Rice for Enoch’s Second Expeditionary Unit

I'm heading to the conference room alone this morning.

I've never done anything like this before, so I was thrilled.

"Pancake no daughters ye, lette!

Once you've cemented your decision to go alone, the album will follow you later.

I had no choice, so I decided to wrap it around my neck and take you.

"Today ha, what sini ikno?

"It's a meeting to improve our food supply."

They say the Expeditionary Force's food is too muddy and the knights' morale is down. So you called out to me to develop new food for soldiers?

Until now, it looks like I've ordered it from a dedicated workshop.

Oh, my God, they haven't changed their recipes for soldier food in nearly two centuries.

Why hasn't it improved before?

Maybe there was a giving up sentiment that troop food was bad and normal.

Still, I get nervous.

I hear it's the deputy captain class of each unit that's in the meeting. Is it okay for a peacekeeper like me to join us?

And, where he was causing anxiety, he saw an album eating cookies at the edge of his sight.

"Ah, Album! On my shoulder, don't eat cookies. Cookie scum will fall."

"Cookie no Kuzha, Atode picked up the food Belcara is fine!

"That's not the problem!

Something made me weak when I was talking to Album.

I feel like I'm relieved of tension, too.

"All right!"

I got in the mood and went inside the conference room.

◇ ◇ ◇

"This is Mel Lislis, who will support this food improvement project."

The Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force gave me a polite introduction.

In front of you, the deputy captains of the expedition are sitting around the roundtable.

Is he in his mid-thirties or maybe in his forties?

He's a senior knight, and I guess he's about this age when it comes to deputy captains.

The Second Expeditionary Corps is young as the captain is twenty, so maybe not too old Lieutenant Berley was promoted.

At the end of the introduction I smiled, which would be pulling, and said, "Thank you very much," and bowed my head.

When I tried to get to my seat, Album raised his hand and started introducing himself on his own.

"Album chandayo!"

The uncles of the Knights had a lot of reactions, some surprised by the fairies they would see for the first time, and some seriously interviewed them.

Thanks to the album, I felt the tight air in the conference room was somewhat soothing.

"Okay, let's start"

Placed on the round table are the currently employed soldiers' foods.

For starters, a catapan that is so hard that it seems like it will have missing teeth. It is opened for tasting.

I tried to include it in my mouth, but it's very unlikely to chew it up. It looks like a stone.

"Pancake no Daughter Ye, Here, Food Be Janaiyoo"

The album treats it as not an ingredient.

No one tried to touch the catapult except me and the album.

This was followed by powdered juice. It seems to have a woody apple flavour and a woody flavour.

Once in a while, try dissolving it in water.

"... hmm?

I mix the water around with a spoon, but the powder won't dissolve for long.

"Um, this isn't dissolved in hot water, is it?"

"Oh. For once, it should be made to dissolve in water"

"I see."

Until the end, the powder never dissolved completely.

I've tried it, but it's thin and tastes a little like medicine.

He also had a sip of album, but said, 'Powdered!!' He shouted and had a rugged look on his face.

The third item is cheese. This, too, is as hard as stone as catapane.

Cut it apart with a knife and try it.

"... Something is bothering me about the sandy jarriness"

"Oishikuna ~ i"

Others followed in brick-like chocolate, dried meat like they were chewing towels, olivier oil marinated with git fish, capsicum sausage and an unfortunate tasting of soldier food.

─ ─ Absolutely, it's not good.

I can't believe the other expeditions were eating these while on duty. I'm so sorry.

"Um, how long is this, uh, shelf life?

"About a month."

I can't believe it's so bad, it only lasts a month.

The knights, who had put food in front of them, hung up. I'm sure the memories of when I was eating these are coming back to life like a running lantern.

"Eh, I brought the food I was taking on the expedition,"

In special dried meats, dried vegetables, olivier oil marinated two shells, fluffy natural yeast bread, whether made of rice, crackers, caramel, sweet-boiled chestnuts, etc.

I arranged it on a round table with the Zlari and had it tasted.

Place two shellfish olivier oil pickles on bread cut into large bites and serve to the captain in chief.

"Go ahead."

"Uhm."

Pacri and I eat it in one bite. I was thrilled to stare, and a grin appeared on the captain's mouth.

"This is... good!! The two shellfish are prickly and the bread is fragrant. Is this really the food for soldiers?

"Yes, they can all be saved for about three months."

"Oh my God!"

I've also made the recipe, so I'll hand it to the Captain General.

"Hmm...... all, great. Really, can we hire these in the Knights? Not for free, of course."

Oh, my God, that sounds like a reward for my recipe.

"Pay one gold coin per recipe"

"Huh!?

When it comes to a piece of gold, it's my half month's salary.

Can I get that much? I'm confused, but the Captain General tells me to tell him.

"If you refuse, next time, we will make improvements to the food supply, and those who think about it will not be rewarded. The track record of rewarding you is important."

"Ah... yes, right? Okay."

"Thank you."

All the soldier food I brought on the tasting was well received. For some reason, though I was in the tasting until the album.

After that, the recipe will go to the workshop and a prototype will be done for product development, he said.

They'll have some arrangements in place to mass produce.

I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of food will be produced.