Rice for Enoch’s Second Expeditionary Unit

How did this happen?

The bandits in front of me - no, I think looking at the face of the Knights.

This is deep in the woods. So I was even hunting demons. This is the mission of our Enoch II Expeditionary Force.

"Okay, now how many did you kill?

The captain asks Deputy Berley.

"Twenty Captain Ludtink, seven I, eleven Gal, five Vulgas"

"At this rate, it won't be over tomorrow. Hey, Wild Rabbit, keep track of the numbers."

A big man with a mustache commands me.

That other guy is not the head of a bandit... but the captain of Enoch II Expeditionary Force.

Ha and exhaled a great deal, he wrote down the number on the notebook of the demon crusade count and went.

"Rabbit, don't be ridiculous."

"It's Mel, not a wild rabbit. My family name is Lislis."

"Though it must be a wild rabbit"

That said, Captain Ludtink plays my long ear with his fingertips.

"Gaa! Stop it!

Look at me reluctantly, but laugh haha.

You perverted bandit, what the fuck! I can desperately admire the fact that I'm about to scream. For once, because they're bosses.

Still, I think he's an insensitive man. I had heard that the long, pointed ear, a characteristic of Fore Elf, had a collection of nerves.

This has become an organ developed to live in the woods, not to be taunted. You can sense signs of beasts and demons and also hear distant sounds.

"Long ears are a testament to rabbits"

"No! My name is Fore Elf!

I stare at Giroli, but I'm not scared at all. I regret it too much.

Captain Ludtink pounds my head and turns back on his heels.

I'll pay you back one day. My heart was burning with melameras.

Why does Fore Elf, who lives in a settlement deep in the forest, belong to the Knights? That's because our family is big and poor.

The other day, I was told to dissolve my engagement by someone who had promised to marry me for the purpose of connecting the house to the house.

The reason is due to our crying poverty and my instrumentality and lack of magic.

Yes, I didn't even look stubborn in the Fore Elves, called [beautiful forest fairies], and the magic was a tease. Besides, I don't like hunting.

Basically, it's a man's job to hunt pigs and other big men, but women go get rabbits and birds and trinket prey. All day long, you can't go hunting and hold your prey, and it's not uncommon to leave a cage full of herbs.

There was no way in hell I could have gotten a daughter-in-law because of those circumstances, which were generally unfortunate to me.

The triple suffering of poverty, clumsiness and powerlessness. There's plenty to spare.

Luckily, my sisters were adorable. Though it may be an internal desire.

Good hunting and high magic. So I just want to do something about poverty for you. I thought so and came to King's Capital to earn money.

I thought I was good at cooking, laundry, cleaning, etc. so I would soon find a place to work, etc. but I had a huge struggle unexpectedly.

Anything, they don't hire people without references to well-paid noble mansions. I didn't know.

Even if I'm interviewed by a restaurant, if I look at my horrible ears, they refuse.

My kind aunt taught me that she has the impression that a creature called Elf has high self-esteem and is difficult to handle as a worker.

Even though that's not true.

Often, elves don't come down to people. I'm sure it was just the weirdos who would do it.

I resent my ancestor Elf for planting a strange impression.

The kind aunt introduced me to a suitable place to work. It was the Knights of the Kingdom, Enoch.

It accepts any race there and gives them equal jobs. Besides, the pay is high.

I went to the interview and exam with joy and courage.

I was also good at calculations, so I believed that I could get the clerical department to turn it around.

Yet, the first unit assigned was the Enoch II Expeditionary Force, a unit with only four headmen.

Such an unhappiness. My position is as a health guard. Folle Elf, but desperately insisted I couldn't use restorative magic, but I just said I had a little knowledge of herbs, and I was assigned to a hell of a unit.

Expeditionary units are dispatched to various locations to carry out demonic crusades, disaster relief, etc.

I figured out it was a job that had to be across the horse for a long time, and I jerked off.

I didn't like riding horses either.

Plus, I was surprised by the people I assigned to.

