Chapter 1: I Unlocked a Tenant in My “Online Supermarket”
Chapter 1: I Unlocked a Tenant in My “Online Supermarket”
As soon as we resurfaced from the dungeon and came back to Dolan, we were forcefully taken to the Adventurer’s guild. And since the conversation with Elrand ran long, we ended up missing lunch.
The ones who raised the most fuss: the children in my party.
All three of them raised a huge ruckus over their empty stomachs. Thus, mealtime would happen as soon as we got back to the inn.
Since it would be properly filling and quick to make, I decided to go with yakiniku rice bowls this time. It was perfect since I had just enough rice left, given how much Fel and the others eat.
First, I used my skill to buy the requisite yakiniku tare and some daikon radish sprouts.
Since there’s a lot of different yakiniku tare being sold these days it’s fine to just pick your favorite. I’ve tried all kinds, but in the end this one was the one I liked the most. It’s one that’s been on sale for a long time, that I’ve gotten used to. The medium-spicy one is best here, I think. I never get tired of the flavor, or rather, there’s some kind of special thing to the sweetness of the sauce that makes yakiniku bowls really delicious. Let’s use this tare and quickly finish cooking these up.
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First, slice the bloody horn-bull meat slightly thicker than normal.
Oil up a heated frying pan and start grilling the bloody horn-bull meat. Grill quickly, and once the color changes, add in the tare and keep cooking while mixing the tare in so it coats the meat.
Then, mold the rice onto the deeper dishes, pile on the meat, garnish the center with daikon sprouts for color, and the food is done.
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It’s really simple, but yeah, it definitely looks delicious.
“Here.” As soon as I served the food to my three familiars, they all jumped on it and dug in, like they couldn’t wait any longer. They must have been really hungry; it looked like they were hypnotized by the food.
They’ll probably finish up and ask for more right away at this rate, won’t they?
Next, I went with wyvern meat for the bowls.
“More!” 《More—!》 《More!》
Just as I thought.
I served them the wyvern meat yakiniku bowls.
“Mm? This one’s meat is different.”
“Yeah, the last one was bloody horn-bull. This one’s wyvern.”
“This tare really goes well with meat. Either one becomes incredibly delicious when paired with it.”
Just as I’d expect out of Fel the meat lover. He totally gets it. Of course the yakiniku tare would go well with meat. It doesn’t matter how good the meat is, eating it with that tare makes it delicious, it really does.
“Hm, this must be tried with that, I think. Make the next one with earth dragon meat.”
Fel just told me to make the next bowl with earth dragon meat.
《What? You’re using earth dragon meat? Then I’ll take one, too.》
《Sui will eat too—!》
Yep, thought this would happen once earth dragon meat was mentioned. Everyone knows how good it is, after all. Even I want to know just how good the earth dragon meat would be mixed with some yakiniku tare.
And so, I ended up making yakiniku bowls with the earth dragon meat.
“Here you go.”
When I served the earth dragon yakiniku bowls to them, they all scarfed it down. Even compared to Fel and Sui, Dora-chan, who eats very little, was keeping up with them — even though he’d already had bowls with bloody horn-bull and wyvern meat.
But watching this is making me want to eat, too......
I layered on lots of earth dragon meat coated with yakiniku tare on top of the glossy rice.
It’s even putting out an absolutely brutal smell, like it’s just telling me to eat it, after all. Ahh, it’s no good. I can’t stop my drool. I can’t stop myself. I’m eating too.
Surround some earth dragon meat with rice... *Chomp*
.........S-So goooooddd!!!
What the hell, this is way too delicious! Earth dragon yakiniku and rice are way too good together. Nope, I can’t stop myself.
I ended up finishing the entire bowl all at once.
“Hahh~, man I sure ate. That was just the best......”
Truly, that might actually have been the best food I’d ever had. It was actually dangerous how good the collaboration between the yakiniku tare and the earth dragon meat was. It seemed like Fel and Sui were both done in by the taste as well, and they had more portions one after the other.
