Legend

The guards at the harbor's jar call out to the person in front of them, sighing.

"Didn't you say you were going to take down a monster or something? That's why you're getting rid of pirates.

"Well, why not? I'm nowhere to look for a monster, or because I found a pirate ship instead."

The guard exhales again to Ray, who tells him that it's like climbing because the mountain is there.

"Normally, it's not like I can handle a pirate ship by myself."

"I have a partner I can count on. In the first place, Griffon flies freely across the sea and the sky. It's obvious which is better, isn't it?

"Still. Normally, we don't have to be pushed into a difference in numbers to lose... but the pirates get away with it. Well, as a city guard in Emosion, it helps me to capture pirates.... but they're strangely quick to come back. I'm guessing there are some of them in the city."

"I guess. That's why most of you lost your temper instantly, knowing you had no chance of winning by resisting me."

Even against adventurers with the strength to defeat opponents like Rem Race, they just waste their lives. Then you'd better survive as a criminal slave. Or maybe we can somehow get out of here. The guards nod again that they agree with Ray, who tells him that the pirates probably thought about it that way.

"Still, as for the city side, I appreciate that criminal slavery was available. You can sell it at an auction as it is, and even if you can't sell it, it's enough to get you to work in a mine or some other dangerous place. You're welcome on the city side. Look, sign here, please."

I glance lightly at the paperwork given to the guard, but I open my eyes small at the place of the sum to be paid.

Because the amount stated there was nine pieces of money and much more expensive than I expected.

"That's pretty expensive."

"Really? If you think most of that amount is for the ship, I think it's cheaper the other way around. Normally, you need a few pieces of white gold to build a ship that size. It's just, this time, it's a pirate ship, which means the ship's in pretty bad shape, and then it's that amount, including repairs to the place you broke."

"... I see, the price of the ship. But wouldn't it be too cheap to pay for slavery then?

"Well, you want me to take it all in bulk over here. That's what you do when you think about brokerage fees and stuff. Of course, if you were an individual slave trader and would go through the auction process, you could sell more than this amount, even if you didn't have to double it. What do we do?"

Hang both the money and the hassle that comes into the guard's words on the balance and lean towards the hassle in an instant.

Or maybe it would have been different if I had been good at negotiating, but Ray nods lightly, understanding that he doesn't have the talent around him except for intimidation.

It would have been great to have decided to leave the city of Emosion not so far away.

"I don't mind at that price. Handle it that way."

"Okay. See, here's the reward for this one."

That's what I said, a guard who lays nine gold coins on top of each other and offers them on his desk. Ray also stores it in the mistering as soon as he receives it.

"Even so, are you lucky or bad? No, it would be helpful if you could do something about the pirates. Tomorrow, if you can, I want you out of the ocean for a while."

Half a joke, half a guard who would tell me for real, but Ray shakes his head small with a bitter smile.

"My goal is only a monster. But unfortunately, I can't see him for some reason. I'll see how it goes for a few days. I've got a lot to do."

"What do you want to do?

"Kind of a culinary thing. I came to the city of Emosion at the corner, so I want to try some delicious dishes, and I want to try some different dishes."

"... it's unusual for adventurers to cook. Well, fine. Anyway, don't make a scene. There are a lot fewer adventurers out there looking for a rem race, but there are still adventurers who can cause problems again."

"Oh, I know"

Returning briefly to the guard's words, Seto went outside waiting while he fell asleep.

"Hmm, just don't let more stores smell good when it's near evening."

"Grrrrrrrr"

To Ray's words, Seto drops his shoulders snugly.

In any case, there was an overlap between the towing of the pirate ship, the subsequent questioning of the circumstances, and the procedures for the captured pirates, and after all, there was little time for lunch. Though the guards gave me the sandwich, the bread was dry and could not be compared to what I would eat in the store. As for Ray, I could have eaten the dishes that were inside the mysteries, but there was no reason for me to just eat them in front of the guards who were busy working, and I couldn't help but be patient with the unsavory sandwiches.

As far as Ceto goes, although some of the people who work in the harbor knew about Ceto gave him dried meat and sandwiches, Ceto with a body length of more than 2 m could not be enough, and the sound of his stomach coming from earlier can also be heard by Ray walking beside him.

"...... grrr"

I go to the nearby stall, remembering that I am equally hungry to the ringing Seto.

"Welcome to. Oh, Ray. You want something to eat?

The stall owner, who was grilling a large number of fish and squid, greets one and one with a grin.

"Right, one silver coin, please, appropriately....... hmm? Wait. Could that be..."

Ray unexpectedly opens his eyes when he sees an object on the grill. There are eight legs and a suction cup is present on those legs. The only part of my leg that is burned, but it was obvious what that was.

"Octopus?"

"Hmm? Oh, this is it? Some people don't eat in some parts of the country, but don't eat that much around here. I feel pretty bad when I see the whole thing, but I guarantee the taste.... No, do you also know the whole thing that you know the name. Can we get this in, too?

"Ah, oh. Please."

Nodding, I smile unexpectedly as I watch my octopus feet get in the plate.

(Takoyaki... maybe you can. We don't have any monsters in the ocean anyway, so why don't we make them around tomorrow?

I thought so on the inside, but soon I came up with something and shook my head small.

(No, you can't because you don't have a taco iron plate. If you're going to cook an octopus, do you have to make it from a blacksmith or something? Blacksmith, if you say so, there's an arm-written blacksmith, why don't you go around tomorrow? No, originally, if it works, it means money.)

