Vampire Princess Chapter 3 Intermission I
Delicious Food Worship
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This is the sequel of the previous one.
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“I want pork.”
In the open storefront, towards my impolite request the ramen shop owner “Tonkotsu the Great” who was one of the lesser demons, looked at me fondly with an understanding expression and nodded solemnly.
“I understand, Princess.”
Then, he walked toward the corner where his employee, a High Orc who watched over the preparation progress, was and gave him instructions.
“Hoi, close the shop curtain. Later, hang the closed sign. –You’re still green, but I’ll leave the shop to you.”
“……but, Boss!”
The employee responded with teary eyes.
“--? I only asked for pork, why it becoming something like a final farewell?”
At that time I felt a really bad premonition.
Then as if it’s something “obvious” he answered me, “Pork—that would mean you want my (Orc King) life.”
Because that answer was mostly expected, I fell, prostrated on the counter.
“How did it become like that! Then what if I said I wanted beef?!”
“Then that would mean I should kill and bring to you either Minotaur, the owner of the Gyuudon shop diagonally opposite from here, or Shiyuu, the blacksmith.”
Gaijin answered without a shred of cloud in his eyes. Even the High Orc employee nodded in agreement.
“Then if I said I want vegetables!?”
“Burn down the Yggdrasil forest behind the castle. Oh, as expected, starting a war against plant type monsters makes me want to go all out.”
Gaijin’s eyes shone. By the way, Yggdrasil is a paid gacha prize. After I planted 5 or 6 of them, before I noticed it had changed into a forest with giant trees that would make your eyes pop out. It became something similar to sacred grounds for plant type monsters or high elves.
Also, I wonder what happened with the one “Legendary Tree” with unknown origins which I planted there. If it became a place for confessions, I honestly will become angry.
Wait, if you burn that forest down, won’t it become civil war!? Will this country fall into civil war just because I want to eat vegetables!??
…then, I asked in desperation.
“Then, what if I ask for mutton?!”
Gaijin folded his arms with a difficult expression.
“Human, huh? Since there’s none in this place, then I must go down to hunt, it’ll take some time…”
“Why does mutton become ‘human’ meat’?!”
“Eh, you didn’t know? In a certain country humans were called “bipedal sheep.” They called them sheep with two legs and ate them… well, for me, I prefer the animal one. Since the taste of human greatly depending on their environment, it’s hard to find something to my taste.”
At this situation, “Is there no normal meat?!”, “Don’t talk as they’re it’s the same!!”, or “Why do you know something that even I don’t know!?”, I wonder which retort I should use.
“Then…what if I ask you to get chicken meat!?”
“Then I will introduce you to butcher in main streets.”
“Why is only the answer for chicken meat normal!? Or rather, if there’s a butcher then tell me that from the beginning!!”
Unintentionally, the stress that was building up inside me exploded, I raised the chair overhead and stepped onto the counter. In that instant, Gaijin’s complexion changed,
“This is bad, Princess went berserk again! Help me, hold her down!”
At the same time as he called out to his employees, he activated the skill “Orc Summon” which summoned a dozen Orc soldiers.
“I.A.M.N.O.T—!”
“Blood! Prepare blood!!”
“It’s only pig blood, we already have five buckets!”
“Then, use that! I will hold her down, you guys pour all of it!”
“Don’t pour it~~~!! Or rather, there are some entrails floating in there!!”
All my screams ended in vain, being surrounded and captured by their joined forces (since the shop is narrow I can’t run, and I also can’t win with my strength), the blood and entrails were poured onto me.
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After that, I borrowed the bath and changed my clothes, then explained to Gaijin again from the very beginning.
“…As I said, I only want to cook normally, I don’t have any weird intentions. Ah, also I want to borrow a place to cook.”
“Huh… Princess wants to cook?”
Why when I said that I wanted to cook they looked at me as if I announced a dog running in circles chasing its own tail?
I usually cook on my own for all three meals I had (though when I had a part time job I ate at the staff canteen on the second floor of the supermarket I worked at), even in game, I raised my cooking skill meaninglessly until the counter stopped.
“Even though Princess doesn’t cook, with one order a dragon will grill itself, or you can just eat a pixy raw, or do you want to prepare them all at once? If Princess really wants to eat, everyone will voluntarily lie on the chopping board.”
Were the inhabitants of this country all like that? A rabbit that will fly into fire, something which appeared in old folk stories.
“That’s not it, I don’t want others to prepare it for me, since I’m visiting someone. I want to cook by myself.”
“Visiting…?”
Gaijin tilted h