I still have about two-thirds of the dragon meat left, but I really will have to be careful how I use it, won’t I? After all, it seems like the meat will all get used up in an instant, even though it’s so precious...
Once everyone had eaten their fill, they immediately fell fast asleep.
Leaving Fel and Dora-chan in the shed, I took Sui up into my room with me. I gently placed Sui onto the futon I’d laid out on top of the bed.
I still had something I needed to do.
It’s annoying as hell, but they’ll be even more annoying if I’m late, those people (gods)......
“Uhhh — can everyone hear me?” When I called out to them like that, I was answered immediately.
＜OOHH—! We’ve been waiting!＞
＜You’re finally back~.＞
＜Yo! I’ve been waiting!＞
＜......Food, quickly.＞
＜Heyo! We’ve been waiting for you!＞
＜Finally. Make with the alcohol, quickly!＞
......L-Looks like everyone was waiting for me while wringing their hands, doesn’t it?
＜Let’s do this quickly. It’s my turn! You! What the hell was that ‘ice cream’ you ate in the dungeon?! What are you planning, hiding something that delicious from me?! I want to eat that, too!!!＞
Ahh, so the divine disappointment, Ninrir, was totally watching, huh? Well, I guess there’s no way she’d let that go.
“Ahh, fine, fine I get it. So the divine Ninrir wants sweets, and ice cream is among those?”
＜That’s right! Also, the usual Dorayaki. Don’t forget.＞
Sure sure, I know.
Opening my Online Supermarket, the first thing I did was cart some ice cream. Ehhmm, let’s see... this and this should be good.
I ended up picking a six-piece family pack of ice cream cups with three flavors in it, as well as another family pack of chocolate-coated ice cream bars. Other than that, I threw in some dorayaki and a random assortment of candy.
“Next, please.”
＜I’m next~!＞
This voice is Kisharle, yep.
＜The cream from last time was worth every coin! So you know how you said that the price reflects the number of beauty components inside, right? So it’s fine if it’s expensive; this time, I’d like to ask for a facial lotion.＞
Fuhahaha! Just like my sister. As soon as you get hooked on this stuff you just start to look for more and more expensive things, right? Say whatever you want about beauty products and stuff, I won’t get it at all. Well, it’s true that there’s probably better stuff inside to go along with the price, though.
Opening up my Online Supermarket, I picked up the facial lotion from the same series that I got the cream from last time. This was also 3 silver.
I guess this is still considered cute, compared to my sister. Although I can see her eventually saving up to spend it all on something really expensive...... It’s an online supermarket, so they’ve only got a certain level of price in stock, though.
“Next is......”
＜Yo, it’s me! Of course, I want alcohol. Just like before, get me a lot of different varieties, I’m counting on you.＞
It’s alcohol for Agni, huh?
Just like before I picked up a variety of alcohol from different makers for her. This time, I put more of an emphasis on foreign brands.
“Next......”
＜Food and sweets. I also want to eat ice cream.＞
Ahh, it’s Miss Ruka, huh? I don’t have anything premade right now, so I guess I’ll just buy some stuff from the Online Supermarket. Beef croquettes, ham cutlets, and also karaage, yakitori, chili shrimp, and macaroni gratin, right? Oh and also the usual white bread. And then I need to get ice cream, just like Ruka wants, right? I’ll get the same as I got Ninrir. And let’s just fill up the rest with some random sweets and candies.
Next is the alcohol-lover’s combo, huh?
“So next is Hephaestos and Vahagn, right?”
＜Yo, it’s us!＞
These two are gonna team up for alcohol, right?
＜Just like before, fill me up with whisky. And the War God wants vodka, I say. vodka!＞
＜Yep! That alcohol, vodka, is really good stuff. It totally hits hard — it’s the best!＞
These two really like their alcohol, huh? I can totally see them chugging down entire bottles of whisky or vodka or whatever hard alcohol they want one after the other. I only sometimes enjoy alcohol and always end up going with beer or something similar, so I don’t have it in me to drink the harder stuff like whisky, though. I did try some once, but just a little already made me want to vomit. But it’s probably irresistible to alcoholics.
