Legend

Ugh... that sounds from Ray's stomach.

Of course not. The scent is now violent enough to stimulate appetite from inside the house.

I don't have to think about what the scent is.

The smell of roasted beef Ray gave to the marina earlier.

There are currently several dishes lined up on the table when Ray came back, but no one has done it yet.

That's why even Bune, so greedy that he can't beat Ray in terms of appetite, hasn't reached out to the dishes on the table.

Fortunately, all the dishes on the table feel like salads or lightly picked dishes, and over time, the taste is not like extremes.

When I waited... at first everyone was talking, including Ray, and Seth and Yellow were playing away from the table, but the fragrance that drifted out of the house naturally disappeared with words, and Seth and Yellow grew up.

How much time has passed?

That's why if you try to lay it down, you'll feel it in minutes, tens of minutes... on the contrary, for hours.

It's actually strong enough.

After that time, the marina eventually shows up with multiple plates.

... yes, take him with you.

Behind the marina are several plates.

It is not difficult to imagine how Marina is doing it, given that she is an amazing Spirit Wizard.

"Please wait. As Ray told me, I baked it with salt, pepper and some other spices."

That's how the plates are placed on the table.

Whose plate was it?

In fact, the beef on the plate placed in front of Ray was about the size of a kilo or more for sure.

Nevertheless, there was on the plate placed before Seth nearly three kilograms of meat, and on the plate were other faces five hundred grams over certain meat.

Considering that, Ray's meat is not the only one that is extremely high.

Everyone seemed to be interested in the meat in front of them.

The cooking marina also sits in an empty spot and the meal begins.

Everyone first reached out for beef steak, as a matter of course.

Originally, they would eat steak after eating salad or soup instead of appetizers, but it was only natural that everyone would try to eat steak first, as long as they continued to endure the aroma that stimulated appetite.

Cut the beef with a knife....

Oh?

Looking at the cross section, Ray was surprised.

More than a kilo of meat.

If you're going to bake that much meat, it's going to take a long time to bake.

Rare... or even closer to raw, blue-rare or blue, but especially blue, is about a few seconds of baking on the surface of the meat.

Some of them are called loaf... they're not baked, and that's what raw meat looks like, but if you think of it as steak, it's out of the question.

There was a way to bake such steaks, but even though the meat in front of Ray was fairly thick, it was medium-rare.

Normally, I don't think I can bake this much meat.

No, a professional cook might be able to cook, but a marina is not like a steak maker.

Nevertheless, the meat in front of me was a favorite of rays.

Happy, Ray smiled surprisingly and threw the cut meat into her mouth.

The first thing that spreads into my mouth is the fragrance of spices that I think I used when I baked the meat. Next, you feel the salt shaken by the meat, and when you chew the meat, the roasted aroma and gravy of the meat overflows from the meat.

Not only that, but also the feeling of the meat can be easily bitten off.

"Delicious"

The only word that came out of Ray's mouth.

When I eat really delicious food, I don't hear any bad compliments.

Once you've finished eating your first sip, Ray's belly once again brings more meat and makes a strong self-assertion that you will eat this meat.

Ray slices the meat again and carries it to his mouth, prompted by intense insistence on his stomach.

It's still delicious.

With such an impression, Ray tastes the time of bliss.

Everyone but Ray carries a steak into their mouth while saying a word or two about what they think.

Then, beware, everyone was obsessed with steak.

It's no exception to Ray who brought the meat, or the marina who actually baked the steak.

... no, in the case of Ninrorai, I cooked it myself once - I just baked it properly - but I've only eaten it before, and the deliciousness of this meat was beyond my imagination.

Why is the taste so different even though it is the same cooking method?

Ray has such doubts for a moment, but it disappears lightly before the deliciousness of the steak.

Tasting the steak in front of you is more important than that right now.

In fact, if you have any cooking tricks, then it's never a bad idea because when Ray cooks at camp, he can cook better than ever before.

Nevertheless, since Marina is a member of Ray's party, there is no problem if we leave the cooking to Marina.

While thinking about that in the corner of his head, Ray focuses on tasting the steak.

However, even if it is a large chunk of meat, of course, if you eat it, the amount will decrease as you eat it.

Ray wanted to enjoy the time to keep eating this meat forever, but he couldn't possibly imitate it with hate.

Then I noticed that there was light gravy left on the plate in front of Ray, and everything else disappeared into Ray's belly.

Everyone but Ray ate the steak in front of him.

It was delicious.

Once again, everyone agrees with Vihera's murmuring.

However, Marina laughed and opened her mouth to Vihera.

"You don't want this?

That's what I was pointing to, the bread on the table, which was ready at some point.

It's not that it's freshly baked, but it's white bread that seems soft enough to understand just by looking at it.

What do you use the bread for?

It's obvious from the gravy left on the plate.

