Chapter 131: Sightseeing Kagura
Chapter 131: Sightseeing Kagura
After finishing our breakfast, we immediately head out as a group and go sightseeing in the city.
The members are me, Roomba, Mort, Irvine, Aleutia, and Ilya.
Tori can’t accompany us since he has a business talk and he needs to sort and sell the luggage loaded on the ship.
I thought that would it be fine if he doesn’t take someone as a guard to accompany him, but it seems that the business talk is located at the port, so it doesn’t look like there is no need to prepare one it because, including Douglas-san, there are strong sailors and swordsmen in that place.
The people of Kagura are peaceful, and the public order looks to be fine, so there should not be any danger when you’re in a public place.
Well, if there is someone from the firm or the former knight Gunther from the intense pillow fight last night, then they would be able to get rid of any ordinary enemies without any issues. I think they have the persistence, or strength that doesn’t fit with their job as a merchant group.
That being the case, the members of Silver Wind can also go sightseeing in Kagura leisurely today.
「Alrightー, let’s enjoy Kagura today!」
When we left the ryokan in a crowd, Irvine stretched himself while being basked in the sunlight.
「We have a job as a guard starting tomorrow. We should enjoy it while we still can freely go sightsee.」
Tori’s firm will also move around the city of Kagura starting tomorrow, so the members of Silver Wind will have to act as their guards. This might be the only day they can freely move around all day long.
「It’s thanks to Toriela-san for allowing everyone to have the time to visit several places, huh.」
「That’s right. Let’s brought back some souvenirs if we found something interesting.」
Just like what Ilya said, this might be Tori’s consideration to us. No matter how strong the sailors and the members of the firm are, nonetheless, it must be a waste to let the hired adventurers play around.
I don't know whether he’s thinking about Silver Wind members or taking me into consideration, but it’s something to be glad about.
Since the two women will not be around if the members of Silver Wind can’t come with us.
To sum up, I will be sightseeing in Kagura with Roomba the whole time. Though that’s not bad in itself, I think I want to go to a gorgeous party on the first day.
As we walked from the quiet area of the ryokan to the center of the port city, the place immediately grew more lively. The representative of Japanese culture, kimono―― people wearing Kagura’s clothes coming and going on the main street.
Wearing various types of clothes like comfortable jinbei-like clothes, clothes tightly tied with obi, and clothes with light and somber color.
The sight of a crowd of people wearing Kagura’s clothes, it’s like one scene in a historical play or dorama.
Unlike yesterday, we’re not walking in the middle of the street, so we stop and watch that spectacle of Kagura’s city leisurely.
「Ohー! I also thought about it yesterday, everyone is wearing Kagura’s clothes, aren’t they」
「That looks easy to move in!」
When I spontaneously shouted in wonder, Roomba pointed to a man who passed by in front of him.
That man wore deep blue jinbei-like clothes with vertical lines. It seems like his appearance with a short sleeve and short pants look quite easy to move in.
Roomba will look great if he wears something like that.
「Why don’t we stop by at clothes shop later and try on Kagura clothes?」
「That sounds great! I also want to wear Kagura’s clothes.」
「It has a different sort of beauty than the clothes of the ryokan, doesn’t it. I wonder if should I buy it if there are clothes that I liked.」
My casual remark got a strong response from Ilya and Aleutia.
It appears that the two of them have a strong interest in Kagura’s clothes.
Especially Aleutia, who had a strong interest in them. And it looks like Aleutia has already decided to buy Kagura clothes when you see that smile of hers.
She took a liking to it since unexpectedly, she can hide the size of her breast.
「……yeah. That’s ‘cause Kagura’s clothes can hide your breast size. Aleutia will definitely buy them, isn’t she」
「Right? She decides to buy it to hide her own breast size.」
「You still want to be beaten?」
Maybe she can hear Irvine and Mort’s voices as they mutter to each other, there is a vein bulging Aleutia’s forehead as she makes a fist.
「「It’s nothing!」」
They might still be afraid of last night’s body blow. In the first place, you shouldn’t say it if you’re going to apologize. If you just think about it in your mind like me――
「Alfried-sama too, please don’t say something too rude, alright?」
Aleutia immediately drew near me with a dark smile on her face.
「My voice leaked out!?」
「……that’s because Alfried-sama said it, so we also can’t help saying that.」
When I shouted in surprise, Irvine told me that.
Come to think of it, after I said that thought in my mind, I felt that Irvine interjected with 「yeah」.
Recently, there is no one like Eleonora-neesan and Elna-kaasan where I have to pay attention to what I say. I’m scared of what will happen when I’m having a conversation with them when I get home.
We watched the main street unreservedly, and first, we went to exchange our money.
Since the Kingdom’s coins can not be used in this country.