I put the whisky and vodka the two of them wanted into the cart. This time I also made sure to pick three whiskies from different makers and areas. As for the vodka, there aren’t that many variations on it anyway, so for now I just picked up the first things I saw, one from Sweden, and the other from Russia.
Good, this should do it.
I checked out the cart. After sorting out what each god would get, I lined them all up on their cardboard altars.
“Ah, Ninrir, Miss Ruka, ice cream is a lot like ice, so if you don’t keep it cool it will melt.”
＜Got it—!＞
＜...... (Nod nod.)＞
“Okay then, please accept these offerings, all of you.” The various items lined up on their cardboard altars all disappeared. I could hear the overjoyed voices of the gods and goddesses. Among those were some especially loud and obnoxious ones.
＜Whoohhooo!! It’s alcohol, booze! War God, tonight’s gonna be the first feast in a while, got it?＞
＜I know already! Let’s drink as much as we please tonight!＞
Gonna drink as soon as you get it? You guys...... just how hard were you waiting? Hahh~ ...I feel so tired for some reason. Whatever, let’s just sleep. Especially since I’ll have to sort out all of the dungeon’s drops tomorrow, too, so that’s gonna be a lot of work.
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After having breakfast, I used Appraisal on everyone since I wanted to check our statuses. They might have raised their levels quite a bit after all, since they destroyed so many dungeon bosses, that behemoth, and all those monsters in there.
First is Fel, yeah?
【Name】 Fel
【Age】 1014
【Race】 Fenrir
【Level】 921
【HP】 10003
【MP】 9637
【Attack】 9275
【Defense】 10001
【Agility】 9839
【Skills】 Wind magic, Fire magic, Water magic, Earth magic, Ice magic, Lightning magic, Holy magic, Barrier magic, Rending Claws, Body Reinforcement, Physical attack resistance, Magic attack resistance, MP Efficiency, Appraisal, Battle Boost
【Blessings】 Blessing of the Goddess of Wind, Ninrir; Blessing of the God of War, Vahagn
H-Huh? I-I get the feeling that he’s around 10 levels higher than when I last appraised him before the 26th floor boss...... I heard from Fel that the higher you get in level, the harder it is to raise it...... W-Well, the dungeon boss was a behemoth, so with that I guess it’s not that unusual for his level to have raised by 10. His HP and Defense have even gone past 10k. Is there even anyone left who can stand up to Fel? W-Well, I guess it’s not a bad thing that he’s stronger... for me, anyway. Next is Dora-chan.
【Name】 Dora-chan
【Age】 116
【Race】 Pixie Dragon
【Level】 160
【HP】 1092
【MP】 3223
【Attack】 3115
【Defense】 1057
【Agility】 3893
【Skills】 Fire magic, Water magic, Wind magic, Earth magic, Ice magic, Lightning magic, Healing magic, Bombardment, Battle Boost
【Blessings】 Blessing of the God of War, Vahagn
Oh? Dora-chan’s level went up quite a bit. Probably around 30 levels. W-Was it really because of the behemoth? Next is Sui, and it seems like Sui should have grown the most......
【Name】 Sui
【Age】 2 months
【Race】 Big Slime
【Level】 88
【HP】 1489
【MP】 1467
【Attack】 1460
【Defense】 1464
【Agility】 1491
【Skills】 Acid Bullet, Potion Creation, Cloning, Water magic, Smithing
【Blessings】 Blessing of the Goddess of Water, Rusalka; Blessing of the God of Blacksmithing, Hephaestos
Oaghh?! I-It leveled up a whole lot, somehow...... This has got to be because of the behemoth. All of them were S-ranked, after all. Especially the dungeon boss, the behemoth. It was stronger than Dora-chan and Sui, too. Since they defeated it, it makes sense that their levels rose a lot. Everyone’s so awesome...
......*Ahem* I guess... I should take a look at my level too, just in case. I always have my status open when I use my Online Supermarket, but I don’t really look at it, after all. Especially yesterday, since I was so busy because everyone was so hungry.
