Orc Harem Vol 4 Chapter 8

Chapter 8: The More Grotesque the Appearance of the Fish Was, the Tastier It Was

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New weapon, Orc Cannon.

It pierced the giant squid that could only be called as Kraken.

The giant body had a large hole opened in it and it floated on the surface. The sea around it was dyed blue.

With its giant size, it shouldn’t die just from having a hole opened in it, but this result was due to the property of Orc Cannon. It was a cannon that made the target’s cells go into necrosis and killed target by destroying it from inside.

「Fuu, thank god we have the Orc Cannon. The seven weapons are the greatest yeah!」

The name Orc Car wasn’t suitable for it anymore. Yes, how about calling it Orc GOGOGO! instead.

「Say Ork, what were you thinking installing a carriage with that kind of thing? Just what were you assuming would happen? It’s not needed isn’t it?」

「It’s for this kind of situation!」

I said that smugly, but Tita didn’t believe me.

Well, that’s, sorry.

I didn’t really have any deep reason for that.

「You mentioned about seven tools Ork-san. There are seven tools like that in this car?」

「No, I already showed several of them before. The Orc Cannon just now, then the function to change into ship, and there is the emergency booster right? Other than that there is the function to look into the sea right?」

「Only the last one is suddenly far more lackluster than the rest!」(Kururu)

「Don’t call it lackluster, sightseeing is important.」

「What are the remaining three?」(Kururu)

「That’s a secret. They will be used one day.」

I’m lying.

There was still one tool that was properly installed, but the other two were still in the planning stage.

To be more accurate there were five tools, but I claimed there were seven because it was cooler that way.

「I’m looking forward to that, but I’m also anxious.」(Tita)

「Anyway, let’s just rejoice that we have gotten lunch.」

「Don’t tell me, we are going to eat that?」(Kururu)

「Grilled squid is delicious you know?」

「There are a lot of fishes that die from the Kraken’s blood and float up to the surface though.」(Kururu)

「Even though the blood is poisonous, the meat isn’t. There won’t be any problem if we remove the blood.」

The visual of blue blood was greatly reducing the appetite.

By the way the blood of normal squid was also blue.

The tentacle that was cut off was hanging on Orc Car, so I requested fire spirits to grill it and ate it in front of the two.

Aa, yeah, I see, so it’s like this.

「As I thought, let’s change spot and fish some fishes.」

「Could it be, it’s poisonous?」(Tita)

「Are you alright!?」

「No, it’s, you know. The taste is just bland, and on top of that it taste somewhat bitter. The umami is also thin. Perhaps it’s that, huge squid might be no good.」

This orc had become smarter again than before.

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It was lunch time. We began fishing.

I watched into the sea and lowered down the fishing line at a point where there seemed to be a lot of fishes.

The bait was a preserved jerky. That might seem unexpected, but fish could also be caught using jerky. The trick was to chew the jerky first to make it soft. The fish would be lured by the scent of meat and bit at it.

We were smack dab in the middle of ocean, so we didn’t need to wait long at all.

「I caught a big one!」

「Ahaha, I thought of catching a lot, but just this one will make all of us full.」(Tita)

The fish that Kururu caught had a wicked looking face. Its whole body was covered with mucus, and its fangs were sharper than even knife. Its jaw was also tough. It could easily bite off Kururu’s finger.

It would be impossible to fish it without using a specially made needle and string.

It struggled inside the car and tried to bite Kururu. Tita cut off its head with a knife.

What a daring way to unhook a fish.

Even after its head was cut off, the movement of its head and its lower body were still filled with powerful life force for a while.

「Can this thing be eaten?」

「It’s delicious you know? You can cook it into anything.」

「Is that so?」

That fish was a moray.

It wasn’t really consumed at Japan, but it was treated as a high class fish by some people.

Its appearance looked like monster, but it had high class flesh to be used for sashimi.

Not only the flesh had a lot of fat, its texture was like gelatin, so the flesh wouldn’t get dried out even if it was grilled. It would taste mellow and softly delicious.

It’s a rare chance, let’s turn it into sashimi and hot pot.

「I also want to fish.」

「Isn’t it fine if you just catch some fish without eating it?」

「That’s no good. You should only hunt for what you need. When you take a life you have to properly make use of it.」

Elf’s teaching huh.

