I entered the workshop that I handed over to the Firefoxes, and lucie suddenly appeared.
Apparently, hiding in the shadows in the workshop.
“Firefoxes came but, what’s up?”
“Oh Lucie, didn’t you return to the village?”
“Well I was intending to, but I came back after watching you tag along the Firefoxes, you know. It was hard to call to you, so I followed you back.”[followed]
Lucie was looking a little awkward saying that.
As expected, Lucie has the nature of a hunter, hiding her presence is her specialty; I didn’t even notice it.
“The Firefox village was destroyed by the empire. They escaped and came here it seems. We had various stories and small talk, but the girls are tired and hungry. Anyway I want to prepare a meal for them. Lucie, sorry, but the potatoes, could you harvest about ten roots and bring them to me? I won’t use it in lunch, but I will need them for dinner. I know it’s the potatoes we worked hard together on, but before the elves, we need to cater to the Firefoxes, sorry.”
I bow my head to Lucie.
Lucie was desperately trying her best to grow the potatoes for all the elves. I felt guilty having to selfishly use all that effort for the sake of the Firefoxes.
“Hey, Cyril… You intend to accept all the Firefoxes into Elucie?”
Lucie isn’t angry, so I ask in a normal tone.
“That is my intention. I will not abandon those girls, and we will welcome them to Elucie.”
“Un, if that’s the case it’s okay. I will go get them soon, kay.”
“You’re not angry?”
“Nah, I was doing my best for everyone, you know. Cyril decided that the Firefoxes are now Elucie’s friends right? If I can make friends of Elucie happy, I also will be happy.”
“Lucie…”
I couldn’t endure it, and I hugged Lucie tightly.
“Uhwa… what the, Cyril!?”
Lucie’s face turns red in a panic.
“I love you…”
When I said that Lucie makes a bitter smile, and I loosened my hold.
“I also like things about Cyril,you know. Hey, please don’t do this forever, the Firefoxes are hungry you know!”
I let go of Lucie, leaving reluctantly.
Lucie was still embarrassed and she quickly escaped to harvest the potatoes.
“Well, I feel recharged… time to do my best!”
Saying so, I pour water from the water jug into the pot the water was drawn from the well this morning, I then light a fire in the stone furnace.
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Inside the furnace were deep red coals, by that time the luggage from the village arrived.
First thing was the dried meat made from the excess wild boar carcasses.
Pelts for cold protection clothing, the meat could be made into dried meat, but the meat just sticks around the bones and couldn’t be taken off. It would be too painful to harvest that as dried meat, so a considerable amount was left behind.
There is also the excess back fat. The top part of the lump of fat, the sinew inside can’t be eaten as is.
But, if I can come up with a way to make it edible I can use the meat around the bones for lunch, and the excess back-fat for dinner.
The pot I poured water into has a depth of 60 centimeters and a capacity of one hundred liters, a perfect business grade size. I abused my authority by using a considerable amount of precious iron, it was a splendid gem I made. [abused authority]
“The water has boiled. I will put the bones in here.”
And then, I take out a Chinese kitchen knife made from precious iron.
Of course, this was also made with abusing my authority, made wholly with the technology I have, it’s the gem of my pride.[EZ1] First was doing my best with the material properties from ingredients on hand to make the highest quality alloy. Additionally being a thirty multi-layered structure……. This Damascus structure is the same materials used in the construction of swords, if it’s sold. If it’s this world, even if made unskillfully you could acquire a house for the same price.[…..] [EZ2]
Using the spine of the kitchen knife I splendidly hit and break the wild boar bone.
The Chinese kitchen knife is all-purpose. Utilizing the weight and striking the spine would cause normal things to break. Because the base of the blade is thick, using the weight and chopping down cuts through meat and skin. Furthermore going toward the tip it gets sharper and thinner making fine work possible.
“I have seen cooking equipment from various worlds, there is no universal cutlery like a Chinese cooking knife.”
And so, the bones were broken up to a size small enough to enter the pot, the parts with meat sticking on them were also thrown into the boiling pot.
About half of the pot was filled with mostly water, and after adding the ingredients it became two-thirds full.
Meat attached to the bone is generally thrown in and the bones that are left out is cleaned up. I then break up the rock salt with the Chinese kitchen knife and toss it in the pot.
Appropriately, I add mountain herbs and mushrooms that were in the workshop into the pot, then put the lid on; at the same time I start my magic.
“【Pressurization】”
I influence the wind mana inside of the vase and make the atmospheric pressure increase.
From this, I made the ordinary pot into the equivalent of a pressure cooker. From the start, I thought about making a pressure cooker. Because this and that happened and because it was inconvenient, I stopped.
And while doing so, several Firefoxes with clean bodies and clothes came back.
Blood rushes to their cheeks, steam came out. Until some time ago they had dead-like eyes, but it looked as though just a little vigor came back. As I thought, personal appearance is significant.
Firefoxes specialize in fire magic. So naturally they would be washing their bodies with water they changed into hot water, right. Well temperature drops greatly by one digit and your body senses would be frozen over.
Washing the body with hot water, comforts the heart and spirit.
The remaining clothing was precisely washed and dried from fire magic, becoming sanitary.
“Cyril-sama, I will help.”
The first Firefox to come back was Kuu. She came rushing back.
“Well, I am in the middle of making the stew and don’t need help right now. No actually, does everyone have plates? I am making soup, but there isn’t enough tableware.” [stew]
“we don’t have a bowl, but everyone does have cups.”
“is that so, well then, is it ok if I ask you to instruct everyone to take out their cups?”
“yes, I understand!”
Kuu rushes off toward her friends.
While watching it, I had the feeling that because the pot was better for this I opened the lid.
And, the alluring wild boar fragrance filled the room.
Feeling the gazes on my back I turned and, the Firefoxs’ drool was dribbling. The growling of their stomachs could be heard.
Well they weren’t able obtain decent food right. Warm soup would be very irresistible.
“The quality of the soup, how is it?”
Meat heavily sunk to the bottom, I scooped up one bone with the ladle and gently brushed the bone with the kitchen knife.
And the meat tore off and fell with nearly no resistance. Using the pressure cooker made the quality of the stew dish come out well, the meat around the bone looks like it came off cleanly.
I repeat that operation to remove the Bones that I can’t cut and are too big to fit in the Firefoxs’ cups. I gently stroke the surface of the bone and the meat falls into the pot.
Because that process is nearly finished, I skim the scum from the sorry state of the surface, and complete the soup by stirring it.
Since smaller bones that would fit into their cups have sunken to the bottom, it should be ok, right.
That way we can properly distribute it, so they can slurp and eat it well.
“Uwaa…..”
After completing the soup, I hear the calls of the Firefoxes and turn around, and was surprised by the Firefoxes being closer than I thought.
Because of the delicious smell, everyone’s blazing eyes were staring at the state of the pot. It would only make sense. such a thing would be a way of changing what’s on someone’s mind, right?
“Everyone, umm, the soup is finished, so please form one line. Bring the cup you came with and I will be pouring it into that.”
When I say so, each person desperately searched and brought out their cups from their luggage and scrambled to get in line.
The order of the line was properly regulated thanks to Kuu.