But... obviously, people other than the marina have questions about whether bread and gravy go together.

Eating soup on bread is quite well known, and when eating baked bread so that it is well preserved, there is a way to make the soup suck and soften before eating.

However, it is only a soup, and if you imitate it with gravy, it will cause heartburn.

Alternatively, if there is some kind of sauce on the steak, this time it is simply shaken with salt and pepper or a light spice at Ray's request, so naturally there is no kind of sauce.

That's why you think you're going to have a heartburn.

But Marina takes the bread while the others look at her.

Then wipe the gravy on the plate with bread and carry it to your mouth.

"Ahh... it's delicious."

It's a word from the heart coming out of Marina's mouth.

I understand that you're saying that because you think it's really delicious, not to deceive me in any way.

If you look at the marina like that, you don't think it's a lie.

Other facets, such as Ray, also wipe the gravy with bread and carry it to the mouth, just like the marina.

"This is...."

Ray speaks of surprise.

Of course, compared to the previous steak, the taste is inferior.

However, the bread sucked on the gravy and the salt and spices left on the plate allowed me to enjoy a different flavor from the steak.

I thought it might be enough to cause heartburn just by sucking on the gravy, but even if it's gravy, it's not so persistent... if you say so, it's absorbed into the ray so lightly that the expression Sarari is appropriate.

What do you think?

"... delicious"

Marina smiles satisfactorily at the delicious words from Ray's mouth.

Others also had a satisfying look after eating such bread.

(After eating the pot, I tighten it with rice cooker, udon noodles and ramen, but in that sense, eating gravy beautifully with this bread is the tightening of this steak?... well, if you do this with normal meat, you'll definitely have a heartburn.)

This kind of imitation is only possible because it is this meat... and because it is the meat of a cow monster on the side of the Magic Forest.

In that sense, it is subtle whether or not to call it quite a special dish.

"If you still want something to eat, eat the food on the table. The meat Ray gave me is a little too good for food, so I'm worried about cooking."

Some people look sad at Marina's words.

Because it was such delicious meat, I would have liked to eat another dish if I could... Of course, that's why I wanted to eat a dish with beef as its main ingredient.

In fact, Ray was one of those people who thought so.

However, when I look at Marina, I understand that it seems difficult to ask her to cook a new dish.

(Meat? Salt grilled... and then buried in the dirt, then burned on top of it... Beggar grilled? I think it would be interesting if I tried cooking like that.)

As Ray, I think about cooking a lot, but it's not that easy.

After everyone had finished eating steak and remembering the taste of the meat, Vihera eventually opened her mouth.

"So, when are you going to the Devil's Forest?

The words made sense to Ray.

No, I thought I'd say something like that if it were Vihera, but I didn't think I'd say it sooner...

Of course, Ray wouldn't object to going to the Devil's Forest again.

On the contrary, I definitely want to go to the Devil's Forest because there are still many unknown monsters that Ray and Seth don't know.

However, although I had such thoughts, I could not simultaneously go immediately.

"In the meantime, you can't go to the Devil's Forest until the festival is over. That's where I'm announced to pass the promotion exam."

What happens if Ray doesn't show up for the promotion exam at the festival?

It will definitely be a disturbance.

On the contrary, it would even be like mud on the face of the Dusker who planned the festival.

As for Ray, I didn't want to imitate the festival if there was some irresistible reason, but if there was no such reason.

I think that's better.

Vihera said so lightly that those who had heard were surprised at others besides Ray.

That's why, given Vihera's character, she thought she wanted to go to the Devil's Forest right away.

You must have noticed that you were being looked at like that.

Open your mouth as if you were dissatisfied.

"Oh, something strange happened? I'll tell you what, I'm thinking a little bit about it, too. And... you can't see the body of a crystal dragon until the festival opens, can you?

Is that the reason?

Perhaps Ray wasn't the only one who thought that.

"If that's what Vihera says, it would be helpful to me.... so, did you decide exactly when to do the festival?

Since it was in a few days, it is not strange that the festival will take place tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Originally, it takes time to prepare for the festival.

That's why, in some cases, months or so.

When Ray was an elementary school student, elementary school students from the area where he lived gathered to prepare for Tanabata.

Practice whistles and drums, to be precise.

After dinner, you'll gather in the park from about 7: 00 p.m. to 8: 00 p.m. to practice, and when you're done, you'll get ice cream at the nearby confectionery shop.

Actually, it was paid for by the town.

It was also very memorable for Ray that elementary school students gathered together at night to make noise.

When she remembers such exercises, Marina opens her mouth.

"This festival is in a hurry... that's not tomorrow, but it won't be until the day after tomorrow, right? Ray is the star of the festival in a way, so maybe he'll tell you."

According to Marina, Ray thought she would go to the lord's house tomorrow.