Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi

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“Oohh, meat!”

“Right, remember to use your own plate and forks,” I called out.
“And don’t forget the sauces!”

“There’s just something about eating roasted meat out in the open,” said Toni happily.

“Personally, I like vegetables better, but meat is really good too.
Especially with this sauce,” said Alban agreeably.

Under Tabasa’s strict supervision, the guards ate in an orderly manner.
Two of them, however, had tears running down their faces.

“Ou, meat is delicious…”

“Aa… meat….
good…”

The dumb twins were eating Blue Bull meat and crying at the same time.
However, neither of them touches the Orc meat at all.
I guess they were still traumatized by That Day.

Well, I’m sure the trauma would go away eventually.

[9] “Mukouda-san, could you explain the ‘dressing’ for the raw vegetables again?” asked Alban eagerly.
His plate was already piled high with lettuces, tomatoes and cucumber slices.

“Yes, this one is called Sesame Dressing.
It’s fragrant and a little smoky.
The white one is French Dressing, that one is creamier and sweeter.
I personally prefer the Sesame Dressing.”

“In that case, I shall try the Sesame Dressing first,” he drizzled the Sesame Dressing onto the vegetables and took a bite.
[9] “Woah, this is really good! Hey, Lotte, boys, come try this!”

[9] Then, he grabbed another bowl, filled it with vegetables topped with Sesame Dressing and made Teresa try it too while he look after the grilling meat under her supervision.
The next thing I knew, more people had gathered around the barbecue stove to try their hand at grilling meats.

[9] For a moment, Teresa, Aiya and Celia looked a little lost at having been pushed away from their jobs but soon shrugged and made their way to the ready to eat table to help themselves to some of the food.

[8] To be fair, having more people did not make grilling go faster.
In fact, some of the meat was a little underdone but still charred in odd places when they reached the table but I quickly swept these into my familiars’ bowl over some rice and covered the lot with plenty of sauce.

“Right,” I said, cheerfully to Fer, Sui and Dora-chan.
“Here are your seconds.”

Luckily, my familiars were pretty okay with the food so long as there was meat and good sauce.
[5]

Still, I had better go and check out what the boys were doing…

…there was nothing but meat on the grill.
I had to shoo the twins away when I saw that the meat was actually three layers deep… “You should never overcrowd the grill!” I scolded.

“Boo….”

“We want more meat quickly…”

Blam, blam!

Yeah, you guys definitely deserve the fist of fury for that.

“Please excuse the idiots,” said Tabasa.

[8] Meanwhile, Bartel was quickly gathering up the excess meats, leaving only one layer of meat on the grill.
“I’m no smith, but us dwarves are pretty deft at handling things over a fire.”

[8] “Thank you for taking care of the barbecue, Bartel,” I said, after observing him for a bit.
Wow, he was pretty good at flipping meat.
“Here, have this as a reward!”

I took out a case of beer, already chilled and popped one open for him.

“Oho? Alcohol? Let me at ‘em!” Bartel chugged the beer and went aaahhhhh….before going for a second can.

“… right, I heard you’ve been going to town on your days off for a drink?”

“Or twenty,” said Bartel honestly.
“Eh, life here is good but I can’t really drink as much as I want.
I’d really like to drink until I can’t anymore.”

He looked a little dreamy at that.

“Well, since today is our break, drink as much as you like!” I pulled up [Net Super] and ordered two more cases of beer as well as cartons of orange juice and bottles of cola.
“Let’s drink and enjoy ourselves!”

“Woohoo!” the other guards also swarmed over the cases of beer.
Meanwhile, I brought the orange juice and cola to the table.
“Here, let the children have these instead.”

Drinks were poured into glasses and I raised my beer, “Cheers everyone! To our day off!”

“Ou!”

“Puuhah! That’s refreshing!”

The sun was shining, everyone was happy around me.
The smell of grilling meat and earth filled the air.

Speaking of meat, we still have that thing.

[8] “Hey, let’s change things up a bit,” I said as I made my way to the grill.
After clearing off the last of the grilled meat, I loaded on more charcoal and gave it a bit of a boost with my Fire Magic before returning the net and started lining up eggplants on one side of the grill and Jerk Chicken on the other.

“Someone get me some ice, yeah?”

[8] Lotte-chan somehow managed to convince Fer to make a whole bucket of ice which she brought over on tottering legs.

“Oh my, Aiya, please fetch some water from the well.
We need to peel the eggplants.”

“Peel the-” she stared at my grill.
One side has sizzling meat while the other has blackened things on it.
However, remembering the corn, she shrugged and obeyed the order.

[8] While waiting, I collected the blackened eggplants and placed them into a bowl.
The freed up space was lined with more marinated Jerk Chicken.

I handed Jerk Chicken Grilling Duty to Aiya and settled down to peel the eggplants.
First, plunge the hot eggplant into the ice water and peel them.
It was easy now that they have been shocked by the cold.
After peeling the eggplants and removing the green tops, I cut them into strips and set them in a clean bowl.
Then, I sprinkled bonito flakes and mentsuyu over the eggplants and started tossing them like a salad.

“Right, the grilled eggplant is ready!” It’s a little troublesome to make but really delicious.

“The Jerk Chicken is done too,” called Teresa as she helped Aiya take the chicken off the grill and ferried it over to the ready to eat table and placed it next to the grilled eggplant.

“Wow, this smell is really different,”

“It’s spicy and smoky and sweet at the same time.”

[8] Naturally, I had to serve my familiars first.
Well, Fer gets three pieces of Jerk Chicken while Dora-chan and Sui gets one each.
“I’ll give you more later, okay? It’s a little spicy so Sui can try it first.
You can have more if you like it.”

“Umu, this flavour is different.”

“”Different, good!””

“”Hmm…”

“Puhah! This one goes even better with a cold one!” someone yelled.
Who else could it be but Bartel?

“Bartel, you’re drinking too much on your own!”

“Yeah, indeed!”

The two stupid twins protested, but Bartel was not bothered by them at all as he popped open another can of beer.
“Those who attack first wins!”

The twins protested again but I assured them, “Drink, drink, there’s plenty where that came from.” I popped open two cans and handed them to the twins.

“Ohh, Mukouda-san, you’re the best!”

“As expected from Mukouda-san!”

The sun, the smell of grilling meat, a cold beer in my hand and laughter all around me.

This is the life.

[Gumihou: Okay, Gumi basically read the whole thing, processed it, and bashed it out along with the necessary details.
Also, erm, Gumi may have added 700 words to the chapter…]

[1] Structural Change: Combine 2 paragraphs

[2] Structural Change: Combine 3 paragraphs

[3] Structural Change: Combine paragraph & dialogue

[4] Structural Change: Change passive sentence to dialogue

[5] Delete Repetitive or Pointless Information

[6] Additional Information for Aesthetic Purpose

[7] Add Dialogue Tag

[8] Creative Licence Taken – Give details, give lots of details.

Because, like, please give more details than just ‘here, this is the sauce’ and expect everything to happen on its own.
Details like: who’s grilling the food? How large is the table? Were the food grilled already?

Also, what’s with all the ‘oh yum, oh yum’ repeats that span over a thousand words? Note [5]!!

[9] Details on salad dressing and the eating of raw vegetables.
Please don’t let the locals be too shocked about eating raw vegetables.
Especially poor farmers.

Although, okay, during Elizabethan era, recipe books that featured salads usually involved boiled greens.