*cough* totally meant to add a 1 on there, not 3-6 but 13-16 *cough* Yeah. Next chapter in 3-6 hours this time without the 1. Year 7445, Month 10, Day 7
Basutoral and the others antic.i.p.ated this and started negotiating to stock up on the necessary ingredients for sausages before we entered the dungeon last time. Thanks to that we were all busy yesterday. Basutoral left in the morning alone in order to stock up on the pig"s bowels so he wasn"t around but we ended up with an amount of meat that we couldn"t cover with just one meat mincer. It was close to being convinced with tears but I was essentially threatened by everyone"s begging so I ended up having to make another meat mincer while my nose bleeds out again.
When I finally finished making the second meat mincer and went to wipe my bleeding nose while basking in the feelings of satisfaction, I could hear the noises of everyone enjoying themselves from upstairs. Everyone else was having fun making use of the first meat mincer to make minced pork and it seems they"re in the process of sausage making. Under Catherine"s leading they"re trying to fill the casings with minced meat but there"s a bit of a trick to it so it seems they weren"t able to do it well.
"I"ll do it next."
"Koloil-sama, you put your left hand like this."
"It"s fine if it"s just a bit."
"Zenom-san sure is skillful!"
And just like that, I can everyone"s voices like they"re really having a great time.
Even though were right nearby, there should only be one floor difference, but during that I"ve been alone staring at a wall with my hands over some ores while clenching my teeth and bleeding from my nose while concentrating so I feel a bit lonely but I guess this much can"t be helped. While covered in sweat I brought it up to them and they raised cheers over the meat mincer I just made and as Ralpha plundered it from me, everyone else said I was too dirty from the sweat to be around the food products, so I was chased out. This is hard to accept.
Even then just filling the casings ended up taking them into the night and after that they had to work through the night smoking and boiling them. Catherine, Terry, and John were used to the operation but because of the problem of stamina they ended up going to sleep early in the night and after that everyone ended up working the night with almost no sleep under the instruction of Giberuti.
That labor ended up bearing fruit and in just a single night they made close to 2,000 sausages.
If we end up not being able to sell them tomorrow like this it would be hard to make eye contact. The money doesn"t matter at all but all of that trouble being for nothing is mentally painful. Zenom, Giberuti, Zulu, and Angela the pure Orth people said, "It"ll absolutely sell. If it doesn"t then it"s fine if we buy it all with the money we"ve saved." so since they were willing to say it that far we ended up making them.
We put an application for a stall in the plaza in front of the government office immediately after the notice was placed up and we even purchased a proper table, extra stove, frying pans, and such.
"I remember back to the school festival."
"Since we only know the culture festival of our school after all.."
Ralpha and Gwine were asking Miduchi.
"The scale of them is different after all. They"re fun!"
Hearing that Ralpha and Gwine laughed while going to the inn to get the sausages for selling. I stand next to Miduchi and call out to her as well.
"Come to think of it~ self-defense university had a festival in commemoration for the opening of the school, that was pretty fun. Since there were exchange students from the armies of foreign countries as well, everyone would setup imitation shops with the cooking of their home town. I went around eating with my friends until we were about to collapse."
"Eh?"
"I..I see..But, you have them now right? Friends."
As long as they make sure to properly not forget about the fact that it"s business it"s fine for it to be fun. There"s nothing bad about that at all.
I sit down next to Binnodo.Gekudo(Binsu) on one of the seats for witnesses while wearing my high cla.s.s formal clothes that have no use other these sorts of occasions. I guess Binsu is considerably tense, he"s been fidgeting over and over next to me as if he can"t calm down.
"Gr..Gr..Greed-kun I"m amazed you can remain that calm.."
Binsu gulped and started talking to me in a small voice.
"..I"m used to it after all.."
Attending a day of judgement like this..how many times has it been again? I appear in it pretty often right. Of course I still think I"ve properly watched the lashings and hangings from the audience with everyone else while drinking alcohol and eating something more often than like this though.
Since we the {Slaughterers} center around reincarnated people, excluding Zenom and my slaves, the majority of us are still brats and don"t really have much interest in the enforcement of punishments so we often come with the feel of viewing sakura trees bloom while drinking and eating. Though things will be busy this time.
"I see..It"s my first time and hi..his majesty the King will directly talk to us right? I..I really doubt I can calm down.."
