221 – Rest (1)
The kingdom of Zyme is rich in seafood, and thanks to that, Chester and Monia were enjoying seafood dishes that they were not used to every day.
“You can fry fish and eat it… Yes, it is delicious.”
Monia feels faintly crispy when she just chews, but the texture unique to the tempura disappears in an instant, and instead she closes her eyes and savors the tempura, as if she fell in love with the soft texture of the warm, chewy fish flesh. Did.
It may seem a bit burdensome to even fry a slightly oily fish, but by adding spices with a sharp flavor to the batter, the burden of oil is reduced and instead, the savory taste is preserved.
It feels like magic to perfectly capture and preserve the savory taste of oil and fish with one type of spice.
“I like that there are no thorns. Easy to eat.”
Chester, the taste is irrelevant, so I liked the service that took care of the food by removing the thorns and frying it so that I could eat it without worrying about the thorns.
“Probably, the fish spines are thick and large. And there will be a lot of flesh. It’s easy to remove the thorns, and even if you remove the thorns, you can secure a lot of meat, so you can fry without the thorns, right?”
Monia said that and showed her the fish stew that came with it. The stew was a simple stew with fish bones, bits of fish meat sticking to the bones, and vegetables.
When you drink it, you can clearly feel the flavor of the sea that permeates the soup. Is this the flavor brewed from the bones of the fish? They must have used the same kind of fish, but why are they so different in taste and flavor?
Monia deeply savored her fried fish and fish stew, admiring the mystery of her cooking.
‘I can’t believe that the same ingredients can produce such different tastes and flavors.’
As expected, she said that a proper cook, not a cook who forced herself to cook for survival like herself, was amazing.
In the Matoto continent, there was bread, but rice was the staple food. White, elongated, oval-shaped grains are cooked and softened to be eaten.
It was good that the rice, which is scattered in a hurry when you put it in your mouth, mixes with the rich taste of the dish that remains in your mouth and turns into the right seasoning.
Chester liked the rice. Because it’s cheap, you can buy it in bulk with little money, and it fills up quickly.
‘But I don’t know what to do with portable food.’
I was used to carrying dry bread and the like, so I made the calculations, but I wasn’t used to rice, so I couldn’t figure out how much to carry and how much I would consume per day.
‘Wouldn’t it be possible to carry it in a smaller size than bread if you just do the math? That’s not bad.’
When you boil the stew, you can simply throw in the grains of rice, so the method of use will not be much different from that of dry bread that is eaten by gently loosening it with a stew.
After enjoying rice, fried fish, and fish stew, the Chester family left the store.
“It was nice that you were considerate so that Ant could eat it too. Right?”
To Chester’s words, Ant answered, his hair neatly trimmed and wearing a ribbon on his head and tail.
– Kwang!
“Yes.”
Ant seems to have received a lot of cuteness from the mansion maids while Chester and Monia were gone.
Somehow I felt sad in my eyes, but…… Chester didn’t have the ability to read a wolf’s expression, so it was meaningless.
The Chester family walk out of the store and enjoy the sunlight.
Since the purpose of returning to my original hometown was gone, I decided to stay for a long time on this continent of Matoto while slowly planning where to travel.
I decided to make a long-term plan and move, so I stopped moving busily without rest, and I took a break from mercenary work for the first time in a while and enjoyed my leisure time.
Instead, it is to obtain information about various foreign countries.
I visited a person who knew the language of the foreign country and learned the language, learned the sentiment of the foreign country, and researched various lands accessible by ship from the Matoto continent.
In addition, Monia learned from Sena the proper training method for women and practiced how to use her hand sling.
She learns how to remodel her hand sling through the notebook Eugene dropped, and uses her tools to remodel her hand sling to suit herself.
Next, swordsmanship.
I also learned a little swordsmanship suitable for a cutlass in case I had to use it.
My swordsmanship teacher is Senna. On her day off because she has no work, when she seemed to have nothing to do, she sneaked up to me and told me, and she willingly taught me her swordsmanship.
