the mayo I made.

I also use soft-boiled eggs like crazy, but I make sure to check it with 【Appraisal 】. Well, there’s no bad germs around my house that can get to the chickens, in the first place.

For soup, we have tripe simmered in tomato sauce. It’s a bit troublesome preparing tripe since you have to remove the black skin on the surface of the beef reticulum, but if you do it right, the nasty odor will be gone and it’ll taste delicious.

「We also have meat. 」

I put the thick T-bone steak on the stove.

I also prepared a barbecue grill for the table, but they prefer thick meat more than thin slices, so I don’t think we’ll get to use that. Ah, no, maybe we can do barbecue shellfish instead. Butter and soy sauce will go perfectly with scallops.

「Oh? This is tasty. 」

The taste of the carb-laden thick sauce suits Dinosso, apparently.

「It’s different from omelet and pancake, huh? The outside is crunchy, but it’s fluffy inside. 」

Retze was a bit amazed. Yes, I cheated by adding Japanese yam.

By the way, the omelets here resemble Spanish omelets. The ingredients are already mixed in with the eggs before they’re fried and shaped into an omelet.

「Ugh, just thinking about how I won’t get to enjoy these weird dishes for a while, huhu. 」

Dean was also gobbling Ash’s okonomiyaki portion and downing it with wine. Ash just finished eating sweets, so she only ate a bit.

Other than Chris and Dean, we already enjoyed some snacks earlier, but I’m glad that everyone here is a glutton and they’re eating everything up.

「Chris, does your lil bro look like you? 」

Like that cleft chin?

「I resemble both my Father and Mother, but he takes more from Mother. 」

「You have the exact same upper body, right. 」

Dean said.

Upper body? So that means the cleft chin is intact, too. Ah, well, not sure if it’s because people here mostly eat rockhard food; many folks here have cleft chins, so it’s not really a big deal. It’s just that the cleft chin spirit…

「So both of you are living independently now. What about the rest of the family? 」

「I have two more younger brothers after him, and the youngest brother will be the one to succeed my Father. He’s quite sickly, but Father’s still healthy, so that’s alright. The second to the last brother’s upper half resembles Father, while the lower half is from Mother. The youngest is the spitting image of Father. 」

Wait, wait, can genetics be inherited so clearly in halves like that? And you mean to say the one who got his father’s face is feeble? Makes me wanna see Lil Bro for myself.

「The brother who came this time has the most suitable physique for a knight. I guess it’s good that he’s serious and diligent, albeit with a one-track mind, but he can’t even understand what a secret is; he doesn’t have a single romantic bone in his body, you know. 」

When he said ‘secret’, everyone’s gaze focused on me. Alright, alright, my whole body’s completely packed with romance, okay.

「He went to the Temple of Nassos, so that means he’s not the type to take it easy. Maybe he’s suited to serving in the Palace. 」

Dinosso said.

「Is the Temple of Nassos such a difficult place? 」

Dean asked.

「It’s smack in the middle of a bog, after all. You can go there by boat, but you have to travel on foot for two days upwards. There’s no place where you can sleep while lying down, and it’s also like a floating island that sinks when you get on it. Fish monsters also jump out of the water along the way. 」

Dinosso explained with a wave of his hand.

I averted my eyes in front of the admiration directed to Lil Bro. My bad for using【Teleport】to go home and sleep.

Lil Bro, aka Reid, will be meeting with Butler tomorrow morning, so our group temporarily broke up. Dean wanted to drink a bit more, so Retze was left behind to accompany him.

「Hey, won’t it be bad for first impressions if you go there with a hangover? 」

「It’s fine~. 」

Hey, you’re going to meet Reid tomorrow, you know.

Well, I guess it’s worth feeding Dean, since he can be quite conscientious. He brings ingredients from time to time, and even leaves money too, and more than anything, he really enjoys everything I cook for them, so I guess it’s fine to let him be.