“Okawari!” (Wendelin)
“You really eat a lot.” (Luise)
“I am hungry since I didn’t get to eat anything decent for about half a month here.” (Wendelin)
After the audience had finished, I immediately returned to the Brandt household and ate a late lunch there.
The maid prepared such things as stew, pasta and salad. While eating I asked for a second serving. (T/N: Okawari – for those of you who don’t know that word. ;) )
Next to my place Luise stared at me with an astonished face while starting a conversation.
“The army needed one week to prepare for departure from the garrison in the outskirts. It took three days until there weren’t any other monsters left in the center of Palkenia Grasslands where Grade Grande was enshrined. Furthermore it took another week to thin out the strong-looking monsters within the former domain. And the return took three days. Aaah … our precious summer vacation …” (Luise)
After I arrived at the royal capital, it was almost impossible to follow my own intentions.
Although I planned to enjoy the long-awaited sightseeing of the capital, mostly my impressions of the capital were the formal audience at the royal palace and the garrison in the outskirts which smelled of sweat and was covered with dust. Therefore I only had quite an amount of unappetizing meals so far.
And to top it off, I had to fight for my life with dragons that looked like special effect monsters.
And at the end of the fight, just like in some famous manga, a muscular ossan, who you wouldn’t believe to be a magician, came and concluded the battle climax. (T/N: LOL)
Although he surpassed its scales, striking the dragon with his bare hands, landing several kicks and throwing it after grabbing its tail, you really couldn’t call that a magician… (E: I keeping picturing FMA’s Armstrong… ,_,)
Afterwards, he proceeded to subjugate monsters claiming it to be what a proper adult noble is supposed to do.
To put it bluntly, in comparison to the dragon these monsters were weak.
Just, the number of them was great. Whenever possible he left for a clean up battle so that there would be no casualties amongst our troops and the adventurers. Due to Armstrong-doushi’s orders, they continued to thin out the most powerful specimens.
For one week we continued the cleanup battles, acting as search-and-kill forces, we three filthy men handled the killing of monsters. The food was self-made and we slept by taking turns.
Although I consider it to be a good experience before the time I will become an adventurer, I could be called the only person able to produce some normal food in the end among the three of us.
As for the food of the army in the garrison, only the amount of it could be viewed as decent.
Or more precisely, what did Armstrong-doushi and Burkhart-san do during their time as active adventurers?
While pondering such things, Burkhart-san taught me the reason.
『Such things like preparation of food, all of it was entrusted to Artur-san. As long as I had some sake to drink, there was no problem.』 (Burkhart)
I see, apparently it was Artur-san who had the thankless task in that party. (E: He truly is his master’s disciple to inherit that role as well!)
After retirement, he attained success as merchant for that reason.
Putting that aside, I think it would be better for Burkhart-san to stop only using salty jerky or their likes and sake as replacement for a proper dinner.
Your liver will deteriorate. That’s one of the adult diseases you shouldn’t want to have, I ended up thinking to that extent.
And then, the other person, Armstrong-doushi, was even more outrageous.
While he was on duty we only ate monster meat which he prepared by draining the blood, cutting the meat into slices and then roasting it above open fire.
Although it was interesting and got a feeling of wildness on the first day, it got rather tedious quickly after it being the same every day.
Or rather, what kind of meals does Armstrong-doushi, who bears the title of a noble, usually eat?
『Monster meat, which has been drained of its blood and grilled with a sprinkle of salt, has a staggering amount of nutrition.』 (Armstrong)
Honestly, he is a person I can’t really call a noble at all. (E: Really, you all fail due to a lack of various common sense.)
Because we got filthy due to the monster subjugation without being able to wash it off in a bath, we might have ended up being mistaken as bandits if things didn’t go well at that time.