Eguchi Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: Volume 3

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-7183-4304-7
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 317 Seiten

Reihe: Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

Even though I don't want to go to the dungeon!
Caught up in a 'Hero Summoning,' the hapless Mukohda was brought to another world from modern Japan, but he decided to make the most of it and enjoy a leisurely life of travel with his familiars, Fel and Sui.
With new goddesses forcing blessings on him in exchange for offerings, and another familiar in the form of a peckish pixie dragon, Mukohda steadily amasses wealth and power. Finally, the cowardly hero (with a little 'help' from his friends) has reached the city of Dolan, where he will challenge the city's dungeon, whether he wants to or not! But the challenges start before he sets foot inside the dungeon, such as getting accosted by a disappointment of a guildmaster, extorted for booze by some rather intense male gods, and splurging on an actual kitchen stove. For Mukohda, diligent preparation for dungeon diving begins with preparing enough meals to satisfy his voracious companions.
Thus armed to battle his familiar's hunger, Mukohda's party sets its sights on glorious battle in the dungeon. With ridiculous skills and overpowered magic beasts on his side, does the dungeon even stand a chance......?!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eguchi, Ren

Weitere Mitwirkende

Masa

Chen, Kevin

Leseproben

Chapter 1: Shopping at Krehl

Of course, the thing I wanted to buy was clothes. The clothes I bought the day we came to Krehl were much more comfortable than I expected, after all.

I hadn’t minded too much until now, but now that I’d bought some clothes here, I painfully felt the difference between that and the clothing I’d been wearing. These clothes were stiff and chafed my skin, but the clothes sold here were all soft and comfortable, like they were made out of cotton.

I gave up trying to bring Fel and the others with me since the stores in this town were both comparatively small, and the clothing stores always stuffed their space full with their wares.

I had them wait in the kennel, along with Sui.

At first, Dora-chan, who’d just become my familiar a day ago, complained, “You just said yesterday that you’d feed me something good, didn’t you?”

I replied with, “That’s for tonight,” and told them that I would leave food to tide them over until I was back. As soon as that detail was revealed, he immediately changed his tune.

I left some meat I cooked yesterday, some sandwiches of various kinds (including cutlet sandwiches), some red bean, jam, and cream buns, and some drinks (cola, cider, and orange juice) heaped up or poured into dishes for them.

Dora-chan must have quite the sweet tooth, as he immediately bit into a red bean bun, crying out, “Delicious!!”

Once I was satisfied that I’d left the three of them with lots of food, I went shopping.

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I looked around the street, trying to decide which store I should go to. Fel wouldn’t shut up about the dungeon, so I’d probably be forced to leave for the dungeon city of Dolan as soon as I received the money for the request and the sale of the venom tarantulas.

So, today’s the only day I would be able to shop. I didn’t have enough time, so for the moment I was going to buy anything I saw that looked good. I didn’t know when I’d be able to come next, so I wanted to buy around twenty sets of clothes to change into with spares included while I had leeway in my funds.

“Ah, this looks nice.” Walking through the street, I noticed a certain shirt and pants set. I walked inside.

Even though I said I was drawn to it, all men’s clothes were basically the same. The set I liked was, in the end, of the same type as the sets I bought yesterday: the shirt was white, while the pants were dark gray.

As soon as I entered, I was approached by an employee. “Did that catch your eye? It’s our most popular product.”

The shirt was a simple one with a stand-up collar, and the pants looked like chinos. If somebody were to call this set ‘standard,’ no one would object.

“Yes, please give me that shirt and those pants. Also, I’d like to buy several sets......”

I had the employee show me their shirts and pants. The shirts were mainly divided into shades of white, ivory, and beige. According to the employee, the shirts weren’t dyed; instead, the threads themselves had color. Apparently, that was because white shirts generally went with anything, and also dyeing would drive up the prices.

Unlike the shirts, the pants section had a lot of strong colors; olive, deep brown, dark grey, deep blue, and plain colors like black were the main features, here. There was a reason for that, too, as darker colors didn’t show stains as easily.

When I thought about it, I agreed with those reasons, and although they were plain, I didn’t hate the colors anyway.

When I thought about it like that, I realized that these clothes were basically unchanged from what I wore in my previous world.

I bought two each of the white and beige shirts, and also a single pair each of olive, deep brown, deep blue, and black pants. Along with the set that was on display, the five sets cost me 17 gold and 5 silver.

After that, I went around to two more stores that caught my eye and bought ten more sets each from them. They were all just about the same in the end, though.

I ended up with more sets than I’d planned at twenty-five, but, thinking about the future, having this many shouldn’t be a problem.

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When I got back, not only was all the copious amount of food I’d left completely gone, the dishes I’d left them on were even licked clean.

Not to mention, they were currently sleeping soundly in the kennel. Dora-chan was even sleeping facing the sky, with his belly exposed and everything.

After thinking for a while about what to make, I landed on something. I already had the thin-cut wyvern meat, so I decided to do the sukiyaki that I’d already planned on doing eventually.

Since I’d need to buy a pot to use for the sukiyaki anyway, I also bought another three portable stoves.

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First are the preparations.

Slice the onions diagonally into about 1cm width pieces, and cut the Chinese cabbage into sections so that they’re of manageable size. Cut the edible chrysanthemums so they’re around 5 cm in length, and cut the base off of the enoki mushrooms and unravel them. Cut the grilled tofu into cubes, and once the shirataki noodles have been boiled in preparation, cut them to an easy-to-eat length.

Once all that preparation is done, it’s finally time for the real deal.

Heat up the sukiyaki pot, and after melting some wyvern fat on it start with the onions. Once the onions have changed color, add in the wyvern meat. Cook the wyvern meat quickly, and, as soon as it has changed color, add in the tare and go to low heat.

Then, add in the shirataki noodles, grilled tofu, enoki mushrooms, Chinese cabbage, and edible chrysanthemums. Once they’ve been heated through, the sukiyaki is ready to eat.

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I cracked two eggs for each of them and after a light scramble, I added in a large amount of the wyvern meat and some vegetables and mixed them together.

I was going to go wake the three of them up, but they were all already waiting behind me, drooling.

“Here you go.” I put the dishes in front of them. The three of them must have stretched their patience to the limit, as they began eating immediately.

«Man this meat is good!!»

“Indeed, this sauce pairs well with the meat. Also, is this egg? Mixing that in takes this to a whole new level.”

«Yeah, yeah. The just-a-little-bit-sweet-and-salty flavor with the meat and eggs together is really, really good!»

“D-Dora-chan, that meat is, uhm, wyvern meat. Are you okay eating that? Aren’t wyverns a type of dragon? Isn’t this cannibalism?”

When I fearfully brought up the subject, Dora-chan snorted out of his nose.

«There’s no dragon that thinks of wyverns as dragons. All dragons are as intelligent as I am, you know? You can’t call idiots like wyverns a type of dragon like that. Not to mention, as long as it isn’t the same as me, that is, specifically a pixie dragon, I wouldn’t call it cannibalism, either. This world is one of survival of the fittest, so I’ll eat anything that isn’t a pixie dragon.»

Having said that, Dora-chan returned to chomping down his sukiyaki.

“It is exactly as Dora says: The strong use...