Chapter 455 Tasting Food and an Actual Meal.
Chapter 455 Tasting Food and an Actual Meal.
"Hmm! This is also delicious! The umami of the meat oozes out after the chewy texture and it's the best!"
"Well! That's not the case with this delicious sausage! You should try it, young lady!"
"Ah, little lady, eat this too! It's so delicious that your cheeks fall off!"
"Then I won’t hesitate … Huh! This peach is also fresh and delicious! This seems to be addictive …!"
What's this?
What we saw when we came down from the escalator was Yae, who was surrounded by vendors at the underground food department.
No, to be precise, there is a circle of customers around her. They pointed to what Yae was eating and put it in their shopping carts that they got in the food department. What is this? Is Yae helping with sales premonitions unknowingly?
"That looks delicious … Why is Yae being treated to such a good meal like that?"
"No, I don't think she’s being treated …"
If anything, isn’t she being used?
Yae is having an overreaction to the food because she is a natural-born food eater. If someone can show you that they are eating something so deliciously, you will want to eat it yourself. Yae’s emotions are pretty profitable for the vendors.
Yae is not that petty. She has few likes and dislikes, and is happy to eat anything. I sometimes wonder if there are only two categories of her food, "delicious" and "extremely delicious".
Yae is basically someone who is very…… Interesting with her way of eating. For her pride, I'll just say that she’s as responsive to food as a talk show host on TV is to their guests.
Though this will be bad for the aunts, Yae can’t stay there forever. We turned our feet towards Yae, who was like a chick receiving food from her parent bird.
"Ah! Yae-neechan, she was in a place like this!"
"Oh, I'm sorry … Mugu …!"
Hilda quickly closes Yae's mouth just before she tries to return my child-like statement with “husband" even though I intentionally call out like a child. That was close.
"Did you get distracted when looking for Mom?”
I pretend to be an ordinary child so much that it makes me itchy just to speak. I saw an anime in which a high school student turned into a child, but to think that the highschooler felt like this … Certainly the damage to my pride is great. I feel embarrassed and that something disappeared from me.
"Mom? No, my mother is in Eashen …"
Yae, who doesn't understand my thoughts, is poked by Hilda’s elbow. It seems that she finally guessed because Yae had an "Ah." expression on her face.
"Oh, oh. That's right. I wonder where mother is."
"What's your urgency, are you going?"
"Sorry. I have something to do."
Yae apologizes with a troubled laugh at the aunts who had been selling their products.
We were about to leave the place, but then we decided to buy something Yae had tasted because we lost to the persuasion of the aunts who kept asking us if we wanted to buy anything. In the end, we left with a cart full of items.
No, we had to buy some food anyway, so it’s fine … We need to quickly find Lu, since we spent so much time with those aunts.
"No, this food has changed and it's really delicious."
"I love you a lot, but before you go shopping, we have to find Lu first.”
Um … this way?
As I followed the instructions on my smartphone, I soon saw a corner where pots and frying pans were lined up. Is it the cooking utensil section? I’m convinced Lu is here.
While looking around seriously in that corner of the floor, I found my wife who was mysteriously staring at a square frying pan.
"Lu."
“………………”
"Lu!"
"Eh? Huh! Oh, Touya-sama. I'm sorry, I just thought about …"
Luu took her eyes off the frying pan and finally turned to look at me. What were you thinking about so much? At first glance, it's a normal frying pan. Just a square shape.
"No. Why is the shape so different? Even though others are round …"
"Oh, maybe it's for making omelets beautifully."
I've heard that professional cooks have a frying pan especially for fried eggs. If you cook something on dishes in which you already cooked something else, the smell will change, so you should never make anything else on the same dish. I wonder if there aren't many square frying pans in the Different World.
"It is only for fried eggs … That’s amazing. That …"
"Take one as a souvenir … No, let’s buy two, one for Claire-san the chief cook. I'm sure she will be happy."
"Yes! No doubt!"
Lu grabs a square frying pan and smiles. Claire-san is Lu's culinary Sensei. She has learned many things from scratch with her and has built a master-apprentice relationship that transcends their statuses. I'm sure Claire-san will be pleased with the gifts from the disciples.
When I turned around to put a frying pan in Hilda's shopping basket, I saw that she and Yae seemed to have picked up a kitchen knife in a transparent case that was hung on a hook of the sales floor and gazed at it with eyes like Lu.
"The structure is nice but I feel bad … I feel bad that the blade will soon be chipped.”
"That's right. And I feel that this doesn't have a soul in it. This kitchen knife won’t be able to cut unless the creator puts his heart into it."
No, I wonder if it was made at the factory … I think that the ones made by machines and the ones made by craftsmen are different, but it seems that recent technology has improved considerably, right? Though, the knife seems to be useless in Yae and Hilda's eyes.
"For now, we're all ready. So what are we going to have for dinner?"
"This is it!"