The one with a round hole that looked like a 5 yen coin is known as stone coins in the Kingdom.
The copper coins that look like an Edo period ichibugin silver coin with a rectangular shape, around 100 yen. The silver-colored coins with the same shape are the silver coins, 1.000 yen. Then, the one with an elliptical shape that looks like a koban equivalent to one gold coin, 10.000 yen
Incidentally, a larger koban is comparable to a large gold coin, as for white gold coins, and black gold coins are thicker and releasing white luster, and black luster on their surface.
Perhaps it’s made so that it’s easy to use in other countries, perhaps it’s because they can obtain a lot of them from the mines, or it might be that they’re basically using the same kind of ore in each country or something.
This time I have received permission from Elna-kaasan that I can freely use up to one white gold coin, but as expected, I don’t think I’m going to spend that much on anything so I’m going to spend less than a gold coin.
I wonder if 100.000 yen would not be enough.
With that thought in mind, I’m going to exchange and divide my money for small stone coins, copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins for ease of use.
100.000 yen is an amount that makes me nervous as you can buy a magic tool with it, I’m kinda scared to hold on to that amount on the first day. I’m sure this should be enough.
I also don’t forget to store the somewhat large amount of money with Space magic so that I don’t drop it.
「Kuuh, as expected of nobles, a child of that age can spend that much money………」
Irvine -who exchanges his money beside me - looks at me with a frustrated expression on his face.
Fufufu, it’s great isn’t it? This is the financial power of a noble.
It’s somewhat amazing that I can carry 100.000 yen from the age of seven years old, huh? Even when I became an adult in my previous life, I seldom carried this amount of money around with me. Though I used to carry a lot of receipts around with this amount.
After exchanging our money into Kagura’s currency, we immediately walked down the main street.
The main street is really wide, there won’t be any problem with four carriages lined up side by side on it.
Maybe because it’s near the port, there are relatively a lot of fishmongers lined up on both sides of the street.
They probably caught the fish in the sea around Kagura, strongly attracting the customers who went shopping in the morning.
While I was surprised that they have different types of fish than the one in Esport market, we walked through the shops in a group, the savory smell peculiar to soy sauce drifted.
「……this smell」
「Soy sauce!」
Exchanging glances with Roomba, we sniffed the air and headed toward the source of the smell.
Immediately after that, I arrived at the same seasoning shop from yesterday.
「Ahh, you’re yesterday… We, welcome」
The same middle-aged male shopkeeper from yesterday said that with an awkward smile on his face as soon as see me and Roomba.
Perhaps he remembered that we are tourists since there are Ilya and Aleutia that have conspicuous hair with us.
「……this is it!」
Roomba walks quickly and opens a jar’s cover.
Then, a rich smell came out from inside that jar. The smell is so strong that it stings your nose.
「Uwaa! The smell is so strong」
Irvine - who came after us - shouted as he was startled.
It would be natural if it smells so strong since the rich soy sauce is placed inside such a big jar.
And Aleutia and Ilya may be interested in it since they also enjoyed eating with soy sauce last night. They peer into the jar along with Mort and grimace at the strong smell.
And it might be because they were gathering around the jar of soy sauce like that. The middle-aged shopkeeper approached them while smiling.
「Are you looking for soy sauce, customers? This store has dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, and three other types of rich soy sauce, which would you like to choose? 」
Oohh, if they have that much then it will be convenient since I can use it for different purposes.
「There are different types of soy sauces? 」
「Yes, actually it would be best if you try and taste it」
The shopkeeper nodded to Ilya’s question, then he started to prepare a small plate and pour three types of soy sauces on it.
「The one with this color is the common type of dark soy sauce that everyone is familiar with. You may try and taste it if you like」
Recommended by the shopkeeper, everyone sticks their finger on the dark soy sauce and puts it in their mouth.
「It’s the same soy sauce that I ate yesterday and for this morning's breakfast.」
「That’s right. It’s a taste of soy sauce that we’re familiar with.」
Irvine, Mort, and Roomba also nod, as if agreeing with what Aleutia and Ilya said.
「Next, the one with the lighter color beside it is a light soy sauce. Compared with the dark soy sauce, it has a milder color and scent as it’s characteristic, and it is suited to be used as a seasoning for various foods that makes the best used of the ingredients such as boiled vegetables and clear soup 」
When we heard the shopkeeper’s words, we lick the light soy sauce just like him. It makes me smile seeing everyone tasting the soy sauce.
「Ohh? It’s not as light as I thought, isn't it? 」
「Yeah. And the smell and richness of the soy sauce is not that strong, but the taste is stronger than I thought.」
Perhaps the taste is unexpectedly too sharp for Roomba and Ilya, they tilted their heads and said that.