It was truly rational. They lived together with the forest and ate the blessing of the forest. If they hunted and harvested without thinking, the blessing of the forest would immediately run out.

「Then what about that Kraken?」

「Ah, that was simply us turning the table on it after it attacked us!」

It seemed that the elf’s teaching was relatively lenient.

……Well, it would be troubling even if we were told to eat the Kraken whose size was more than ten times of Orc Car. And it would also be agonizing because it tasted bad.

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While I quickly prepared the dishes, I entrusted the driving to Kururu.

「It’s done, let’s eat.」

「Hee, even though it has really scary appearance, it’s so pretty after it’s turned into food.」(Tita)

What I created was really thin sashimi like when serving puffer fish.

The flesh was quite hard, so it would be hard to chew if the flesh was cut into chunks.

And then the other dish was a hot pot. The flesh had a lot of fat and it floated on the surface of the pot.

「The sashimi look delicious.」(Kururu)

「As expected you are used to it huh.」

「I was also reluctant to eat something like this at first.」(Tita)

Tia only knew about lake fish. Most fishes from river had the risk of containing parasite and the like, so it was forbidden to eat it raw.

As for Kururu, she lived far away from sea and river and couldn’t obtain fish with good freshness. She was under the impression that it would be dangerous to eat fish without cooking it with fire first.

It took some time for the two of them to get used to sashimi, but now the two of them could say that it was one of their favorite foods.

「Then, I’ll try it right away……ah, this is amazing. It’s crisp, the taste is deep even though it’s so thin, I can get used to this.」(Tita)

「This sashimi is the tastiest from all the sashimi I have tried until now-」

I also tried eating it. It tasted like a puffer fish with richer flavor. It was really delicious.

Thanks to its excellent freshness it had this wonderful texture when chewing it, but now I also wanted to try eating it after the flesh had been ripened so its umami increased.

Why wasn’t a fish this tasty got popular at Japan?

I heard that it was even more loved than puffer fish at Kochi but……perhaps the people at Kochi monopolized this fish for themselves that it didn’t show up at the market.

……Well, I’m just joking. Most likely it was because of its appearance. Especially the color of its skin. It was completely unimaginable that this fish could be this delicious after seeing that.

And then I moved on to the hot pot. Hou, this was great.

「Amazing-, it’s also really tender with the hot pot. It’s so mysterious.」(Kururu)

「That’s because its body is containing collagen.」

「It’s really delicious. It also giving a really nice taste to the soup.」(Tita)

I used the bones for the soup stock and melted the innards into it. And then I seasoned it with salt that I took from the sea. Those were all that I used for this soup.

I used the goosefish soup dish for reference and it seemed that I made the right choice.

To think it would become this delicious from that.

(I also want to try making standard deep-fried food with this fish. And it seems the skin is also delicious to eat.)

Let’s try catching a moray again when we went home.

This food was this delicious. It would be a waste to just eat it once.

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And then the sun had set completely and night came. We finally arrived at the continent that was our destination.

I had come here many times to procure pepper. The city that was ruled by my acquaintance was also really close.

「It’s hot. What’s more the air is a bit humid.」

「I don’t mind the hotness but, this humidity is annoying.」

「You are already used to the hot temperature from blacksmithing huh.」

「……Yes, but I dislike this dampness. The fur of my tail feels starchy from it. It feels disgusting.」

The requirement to grow pepper was high temperature and humidity.

This climate must be harsh for the two of them who were used to cold and dry air.

「How about stripping for now?」

The gazes of the two were cold.

「No, I don’t mean anything lewd by that. It’s normal to take off your clothes when it’s hot right?」

「That’s true but, I’m getting scared of how hot it will be at noon if it’s already like this at night.」(Tita)

「We need to do our best to familiarize ourselves with this.」

The tension of the two was lowering.

Adapting to the environment was one of the problems of overseas trip.

I could do something about this if I requested the wind spirits but, well, let’s just have them get used to this.

This too was a charm of going in a trip.

We would stay in Orc Car for tonight before going to the city when it was bright.

There were a lot of things that would make the two of them happy at that city. Surely they would be pleased there.

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