Rofas-san and Bryce-kun, along with many other adventurers, had received a compulsory quest.
The quest details said to prevent the monsters pouring out from the advanced level dungeons from entering the nearby town. They had to hold out for roughly three days, which was when the subjugation forces from the capital should arrive by.
Rofas-san came back here to tell us to run to a safe place. I see. To think that the safest place for us was, that placeā¦
Ugugu. I donāt want to remember it.
Sigh, those three days were tough.
Thatās right, so many things happened during those three days, but it all ended while I stayed holed up in that safe place.
Now, I could see the body of a kraken before my eyes.
The monster that Rofas-san and Bryce-kun defeatedā¦
ā¦The monster.
No no, I canāt think of it as a monster.
I cooked the boar by thinking of it as pork.
I did the same thing with the mountain birds, whatever they were. I thought of them as chicken and cooked it as such.
So, krakens are basically giant octopi. I just need to imagine the kraken as an octopus and not a monster.
Even on earth, we have a type of squid called the giant squid.
ā¦Even soā¦
I stood by the front door of the hut and looked outside.
I could see the kraken that Bryce-kun froze.
Whyā¦ is it here, in the middle of the mountains, without an ocean in sight?Ā I thought to myself, although I did hear that monsters were produced in the dungeons.
The reason why the kraken got to this size was because it ate other monstersā¦
I heard the reason, but stillā¦
I could see the head of the octopus, stretching up so far that it was taller than the cliffside with the vegetable field. The same one that takes all of my efforts to climb upā¦
Each of its eight legs was bigger than a human, and its suckers were larger than a personās face.
Even given the circumstances, wasnāt it way too big?
ćWe donāt eat krakens in this country, and there arenāt any good materials we can get out of them, so I took the entire thing.ć
Rofas-san said with a satisfied smile.
ćWith all this, I can eat to my heartās content.ć
ā¦Yeah, how many years would it take for you to finish this octopus if you ate to your heartās content every single day?
The body will rot if it gets defrosted, right? Itās not like Bryce-kun can stay here to keep the kraken frozen forever.
When monsters die inside a dungeon, they vanish. They sometimes drop potions too.
However, monsters that left the dungeon wonāt disappear when they die. Itāll remain as a corpse just like an animal would. It wonāt drop any items either.
Dungeons sound more mysterious by the minute. Just what kind of place are they?
Speaking of mysterious, each dungeon has their own set of monsters. For example, potion fields will only have roach slimes, and other monsters canāt enter the dungeon from the outside.
Thatās why when Rofas-san came to tell us about the stampede with monsters coming from the advanced level dungeon, he told us to hide in the potion field. As long as we stay there, weāll be safe.
So, that meant we set up a tent inside the dungeonā¦ where the roach slimes lived. We spent three days eating breadā¦ Just me, Kirika-chan, and Kurtz-kunā¦
We were separated by a single cloth from the roach slimesā¦
Ugugugu. Stop thinking about it, stop thinking about it.
Itās hard not to recall the things you want to forget though.
Well, in either case, I heard that normally, adventurers process the monsters that come out from dungeons by stripping them of their materials and throwing the rest of the body back into the dungeon before they rotted.
I looked at the massive frozen kraken from the hut and sighed.
Can they process it for me? The octopus head is casting a shadow on the vegetable field, meaning the vegetables wonāt get exposure to sunlight.
Iām sure if Rofas-san tries the kraken and understands that itās different than the octopus he tried before, heāll process it for me.
ā¦After all, he mentioned that he ate octopus, which is a smaller version of the kraken, back in his hometown, and how good it was.
Uuu.
Actually, speaking of octopus recipes, very little came to mind.
My most favorite octopus dish is takoyaki! Theyāre the best! Melty on the inside, crispy on the outside. Thatās the best combination! Ah, but because I couldnāt make them at home, I went out and bought some for myself as a present. One pack costs about 400 yen, which was cheap but still kind of expensive. My husband would get mad if he found out how much it costs.
Takoyakiā¦ We donāt have an iron plate for making takoyaki, so we canāt make them.
Vinegared octopusā¦ Maybe if we had sugar.
Octopus over riceā¦ But we donāt have ginger. I canāt use ginger ale, or the dish will end up being too sweet.
Octopus carpaccioā¦ No olive oil, so thatās a no go.
Octopus karaageā¦ But thereās no cooking oil.
Ajilloā¦ Actually, any dish that uses oil is out.
Is there a dish I can make?
I know! Tako-wasabi. Itās so tasty.
That tingling sensation from theā¦ Wait, we donāt have wasabi!
Since thereās no wasabi, we canāt make sushi either.
Ahh, but since Kirika-chan and Kurtz-kun are still young, they might prefer sushi without wasabi in it.
In that case, well, this dish is doableā¦ Octopus sushiā¦ Hmmā¦