Eguchi Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: Volume 2

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-7183-4302-3
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 351 Seiten

Reihe: Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

Mukouda Tsuyoshi - alias, 'Mukohda' - was an ordinary Japanese salaryman until he was summoned to a fantasy world of swords and magic. Mukohda's unique skill made him the only person in this world with access to modern Japanese products, but the real reason he caught the attention of the legendary magic beast, Fenrir, was his ability to cook delicious food!
Now with a ludicrously overpowered Fenrir and a baby slime in tow, Mukohda and friends continue their laid-back journey in search of easy-living in a new kingdom. In spite of his best efforts, it seems Mukohda can't help but get wrapped up in the adventurer lifestyle. Will this reluctant 'hero' win fame, fortune, and fair maidens while he tries to fly under the radar? With food this good, he's bound to make new friends whether he likes it or not - much to the dismay of his number 1 fan, Ninrir, the goddess with a sweet tooth. Unfortunately for her, she isn't the only denizen of the divine realm to take notice of Mukohda's access to otherworld goods and sweets, and the other goddesses might have demands of their own!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eguchi, Ren

Weitere Mitwirkende

Masa

Chen, Kevin

Leseproben

Chapter 1: Arrival at Karelina

We attached ourselves to Lambert’s caravan and headed for the town of Karelina. According to Lambert, Karelina was about two days away.

By the way, we had decided to hand over the thieves we’d tied up to the knight brigade stationed in Karelina.

The head of the gang of thieves was dead, but it wasn’t a crime to defend yourself from attacking bandits, and there would even be a reward for reporting it properly to the knight brigade. It seemed that there would also be a reward for turning over the living thieves to the knights... and I would be the one to receive those rewards, because Fel and Sui were the ones to defeat them.

Lambert was insistent on it since he was happy enough to have been saved, and the members of Phoenix were of the opinion that I should claim the rewards since they were the ones who were unable to properly carry out their escort mission.

Since the income would be a windfall I would be greatly thankful for, I decided to gracefully accept their goodwill. Although it was looking to be a real pain, having to drag the thieves with us.

At that time, I overheard the adventurers talking in hushed voices. By the way, the members of Phoenix were all men with builds similar to Lars’. That’s probably why they were loud enough to hear, even though they intended to speak softly. I managed to catch everything perfectly.

“Hey, is it true that our leader said that that thing is a Fenrir? I’ve heard rumors that it’s just a great wolf, though.”

“I’m not sure, either. Our leader did say that it was a Fenrir, though...”

“Would a legendary beast ever become someone’s familiar?”

“I’ve actually heard from Sandra that it’s a great wolf.”

“Sandra’s the guild employee you’ve been getting along with, right?”

“Yeah. Look, the Adventurer’s guild is famous for using a teleportation device to send letters, right? They exchange a lot of info that way, but the info on this is a little complicated. Like, there’s ones that say it’s a Fenrir, as well as ones that say it’s a great wolf. So, it looks like Sandra and most of the people around her say that there’s no way it’s a Fenrir, so it must be a great wolf.”

“Really? Well, that’s the normal way to think about it.”

“Still though, our leader declared that it was a Fenrir, right? He even went as far as to say not to oppose it in any way if we don’t want to die...”

“Well, we wouldn’t be able to stand up to it either way, though. Even if it is only a great wolf, it’s still an A-rank monster.”

“That’s right. Luckily, it looks like it really is docile as that guy’s familiar, so let’s just let sleeping dogs lie.”

“Right you are.”

Werner and the others from Iron Will were able to identify Fel as a Fenrir at first sight, and they were C rank. Even the old man from the Adventurer’s guild said that he had climbed to a decent rank before retiring, so that must be around C or B rank. Lars also said he was C-ranked.

The other members said that they were around D or E rank, and they looked to be in their early 20’s...

Thinking along those lines, people should start to be able to identify Fel at around C-rank...