I confirmed my own status...
【Name】 Mukohda (Tsuyoshi Mukouda)
【Age】 27
【Job】 Victim from Another World
【Level】 20
【HP】 280
【MP】 273
【Attack】 254
【Defense】 252
【Agility】 232
【Skills】 Appraisal, Item Box, Fire magic, Earth magic, Perfect Defense, Familiars (Contracted Magic Beasts): Fenrir, Big Slime, Pixie Dragon
【Unique Skill】 Online Supermarket (+1)
【Blessings】 Blessing of the Goddess of Wind, Ninrir (small); Blessing of the Goddess of Fire, Agni (small); Blessing of the Goddess of Earth, Kisharle (small)
My level’s gone up too, but as I thought it’s not as much as everyone else’s. W-Well, I basically did nothing during the behemoth fight, after all. It really couldn’t be helped, I guess. I-It’s not like I was expecting anything, okay? ............Khh! Okay, it was a lie. I was actually pretty hopeful, hahaha. I mean, I went down to the bottom floor of the dungeon, too, so shouldn’t it be fine to hope a little? Sadly, the gap between me and everyone else is just widening. As I thought, it really is best to just leave combat to everyone else, yeah.
...Wait, huh? What the hell? I didn’t notice this yesterday......
When I checked my status, I noticed that my unique skill had become, ‘Online Supermarket (+1).’ When I touched the (+1)......
【You have unlocked a Tenant for the Unique Skill, Online Supermarket】
【Please choose from the following:】
【WcDonald’s/Fumiya】
Wha? W-What’s this? W-W-What the hell? By t-t-tenants, does that mean the stores that are inside supermarkets? I-I do remember a WcDonald’s and a Fumiya......
*Gulp*
Which one should I pick? WcDonald’s huh? I might want some junk food, it’s been a while... but, the cakes from Fumiya......
I looked over at Sui, who was bouncing all around me. Sui loves sweet things, doesn’t it?
“Hey, Sui, you like sweet things, right?”
《Sweet like pudding and cake, right? Yeah, Sui loooooves sweet things!》
Right, let’s go with Fumiya. My sweet Sui’s saying this, so the only choice has gotta be Fumiya.
I touched the display on ‘Fumiya.’
【Contract with Fumiya as your Tenant?】
【YES/NO】
A contract, huh? Okay, YES.
【You have contracted with Fumiya.】
【You will unlock your next Tenant at level 40.】
【We will be waiting to be of service again.】
After that, the screen returned to the usual status screen.
It said that the next Tenant would be unlocked at level 40, but does that mean that the Online Supermarket leveled up, since I made a Tenant contract this time? I thought it would stay the same this entire time, since it didn’t seem like there’d be any real way for it to change......
Tenants, huh? And I’ll be able to choose more stores when I get to level 40, haha... W-Well, for now I just need to confirm this. Open the Online Supermarket... Fumiya, Fumiya...... ah, there it is. It’s right there in the menu.
When I picked it... Oohh!
All lined up were cakes and candy packs and stuff; I was looking at everything I would see in a Fumiya store. I have something I want to ask Sui to do after this, so let’s just buy a cake from Fumiya now as a reward.
“Fel, Dora-chan, I’ll be going back to my room to sort out all the dropped items now.”
“Understood. Do not forget lunch.”
《Right, right. Don’t forget our lunch, got it?》
“I know already. Sui, I have something I want to ask you to do, so can you come with me?”
《Got it—.》
I wanted to get Sui to make that before I sorted through all the dungeon drops. I used it too much, it’s already pretty much broken. It’s not like I can’t get it from my Online Supermarket, but it seems like it’ll be a lot hardier if I get Sui to make it out of mithril. And if I get Sui to make it a little bigger, I’ll be able to do a lot more stuff.
First, I need to get back to my room. I want to show one to Sui and find out if it’s doable.
I get the feeling that it’s possible for Sui, though.
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“Hey, hey, master — what did you want to ask Sui?”
