Chapter 25: 25
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"Hufh, it's karaage af-ter-a-long-while . "
"Yay~?" "Karaage nanodesu~"
Arisa is delighted to see karaage on her own plate .
She was also prohibited to eat deep fried food for the past one week after all . I forgot Arisa's age, so the diet was too effective, thus I changed the plan to only forbid her on snacking, and overeating . Of course, I did not tell Arisa about the miscalculation . I only told her that I'd make it laxer .
Mia's shares are seasoned rice in a bamboo shoot and boiled vegetables . Even though the bamboo shoot looks like a green bamboo, it can be eaten like a normal bamboo shoot, it's a fantasy ingredient . I'd have liked if I don't have to peel it, but it wasn't quite that lenient .
"Euh? What's this karaage? It's not a chicken, nor a pork . I think I've eaten this before, but I can't remember~ . "
When Arisa is still chewing one piece of the karaage, the three beastkin girls ask for more, so I take out the [Whale] karaage from the heating magic tool and put it on the platter .
I have a lot, so eat as much as you like .
It was outside of my calculation to have that much . Considering where it comes from, it's not like I cannot hold a whale meat festival carefreely, but it'll be a waste .
If I had just acquired it sooner, I could bring it to baron Muno territory via transporter, but the food situation in the territory has already been improved . Or I should say arranged instead I guess .
During the tea parties, the chattering noble women told me about nobles who were troubled as to where they could direct those kind of items . Thanks to that, I procured things like old rice, dried fish, and pickled vegetables in large quantities cheaply . They're currently being transported to baron Muno territory . I've hired guards to escort them due to the sheer quantities . Since they're introduced by the viscount Shimen, an influential man in the duchy capital, they must be reliable .
Let's return to the topic .
While Arisa continues chewing, she finally remembers what the meat is made from .
"I know, it's whale right!"
As expected of Arisa .
"They came out as Yamatoni, or Tatsutaage during lunch a long time ago~ but, you did well to get something like whale meat . "
"Yeah, the goods arrived just at the right time . "
Yes, Arisa didn't see the great monstrous fish . Therefore, she doesn't notice that great monstrous fish = whale . There's this words of wisdom that says ignorance is a bliss .
"Hamburg steak is the strongest, but whale karaage is eveen stronger nodesu!"
"Delish~"
Tama wolfs down the karaage while doing impression like a Nagoya person . I'm glad that it's to their liking .
"Master, isn't this meat something that's quite expensive? I feel like my power swells up every time I bite it . "
I wonder . I didn't experience such thing when I food-tasted it in advance for poison before, but that might be Liza's expression for the deliciousness .
"Every biteful~""The meat is pulsing nanodesu . "
Un, Pochi . I understand, that you like it, but eat it calmly . Please don't say scary things like pulsing meat .
You made me remember meat-man that came out in an old game .
"It's truly delicious . Pochi, Tama, I have reserved that karaage . Be content with the karaage on the forks on both of your hands . Ah, Nana, don't eat it so off-handedly, savor the taste more . Lulu, don't be so modest, eat more . "
And also Liza, calm down .
Everyone asks for second helping so much, they can't eat calmly . It might have been a mistake to take the karaage out of the heating magic tool to the large platter .
Seasoned bamboo shoot rice and whale karaage go well together, but I should prohibit it .
"Uuu, Satou . "
I have to promise the sulking Mia a new sweets, but well it can't be helped . I should invent more food other than meat .
I thought of treating lady Karina and her maids too, but they were out for the promise with the little brother-kun .
We're planning to depart from the duchy capital in the morning of the day after tomorrow, so I guess I should make a bit of feast for tomorrow night .
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The last day of the dark auction is wrapped in bizarre enthusiasm .
The princess of the fallen kingdom is going to be exhibited today, that might be the reason . I feel like this world have poisoned me a bit as I have become someone who can plainly accept the fact that people are being sold like commodities .
This auction hall is as large as a theater hall, the first floor is filled with seats for general bidders, while the second floor has box seats-like seats for nobles . Since the agent man from before has secured one seat on the noble seating in consideration of me, this time I can bid the exhibited items relaxedly . As expected, the people who work as agents are nicely attentive . They'd make me misunderstand like I'm a VIP if they gave me such service .
The first exhibition was for my casted magic sword, and it was immediately won . I tried to offer 10 set of it in jest, but they were all sold just like that . The one who's bought it is the military accountant that has requested it . The casted magic swords have the name Nanashi inscriptions just like before . The swords are sharp-pointed one-handed swords, which are the most popular form in the duchy capital .
Actually, there aren't only these 10 casted magic swords, I have scattered another 10 to be exhibited . It's not only swords, I've also mixed in Magic Halberds among them . I've added it since there's this person who lost the bidding against the military accountant before . I also made three times more the same kind medicines as before to be exhibited here .
Since the agent is excellent, they're probably going to be sold out soon .
There's a rare item called [Gift Orb] being exhibited .
It seems like it can give the user a skill . The one being exhibited now is the [Fire Magic Skill Gift Orb] . After some fierce competition, it was sold for 200 gold coins .
According to the agent's story, Gift Orbs always gets sold at high price . They comes from the labyrinth city, and only five of them appear in the market in a year it seems . Looks like Gift Orbs that are not used for 10 years will lose their effects .
