Chapter 151: A Respite From Adventuring XIII
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To cut to the chase, ran was not given the royal seal.
The main reason for this is the wide variation in taste.
On the heels of the original ran made by the fla religion, Tyutyu and the mikos started making their own versions of it.
The problem then beca………
In addition, there are also inequalities and differences between the many temples of the fla religions.
The possibility of friction arising from this is high.
The Comrce Chairman and the priestess suggested pushing for the Tonkotsu Fla Miso Ran with as the representative, but I refused because it would be too much of a hassle.
If I were to accept, I would be consulted on ran every day. I would be bombarded with requests for apprenticeship.
I don't have the ti for that.
I know I'm repeating myself, but I'm an adventurer. Making ran is not my main profession.
For this reason, ran was not given the royal seal, but perhaps because it had beco the talk of the town, it quickly spread throughout Lemuria.
The Comrce Chairman getting ahead of himself and investing too much in ran-making equipnt also contributed to that.
Another contributing factor may have been my decision to set the royalties for using the recipe for the ran noodles at "one gold coin per year".
In the words of a Japanese person of the past,
The rchants were very much against it, but I brushed them off.
Also, Tyutyu's store beca a ran store after all.
It ended up being a cozy little store sandwiched between a noodle manufactory and a grocery store.
The two adjacent buildings had been built by the Zavua rchant company.
The grocery store stocks a variety of high-grade ingredients, including the miso, which has been branded as "elven miso", and other unusual seasonings that cannot be found anywhere else.
It's a small store in a bad location, but in a relatively short ti, it has beco a well-known store among those in the know.
That guy lm works as a salesman at the store whenever he feels like it, and sales always triple on the days he works, much to the consternation of Lonewell and .
Do people really like good-looking people that much?
lm had been sternly warned by his daughter that she would send him flying if he tried anything with the custors.
The noodle manufactory employs the mikos of the fla religion as its employees.
The fla religion teaches that people should live ascetically, but sadly, it's hard to find anyone who hates money. This was exploited, and one of the mikos I had taught how to make ran got into a dispute with a rchant from the center continent.
The rchant had swindled her out of the know-how and refused to pay the royalties.
In the end, that rchant company was crushed and absorbed. In order to make sure that nothing like that would happen again, a noodle manufactory was built to provide a safe place for the mikos to work.
The noodles made there are supplied to noodle stores all over Lemuria and have beco the most prevalent type of noodles in the market.
Lonewell and the Comrce Chairman are planning to build more noodle manufactories, but it feels like they're going to build too many and face a setback. That's not sothing I'm going to lose sleep over though.
Well, the truth is, once there is a surplus of noodles, I have a plan that I intend to put into motion.
Leaving that aside.
Sandwiched between those two buildings, Tyutyu's ran store………………to be perfectly frank, is not getting much custors.
One of the reasons for that is because ran has beco too widespread.
Sad to say, if a Hemu cook and a beastkin cook were to make the sa dish, the majority of custors will choose to eat the Hemu's food.
Good food is delicious no matter who makes it, but until they’ve had a taste of it, people’s prejudices will always prevail.
Furthermore, Tyutyu works in a brothel.
That's not exactly sothing that will whet people's appetites.
Nevertheless, that doesn't an that she isn't making money.
That's because the brothel and the bar she works at buys her broth.
By the way, Tyutyu's tonkotsu miso ran is sold at three copper coins per bowl at her store.
At the bar, it's priced at eight copper coins per bowl.
And in the brothel, it's sold for one silver coin per bowl.
Whenever a custor takes a liking to the taste of the ran, soone would secretly tell him or her,
Every once in a while, that group of three drunks would gather at the store and cause trouble for Tyutyu and the other custors, but apart from that, the day when it becos a famous hole-in-the-wall store is probably near.
At one of the tables in front of the store, Evetta-san was stacking empty porcelain bowls on top of each other.
