There doesnt seem to be any instrument here to squeeze lemons, so you have to do it with bare hands, and my hands feel sore by just imagining it.
Squeeze fish apply tasty, okay?
I hand the lemons to Miria and tell her in broken Brahim.
Okay.
S-q-u-e-e-z-e.
Squeeze.
Roxanne translates, and Miria repeats.
F-i-s-h.
Fish.
Shouldnt she already be familiar with how to say fish?
A-p-p-l-y.
Apply.
T-a-s-t-y.
Tasty.
She seems to be learning quickly, so Ill let her taste what tasty is. This way, she will learn what tasty really means that much faster. Because my words get automatically translated into Brahim, I dont know how difficult it is, so I have to pick them carefully to avoid saying anything too difficult.
I add the lemon juice, which I received from Miria, and wine to the bouillon, which I received from Roxanne, and leave it to simmer after sprinkling some salt and pepper onto it. Afterwards, I apply flour to white fish meat and roast it in olive oil, and present it with lemon sauce.
Miria was staring fixedly while I was roasting the fish th entire time, so intensely in fact that I was afraid that she might stare a hole in what I was preparing.
Roast fish.
Roast fish.
Eat fish.
Eat fish.
I mean, when you think about it, it should be really obvious to anyone with more than two braincells in their head would be able to put it together that only beasts would eat things when they are raw and uncooked, and that just because they possess beast-like features doesnt necessarily mean that they are the same as beasts.
My bad. I didnt mean it that way. I realize my mistake and Im sorry for making it in the first place!
Not at all, master. I should apologize to you as well, because I jumped into conclusions without allowing you to finish saying what you wanted to say properly, so Im sorry for that.
The main reason for why I even asked about if Miria ever happened to eat raw fish is because I was worried about her, since theres a risk of contracting parasites if you eat raw fish. However, that is how it is for the raw fish from my own world, but I have no idea if the same principles would apply to it here in the games world, or if the fish meat that has been obtained as a Drop Item even counts for that at all.
Ultimately, I guess that topic of sashimi is not that important, because as far as Im aware there are no things like wasabi or soy sauce I this world and lets be honest, what is even a good sashimi without those.
Not paying any kind of attention to all of my internal struggles, Miria is stuffing meuniere into her mouth like crazy, but when she was done with it shortly afterwards, she had her shoulders drooped and her head hung low, as if all air has been drained out of her body.
It doesnt seem to be a compliment. Did she not find the dish to her liking after all? Or perhaps she only now found some kind of flaw in it that ruined her enjoyment of the meal? Or maybe she simply wants more? In that case
Do you want to eat more, Miria?
Eat! I want to eat more!
Thought as much. Well then, here, you can have some of mine as well.
When I hold my platter out to her, she snatches half of its contents immediately.
Looks like when it comes to the fish and eating it, shes not someone who would think of being modest or restrained.
She just stuffs the fish in her mouth with a joyful expression and eats wit without a care in the world.
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She says that shes happy that master was the one that bought her.
Ah, so it was about that. Well, I am flattered that she thinks like that, and also hope that I will be able to live up to her expectations of me.
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She also says that she is going to serve master for the rest of her life.
All right, okay! Now see, this right here is what is making me think that what she is feeling towards me is not genuine gratitude but something more akin to a debt that she is going to have to pay to properly thank me for providing her with a place to live and food (fish) to eat, and I cannot say that I like that all that much, so were definitely going to need to do some work on some of those aspects of her.
After that, Miria receives some fish from Roxanne and Sherry as well. And although I used the word receives, it was more like she actuallysnatched if from their plates just like she did with the fish that gave to her, and I cansee that the desire for more fish is still burning in her eyes even as she munches on the one that we have given to her.
Roxanne reprimands her for it initially, but gives her the fish in the end nonetheless, because honestly, there is something about her that makes it hard to be mad at her.