Ascendance of a Bookworm

At the end of the spring feast, the winter social world is over. The nobles return to their respective lands, and those who live in the aristocratic city begin their normal work. Then I return to the temple to perform the winter mitzvah and the spring baptism ceremony in the lower city.

"According to regular plans, Rosemaine will be back in the temple soon, right?

I looked lightly at my adoptive father, who had also begun to eat with me and was talking about his plans for the future at the dinner table, which had become a little busy. As usual, my adoptive father's words are not wrong. But we can't go home to the temple that easy this year. I have not had my most important promises fulfilled.

"I can't go back yet"

"What's up, Rosemaine? Anything wrong?

Is something wrong? Very important things have been forgotten. I pointed my lips softly.

"When will my adoptive father teach my cook how to prepare fish dishes? I've been waiting ever since I got back from the House of Lords."

When I returned from the House of Lords, we talked about it, but the day is already approaching when I will return to the Temple. It's a big deal. When I complained, my adoptive father struck me as if he had finally noticed.

"Oh, you did. Then contact Ferdinand and tell him to bring in the ingredients. As soon as the cook receives the ingredients, let him know to cook the traditional dishes of Arlensbach."

"I'm afraid so."

I hold my fist under the table, responding with a nikoli and aristocratic grin.

... I'm here! Coming, coming! Hiccup! Fish! I can finally eat!

It is not the muddy fish of the dirty river of Aerenfest, but the fish of the sea of Aerensbach that can be eaten. Is it the first fish dish in years? I can't help but raise the tension.

Had I not thanked Aurelia for bringing it in from Arlensbach, I was just relieved. How can I give Aurelia a taste of fish dishes?

"My adoptive father, the ingredients Ferdinand manages, were brought in by Aurelia to snub the flavors of her hometown when she was dowry. I, too, would like to feed her Arlensbach dishes. Lamprecht told me he misses the taste of his hometown. May I invite you to dinner seats for the day when fish dishes line up?

My adoptive father turned his gaze to the father who stood behind me, thinking a little about my question.

"... Hmm. If Aurelia is coming, we must increase the number of escorts or decide with Lamprecht whether to invite the Kalsted family, but the invitation itself is fine"

Seeing me rejoicing that I had done, with permission, my adoptive mother called me in a gentle voice, "Rosemaine".

"Even if Aurelia misses the taste of her hometown, I don't know if she's fit to come here. Check with Lamprecht and Elvira before you send out the invitations."

That's what my adoptive mother said worryingly as she lay low on the word "pregnant".

Indeed, if Aurelia is in a state of weight and suffering from obstruction, it will be hard to come to the castle no matter how much you want to eat. While I am ill, I may not be able to taste the food because of it while I am concerned about my surroundings. Even Aurelia doesn't want to go where people gather. Yet, if I send out a formal invitation, I shall be forced to attend.

... I'd like Aurelia to have some traditional Arlensbach dishes as well somehow.

"Brother Wilfried, may I borrow a little lamprecht? I'd like to talk to you about Aurelia."

"Oh, I don't mind."

On my way back to my room after dinner, I was given time to talk to Brother Lamprecht with permission from Wilfried. In the private room of the main building closest to the northern detachment, I confront Brother Lamprecht as my family. Brother Cornelius, who was attached as my escort, also softened his expression a little.

"Brother Lamprecht, how's Aurelia doing? Looking to be able to invite you to the castle for some traditional Arlensbach cuisine?

Brother Lamprecht put his arms around my question and roared "hmm".

"I find it difficult for Aurelia to come to the castle. I hear that I can't even eat a lot now. If it's an invitation from Rosemayne, the Lord's adopted daughter, it's an invitation that we can't refuse, so it would help if you didn't send it out."

My brother Lamprecht just told me that Aurelia's pregnancy life looks tough. He's sick, he can't move much, and he seems to have a life of throwing up or sleeping. Kamil, it's not like my pregnant mother can't move, she was often sick, and she seemed to feel sick all the time.

"Besides, if you're going to eat at the castle, I don't think you want to take off the vale."

... Oh, that's tough.

