Chapter 249: Kagura's Seasoning
「We also have a citrusy sauce here. It will make it easier to eat as it kinda neutralizes the fat, yeah」
As we were eating the sashimi while chatting with each other, Titus came and offered us a sauce on a small plate.
Looking at the content, there is an orange-color sauce in it.
「……you should try it, this sauce also matches the taste」
Urged by Luna-san - who had already put the sauce and tasted it -, Eleonora-neesan and I pick up the sashimi.
Then, after we put a moderate amount of sauce on the sashimi we bring it to our mouths.
Immediately after, a sweet and refreshing taste like a tangerine spreads inside my mouth. However, it’s not that strong in taste, it’s being turned mild in taste, maybe they use something like olive oil and honey.
When I use my teeth to tear at the meat, the strong taste of the Crowana oozed out and it overlapped with the citrus sauce.
「「Delish!!」」
Eleonora-neesan and I look at each other and yell as they are so delicious.
「It tastes good with the sauce, isn’t it」
「I can eat plenty of them with such a refreshing taste」
You will get tired of it if you eat too much food with strong flavors. But, with the addition of this sauce, you can experience a new side of deliciousness from the Crowana.
「Right? I like to add this sauce to various types of raw fish to eat with」
「……it’s fine to use a moderate amount of that sauce, but I think Eric always adds too much of it」
Even back in the royal capital, he used the mayonnaise excessively, it looks like he really likes seasonings.
He eats the Crowana by adding a lot of sauce even now. Really, it would just taste like the sauce if you add that much sauce, right?
As the four of us devour the Crowana, before we know it the sashimi is all eaten up.
But then Titus approach us and all of a sudden offered a small plate to us, guess he had already foreseen it.
「I filleted another fish, wanna have some more?」
「……yes」
Not only Luna-san, Eric, Eleonora-neesan, and I will of course eat them.
However, when you serve this kind of delicious sashimi, as expected it makes me want to use ‘that’.
That’s right, it’s soy sauce.
Naturally, I haven’t brought any soy sauce on top of this ship, but I can take out seasonings using Space magic.
Eleonora-neesan and Eric know that I carry some seasonings with me, so I don’t think they wouldn’t be particularly suspicious of me.
Coming to that conclusion, I cast Space magic inside my pants pocket. Opening a small space using Space magic, I took out a small jar with soy sauce in it.
「Thank you for letting us have such delicious food, I’ll introduce you to a seasoning that is going to go well with it」
「Could it be, mayonnaise!?」
「Wrong」
I wish you stop regarding the seasonings I brought with me = mayonnaise. I’m not a mayonnaise lover like Eric after all.
「Then, what is it?」
「……a sauce that goes well with raw fish. I’m interested」
Not only Eric, I guess even Luna-san also showed interest in it as she asks with brightly shining eyes.
「It’s a sauce you use to eat raw fish in Kagura, you know. It’s called soy sauce」
「Ahー, if it’s that then it’s certainly going to go well with raw fish!」
Eleonora-neesan - who has a 'wild' sense in her tongue - probably decided that soy sauce will go well with sashimi.
「Wait, you should take it out sooner if you have that kind of good thing!」
「Okay okay, I’ll take it out just wait」
I take out a small jar from my pocket while being pressed by Eleonora-neesan.
After that, I create small plates for each of the people here and start to pour the soy sauce into them.
「But this sauce is really black, eh」
「And it’s fragrant, completely different from mayonnaise. So this is a seasoning from another country, huh……」
Hearing that it’s a seasoning from another country, Titus and Eric look very interested in it.
On the other hand, Luna-san - who had brightly shining eyes until just a while ago - appears to be a little surprised.
「……strange」
「What is it?」
「What happened aneue?」
Hearing Luna-san’s sudden remark she let out, Eric and I turn around.
This is a genuine soy sauce but, I wonder what’s wrong? I mean, Luna-san had no idea about Kagura before so I don’t think she can complain about soy sauce though……
And as we stare at each other, Luna-san asks.
「……where’s the chant?」
Aah, so it’s that.
「Come to think of it, you also didn’t chant when Shelka was chasing us in the royal capital, right? Hm? What’s the meaning of this?」
「Chanting each time you use magic is bothersome. You won’t need them when you get used to it so I don’t chant」
「Nu? Is it something like that? No, wait, can you really do that with that kind of simple thinking?」
「Saying it ‘simple thinking’ is rude! It’s bothersome to chant every time so I’ve been working hard since I was a little to make it easier you know」
I’ve been using magic in my lifestyle since I was a baby when I do nothing but eat and sleep. So I’m proud of the fact that I’ve properly trained myself to the point where I don’t need to chant.
「……but still it’s strange」
Even when I explain it like that, Luna-san still speaks up with a puzzled tone in her voice.
Setting the attribute aside, Kami-sama didn’t bestow me with the chantless technique so I can’t say anything about it.
Then Luna-san turns toward Eleonora-neesan, I guess she lost patience after seeing me with an ambiguous expression on my face.
「……don’t you think it’s strange Eleonora?」
「I’m not good at magic so I think he is skilled, but aren’t all genuine magicians should be at this level?」
It’s as though she’s saying that this kind of feat is nothing much. Luna-san was shocked after hearing that kind of answer from Eleonora-neesan.
「……there’s no way a magician of such level can use magic one after another like that」
「Rather than talking about that kind of topic, let’s eat the Crowana with soy sauce. It’s just my intuition telling me, but I’m sure this combination will go really well!」
「Yeah. Since the freshness will decrease if you leave them alone, ya’ know」
「We can’t have that!」
It’s exactly as Eleonora-neesan says. Despite finally having fresh sashimi, it will be unbearable if we let the freshness decrease.
