To be precise, it was time to make breakfast. How about making my favourite Japanese breakfast dish?
Naturally, I would not shortchange my familiars. Letâs have a nice full-course Japanese breakfast!
Todayâs menus would be:
â Miso Soup with Potatoes & Onions (harvested from Albanâs field)
â A Sweet & Spicy Meaty Tamagoyaki made with minced Cockatrice meat
(Itâs like making a meaty omelette, just beat cooked minced meat into the egg and roll it up as usual)
â Beef Shigureni or Simmered Dungeon Beef with Ginger
â Rice Balls with Bonito Flakes
â Pickled Eggplant
â Pickled Cucumber
Oh, and thereâs tea for anyone who wants it.
Fer and Grandpa Gon froze in place at the sight of this beautiful breakfast. They must be very impressed.
KukukuâŚ
[1]
âWhat happened to the m-meat?â
âWhat do you mean?â I asked innocently. âItâs in the Tamagoyaki and look, isnât this beef a pure meat dish?â
âT-tiny!! The bowl is too tiny!!â
I swear, Fer actually shrieked.
âMaster, arenât the portionsâŚâ
âHmm, eat if you like, you can have seconds too, you know?â I said, beaming over my set tray of Japanese breakfast set, complete with a reasonable one-person portion of Beef Shigureni.
âKuuuhhâŚâ
âUmuâŚâ
Breakfast happened under the same bitter silence.
Heh, I could continue this you know? I wonât stop giving you the promised three meals a day, but nothing states that I have to give you a stupid amount of meat for every single meal. Furthermore, thereâs plenty of meat in the food I gave you. Lots of university students would cry tears of gratitude and joy for this, you know?!
However, if you two apologise to me, I may consider stopping. Not that I expect an apology from these two titans of power. The concept of apologising to the weak probably doesnât exist for them.
If thatâs the case, please continue to enjoy the Limited Edition â Mostly Vegetarian Meals, courtesy of Mukouda.
For lunch, I decided to go with [2] Krapao Rice.
Naturally, itâs Krapao Rice with plenty of vegetables.
As a side dish, hmm, since Iâm serving a Southeast Asian main dish, letâs go with a Vietnamese Salad Roll stuffed with crab-flavoured fishcake.
First order of business, purchase ingredients such as rice paper for the spring rolls, oyster sauce, basil leaves, nampla sauce, the crab-flavoured fishcake and some sweet chilli sauce.
Once I have gathered my ingredients, it was time to cook.
Letâs get started on the Krapao Rice.
First chop the onions, carrots, eggplants, and green peppers into 1cm cubes. Next, finely mince the garlic and chop the Hawkâs Claw Chilli into rings.
Heat the frying pan with some oil and stir-fry the chopped onion and chilli (I used fewer chillies since Sui is sensitive to spicy food). Fry until everything is fragrant.
Next, add the garlic. Once the garlic has browned a little, add the minced Dungeon Pork and Dungeon Beef. Fry until the meat had browned and is a little crisped up before adding the carrots. When the carrots have cooked through somewhat, add the eggplant and green pepper, and continue frying.
When everything has more or less cooked through, stir in the fish sauce and oyster sauce that had been pre-mixed in a bowl.
The finishing touch for Krapao was a few torn-up basil leaves.
Serve the Krapao on a bowl of rice with a sunny-side-up egg on top.
After prearranging several bowls of rice, Krapao and egg, I put the Krapao Rice away in my [Item Box] and got started on the Spring Rolls.
To make the spring rolls, first, tear the lettuce into appropriate sizes. Cut the carrots and cucumber into thin strips. The Crab-flavoured fishcakes I bought were the size of wieners so I could put about one and a half sticks into each spring roll.
To assemble, first, dip the rice paper in warm water, quickly take it out and place it on a flat surface. Arrange the vegetables and fishcake close to the bottom half of the rice paper and quickly roll it up before the rice paper dries. Cut the Spring Rolls in half and arranged them nicely on a plate. Garnish with sweet chilli sauce and more lettuce.
âFufufu, yes, yes, green is indeed beautiful~â
Now, shall I show everyone my masterpiece~?
âEveryone~ Lunch is ready~~â
âŚâŚâŚâŚâŚ..
âŚâŚâŚ
âŚ.
âPu~ kukukuku~â
I know it was bad form of me to laugh, but remembering the look on Fer and Granda Gonâs faces was just-
âPuh hah! Hahaha!â
-the way their eyes and mouths popped open and going âm-meatâ and âwhere m-meatâ was just too pathetic. It was as though their entire world had ended. It was despair! I had just witnessed pure despair and misery on the titanâs face!
Ah, but after three meals of mostly vegetable dishes, even Sui and Dora-chan were saying something like âI want meat, meatâ. Hmm. Well, I was determined to stay strong when Fer suddenly said.
