Me, Adventurer! - Undoubled Skills Are Flat Magic (WEB Version)
Episode 153 - Rest of the Adventurers
We've been working a little too hard lately. It's not Japan in a previous life tied to time and rules, and we need to have more room in our lives. Fortunately, on this expedition, we were able to offer tons of treasures from both Nolan and Jerkin. We could afford the money, so we can afford the time next.
"So we're going on a long vacation for the next month!
"Long vacation, is it?
"Yes. I've been working here a lot, but if I work a lot, I have to take a lot of rest. Take the rest of the day off."
The company I worked for in my previous life had a system called 'refresher leave' where I could take a holiday that came together after one project. So let's refresh our minds and bodies in preparation for our next job. Actually, I'm just collectively getting the transfer of the holiday attendance that accumulated in the last push of the project. It's a common deception in black companies, to say the least.
Associate Baron Faith (of which) has been pulling everyone around for a while without a break, so I need to give him a long break for that. We're not a black company.
"Um, we're fired, right?
Basil asks with a crying face. Sarasa and Kirara are also anxious faces behind it. Only Lily looks up at Basil with a Kyoton face.
Oh, speaking of which, is' getting free 'a far-fetched expression of' getting fired '? Did I make a mistake?
"No, no, it's just a really long time off. Don't worry, I'll pay you properly. Even so, I need you to maintain the mansion, so I'd like one or both of you to stay and take turns."
When I explain, the basils exhale in relief with a relieved face. Lily is a face that I still don't quite understand.
These unaccompanied children have no place but here. Always fighting the fear of 'I don't know when I'll be dumped'. As a guardian, I need to be careful what I say and do to make you feel such anxiety. An eight-year-old is no longer a guardian.
"Um, I don't care if you're off or told. Do you work like that?
"It was like we were on a sightseeing trip here for a while."
"Ugh, yeah. I could taste all kinds of land dishes."
"Uh-oh! Samara's salt grilled, that was delicious!
"... had fun"
Oh? As far as I'm concerned, I was in the mood for a long business trip, and it seems like everyone was having a lot of fun. You had a fight, but your liver's unexpectedly thick.
"Oh, normal journeys are tougher, aren't they? Always next to danger, you can't even afford to see the view. Whether it's a big ship or a voyage, you'll be frightened by pirate attacks."
"Let it go. Never mind the demons or the pirates. Yeah, I never imagined flying over the mountains looking down at the clouds."
"... that was a spectacular view"
Hmm, you mean when you went to Jerkin, or when you sent Mr. Aristotle to the realm? Well, normally, it would be an uncomfortable trip in a rocking carriage or ship, frightened by demons, bandits and pirates. It would be hard to say comfortable.
In that regard, our journey was by boat or unwavering planar carriage ride. Demons, bandits, pirates, they were coming from us. Compared to the general journey, it could have been quite comfortable.
"I left my luggage on the ship, so I didn't have any difficulty unloading or loading it. I've bought a lot of stuff from that land, and I think it's been an incredibly easy trip, you know?
"Ugh, for that matter, the baggage was a huge amount when I got back."
"That was all carried by the boy, too. Atai isn't tired at all."
Luca and Samantha were buying in things like clothes, cloths, and dry goods that were only available on the land they stopped by. There was a good amount of it, but it was a ship, so I had no problem throwing it in the barn.
Besides, Jerkin also got an array (...) and a sole (...). If you think this will enrich your diet, it's not in vain at all.
"Besides, it was almost Master Beat who fought strong opponents, and our opponents were just untrained humans and weak demons. Honestly, he wasn't our enemy."
"Wasn't Noran's Three Sects So-so strong?
"Oh ho ho! Who hasn't suffered one scratch? It's" Guess what "!
Hmm. Kristela doesn't look good with high laughter. I figured I'd have it rolled vertically? But now that the Villain Warrant flag is broken.
There were wizards in the face of Nolan's three sects, but it seemed like they lacked actors for the Cristellas. Thanks to the wizards in my body and I've been training you for a long time? Everyone seems to be getting stronger than I think. I hope the world doesn't have a stronger wizard, too.
Whatever you proclaim, you will do everything in your power to take time off. Easy or hard, work is work. If I work, I'll have to pay for it. Give everyone a penny and a rest, and we're going on an early summer vacation.
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"Ah, as I thought, it's comfortable here."
The next day.
Although it was only in the morning that I went out for a walk with Woo, I haven't been particularly since, and now after noon I'm here to see how John in the dungeon is in the back of the Great Forest.
It's early summer now in season, but it's already mid-summer heat in the south, near Dorton and the Great Forest. It's by the sea, so there's wind, but that's not the level where you can delude yourself. Besides, the heat is getting tougher from now on. In mid-summer August, it is not uncommon for temperatures to exceed forty degrees with physical sensation. I've been working in the north lately, and this heat is pretty hard.
That's John in the dungeon.
The dungeon I taemed is divided into two areas. It's a dungeon-like underground space with demons and traps and a living space for us to live in as a stronghold in the Great Forest.
