Published at 1st of September 2019 08:32:52 PM Chapter 281

(281) Dwarf banquet

Translator: Tseirp

Doxco took out several alcohol barrels from the brewery, including the absinthe that came out in our conversation, and I put them in my item bag before we went to the tavern together .

I have no idea why I had to craft a sword but since I obtained a katana, it was hard to refuse the invitation to drink . I said I wanted to be a Japanese who could say NO but I totally cant say NO after all .

As such, we headed to the tavern we passed by just now .

I could smell the alcohol before I even entered the shop .

Oo! Doxco! You came too?

All right, lets kick it off with a cup!

You youngun too, have a cup!

I was served alcohol before I was even introduced .

Was it absinthe? I hope it isnt hallucinogenic?

Dont worry, its a given that we will serve lager to people from outside .

Lager? Not ale?

Try taking a sip .

Following Doxcos suggestion, I took an empty mug and poured the drink .

It was exactly like Japans ale . And it was even chilled perfectly .

How is it? Amazing right? Thanks to the magic tool called Refrigerator made by Daijiro, were able to drink chilled lager .

Its tasty It has a fruitier taste compared to Japans beer .

Was the sweetness a little too strong?

You dont seem very shocked Now then, have you ever drank lager before?

No, I am surprised .

Now I wanted to have edamame or fried snacks .

Or the salted seaweed-flavored potato crisps I made the other time .

I guess I wasnt the only one thinking that .

Ichinojo . Do you have any dishes that go well with alcohol?

Ah, I have plenty of food that my younger sister brought for me . But if were talking about food that goes well with alcohol then it will be this .

I took out an egg from my item bag .

Boiled egg?

Yeah, boiled egg . A duck egg .

It is certainly delicious with salt but as a match for alcohol?

Well, take a bite a see for yourself .

I placed the egg on a plate and cracked the egg with the rounded bottom of a spoon .

The inside wasnt white but something soup-like .

Uo, this is

Its pretty amazing . Its called balut .

It can be eaten?

It was not surprising that Doxco would be apprehensive .

After all, it was a duck egg that was boiled as it was about to be hatched so the inside had the shape of a chick .

As a grotesque food lover, this was one of the food that Miri liked and we even had a few at home at all times .

I first ate this five years ago . I struggled for a while to eat it but it was quite delicious once I tried eating it .

For some reason, I had 5000 of these baluts in my item bag .

I wonder just where did she buy these many I thought to myself but when I examined them, I realized that the purchase dates were different . That Miri was stockpiling food with Space-time Magic even since she was in Japan . If I remember correctly, Miris Space-time magic had something like different dimensional storage which was similar to item bags in which the items inside would not spoil .

In any case, since I had such a large amount of baluts, it wouldnt be a problem to serve a few here .

Its grotesque but it is tasty . Well, give it a try . Here, I have salt and lime as well .

I purchased the salt from Deijima harbor while the limes were the leftovers from those I purchased in the town of Hanmuno .

I dont have a choice?

Doxco said you wanted something savory right? Think of it as humoring me .

This is asking quite a lot .

Doxco replied bitterly as he peeled off the eggshell .

He didnt seem to have any intention of drinking the juice that leaked onto the plate .

He added some salt but his spoon remained stationary . He couldnt seem to take the leap so I took out another balut and peeled it .

I have been made to eat quite a few kinds of grotesque food by Miri . A mountain of food that looks terrible . Although this dish can be considered the top five worst to look at, it is also the top five best tasting . In a good way .

In the end, the taste won against the terrible look of it and it became one of my favorite dishes as well .

I added salt to the balut that I removed from the eggshell and ate it .

Yup, this is the taste . Its delicious .

The taste that was different from chicken meat and boiled egg and would become addictive once you tried it .

They were sold at ordinary stalls in Southeast Asia so that proved that it fit the taste of ordinary people .

Without us noticing, there was a gallery of dwarves around us .

It may be a bizarre dish but they were interested in the unknown .

Perhaps he steeled himself after seeing me eat it, Doxco shut his eyes and stuffed the balut into his mouth .

