Im making lunch.

Your sure skilled at this. Honestly, arent you actually more amazing than any cook? The man commented.

But you see, this uses lots of magic arts, okay? Im quite aware that no one would be able to cut the ingredients so quickly. I mean it totally looks like fantasy cooking as its done in manga.

Just when I ignite a fire to stir-fry the veggies, Your casually usin fire magic like its nothin. Wait, is this really fire magic? Such fire magic actually existed? Also, whats up with you doin all of it without chantin!?

Hes so damn noisy about everything.

As soon as I took out the seasoning, he bent himself forward, Hey, whats that? What you usin there?

Seasoning I made myself. This world doesnt have a term to express it.

Your sayin This world all the time, but whats the meaning?

Not just manners had been driven into me until I was five years old, but also language. My vocabulary is at the level of an adult noble. However, my vocabulary doesnt possess a term that would describe this seasoning. Thats the meaning. Thats why I cant tell you how to call it.

Gotcha. In short, its an original.

Pretty much.

Its not like I created it out of thin air, but after searching for similar ingredients and trying to create it in a similar way, I guess it might be proper to call it my original creation. Mayonnaise is a cryptic naming in the first place, isnt it?

Once I sprinkled wine into the pan in the middle of frying, he leaned in even closer.

Hey, that! Whats that!?

Wine.

?!?! Dont use wine for somethin like cookin!! He roared.

Actually its something thats made to be used for cooking, I believe.

The hell your sayin, you bundle of irrationality!? Its a friggin waste! Hand it over! Right now! Ill drink it!!

Dream on.

This aint anythin a brat should have! He flooded me with another barrage of incomprehensible nonsense.

Ive just told you that its something to be used for cooking, didnt I? In the first place, this was quite difficult to make. Or did you think its easy to make?

?!!!!!? Youcan make wine?

As long as its a homemade version. What? Are only folks with the necessary qualifications allowed to make liquor after all? Our cook didnt mention anything about something like that, though

Qualifications or anythin like that is unnecessary! Its just that folk usually hide the manufacturin method.

Oh my.

While sending his saliva flying, the man snarled, In other words, your sayin you got that knowledge?

The cook as well, Id say. The people who helped me out, too. And the same applies for a part of the servants. After researching how to make it with everyone, we finally brought it up to a stage where its drinkable. This was yet another reason why I improved my magic arts drastically.

The mans shoulders slumped down in disappointment.

Whats wrong?

In other words, you can make it as long as you can freely use high-level magic?

Yep I think its also possible even without the ability to use magic arts. However, then itll cost a lot of money, to put it simply.

I see. High-level magic or enough money to compensate for it, huh?

Thats the idea.

Brewery, yeast plant, natto bacteria, lactic acid bacteria, acetobacteraceae. Food culture is all about fermentation. Im kidding, Im just making up things. Sorry.

But! Rotten food has turned into fermented food throughout history! After discovering mushrooms that are good for the body, mankind has started to cultivate only specific mushrooms! Those mushrooms were then improved into safe ingredients! Moreover, food has been developed after going through tons of hardships until it reached a point of being provided in mass without allowing saprophytes to multiply within!! *huff huff* *pant pant*

I feel like turning this into my meaning in life if its so difficult to obtain it in this world, but for a child like me its a pipe dream without a sponsor. Besides, Im not really sure, but maybe its due to the power of magic that the production of fermented foods using yeast is going well at present.

Among the servants, liquor throws the men into a frenzy while women get frenzy over malt sugar. Its always leading to arguments whether we should make whiskey or starch syrup with the malt. If you stop the initial fermentation to create fruit wine halfway, it becomes a very sweet, carbonated juice, so the female group has been stopping the fermentation to enjoy the juice.

It always makes me think that the people of this world should simply do more research if they like the stuff

While brooding about this, I finished cooking. I served mystery meat (it seems to be monster meat), stir-fried veggies with plenty of seasoning, and lightly roasted bread.

Ah, feel free to smear this here on the bread.

Self-made soy milk butter. Since cows dont exist in this world, cow milk is no option. Luckily the otherworld me had come up with a soy-milk-based butter when she studied various recipes for a friend with a milk allergy. Its different from normal butter, but this one is great as well.

