Isekai Nonbiri Nouka - Chapter 845: Culinary Culture Corps Evaluation

New seasonings were obtained as a mission result of the culinary culture corps.

If plants or other materials are used as raw materials, I asked them to gather them too.

If it is already available in Village Five, all is well but if not, we have to cultivate it ourselves.

I also asked them to collect rare plants from various regions even if they are not used for seasoning.

Rare means not widespread.

In other words, it may be quite difficult to cultivate them in a different environment.

However, I have the AFT.

As long as they managed to get the actual plant, it would be easy for me to imagine them.

I’m sure the AFT can do something about it.

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We chose the floating gardens in Village Four as the place to grow the plants.

As for why, it’s fall.

Even though the AFT makes plants grow faster, we still don’t know how long it will take for them to grow.

The floating gardens are almost like a vinyl house so even if their growth rate is low, everything’s fine.

Thus, I planted dozens of kinds at once without hesitation.

I planted dozens of them at once because many of them were close to plants I know…..or even a combination of those.

There were long, thin lilies, not so beautiful roses, turnips that look like radishes and so on.

I don’t know if they are originally like that or not, but I guess I’ll find out when they grow up.

I’m looking forward to it.

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The cooking utensils that the culinary culture corps brought back with them are reasonably usable but not very convenient.

It is natural to think about it since utensils evolve too.

The utensils we are currently using are evolution of what they used to be.

The rare cooking utensils that remain in various places may be said to be those that have been left behind by time.

They are labor intensive and inconvenient.

Would they have any value as antique or something?

If Prada, an art lover, was here, I could have asked her but she is currently with the caravan.

I will show them to her when she comes back.

Right right, I was happy to find some tools for making tea.

I am in the process of asking a craftsman from Village Five to imitate these tools.

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By the way, some of the cooking utensils featured in the culinary culture corps’ presentation are only records.

That will be the case when the utensil was found but is impossible to obtain or transport.

The high elves, mountain elves, and Gutt’s groups were invited to Village Five, given with the record, and are now recreating those utensils.

It’s not too difficult since several members of the culinary culture corps had actually seen them upon recording them.

Well, whether those utensils will actually be usable is another matter.

Yeah, I often wonder if they are using things that are originally used for other things, not cooking, as cooking utensils.

That would have been an effective use of finite resources.

I don’t think that’s bad.

However, it is not good if torture devices are proudly presented as cooking utensils.

Eh?

Not for torture but execution?

I didn’t want to know that.

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After consultation among myself, Youko, the civil servant girls, and a few oni maids, we agreed that the results of the culinary culture corps were not good enough for the amount of money invested.

Because there wasn’t even one delicious dish.

Well, that won’t stop me from investing though.

I hope you will continue to search for cuisines of various regions.

It may be that you just haven’t found any good food.

Just keep searching.

Let’s build a building where we can display the seasonings and cooking utensils that are the result of this project.

Make it free for everyone to see.

…..if we don’t take money, no one will come to see them?

Also, maybe we could hold regular dinner parties using the cooking utensils on display as an event.

I know.

I’ll make sure that when we do, only properly improved, delicious food will be served.

It is important to preserve the taste of each region but we must not forget the pursuit of deliciousness.

Delicious food is justice.

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A fine fall day.

I’m roasting sweet potatoes on the outskirts of the village.

The sweet potatoes were harvested at the end of summer.

It was a little early but since they are all grown up, I’ll enjoy them.

By the way, when I started roasting sweet potatoes, only Kuro and Yuki were beside me.

Before I knew it, there were already many kuros around.

Zabuton and the spiderlings were also there.

Loo, Tier, Ria, and the others too.

…….

Yeah, all is well.

I still have sweet potatoes.

We still need to roast them though.

We don’t have a lot of fallen leaves so……you’ve already gathered them.

Alright.

As a result, it ended up on a scale like a controlled wildfire but since they were deliciously cooked, there’s no problem.

Everyone enjoyed the sweet potatoes.

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One day, Youko asked me for advice.

She wants to make the sale of swan race a licensed business in Village Five so that other stores can also sell merchandise.

I’m not interested in monopolizing the sales of merchandise, so I permitted it.

「Umu. Then, village chief will need to name of your merchandise store.」

Ah, right.

If there are other stores selling goods like mine, things will get complicated if mine don’t have a name, wouldn’t it?

I thought about it for a while and decided.

Village Five merchandise dealer, Kugui.

Kugui is an archaic name of swan.

It’s not exactly kugui but kuguhi but that’s difficult to say so kugui will do.

Odette and Odile, who are familiars of the swan god, said they had no problem with the name of the store.

Wild duck and duck plushies have been added to the product line up of my merchandise store.

Well, the wild ducks and ducks have been working hard on their shows and races so that’s their reward.

……

Is that even a reward?

I’m sure it will help improve their popularity but not directly.

I’ll give them something to eat later.

On a side note, the swan dolls where you can change their poses made by the mountain elves have also been added to the product line up.

However, these dolls are not only few in number but also irregularly available so they are treated as phantom products.

It is said that the moment they are put on the shelves, they will be sold and disappear.

Is there someone keeping an eye on them?

Whatever the case is, we are happy that people are buying them.

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When I returned to Big Tree Village, the demon king boasted about his swan doll, one where the pose can be changed.

………

What should I do?

Should I tell him that it was made by the mountain elves?

Ah, you already know?

Good.

I’m having a hard time reacting.

So, you know and you still bragged about it……

Look at the doll’s sole?

The sole is……

Hnn?

Is that a number?

Serial number?

Ah, it’s a single digit number!

I believe there have only been 30 swan dolls sold so far.

How did you get one?

Someone offered it to you?

No?

When you went to watch the swan race, you were able to buy one as one was being displayed?

Heh.

But then, didn’t you get it a long time ago?

Your demons were begging you to show it to them so you couldn’t bring it here?

I see.

As expected of the demon king, he really takes good care of his subordinates.

I better learn from him.

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After talking with the demon king I returned to my room and checked the cupboard.

There, I found a swan doll whose pose could be changed, made by a mountain elf.

It was given to me before I started selling them as merchandise.

I look at its feet……

……..

Hmm, you’re making me feel bad.

I guess I should at least do something to reward the mountain elves.