Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: Volume 4

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  Chapter 1: I Unlocked a Tenant in My “Online Supermarket”

  As soon as we resurfaced from the dungeon and came back to Dolan, we were forcefully taken to the Adventurer’s guild. And since the conversation with Elrand ran long, we ended up missing lunch.

  The ones who raised the most fuss: the children in my party.

  All three of them raised a huge ruckus over their empty stomachs. Thus, mealtime would happen as soon as we got back to the inn.

  Since it would be properly filling and quick to make, I decided to go with yakiniku rice bowls this time. It was perfect since I had just enough rice left, given how much Fel and the others eat.

  First, I used my skill to buy the requisite yakiniku tare and some daikon radish sprouts.

  Since there’s a lot of different yakiniku tare being sold these days it’s fine to just pick your favorite. I’ve tried all kinds, but in the end this one was the one I liked the most. It’s one that’s been on sale for a long time, that I’ve gotten used to. The medium-spicy one is best here, I think. I never get tired of the flavor, or rather, there’s some kind of special thing to the sweetness of the sauce that makes yakiniku bowls really delicious. Let’s use this tare and quickly finish cooking these up.

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  First, slice the bloody horn-bull meat slightly thicker than normal.

  Oil up a heated frying pan and start grilling the bloody horn-bull meat. Grill quickly, and once the color changes, add in the tare and keep cooking while mixing the tare in so it coats the meat.

  Then, mold the rice onto the deeper dishes, pile on the meat, garnish the center with daikon sprouts for color, and the food is done.

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  It’s really simple, but yeah, it definitely looks delicious.

  “Here.” As soon as I served the food to my three familiars, they all jumped on it and dug in, like they couldn’t wait any longer. They must have been really hungry; it looked like they were hypnotized by the food.

  They’ll probably finish up and ask for more right away at this rate, won’t they?

  Next, I went with wyvern meat for the bowls.

  “More!” 《More—!》 《More!》

  Just as I thought.

  I served them the wyvern meat yakiniku bowls.

  “Mm? This one’s meat is different.”

  “Yeah, the last one was bloody horn-bull. This one’s wyvern.”

  “This tare really goes well with meat. Either one becomes incredibly delicious when paired with it.”

  Just as I’d expect out of Fel the meat lover. He totally gets it. Of course the yakiniku tare would go well with meat. It doesn’t matter how good the meat is, eating it with that tare makes it delicious, it really does.

  “Hm, this must be tried with that, I think. Make the next one with earth dragon meat.”

  Fel just told me to make the next bowl with earth dragon meat.

  《What? You’re using earth dragon meat? Then I’ll take one, too.》

  《Sui will eat too—!》

  Yep, thought this would happen once earth dragon meat was mentioned. Everyone knows how good it is, after all. Even I want to know just how good the earth dragon meat would be mixed with some yakiniku tare.

  And so, I ended up making yakiniku bowls with the earth dragon meat.

  “Here you go.”

  When I served the earth dragon yakiniku bowls to them, they all scarfed it down. Even compared to Fel and Sui, Dora-chan, who eats very little, was keeping up with them — even though he’d already had bowls with bloody horn-bull and wyvern meat.

  But watching this is making me want to eat, too......

  I layered on lots of earth dragon meat coated with yakiniku tare on top of the glossy rice.

  It’s even putting out an absolutely brutal smell, like it’s just telling me to eat it, after all. Ahh, it’s no good. I can’t stop my drool. I can’t stop myself. I’m eating too.

  Surround some earth dragon meat with rice... *Chomp*

  .........S-So goooooddd!!!

  What the hell, this is way too delicious! Earth dragon yakiniku and rice are way too good together. Nope, I can’t stop myself.

  I ended up finishing the entire bowl all at once.

  “Hahh~, man I sure ate. That was just the best......”

  Truly, that might actually have been the best food I’d ever had. It was actually dangerous how good the collaboration between the yakiniku tare and the earth dragon meat was. It seemed like Fel and Sui were both done in by the taste as well, and they had more portions one after the other.

