Volu 5 Chapter 6.3
Translator: Reflet
「Well, anything past this is unnecessary, so let’s move on.」
「Mm.」
「What’s for dinner today?」
「Tatsuya-san says it would be nice to have a nu that goes with alcohol every so often, so I’m a bit conflicted.」
Hearing the term “goes with alcohol”, Makoto’s eyes lit up. Haruna grimaced a little as she saw this.
「I’m trying to figure out what exactly would be easy for Fum-chan and Li-chan to eat that is also sothing you might find at an izakaya.」
「Maybe yakitori?」
「I already have that planned. Then I’ll probably broil so vegetables, but I was also told I should compromise a bit more…」
「What about offal stew?」
「Mm～、sure I’m fine with that……」
Haruna made a slightly worried face at Makoto’s suggestion. When she noticed this, Makoto suddenly realized.
「Is it because Hiroshi hates it or sothing?」
「Not just Hiroshi-kun. Mio-chan also says she doesn’t do too well with entrails or offal. Layla-san also said that it’s edible but she just can’t bring herself to like such a taste, so I’m really torn on this.」
「I see, so that’s why you haven’t made much offal stew. Wow, I guess we have quite a few people here who don’t like entrails.」
「Yeah, for real.」
People generally had so likes and dislikes when it ca to ingredients and cuisine, and intestines were especially split with the like and dislike ratio amongst the ats. There were also many degrees of dislike, such as feeling a sense of disgust from thinking about organs, eating the food several tis and still disliking the taste/texture, or eating sothing not properly prepared and scarred by how gross it was, or even getting food poisoning as a result. There really were many reasons for this.
Incidentally, in Layla’s case, it wasn’t just the texture, but also an unpleasant experience with nearly getting food poisoning back in the slums. Needless to say, this was of course food that had not been properly prepared. Still, the fact that Layla could still say she found intestines edible despite that experience probably demonstrated just how tough a woman she was.
「Hiroshi did say before that he didn’t like liver, so that part I can kinda understand, but Mio? I didn’t really expect that, or I guess I should say it’s peculiar.」
「No, believe it or not, Mio-chan has quite a few dishes she’s not fond of. She’s fine with bell peppers and carrots, but then with chili peppers you can’t just cook them for her to like them.」
「Really…Wait, doesn’t that an she has a child’s sense of taste?」
「I don’t think it’s that severe? Well, Mio-chan tends not to like yams, fernted soybeans, and anything in that category where if you don’t eat it no one will especially get angry.」
「Wow. Well, it would be one thing if we were forced into a situation where only intestines are available, but since that’s not the case, this particular kind of food is one of those things that no one really cares much about.」
Haruna nodded at Makoto’s conclusion. Still, this didn’t exactly resolve the problem.
「Mm～、eh whatever. We can just prepare doteni (beef sinew stewed in miso and mirin) and have everyone take whatever they want.」
「Isn’t that work though?」
「Not really. The preparations are more or less the sa, and after I finish processing, dashi seasoning, and stewing the food, I just leave it sitting there for the most part. It’ll be fine. Besides, the entrails I gave to Makoto-san and Tatsuya-san are still there, so if I pour that in, it wouldn’t be hard at all to make dashi.」
「Well okay, if you say so.」
Makoto felt humbled by how Haruna was increasing the amount of dishes suited to everyone’s tastes. Haruna herself enjoyed the process, but still, she was cooking practically every single day, not to ntion she was one of the busier mbers of the group. Despite being in such a situation, Haruna never once let up on her work, constantly thinking of everyone’s preferences and conditions and ensuring the nutritional balance was perfectly kept, so Makoto didn’t even feel a sense of defeat in that regard. Still, it was a bit painful to just eat and drink without helping out.
It is often said that true femininity is displayed in situations like these, and Makoto found herself in high agreent with whoever thought that. Then again, Makoto wasn’t evaluating Haruna’s femininity in terms of whether she could cook or not, but rather how she paid attention to all the small details.
「Oh, so you not being able to sell the entrails was because Hiroshi doesn’t enjoy it?」
「At first it was curry bread and skewer katsu, so as I continued to fret over the combination, I essentially lost the proper timing to bring out the food at the stall.」
「Ah～……」
Katsu skewer was one thing, but Makoto definitely had to agree that curry bread and entrails were a questionable combination, not to ntion even katsu skewer in this case would be better replaced by corn dogs, and she certainly felt a bit of doubt at combining it with entrails, which were usually the go-to with liquor.
「Then wouldn’t it have been better to do it in Stiren?」
「About that…I kinda get the feeling that would have resulted in a catastrophe……」
When Makoto pointed this out, Haruna responded with a sowhat faraway look in her eyes. This could not be denied.
「Well, I’ll do sothing about dinner, so just sit back and relax.」
「Mm, okay.」
「And also, there’s a tart I kinda made impulsively as I was looking at the fruit in storage. I put a little too many different fruits in it and now the tart is rather large in volu. Also, I made too much of it, so without a good amount of fighting spirit, it would be difficult to finish eating it. So with that in mind, Makoto-san, would you mind helping out?」
「Of course I will!」
「Great. With the tart being such a large dessert to eat, I hesitated to serve it. I’ll call over Elle-chan real quick and if she’s able to co then it’ll be snack ti.」
Haruna said as she called over the octogals, asking them to convey the ssage to Aearis. The octogals generally never demanded a fee when it ca to Aearis.
「Haruna-sama, is it true that there are delicious treats here!?」
「Haru, since when have you been making these ga mass tarts?」
Ten minutes after having the octogals convey the ssage, Aearis and Mio entered the Japanese-style room.
「I think it was when Mio-chan was instructing Geno-kun to the best of her ability in preliminary arrangents?I had a little ti on my hands and it just happened impulsively.」
Haruna said, taking out the fruit tart saved in the food storage in the bag next to her and showing it. With a diater of 30 centiters and a height of 20 centiters for the mountain of fruit atop it, this fruit tart certainly did boast the imposing appearance of what you would call a ga mass tart. From what one could see upfront, there were twenty different varieties, and including the overlapping portions, this tart had a total of thirty different varieties of fruits or possibly even more incorporated, with a beautiful balance in appearance and hue.
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