It Looks Like I Got Reincarnated in Another World

Chapter 28 - Recently, Eating Oily Foods Has Been Giving Me Stomach Aches

…I’m a bit hesitant about whether I should come back or not.

Anyways, with this, the matters regarding weapons and clothes are all solved. So next up, food. But where should I go to eat? I was a bit unsure. It’s not really something I can go to the guild to ask about…

I glanced up at the sky, it looked like it was about noon. In that case, let’s just head back to the inn and eat. Thus, I returned back to the inn.
　
I decided to have lunch at the inn. The menu was saute rabbit meat. And a light soup with bread. I wished there was rice instead, I’m getting tired of eating bread.

As I was eating, I heard a voice coming from the kitchen.

“Like I said, this is completely different! What I ate was much more crunchier and tender! What I ate was overflowing with flavor…”

“I made it just like you told me to! This should be as delicious as it gets! But you say you ate something even more delicious than this!?”

“Then how about you stop acting so stubborn and just ask for the recipe!”
“You want me to bow my head to such a little child!”

Right, I’m not really sure what’s going on, but it seems complicated. I’ll just continue eating then.

After I finished eating, I asked one of the waiters for the location of the market and headed there.

Oh, it looks quite busy here. How nice.

After looking around for a while, I found a place selling potatoes! I used Appraisal on the potatoes, freshness, check, recently-harvested, also check. I bought all of them at once. Potato salad, french fries. It’s hard to give up on these types of foods. Now, if I just had butter too… yep.

After exploring around a bit more, I’ve found tomatoes! But there wasn’t anywhere selling cheese. Oh, but I found butter! …I wonder if milk is being sold somewhere.

But I didn’t feel like buying the flour because it had other things mixed into it. If it was just some millets inside then it would at least be edible, but sand and stones… were they trying to kill people?

I could probably separate them by using Storage, but I didn’t really feel like doing so. At the very least, I would like to find something a bit better. But in a world like this… I’m not exactly sure if there would be anything better? But fortunately…

Hurray, I found something that could be eaten!

“I would like this please!”

“Yes, thank you very mu-… huh, aren’t you-”

“Huh, Nicole?”

It was Nicole.

After talking for a bit, it seems that he usually conducts business at his store near the commercial district. The reason he was here was because he wanted to sharpen his savviness. Apparently, even after setting up his store, he would still come here to sell things out of habit from his earlier years. I could understand that, it was important not to forget your roots. Like how I had ran away for freedom.

“But this flour, huh. There are other… ohh, I see, your glasses.”

“Right, something like that. By the way…”

When I asked Nicole if he knew anything about rice, he told me that he would sometimes carry it. But he didn’t have any in stock right now. As such he gave me the location of his store and agreed to sell me some next time.

“But, rice… It’s not really a popular ingredient…..oh, right, you’re actually a pretty good cook. Do you perhaps have a recipe that uses rice?”

“Yes, rather, I have many recipes. I actually really like rice.”

“I see, recipes that use rice…”

Nicole has begun calculating potential profits. If I stayed here any longer I might be introduced to his son and be involved in various other troublesome things, thus, I decided to retreat.

Afterwards, I bought various other different things. I also bought a bit of salt. Which ended up costing a total of one small gold coin. I already blew through two small gold coins today… to be honest, it sort of hurts. As such, I will do my best tomorrow.

I arrived back at the inn a little early, but I decided to take a bath. After that, I began the process of strengthening the throwing knives. As expected, 110 was quite a lot. But I managed to finish strengthening all of them. However, as a result, I had almost no MP left.

I headed towards the dining hall feeling a bit light-headed just in time for dinner. I was disappointed in the morning, so I’m expecting something delicious this time!

…And a cutlet sandwich was brought out.

Eh… what’s this? It wasn’t an exact copy of the cutlet sandwich I made, but instead an imitation. I could tell just by looking at it that it was something quite complex.

First, the bread. It was completely drenched in oil. The chopped cabbage too. My appetite was almost gone at this point. The taste was quite dreadful. Ughh, my clothes were getting dirty too. The meat inside also had too much salt on it so it was quite salty. And the meat was hard too. I tried eating a bit more. It was also full of tendons. This was quite horrible. I want to leave.

I could also hear voices coming from the kitchen.

“I told you so! Did you see the face she was making!?”

“But even so, the other customers were praising it!”

“That’s not the issue here!”

I understand that he was trying to copy what I made, I really do… but this is just terrible.
　
I washed it down with the soup and somehow managed to finish it all. But it was so oily that it made my stomach ache.

I glanced around my surroundings, and the other customers were lavishing the food with praise. Probably, because it was a dish that didn’t exist in this world. But even so, this was a different matter. Ugh, I need to rest my stomach.

“Um, excuse me…”

It was the waitress girl with the blonde ponytail.

“Our cook just wanted to make it no matter what… he had asked me to help him since I was watching you cook from the side, but it ended up becoming something completely different.”

According to her explanation, it seems that the cook had an interest in imitating dishes he has never seen before. He had seen how I made it, and the ponytail waitress had also been watching from the side. He had believed he should’ve been able to make the dish since he had been a cook for so long.

But when he actually tried making it, he ended with a completely different thing. Although the ponytail waitress had eaten the dish before, the cook didn’t really listen to the advice she offered. And in the end, he pushed to have what he made served as tonight’s dinner. Additionally…

“Also he’s been telling other customers that it’s a dish he came up with by himself, so I really am sorry.”

Recipes that have never been seen before are of great value. Apparently, the cook wanted the honor of having invented the dish, but even so, really? Even more so, he had named the dish “shredded orc meat with fried bread.” The name was quite terrible.

“It’s fine, rather it’s essentially a completely different dish. So it isn’t something to fret over. You ate it before so it should be obvious, right?”

“Yes, that is true…”

Afterwards, I talked for a bit with the ponytail waitress before heading back to my room.

Additionally, the ponytail girl’s name was Lily. Apparently, she also wasn’t from this town, and had followed her older sister when she came to this town for work reasons. She was referred to this inn for work also because of her sister.

After being healed by the ponytail girl, I went right to sleep. But I had stomach aches during the night and had to go to the bathroom numerous times.