  I still have about two-thirds of the dragon meat left, but I really will have to be careful how I use it, won’t I? After all, it seems like the meat will all get used up in an instant, even though it’s so precious...

  Once everyone had eaten their fill, they immediately fell fast asleep.

  Leaving Fel and Dora-chan in the shed, I took Sui up into my room with me. I gently placed Sui onto the futon I’d laid out on top of the bed.

  I still had something I needed to do.

  It’s annoying as hell, but they’ll be even more annoying if I’m late, those people (gods)......

  “Uhhh — can everyone hear me?” When I called out to them like that, I was answered immediately.

  ＜OOHH—! We’ve been waiting!＞

  ＜You’re finally back~.＞

  ＜Yo! I’ve been waiting!＞

  ＜......Food, quickly.＞

  ＜Heyo! We’ve been waiting for you!＞

  ＜Finally. Make with the alcohol, quickly!＞

  ......L-Looks like everyone was waiting for me while wringing their hands, doesn’t it?

  ＜Let’s do this quickly. It’s my turn! You! What the hell was that ‘ice cream’ you ate in the dungeon?! What are you planning, hiding something that delicious from me?! I want to eat that, too!!!＞

  Ahh, so the divine disappointment, Ninrir, was totally watching, huh? Well, I guess there’s no way she’d let that go.

  “Ahh, fine, fine I get it. So the divine Ninrir wants sweets, and ice cream is among those?”

  ＜That’s right! Also, the usual Dorayaki. Don’t forget.＞

  Sure sure, I know.

  Opening my Online Supermarket, the first thing I did was cart some ice cream. Ehhmm, let’s see... this and this should be good.

  I ended up picking a six-piece family pack of ice cream cups with three flavors in it, as well as another family pack of chocolate-coated ice cream bars. Other than that, I threw in some dorayaki and a random assortment of candy.

  “Next, please.”

  ＜I’m next~!＞

  This voice is Kisharle, yep.

  ＜The cream from last time was worth every coin! So you know how you said that the price reflects the number of beauty components inside, right? So it’s fine if it’s expensive; this time, I’d like to ask for a facial lotion.＞

  Fuhahaha! Just like my sister. As soon as you get hooked on this stuff you just start to look for more and more expensive things, right? Say whatever you want about beauty products and stuff, I won’t get it at all. Well, it’s true that there’s probably better stuff inside to go along with the price, though.

  Opening up my Online Supermarket, I picked up the facial lotion from the same series that I got the cream from last time. This was also 3 silver.

  I guess this is still considered cute, compared to my sister. Although I can see her eventually saving up to spend it all on something really expensive...... It’s an online supermarket, so they’ve only got a certain level of price in stock, though.

  “Next is......”

  ＜Yo, it’s me! Of course, I want alcohol. Just like before, get me a lot of different varieties, I’m counting on you.＞

  It’s alcohol for Agni, huh?

  Just like before I picked up a variety of alcohol from different makers for her. This time, I put more of an emphasis on foreign brands.

  “Next......”

  ＜Food and sweets. I also want to eat ice cream.＞

  Ahh, it’s Miss Ruka, huh? I don’t have anything premade right now, so I guess I’ll just buy some stuff from the Online Supermarket. Beef croquettes, ham cutlets, and also karaage, yakitori, chili shrimp, and macaroni gratin, right? Oh and also the usual white bread. And then I need to get ice cream, just like Ruka wants, right? I’ll get the same as I got Ninrir. And let’s just fill up the rest with some random sweets and candies.

  Next is the alcohol-lover’s combo, huh?

  “So next is Hephaestos and Vahagn, right?”

  ＜Yo, it’s us!＞

  These two are gonna team up for alcohol, right?

  ＜Just like before, fill me up with whisky. And the War God wants vodka, I say. vodka!＞

  ＜Yep! That alcohol, vodka, is really good stuff. It totally hits hard — it’s the best!＞

  These two really like their alcohol, huh? I can totally see them chugging down entire bottles of whisky or vodka or whatever hard alcohol they want one after the other. I only sometimes enjoy alcohol and always end up going with beer or something similar, so I don’t have it in me to drink the harder stuff like whisky, though. I did try some once, but just a little already made me want to vomit. But it’s probably irresistible to alcoholics.