The captain, Crowe Ludtink, had a big enough body to look up at, a grey dark mustache covering the contours of his face, a glittering purple eye, and was a man like the head of a bandit. It bears an incredible sword on its back, and the atmosphere of a knight is devoid of shards. "I'm a bandit," he said, standing up enough to give it back.

The deputy captain, Mr. Berley, is a young woman, a short-haired, blue-eyed, skinny double-swordsman. He treated me personally, having just come to the Wang capital.

Seventeen or eighteen, or young Urgas, the same age as me, reminded me of a dog that was nostalgic and I used to have.

And the last one, an ageless and oligarchy Mr. Gull, is an animal man with a wolf's head, whose body is bigger than that of a bandit captain. The red furrows are beautiful and here again I remember the dog I had at my parents' house.

I was taken on an expedition with no job description.

Today's assignment is to crusade a mass outbreak of demons in a forest not far from the Wang capital.

I was ordered to cross a horse whose luggage was hung, and I was handed a new helmet, like a large pot, to the bandit captain. That's too big for my head.

"Keep this on and tremble by the edge during battle, wild rabbit"

"Ha!?

Captain Bandit pointed to my long, pointed ear and called me a wild rabbit.

I thought I would never forgive you.

The only thing that surprised me was the appearance of a row with a bandit look.

Captain Bandit, who manipulates the Great Sword, is incredibly strong and breaks the demon.

Lieutenant Berley, a double-swordsman, slipped a blade around his neck to dance, making sure he was finished.

Look at the gap, young knight Urgas releases an arrow. It pierced the demon's brain.

Mr. Gull, the werewolf beast, strikes one blow at a time, skewering the demon. Even though he's a big body, he seems to be able to move quickly.

They are definitely, I guess, a few elite. They are knights of proven strength.

But after the battle, it only looks like a bandit looking back in bloody blood.

Something more like this, like a knight, I wanted the carcass to be cut even crossed like a gentleman before.

Instead, I keep my prayers to God.

"Hey, Wild Rabbit, don't do that."

The bandit's head is calling. I replied out loud.

Like that, I was on assignment with the face of Enoch II Expeditionary Force, not with these bandits.

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In the end, the demon crusade took place until evening.

Night travel is about danger, and they're going camping today.

Of course I've never been in Nojuku.

Make firewood and set it on fire.

I couldn't eat lunch because I saw too many demon wrecks. I think I can have dinner because my stomach is ringing from earlier.

"Look, Lislis, the health guard"

"Oh, thank you"

Lieutenant Berley gave me bread and dried meat. Then, too, the water in the leather bag.

I pray to God and decide to have it.

Let's start with dried meat.

................................. Yeah, I can't bite it off. Besides, it doesn't taste good at all. I said, the flavour of the ingredients is dead. I want to ask the person who made it how this happened.

In front of you, Captain Ludtink is Balimsha! And he was about to chew a thousand pieces of dried meat lavishly.

A bandit.

I whine in my heart about that sentiment, and now I whine bread.

……………… I want to be hard. The stone that's rolling around. And sour. Hardness, too, but I'm sorry about the taste. Hey, this, I can't eat it.

Even so, I was eating bread, with Captain Ludtink baring in front of me. I don't think the texture is flaky or anything like bread.

Seeing how he chews it flat, I thought this guy was going to be able to eat tiles and stuff normally too.

Water, I wonder. Is there a herb in it? I feel a little rough. I guess I'm letting you in for some reason. More than that.

"Whew!!"

Fall to the ground and scream.

I was hungry. I want to eat, but I can't. Express such thoughts with a shout.

"Squirrel, are you okay?"

"Daisy..."

A Urgasian youth peeks in with a worried face.

Wang Du's preserved food, too unsavory. Awful, this is not it.

An arrow tip that was on the verge of despair, the smell of a certain herb plunders the tip of my nose.

"Hmm?"

It was in my sight. I pulled it out.

"It's the herb garlic!

It is a herb that is flavored with soup or something. When I bought it at the store, it was plain expensive, so I always picked it up in the woods. I'm going to take it back to the knight's dorm and dry it and save it.

When I was obsessed and pulling through petite, I discovered a nice ingredient near it.

"Ah, pepper mushrooms!