However, Monia was not familiar with the spirit sword. She fits the ax better than the sword. Maybe it’s because she cut down so many trees.
“I have never seen a lady so familiar with an axe.”
“Ahahahaha. Did you hear the rumors too?”
“Yes. An aristocrat who fled the war?”
Monia dared to accept the insulting rumor because it would be annoying if her truth was known.
‘Due to Monia’s personality, it doesn’t seem like she really ran away from the war.’
Rather, nobles who fled war usually fled with a lot of money, so they had to live in the land they fled from.
It was very different from the situation of Chester and Monia now, who are earning money while working as mercenaries.
At least, it was easy to infer that there was a hidden reason rather than running away from the war, and the clients who had been saved through Senna’s connections knew that, so they still trusted Chester and Monia and entrusted them with work.
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He walks around town every day, interacts with people, and solves requests.
Those who were afraid of Rex at first were slowly accepting him.
After Chester decided to spend some time here, he began to actively travel around the capital.
He visited famous hunters in the capital and interacted with them as hunters. He met people who had knowledge he did not know and learned knowledge that he did not know how to use.
What Chester learned the most was knowledge about seafood. She learns about edible and inedible seafood.
For example octopus. If he had known at that time that octopuses were edible creatures and not demons, he would not have gone through such a futile effort.
Chester entered the house of a friend he stopped by every day these days. Chester entered and was greeted by an old man sitting in an armchair humming a drunken song.
“Hey, he said he came today.”
“Yes. You came today too. Wouldn’t it be misconstrued that I was cheating on you every day, leaving your wife behind and looking for this old, boring man?”
“What about men?”
“The truth is not important in misunderstanding. Like the truth doesn’t matter when you believe in something.”
The man got up from his armchair, brought a glass for Chester, poured himself a drink, and said:
“Okay, then let’s finish the story of this old man’s journey to see the end of the world. I mean, he was traveling by boat when he came across some dense jungle… ….”
Like that, the Chester family was slowly integrating into the capital Jarod.
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“It’s been a while in the capital.”
I haven’t seen Eugene in a long time, but I still go inside after being checked, looking at the majestic walls of the capital.
The capital, which had been up for a long time, was still crowded and noisy.
‘But I never thought the Golden Thrush Merchant would be like that.’
Eugene recalled the headquarters of the Golden Thrush Merchant, which he stopped by on the way up to here.
Her younger sister, who became her new top lord, seemed to be less resourceful than her own older sister. In addition to that, as she climbed to the guild, killing two important officers, she seemed to be in turmoil inside the guild as well.
‘It’s a bit bittersweet. The Golden Thrush Merchant was a good source of money.’
Perhaps, in the future, we might not be able to see the golden thrush peddlers roaming the continent of Matoto.
Other giant merchant guilds are preparing wagons and trying to build a peddler, so new peddlers will replace the disappearance of the golden thrush peddlers.
‘Well, the peddler will start moving after the monster in the ruins disappears.’
13 Unidentified monsters appeared in the ruins of a famous tourist attraction called the Hero’s Ruins.
Now, the kingdom of Jaim was suffering from monsters appearing in all directions.
In addition, it seems that the wires that had been stuck began to be pushed back as logistics became stagnant due to monsters called ‘relic monsters’.
According to rumors, it seems that not only the knights, but also the mercenaries hired by the royal family are moving to deal with the monsters in the ruins.
‘At least it’s fortunate that I didn’t encounter any ruin monsters on the way to the capital.’
Eugene was confident in his skills, but he didn’t want to do something strange and dangerous like hunting monsters, even though he didn’t have the money.
‘Since there will be a lot of Haewangwoo in the capital, wouldn’t it be possible to eat it at a cheaper price… ….’
With that kind of expectation, Eugene set out to find the accommodation she used to use when she came up to the capital in the past to rest her tired body from a long trip.