  I put the whisky and vodka the two of the
m wanted into the cart. This time I also made sure to pick three whiskies from different makers and areas. As for the vodka, there aren’t that many variations on it anyway, so for now I just picked up the first things I saw, one from Sweden, and the other from Russia.

  Good, this should do it.

  I checked out the cart. After sorting out what each god would get, I lined them all up on their cardboard altars.

  “Ah, Ninrir, Miss Ruka, ice cream is a lot like ice, so if you don’t keep it cool it will melt.”

  ＜Got it—!＞

  ＜...... (Nod nod.)＞

  “Okay then, please accept these offerings, all of you.” The various items lined up on their cardboard altars all disappeared. I could hear the overjoyed voices of the gods and goddesses. Among those were some especially loud and obnoxious ones.

  ＜Whoohhooo!! It’s alcohol, booze! War God, tonight’s gonna be the first feast in a while, got it?＞

  ＜I know already! Let’s drink as much as we please tonight!＞

  Gonna drink as soon as you get it? You guys...... just how hard were you waiting? Hahh~ ...I feel so tired for some reason. Whatever, let’s just sleep. Especially since I’ll have to sort out all of the dungeon’s drops tomorrow, too, so that’s gonna be a lot of work.

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  After having breakfast, I used Appraisal on everyone since I wanted to check our statuses. They might have raised their levels quite a bit after all, since they destroyed so many dungeon bosses, that behemoth, and all those monsters in there.

  First is Fel, yeah?

  【Name】 Fel

  【Age】 1014

  【Race】 Fenrir

  【Level】 921

  【HP】 10003

  【MP】 9637

  【Attack】 9275

  【Defense】 10001

  【Agility】 9839

  【Skills】 Wind magic, Fire magic, Water magic, Earth magic, Ice magic, Lightning magic, Holy magic, Barrier magic, Rending Claws, Body Reinforcement, Physical attack resistance, Magic attack resistance, MP Efficiency, Appraisal, Battle Boost

  【Blessings】 Blessing of the Goddess of Wind, Ninrir; Blessing of the God of War, Vahagn

  H-Huh? I-I get the feeling that he’s around 10 levels higher than when I last appraised him before the 26th floor boss...... I heard from Fel that the higher you get in level, the harder it is to raise it...... W-Well, the dungeon boss was a behemoth, so with that I guess it’s not that unusual for his level to have raised by 10. His HP and Defense have even gone past 10k. Is there even anyone left who can stand up to Fel? W-Well, I guess it’s not a bad thing that he’s stronger... for me, anyway. Next is Dora-chan.

  【Name】 Dora-chan

  【Age】 116

  【Race】 Pixie Dragon

  【Level】 160

  【HP】 1092

  【MP】 3223

  【Attack】 3115

  【Defense】 1057

  【Agility】 3893

  【Skills】 Fire magic, Water magic, Wind magic, Earth magic, Ice magic, Lightning magic, Healing magic, Bombardment, Battle Boost

  【Blessings】 Blessing of the God of War, Vahagn

  Oh? Dora-chan’s level went up quite a bit. Probably around 30 levels. W-Was it really because of the behemoth? Next is Sui, and it seems like Sui should have grown the most......

  【Name】 Sui

  【Age】 2 months

  【Race】 Big Slime

  【Level】 88

  【HP】 1489

  【MP】 1467

  【Attack】 1460

  【Defense】 1464

  【Agility】 1491

  【Skills】 Acid Bullet, Potion Creation, Cloning, Water magic, Smithing

  【Blessings】 Blessing of the Goddess of Water, Rusalka; Blessing of the God of Blacksmithing, Hephaestos

  Oaghh?! I-It leveled up a whole lot, somehow...... This has got to be because of the behemoth. All of them were S-ranked, after all. Especially the dungeon boss, the behemoth. It was stronger than Dora-chan and Sui, too. Since they defeated it, it makes sense that their levels rose a lot. Everyone’s so awesome...