“Yeah, you see......”
I brought my mincer out of my Item Box. I’d been using it heavily to make humongous amounts of ground meat, so it was already falling apart. It hadn’t been that long since I’d bought it, but I was using it so much, after all...
“I want you to make one of these.” I handed the mincer over to Sui as I said that.
《Mmmnn, wait a little.》 Sui enveloped the mincer, inspecting it.
“So, you see, I’d like it if you made one bigger than that.” I used my hands to indicate something about one-and-a-half times the size of the mincer I handed over to Sui.
《Bigger, huh? It’s hard, but Sui will try...》
It seemed like it would be a challenge since there were a lot of moving parts, but Sui would do its best.
“Okay then, please.” Handing the mithril ore over to Sui, it absorbed the ore into its body.
The mincer was actually the one cooking tool I wanted Sui to make the most. It’d be nice if it turned out well. It’d definitely be hardy enough if it were made out of mithril, and more than anything, if Sui was the one making it, it should have a great cutting edge.
A mithril knife would be so sharp, it would likely cut my finger straight off if I made a mistake, and the chopping board probably wouldn’t be able to stand it either, so I gave up on that... but a mincer wouldn’t have any downside to being that sharp.
Other than that, as for cooking tools, I was considering asking Sui to make a larger frying pan as well. Currently, there were no problems, but I was thinking that it would be nice to have a slightly bigger one.
I also thought a little about a pot, but if it were to get any bigger I’d have problems stirring it unless the stove got magically shorter. So with that in mind, the current half-sized cylindrical pots I had were both the perfect size and I had enough of them that there wasn’t any need for me to get Sui to make any more. For now, it would be the mincer, and next would be a frying pan. After that, whenever I need something, I’ll just have Sui make it.
Still though, Sui is so skilled on top of being the absolute cutest. Let’s give it lots of the Fumiya cakes as a reward.
Now then, I need to sort out these drops. Hmmm, there’s so much, though... Let’s start from the skins and pelts, which I have the most of.
For orc skins... one, two, three, four, five............... 123, 124, 125.
Well, there were a huge number of them around.
Next, I had sixty-three lizardman hides. There were also over a hundred ogre hides — one hundred and two, to be exact. There was also a large amount of troll hides, numbering a hundred and thirteen pieces.
Continuing like that, I continued to sort out the dropped items.
《Master — Sui is hungry—.》
“Ah, sorry, sorry. Lunch, huh? Let’s head over to Fel and Dora-chan.”
《Umm, it’s not done yet...》
“Ah, that’s fine, totally fine. You can finish it after we eat.”
《Got it—! Okay then, Sui will start again after food.》
Along with Sui, I headed for the shed where Fel and Dora-chan were waiting.
“You are late.”
《You’re late!》
It seemed like both Fel and Dora-chan had been waiting a while, as they were both a little unhappy.
“Sorry, sorry. I’ll make you what you want, so forgive me.”
“Ohh, if that is the case then that earth dragon dish you made yesterday would be good.”
《Yeah, I like that idea. That was really good.》
The yakiniku bowl using earth dragon meat from yesterday, huh? They did all like that a lot. It’s true that it was really good, too. I did say that I’d make what they wanted, so I guess I have no choice here...
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It seemed like Fel and Dora-chan were satisfied with the earth dragon yakiniku bowls I’d made for lunch, and they were both currently taking an afternoon nap.
After fitting in lunch, Sui and I went back to our work: me, sorting drop items, and Sui making a mincer.
“Still though, there really is quite a lot when I sort it all out like this......” I had a dizzying amount of dropped items. Well, everyone did do their best and defeated a whole lot of different monsters.
I want to finish this today, so let’s work hard.
“Whew~, it’s finally over......”
After continuing with the drop sorting, I’d finally finished, and this was the tally.