In response to Leen's question, Lu spread out a card she had in her hand. What is that?
If you look closely, you can see a picture of the dish on the front and the ingredients and how to make it on the back.
"It was placed at the entrance here. I was told that this would be free of charge, so I asked for it. I was surprised that the amount of ingredients, cooking procedures, precautions to be followed, etc. were written in detail!"
Oh, a free recipe card? However, she became a bit too excited again.
"Everything looks delicious … My arms are ready to cook!"
Oh. Lu is on fire. Until now, I used to teach Lu the recipes of this world through my smartphone, but of course the ingredients were from Earth and could not be gained in the Different World. It feels bad to say, but the food was like making a fake. Since it can be made using genuine ingredients here, it may be unavoidable for Lu to gain high tension.
But you don't feel like making it all, right?
"I'm going to make it all, though?"
When I asked the question, I got a cheerful answer. No, please wait, princess? Even if you make so much, you won't be able to eat it. Do you mean to make it in several days?
"I have Yae-san."
"…… I guess it’s fine, then."
If she says that, I can't return anything to it.
For the time being, we all decided to go around the underground food department of the shopping center. I tell Lu to tell me what ingredients she wants and I will lead her to that place.
It's a place I've never been to, but in Japan, these food departments have almost the same layout, so it's easy to understand, to some extent.
Vegetables, meat, fresh fish, etc. are on the outermost side. The layout is like a bento.
There were some detours, such as Su buying this and that at the sweets corner, and Linze and Sakura putting various ice creams in the basket one after another at the frozen foods corner, but I was able to buy all the ingredients that Lu wanted. …… The rice was a little heavy. And you guys bought too much dessert.
Oh yeah, at the time of paying the money, I took a deep breath at the displayed amount.
I've become quite rich in the Different World, but it seems that my sense of money still remains …
Is this amount of money that needs to be used natural if there are nine people? Japanese mothers with a large family must be having a hard time … No, the reason we are needing a lot of money is because there is Yae … I think half of our daily expenses come from her.
But, if there are nine people, even if we buy this much, everyone can share it. We left the bottom floor with a lot of big plastic shopping bags packed with ingredients.
Seeing that there are no people in the corner of the bicycle parking lot, I secretly open [Storage] from my smartphone while having everyone surround me like a barricade, just in case.
If I store all the items we bought, we can go home empty-handed without having to carry a lot of things. Magic is really useful.
There was also the choice of using [Gate] to return back, but we decided to return by bicycle normally. Everyone wanted to see more of this world and gain more experiences.
On the way home, we found a small boutique, bought more clothes and accessories for everyone, and made a detour to reach Grandpa's house, so it was time for dusk to approach by the time we got back home.
"Well! I'll do it! Linze-san, Su-san, please help me!"
"Oh yeah. I understand."
"I understand!"
Lu rushes to the kitchen. After that, Linze and Su followed. She nominated two assistants because the others are not fit to be assistants.
Yumina and Hilda are royalty, so they don't cook much by themselves. Yae specializes in eating (although she should be able to make a little bit of food), and Leen and Sakura are not interested. Elze has the skill to turn everything she makes into spicy food.
Linze can cook from the beginning, and Su seems to have learned a little by training as a bride.
Yae also makes sandwiches, so it shouldn't be impossible for her to make something else at all, but Lu didn't appoint her because she was afraid of Yae eating things as snacks.
"Touya-sama! Please gives us the ingredients!"
"Oh, yes, yes."
I call the ingredients from [Storage] onto the kitchen table. Grandpa lived alone, but his hobby was cooking and there were many customers, so the refrigerator was large.
Even though we’ll eat today, Lu will give priority to ingredients that are likely to spoil. Even so, I left the portion that couldn't fit on the table. They’re vegetables, and I don't think they will spoil so soon. And after cooking, the refrigerator will have more space.
While we were waiting for the food, everyone spent a leisurely time watching TV.
Everybody asks questions about the things that appear on the screen, so I've turned myself into a machine that answers them.
Eventually, when a delicious smell was wafting from the kitchen, everyone watching TV started to get hungry and asked fewer questions. I was asked a few questions only by Leen.
"Everything’s done!"
Linze's voice made everyone move around the room. There was a big table in the dining room of the house so that many people could eat it. Even so, it only seats four people on the left and right, for a total of eight people, but if I bring a chair from another room, ten people will be fine.
"Wow, that's amazing!"
"This looks delicious!"
When I entered the dining room, various dishes were lined up on the table.
Sauteed salmon with tartar sauce, Chinese cabbage and apple salad, grilled kajiki with lemon sauce, boiled potatoes and bok choy in cream, paella with asari and chicken thighs, dumplings with wings, grilled soba on a large plate, and more! There are many things that the girls made.
I could never make anything like this … In fact, Lu, who has already mastered microwave ovens and grills, is amazing. I just taught you a little a few hours ago……
"Come on, please take a seat!"
