Transition to Another World, Landmines Included

Since we bought the house, Haruka, Natsuki and Yuki have been in charge of preparing the meals.

There was talk about whether Toya and I should do it too, but once we made it and ate it, we were unanimously appointed as cleanup officers.

I can't solve it... nothing. Literally, because it was unanimous "..." including me.

It's not like I can't cook at all, either, but that's what I'm talking about in Japan.

A spoonful of the ingredients in the soup will create a delicious soup, and you can cook authentically by simply mixing ingredients with the combined seasoning and sautéing. It is in such an environment.

If I had at least a curry loo or a sauce of grilled meat, I could have been in charge once in a while.

These two, by the way, are a versatile condiment that personally ranks pretty high.

It's the same with the Hulkas that they don't have enough seasoning, but they have different original cooking skills there.

They make bouillons and consommées so that they can dry the fish and get the stock "dashi" and feed them delicious dishes every day.

After such a delicious breakfast today, we were having tea for the holidays.

"Phew. It was delicious today. Thank you, Natsuki."

"I'm sorry, sir."

To thank Natsuki for making breakfast, she puts the teacup she had in her hand on the table and smiles nicely.

"But isn't it hard to cook this much every day? This is gonna take a while, okay?

Today's breakfast is freshly baked bread in vegetable soup, thickly chopped bacon-like meat and fruit.

A little clueless if it's Japan? Breakfast that feels like, but it would be pretty hard to make this here.

"It's not so. The base bouillon, consommé, is made in bulk with the Hulkas and stored in a magic bag."

"Bacon is also homemade for once. You don't have to worry about rotting, so it's a good idea to plant large quantities."

Apparently Yuki had the timber chips split from the carpenter Simon's place and smoked the oak meat salt to make it.

"Well done, but is there room for improvement in the amount of salt and herbal formula?

"No, it's pretty good, huh? Hey, Toya?

"Right. Smoking smells strong and juicy compared to the bacon I know. Something fancy?

"Really? I think it's because the meat itself is good... But good."

Yuki loosens her cheeks like a whoop to me and Toya's sentiments.

It's the first time I've ever made it and it tastes like that, seriously awesome. Thanks to your skills?

"Hey, can't you make a wiener?

"Uh-huh, I wonder if that would be difficult without the machine to make the mince and the tools to stuff it in my bowels..."

To Toya's request, Yuki shakes her head like she's in trouble.

Wieners, like bacon, seem to know only how to make them, but without dedicated tools, they're hard to make.

I haven't had a wiener in a long time either, but I haven't seen it since I got here, so it's possible it doesn't exist. Then I'm not even selling tools...... should I also look at making them?

"By the way, the bread person also has a few days' worth of stuff in an example magic bag that ended up in a secondary fermentation, so they actually just bake it. I don't have an oven. It's a little troublesome."

"Oh, that's what that magic bag was for"

Not long ago, Hulka asked me to make a magic bag using a wooden box instead of a cloth bag, which does not include any space expansion or lightening functions, but makes it a special object that I did everything I could to delay the time only.

I heard of 'storing groceries in the kitchen', but with that magic bag, even bread after secondary fermentation would be preserveable in that state for about a few months.

"I mean, wouldn't it be nice to keep freshly baked bread in, even if it wasn't after the secondary fermentation?

"That's... if you ask me, yeah, maybe?

It was Hulka who opened his mouth to deny my words, but he interrupted the words along the way and twisted his neck.

"It almost stops time, so you can also keep the freshly baked..."

"Why did you want to put it in a secondary fermentation state in the first place?

"Ordinary bread is stored frozen at the primary fermentation and molding stage or just a little baked. Then I could just get it out of the freezer and put it in the oven, and I could easily eat freshly baked bread... and then the idea was pulled,"

"It's box-shaped, and it looks like a fridge"

From that image, did you go in the direction of freezer, frozen food?

When it comes to long-term preservation at home in Japan, it's frozen, so I know the idea of Hulka well.

"On second thought, this magic bag - no, it's box-shaped and I'd say it's a repository. With this, you don't have to cook meals every day to eat freshly."

"It's a little clueless, but it'll also save you firewood" maki, "isn't it bad?

"That's good. If you keep a lot of stock, if we're hungry, it's easy to eat, right?

It takes a lot of work to put in hot water and eat a warm meal in this world where there is no three-minute instant food.