【Monster Materials】
Venom tarantula venom sacs x3, orc meat x56, orc testes x31, orc skins x125, lizardman hides x63, ogre skins x102, ogre magic stones (very small) x21, troll skins x113, troll’s poison claws x48, troll magic stones (small) x23, minotaur meat x42, minotaur horns x49, minotaur hides x88, minotaur’s iron axes x15, minotaur magic stones (small) x20, orc king testes x1, red ogre magic stone (medium) x1, spriggan magic stones (large) x5, giant killer mantis scythes x38, giant killer mantis magic stones (small) x7, murder grizzly pelts x21, murder grizzly magic stones (large) x3, cockatrice meat x10, cockatrice feathers x7, rockbird meat x6, rockbird beaks x10, rockbird feathers x13, paralyze butterfly paralyzing poison scales x42, giant dodo meat x3, giant dodo feathers x9, giant centipede shells x3, giant centipede magic stones (large) x2, wild ape pelts x61, killer hornet poison stingers x286, killer hornet’s royal jelly x1, vaasuki fangs x1, vaasuki hide x1, vaasuki magic stone (very large) x1, manticore fur x1, manticore poison barb x1, manticore magic stone (very large) x1, Gustav hide x1, Gustav fangs x1, Gustav spine x1, Gustav magic stone (very large) x1, giant sand scorpion poison stingers x6, giant sand scorpion magic stones (medium) x3, sand worm teeth x8, sand worm magic stones (large) x4, death sidewinder skins x7, death sidewinder venom sacs x5, death sidewinder magic stones (large) x3, giant sand golem magic stone (very large) x1, behemoth hide x1, behemoth magic stone (extremely large) x1, behemoth’s (dungeon boss’) treasure chest x1, mimic treasure chest (small) x1, mimic treasure chests (large) x2...
【Gems and the like】
Ruby (small) x1, emerald (small) x1, aquamarine (small) x1, garnet (small) x1, amethysts (small) x2, peridot (small) x1, gold ingot x1, imperial topaz (medium) x1, sapphire (medium) x1, alexandrite (medium) x1, diamond (large) x1, diamonds (medium) x2, diamonds (small) x2, yellow diamond (large) x1, diamond ring x1, tanzanite necklace x1...
【Magic Items】
Magic bag (small) x1, magic bag (medium) x1, Ring of Magic Recovery x1, Necklace of Antidotes x1, Magic Sword Caladbolg x1...
Even I was surprised once I’d finished sorting all of it. I didn’t think that I actually had this much.
The three of them were defeating monsters left and right, though. I basically devoted myself to collecting the dropped items, too. Man, it’s like, what should I do with all this, really?
Elrand did say that he’d take all of my skins and hides and stuff, but with this much...... And there were more gems and stuff than I thought I had, too. Well, I can just consult with Elrand about that stuff. For now, I’m done sorting out all the dropped items.
《Master — it’s finished—!》
“Oh! It is?”
I took the mincer from Sui. Ohh, this is pretty good.
I decided to immediately try it out.
Let’s start with some orc meat...... Oohh, ooohhh! This is great! It’s the same motion of putting in the meat and turning the handle to get ground meat, but the handle is so light, just so light! And it’s bigger than the last one too so I can grind so much meat at once!
I decided to try the bloody horn-bull meat next.
This one grinds easily, too.
After a while just mindlessly spinning the handle...... By the time I’d realized, I’d already made a huge amount of ground meat.
《Master — how is it?》
“Ahh, sorry, I lost track of myself. Sui, the one you made is really good! Just as I’d expect out of you, Sui. Thanks.”
《Ufufufu~, Sui was praised. So happy—!》 Sui happily bounced around.
“Yeah, we should go have dinner soon or Fel and Dora-chan will be mad. Sui, let’s go.”
《Yeah!》
“Ah, Sui, I’ll give you a good reward for making this after we eat. Look forward to it.”
《Something good—? What?》
“It’s for after we eat.”
《Got it—!》
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“Sorry we took so long—”
“You are late!”
《You’re late, AGAIN!》
“Sorry, sorry. I’ll finish cooking soon so don’t be so mad.”