Binsu"s knees are still trembling the same as usual.
"Whether or not you"ll end up directly having to talk to his majesty, depends on Koritto and the others response..If they deny the charges then you"ll be called as witness but if it"s a judgement they accept then you won"t end up being called. Well I think you"ll probably end up being called though. In the first place we"ve gathered quite a bit of evidence up until yesterday so it"s not like there"s any problem right?"
Ever since the incident roughly two months ago, the members of the former {Sun.Ray} went around gathering evidence and submitted several pieces of it to the knight group. I had also gained information through Miduchi"s connections that the Rindobel couple hadn"t done any activity towards collecting the charms in the capital since the start of the year.
Today I heard they"ve even called the one who commanded and summarized that investigation, Tukerin, a famous healer in the capital. The crimes of the Rindobel couple are of great interest to the town of Baldukk so they"re scheduled to take place just before lunch when the most attention is gathered so Tukerin still hasn"t arrived here yet.
Just like that, the judgements steadily continue and along with that time continues to pa.s.s. The judgements which started at 8 in the morning exceeded tens of cases already and it"s reached close to lunch in no time at all. Tukerin had already arrived and was sitting next to me with an uninterested face. After all the dark elf I caught sight of in the capital previously was this old man. Judging from his well ordered features he was probably quite the good looking guy when he was younger.
Finally the Rindobel couple, Harukein.Fumizu(Haruku), and Binsukol.Zemyunel(Bin) were brought out to the court stand like place. The King glanced at the doc.u.ments for a bit and then flatly declared the charges while asking if they accept their crimes or not. His expression was considerably harsh right from the start. Judging from it, he probably already heard the general outline the other day or this morning.
"..Such charges as these of the crime of fraud, furthermore the same crime of fraud towards a n.o.ble, the appropriate punishment for the suspects KroittoRindobel and Meiria.Rindobel who are recognized as the princ.i.p.al offenders, is 26 lashings with a whip, a fine of 125,000,000 Z (125 gold coins), and decapitation along with their heads displayed on the prison gates for one week.
I was going to call out to Tukerin to thank him and invite him to lunch but Prince Richard.Rombert the Fourth ran up to us and told us both to come to the government office. Come to think of it it seemed like Tukerin and the King were acquaintances. In the past, I wonder if he made some sort of request from him?
The King was standing in the shadow of the gate for the government office a bit further in behind some plants.
"I humbly refuse."
Eh!!?
"Why? I made preparations for catering at the best restaurant in Baldukk because I heard you were coming. It"s stewed tongue and steaks from a young cow."
Oo!! That sounds good! And expensive! If Tukerin-san isn"t going to eat it then let me!
"You"re the same as usual~ your majesty. The reason I refused was because there"s something even better to eat."
"What?"
What?
"Since it"s been a while since we last met. It"s fine for me to treat your majesty."
It can"t be..No..there"s no way right?
"Ho? If you"re going to say that far then it"s delicious right?"
"That"s only obvious. Supposedly it"s a food that was newly created this Baldukk. I ate it myself this morning as well but..that was..the best."
No, stop it! Something like that isn"t what you feed to a King right! We only have one type of flavor today as well. There"s not even any beef mixed into it.
"I"ll prepare some right away. Greed-san. Can I rely on you for it?"
"Huh..That is..Prepare what?"
Ah, after all..This old man, just when I thought he came late so he was eating sausages huh? Come to think of it they did mention we were in his case for the preservatives or something like that...Though we"re still experimenting in various ways with the preservatives so we haven"t used them in the product yet.
"That great product you all have created. "Baldoggie" was it? With plenty of mustard and..Ah, I"ll stop there. Your majesty, that"s the most delicious when it"s freshly made. Shall we go? It"s right over there."
"Hmph. I see, it bothers me a bit that Greed is related to it but well I guess it"s fine. Lead the way."
"Ha, Wa ha!!"
His majesty the King ignored all the customers lined up as he skipped to the front and while everyone in the surroundings was kneeling he ate five of them.
It seems it was good publicity and the 2,000 Baldoggie"s were sold out by the evening.
That evening, we were saved that we still had some remaining when an order for 10 Baldoggie arrived from Dorureon. The King even tried to order some to take back with him but since our experiments with the preservatives still haven"t finished, as expected we turned that down.