“The sea -”
“Sea~~”
“Queue”
The regret I felt last time having to leave the sea behind me in order to secure water to drink, now its time to take revenge. It’s a chance to get the rich products of the sea that no human hands have touched before.
“Now, Private Bell, Private Rain, I’m giving you a grave mission.”
(TL: he is addressing them like a military in the j.a.panese forces, but I used English words to simplify it)
“Wow?”
Dangerous. It seems that bell can’t keep up with this, she is tilting her head. Well, it is natural that she can not understand, this is not j.a.pan. But I’d feel ashamed if I decided to stop here and become calm. There is no choice but to force it on.
“Private Bell, your reply should be YES SIR, can you do it?”
“Yes, Sir!”
“Very good, then I’m telling you the mission again, Private Bell you should cooperate with Private Rain to secure the sea’s products. Which are fish, shrimp, and crabs, Secure whatever you can find, no need to hold back because we have a magical bag with infinite capacity and time stopping mechanics, so get as much as you can, do you understand?”
“Yes Sir”
“Queue”
“Alright, go.”
That was dangerous, I managed to get through that somehow, after seeing off Bell and Rain who happily headed to sea, I wiped the sweat the I meaninglessly shed. Suddenly when looking behind I saw Sylphy looking at me with an amazed look on her face.
“What are you doing suddenly?”
“… … … … Please do not ask me.”
I can feel Sylphy’s gaze stabbing in my back. Please do not look at me.
“I will go and collect some sh.e.l.lfish and seaweed, what about you Sylphy?”
“………Huh, so you don’t intend to answer me?”
“What about you Sylphy?”
It’s so embarra.s.sing to explain.
“Okay, I understand, I will not ask about it anymore so stop making that meaninglessly serious face, it’s creepy.”
What a thing to say, but I somehow managed to get through this, the sea is a dangerous place, even adult will revert to their childhood state.
“Since I don’t have a contract, I can’t help you with food gathering. So I will be just relaxing around here, do your best with food gathering Yuuta.”
“Yes, Sir!”
After separating from Sylphy, I took off my clothes and remained with just my pants. It’s a good thing that I’m wearing trunk type pants. I’d be so ashamed to go into the sea if it were briefs.
I entered the sea after lightly stretching my body, and dived into a shallow area. A beautiful world expanded before my eyes, I can see very well because the sea has very high transparency.
Swaying seaweed, beautiful coral, and colourful small fish. It’s almost like a tropical ocean. For a while, I forgot about securing food and just kept swimming in the sea. I wonder If the words choice of life was meant for something like this, I feel happy.
Not good, I got distracted by the beautiful view that I forgot about my original purpose.
But when looking at the sea there are a lot of sh.e.l.lfish that look similar to the ones found on earth, well they may have different names.
But here some miscalculations happened.
Living things can’t be stored in the magical bag.
The large numbers of sh.e.l.lfish that I gathered, there was no choice but to kill them. But if I did that, it means that I’m wasting the main body. It mean’s there is no choice but to cook it here.
(TL: It’s the process of Boiling the clam while it’s intact)
I can just remove the sand from the clam and hamaguri, then steam it with sake (Also called Sakamushi “Steamed fish in sake”),…..hmm, I’m little afraid to eat it raw so let’s just grill it. I don’t know how to eat Tridacnidae so let’s just grill it too.
In the first place, even if they have the same appearance. It doesn’t necessarily mean that they are edible, I should ask Sylphy.
“Sylphy, I got some sh.e.l.lfish. Do you know if they’re edible?”
“Ah, let me see. I don’t know if they taste good or not since I never ate them before, but I saw people selling them at the harbour. So I think they are edible.”
That’s good since I managed to gather a lot of sh.e.l.lfish it’s good that they’re edible. While waiting for the sand removal, let’s go and get some seaweed. Since I don’t know all the types of seaweeds, I will just take whatever I find.
(TL: sand removal is process of leaving the clam in salty water, For More information, you can watch this video Here)
If I can make some kelp soup, that will increase the number of food on the dinner table. So let’s get some kelp and dry them on the beach.
Originally I planned to get as much as I can but if cooking is necessary, this is the limit. Let’s expect that private Bell and private Rain can get a large amount afterwards.
I can see private Bell and private Rain distance away. they’re happily laughing and flying around. Let’s Believe that they’re gathering fish properly. If not then we can just re-challenge this again tomorrow.
First of,…I should arrange the kelp on the beach. Next, I need to have a lid that fits the shovel since I need to do steaming, hm, I should make one with rocks.
I arranged the rocks to fit the angle of the shovel…..This will do it, also I need a vessel to put the Sake in for Sakamushi (Steamed fish in sake). I have a bowl but I will be troubled if I needed to use it for other meals. Let’s Make two more.
Just like in the morning, I took out a piece of wood and started to grinding it to make a bowl. I will also need a spoon for later. I should make one and then get the stove prepared. I already got used to this.
Next, I cleaned the shovel with cleaning magic and put it on the stove. I then put in the clams and hamaguri and poured the sake. I then put the lid on. After a while, I opened the lid and added two caps of the valuable soy sauce that I have. I covered it again and steamed it for a little. It’s Done.