Let’s make something using the ground meat I just made, since I made so much of it. What should it be? Something that uses ground meat that I can make easily...... Ah, let’s make omelets with lots of ground meat in them, along with an eggplant and ground meat cheese bake. What I’ll need from the Online Supermarket are... onions and eggplants, right? And also eggs, cheese, cans of meat sauce, ketchup, and also several large-ish heat-resistant plates and dishes.
For now, let’s start with the omelets, I guess.
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Mince the onions first. Then, oil up a heated frying pan and cook the onions. Once they’ve turned clear, throw in the orc general and bloody horn-bull mixed ground meat and continue cooking. Season lightly with salt and pepper, and flavor with some soy sauce and sugar.
Once the juices have cooked out, put the food onto a plate and let it cool.
Melt some butter in the hot frying pan and scramble some eggs into it. It will turn half-cooked after it’s been mixed a few times, and once that happens, add in lots of the ground meat and onions on top. Then, cover the frying pan with the plate and flip the whole thing over, and the extra-large omelet is complete.
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“W-Well, this should do it.”
Let’s just say that the slightly broken egg layer adds character...
After making three of them, I threw ketchup on each one before serving the extra-large omelets with ground meat to my familiars.
“For now, eat this.”
The magic stove is really convenient in times like these since it has four burners and it can pump out some pretty strong heat. Well, I only used two of them, though.
Thanks to that, I was able to cook a huge amount of ground meat.
“Eggs and meat, huh? This one is pretty good for what it is.”
《Yeah, the eggs are gooey, which makes the whole thing taste great.》
《The eggs and meat are delicious.》
It’s great that they seemed to like the omelets.
While everyone was busy enjoying the omelets, it was time to start on the ground meat and eggplant cheese bake.
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Cut the eggplants into half-moon shapes, leaving the skin on. Then, oil up a heated frying pan, and start cooking the orc general and bloody horn-bull mixed ground meat, lightly sprinkling it with salt and pepper.
Once the meat changes color, add in the eggplant, and once the water in the eggplant’s cooked out some, throw in the meat sauce. The meat sauce has a strong flavor, so watch out for that and adjust the amount that’s added.
Continue cooking while stirring the contents so that the meat sauce coats everything, and once the eggplant is thoroughly cooked through, place the contents of the pan onto a heat resistant dish.
Throw lots of cheese for melting on top of it, then bake the whole thing in the oven until the cheese is melted and is browned a little on top. Once that’s done, the ground meat and eggplant cheese bake is finished.
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“Here you go. It’s hot, so be careful.”
《Ho-! Owow... Whoohh! Kh... this is good!》 Dora-chan was eating while desperately blowing on it to try and cool the food down.
I thought I felt a breeze, and it turned out that Fel was using Wind magic to cool down his food.
“Hm, this should be fine. Let me see...... Ho-! ...It is still a little hot, but it is quite delicious.”
Sui must have been fine with the heat, as it enveloped the heat resistant plate, too.
《It’s good, especially since it has this gooey stuff on it. Also, it’s got a lot of meat. It’s so tasty—!》
Sui really does love cheese, after all. Ahh, this isn’t the time to be appreciative — I need to go make the next round of omelets.
After making several helpings of both dishes, everyone was finally done with dinner. While I was leisurely eating my own dinner by myself......
《Hey, hey, master — where is Sui’s reward?》
“Ahh, right. Wait a second.”
“Mn? What reward?”
《Yeah, what reward?》
Fel and Dora-chan were listening in on us with sharp ears.
“Ahh, that’s......”
Fel and Dora-chan moved really close to my face.
“What is the reward?”
《Yeah, what is it?》
“No, uhm, hey you guys are really close. Just calm down. You see, I had Sui make me a cooking tool earlier. So it’s a reward for that. I’ll give you guys the same thing too, don’t worry.”
“And? What is the reward?”
《What is it?》
“Cake.”
“By cake, do you mean the white fluffy sweet stuff that you have been offering to Lady Ninrir?”
Oh yeah, I gave Fel some cake before. And Fel liked sweet stuff more than I expected him to. He even scarfed down the red bean buns.
