I’m Back in the Other World? Chapter 39

Chapter 39 – At the new house.

 

 

「Alright, all done.」

The first thing I did after returning to the inn was to draw a glyph on one of the gla.s.s bottles.

Ah, a glyph? Before, because I was a magic technician in my previous life, I can draw glyphs. Though I don’t have the tools.

Although the effects are inferior without an official tool, a magic tool can more or less be completed.

It also reduces the time it takes to engrave a glyph. The effect of this glyph accelerates the time within the gla.s.s bottle.

From my memory, it takes approximately six days to make the yeast.

Most likely, the speed of time within the gla.s.s bottle has been accelerated manyfold. Ah, if I had done it yesterday, it could’ve been completed tomorrow if it went smoothly…

I washed the apple and cut it into the appropriate size, added water and sugar and…

Finally, I closed the lid with a cork and lightly shook it, with that, the preparations are completed.

Afterwards, I’ll check on its situation whenever I can and stir it.

Now then, I’ll leave it in the room and go have dinner.

 

Having my last dinner in this inn, I told the innkeeper I’ll be moving tomorrow morning.

Since I still have a few days left from paying the inn fees in advance, I’ll be given a refund tomorrow morning. The innkeeper hated to part with me and said he would treat me to some alcohol, I politely declined.

After finis.h.i.+ng my meal, I returned to my room then entered the bath.

Thinking that this will also be my last time taking a bath here, I felt somewhat moved.

When I returned from the bath and was drying my hair, I accidentally noticed it.

The bottle that was cultivating yeast.

I thought I misjudged at first, however, when I took a better look, it had clouded with a subtle whiteness.

Huh…? This situation, should only happen after one day if I’m not mistaken…

It’s been… less than two hours since I prepared it. Eh? The acceleration is over ten times?

For the time being, I shook the bottle lightly, then removed the lid and checked it.

It really has turned cloudy after all…

Even using an official tool to make a high quality magic tool, it should be around five times at the most.

If I think about it… magic?

Is it because I’m from a different world, the glyphs I draw have a stronger effect…?

When I look at the glyphs that were filled in with magic, I feel like it has slightly dimmed.

Although it isn’t clear at this point, it’s possible that the glyphs I’ve filled with magic has a powerful effect, but the duration is extremely short.

What I mean by that is, it’s probable that it’s necessary for me to stir the bottle every two hours tonight… My sleep…

 

 

pichichichi… chirpchirp

Good morning. It’s morning.

Because I woke up many times throughout the night, I’m lacking sleep.

Just as expected, the magic tool’s acceleration effect is a little over ten times. And the glyph too, it has faded over time.

Right now, the glyph only has a faint glow remaining.

Eh? How did the yeast turn out?

It looks to be almost completed.

The foam which appeared not long ago has just began to settle, it should stabilize in just a little longer.

 

Completing my morning preparations, after gathering my luggage, I ate breakfast, cleared up the accounts of the inn then returned to my room.

For the finis.h.i.+ng touches to the na
turally cultivated yeast, I filtered it with a clean cloth and moved it to a different bottle.

The bottle which was used to cultivate yeast was washed clean.

The glyph is already at the point where I can’t tell whether I can see it or not, that’s how pale it is.1

So the duration a little over half a day.

Finis.h.i.+ng dressing, I bid farewell to this inn which has taken care of me for approximately twenty days.

After looking around the room once more, I descend to the first floor.

As well as some parting words to the people of the inn, I head towards the real estate agent-san to receive the keys to my new home.

 

Entering the boarding house, my first job is to tidy up the items I carried in two days ago.

There’s a surprising amount when they’re all piled inside the living room.

Firstly, the tableware and kitchen utensils were carried to the kitchen and put away.

After completing that, I carried the daily life articles into their respective rooms.

Just as I thought I had finally finished tidying up, my ingredients arrived immediately.

After putting away the newly arrived ingredients, it had already became lunch time.

For today’s lunch, since I was running around tidying up, I had nothing prepared.

I decided to have something light from a stall on the main street.

Finally being in an environment where I can cook, and my first meal is from a stall…

 

After finis.h.i.+ng lunch, I pull myself together and start my dinner preparations.

