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Onigiri Lunch Box And Miso Ball
「Yosh, let’s have our lunch box while waiting for the barrel to be filled!」
「Let’s do that!」
I tried to suggest filling the barrel with spring water by instantly manipulating it with Water magic, but I stopped myself after hearing Bartolo’s words. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Even though I can do it immediately and conveniently with magic, it would be a shame to finish it using that method.
Spending your time leisurely like this is also the true charm of slow life.
Bartolo and I spread a clean sheet on flat ground and sit there.
「Our butt doesn’t hurt because the moss is growing here」
「It’s like they’re being a natural cushion, aren’t they」
Normally, the hardness of the ground will be felt by your bottom when you sit on the ground and occasionally you will sit on hidden tree roots or stone, but there are soft moss-like plants growing around here so we don’t have to worry about all of that.
While I’m enjoying the feel of the moss below me, Bartolo takes out two lunch boxes from his pack basket.
I’ve only been walking and climbing the mountain since morning, I’m already starving.
Bartolo takes off the wrapping cloth from one and I also unwrap the wrapping cloth from my lunch box.
And then, opening the lid at the same time, there is a lunch box with only onigiris inside and a lunch box with lots of ingredients inside like karaage and omelet, salt-grilled salmon, broccoli, and cherry tomatoes appeared.
Looks good, it’s simple but this is the classic approach for a lunch box.
Even if we made the lunch boxes this morning, we were still excited the moment when we opened the lunch boxes.
「What did you put inside the onigiri?」
Although I’m the one who made the kaarage and onigiri, Bartolo made all of the onigiris.
So, I don’t know what the onigiris are made of. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Hee, you’ll just have to look forward to it」
「I see. But, just tell me this then, is there a grilled onigiri?」
「Of course, boy」
Then there’s no problem with these. I mean, it’s not a bad idea to put various ingredients together, but as expected, don’t you want to eat plain onigiri with salt as well?
As expected from Bartolo, he knows it well.
「Then, let’s eat!」
「Un」
Nodding to Bartolo’s words, I immediately reach out for an onigiri.
I’m a bit worried about the ingredients inside, but I will know once I eat it.
I munch on the onigiri. It has the sweet taste of rice and the perfect taste of salt.
Could this be a salt onigiri? As I took a bite to check on it, there is nothing inside the onigiri.
「Oh, salt onigiri」
「You found that on your first onigiri, huh」
I’m a little happy since the first onigiri I wanted to eat was a salt onigiri.
Aah, could it be because I was sweating a lot? The moderate salty taste is very delicious. What’s more, it goes well with the unique sweetness of rice.
I feel like the lost salt in me is being replenished.
After eating the onigiri, next is the side dish, karaage.
Even if it was already cool, it didn’t lose its softness and juiciness, the rich meat juice gush out inside my mouth.
That also goes well with onigiri so I eat it together and munch on the onigiri repeatedly.
「I dislike how it’s heavily seasoned so it goes well with the onigiri」
「Hahahaha, as expected, onigiri and kaarage go well with each other, aren’t they!」
Uh-huh, I knew it, you really can’t leave out karaage from onigiri lunch box.
After finishing the karaage and a salt onigiri, next are the side entremets, omelet, broccoli, and cherry tomatoes.
Un, the sweetened omelet is good, and the broccoli and cherry tomato are refreshing inside my mouth.
By the time I finish eating an onigiri, Bartolo has already on his third. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
With such a difference in body size, our eating pace is also completely different.
I also take another onigiri resolutely and eat it.
When I take a mouthful of the onigiri, this time there was beautiful red meat inside.
「It’s salmon this time」
The joy of finding the ingredients like feels kinda relieving. It’s really great.
After swallowing the first mouthful, I eat the salmon and the rice together.
The salty salmon and the rice match really well with each other. Especially the skin that was grilled until it was crispy and gives off a fragrant flavor is the best.
「Aah, onigiri, salmon, omelet, and also karaage........makes want to add miso soup them」
As expected, miso soup would be necessary as the soup with such a line-up of rice, fish, and omelet.
