Chapter 69: Arrangement

Chapter 69: Arrangement

Arranged yakisoba is becoming a fad among adventurers.

They don’t just stir-fry noodles and cabbages, as they also mix in a variety of ingredients.

Many bring in scraps of vegetables and dried meat, but there is also an increase in people who opted to add dagashis to it.

There’s a reason for this.

It has been discovered that cooking yakisoba with dagashis can have a high magical effect.

[For example, there’s this Jumbo Cutlet.]

While explaining to Michelle, sitting in front of the griddle, I chopped up the Jumbo Cutlet into bite-sized pieces.

[Normally, with the “Power Boost” shout, your arm strength would increase for three seconds, right? If you add that to yakisoba......]

Since this snack is sauce flavored, there’s no discrepancy in taste when added to yakisoba.

Mixing the cutlet chunks and noodles, I then added the cabbages at the end.

Lastly, I poured the sauce over the stir-fried noodles, and I now have a Jumbo Cutlet Yakisoba.

[What happens?]

[The power boost buff lasts up to 12 seconds.]

[Extending the buff four times longer is amazing. It could come in handy in battle.]

[Moreover, it has a half-day standby time. In other words, you can use Power Boost once at any time within half a day of eating it.]

Thanks to this effect, many adventurers had recently been eating Jumbo Cutlet Yakisoba for breakfast.

Since there are only three griddles though, its popularity has made it so that there’s a long line of people waiting to eat a serving.

[Now, it’s ready. Try it.]

It was Michelle’s first time eating yakisoba.

I think I did a good job with it, but serving someone my arrangement just makes me a bit nervous.

[Thank you for the meal.]

Michelle trying to bite into the yakisoba, only to puff her mouth from its warmth, looks adorable.

[How is it?]

[It’s very tasty (if it’s something Yuusuke makes, it will always be tasty?).]

Since she often cooked for me, I’m happy that she was pleased with my cooking.

Next time, let’s consider nutrition balance and make her something with a lot of meat and veggies.

[Are there any other arrangements you have in mind?]

[It seems that crushed and topping New Orleans mayonnaise-flavored snacks is popular. Also, I’ve heard that eating it in between sauce crackers gives the eater an extra layer of defense.]

(T/N: I don’t know what they meant by New Orleans mayo)

The carbohydrate mayhem that is Yakisoba Bread also seems to have some kind of magical effect on the people here.

I wonder if it’ll become popular if I made and sold those?

[Hmmm. So, does that mean those guys over there are working on a new recipe?]

Michelle glanced toward Merle and Mira, who were cooking their yakisoba at the table next to ours.

Since Merle has bad luck with lottery, I don’t feel like she’d have good luck with arrangements either.

At the very least, I hope their arrangement will turn out delicious.

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The royal palace had rooms of various sizes, but the new King, Bartos, preferred a small room for secret talks.

Now, only King Bartos and Baron Essel are in this private room of about 20 square meters.

Bartos looked over the report with a bored expression on his face and seemingly tossing out something she found something trivial, he threw the bundle of papers on his desk.

[My brother isn’t making any moves huh.]

[Not at the moment.]

[Even though I’ve gone out of my way to give him an opening to plot a rebellion.]

Not wanting to be accused of killing his brother and usurping the throne, Bartos has imprisoned the former King.

However, this is only a pretext.

His true intentions lie elsewhere.

He was also waiting for the influential nobles who were against him to rally around the former King and have them reinstated as their puppet.

But so far, no such movements have been made.

[For the time being, the nobles are showing their allegiance but......]

[That’s a great thing.]

[Keep a close watch on them.]

[I’m aware of that. Ah, that’s right, there’s one thing that concerns me.]

Baron Essel said with a slight chuckle.

[What is it?]

[It seems that the former Queen Concert-sama is more intent on escaping from prison than the former King.]

[Titti was?]

Bartos also chuckled as he recalled the former Queen Consort’s character.

[The attendant observing them reported this to me. It seems that she has been trying to cajole a servant.]

[Good grief, she’s fallen that far huh. She’s a good woman, so I’d like to have her at least once, but I’ve lost my appetite.]

The Baron rebuked the King’s joke.

[Your Majesty.]

[I was just joking, no need to get mad.]

King Bartos was a capable man, but his only fault was that he was too lecherous.

The Baron knew that he meant 60% of what he said.

[How would you like to deal with Titti-sama?]

[Fumu...... Just leave her alone. If she actually tries to escape from prison, catch her and put her to death. Make a spectacle of her in the plaza and that should relieve the people’s pent-up frustration on them.]

The Baron didn’t like this approach, but what the King said was also true.

Somehow keeping a large sigh to himself, the Baron kept his thoughts to himself.

For the first time in a long time, he felt like taking a bath in the onsen, drinking a bottle of ramune, and having a Mobile Force match with someone.