At first, he fearfully chewed but quickly his eyes opened and the speed of his chews quickened too .

Then, he swallowed

Its actually tasty . Furthermore, it certainly matches with alcohol .

See? Want another?

Ah, sure .

Doxco replied and accepted another balut .

After seeing that, the other dwarves,

Gimme one too!

Is it that tasty?

Where is it, lemme taste it .

The dwarves joined in and started consuming a large number of baluts in the tavern . Naturally, there were people who couldnt eat it after seeing the grotesque sight but all the ones who ate it showed contented looks .

Your item box really has all kinds of things . You dont have any alcohol?

I do . Although they are only wine or refined sake (seishu) .

The grapes needed for wine and rice needed for refined sake were all grown in My World and overlooked by Pionia .

Seishu? Do you mean rice wine?

You know about it?

Yeah . I heard about it from Daijiro but I never drank it before .

In that case, want to try a cup?

The refined sake was currently brewing in a large tank in My World so even the dwarves who are said to be bottomless drinkers probably cant finish it all .

I took out a barrel and poured some into a bowl with a ladle and passed it to Doxco .

This is the mysterious Seishu huh . Looks like water .

Appearance-wise, yes .

Unlike before, Doxco drank the refined sake without hesitation .

!? What clear alcohol . Theres almost no hint of the coarseness of regular alcohol .

Daikinjo would probably be even more amazing . (TL: Its a brand)

Theres even better alcohol?

Sorry, I dont really know in detail but the taste apparently changes depending on how the rice is milled . This is made with regular polished rice so a slight coarse taste remains .

The portion that gives the umami flavor when cooked as rice was apparently what gives the coarse texture when made into alcohol .

I see regardless of blacksmithing or brewing, theres a lot more to it than meets the eye .

Thats true . Everyone can drink too eh theyre already drinking it .

Everyone was already in a daze over the refined sake .

So, Doxco . Isnt it about time you talked about Daijiro-san?

Ah, that . What do you want to know?

The most important thing I want to know is her current location . After that, what Daijiro is planning to do at the moment? And finally, about the flying ship .

I dont know Daijiros current location but I saw her flying ship traveling east . Theres a high probability that shes aiming for Mallegory .

Mallegory as expected .

The book Daijiro-san left behind wrote that she was in Mallegory . Its probably true that she is based there .

I dont really know her objectives now but I was involved in the construction of her flying ship .

Really?

If I know the flying ship speed and refueling locations then I can look for clues there if Daijiro isnt in Mallegory .

Umu, the flying ship is originally a ship that transcends dimensions which Daijiro created in order to return to her homeland .

A ship that transcends dimensions!?

Was something like that even possible?

Well, that flying ship did enter My World without my permission .

Ichinojo, do you know how the item bag you use work? The item bags in the market only inflate the space to fit a volume a number of times more than a regular bag . However, the item bags Daijiro create cut into another dimension and is fixed to the bag . Thats why the volume is larger in the order of magnitudes . Well, it is actually a by-product of Daijiros research into dimensions .

This has such an amazing technology behind it?

Daijiro-sans aim I had the hint even since the beginning .

Daijiro-sans aim is to return to her former world huh .

Why did she have to kidnap Miri for that goal?

Miri is FamirisRaritei this worlds Demon Lord . She was able to return to Japan through the form of reincarnation . In other words, she is a successful example of returning to her original world .

Theres a high possibility of Daijiro-san being involved in FamirisRariteis incarnation .

Eh, why did Doxco cooperate with Daijiro-san for that goal?

Its the dwarfs desire to pursue unknown technology . And I heard that Japan has even more delicious alcohol when I was told the recipe for absinthe .

Doxco said lovingly to the now-empty bowl .

In this world, although rare, there is rice .

With Daijiro-sans knowledge, even if it is incomplete, she should be able to teach them the method to distill refined sake . She didnt tell him perhaps because she wanted to heighten Doxcos curiosity and desire for alcohol? Well, that is if I had to make an evil guess .

Perhaps even the doujinshi was introduced by her to increase the peoples interest in Japan?

Nope, that should just be her hobby . Yup, Id like to believe so .