Year 7445, Month 5, Day 4
Just as I heard he can talk normally.
I went around behind that Barukemi and made sure I could grab the nape of his neck. Seems like there's no problem. But, it probably would be best to grab his ears. It seems the easiest to grab his tail but I felt like he would dislike that so I decided against that. In reality touching the sword would be the best but unlike the ring in the fairy village the curse is charm after all.
"Thank goodness..."
"They healed our injuries once before as well."
"No, really thanks."
The other members of {Black.Topaz} each offered me words of gratitude as well.
"Kaku, put away the sword. This sort of sword, there's nothing but harm holding on to it. It seems it would be best to just sell it off right away."
"However, Reddo-sama, it's a {Magical.Sword}. It might have some sort of amazing power.."
"It's fine. If we try testing it out we might end up giving birth to the next Vikkusu, it's fine as long as we can make a bit of money off of it."
"I see..Since it's a {Retributed.Item}, I guess that's true."
It doesn't have any particular ability other than charm. Since the Endurance is reasonably high it's decent on that end but in terms of Ability a normal infantry-use short-sword would still be better. Though if you make use of the charm curse from the {Cursed.Item} then it's not like you wouldn't be able to sell it for a price high but after that you would need to flee to another country, in that case it would be the wisest to just sell it at whatever price you can get or break it.
"Well then, we'll take our leave here.."
Miduchi and I were trying to take our leave.
"Ah, Greed-kun, tomorrow night, I guess, come to "Dorureon" at 6 pm and give my name. I'll talk about all the information as compensation at that time. Would that time be convenient for you?"
"Yeah, there's no problem. I understand. Then I'll see tomorrow night."
I said that before we left "Missuri".
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After returning to Boil Manor and putting away all our props it had already become a good time so we went to eat dinner. Was it "Pegizu" today? Rather than a restaurant that place is closer to a slightly chaotic bar. When we arrived at "Pegizu" everyone else was already seated at tables outside eating their meals.
"Sorry about that~ we ended up a bit late."
"No, we just arrived a short while ago as well."
Toris taps the bench beside him while saying. Just like that I sat down to the left of Toris and after ordering some beer and cooked beans from the Cat-people brat who came out, I started reporting in whisper.
"I was able to safely complete the request from {Black.Topaz}. With this I should have sold a favor to them as well. Tomorrow night, I think I'll be able to get a bit more detailed information on {Sun.Ray} at Dorureon."
"Today I kept an eye on that one inn but there was no one coming in or out."
Zulu reported as well. That one inn is the inn that the Rindobel couple of {Sun.Ray} uses. A bit of distance from there is a reasonably large bar where you can keep lookout on the entrance of their inn. I have my three slaves taking shifts observing from there. It seems that when members of {Sun.Ray} discuss things they often go to the inn the Rindobel couple use or at least that's what I heard from Viruhaima of {Verdure.Brotherhood} the other day.
"I heard some rumors when I was eating lunch with Toris yesterday. It seems like they were talking about us. Some adventurer looking pair that I don't know was talking about Ral and Miduchi-san."
Bel said while tilting her beer mug.
"Yeah, I just heard something similar at "Saroku" at lunch. It seems it's become quite the rumor."
"Somehow it feels like Al-san got the short end of the stick.."
Toris said that apologetically. So those rumors were also about how I'm not properly managing the party..It can't be helped right.
"Well, that was something I already predicted. I don't pay any mind to all of it. Well it's still just started. I'm sure {Sun.Ray} wouldn't move so easily either. It's necessary to be ready for things to drag out a bit. Rather than that, what about Basutoral?"
"Yeah, though it's just the contents I tried testing it out a bit. Since I brought it along should we try grilling it?"
When Basutoral said that Ralpha and Gwine raised some cheers.
"Oh~ that sounds good. Let me try eating it."
The waiter brat brought out the food we ordered. It see Miduchi ordered a beer as well. It seems that the food Miduchi asked for takes a bit of work. He only brought out my cooked beans. Basutoral took out the lump of minced meat that he had wrapped in a bag and started negotiating something with the brat. Because of how monotone he was the other day he was removed from the plan. I already told him during the day that he doesn't have to do anything so just focus on making the contents of the sausages. However, for him to come up with a prototype in just half a day. I wonder what's going on with the recipe?
Basutoral stood up and went together with the brat further into the restaurant.
I guess it's only natural. I look at the blonde hair watching Basutoral and knowing she's looking forward to taste testing, admired this fellows attachment to food.
Shortly after the bacon fry Miduchi ordered came out. Miduchi and Gwine were explaining the deliciousness of sausages to Zenom and when everyone started to get restless hearing that, Basutoral finally came back out. On top of the place was something like sizzling minced pork and on the side there was something long and narrow wrapped in a cloth.
It seems he didn't grill all of them but formed a portion of them into the shape of sausages and boiled them still wrapped in the cloth.
When we ate the one that was grilled it was salty. Since both spices and seasonings were used, the taste itself wasn't too bad. It's probably just a mistake in the mixture. But, the one that was boiled seems to have had just the right amount of salt content removed as the flavor was decent.
"After all if it's not packed into intestines then it's vague."
The woman with her long hair dyed blonde said arrogantly. However, all of us reincarnated people including Basutoral and I were nodding. That snap texture is really where it needs to be~ And it's probably because he used the stomach meat from a pig but there's not much fat and the color is bad as well. Adding to that it's crumbling as well. It's not like there's something like mixed spices and salts already made. There's no particular need for food coloring but it really could use some phosphates as a binding agent.
"I'm sorry, I tried cutting it down as small as I could to around 2 mm but it ended up crumbling apart.."
Basutoral said while disheartened but since there's no meat grinder it seems he just cut it up and diced it with a knife. It's not unreasonable that he can't make proper minced meat.
"Is that so!? Isn't this delicious!"
Giberuti is praising it without restraint. If you were to ask if it's good or bad then it's not bad. It might be good to let Giberuti join in the making of the sausages later as well. Incidentally, it seems Zenom, Zulu, and Angela were somewhat pleased with them as well. It's badly made but it's probably their first time eating something like minced meat.
"Wai..Wait, that's my.."
It seems Ralpha stole a portion of the boiled meat stick that Miduchi was going to eat from the side.
So today these two are going to fight over food...
Author's Note: Three paragraph sausage recipe~ (Translator: googling sausage is your friend.)