At first the man tasted the food cautiously, but in no time he started to wolf it down like a starving lion. Watching me smear the butter on the bread, he imitated it, and starting with the next slice, he thickly spread butter on the bread before tossing it into his mouth.

Gimme wine, too, he then started to say.

The component called alcohol contained in wine is addictive.

Dont be such a nitpicker bout each n every single thing! I wont get addicted to it, so hand it over!!

Unwillingly I filled a cup and passed it to him.

For your information, even if it doesnt need that many ingredients, it still requires a huge amount of labor and assiduous efforts, got it?

In response to my mumbled complaint, Gotcha, Ill prepare an extraordinary magic tool for you.

Please enjoy it to the fullest.

I handed him the bottle and all.

Girl, become a cook. Make liquor n sell it. He said with a serious look after finishing his lunch.

Even when he was drinking the wine, he caused a huge ruckus, yelling, Even at the royal palace they dont serve wine like this!!

Hes blowing up things.

Its impossible as a young girl. Ill consider it if I live to become an adult.

Your a child n not a young girl, right? Still, itd be a waste for you to become an adventurer when youve got such a skill.

Sighing, I said, I cannot trust the people of this world.

The man froze.

Thats why I havent added any jobs in the service business where you deal with other people among my job choices. Ive taught the cook and servants about brewing and making sweets, but its not like they know all of it, and even if they did, they wouldnt be able to make it without me. Given that they wont be able to reproduce it without me, Ive been making these things while getting them involved. On the other hand, theyve been cooperating with me since the research results include things they want to enjoy or because its something theyre good at. Thats completely different from trusting someone and telling them the full truth.

Very likely the cook knows how to make the most of it, but without magic, its difficult to make these wellin this world. After all, itd probably require a huge amount of money to prepare all the necessary facilities and tools. To begin with, I dont really know how to make the necessary tools anyway. So far Ive been pretty much solving this issue with magic

Rather, its only today that Ive learned for the first time that Ive been using magic arts. The cook or the servants could have told me, really.

Lets make a deal. He suddenly brought up, Very likely the liquor made by you can only be made by you alone. So produce liquor and sell it to me. Of course Ill pay you twice the amount of the most expensive liquor available on the market.

Not like I know the pricing around here, though.

Liquor is a no-go. Just as I told you earlier, Im handling the main part of the production, but procuring the ingredients, securing a site, controlling everything, and taking records is completely handled by our cook and the servants. No matter how much money you throw at me as someone unrelated to this, I cant sell it to you as long as the others dont agree.

Gotcha, take me to them right now. Unlike an oddball like you, they surely understand common sense.

Stop! Youll put me on a spot! I got it. I cant guarantee you the volume, but if its just a bit, they might show some flexibility, so Ill try asking them. Also, let me tell you in advance, but the liquor is alive. In other words, it cant be brewed instantly. It requires several months or even years, and has a tendency to become better the longer it rests. I wont say that this applies to all liquors, but it does for the majority.

Huh?

The man stared at me with his mouth agape.

Liquor is something that takes time to grow. At least one year. The one you drank right now needed almost a year to cultivate safely without failing midway. Moreover, I wanted to let it rest for a year, but the men were so naggy about letting them drink it, so in exchange for giving up on my initial plan, we stocked up plenty recently, and I released this wine after making it a rule that the new stock would be cultivated for at least three years. The early brew is wine that hadnt been fully researched.

The man swallowed, Your talking bout the one you passed me earlier, right? What about that wine?

The early brew is quite unripe. Well, since its still a success, Ive been using it for cooking. I mean for cooking its fine as long as it got alcohol, even if the fragrance and taste might be inferior.

The mans face lit up, I dont mind the inferior wine, so sell it to me. Just the amount you can sell is cool with me. In exchange, Im goin to teach you common sense, and help you becomin an adventurer. Additionally, gimme some of the successful ones after three years too, or let me join its production.

Itd become a hassle if you entered the mansion, so stay away. Ill sell you some of the ones Ill secure for myself, so stay away.

Weve got a deal, probably, kind of.