But that hassle can be solved once and for all if there is a repository (named Natsuki). There's almost no need to worry about the consumption deadline.

Of course, it's only because someone cooks for me, though.

"You're more convenient than a fridge...... don't you need to make it?

"Oh, Hulka, were you planning on building a fridge?

"Yeah. It was at Mr. Aella's, wasn't it? I was wondering if that would be useful..."

Aela's refrigerator?

That was just for business, big enough for me to hold a few people, but smaller things are prevalent for home use... not really.

Only magic props are expensive to mess with, and even small objects are not a substitute for reaching ordinary people.

It's not a price you can't buy if it's us, but as for Hulka, who could use alchemy, he seemed to plan on making his own.

"No, a repository would suffice if you just think about preserving it, except for the function of 'chilling'"

"Right. Even if you want something cold, Harka's the only one who can magically cool it, right? Nao might be able to figure it out if he works hard... but he can't do it now, can he?

"Oops, no water magic level one."

If you raise it to about level 2 or 3, you'll be able to cool it too, but you haven't mastered the water magic itself, so it's a story before that.

There are also ways to pack it in a bottle, let Hulka cool it down once, and then put it in the reservoir, but since there is no cooling function, it becomes warm and "soaked" every time it is removed, and it will take a lot of work on Hulka each time.

"Right, you should have an easy-to-use fridge and freezer, right? Yeah. So, I figured I'd go fix up the lab facilities today, what do you say?

As for Hulka, he wants to take this opportunity to buy and collect alchemy-related tools that were difficult to collect in his inn life and make some magic props.

One of them is the refrigerator, and he seems to be thinking of a few other things that will make life more convenient, such as clocks and magic tools to boil the bath.

By the way, if it's Hulka, you can magically serve warm water, but if it's a full bath tub, it's probably tough to use all the magic of Hulka because you can't chase and cook it even if you rely on it alone, and it consumes a lot of magic compared to just serving water.

"There's no reason to disagree when they say bath."

"Whoa. We're gonna put out some trouble and support you, okay?

As a matter of course, it's me and Toya who are motivated by Russia.

Thanks to Purificate, there was just no need, but the innkeeper saved money without even wiping his body with hot water.

That keeps it clean, but it's getting a little chilly in season, and I have quite a desire to soak it slowly in warm water.

And that seemed the same for Yuki and the others, nodding deeply.

"I have no reason to disagree either."

"Me, too, but I want to finally equip my pharmacy. I know it's functionally more expensive to make potions out of alchemy, because if you put [pharmacy] up too, it might help something."

Generally classified as alchemy when magic is used to make medicines, or pharmacy when not used.

The effect is that the medicines made in alchemy are higher, but the field of alchemy includes not only medicines but also magic props, which is why there are fewer types of medicines being studied than pharmacy.

In addition, because medicines made by alchemy are expensive, medicines used by the common people will be medicines made by pharmacy unless there is more to it.

In our case, you can make it in your body, so it doesn't matter around there, but it would be well worth asking Natsuki to raise the level of [pharmacy], given the illness when the alchemy drug doesn't exist.

"Shall we set the lab up with alchemy and pharmacy for now? Anything else you need?

"The blacksmith..."

Such Toya's remarks were dismissed by Hulka.

"I can't do that. I can't put the furnace down, so give it up. If you really want to say it, you're going to make a separation... do it?

"In the first place, if they gunned down metal in the same building, you'd be loud, whatever. There's no sound protection."

"Uh-huh, that's right. It's like a hobby, and I was wondering if I'd do a field blacksmith?

Unfortunately for a little while, you convinced me of my words, and that's what Toya said and nodded.

However, even if they do field blacksmiths in the garden, they seem loud, so if they do, I want them to be surrounded by sturdy walls before they do it. With dirt magic, it won't be that hard.

"I wish I had one room for sewing, don't I?

"That's good. What you need is a big table."

It was Natsuki who immediately nodded at Yuki's suggestion.

Recently, our clothing relies on the [sewing] skills of the women, so there's no denying it to us.

"Well, you can knit anywhere, but it would be useful to have a large table for cutting cloth. Well, let's buy that too."

Speaking of which, recently, all three of them were knitting something with Chimatima in their free time.

Can I hope for a moment? It's getting a little cold, and I might be more than happy to get a sweater or something from a girl than practical.

No, I've already had the clothes themselves made many times, but the sweater feels a little special, doesn't it? This feeling, a man would surely agree.