I remember Aurelia, always wearing a veil, and I saw Brother Lamprecht.

"I've never seen one, but Brother Lamprecht is looking at Aurelia, who took the vale off, isn't he?

To my question, Brother Lamprecht starts laughing small after keeping an eye on him for once.

"It would be natural. I rarely wear it in my own room. That's why I don't want to cause any more misunderstandings about my relationship with Arlensbach at Aerenfest. When I was in the House of Lords, I didn't do Vale."

Aurelia was a knight apprentice, so I am told that I have trouble lecturing with the vale on, and I am convinced. I was wondering how the hell Brother Lamprecht got along with Aurelia with the vale on it, but it didn't seem to be attached in the House of Lords.

"I think Aurelia will continue to wear the vale until she has a better relationship with Arlensbach. It's basically cowardice."

"I saw you behind your mother in the social world, and it felt that way somehow"

After thinking a lot about Aurelia, I decided to use the magic equipment that stops time to get her to carry hot dishes. Originally, Aurelia was supposed to bring her dishes using magic equipment so she could eat them when she wanted to. Just use it the way it should be.

"That's why, on the day of eating the traditional dishes of Arlensbach, I want Brother Lamprecht to bring me the magic equipment to stop time for Aurelia."

"Thank you for thinking so much for Aurelia, Rosemaine. Aurelia will be delighted."

When I suggested, Brother Lamprecht grinned with joy and stroked my head.

"When that happens, no invitations..."

If we were to bring food to Aurelia, we would no longer have to invite the Calsteads to dinner parties either. Apparently he was expecting Arlensbach's cooking. Brother Cornelius pounded my cheek silently with a slightly dissatisfied look on his face.

After finishing his conversation with Brother Lamprecht, he returned to his room, and I quickly sent Ordonanz to the Cleric Chief to contact him. "Bring the fish as they teach you the traditional cuisine of Arlensbach," he said. The sheriff replied, "Okay," so I went to bed in peace, but by the time I woke up, the fish had already been brought into the castle.

When I heard from Richarda at breakfast, I thanked her at Ordonanz and said, "I was surprised that the Cleric Chief acted faster than I expected. Master Ferdinand is looking forward to the fish, too," he sent.

The chief cleric said, "I wasn't looking forward to anything else. We need a lot of magic, so we should use it as soon as possible and to return you to the temple as soon as possible" replied.

But he says he's staying at the castle all day to work, so I'm pretty sure he's looking forward to fish dishes.

I ask you to show the fish to the clergyman who has come to train in the same way when I am lightly exercising in the knight's training ground.

"What kind of fish is it? Let me see, Master Ferdinand."

"Norberto has given instructions and has been transported into the kitchen for some time. I'm coming out to dinner tonight, so give it up."

There is no way a noble lady can enter the kitchen or anything like that. I could not see the actual fish, and I waited only for dinner in my chamber. To be honest, it's boring, but today is the day that Hugo and Ella are taught by court cooks how to handle the ingredients underneath. If I may add, I'm supposed to cook traditional Arlensbach dishes for Aurelia.

... not that you can make a lot of things out of my taste, and for today, patience, patience.

"Nevertheless, it is rare for Ferdinand to interact with the training of knights rather than helping his adoptive father with his work"

"... it's just a change of mood"

For just a change of mood, it looks pretty serious mode training. My uncle and brother Eckhardt are happily dealing with him, and he looks like Angelica has made a huge crossing.

"I do the usual gymnastics here with Dermuel, so Angelica can cross over there. It would be a rare opportunity."

"Dear Rosemaine, thank you. I know!

Angelica leaves with a very good smile to say so and at a windy speed. I do radio gymnastics, take a break. I took a light exercise and took a break, as usual.

After I return from training, I ask the kitchen to contact me to leave some ingredients so I can take them home to the temple, and I will try to write down the recipes that I remember. You should think of it as a western-style dish that can be made here.

I also like to put it in fish marinade, carpaccio, oil pickled, vanilla grilled, muniel, soups like aquapazza and bouillabaisse, fritters, fried white fish and gratin. I don't know if it's something I can eat raw, so I don't know which of them I can use when I think of it, but just thinking about fish dishes makes my mind jump.

