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| Editors | Riverson24, KazeKitsune |
Day 443
Golem remodeling continued without even a moment of rest, and 80% of the scheduled remodeling has been completed.
Since the basic operation will be for long distance coverage this time, any aircraft capability should emphasize the ranged attack capability first, but Redhead and Oniwaka are better suited for close range combat due to their tactics and personality problems.
In accordance with that, changes to the aircraft specifications for Auro were made, and looking forward to its mass production, we first created several types of modified series that were similar to the original aircraft, each for their own purpose in an operation.
After that, we customization and tailored each golem based on the occupant it was given to.
While watching the preparations get steadily completed, I continue to eat meat from big beasts hunted in advance and giant dishes before the battle begins.
While the old giant chef who works for the royal family is swiftly cooking while wielding his kitchen knife to make dishes, looking at it, prompts Meal Hero to build dishes with added arrangements.
The dishes are made without rest for the needed giant's amount, the cuisine has been arranged to suit a decent amount of people.
We gladly ate it all.
There is a dish called "Ringuha".
Baked flat with several thighs from a behemoth minced up, there a several kinds of fresh vegetables, such as Amagi Onion and Sediment Tomato, it is a dish with juice from treasured fruit trees that brings out a rich, appetizing appetizing.
Does it look like an okonomiyaki, almost like a flat hamburger?
When putting chopsticks in it is as soft as tofu, juice just overflowing.
The fragrant smell from the flesh and meat juice stimulates the appetite nonstop, saliva seems to be overflowing unintentionally dominating the tongue.
The softness of meat and the sharp texture of vegetables. A harmony of subtle sweetness and acidity.
There are many lean cuts from the big beast, and if some say its rather tough, it is still soft enough to melt in your mouth.
The vegetables were nurtured by the abundant natural and dense magical power, and although it was nutritious and delicious individually, it gained a deeper taste through the fusion with meat.
There is another dish called "Dugolas".
It is a simple dish with slabs of meat from cattle and birds beasts on an iron skewer, shimmering like gold with a type of sand salt, and thoroughly baked over charcoal fire.
However, using the rarest parts of the behemoth generously, it is delicious enough to make a person sigh with just one bite, that's from being seasoned even further with the golden sand salt.
The surface is crisp and the inside is lean but soft, this is simply a delicious meat dish.
Hold it in one hand, open your mouth wide, bite the meat, and finally drink alcohol with your remaining hand.
Oh, it is the best combination.
Another dish is called "Baroto Lele".
This is a type of Getemono cuisine, it uses eggs of bird-type big beasts - they are as big as an adult man.
It is made with a boiled egg cooked just before hatching and, with almost formed beaks and feathers, it results with almost formed chicks. Despite its appearance, it seems that it is effective not only as a nourishing tonic but also for activating magic powers in your body.
The most precious part of the meal seems to be made using the egg of a phoenix, called "Feni · Barroto · Lele", and it is said that if you eat it you will get a certain period of immortality.
According to stories it will even heal incurable diseases, severe damage such as your head being crushed, as well as limb loss and being cut in half will all be repaired at high speed.
After a while I wanted to try it. While thinking about what was said, I sipped at the soup that had a distinctive smell when the egg was added to it, eating the crunchy chicks from the head down while looking at the white eyes that stared out blankly.
The next egg they used this time was from a big eagle called "Arga Texle · Phags" that the giants called a storm of taste, but I personally think that it is delicious for an egg.
Just from looking it was apparent, that Redhead, who was eating next to me, had could not help showing a bad face.
In addition to dishes prepared using big fish and the chefs were also using big bugs.
It is necessary to eat as much as possible the day before a battle, eat it, eat it, eat it, to change everything into blood, so we should all have more to eat.
It was a day I enjoyed gastronomy while using that excuse.
PLACE TRANSLATIONS ABOVE THE BAR. THESE ARE THE RAWS, LEAVE THEM HERE UNTIL SOMEONE DOES A REAL TRANSLATION (NOT JUST A GT OR RUSSIAN TRANS). CLICK EXPAND TO VIEW THEM.