Since it’s been so long, I want it to be a little luxurious.

Firstly, I make bread from the natural yeast that had completed earlier than planned.

However, because it takes time for the yeast to ferment, I’ll use magic again.

Mixing the wheat flour and yeast, I leave it to ferment in a bowl that’s been temporarily made into a magic tool.

I make pasta in the meantime.

With ingredients such as wheat flour and eggs laid out, I mixed them together.

After I finished mixing, I kneaded and kneaded it, then placed it in a new bowl.

In the meantime, I prepared the soup and had the garnishes arranged.

At the time those had finished, since it seems the first stage of the yeast’s fermentation had completed, I divided them up into pieces and rolled them up, then placed it inside the pseudo-refrigerator.

I take a temporary break, I’ll resume making dinner after the break.

At least until both the pasta dough and yeast appears to be completed.

I’m making the popular pastas in j.a.pan, the long pasta spaghettini and macaroni.

Until those preparations are done, I head over to Garam-san’s store even though it’s slightly early.

 

When I arrived at the store, it seems it was roughly finished so I immediately tried on the clothing.

I put on the breastplate, then proceed to put on the wrist and leg parts.

Since I’m wearing hotpants today, I get slightly sore when it touches my skin.

When I conveyed that,

「Oi, jou-chan. Normally, ya’d wear it on top of trousers.」

and laughed.

If it’s something I can wear on top of my bare skin, then it would be chausses, or tights? ‘It’ll be fine if you put on something like an over-kneesock then wear it on top’, is what he instructed me.2

It seems the clothing store has some if I go there.

Since there wasn’t any other problems, I left the rest to him and headed to the clothing store.

 

Getting straight to the point, they had it.

But, how do I say it, it was different from what I imagined…

If I were to simply speak, thick garter stockings? I think? The colors were nothing but black and white.

It’s not suspended by a garter belt, but the belt on your pants.

It seems there’s also a type that attaches onto a garter belt.

For the time being, I purchase several of them that are black on both sides.3

 

 

I returned to the boarding house and prepared dinner.

Since there wasn’t an oven, I cover the base of a kiln with a large frying pan, with an iron plate slightly raised and placed within it, it becomes a pseudo-oven.4

I lined up bread dough above the heated iron plate and closed it with a lid, afterwards, I adjusted the firepower as it baked.

As I was preparing, I hear a voice from the direction of the entranceway.

It seems someone has come, but…. Did the real estate agent-san forget to tell me something? Or some sort of delivery?

For the time being, I suspend my cooking and head to the entranceway.

As for who it was…

 

Again, it was that person…

「Good evening, Sakura. I’ve come to congratulate you on moving.」

「Prince…. Didn’t we just part the day before yesterday…」

「Ha ha ha. I thought perhaps it’s been too long since I’ve had Sakura’s cooking, don’t you think? The reason why I came here is to celebrate your change of residence.」

In other words, you came to cheat a meal ne?

「Haa…. Is that okay? For the time being, since I’m in the middle of preparing, please come in.」

I left the Prince in the living room, then resumed the preparations.

 

With the bread being baked on the side, I boil the pasta and macaroni.

I decided to make a simple peperoncino today.

Once the pasta had completely boiled, I divided the macaroni into a separate bowl.

I fried some garlic, bacon and chilli peppers in olive oil inside the kiln, then threw in the cooked pasta. After leaving it to cook for a little while, it’s completed.

Next, I place the soup that I prepared earlier inside the kiln.

While it’s being heated up, let’s make some macaroni salad.

I cut some vegetables appropriately and mixed it in a bowl.

At that moment, since the bread had finished baking, I move the bread from the simple oven into a basket. Looking at hot and steamy bread, my face unintentionally turns into a grin.

While I boiled an egg inside the kiln with hot water, the soup had completed.

A simple vegetable and consommé soup. The garnishes are potatoes, carrots, onions and cabbages.

consommé soup with a little extra yummies

I adequately crushed the boiled egg and threw it into the macaroni salad. I poured some improvised mayonnaise and mixed it, with that, it’s completed.

After arranging the completed dishes on the table, I called out the Prince.

