Chapter 421: Split
「Tastes like… Well, an apple. 」
Hauron, how can you tell when you’ve gulped it whole!?
「… 」
Khan was also wordlessly munching.
「Can I have this? 」
Retze picked one.
「Yeah? 」
「Even if the spirits give me power, I don’t think I’ll have any use for that. I’ll just grate it and mix it with the soil in Ivy’s flower pot. 」
Retze wrapped the shady apple in a napkin. Eh, can you even grate it…? Sus…
「Uwuwu… A spirit sword in a flower pot… In a sunny place…. 」
Hauron suffered another kind of blow.
「For Shiva…. ー This sort of power is way too much for the kids, huh. Plus, unlike specific spirits with predictable outcomes, who knows how a bunch of random little spirits messing around will turn out. 」
Dinosso also took one and put it away.
Butler also secured one on a plate ー where did that plate come from? Oh, right, his sleeve, of course. He offered another plate to Dean.
「Yeah, I’ll give it to Chris. 」
He took the plate and placed it on the edge of the table.
「It appears that we have surplus. 」
Butler’s face turned pensive as he stared at the two baskets that Dinosso and he brought here.
「X-Stick, wanna eat the rest? 」
「Yeah, sure!!」
X-Stick cheerfully popped out when I called out to him.
Then he made quick work of the remaining apples ー by swallowing them whole. What? Is swallowing them whole the right way to eat them after all?
「And the King’s Branch carried around everywhere… 」
Gramps Hauron’s about to pass out.
「Hmm, I prefer a bit of punch if it’s treated as food. 」
X-Stick said. The golden apple seems to fall in the same category as the Spirit Drops, huh. Rather than food, it’s more like a power-up item for X-Stick.
「Then, how about some garlic rice and meat, wanna eat that? 」
「Yeah! 」
「Wanna! 」
X-Stick and Dean’s enthusiastic replies overlapped.
「Well, it’s about time for dinner. I’ll go home for a bit to get some of my wife’s soup. Lemme borrow your pot. 」
Dinosso.
「What size do you need? 」
It’s Shiva’s soup, Shiva’s soup!
I passed the pot to Dinosso while the others moved to the second floor. Alright, I’ll grab some wine and cheese too and serve them too.
The rice was cooked in oil and chicken broth and is a bit firmer than how I usually would cook it. The rice grains are loose, so it’s more suitable as fried rice, though. Good thing it’s in【Storage】, so we’re all set for a quick meal.
I remove the green sprouts from the garlic and mince it up; if you don’t pull them out it’s gonna burn from there! The block of pork belly is sliced into small pieces to get that juicy fat, then I add butter; if it’s too greasy, I use a mix of butter and rice oil. Some people like to sauté it slowly and carefully, but I say go for it with gusto. The sizzling sound is what makes it delicious.
The fire lizard quickly snatched a grain or two of rice, and some of the spirits riding on the air even helped me separate the grains as I vigorously stirred it. Thanks for the help, guys.
「Ooh, that scent, that fragrance! 」
X-Stick is a spirit and he finds the scent literally delicious, so he’s in cloud nine, brimming with excitement. Oh, right, it’s somewhat similar to how Halalfa is when she sniffed pollen, huh.
「Ou, I’ve brought it. 」
Dinosso placed the pot on the table with a thud. The table isn’t coated like the ones in Japan, and I don’t have trivets. Well, it’s fine, the pot’s bottom isn’t dirty since they just transferred the soup into it.
A mouthwatering gentle fragrance wafted and filled the air. I peered inside ー ooh, cabbage soup, huh. I also spot some turnips.
「Allow me to serve. 」
At Butler’s words, Retze fetched soup bowls from the shelf.
I also topped the garlic rice with slabs of meat, then sprinkled it with garlic slices that I fried separately. Shiva’s soup has vegetables in it so we can skip the salad.
「We already had the shady apples for dessert, though. 」
「Hush, no need to worry, we got separate belly space for that. 」
Hey, Dean, isn’t it supposed to be the other way around? Isn’t it usually said to have an additional space for dessert even if you’re full — ah, they probably don’t know about that, huh.
I allowed the spirits to go to the kitchen for now, so I’m pretty sure Khan can also taste the food. Ah, but in his case, the wine is the main course with a side of garlic rice. Everyone gathered around and we dug in.
「This, this is it! This garlic punch! The sweetness of butter! And the convenience of having it with meat! 」
I wonder why X-Stick is such a junk-food fanatic and obsessed with easy-to-eat stuff so much?
I guess it’s because he likes to gobble his food in huge bites, so maybe that’s why individually plating stuff isn’t his thing. Plus, rice toppings and mixed-rice dishes are more popular than plain white rice, after all.
「Such an offering to the King’s Bough…. 」
Hauron isn’t quite there yet, but he’s eating with a spoon albeit woodenly, so it’s all good.
「Such a laid-back King’s Bough… 」
Just as I was thinking about Hauron, I noticed that Butler was also quite out of it.
Khan’s expression was also sublime as he watched X-Stick open his mouth wide as he deliciously ate with great gusto. Please do not compare him to Shahira.
「I usually prefer thick chewy chunks of meat, but this rice? It’s perfect with this bunch of meat! Yeah, that pork bowl we had the other day is also great!! 」
Dean was also in great spirits.
「Ahh, the flavor of Madam’s soup is so gentle and delicious. 」
The turnips still hold their shape, but they’re soft enough that I can easily split them with a spoon.
「Yeah, Shiva’s cooking these days never gets boring, they’re all tasty! 」
Dinosso’s mood soars up when I praised his wife’s cooking. He said ‘these days’, so I wonder how it was in the past…?
Oh well, since it’s superb now then it’s all good! The cabbages are the ones I gave her; they’re yellowish green Japanese ones. Soft and sweet. Yup, I’m also happy.
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