Tondemo Skill – 425 – Four Arms Bear < Gigantic Minotaur
When we stepped out to the 40th Floor…
“Ehhh… more forest?!”
The sight that greeted us was the sa as the 39th Floor, tangled undergrowth and huge overgrown trees.
“Hey Fer, how big is this floor? Is it as big as the one before?” I asked while staring at the trees that towered above us.
“Umu, it might even be bigger than the previous one.”
“Bigger, huh,” it took us almost three days to cross the previous floor, just how long would it take us to cross this one?
“Well, it can’t be helped, let’s get going.”
“”Ou! Let’s get through it!””
I sighed.
“Leave the monsters to Sui.”
“”Yay~~!!””
Well, at least one of us is excited.
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At least there was a sharp decline in insect-type monsters here.
We were attacked by all kinds of beast-type monsters, including but not limited to: Red Boar, Cockatrice, Rock Bird, Giant Dodo, Giant Deer, Giant Horn Rabbits, Wild Apes and so forth.
Sui fired her Acid Bullets from her position on Fer’s head.
[6] Dora-chan’s job was to collect the Drops, but only if they turned out to be at Drops.
This way, we got through the forest with minimal fuss.
“”Right, let’s call it a day.””
Fer suddenly stopped and gave the order through telepathy.
“I supposed we might as well since it is getting dark.”
We might be inside a dungeon, but the field dungeons seed to have their own rules regarding weather, light and temperature. Probably better not to think too much about it.
“”Here! Here! Here!””
“Here?”
“”Yeah, here! Anyway, let’s eat the bear. I never had bear before.””
“Bear is kind of a pain to prepare…”
I have never cooked bear before either. The only bear dish I ever had was during a hot spring trip where they served us bear stew. The bear at itself did not feel too strange and it was pretty delicious in a miso-based stew.
[6] Since I am an avid cook, I asked the inn how it was prepared since bear at is known to be rather stinky when prepared wrongly.
“I guess, I could make a stew…”
““Stew is great! Let’s go with stew!””
“Umu,”
“”at~ yay~!!””
Right, since everyone seed quite enthusiastic about it, let’s go with a Bear Stew.
Hmm… [8]
I heard that the quality of bear at could be influenced by age, the season in which it is killed and the [8] blood draining practices to reduce any weird slls, but…
I tried sniffing the at.
[8]
There was no weird sll. It slled kind of gay but not in a bad way. Moreover, this was at from a monster, so who knows whether common sense from my previous world would apply?
I cut off a small portion of the at, season it with a little salt and pepper and pan-fried it carefully. My standard SOP for all new types of at.
“Hmm, well, for bear at it’s surprisingly not weird. Also, it’s a bit chewy but not too tough, typical of ga at but that’s about it. Hmm, let’s play it safe and remove the lye, but other than that, I guess it should be fine?”
For the stew, I decided to follow the recipe I had been given as closely as possible.
First, the vegetables.
Cut the daikon and carrots cut into cubes. Then, shave a whole burdock root and soak the pieces in water.
Next, I cut the bear at into fairly fine slices. [6] I don’t plan to cook the stew for too long since I have hungry familiars waiting on the side.
[6] Since stews take ti to cook, I decided to make full use of all four stoves and make four pots of stew at once. That was a lot of food but my familiars have big appetites, so…
Anyway, I splashed in sesa oil and stir-fried the slices of bear at in the pots until the at was mostly done before throwing the vegetables in, stirring every once in a while and letting the bear oil coat everything. I added kelp soup stock (made with granulated kelp stock and water) and raised the fire to dium heat.
After the stew had simred for a while, I got ready with my fine sh strainer, ready to clear out any lye that appear. Oddly enough, there was way less lye than expected. Once the stew was clear of lye, I added red miso and mirin and lowered the fire to a slow simr.
While the stew was simring, I got the enoki mushrooms, shiji mushrooms, green leeks and tofu ready. When the other vegetables were tender, I tasted the soup, hmm, not bad.
It was pretty much done at this point. All I needed to do next was arranged the mushrooms, leeks and tofu on the surface of the stew and it was ready to be served.
“Phew, that took a little while, but it’s finally done.”
“Finally.”
“”I’m tired of waiting.””
“”Hungryy~~””
“Sorry guys, stews need ti to simr. Anyway, here you go.” I ladled out the stew into bowls and served everyone.
“Mumu, the amount of vegetables is kind of obnoxious, but I’m hungry so I don’t mind.”
“”I’ve been looking forward to this!””
“”Yummy~~!””
[6] Woah, that first pot disappeared like nothing. These fellas really know how to eat.
By the ti my familiars declared themselves full, all four pots were empty. [5a]
“”That was really good,”” declared Dora-chan. “However, it still can’t beat Minotaur.”
“Umu, agreed, it has its unique points, and is good once in a while. However, Minotaur is still superior.” [5]
“”Sui likes this~~ Sui likes the aty at too~~””
Hmm, I guess I have to agree, bear at is good now and then, but Gigantic Minotaur has to be the winner.
Gumihou: Deleted ‘funny’ ending because it was more tedious than funny.
Eguchi Ren: Dungeon Arc still ongoing, please bear with us a little longer. Next, we shall have a story about the new tenant shop…
[1] Structural Change: Combine 2 paragraphs
[2] Structural Change: Combine 3 paragraphs
[3] Structural Change: Combine paragraph & dialogue
[4] Structural Change: Change passive sentence to dialogue
[5] Delete Repetitive or Pointless Information… starting to delete pointless scenes now
[a] Deleted strangely specific and wordy declarations of the subtitle as well as Mukouda’s pointless ‘oi’
[6] Additional Information for Aesthetic Purpose
[7] Add Dialogue Tag
[8] Creative Licence Taken – Bear treatnt, Gumi is going to take so common sense liberties on it.
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