This living space is made through one of the rocky mountains dotted in the Great Forest. I mean, it's an artificial cave. A cave is not much of a change in temperature throughout the year, and in most cases temperatures are lower than in the outside world. I mean, it's cool all year round.
Moreover, the ceilings and walls of this residential area are strewn with pipes, which serve as conduits for the flow of groundwater that gushed when making this place. This is helping to keep the temperature even lower and constant.
I think the temperature right now is about 30 degrees or more in the outside world, but I think this residential area is probably about 25 degrees. I don't have a thermometer, so it's not accurate, but there's a difference in temperature between the senses. The humidity is not so high because the climate is dry and it is super comfortable around here.
"Huh. You won't want to go out there. I'm so comfortable with the four of you I left in the hall. Wow."
"Really. I want to live here all the time. Wow."
"Oh, this is a big forest full of demons."
"I don't have a problem with meat."
"I hope you bought potatoes and vegetables in the city. Let's live here during the holidays!
"... hiccups"
Sit back on the stone bench that John made for you and everyone says what they think. No, Daisy and Anya are tummy asleep pressing their cheeks against the floor. Woo also sleeps on his back near it. Everybody's gonna chill out, right?
After all, there's no point in the allowance and rest I gave you, and everyone's following me.
"No, I don't have anything I want, and I don't have anywhere to go to play. Honestly, I don't know what to do."
Well, you don't have anything to do with it? Hmm... think about it, that might be it.
Dorton is a pretty big city in this world, home to nearly 100,000 people. So there are also pleasure streets and downtown areas depending on their size. However, they are mostly for men. There are not many facilities for women, but there are quite a few. Its few facilities for women are also full of sweet spots and clothing stores, not like going everyday.
In the first place, if Luca and Samantha's sisters were there, they wouldn't have to go there. Luca's cooking arm has been muscled since she was a billboard daughter at the inn, and Samantha's clothes are bespoke to suit everyone's needs perfectly. Both are definitely of higher quality than bought at the store.
Travel, a common use of leisure time in Japan, is also life-threatening in this world. I don't even have to go out of my way to do anything dangerous for the holidays. Well, since we're all wizards, I don't think it's even as threatening as a common demon or bandit.
"Right. Atai is going to make clothes out of the cloth he bought in, but Cool Coco will make better progress."
"I'm going to do some cooking research on the ingredients I bought, but I've never used them before, so I need advice from Master Beat."
"Oh, 'rice' and 'soy', huh? There's no ingredient around here."
Yes, I discovered it when I was roughing up the jerkins! "Rice" and "Beans" were obtained! Moreover, rice is a short grain species similar to Japanese rice, and soybeans are round soybeans with slightly smaller grains.
Whatever, you think Croix, the Jerkin's Crown Prince, was making progress with cultivation and varietal improvements as part of his plan to increase food production? They took the rice and soybeans from the crushed Jerkin military base. I haven't done a lot of things, Clois. It's you, but this is the only good job. Maybe I just wanted to eat driven by the grief of my previous life.
I'm not that thoughtful of rice, but if there is, it's the mood that makes me want to eat it. Let me try to make the most of it. Move to the kitchen quickly.
Since rice was in the state of brown rice with bran, we have to start with precision rice. But do you put brown rice in a bottle and poke it with a round stick ahead? I was doing it on a variety show of some agricultural idols saying that you take bran by rubbing rice against each other. But you said it would take a lot of time by hand. But it's okay, this is the time for planar magic.
Only bowl-shaped containers with a double diameter of about a meter were prepared. The inner container has countless empty meshes with smaller holes of less than one millimeter. The outer container was slightly longitudinal and the bottom flattened to ensure stability.
Add brown rice up to about half of this container and cover the bottom half of the container with an inward whirlpool (Vortex) field.
"Oh, you've started turning around on your own. It's kind of weird."
"Now if you let it go for a while, the rice around you will come off and it will turn white."
Brown rice gathered in the center rubbing with the effect of a whirlpool field is flattened by gravity and scattered outward again. Repeat that, and gradually the rice candy takes off.
The rice plume removed from the brown rice falls from the hole in the container to the outer container. This rice noodle should have been used for dishwashing and pickling. I've heard stories about how you should mix them with fishing bait. It's a lot of use stuff, so I need to take it without throwing it away.
"... strange move"
"Uh-huh. Go ahead and look good."
Daisy, Anya and Woo are coming and peeking into the container placed on the floor wondering about the sound of the rice being rubbed together. Woo puts her neck around from time to time is cute like a dog from some acoustic manufacturer.
"I think we're in a state where we can eat by evening. I'll see you then."
"Yes. Until then, you're studying other ingredients."
Apparently, it's going to be a lot of first time making dinner today. I'm a little nervous, but I trust Luca's arm. It will surely be a pleasant dinner.
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Before evening, Daisy and Anya were still peeking into the container when we went to see how the rice was. It's a corner break, okay? So?