My House Is a Magic Power Spot ~Just by Living There I Become the Strongest in the World~ - Chapter 225

Chapter 225

Dianeia and the rest returned to the kitchen and saw Sakura wearing an apron making breakfast .

「Ah, welcome back Master . Welcome back you guys . Breakfast will be ready soon so please relax . 」

She had almost finished making everything and several dishes were lined up on the table with food sitting on them .

「Oh, thank you for working so hard so early in the morning . 」
「No no, it’s almost a hobby for me at this point . —oh, as expected of Master, you fished quite a lot . They’re so pretty and shiny, amazing . 」

Sakura said as she looked at the aquarium golem following me .

「Well I wasn’t particularly aiming for such a shiny catch . But since I caught so many I was thinking of salting or marinating them or doing stuff like that or get them all cut up . 」
「Ah, then should I help?」
「No, be at ease and finish with breakfast Sakura . 」

It looked like she’d be finished in a few minutes so I decided to do what I could by myself .

After all there weren’t any real large catches this time .

「Ah, understood . Then I’ll hurry and finish so I can come help you . 」

Sakura said and returned to her work as I took out a mussel from storage .

……for now I’d start with this guy .

I had never handled this thing before so I wanted to give processing it a try .

Technically it was a shellfish so it should have some organs dealing with sand .

But I honestly didn’t know the ecology of this particular creature .

「Dianeia is there anything I need to watch out for when cooking a magic mussel?」

I asked Dianeia who sat nearby and she moved closer while answering .

「Umm… . . I don’t know if this applies to a magic mussel this large, but it’s best to separate the shell and body as soon as you remove it from the water . If not then the muscle that shuts its mouth will harden up and clamp the mouth shut . 」
「I see . Then I’d better use my knife and get it done . Dianeia can I ask you to help out?」
「O-okay… . . I don’t know if my magic is up to the task, but I’ll give it a shot . 」

Dianeia tentatively used my dragon scale knife and shoved it into the mussel’s mouth .

……her strength must’ve been good enough because the knife forced open the mussel’s mouth slightly .

All that was left was to work the knife in and use it like a lever, then we could separate the shell and the meat .

It was unexpectedly easy I thought as I began moving the knife…

—grrr—

It felt like my knife was caught on something .

「… . . un?」

We’d already gotten the blade past the shell so why was it getting caught? I stuck my hand inside the shell and grabbed a few centimeter large round pink colored orb .

「What’s this?」

I held it in my hands as Dianeia’s eyes widened .

「Th-that’s……a magic crystal!? I-I see this one had crystallized a magic crystal… . . ! This is quite a big catch Daichi-dono!」
「Big catch……you mean this magic crystal thing is a big hit?」
「Umu, magic mussels rarely contain enough magic power to condense one of these . Then after dozens of years mix various things together to crystallize its magic . It’s a very precious resource . —they can’t create one unless they live for several decades so it’s very valuable . 」
「So this is quite valuable . 」

I held the sphere between my fingers .

Despite getting hit by the knife there wasn’t a single scratch on it .

…… . I could definitely tell how hard it was .

I hadn’t thought it would be such an amazing item .

「Yes, in material shops and specialty shops you might be able to find one the size of a sesame seed . Larger ones can’t be bought unless you have an amount of money equal to a country . It’s usually kept inside of an extremely power magic protected lock box . 」
「Ehh」

So this thing was like a pearl oyster .

With that kind of thought it’s value far exceeded that of a pearl .

Truly it was quite beautiful and shiny . Even just as a jewel I could see its value .

「It has a gorgeous color to it as well . 」

It was a beautiful mixture between red and pink as it glittered in the light .

The shell was pink colored, but this crystal was even more vividly pink as if it had sucked the very color from its shell .

「Yeah, certainly its much deeper in color than those I’ve seen . Maybe this is also an influenced by how large it became… . it’s probably even more valuable amongst normal crystals which are already valuable . My heart’s beating just looking at it… . 」
「I’d be troubled if you having heart palpitations becomes an issue…」

Well, it’s true that I’ve obtained something good this time .

「For now let’s just collect it . 」

Since it can probably be used for something I placed it inside my pocket .

「Okay, let’s continue until it’s time to eat . We can cook this for one more dish . 」
「A-alright, got it D-Daichi-dono . Leave the cooking to me . 」

And so we began preparing and cooking some of the prey we caught this morning .