She only had three bowls today, huh? This has beco a regular sight since the opening of the store, but it's what's underneath that's the problem.
「Err, what's this?」
By her chair was a large gray dog, lying face down and asleep.
It was a dirty, filthy-looking dog.
「Oh, Souya. Good day」
「Good day, Evetta-san」
「I knew you're coming today, Souya, so I made sure to leave so room for more. Please allow to help with the taste-testing of the new dish」
「Oh. Okay, I'm counting on you then」
How can you still have room for more after three bowls? was what I thought, but……
「Thanks for waiting, Evetta. Here's your extra-large Curry Tonkotsu Ran, with extra thick pieces of chashu, extra vegetables, and extra spices and garlic-nya」
……the fourth bowl arrived.
Tyutyu served Evetta her ran.
She was dressed in a maid-like cooking outfit, with her hair tied up and tucked inside a chef's hat. She was showing very little skin, and even her tail was kept hidden inside her skirt.
When a girl who usually wears revealing clothes suddenly covers up, it gives the urge to leer at her. Or perhaps it's just that I'm dirty-minded.
Evetta-san ate her ran with gusto.
The curry ran that we ca up with last week was heaped high with bean sprouts, and on top of them was a pile of thick pieces of chashu, which was the barkeeper's idea.
What kind of devilish modification is this, I wonder?
Can it even be called ran anymore?
Leaving that retort for later……
「Tyutyu, what's with this dog? You can't have animals in a store that serves food」
「Oh, Souya, that dog is Barfuru-sama-nya」
「Huh?」
Now that she ntions it, it does kinda bear so resemblance.
Err, but it's just a dog, right?
「When I arrived at the store this morning, I found a burglar who he had left half-dead-nya. As thanks, I gave him so leftovers and he ended up staying-nya. That's why he's Barfuru-sama-nya」
「What?! A burglar?! Are you okay?!」
「I'm fine-nya. Like I said, that's why I nad the dog Barfuru-sama-nya」
「Oh, so it's just a dog you nad Barfuru-sama」
For a mont, I thought it was actually him.
A moving tale of him returning to Tyutyu's side even though he had beco like this wouldn't suit that guy, I suppose.
「Alright, Tyutyu, get rid of it」
「No-nya~」
「You can’t keep it. A filthy dog like this will make the custors lose their appetite」
Evetta-san wasn't paying our conversation any mind and was focused on shoveling the ran into her mouth, so I ignored her.
「I'll wash him properly-nya. I'll have him wear a hat and also put so clothes on him-nya!」
「That's not the point」
Perhaps Tyutyu was too loud, but Barfuru-sama(dog) walked over to a corner of the store before lying back down.
「Look, Tyutyu. You can't even use him as a watchdog」
Dogfuru-sama had held its right foreleg aloft as it walked. I didn't see any visible wounds, so there must be sothing wrong with its bones or muscles.
More than ever, I doubt it can be used as a guard dog.
「Souya, that dog is no ordinary dog. It's probably so sort of monster. If it's a nuisance, I can take it to the slaughterhouse for you」
「Oh, I'd appreciate that. I'll treat you another bowl of ran in return」
I'll accept Evetta's suggestion. After hearing that it's a monster, all the more reason to not have it around.
I'll have to re-think the store's security asures. The store is slowly beginning to make money, so it might get targeted by burglars again.
「Souya! No-nya! Nya is definitely keeping him-nya!」
「Ehhh」
Tyutyu rebuffed my suggestion.
But you can't have pets in a store that serves food, isn't it?
Also, there's sothing about this dog that gets on my nerves.
Its face, bearing, vibe, and the air it gives off. Everything.
Does this dog really have no connection to Barfuru?
「Souya, the storekeeper seems adamant about this, so why not allow her to keep it? I'll take care of the quarantining and disinfecting procedures. If there are no problems, it'll be fitted with a collar that proves that the Adventurers' Guild has granted her permission to keep it」
「Evetta, you're the best-nya! It's Nya's treat today-nya!」
「Fufu, then I'll have the chashu ran. With extra at」
「Coming right up-nya!」
After taking her order, Tyutyu went back to the kitchen as Evetta-san grinned at a job well done.