“四百四十三日目”
ゴーレム改造は一瞬たりとも休む事無く続き、予定された行程の八割が完了した。
今回、基本的な運用は遠距離からの援護になるのでどの機体も最初は遠距離攻撃能力を重視していたが、個人の戦法や性格的な問題で赤髪ショートと鬼若の機体は遠距離戦よりも接近戦重視の仕様がいいと言われた。
それに合わせてオーロ達の機体仕様にも変化が起こったので、今後の量産性なども見据えて、まずオリジナルを各種運用目的ごとに合わせた幾つかのシリーズ別に機体を改造した。
その後、それを元にそれぞれ搭乗者に合わせた細かいカスタマイズが施された。
そうして着々と準備が整っていくのを見ながら、俺は決戦に備え、事前に狩っていた巨獣や巨蟲の料理を食べ続ける。
王城に勤める老巨人の料理長が豪快に料理包丁を振るってせっせと料理を造る傍らで、それを見ながら飯勇達がアレンジも加えつつ料理を造る。
巨人用の量で休む事無く造られる料理と、それを人並みの量にしつつアレンジも加えた料理。
それをバクバク食べるのだ。
“リングゥーハ”という料理がある。
数種類の巨獣のもも肉をミンチにして平たく焼き、そこに天領タマネギや地沈トマトといった数種類の新鮮な野菜と、食欲をそそる芳醇な香りを引き出す宝果樹の実の搾り汁を加えた料理だ。
見た目はお好み焼きのように平べったいハンバーグに似ているだろうか。
箸を入れると豆腐のように柔らかく、肉汁が溢れるように出てくる。
フワッと肉汁から香る匂いは食欲を刺激して止まず、思わず口に運べば中から溢れ出る肉汁が今度は舌を支配した。
肉の柔らかさと、野菜のシャキッとした食感。ほのかな甘味と酸味の調和。
巨獣のもも肉は赤身が多く、どちらかと言えば硬くなりやすいのだが、まるで溶けるように解けていく。
野菜は豊かな自然と濃密な魔力によって育まれ、栄養満点で単品でも美味しいのに肉との融合で更に深い味となっていた。
“ジュゴラス”という料理がある。
鉄串に牛系や鳥系の巨獣の肉を刺し、キラキラと光る金砂塩をふり、炭火でじっくりと焼いただけの単純な料理だ。
しかし巨獣の希少部位を惜しげも無く使い、更に旨味成分の塊のような金砂塩で味付けされているからか、ただ一口でホフリと溜息が出るほどに美味い。
表面はカリッと、中は赤身が残されつつも柔らかいこれは、単純に美味い肉料理である。
片手に持って大きく口を開けて肉に噛みつき、残る片手で酒を飲む。
ああ、最高の組み合わせである。
“バロト・レレ”という料理がある。
これはゲテモノ料理の一種で、鳥系巨獣の卵――成人男性くらいの大きさがある――を使う。
孵化寸前の卵をジックリと加熱した茹で卵で、孵化寸前なので嘴や羽根がほとんど出来上がった雛を食べるというものだ。見た目はともかく、滋養強壮だけでなく、体内魔力の活性化などにも効果があるらしい。
最も貴重なのは不死鳥の卵を使う事らしく、フェニ・バロト・レレと呼ばれるそれを食べると一定期間の不死性を得るという。
話によれば不治の病すら治り、四肢欠損や半身分断はもちろん、頭部粉砕などの致命的な損傷すら高速再生するそうだ。
ちょっとそれを食べてみたい。何て事を思いつつ、卵の中の独特な臭いのするスープを啜り、コチラを見つめて来る白目を見つめながらバリバリと雛を頭から食べた。
今回使った卵は巨人達が旨いという嵐呼ぶ大鷲【ビガンテクスル・フェーグス】の卵だったのだが、個人的には美味いと思う。
ただ見た目が見た目なので、隣で食べていた赤髪ショート達は嫌な顔をしていたのも仕方ないだろう。
その他にも巨魚を使った魚料理や、巨蟲を使った蟲料理などを食べ続ける。
決戦の日までに出来るだけ食べて食べて食べつくして、全てを血肉に変える必要があるのだから、もっともっと食べねばなるまい。
何て言い訳をしながら美食を堪能した一日だった。