It has an irresistible smell. The main body of the clams look very tasty, as well as the Dashi (TL: For more info Here) of the sh.e.l.lfish make it more delicious. I want to eat it right now.
“That smells good, is it Yuuta’s hometown food?”
“Yeah, it’s simple but I used the sake and spice of mine so I have confidence in the taste. Here try one.”
Just now Sylphy flinched when I mentioned the sake, is it just my imagination?.
“No need, it’s a valuable food so Yuuta should eat it.”
“The spice I used was just a little, and I used the ingredients that I got from the sea. So please try it without refraining.”
“……Well, it looks delicious also I’m interested in the spice of different world, I will have one.”
“Hmm, try this large one. In my world, Hamaguri is considered to be a popular ingredient. You can just take it by hand, but since it’s hot, be careful.”
“Ah, this one, for spirits this level of heat is nothing.”
Excitingly I watched Sylphy putting the Hamaguri in her mouth.
“Ara, this is delicious, the scent of the ocean and the taste of the sh.e.l.lfish. Maybe thanks to Yuuta’s spice they’re combined and it’s very tasty.”
I got okay. That means the sense of taste of people in this world is not different. I’m looking forward to when I get to town.
“It’s good that you like, now try to use the sh.e.l.l and drink some of the soup.”
“Eh, like this? Ah, it’s delicious, it’s very tasty. Maybe the spice and the sake are giving it this rich taste, anyway, it’s delicious.”
She highly evaluates it. I should try one too, I took a Hamaguri and tried it. It’s awesome. And the soup, ah I want to drink sake with it. I want to drink soup and sake just like this until I pa.s.s out.
No, if I did that I will get eaten by zombies. Taking out the Hamguri from the sake and put it in a bowl and stored it. Next, I should grill the clams. I want to make Abalone sashimi with it but I should grill it just in case.
Anisakis?, Was it in the sh.e.l.lfish? I don’t know but just in case, I can eat sashimi after ensuring my safety.
Grill the clam and store it. Just repeat that. After I finished grilling all the clams, Bell and Rain came back. Should I continue the soldier game? Let’s just pretend that it never happened.
“We gathered a lot”
“Queue-”
Looking behind, Bell and Rain are coming this way while flying slowly. They are making a large ma.s.s of water flying. Inside it, there are a lot of marine products. Why are they not escaping?
“Oh that a large amount, great job both of you.”
I stroked the two of them. Well, I have to cut the fishes. And since there are so many, I need to hurry. Is it okay to just take the internal organs out and store them? Before that, I need to ask Bell for something.
“Bell, blow winds over the seaweeds over there and make them dry. Can you do that? Rain please help Bell.”
“Yes sir.”
“Queue”
Bell you didn’t forget that. Sylphy is looking at me with eyes that saying “Don’t teach them weird things”. Now I should start dealing with the fishes.
“Sylphy, is there a fish in here that has dangerous poison or a fish that can’t be eaten?”
“Hmm, I know about only the fishes that are being sold in towns. I can tell you about the ones I know about. Others you can just store them after you finish them off and ask Dine about them.”
“I understand. Just tell me about the ones you know.”
The ones that Sylphy says that they are okay, I take out their organs and store them. There are a lot of colourful fishes, maybe because here it’s a tropical area, and there a lot of shrimp and crabs which I asked them to get too. As for the ones that Sylphy doesn’t know about, I just finish them off and store them.
Since I didn’t know how to finish off shrimp and crab. I stored the shrimp after twisting its head. As for the crabs, I stored immediately after boiling it.
“Ah, it’s finally over, with this much fish I can last longer. I won’t die from hunger.”
“Fufu that’s good. With this, you can stay alive until your magical power rises. If you don’t make any grave mistakes.”
That is right. Unlike j.a.pan, death here is a very common thing. I should stay alert.
“Yeah, I will arrange my living environment while slowly levelling up.”
“That is good, we should head back soon.”
“That’s right, I will collect the Kelp….ah I also wanted a large amount of sands. I will store that while I’m at it.”
I need to make a sand bed. With this, I can say goodbye to the hard bed of rocks. When I went to store the seaweed, Bell was riding over Rain and she was blowing winds over the seaweeds. As Rain moves, Bell also moves, thus the winds are blowing over a larger area. Those children might be geniuses.
“Bell, Rain, Great job. They dried very well, Thank you.”
“Amazing?”
“Queue-”
“Yeah. Both of you are amazing. You are very good kids.”
I kept on praising and stroking their heads.
I started to store the seaweed while smiling. I also stored large amounts of sand. With this, I can make one or two sand beds.
“OK, collecting is complete. Let’s return to base.”
“Yes Sir”
“Queue”
“Yuuta, are you planning on leaving Bell to reply like that? I think it is better to correct her earlier.”
I explained to Bell that “Yes Sir” is a special reply that is only used when giving her a grave mission, She seemed little dissatisfied but it worked out somehow. Acting like that when getting excited can increase troubles. So I should be careful.