「Ye, yeah that’s right.」
「Certainly, the taste is not as thin as I thought. 」
「You guys are inclining your heads because we’re here, huh? No need to put on some weird display you know! 」
「I, it’s not like that!」
Maybe it’s because they made fun of Aleutia earlier, she keeps on pursuing those two men. Men are creatures that like to show off, after all, I hope you don’t pursue it any further.
「Even though it’s called light soy sauce it doesn’t mean that the taste is diluted, it just means that the color of the light soy sauce is lighter. The saltiness is actually a bit stronger than the dark soy sauce.」
「Heeー, I wonder if the nimono for our breakfast this morning uses this? 」
「I guess so.」
Uh-huh, as long as I have this then I can even eat something like nimono in the mansion. Depending on how I prepare it, I might be able to make a dipping sauce for tempura or soba.
Since soy sauce can be used for anything like nimono, grilled food, or for sauce themselves, I look forward to the trial and error experiment with Bartolo.
「Then, the last one is the tamari soy sauce.」
Listening to the words of the shopkeeper, everyone directly put out their fingers.
When I smell the scent of thick soy sauce on my finger, it smells kinda heavy.
And when I put my finger into my mouth, the rich taste of the soy sauce spread inside my mouth. There’s no doubt that it has a little viscosity and sweetness, it’s a soy sauce that was used for sashimi in my previous life.
「It’s has a thicker taste than the other soy sauce, isn’t it.」
「This will definitely go well with sashimi!」
「It will look tasty if you put it in a seafood bowl!」
It looks like the first thing Aleutia and Roomba notice is that it will go well with sashimi. Arriving at such a conclusion with just one lick, these two are amazing.
「Let’s have tamari soy sauce if sashimi is served today!」
Aleutia and Roomba nodded and smiled at Ilya’s words.
Yesterday, there is no tamari soy sauce at the ryokan, I wonder if it might be because they want us to experience the taste of dark soy sauce together with the sashimi? Or maybe because they thought that we tend to like something strong? Either way, it might just be in that ryokan. If sashimi is served today, I want to have it with tamari soy sauce or something.
「That’s right isn’t it. It will be effective in suppressing the bad smell of the sashimi if we dip it into the soy sauce, so if you’re weak with the raw smell of the sashimi, you can use tamari soy sauce. Furthermore, it gives a beautiful shine and luster to the completed nimono dishes, and it has the characteristic of turning the dish to have a more reddish tinge if you heat it. It can also be used for nimono, senbei, and mitarashi dango. 」
「Speaking of that, Toriela-san recommended the sweetness of mitarashi dango to me yesterday! He said that it’s soft and covered in sweet sauce.」
「That’s right. I’ll definitely eat that today!」
Ooh, I could only get a glimpse at them yesterday, as expected they also have senbei and mitarashi dango, huh.
I love to nibble on senbei while sipping the hot green tea, so I think I’m going to buy a lot of senbei and bring them back home. When you nibble on senbei, it truly feels like you’re leisurely enjoying a very nice holiday.
It’s going to be a source of pleasure if I were to place it in the living room where Elna-kaasan enjoyed her spare time slovenly or the maid’s lounge. But if I do that, the women’s group back home will end up becoming grandmas so I will have to do it moderately…… Senbei is hard after all, their teeth might break or fall…
Although it looks like senbei can be stored for a long time, I feel like there’s no way I’m going to be able to bring that or mitarashi dango back as souvenirs.
I can only store them with my Space magic here, so should I keep it a secret from everyone, then.
「So, Al. How much soy sauce do you want to buy?」
Roomba - who is beside me - asks, while Aleutia and Ilya are listening to the recommended places for sweets from the shopkeeper, and Mort and Irvine are looking at the tsukemono at the inner part of the store.
With no time to think about Roomba’s question, I immediately say
「Then, all of the soy sauce jar in this shop」
「Right!」
「「「Eeeehhh!?」」」
It was a line I wanted to say for once. It was in the same ranking of lines that I wanted to say along with ‘I want to have the one from the start of the menu to the end of this shop’s menu’. Though in some respect, using that with soy sauce jars feels kinda cheap.
「A, all of them? It will be around thirty gold coins…………」
The shopkeeper gingerly asked, maybe because the one who said that is a kid like me.
Oof, perhaps it’s because it’s in jars, after all, it’s fairly expensive. Looks like I’m going to use one platinum coin - one million yen - even without buying some magic tools.
「You’re buying so much!?」
「It’s a joke. If we buy it now, our luggage will increase, and it will be difficult to bring, right? But we can buy it when we’re about to leave so we can just make an advance order right now.」
「I also want to bring back some of it for my parents, so I want three jars.」
Ilya and I said as we smiled while listening to Aleutia's flustered voice.
「……kuuh, so this is a noble’s financial power, huh………」
Aleutia’s frustrated voice resounded inside the store.