CH 73.3

I have been trying to teach them how to make oden and pork miso soup, how to make soup stock from fish, how to use mirin, and they have been experimenting with various dishes.

So far, the batting average has been remarkably low but it’s getting to a level where I don’t mind thinking of it as a Japanese restaurant in a foreign country.

We have plenty of soy sauce and miso though not enough to sell and I’ll use it to develop the menu.

「I made broth from dried gehageha and shiitake mushroom and seasoned it with soy sauce and miso.」

「Sounds good」

「Whooohhhoo」

「Ah, you’re Jin right?」

「Whooohhhoo」

A tiny gorilla, which is a magic crystal exchangeable beast type magic construct, that I had left with Hunt for my research brought me the dish.

Come to think of it, these guys should have been created last year….

I’ve been looking at the reports that have been submitted but it might be a good idea to check them under the machine this time.

「Hunt, bring this guy to my house the day after tomorrow. I’ll bring it to the academy.」

「Eh!? Ano, Jin-kun……are you going to kill him?」

With a terrified expression on her face, she took the gorilla in her arms and hugged it tightly.

What kind of image do I have on them?

「No, I won’t. It’s just a routine check-up. It’s already a year old after all.」

「Ah, I see……great.」

She looked relieved but didn’t let the gorilla go.

I’m sure after living with it for a year, she has grown attached to it.

For those who don’t know anything about robots or AI, a magic crystal exchangeable beast type magic construct would look like a creature that eats magic crystals.

I’ll also have to take the kitten from Roast and the puppy from Chicken. I’ll stop by Chicken’s place again and tell her about it later.

「Alright alright, Sawadi-sama, try it before it gets cold.」

「Okay」

I sip the broth as soon as Seele has put the contents of the pot on a plate.

The oil from the wild boar meat from the dungeon has melted into the soup, giving it a delicious flavor making it taste like pork miso soup.

Tasting the miso and soy sauce flavors in the depths of the dish, I somewhat want to eat it furiously with rice.

Yes, the thinly sliced meat is also tender and delicious.

How about the vegetables?

I tried taking a big cut vegetable with my chopsticks.

It’s green and stringy……is this broccoli?

「That’s celery desu」

「C-celery……」

「It also has young corn, peas, peppers, and eggplants. A lot of ingredients, right?」

「The combination is unique……」

When I bit into the piece of young corn along with the celery, my mouth was filled with the taste of a combination I had never tasted before.

It doesn’t taste bad, yeah, it doesn’t taste bad……

Cooking is difficult after all.

I left the cafeteria after finishing the casserole with a somewhat unexplained feeling.

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When I went outside, I found the front of the Schenker’s headquarters is crowded with people.

Perhaps because the manpower business has been suspended and the road is rarely used by carriages, our slaves seem to have taken over the road and are doing whatever they want to do.

I don’t mind since we have the right to manage the road but the chaos reminds me of the pedestrian malls of my previous life, it’s making me dizzy.

There were people sitting on colorful cloths laid out on the street, selling handmade combs and centaur shaped piggy banks.

There were people looking at the goods, haggling over them, lying on the cloth dead drunk, picking up people who were lying on cloth.

Next to them, on a stage made of crates, there was a group of amateur actors dressed in costumes that looked like colored burlap sacks, and the lead actress, a birdkin, was raising a shovel and announcing herself as a knight in a crazed voice.

Ah, the verses are totally unique.

Diagonally across the street, some group of housewives is stirring a large pot of home cooked food and are calling to the crowd.

Nearby, a bored looking man is chatting with a bored looking woman while drinking sake and eating home cooked food.

Why don’t you at least lay out some mats!