That was abuse of power though.
I turned to stare at Dogfuru and got a look of annoyance in return.
「You………………don't dirty up the store, got it?」
"Barfu," it barked softly in reply.
There's sothing about it that I just don't like after all.
I don't like it.
「Co on, Souya, I want to try the new dish」
「Alright, alright」
Urged on by Evetta-san, I also went to the kitchen.
The spacious kitchen could accommodate twice as many people as the store's seating capacity. The stoves and plumbing system that Makina had installed were almost as good as those of modern civilization. Even though it was a ran store, it had a large oven, and miso was also being made in its basent.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that a better range of cooking equipnt couldn’t be found anywhere else in Lemuria.
I put down the ingredients I had brought with , put on the apron that had been hung up, then washed my hands.
「Souya, what kind of new dish are you going to make today-nya?」
Tyutyu, who was boiling the noodles, talked to with her back to .
「I want to use an ingredient that I've finally been able to get my hands on. The fishn in the southern part of this continent grow vegetables in their flooded fields, and they have a custom of giving the white ones to their god as offerings. Rana won the right to buy it from them with her fists」
My wife had looked like so kind of god as she went toe-to-toe with a nearly three-ter-tall fishman.
「There's going to be another new ingredient hitting the shelves here in Lemuria then-nya?」
「It might sell as well as, or maybe even better than ran」
「Souya, you can do it. Be confident-nya」
「You're the one who has to do the selling though?」
「All the more reason to be confident then-nya」
Tyutyu sounded happy.
If that's what she says, then I just have to be confident.
「Well, it's easier to make than ran, so you can just listen as you watch the noodles. First off―――――」
Even so, I occasionally act like a cook. I'm not much better than an amateur at it, but it's sothing that many people want to do, so I suppose there's nothing wrong with doing it.
I ca to the alternate world to explore the dungeon.
But when I look back upon the path I've trod, I can see that no part of it had been perfectly straight. There were so many twists and turns that it felt like I was going round and round in circles at tis. There were so many detours, so many tis I strayed off the beaten path.
Nevertheless, I continued to move forward, to make progress.
At so point, I began to be able to see the end of this path I'm walking down.
I still have so leeway in terms of ti.
So I'm sure that even if I spend so of that ti building up my poor self-esteem, the gods won’t get mad at .
This kind of adventuring where I alternate between moving forward and coming to a standstill is the kind that suits .
「Souya-san, I ca to help~!」
「Hiya~」
「We’re here again~」
Rutsuko-san and the Gunrrys showed up.
「Onii-chan! I've made a new type of curry powder! Use it to make a new kind of curry ran!」
「Dear, I'm here to help」
The sisters, who had taken a detour and were a bit late, also ca.
Behind them were the rest of my party mbers.
「Souya, I'm hungry. I don't care what it is, just give food, food, and more food quickly」
Shuna made a fuss as soon as he sat down at the table.
「Souya, I'll have a drink and sothing to go with it to sober up」
Otou-san, who seed to have a hangover, said while pressing a hand to his head.
「………………」
Lys sat down next to Shuna without a word.
Boisterous custors and staff that ca and went as they pleased.
A store where adventurers gathered in between adventures.
The na of that store was………
I’ve searched as hard as I could, but the “Everyone should get to enjoy it” is not a quote by anyone that I can find. This is just what I believe, but it’s most likely a reference to the “food is for the masses” concept that Souya’s grandfather passed on to him, with it being distorted because of the effects of Wild Hunt.
Rice is a grain and not a vegetable, but “flooded fields” and “the white ones”……rice is the new ingredient, isn’t it?
What a great end to the volu, huh? ……Except that this isn’t the end, and there’s an epilogue so long that the author made it an arc…..so stay tuned!
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