Each of us sits down hurriedly, being told by Lu who smiles with satisfaction. There were plates, chopsticks and forks in front of everyone.
"Then, I'll have it."
""""""""Itadakimasu!""""""””
All the dishes that the three girls cooked were delicious. Unfortunately, just like at the family restaurant, I couldn't eat that much because my stomach had become smaller when I transformed into a kid.
After all, I feel that the taste of the foods is different when using ingredients from Earth. Or is it just because I feel nostalgic that it tastes good? Memories may have a large part in this.
After finishing the main course, Linze, Su, and Lu brought various ice creams from the freezer. Not only that, but also cakes, puddings, jellies, Japanese sweets, etc. …… Are you going to eat so many desserts again?
I'm worried that this honeymoon will make my wives fat. Anyone who says "being happy is being fat" is wrong. Well, I don't care if everyone's body shape changes.
… or rather, if the subject is a god's dependent, wouldn't that person change that much …?
Thinking about that in the corner of my head, I taste the ice cream that everyone bought.…… delicious. I haven’t had ice cream for so long. I miss this ice cream that is wrapped in frostiness. I like this.
"What are we going to do tomorrow?"
Yae asks me while mumbling as she’s eating some buns that I’ve lost count of how many she’s had.
"Even if we appear in my parent’s dreams, we can't do it in the daytime. We shouldn’t stay at home until night, so let's go play somewhere."
It's a honeymoon, and I want to make various memories with everyone.
"If so, Touya-sama, I would like to take a train."
"Nyhaa~~ Yes! Yumina-nee, I agree~~!"
You want to go on a train? Well, it's not so crowded in trains here in this town unless it's the morning or evening, so I guess it's okay as long as they have their smartphones properly this time.
Just getting on the train is not fun. We need to go somewhere, but where should we go?
I take out my smartphone and check the possible destinations. Art museums, museums … may not be enjoyable unless they are familiar with Earth’s history. I don’t know if I can show them the weapons of heroes from here on Earth.
Movie theaters … we always watch movies with the projection of my smartphone. Movie theaters have the power and atmosphere that can only be experienced in movie theaters.
Is the amusement park really too far to go to? I wonder if there’s a zoo or an aquarium nearby? Oh, it takes less than an hour by train to go to a zoo.
"A zoo … isn’t that a place where you can see a lot of animals?"
Yumina asks while tilting her neck. In the Different World, not only animals but also demons are usually around in the wilderness, so I haven't seen many zoos. There are botanical gardens and rose gardens inside royal palaces, though.
"Are there various animals !? Is there a “zebra"?"
"No, I don’t know if they have zebras …"
Su is getting excited, but isn't a zebra an animal in Africa?
Thinking so, I looked it up on the zoo's site and found that there were zebras called Grant’s Zebra. It seems to be a zebra that is often seen in domestic zoos. I did not know that.
"It looks like it is there."
"Oh!"
Lions, tigers, kangaroos, camels, bears, chimpanzees, gorillas, hippos, elephants … there are quite a few animals on display.
"What do you do about our meals?"
"I think it's okay because it seems like you can eat them in the park."
While eating cheesecake, I answer with a smile to Sakura, who I hear. Are you worried about tomorrow's meal?
Maybe she wanted to make a bento box, but Lu was a little disappointed. As expected, even Grandpa doesn't have ten lunch boxes (maybe he has one large box), and there are too many people to put the bentos in [Storage] and take them out at the zoo. I can't just go to the bathroom, take out the food from [Storage], and bring it with me.
Elze stops eating pudding and asks a question.
"Isn't there a demon beast here? Or are there mostly ordinary animals? Won’t going to the zoo be dangerous?"
"All of the creatures are in a cage or we can just look at them from a safe place, so it's okay."
"If an animal attacks you, I can hit it, right?"
"No! I want you to refrain from that if you can …! Well, if it's a really dangerous situation, it can't be helped …"
I don't think it's possible, but I think it can't be helped if the girls defend against a tiger or lion if it escapes and attacks the visitors. However, if the animal is a sheep, a goat, or a red panda, I would like you to not hit it.
The girls in front of me are much stronger than all the animals in the zoo … I think just Elze can beat gorillas and elephants without using [Boost] …
"Did you just say something rude now?"
"Huh!? Nothing!"
"That's good. Oh, Linze, that's what I was looking at first!"
"First come, first served!"
The twin sisters are competing for the shortcake. How much can your stomachs hold? When it comes to dessert, everyone eats eightfold of what they usually eat …
"I feel someone was rude …"
"Don't worry, eat more and more, wife!"
"? Of course, I won’t hesitate."
Yae leans her head and reaches for some Castella.
Hmm … After getting married, there are many times when my thoughts get noticed by my wives. Is this a telepathic connection being built? It's like my telepathy with the summoned beasts.
Maybe it's just a matter of being together for so long and everyone's intuition has become sharper. Either way, I should be careful.