Or perhaps, it’s suddenly going to turn out that it can bend its tail fin up to a ninety degree angle?
Wielding Durandal, I approach it carefully in order to confirm my conjecture. The tuna then charges at Roxanne, who twitches in surprise. The tuna’s charge then comes to a stop.
While Roxanne was trying to regain her breath, it prepares for yet another charge.
Was... was that previous charge of it a feint? Nevertheless, Roxanne maneuvers the upper half of her body and dodges it.
During the exchange, Roxanne manages to connect her Estoc with the tuna’s body. Although it used a feint, it couldn’t see through everything that was coming towards it.
When the monster comes to a stop after its exchange with Roxanne, I hammer in a 「Rush」to its side. The Black Diamond Tuna then convulses and drops down. It’s lying on the ground, and now that it just lays there, it really look just like an overgrown fish that got thrown out of the water.
Before long, it turns into a puff of green smoke and dissipates. The Drop Item it that dropped is called Lean Tuna. So Mabream drops white fish while Black Diamond Tuna drops lean tuna?
Miria jumps at it and brings it over with slight disappointment about on face.
「Here, desu.」
「Huh? What’s wrong, Miria? Is Lean Tuna no good?」
「Like Mabream, Black Diamond Tuna drops a rare item. It’s called a Fatty Tuna.」
Sherry explains the reason behind Miria’s disappointment to me. So a tuna’s rare drop is a fatty tuna, huh?
「I see. How do you cook fatty tuna, exactly?」
「Stew, desu. Roast, desu.」
So it can either be boiled or roasted? It’s good to know that there’s more than one way of preparing it, but I am still pretty disappointed that there seems to be no sashimi in this world.
「Since we got Whole Fish today, tomorrow’s dinner will be the Whole Fish.」
「Yes , desu!」
Miria answers with a bright smile on her face.
「Un, I knew that things would be getting more difficult here.」
「They certainly did, but not by that much.」
Even though I said that it’s getting more difficult, all I do is cast spells from the safety of the backline, so even if the duration of the battles lengthens, it’s the vanguard, and most noticeably Roxanne, who’ll bear the brunt of that increase in difficulty instead of me. But since she said 「not by that much」, then does that mean that this level of difficulty is still something that Roxanne can handle?
「Well then, shall we move to Haruba’s Labyrinth next?」
「Yes, let’s do that.」
After the battles in Quratar’s Labyrinth were over, we move to the eighteenth floor of Haruba’s Labyrinth, where we continued its exploration, which carried on onto the next day. We made some good progress and moved forward quite a bit, but decided to finish the exploration ahead of time and call it a day, the reason behind it being cooking.
「Because I’m already making soup for Miria, then I’ll ask the two of you, Roxanne and Sherry, to make one more dish for us.」
「Understood, master.」
「Since you are cooking the whole fish again, I wonder if stir-fried vegetables would go nicely with it?」
Sherry always seems to be taking the nutritional balance of our meals into account whenever I ask her to cook something, it seems. As you would expect from someone as intellectual as her.
「Yeah, that would definitely be great.」
「Hopefully. Sherry and I will make stir-fried vegetables, then.」
「Alright. Then, Miria will be helping me with the preparation of the main dish for today.」
「Yes, desu.」
Miria doesn’t seem to have any unpleasant expression on her face, which means that the process of preparing today’s meal should go smoothly and without a hitch.
「Great, Miria. I’m proud of you always being so eager to help with the preparation of the food.」
Well, this time, it won’t be as laborious a task as blending mayonnaise. This time, Miria is just going to be a fire watchman, so that should be task that she should be able to handle without much difficulty.
After returning home, I add some salt to an egg, whip it and spread it on a pan. As for the salt, I’m using Kobold Salt, since we have an overabundance of it. Miria was the one who ground it without complaining, since It’s not a laborious task.
Next, I put the herb-dredged whole fish on the salt. After that, I coat the entire fish with the salt.