âIâm sorry.â
âEh?â
âIndeed, please accept our apologies.â
â⌠do you even know what youâre sorry for?â
âUhh,â
âUmumu..?â
âHaaahhh, never mind. Itâs fine. Iâll forgive you this time,â
âThenâŚâ
ââŚmeat?â
âYes, yes, Iâll serve you guys plenty of meat for dinner tonight,â after all, as annoying as those two were, they were still my main income earner. I would not be in this position without them. I should grill them some High Ranking Dungeon Beef and Gigantic Minotaur Steaks.
Ah, speaking of which, since itâs still early in the afternoon, letâs have a look and see whether the Uranus monster meat are readyâŚ
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When I reached the Adventurerâs Guild, Willem-san rushed past me in a hurry.
â⌠âŚ?â
âAh, Mukouda-san, please go straight to the warehouse, Johan will handle your business for you!â then, with a final wave, he disappearedâŚ
Oh, right, he had to go to the Royal Capital soon. Right. Thus, I made my way to the warehouse where Johan-san greeted me with an âOi, youâre hereâ.
âYes, the Guild Master asked me to come here.â
âOu, hold on a minute, Iâll give you the breakdown.â
âNo, meat first,â Fer said.
âAh, but-â
âMeat.â
âUmâŚâ
âMeat.â
Great, now Grandpa Gon had joined him too. I sighed and said, âJust bring out the meat.â
âAhem, well, ah, we have dismantled a Cockatrice, a Rockbird, an OrcâŚâ
Chomp.
Nom.
âOi! Why are you eating them raw!?â
âMeat.â
âMeat.â
âOi, you two, if you eat too much now, youâll spoil your appetite for later.â
âMuu, why canât I eat it?â
âItâs raw!â
âRaw is fine.â
âIndeed, it is fine for me too,â
â⌠so you donât want dinner?â
âGunununuâŚâ
âNuuâŚâ
Taking pity on them. I cut a bit more of the raw meat and tossed it to them. âOkay, fine. Have a bit more first, but Iâm telling you now, itâs best you donât overeat so that you can enjoy dinner better, okay?â
ââWhat are we eating tonight?ââ asked Dora-chan.
âIâll be making steaks, all kinds of thick and juicy steaks~â
âOOooohhhhâŚâ
Eww, the drooling was disgusting, but at least they had stopped eating my raw ingredients.
âAhem, Mukouda-san? We still have a few moreâŚâ
âAh, yes? Alright,â I followed after Johan-san who led me to a different cooling room.
I diligently put all the meat away into my [Item Box].
âThis is the last one,â said Johan-san as he wheeled in a⌠rather conspicuous-looking piece of meat.
âItâs the Giant Mimic Frog.â
â⌠yes, I could tellâŚâ how could I not? The meat was still in the shape of a frogâŚ
âTo be fair, it would be great if we could buy this one,â Johan-san said wistfully. âThe quality of meat is the highest I had ever seen, Iâm sure people would be scrambling to buy it.â
This grotesque frog-shaped thing?
I was just on the verge of telling Johan-san to just take it away when Grandpa Gon said, âThatâs one of my favourites, Master. I look forward to seeing how you would improve it.â
Kuuhh⌠is that a challenge? If thatâs the case, I have no choice but to take it. I placed the Giant Mimic Frog into my [Item Box] with a stiff face.
âRight, now that all the meat has been put away, let me explain the material breakdown. First, thereâsâŚâ
I did try to pay attention, but Johan-sanâs explanation was so detailed that I more or less blanked out for most of it.
â⌠the total comes to 3610 gold.â
I blinked, finally coming back to myself.
âWow, thatâs⌠thatâs quite a lot, isnât it?â
Johan-san laughed, âThatâs mostly because you brought in beasts from Uranus. Anyway, Iâve prepared platinum and large gold coins as well. Please confirm.â
I confirmed the amount in the sack.
âMy, my, life is definitely more interesting with you around, my brother. Bring something interesting next time too, eh?â
âI shall endeavour to do so, but perhaps in moderation. Otherwise, the hair that Willem-san has so painstakingly grown on his head will fall out.â
âBwahahahaha! Thereâs that too!â
âSee you again.â
âOu!â
Now that I have collected both meat and money, it was time to return home.
Time to cook the promised steaks for my gluttonous familiars~!
[Gumihou: Hmm, deleted the entire âyay, we go home, steakâ scene, because it made the ending draggy.]
[1] Adjust breakfast making scene, and adjust the text so that the menu looks like⌠a menu. Scrap the narrative style for something more dramatic. And, yes, I put in the âKukukuâŚâ too, lol.
[2] Krapao Rice or Pad Krapao â Thai Holy Basil Stir-Fry on Rice