(Author note)
This chapter is slightly shorter than usual.
But then again, afterstories are basically like four-panel comics, so they’ll be like this every once in a while.
(Author note end)
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One day, sothing happened.
A certain man arrived at the King Crab chain restaurant in Laevateinn that Karkinos was running.
He was wearing a suit, which was rare in Midgard. He had slightly yellowish skin as well as black hair and eyes, just like Sei.
Although it only beca apparent after the fact, the after-effects of the battle between Alovenus and Ruphas were still persisting up to this point, and there were still distortions in the space-ti continuum.
This man had unfortunately been caught up in it and had co wandering into Midgard from Earth.
When he saw Prosciutto e lone, a food from Earth, despite being in a fantastic world, he was greatly moved and decided to order it.
But the mont he put it in his mouth, he froze and then gave so blunt criticisms about it to Karkinos, who just so happened to be at the store as part of his occasional inspections.
“This Prosciutto e lone is fake. I can’t eat this.”
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According to the man, Prosciutto e lone was created because the lons that once grew in England had a grassy sll, so people started eating it together with ham in order to mask that sll.
As such, if one were to combine ham with lon and make it as close to the original product as possible, one had to use a slightly slly lon which had its sweetness suppressed. This was the sophistry used by the man.
But in the end, because the man did not have any money with him, he ended up running away from the restaurant after eating everything and was subsequently apprehended by the knights. After that, he ended up eting Ruphas and was sent back to Earth. However, the man’s words still struck a chord within Karkinos.
“The Prosciutto e lone that made was… fake…!?”
Serving a custor a fake product… was sothing that should not be allowed to happen.
In practice, custors did not care that it was fake and were just ordering the dish with the intention of eating a lon. In fact, 70% of custors removed the ham before they started eating it. Unfortunately, Karkinos was so shocked by this revelation that he did not even realise that was actually happening.
As such, Karkinos made a decision.
Let’s selectively breed them – this was the decision that he made.
Midgard’s lons were too sweet. Therefore, they did not pair well with ham.
But selective breeding was not sothing that could be accomplished overnight. It required a lot of ti. In fact, it required a number of years.
But the place that Karkinos was in was Midgard. In this world, there were ways to change things very quickly.
Thus Karkinos quickly took matters into his own hands and decided to employ those thods.
“Deform and mutate according to my devilish powers… the power of darkness, gather at the roots of this lon!”
Karkinos first decided to rely on Aigokeros.
But no matter how one looked at it, from the very start, Karkinos had definitely made a mistake picking who to ask for help.
Needless to say, a miracle did not happen. The lon, which absorbed the power of darkness, mutated into sothing grotesque.
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“The big lon warp mutation! Devil lon!”
The outco was this unfortunate thing.
The big lon had mutated into a devil lon, a strange and creepy purple mysterious thing.
Its level had increased to 150 and, in terms of battle prowess, it was a big success. Unfortunately, it was ant to be consud as food. What good was it to have strengthened a food?
But Karkinos did not give up. After learning that it was pointless to mutate it using mana, he decided to try using alchemy next and headed towards Ruphas.
“You can leave it to ! Alright… alchemy!”
Ruphas activated a skill and then applied alchemy to the lon.
Alchemy and cooking were very much alike. In essence, they both used sothing as an ingredient and changed it into sothing else.
For example, suppose there was a bean. That bean could be turned into soy milk or even into cheese.
One could say that doing sothing like this was smack-dab in the middle of the field of alchemy.
After having an alchemical skill applied to it, the devil lon shone and mutated further.
“Devil lon, ultimate mutation! tal devil lon!”
The outco was this unfortunate thing.
The lon was now enclosed in steel, and it even had a bazooka equipped for so reason.
There was a claw at the bottom of its body, and it looked like sothing that would fit right into a space war that would continue all year round.
Needless to say, sothing like this could not be eaten. One should not turn food into a tallic substance.
As opposed to Ruphas, who was looking satisfied for so reason, Karkinos was depressed and disappointed.
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“No, but… this isn’t even a lon anymore, is it? How did it beco like this…?”
The next person that Karkinos decided to rely on was Dina.
When he thought about it properly, ti was what was needed to selectively breed sothing, and that was sothing that could be solved by her.
One should not forget. This cheating strategist was able to manipulate ti to her will.
Dina, despite saying, “It’ll definitely get weirder”, reluctantly activated her ti manipulation skill.
She sped up the tal devil lon’s ti.
Dina, you’re wrong. That’s not how selective breeding is done.
“This is super lon 3. Sorry that it took up so ti… I’m not used to the new changes yet.”
The outco was this unfortunate thing.
The lon had elongated.
Its body, which used to be round, had greatly elongated. At this point, it was not even shaped like a lon anymore.
Furthermore, it shone a bright golden colour and was shooting off sparks by itself.
Not only that, its level, now at 300, rivalled that of the Seven Luminaries.
After seeing what had happened, one of the Seven Luminaries of the demons, Luna, muttered, “Could it be that we’re actually really weak…?” having lost her self-confidence.
Even after this attempt, Karkinos kept trying and failing, but he did not give up on it.
In truth, it was smarter for him to give up, but he still did not give up.
There were those who thought that he should have at least prepared a new big lon and restarted from the beginning, but he still did not give up.
Hey, I’m telling you as an author to just give up already!
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And the following day.
“… So, this thing… what are you planning to do with it?”
“Umm… what is… this?”
What exactly was the thing that Scorpius and Aries were exasperatedly looking up at?
At the very least, it was no longer a lon.
It had managed to reach a height of 30m.
Near the bottom, nurous steel legs were growing out of it, and it was walking around with a gashungashun sound.
It also now had an arm, and there were two bazookas on what would be considered its shoulders.
Because there were streams of fire being blasted out of its back, it could even take flight.
Its body also shone a bright gold colour.
As a side note, its level was now 400. Its strength now made it truly befitting to be called the ultimate evolution available to a lon.
This was the outco after Karkinos continued to try despite those prior mistakes and went to seek Mizar’s, Pollux’s and Alovenus’s help.
“My na is Ultimate Prosciutto e lone.”
“Prosciutto e… where is the ham even…?”
There was not even a trace of what could be called a lon left. There was also no ham on it.
Yet the individual (?) decided to call itself a lon.
No, it was a mistake to say that there was no ham on it.
After being questioned by Scorpius, the lon showed her a small slice of ham on top of its head. … Then ate it.
“My na is Ultimate lon.”
“Fine, be whatever you want to be…”
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Scorpius muttered, after becoming as exasperated as she could possibly be.
Afterwards, the Ultimate Prosciutto e lone was added to King Crab restaurant’s nu, but the number of custors who ordered it suddenly went down to zero.
On the other hand, thanks to how ridiculous it looked and its unexpectedly reliable battle prowess, the Ultimate Prosciutto e lone ended up becoming King Crab’s mascot and was adored by the people.
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(Author note)
By the way, the first people on Earth have no particular relation to Oishinbo.
Maybe soone just saw the book and was influenced by it.
(Author note end)
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