Drawn by the desire to eat the food in front of our eyes - rather than talking -, we hurriedly pick up the sashimi and dip it in the soy sauce.
Eleonora-neesan and I only slightly dip the sashimi, but Eric thickly dips the sashimi in the soy sauce.
Despite being amazed by his action, I still put my sashimi into my mouth.
It is still the same Crowana with the same texture and flavor as before. However, the addition of soy sauce softened the raw smell and the oily meat, making the flavor became firmer and tangy.
The compatibility between the soy sauce and the rich flavor from the Crowana is wonderful. And the sweetness from the ingredient that feels like it was drawn at the end is especially unforgettable.
「This is good!」
「I knew it, it goes really well, isn’t it!」
Eric and Eleonora-neesan were surprised by the taste, then they reach out for the sashimi as if they want to have more.
Shortly after that, I saw Titus fidgeting in my peripheral vision.
He’s curious about the compatibility of soy sauce and the sashimi, but is he holding back from having a taste since we are all nobles here?
「You should also try it, Titus. I’m also curious about a fisherman's thoughts about this」
「Is that all right!? Thank you very much!」
When I encourage him so, Titus quickly lowered his head. After that, he happily added soy sauce to the sashimi he picked.
Titus then heartily brings it to his mouth and closes his eyes as though he’s trying to carefully taste it.
Then, he opened his eyes wide and say,
「T, tasty! This has a stronger taste like this, y'know! Tastes better than using the citrus sauce!」
It looks like it was so delicious that he couldn’t help but unintentionally say his impression using his original manner of talking.
Titus scratches his head when I giggle at his reaction - I guess he noticed me doing that.
「I, I apologize. This is too delicious」
「We don’t mind it, so you don’t have to force yourself to use formal language you know?」
「Thank you very much. Nonetheless, you are an important guest of bocchan and ojou so please allow me to keep using it. Someone like me will quickly get carried away if I’m not careful」
「Okay」
If it’s the villagers of Korryat village, they wouldn’t hesitate to do so. However, considering it from Titus’s perspective, we are all nobles who came from another territory. So I guess it can’t be helped that he’s being reserved.
Conversely, I wonder what kind of reaction will the villagers of Koryatt have if we invite nobles from another territory?
Earl Melna and Viscount Yurina came to our territory during the previous Harvest festival, but at that time they disguised themselves as villagers.
While on one hand, I want to see the reaction of the villagers as they saw other nobles, I’m also scared at the same time. I’m worried that they will say something strange to them.
And as we were enjoying sashimi with soy sauce like that, I notice that Luna-san is still standing at the back.
It seems like the previous conversations are still weighing on her mind.
「Are you not going to eat, Luna?」
「……I’ll eat」
When Eleonora-neesan looked back and ask her, Luna-san suddenly come to her senses and returned to our circle.
It looks like her appetite wins over her thinking.
And so Luna-san eats the Crowana with sashimi with soy sauce just like us.
「……what is this? It goes so well with the Crowana!」
After she yells with an especially louder voice than usual, Luna-san continues eating the second, then the third one.
「Oi, aneue. Think about other people’s share」
「……I’m just catching up since I’m late in eating them」
「You’re already catching up to us a long time ago! Eeii, I won’t lose!」
Perhaps it’s all due to the deliciousness of the soy sauce that the sashimi is disappearing at a faster pace than before.
Eleonora-neesan and I are also undaunted, we reach out for the Crowana sashimi.
「A, a fish freshly caught from the sea! To miss this chance……!」
Just as we were being lively eating the Crowana sashimi, a sudden voice came from the back.
Turning around, Mina was standing there despite her body swaying around.
「Stupid. You’ve stood up already?」
「Don’t tell me you use your appetite as a driving force to forcibly overcome your symptoms of seasickness!?」
I and Eric involuntarily shudder seeing Mina already standing.
Despite having a face that looks like she was dying until just a while ago, she already stood up?
Is this the power of Mina, who left our territory to eat fish from the sea……
Incidentally, Sylvio-niisan - who was sitting beside her - can’t stand up, perhaps it is still painful for him to do so.
「……fish」
Mina’s face still looks pale and the movements of her legs which supports her body are also unsteady. And yet, Mina still holds the desire for the food, and she steadily moves forward, step by step. In order to eat the freshly caught delicacy, Crowana.
「Mina, are you all right?」
「Yes, I’m fin――uupu!」
Eleonora-neesan call out worriedly to Mina, who was walking unsteadily toward us. However, Mina puts her hand on her mouth and lets out a disturbing sound.
「Hey Mina! Go away over there!」
Feeling a sense of danger of an unknown nature, Eleonora-neesan moves aside as she yells.
Her harsh words just now were as though her previous kind consideration seems like a lie. Wouldn’t it be nice if you just show her a little more consideration to her?
But, it can’t be helped if it’s about to burst in front of you like that.
Similarly, me, Eric, Luna-san, and Titus take some distance as much as we can from Mina.
Everyone took calmly evacuates without being surprised. These people, they pretty used to it, huh.
「Mina, endure it! Use your maiden’s willpower!」
「Endure it!」
「……swallow it back」
Eleonora-neesan, Eric, and Luna-san are grouping together and asking her to 「Don’t throw up」.
However, no one tries to get near and look after her. I think that she can really do it if someone were to approach and encourage her, you know.
「Oh, a maiden’s willpower. It’s my last dignity as a woman. Only that……I won’t give up」
If that's so, it’d be great if you just sit there quietly and not walk here, being drawn by the sashimi and all.
「I knew it, let’s head back」
「Yeah」
If it stays like this, we wouldn’t know when tragedy will strike.
In the end, we returned to land.
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