I ask the agent if there's anyone who has Chanting skill Gift Orb, but he doesn't seem to know . It'd be troublesome if he became suspicious, so I didn't ask about [Chanting] in pinpoint . I asked about 5-6 skills .
The bidding for [Aerodynamic Engine of Airship] is unexpectedly unpopular .
Calling it match-fixing would be bad, but it seemed that it was arranged for the powerful nobles who wanted this kind of item .
Of course I also didn't bid .
When I was visiting the airship garage at the duke castle, the factory manager whom I became acquainted with told me that they will be servicing a broken air power engine in a few days, so he was currently in break . It's most likely this one . I'm going to prepare for departure tomorrow, but I'll go there and ask if I can see the exposed parts of the engine .
The thing that I wanted the most [Research Book of Ancient Language] turned out to be something that went way over my expectation .
However I look at it, it looks like a half-size note book . It's probably a belonging of a transported person . I had told the agent that I would bid up to 40 gold coins, but I raised the limit until 300 gold coins . With this, I'll cry if the note contains things like self-poetries, or grudge notes .
Thanks to a guy who competed desperately, the price was raised too much . I could have easily bought it for 10 gold coins if that guy wasn't here, but he opened the bid with 114 gold coins outright .
The agent told me the bidder, so I looked at him, turned out it was an acquaintance .
The heck are you doing hero .
I had prepared myself to compete with the hero again for the next item, [An Unknown Black Plank], but since he didn't bid for it for some reason, I was able to buy [Smartphone] for 23 gold coins . I've never seen the phone, and it also has unfamiliar maker, but it's probably a smartphone . I wonder if the battery is drained, the electricity doesn't run even after I've pushed the switch .
It's probably something that the human who has [Research Book of Ancient Language] kept . I asked the agent if they could sell me the way they obtained the items . I set the upper limit of the information to be 10 gold coins .
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And then, the [Princess of Fallen Kingdom] is exhibited . It's a 9 years old girl who's completely white .
Tama is cuter, but this girl is quite cute too .
She's a former princess of white-haired tigerkin . That reminds me, the tigerkin kingdom was invaded by the weaselkin kingdom wasn't it .
I finally understand now .
This is the reason why several beastkin people are gathering in the sewers since a while ago, they're going to infiltrate this hall . Looks like some of them are infiltrating from the ventilation duct . There's no one who guards that place so it's fine, but the operation will be blown if anyone sees them . I secretly push back a squirrelkin girl who's broken her balance and is going to fall with [Magic Hand] .
The bidding is getting heated, it's been raised until 120 gold coins . Both bidders are humans . One is a noble from the duchy capital, but the other is a noble from a kingdom I've never heard . The former is easy to understand from his lustful expression, but the latter has bloodshot eyes that are scary . Looks like he has some kind of grudges .
I feel the presence of magic, so I look over the location where it comes from, there's a man who produces a black ball . Apparently, that ball is going to erase the illumination in this room .
A voice shouts out "Fire!" with a cliché voice from the direction of east exit and come the white smoke . When the panic is building up, the light disappear, and the rescue team that has infiltrated from the sewer saves the tiger princess .
Nice~ I feel like seeing some kind of movie .
Since it seems like they'll be surrounded by the guarding soldiers, I secretly give them helps them with [Magic hand] under the cover of the darkness . Since the foreign noble from earlier had started to chant Firebolt magic, I used [Magic Hand] to make him faint with a suitable-looking jar . What a dangerous guy .
I invoked [Clairhearing] beside the tiger princess, so I could hear various things .
>[White-tigerkin Language Skill Acquired]
Oops, they're conversing in their native language huh . I allocate a bit of points to it . It'll be fine to just complement the small nuances in my brain .
『Princess Runya, I've come for you . 』
『Galgaoron-sama, I believed that you would surely came to help me . 』
『Gal-aniki, we should escape soon . 』
『That's right, leaving aside the weaselkins, we absolutely won't be able to escape if the duke guards come . 』
『Alright, let's pull back!』
『『Ou!』』
Since the voice sounds familiar, I look at them in darkness, they're faces that I know after all . It's the white tiger-kun and his follower from that time . Even though he's someone who rescues a little girl, he's also kicking sea lion-kin children huh . I intended to help their escape, but that has disappeared somehow . Do your best for the rest .
When I heard about it later, some tigerkins lost their lives to the pursuit force, but it seems that the tiger princess has safely escaped . I'm not that interested with them, but I check the map in order to avoid getting involved, they're moving through the forest toward the royal capital of Shiga kingdom, not the tigerkin country . They're probably going for the self-dominion of beastkin . Since they're going to the opposite direction to where we're going, we won't meet them again .
Actually, a human former princess was going to be exhibited after the tiger princess .
However, since the auction was suspended due to this disturbance, she was entrusted to the duke's house by the duke's recommendation . I'm not privy of the detail, but she seems to be an illegitimate princess of the kingdom where the fiance of princess Menea comes from .
Now, then, after earning abnormal amount of income, and shake off the ones tailing me, let's go on a stroll on the night town .
I have no ulterior motives, I'm just going on a stroll .
Even though I returned with candy set as souvenirs, I got accused of playing around at night for some reason .
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