“That’s right. Uhh, you guys know that I have a skill that lets me buy stuff from my world, right? To tell you the truth, it leveled up, so I can buy more delicious cakes than what I gave you before.”
“What? Is that true?”
“Yeah. Sui likes sweet things, so I was going to give it to it as a reward for the cooking tool. Of course, I have some for you and Dora-chan too, so don’t worry.”
“Hmph! I was not worried at all.”
Haha, he’s acting tough even though he was so worried that he wouldn’t get any. I guess I’ll have to back up my words here with some delicious cake. There are even more variations than there were in the regular supermarket... Now then, what’s good......
Opening the menu for Fumiya through my Online Supermarket...
Uhhh, let’s see...... You really have to go orthodox here, can’t miss out on the strawberry shortcake, right? And then... Oh, they’re having a matcha fair. But Sui doesn’t like bitter tastes, so I guess that’s out. Oh, this white chocolate cake and this blueberry tart look good. And I have to include Fumiya’s custard pudding.
Looking at the cakes, I ended up wanting to eat one myself, so I got a matcha shortcake for myself as well.
Good, this should be it.
As soon as I checked out, a cardboard box appeared, just like always. When I opened it, inside were some take-out boxes. When I opened those, I found the cakes and puddings I’d ordered, all packaged nicely with some cooling packs. Removing the wrappers and stuff from the cakes, I plated them nicely. I let some air into the container of the pudding, and that allowed it to pop onto a plate.
W-Well, it did break a little, but that shouldn’t change the taste.
“Here.”
“Okay.”
《Ohh! So this is ‘cake.’ Let’s see......》
《Ya—ay!》
Everyone quickly dug in.
“Yes, as I remembered, this white one with the red fruit on top is the best one.”
So Fel likes the strawberry shortcake, huh?
《W-W-What the hell is this?! This jiggly thing is amazingly delicious! Hey, give me more!!》
Ah, Dora-chan seems like he really loves that pudding. But you should hold back from seconds, you know? Three slices of cake and a pudding is a bit too much food for Dora-chan.
《The cake is sweet and yummy! Sui wants to eat more and mo—re!》
Yeah, Sui really does love sweetness. You might be able to eat more, but more than this is no good, okay? Now then, as for my choice of matcha cake, the best thing for this has gotta be black coffee. But for black coffee, the non-instant kind would be...... ah!
I opened my Online Supermarket, found what I was looking for, and bought it.
It really is nice to have a convenient skill in times like this.
I bought some drip bag coffee. Just by pouring in some hot water, one can enjoy some real coffee with this.
Just set it up with a cup... there. Ah, now that I think about it, when I felt like drinking some good coffee and bought a huge pack of drip bag coffee, there was something with a good way to make the coffee written on it...... If I remember right, start with trickling in the hot water to first soak the entire bag in water, then slowly pour in the rest of it, right?
Using some hot water I’d had saved in my Item Box, I followed the half-remembered instructions to make the coffee.
The smell of coffee started gently wafting into the surroundings.
Mmnn~, what a nice smell. Let’s take a sip. Ahh, it really is different from the instant stuff. Let’s have a bit of this matcha cake now. This slightly bittersweet taste feels really adult... this is nice. And then another gulp of the coffee. Ahh, so good. Coffee and cake really do go together.
《Heyyy, hey I said! Give me more of this jiggly stuff!》
《Master — Sui wants more and mo—re of this cake!》
Yeah, Dora-chan, Sui, if you two could just be quiet now? Seems like Dora-chan’s addicted to the pudding, and Sui’s got the sugar in it and now it’s all hyped up. Speaking of hype, I feel like I’m forgetting something.........
...............Ah, the divine disappointment.
Ah — that person (god) is totally going to demand all of their catalogue, isn’t she?
Could I keep Fumiya a secr— No, that won’t fly. She’s probably peeking in right now, after all. Hahh... so annoying.
《Heeyyyy! This jiggly stuff!》
《More and mo—re cake!》
......Hahhh.