Orc Harem Vol 5 Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Sometimes Sweets Play an Active Role in Political World

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I took out the tiramisu from the cooler box, overturned the mold and served it on a big plate.

The black dough that had been permeated with coffee syrup and the  gradation of cheese cream that was made from mascarpone cheese are  beautiful.

I started doing the finishing touches.

In the original recipe, I should sprinkle cocoa powder here for  decoration, but I always thought that the effect of cocoa powder is thin  with how the coffee syrup that was made from thickly boiling espresso  is overpowering the cocoa’s appearance, taste, and also scent.

That’s why, I added my own arrangement at the end.

I sprinkled a powder of dried orange skin. The powder has brilliant  color, and unlike in its raw form, the mellow sourness of this powder is  very suitable for coffee.

「It’s complete. This is the sweets that I’ll provide in the festival and cannot be eaten anywhere else……tiramisu.」

There are three reasons why it can only be eaten in the festival. In  the first place, cow milk is only circulate in small amount in this  continent. Not to mention that mascarpone cheese that can only be  created I cold climate doesn’t exist. And last it’s only Zacharic  Company that has succeeded in importing coffee bean to this continent.

I cut up the tiramisu and distributed it to everyone along with a cup of coffee.

「What a nice smell. The smell of coffee and orange reach the nose even without bringing my face closer.」(Tita)

「It smell really delicious.」(Kururu)

「Yes, there is no other dessert that has a scent as enjoyable as this.」

Yes, it’s rare for a dessert to have a scent as strong as tiramisu.

The real thing that used espresso will first intoxicate the guest with its scent.

「Take a sip of coffee after eating a spoonful.」

「Ah, Ork-san. Please give me honey. I’m not good with bitter thing.」

「Drink it black today. Just try it thinking that I’m tricking you.」

Kururu’s sense of taste is sensitive, perhaps because she is a fox.  She liked coffee’s scent, but she isn’t good with bitter taste, so she  always put a lot of honey into her coffee.

I gave her black coffee even knowing that.

「……It’s a bit scary but, I’ll believe you.」

「Otou-san, Marle want to eat right away! It’s still, not the time?」

「Aa, sorry. You can eat now.」

Everyone took a bite with that signal.

「Ah, delicious, somehow the taste is, umm, it’s a really stylish taste.」(Tita)

「It’s strange. It doesn’t taste bitter even though it is.」(Kururu)

「It’s a shockingly high class taste. It’s sweet, and bitter, this is  my first time tasting something like this. But, I really like this. This  sweets, it will be highly popular among the high society.」(Rurine)

「Delicious!」(Marle)

I’m glad, it looked like the taste is properly suitable for them. For  these girls this is their first experience with bittersweet taste. I  was feeling anxious that perhaps they would reject the taste by some  chance.

Even so, Kururu’s sensitivity surprised me.

Bitter, but not bitter, that is none other than the peculiarity of tiramisu.

Sponge cake that has coffee syrup seeping into it originally would be  so bitter that people would universally reject it. But, with mascarpone  cheese’s gentle sweetness following behind that intense first  impression, that bitterness got enveloped and the sweetness came  immediately after.

That’s exactly why the bitterness didn’t turn into displeasure in  them. This is something that a normal cheese won’t be able to  accomplish.

If it’s just to envelop the bitterness than even a normal cheese can  do it, but its sourness will break the harmony of the taste. Only  mascarpone cheese that has no sourness and possessed strong thickness  and gentle sweetness can oppose espresso.

「Drink the coffee next.」

「Ah, it feels refreshing in the mouth.」

「This is the first time I can think of black coffee as delicious!」

「It’s a very amazing harmony.」

「Marle like thiss」

The affinity between coffee and tiramisu is the best.

The cheese cream that is stuck inside the mouth softened the taste of  coffee, while the coffee also washed down the greasiness of cheese.

「I’m planning to sell this set at the festival. ……I’m confident that  it will be popular from word of mouth even without doing anything. But,  just in case I want to advertise it as assurance. I need Rurine’s  assistance for that. So how about it Rurine? Is this sweets worthy for  your praise?」

Gazes gathered on Rurine.

Rurine showed an adult smile that didn’t suit her actual age.

Sometimes the little sister Rurine can look older like this.

「Of course it is. This is my first time eating a sweets this delicious. It makes me want to brag to everyone.」

「That’s great. Then, I’m counting on you for the advertisement.」

「Yes……also I want to ask for an advice. How long the tiramisu will last if it’s kept cool with ice?」

「The taste can last for three days. It will stay edible for five days.」

「Then, can I ask Ork-niisama to make one more? There will be a tea  party the day after tomorrow. The host will be our Forland Kingdom. It  will be held after a study meeting that gathered the sons and daughters  of high ranked aristocrats of many countries to deepen friendship.」

「You’re going to serve tiramisu there?」

「Yes, if I have to advertise it anyway then let’s do it thoroughly.  Besides, the pastry chef in this palace is being greatly troubled right  now thinking of how to win this war.」

A sweets that is going to be served in a tea party where sons and daughters of high ranked aristocrats are gathered.