The Prince cheerfully sits down.

It feels like I’m looking at him shaking and wagging his tail.

Meanwhile, I fill some cups with chilled milk, then I also sit down on my seat after the preparations had been completed.

 

「These seem delicious. There’s a lot of dishes I’ve never seen before. What kind of dishes are these?」

Like a child, he gazes at the dishes with glittering eyes.

While wryly smiling at his childishness, I explain the dishes.

「Firstly, this is a dish called peperoncino. Do you know about pasta? I believe it’s a dish from a southern country. I also added garlic, bacon and chilli peppers for flavour. Although slightly spicy, it’s delicious. Over here is also similarly a type of pasta called macaroni, which was used to make a salad. It’s been mixed with mayonnaise. Do you remember it? Mayonnaise. The sauce which was used on the dish I first served. Then the consommé soup. This is an ordinary dish ne. The garnishes are potatoes, carrots, onions and cabbages. And then the bread. I also made this bread. Now, let’s we eat before it cools down.」

While nodding at each and every one of my words, he hurriedly started the pre-meal prayer after my final words.

「We thank G.o.d and the Land for their blessings」「itadakimasu」

「Delicious! Although it’s a little hot, it makes me want to eat more.

It seems I’ll be able to eat this even when the weather’s hot!」

The Prince ate a mouthful of peperoncino, then started gulping it down.

「Please calm down. Since there are still other dishes. Even if you don’t rush, the dishes aren’t going to run away you know.」

After my words, he exchanges the peperoncino with the soup, while saying「delicious」again, he starts on the salad.

Eating like a schoolchild that’s gone without lunch, I started on my own portion while feeling happy as I myself made it.

By the way, the Prince has two portions while I have one. Probably because of my size, I couldn’t eat that much from the beginning.

Several days worth of portions, was what I thought of making so I used up almost all the pasta.

「What’s this? Is this bread? It’s whiter, softer and fluffier than the ones I’ve eaten so far… It’s my first time having such a bread…」

Putting the natural yeast bread in his mouth, he halted like he was deeply moved.

「Please put it in the soup and try eating it. The soup soaks into the bread and it’ll have a different taste you know.」

As I advised, he tears a piece off the bread, dips it in the soup and puts it in his mouth.

It’s true… It’s my first time having such a delicious bread… Sakura is a genius at cooking!」

「This sort of bread is normal in my country. I only made it by imitating that.」

As expected, it’s embarra.s.sing when I’m openly praised

It can’t be helped that my cheeks have turned slightly red.

The dinner full of smiles continues on peacefully.

 

Although I made a somewhat large dinner, most of it has disappeared into the Prince’s stomach.

Just in case, I serve the Prince, who’s a guest, some tea after the meal, and clean up the emptied tableware.

When I went to the living room after finis.h.i.+ng the was.h.i.+ng, the Prince rushed out these words.

「Sakura, about the celebrations for your moving. Isn’t there anything you want? You should discover something after living here, there’s something lacking right? Try saying anything.」

Something lacking, huh. Even if you suddenly say that…

Ah, that’s right.

「Now that you mention it, I think it would be nice if there was an oven ne.」

「When you say oven, is it the magic tool which bakes that bread?」

「Yes, that oven. If there was an oven, I’ll be able to bake cookies, and also pies ne. However, since it’s difficult to deal with a firewood oven, and because of the cost of a magic tool oven, it’s quite troublesome ne.」

Right, the size of a firewood oven is large, the temperature control also seems difficult for an amateur. Compared with a magic tool oven, although the size is small and it’s easy to control, the price also makes up for it. Even the cheapest ones are something like 1 gold coin. The one I desire costs 3 gold coins.

Although I can buy it… My current money I possess is less than 9 gold coins Since there’s the payment for my armor, 8 gold coins will be deducted from that. Since there are no guarantees after this, unless it’s an absolute necessary, it would be better for me to refrain from purchasing expensive goods.

It’s different if there’s a cheap intermediary though…

「fumu, an oven huh… Well, I don’t have any knowledge on those. Although I can’t promise anything, I’ll try ask about it and see what they come up with.」5

eh?