If you're too bad, you'll have trouble handling it the other way around, but these three won't have to worry about that.... Well, I didn't decide to get it.

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The purchase of all kinds of tools was divided into three people, Haruka, Natsuki and Toya, and me and Yuki.

Hulka and the others buy tools such as alchemy and medicine, and our job is to procure bath barrels.

In this world where personal baths are not common, even if you want to buy a bath bucket, it is not something you sell in that area, so there is only one way to find someone who could make it and order it.

However, the structure of the water boiler I asked Hulka about was just sinking the square box into the hot tub, so no particularly difficult finishing is necessary, if you can make a size bucket that people can put in, that's fine, and the hurdles are pretty low.

Only holes and plugs for draining water will be needed, but that is all.

"Where would you hit it, but this is the right place, the barrel maker?

"The Naos had a big barrel, didn't they? Where did you buy that one?

"Oh, speaking of which, you bought it when you made dried meat"

I bought that at the grocery store, should I ask there first?

"But do you need to be bound by a bucket?" Wouldn't it be nice if you made a regular square tub?

"Huh...? Speaking of which, right? You don't have to move it."

"Why did we talk about barrels?

Yuki told me that again, and I twisted my neck.

Sure, at first, there were no rental properties with baths, so let's take a bath somehow.

So, if I had a spacious laundry, I could put a bucket there and replace it with a bath, so I should have tried to find a property with a laundry.

That's why I also had a spacious laundry set up when I built my house...... now that I'm calm and thinking, shouldn't I have ordinarily ordered a bathroom? I may not have ever built a bathroom, but if we instruct, I don't think I've had a problem with it.

If that's what you think about durability, you'd rather make it out of stone or block than buckets.

"Uh-huh, failed? - Or if you're going to make it out of blocks, Yuki, can't you make it out of your dirt magic?

"What do you think? If I suck, maybe Nao's better? I don't think I can make that kind of fine dice."

I've been practicing in my spare time ever since, and now I can make a decent 12-sided dies just for appearance.

I don't even know if I'm biased in appearance, but I just had a pretty hard time making it, and I feel like I've got a pretty good ability to control magic thanks to this task.

Especially since Dice doesn't have a use for it, I'm just wasting it on the dining room table right now.

"But in my case, it's still level one. Yuki's up to level three, right?

"For once, yes, but you know that level notation doesn't really matter, right? Wouldn't Nao be able to use a little bit of Level 2 magic?

"Hmm, what do you say?

I already know that the level notation won't be up unless I try that magic because the only magic level is whether I can use the magic in the magic book.

Essentially, the problem is magic and its control. And it doesn't matter how much magic you practice you want to use, level notation.

So far, there is not much need for soil magic level 2 magic, so I was more focused on making dice and making blocks than practicing level 2 magic.

Maybe I can if I do it, but it doesn't make much sense to raise the level representation of status, so I don't get so much motivation either.

However, since it is certain that each level of magic is in order of difficulty, it makes sufficient sense as an indicator of my current proficiency, and it is also certain that it will be the next magical guide to try to remember.

"What do we do? Why don't we make a hot tub?

"Right... if it's magic, there's no financial loss if it fails, why don't you give it a try? I also admire the hinoki bath wooden bath, but I'm worried about mold and stuff."

"Oh, the housewife perspective. But a reason to be convinced."

Basically, even though the house is supposed to be cleaned separately, of the shared part, the kitchen is handled by the women who usually use it, so I and Toya are likely to be in charge of cleaning the bath if we think about it in the erasure method.

If so, ease of cleaning is quite important. Me.

Finally, because mold ○ ler doesn't exist either, once mold grows, it seems difficult to deal with it.

"I might be able to handle cleaning magically, but the trees rot, so hey. It's not like there's just the right wood in the bath."

"If it's the same wood as the barrel, it's going to last..."

I think I heard that oak wood is used as an ingredient for barrels and ships, but when it comes to bathing in Japan, hinoki.

Of course there is good aroma, but if the oak is water resistant, it seems good to have a bath made of oak "kashi" in Japan as well. But I've never heard of it.

There may be other factors such as ease of access, but the environment of bathing seems more harsh than ordinary barrels. Because like every day, 'Dry when you add water' is repeated.

Paying high money and rotting quickly, mold, distorted and leaking water also causes great purse damage.

"… so why don't we go back and experiment"

"Yeah. If you can't, you should just order then!

No, originally. It is a good word.