Ah, I want to eat a warm miso soup together with onigiri.
As I’m muttering such a thing as though I’m yearning for it, Bartolo let out a 「Kukuku」and took out something small wrapped in cloth.
「We have them, boy. I knew it would be like this so I brought a miso ball with me!」
「That is, can we add hot water to make miso soup with that?」
「Yeah, the miso contains dried wakame and slices of fish meat. Well, it will still taste somewhat incomplete, but it still has the flavor of miso soup, y’know」
I see, so he uses dried wakame and slices of fish to substitute for the dashi in the miso? Indeed, that will certainly make it kinda incomplete but it should still become an impressive miso soup.
I wonder if the miso ball Bartolo made will be able to make a proper miso soup?
In order to confirm that, I create two bowls using Earth magic.
Then we add the miso ball and pour hot water - made using magic - into those bowls.
The miso ball starts to melt while the bowls are letting out steam. Then I stir it with a spoon made using Earth magic.
After that, an instant miso soup was made, fragrant and gentle aroma of miso wafted in the air.
Bartolo and I nod to each other, then we pick up the bowls.
Then we lightly blow on the bowls and slowly take a sip.
There’s the gentle taste of miso and the flavor of the sea. The dried wakame and slices of fish seemed to do a good job as they further enriched the flavor of the miso soup. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「「Haaa

」」
Bartolo and I slowly exhale and then we take another sip.
Aaah, the warm miso soup permeates my whole body.
I never thought I would be able to have a miso soup at our destination without using Space magic, so I’m feeling deeply emotional right now.
「You did it Bartolo! 」
「It’s because we have you, someone who can make hot water immediately with magic, boy. So I thought that we might be able to make an instant miso soup somehow」
Bartolo proudly laughed as I pat him on his back to show him how happy I am at this.
This is certainly crude compared to the taste of soup stock served at the mansion, but I think this one can be used since the soup stock is good.
「Elna-kaasan and Eleonora-neesan would prefer the flavor of miso to be stronger, but for Nord-tousan and Sylvio-niisan, this one may be preferable for them」
「I see. Then, why don’t I make a miso soup with shrimp or fish bones for the stock to make seafood miso soup!?」
Oh, it looks like Bartolo has realized a new side of miso soup.
Right right, that sounds good. I love soup made with leftover fish ingredients so I would really like you to make it.
「Un un, I think it will taste really good」
「Right!? Yosh, let’s quickly return to the mansion and make it!」
As I wholeheartedly reply to him, Bartolo suddenly stand up and started saying that. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「No, wait Bartolo. That’s not right. We have reached this place after that much trouble so it will be a waste to return immediately. And we haven’t collected the spring water yet」
It might be my fault for stirring him up with my reply, but it hasn’t even been thirty minutes since we got here. There’s still food in our lunch box, so it will be too much for us to leave immediately.
「Uuh, that’s a good point」
「And we will also have time when we get back, so let’s enjoy this leisure time for now」
Bartolo then sat down again while groaning when I told him that.
Maybe the idea of making a seafood miso soup is irresistible for him and he looks somewhat restless.
Bartolo started to wolf down the onigiris as if to relieve his restless feeling.
I sip on the miso soup while eating a salt onigiri and giving him a sidelong glance.
The miso soup with the flavor of the sea melts the onigiri and softly washed it down to the back of my throat.
And then, I refresh my mouth and throat with the cold spring water.
「Haa, it’s calming.....」
There is the sound of flowing spring water around me and the beautiful water surface that spreads out.
The water is very clear and the moss abundantly growing is very colorful.
If you look around you, you can see that the mountains are looking closer than usual, and you can see what seems to be a faint view of Koryatt village.
Eating onigiris while taking in such a beautiful view like this is a kind of luxury. It’s worth the hardship to climb the mountain if you can enjoy such a view.
But, as expected, I don’t have the strength to descend down the mountain so let’s use Psychic on the barrel and get on it on our way back. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
So I decided while staring at the scenery.