... but what I most want to eat is a simple salt grill, right? The one who put a cross cut in the surface, waved salt, and baked it.

If you cook the fish, the skin will have salt floating white, scorched, and crisp. If you gently retreat from the skin with the chopsticks, the hot air will flutter up. Indulge in the smell of fish coming up together, squeezing sour citrus fruit juice into your mouth. Cooked white rice or dry sake would be perfect.

... I'm not old enough to drink now though.

Thinking about fish dishes, I'm just hungry remembering a bunch of dishes I was eating during Reino.

If I had soy sauce, I would have thought about stewing fish, but there would just be no soy sauce that I would be satisfied with. Maybe Arlensbach has something like fish soy, but I don't recognize that as soy sauce.

And then came the time for dinner, which I was looking forward to. I leave the room with a broom and head to the dining room with all my siblings.

"Today's dinner is a traditional Arlensbach dish made with ingredients brought to Aerenfest by Aurelia. I can't help but look forward to eating for the first time."

"Is that Arlensbach food? I used to eat sometimes. My aunt loved you."

That's what Wilfried said with a look he seemed to miss. Raised by Veronica, Vilfleet apparently used to eat traditional Arlensbach dishes at an early age. "What kind of food is it?" And when I asked him as I rode myself out of the Lesser Bus, Melchior, who was walking next door, turned his eyes round.

"Does Sister Rosemaine love new dishes and treats?

Charlotte laughs couscous at Merhior's words.

"Melchior, your sister created all that fashion because she wanted to eat good food and sweets. Eating traditional dishes from today's Arlensbach could create another new fashion"

"I'm looking forward to it because I've never eaten it either"

The ingredients have naturally stopped coming, too, as they have come to restrict Arlensbach's interaction with the nobles. It would also be due to Veronica's capture and the disappearance of anyone ordering traditional dishes from Arlensbach.

Melchior doesn't seem to remember eating the traditional dishes of Arlensbach, and Charlotte seems to only eat to the extent that he somehow remembers them.

"This is Zambelzuppe. It's a soup of Arlensbach fish simmered with pome and herbs."

Coming out after a familiar appetizer was a bouillabaisse soup with no seafood and only fish in it. The bouillabaisse looks red, but is simmered in yellow pome, so it looks quite different. However, if I think it is fish pome soup, I think the taste will probably resemble a bouillabaisse.

And I spooned with excitement, and carried the soup into my mouth. And take a bite, put the spoon down. I lost all my strength in my body.

... I haven't eaten in a while. Traditional Jürgenschmitt soup. I'm disappointed!

It is made with Jürgenschmidt's traditional method of cooking, which is to simmer the ingredients until they are crusty and discard all the broth stuffed with yummy once, so there is no fish yummy at all. A soup with boiled fish fillets floating around that doesn't taste good or pomegranate at all. That was Zambelzuppe. For what I expected was high, it's very hard.

... of precious fish, an important yummy has been shed. Yummy, cum back!

Even though Aurelia is so precious because she only has fish for what she brings in, it is likely that this way of being cooked can be a haunting that I come out with "waste".

"Hmm, did it taste like this?

"The usual soup tastes better."

Everyone I'm eating with looks delicate. Zambelzuppe, who let the yummy escape, didn't seem to fit well into the tongue of everyone who got used to the usual soup that locked the yummy in a gummy way.

"This is Ficken."

What I saw was Muniel, a white fish whose butter smells appetizing. Maybe this is also a dish that is boiled down and has no umami at all? And I thrilled, and put a knife in Ficken, and carried it into my mouth.

"… tastes like fish, I will"

The surface of the crunchy baked fish is firmly entangled with butter. I also found that the taste of butter that spreads in my mouth contains garlic-like ligas. The fish doesn't seem to be putting too much fire through it, and it collapses hollow in its mouth. If you chew it, it does taste like fish in the thick butter and it makes me so happy that I want to cry over the taste of sea fish I miss too much.