  ......*Ahem* I guess... I should take a look at my level too, just in case. I always have my status open when I use my Online Supermarket, but I don’t really look at it, after all. Especially yesterday, since I was so busy because everyone was so hungry.

  I confirmed my own status...

  【Name】 Mukohda (Tsuyoshi Mukouda)

  【Age】 27

  【Job】 Victim from Another World

  【Level】 20

  【HP】 280

  【MP】 273

  【Attack】 254

  【Defense】 252

  【Agility】 232

  【Skills】 Appraisal, Item Box, Fire magic, Earth magic, Perfect Defense, Familiars (Contracted Magic Beasts): Fenrir, Big Slime, Pixie Dragon

  【Unique Skill】 Online Supermarket (+1)

  【Blessings】 Blessing of the Goddess of Wind, Ninrir (small); Blessing of the Goddess of Fire, Agni (small); Blessing of the Goddess of Earth, Kisharle (small)

  My level’s gone up too, but as I thought it’s not as much as everyone else’s. W-Well, I basically did nothing during the behemoth fight, after all. It really couldn’t be helped, I guess. I-It’s not like I was expecting anything, okay? ............Khh! Okay, it was a lie. I was actually pretty hopeful, hahaha. I mean, I went down to the bottom floor of the dungeon, too, so shouldn’t it be fine to hope a little? Sadly, the gap between me and everyone else is just widening. As I thought, it really is best to just leave combat to everyone else, yeah.

  ...Wait, huh? What the hell? I didn’t notice this yesterday......

  When I checked my status, I noticed that my unique skill had become, ‘Online Supermarket (+1).’ When I touched the (+1)......

  【You have unlocked a Tenant for the Unique Skill, Online Supermarket】

  【Please choose from the following:】

  【WcDonald’s/Fumiya】

  Wha? W-What’s this? W-W-What the hell? By t-t-tenants, does that mean the stores that are inside supermarkets? I-I do remember a WcDonald’s and a Fumiya......

  *Gulp*

  Which one should I pick? WcDonald’s huh? I might want some junk food, it’s been a while... but, the cakes from Fumiya......

  I looked over at Sui, who was bouncing all around me. Sui loves sweet things, doesn’t it?

  “Hey, Sui, you like sweet things, right?”

  《Sweet like pudding and cake, right? Yeah, Sui loooooves sweet things!》

  Right, let’s go with Fumiya. My sweet Sui’s saying this, so the only choice has gotta be Fumiya.

  I touched the display on ‘Fumiya.’

  【Contract with Fumiya as your Tenant?】

  【YES/NO】

  A contract, huh? Okay, YES.

  【You have contracted with Fumiya.】

  【You will unlock your next Tenant at level 40.】

  【We will be waiting to be of service again.】

  After that, the screen returned to the usual status screen.

  It said that the next Tenant would be unlocked at level 40, but does that mean that the Online Supermarket leveled up, since I made a Tenant contract this time? I thought it would stay the same this entire time, since it didn’t seem like there’d be any real way for it to change......

  Tenants, huh? And I’ll be able to choose more stores when I get to level 40, haha... W-Well, for now I just need to confirm this. Open the Online Supermarket... Fumiya, Fumiya...... ah, there it is. It’s right there in the menu.

  When I picked it... Oohh!

  All lined up were cakes and candy packs and stuff; I was looking at everything I would see in a Fumiya store. I have something I want to ask Sui to do after this, so let’s just buy a cake from Fumiya now as a reward.

  “Fel, Dora-chan, I’ll be going back to my room to sort out all the dropped items now.”

  “Understood. Do not forget lunch.”

  《Right, right. Don’t forget our lunch, got it?》

  “I know already. Sui, I have something I want to ask you to do, so can you come with me?”

  《Got it—.》

  I wanted to get Sui to make that before I sorted through all the dungeon drops. I used it too much, it’s already pretty much broken. It’s not like I can’t get it from my Online Supermarket, but it seems like it’ll be a lot hardier if I get Sui to make it out of mithril. And if I get Sui to make it a little bigger, I’ll be able to do a lot more stuff.