「Nonono, something that expensive, I won’t accept it even if it’s a congratulatory gift! Just your feelings are fine!」

On the contrary, I’ll deeply appreciate it!

「Don’t worry about it. It’s not like it’s been decided yet. Also, if you had an oven, you’d be able to make even more variates of dishes than you can currently right? If that happens, it means the dishes I can eat will increase.」

The Prince says those things while laughing.

Eh? He’s planning on coming over to eat again? Does the Prince actually have that much free time?

While thinking of such things, the Prince walked pa.s.sed me and moved towards the kitchen.

「Sakura, I’m borrowing a gla.s.s. Wow, what’s with these stools? Aren’t they in the way?」

When I looked over, he seemed to have almost tripped over the long line of stools lined up around the kitchen.

「Without those, would I be able to reach with my height? Could you please not set them aside? I’d be in trouble without those.」

Perhaps it may be a nuisance for large people, but with my rounded up 140cm, without it, in the average sized kitchen in this world, my head won’t even stick out even if I stand on my tiptoes. A large person won’t understand that!

While shouting in my mind, the Prince returns with two gla.s.ses.

n? Two?

He takes out from out of nowhere, as expected, wine. Furthermore, it looks expensive.

「That, what do you intend to do with two gla.s.ses?」

The Prince dodges my eyes which I’m glaring at him with, and answers with a light tone.

「Speaking of celebrations, there has to be alcohol, is what I’ve said before right? Just a sip is enough so keep me company.」

Just a sip, while saying those words, he fills up more than half a gla.s.s and leaves it in front of me.

「Really, did you already forget what happened three days ago?」

「I didn’t forget. This is a good alcohol you know? Try it.」

Saying so, I tilt my gla.s.s.

Well, even though I don’t know about alcohol, I can understand this is an expensive alcohol but…

「Well then, only a sip…」

Tilting my gla.s.s, I drank the seemingly expensive wine.

From my first time drinking it, there was a scarce sweetness, on the other hand, it wasn’t bitter either.

‘So this is expensive alcohol’, was the only kind of impression I had.

When I swallowed it, a sweet fragrance of grapes escaped from my nose, the fragrance of alcohol came afterwards.

This, might be quite a strong alcohol…?

When I looked over at the Prince, he was happily watching me drink.

「I drank a sip but…. What should I do about the rest?」

「Don’t worry. I’ll drink it.」

The Prince gulps down his own gla.s.s in one go, and reaches out his hand for my gla.s.s.

「Wait! Drinking something that someone has drank from, please stop it!」

Isn’t that an indirect…!

Nonono, even if it’s not that, a Prince doing such a thing!6

「What are you saying? Sakura isn’t drinking the rest right? Since it’s such a good alcohol, would you do such a wasteful thing and throw it away?」

「Then shouldn’t you have poured just enough for a sip at the beginning!?」

「A portion just for a sip, the appearance wouldn’t be pleasant right?」

Well, certainly, something like only pouring a bit to fill the bottom of the gla.s.s, it wouldn’t even look tasty.

「It’s not about the appearance ne. How do I say it… Aa, mou! I’ll be drinking this myself, so please drink from your own gla.s.s, Prince!」

In one go, I gulped down the remaining wine.

「Ah, wait!」

The Prince said something, but I ignore it.

tan, I place the gla.s.s on the table and look at the Prince.

「With that, there’s no… problem…… ne…」

With a violent shake, my vision warps.

 

Huh? How did this happen…?

 

At that point, my consciousness had cut off.

 

 

Notes

1. 古代文字もすでに見えるかどうか、と言う程度の薄さです。
2. 素肌の上につけるならショースという、タイツ？オーバーニーソックスのような物を穿いた上につければいいと、教えてもらいました。
3. 一応、黒で両方を何点か購入しておきます。
4. オーブンがないので、竈に底の深い、大きめのフライパンをかけて、その中に鉄板を少し浮かせて敷き疑似的なオーブンにします。
5. 「ふむ、オーブンか…。そうだな、心当たりがないでもない。約束はできんが聞いてみるだけ聞いてみよう」
6. いやいやいや、そうじゃなくても仮にも王子がそんなこと！