"Look, this is for one silver coin.... What's going on? Just shut up."

"No, it's been a long time since I've seen an octopus. I've bought a lot of seafood before, but I didn't sell it anywhere."

"There's a guy who can't just look, so there won't be a lot of lines in the store. Ask the clerk if it's in person and he'll sell it."

"Do they hate you so much? Anyway, I know how to buy it, it helps.... Isn't that a little too much?

The fish and shellfish on the plates handed over exceeded the amount of one silver coin, no matter what. Amount of silver coins for about 2 pieces.

But the shopkeeper smiles and opens his mouth to such Ray's words.

"As the inhabitants of the city of Emosion, it's a sign of gratitude.

"I've already received enough gratitude. They bought it at a higher price for the rem lace material."

"That's okay. It's in my favor, so shut up and take it."

"... sorry, thanks"

"Heh, if you told me that, I'd go crazy. Fine, just eat. The grill is the best freshly baked dish. Look, Seto's minute."

To the store owner's words, to the other plate that was given to him, Ray moves the seafood that had become a pile on his plate.

"Grrrrrrrrrr"

Seto eats the fish given to him in front of him, eats shrimp and crab as is without peeling the shell, and also chews every shell out with regard to shellfish.

……

Ray also chews on the fish on the plate, beside the shopkeeper, who has a stark look on his face like that. Naturally, there can't be anything like forks, knives, or chopsticks, but it's a clue. I know it would be hot and untouched if it were meant to be, but Ray scrapes himself clean off the fish bones without worrying about it at all. Peel the crab or shrimp shell and carry it to your mouth; from the shell, take yourself out using a wooden skewer and transport it to your mouth.

It's not like I'm ever messing around with dirt. Still, Ray and Seto are well behaved to eat here for what little lunch they could have had, but quickly put the seafood on the plate in their bellies.

Large quantities of grilled seafood on plates about 50 cm in diameter were eaten up by one person and one without taking 15 minutes.

"Ah, welcome home. I heard you, Mr. Ray. He said he caught a pirate."

"Oh, somehow. Thanks to you, I was able to earn a good extra income."

"Really? Then we'll have a little extravaganza for dinner today? I don't know if it's because of Ray's defeat of the Rem Race, but for some reason, he doesn't see any monsters in the ocean. The fishermen will be delighted. So I'm gonna give you a little service today."

As soon as he entered Bihai's Coral Pavilion, Ray leaned his neck small and opened his teasing mouth, so voiced by his billboard daughter.

"I know there aren't any monsters, but are there fish or something?

"Yeah, they don't have a problem with that one for some reason. No, they were pretty big fish."

"... heh. Sometimes it's strange. Well, anyway, I'll certainly feed you about dinner. You can eat as many delicious dishes as you want. And if you can, make it a little extravagant for Seto."

"Yeah, I'll take care of it"

On the way back to the inn, Ray went to the dining room on the first floor without making him feel it, even though a few servings had eaten a seafood grill.

In the end, the dinner that day will be served more lavish dishes than usual, as the Inn's daughter said, and she will eat it up until she is satisfied.

"Octopus? No, well, I do... you like it too"

The day after he caught the pirate, Ray was coming with Seto to the main street of the city of Emosion. I was using the money I received yesterday about the pirates to buy seafood, starting with octopus.

The amount that Ray has already bought and fished for seafood since he came to the city of Emosion is about a few pieces of gold. Still, as for Ray, it doesn't change that the base is the city of Gilm, so I've decided to buy as much as I can at this time, and I'm not aware that I'm wasting money on him.

Most of all, I guess that's only because Ray has mysteries. Normally, even if I shop in large quantities, I let them rot.

"And..."

So stop the words and think inside about the food you need to cook.

(Takoyaki, okonomiyaki, you need stock. But...)

I look at the products arranged in the store, but only seafood, starting with fish, is on there, and there is no seaweed, starting with kelp.

"You don't sell seaweed or anything?

"What? Seagrass? There's no way you're selling that stuff, is there?

"... what?

Ray unwittingly asks back to the store owner's words.

The expression was stunningly open, and it was such an expression that it was incredible that seaweed like kelp and walnuts were not sold here.

Ray himself did not know that countries with a culture of eating seaweed in the first place are overwhelmingly few even on Earth. Few, if any, countries eat seaweed outside of Japan. I guess that was the same as Elgin. Even for the merchant in front of him, it seems that seaweed is the only way to handle seagrass.

"Uh, well. Okay. You said you couldn't."

"Whoa, if anything happens again, drop by."

Ray is sent to the store owner and leaves the store with Seto as it is. However, the face is difficult to frown upon.

(Shit. I didn't think Kelp or anything was for sale. When that happens, I will not be able to take the stock, so I can cook the octopus without the stock... Oh, can't I even make the okonomiyaki? I normally sell yam only in Harbor Street... so I shouldn't make a takoyaki or okonomiyaki for now? Or with meat stock...... taco grill or stock with meat for okonomiyaki? Well, just give it a try. However, in that case, you should stop bothering to have the iron plate for the octopus grill made at the blacksmith. If you can't, you're going to die. It's a okonomiyaki that can be made with regular iron plates without fitting)

He gathered his thoughts inside and walked around the market again in search of people who might let him use iron plates and ingredients that could be used for okonomiyaki.