For the time being, I had no choice but to keep with the setting that Fel was a great wolf, and refrain from answering clearly to people who could see through him. It seemed that those who could see through him were at least somewhat strong and understood just how powerful a beast a Fenrir was, so they probably wouldn’t try poking the bear. Just like how Lars told the other members to, “Not oppose him in any way if you don’t want to die.”

So the most problematic people are the nobles and the countries in general, huh? I came to this country because it was said that this place was a relatively free country with no discrimination, so it would be nice if they didn’t try anything strange.

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The sun set, and so we stopped the caravan.

“Let’s stop here for the day.” Preparations for camp started at Lambert’s word.

«Hey, you better not have forgotten your promise from this afternoon.»

«You said that if I saved them, you would make something ‘extra special’ for dinner.»

I had made that promise in the heat of the moment, so I had completely forgotten. But it seemed that Fel remembered.

“I got it, I got it. So, what do you want to eat?”

«Sui wants to eat karaage.»

«Ohh, that thing you made before, right? That is a good idea. I also would like to eat karaage.»

It looked like Fel was taken in by Sui’s idea. I was only able to eat a little last time, so I was on board, too.

I had promised to make something extravagant, so this time so I decided to make two kinds with a normal base soy sauce flavor, and a base salt flavor. As for the meat, I decided to use the black serpent meat, as well as the rest of the cockatrice and rockbird meat I had. I was going to make a lot of soy sauce and salt karaage.

“Master— can I eat it?”

“Wait a bit.”

I piled the karaage on a plate and put it in front of Fel and Sui.

«Ah, the flavor is different from before. This is good, too.»

Fel was chowing down wordlessly. Him eating like that must be a sign that it’s delicious.

Now then, let’s keep frying...

It looks like Lambert, and the people he hired for his caravan, as well as the members of Phoenix are all gathered around for some reason, though. They’re even staring this way. Some of them are drooling, too...

“Umm, if you’d like, help yourself.”

As soon as I proffered the plate with the karaage on it, they all jumped on it like starving hyenas.

“Ahh, man, sorry, sorry.”

“Really, I wanted to ask for some.”

“IT’S SO GOOOOOD—”

“It’s delicious! Delicious!”

“It’s the first time I’ve ever eaten something this tasty!”

Of course karaage would be popular.

Since that happened, I had to persist in frying up karaage and nothing else. It was hard enough making Fel and Sui’s portion, not to mention adding enough for the crowd that joined in. On top of that, there wasn’t even a single piece of karaage left for me, sadly.

There was nothing I could do about it, so I just quietly bought some of the sweet buns from my skill.

In return, I was relieved of having to keep watch during the night. Fel always put up a barrier, so I’d never had to do that, but I guess it would normally just be common sense, huh?

“It’s a small thing compared to being saved and feeding us something that good, but please sleep as much as you like.” The members of Phoenix said that to me, so I decided to graciously take them up on their offer.

“You guys get this. It’s just shitty rations but consider yourselves lucky you even get to eat. Also, don’t even think about running away or I’ll cut you down.” Lars, who was on first watch, finally went to give the thieves a little food as well as some threats just as I was about to sleep.

But really, they got what they deserved.

Some time had passed since the tragedy at noon, so I decided to help scare the more rebellious ones.

“We’re going to sleep, but our ears are sharp, you know?” I said while looking at Fel.

“We’ll fly awake at any time. You’ll be in fine slices before Lars even has a chance to act.” The thieves shivered in fear at my words.

“Oh, also, I’d stay quiet if you don’t want to die like your boss.” It looked like my threats worked, so things should have been fine.

Unable to bring out my futon to sleep in, I was made to endure curling up in my mantle for the first time in a while.

Sui, who had grown fond of the futon, grumbled a little. When I told Sui that it would only be until we reached town, it bravely said, «Sui will endure it.»

I swore in my heart to make something Sui would like tomorrow.

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“Welcome to the town of...