CH 58

Ma-kun. . . Zezgard-san is skillfully hollowing out the contents of Campagne, even as he spoke.

“Can you cut the hollowed out bread into large bite-sized pieces and put them in the bread?”

“Ahh? Even though we pulled out the contents, are we going to put it back?”

“Yes. Please return about two-thirds of it and put the rest in a heat-resistant dish. I want to put ingredients other than bread in it, so if you put it all back, it will overflow.”

“Understood.”

When I asked for it, Zezgard-san looked troubled, but he did the work properly.

Yes. After all, I guess you like this kind of work itself.

Even during his vacation, he’s seriously working.

Yes, that boy-

“Hey, your eyes.”

He likes to work.

“I’m not Ma-kun!”

I tried to witness such growth with warm eyes, but he was ahead of me and immediately stopped.

So, when I put my face back, I left the bread to Zezgard-san, and moved to a different work desk.

“Then I will make the ingredients inside.”

“Just like you explained to Zez earlier, is it a dish where you put ingredients in hollowed out bread?”

“Yes. Then the hard bread will transform.”

A large wooden desk that seems easy to work on.

When I moved there, Hurst-san and Ryleigh-kun followed me.

Ryleigh-kun is wearing that pink frilly apron and is ready to go.

“Shina-san, do you have enough ingredients?”

“Maybe I can do something about it.”

“Today is the last day before delivery, so the ingredients are running low. If it’s not enough, I’ll prepare it right away.”

. . . Yeah. If I ask Hurst-san, he will really procure anything.

But what I have here is enough.

“Hurst-san taught me about the food situation of the Northern Knights, and I will do what I can within the scope of what everyone has done so far.”

Yes. I came all the way to the Northern Knights.

I can use rare ingredients and seasonings that are not here to make something special, but first, I want to make something that matches this place.

On the desk in front of me, the ingredients I just got from the stockpile are lined up.

There isn’t much of a variety, but it should be possible to make hard bread delicious.

“The Northern Knights often serve dairy products.”

“Yes. The main industry around here is dairy farming. So milk and cheese are delivered every morning.”

“Come to think of it, I feel like dairy products were served at every meal.”

Hurst-san’s words probably reminded Ryleigh-kun of the meals he had eaten at the Northern Knights order.

As Ryleigh-kun said, there was always some kind of dairy product at each meal.

“Other foods must be used while considering the amount of the stockpile and delivery, but there are no restrictions on the use of dairy products.”

“There’s no way not to use it, right?”

I nodded a lot to Hurst-san’s explanation.

Before entering the kitchen, I went to the stockpile with Hurst-san, and there were a lot of dairy products there.

So I borrowed them and brought a large cylindrical cheese and a large metal milk can.

There is plenty of milk in the milk can.

. . . When I look at this milk can, my chest feels tight.

Like this, there’s a big dog. . . it pulls a wooden cart. . .

When I call it’s name. . . it makes me cry. . .

In the church. . . A boy and a dog. . .

Ugh. . .

“Shina-san, what’s wrong?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

I just want to say, ‘I’m tired, Fufun Rush. . .’

But for now, I will put aside the encounter with the story of my childhood.

“Anyway, dairy products are an important source of nutrition for the Northern Knights.”

“Yes. The vegetables and meat from hunting animals may be cut off, but we can get dairy products every day.”

After all, there are various differences depending on the region and lifestyle.

That kind of thing is also important, so when I nodded, Ryleigh-kun looked up at me with a slightly anxious expression.

“But you might get some nutrition from dairy products, but I feel like there aren’t enough vegetables.”

“Yeah, that’s actually true. There were only a few vegetables left.”

Yes. The vegetables should have been delivered, but today was the last day before delivery, so the stockpile was considerably reduced.

There were root vegetables such as onions, potatoes, and carrots, and this time I only brought onions, which was the largest among them.

Moreover, there were only processed meat products, so it was only large blocks of bacon.

That’s all. But. . .

“I’ll make it delicious.”

I smiled at the uneasy Ryleigh-kun and said that it’s okay.

Then, I tilted my head a little, saying that I have a favor to ask.

“In order to do that, I have to ask Ryleigh-kun to help me, but is that okay?”

“Yes! Of course!”

Ryleigh-kun’s anxious face cleared up and his usual bright young leaf-colored eyes were revealed.

“What I want to ask Ryleigh-kun to do is adjust the firepower of the stove and oven. I haven’t done much to burn firewood and see how well it’s cooked. . .”

All the cooking fires here use wood, which I’m not used to.

Even if I memorize recipes for low, medium, and high heat, and set the oven to 180 degrees, I don’t have the confidence to adjust the heat with firewood.

Ryleigh-kun nodded strongly to me.

“If it’s about fire, leave it to me! I’m good at making the fire stronger, but like when we made roast chicken at the royal palace, I can make it weaker if I burn it down.”

Yes. When we made roast chicken with Ash-san and the Kei Bihei Brothers at the royal palace, Ryleigh-kun quickly burned down a large amount of wood and turned it into a cooking fire.

If it’s such a Ryleigh-kun, he will definitely adjust the fire power well.

“It’s a perfect role for Ryleigh.”

“Yes. If I can ask Ryleigh-kun, I would be relieved too.”

Hurst-san’s calm, low voice.

I also said something to match it, and Ryleigh-kun lowered his eyebrows a little.

“. . . Shina-san, Vol-san. I never thought I could make something with my skill.”

The whispered words were trembling. . .

“My skill is to burn everything and erase it’s existence from this world. . . I myself would be burned and my existence would be erased.”

. . . Ryleigh-kun, whose skill was so strong, always had his life in danger.

I think there were times when he though about his future and felt uneasy.

“But I’m here. The Northern Knights should have been too far away for me to come here. . . I’m here, trying to cook with Shina-san and Vol-san.”

He muttered words with a bit.

“. . . I’m glad I’m here. . . . It was nice to meet Shina-san. I’ve thought about it many times since we came to the Northern Knights.”

Ryleigh-kun’s slightly smiling face.

It was so cute that I got caught by it and smiled too.

“Me too. . . Because I couldn’t do so many things freely at the royal palace.”

Yes. The only thing I could do in the royal palace was take a walk and take care of herbs.

But with the Northern Knights, I’m basically free wherever I go, and I can prepare various things for Shizuku-chan.

And I can go into the kitchen like this and make meals for everyone. . .

“Hurst-san brought me here. Ryleigh-kun asked Thruster-san to do it for me. I think it’s really fun.”

. . . Yes. I’m glad I came.

“So, first of all, I’m going to slice this large amount of onions into thin slices.”

“Then I’ll prepare the firewood!”

“Yes. Thank you.”

“Then, I will help Shina-sama with the cooking.”

“Yes, thank you very much.”

If I want to make it for all the Northern Knights, I need to make quite a lot.

If you cut so many onions, you might cry a little.

But I’m sure it will be fine.

There should be no tears in the finally episode of Fufun Rush. . . !

I tired to look it up but I couldn’t find anything about ‘Fufun Rush’, so I think it’s just an inside thing from her childhood memory, not from a real story. If I’m wrong, feel free to let me know. I wonder if Shina will get a lot of points from this meal. I think it would be cool if she kept upgrading her kitchen and ended up with an entire house.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter and thank you for reading!