It's mushrooms that taste like pepper. You don't have to season it, just fry it and it's delicious.

Take this to dinner! Though I thought so, pepper mushrooms alone are spicy. I usually eat with bread.

Delicious even for soup. But there are no cookware here.

Spicy mushrooms, hard dried meat, hard bread. Too bad ingredients.

I am stunned again.

"Hey, wild rabbit, if you're too hard to eat, you can boil it and sprinkle it"

"Ah!!

With that one word from the captain, I flicker.

I take the helmet out of the saddle of the horse that had been lowered, shaped like the pot that was given to me today. If you pour the water, it won't even leak.

It is brand new, so I washed it lightly and placed it on top of the fire.

"Hey, wild rabbit, what are you doing?"

"Now we're making soup!

When I heard the story about how to flush it with hot water, I came up with it. He said that hard bread and dried meat should be soup.

Pour water into the helmet you are heating.

Next, remove the knife and sip the bread or dried meat. But...

"Grrrrr, grrrr!

Stiff and uncut. I brought you the most cuttable knife in the house, what do you mean?

"Hey, lend it to me"

From side to side, my hands are pounding. It was Captain Ludtink's hand.

He cut the bread and dried meat I was struggling to cut into a thousand large bites at my fingertips.

"Wow, wow. Thank you."

I will gratefully receive it and put it in my helmet.

When each boiled, the medicinal garlic and pepper mushrooms were added with a knife sharpened.

Next door, Mr. Gull is making his nose crack.

Lieutenant Berley looked at it with a strange face.

"Wow, it smells good"

"Do you also eat Urgas?

"Is that okay?

"Yes."

The soup I made full of big helmets is a good amount, so I can't eat it alone.

I'm relieved to have someone to help me.

A few minutes later, the soup was finished.

The colour of the soup is cloudy and the dried meat floats in dubious shades, but if you care, you lose.

Finally, it's in the meal! Though I thought so, I get a scratch from Deputy Berley.

"Squirrel, do you have a spoon or something?

"Ah!"

Yes. I don't have a spoon, which is important for eating soup.

I can't believe you can't eat that soup when it's finished.

If I held my head in shock, Mr. Gull, who has been gone for a while, offers me something.

It's thicker leaves than my face and elongated tree branches.

Urgas tells me.

"Oh, that, leaves that always drink water!

"Hmm?

If you ask me, they were drinking water and stuff round this thick leaf. They seem to consist of thick, strong fibers, and they don't even dazzle in the water.

Here, understand Mr. Gull's intentions.

"Oh, I see!

I cut the leaves into small pieces, round and conical, and stab the tree branches on top. This completes the simple spoon.

Because of this, I make it for the number of people. If you like, I handed it out.

"So, would you like one!

Name it, bandit-style soup of forest grace!

Cover with a handmade spoon, sip.

"Ah, delicious!

Unexpectedly, good stock comes out of dried meat. It looks bad, but tastes good.

Others told me it was delicious.

That stiff bread was also fuzzy. I inhale the soup and it's easier to eat. The dried meat is also tender, and the fat melts. No smell of meat thanks to the medicinal garlic and spicy thanks to the pepper mushrooms. It looks array, but delicious. I guess dried meat is a unique kind. Normally, it doesn't soften this far. Must be livestock.

"Captain, if you like."

"No... eat the wild rabbit. You must be hungry."

I wonder what it is. You think you're friendly to bandit habits?

You look like a robber, a plunderer, but I thought it was surprising.

"Thank you. But just one bite, please."

I felt bad eating some warm soup just for ourselves, so I gave it to my mouth with a spoon.

For a moment, the head of a bandit who rounds his eyes. Not, Captain Ludtink.

I thought you didn't want it, tried to pull it in, but he drank it as it was.

"What do you say?

"Normally delicious"

"Good. Do you still want to go?

"No, I don't want it."

"Seems so."

Now, there's no more guilt. Don't hesitate, I'll have some soup.

In this way, the first day of service of Enoch II Expeditionary Force passes.

- No, I don't normally sleep in Nojuku or anything!

Oh, the stars in the night sky are beautiful. (Reality escapes)