... really fish. It's not a weird ingredient, it's not a muddy flavor, it's a fish I wanted to eat.

Taste slowly one bite at a time and indulge in the taste of precious fish. What I'm eating is an extremely normal muniel that tastes like white fish fillets, covers them with flour, and bakes them in butter. Muniel, which was common in the Reino period, although Riga is in flavoring, is not far from the Muniel I know. Back then, it would have been a feeling of "normal flavor that's not good, and that's not good enough to say this".

But now being "normal" is more important than anything else. Unlike the soup that simmers and poises the umami, it tastes good. It tastes like fish properly.

... Fish! It's been too long, fish!

It's not muddy, it's not difficult to eat, it's usually a delicious sea fish to eat. It is a tear.

...... Aurelia, thanks! You are my goddess of the sea, Fairfulemaire!

I finished eating Ficken, thanking Aurelia. Muniel was delicious in Muniel, but I'd like a salt roast if I could.

"It's good with smaller fillets. Could you salt this fish and serve it with citrus fruit juice?

"Yes, sir."

It was, for some reason, a lemon-flavored muniel that came out before me waiting in a groan. The salt works as ordered, the thickness of the butter is erased with citrus fruit juice, the freshness is refreshing, and the taste is better than that of Muniel earlier.

But this is not what I wanted to eat. Simple, I really wanted a salt grill just baked in salt.

But you can't complain to a court cook on this occasion. If you suck, the cook will freak out. I guess my instructions were bad. Instructions are communicated to the cook via many people, so I had to explain them in more detail and without mistake.

... Ha, you wanted a salt grill.

Still satisfied with the fish dish for a long time. Unlike me, who smiles, the clergyman who has carried ingredients is a very beautiful making laugh. That's the face when you're very unhappy or unpleasant. You don't think the magic and flavor you needed for your magic equipment that stops effort and time is commensurate.

"You're leaving me the ingredients, aren't you? Ask my cook to put the leftover ingredients in the magic kit that will stop time again."

"Rosemaine, what are you going to do with the ingredients in the magic kit?

When I asked Lieselator to send a message to the cooks, the chief priest in charge of magic deepened the grin of making laughter. Behind my smile, I can see that I'm angry that I don't let you use extra effort.

Apparently he noticed that the clergyman's smile was a little awesome. Compare me with the clergyman, as Wilfried and Charlotte harried.

"I'd like to do a little more research on fish dishes at the temple."

The temple is still freer than the castle. Plus, it's easy to give instructions to cooks. The castle is not suitable for developing new flavors. Still, there was no change in the chief cleric's dissatisfied face.

"The soup I told you about is like taking stock with pork or bird gallows, and the fish can drink good soup if you take the stock properly. I sincerely want to eat Zambelzuppe better."

I'm not saying I'm extravagant that Soup de Poisson wants a drink. It can be aquapazure or bouillabaisse. I just want to eat something that's supposed to taste good.

"You're called a book, you're called a cook or a treat, you're incredibly greedy for what you want"

That's what the chief cleric said with a frightened face. It is something I do not want to be told by a clergyman who is surprisingly greedy for beautiful consomme and magic equipment research. But with the making laughter gone, he seemed a little interested in culinary research.

He didn't tell me not to take it back to the temple, so I tell the reseller what I want him to take home with the fish fillets that have finished the down-treatment.

"Be sure to tell them not to forget to include the fish 'alla' with them"

"Dear Rosemaine, can I make a mistake in Ala? What would that be?

Lieselator leaning her neck wonderfully as she quietly listened to the instructions to the cook. Once I turned my gaze to the clergyman of creation and laughter, I laughed nicely.

"It's the part that hits the bird's gala, and you need it to get stock with fish. If you put it that way, you'll tell my cook what part he needs."

"Yes, sir."

The reseller quietly heads to the kitchen without footsteps. Seeing its back, I deepened my determination to eat good fish dishes.

By the way, Zambelzuppe was not enough for us, but he was very pleased with Aurelia, who was hungry for the taste of his hometown. They couldn't eat buttery Ficken no matter how good it was, so maybe it was a good idea not to have a totally yummy escaped taste.