It’s not something that can be made light of at all. Sweets can possibly become something to measure civilization.

Sweets could take that role instead of meal……exactly because it’s  something for pleasure that the national strength of various countries  can be tested. Something that is served in an event hosted by the royal  family meant that it’s the most excellent sweets of that country that  will be seen by the nobles of other countries. The country will get  underestimated if a bad sweets got served.

「Is that alright?」

「Is Ork-niisama not confident with its taste?」

「The problem isn’t that. If I’m the royal pastry chef, I’ll get  offended if an outsider is the one doing this. Thinking in the long  term, it will bring a negative result if you harm their pride.」

「Fufu, Ork-niisama is looking down too much on our royal pastry  chefs. They have the spirit to admit something wonderful as wonderful  and the will to surpass it. That’s exactly why they can serve as our  country’s royal chefs. Of course, I’ll also make them try this cake. And  then I’m going to ask them whether they can surpass it.」

……I see, so it’s not Rurine but me who doesn’t think about the emotion of the royal chefs.

「What if the pastry chefs say that they can create something better and do it for real?」

「Then that will be the one that Rurine serve in the party.」

「You have a nice personality there.」

I smiled wryly.

「Because, I’ll become this country’s king in the future. The country’s benefit is number one.」

「Yeah, that’s the most correct. As expected from Rurine.」

Unlike me who prioritized my women above all else despite having the  ability, Rurine is correctly prioritizing her country as the number one.

「But, Rurine believes that Ork-niisama will be the winner.」

「Got it, then I’m counting on you. Is it alright if the size is as big as this mold?」

「Yes, it will be enough with that. Ork-niisama’s tiramisu will become hot topic all over the world.」

「Got it. Then, keep this in mind. The taste will degrade if the cake  comes into contact with air. I’ll put enough ice in this cooler box, so  don’t open it until right before the cake will be eaten.」

「I understand.」

This is the inescapable fate of fresh sweets.

The more the cream got into contact with air, the worse it will  become. The taste can only last when the sweets is placed into  encapsulated container where it has enough humidity and the temperature  is kept low.

「But what are we going to do about the share for my royal chefs’ sampling?」

「No, there is still this much leftover here, see.」

Rurine said that this one mold will be enough because normally in a  tea party, a cake will be cut into small portion elegantly. A mold this  size is enough for the share of twenty people.

Naturally the tiramisu that I just created is still remaining.

「What are you saying Ork?」

「We still want seconds.」(Kururu)

「Yaa, Marle want to eat more!」

Tita smilingly cut up the tiramisu for everyone’s share of second helping.

Furthermore the size is bigger than what I served them at first.

「Hey, Rurine also wants seconds right?」

「Of course.」

「……Oi」

The tiramisu is completely gone after it has gotten cut up in big slices for everyone’s share.

「You all are going to get fat.」

Sponge cake that has been soaked full with coffee syrup and a lot of  cheese that is a lump of fat. There is no way they won’t get fat.

「It’s fine, I’m going to keep Rurine company with her training today after all.」

「Do you know? Fox won’t store fat any more than necessary.」

「Marle want to grow bigger.」

It seemed none of them is scared at all of getting fatter.

Rurine is also eating the cake with wide smile.

……Well, I guess doing demonic training like this everyday will consume a lot more calorie than this.

Besides, Rurine will feel more comfortable to hug if she put on a bit more weight.

Perhaps I should try to make more fattening sweets next time?  Something like donut might be nice. The sugar, oil, and carbohydrate  monster. Everything necessary to fatten up is lined up in it.

「Oorc orc orc」

Orc laugh unconsciously slipped out.

Get fatter, become closer to my preference.

The girls are speaking to each other whisperingly behind my back.

I’m begging you all, please speak normally.

「Cough. ……It can’t be helped, then, I’ll make two cakes the size of this mold. Eat one of them with everyone in the palace.」

「Yes, please do so!」

The effort and time needed to make one or two isn’t that much different.

It’ll be fine if everyone can get happy with that.

……With this the rumor of tiramisu will spread to all over the world. People will surely flood in at that day.

Well, that’s exactly why the cow milk will be 100% lacking with just the supply from my own ranch.

I have to return to my birthplace and somehow persuaded those guys to supply me with cow milk.

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