Orc Harem Vol 4 Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Making Sweets was a Battle Against Fruit

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The jelly and gelato were finished.

Tita and Rurine’s training should have finished too around this time, so we headed toward the training ground.

It seemed there was a training ground that was exclusive for high class knight’s use, separated from the place that was used by the average soldiers, so we headed there.

「They are really going at it.」

「So Tita-san can also use sword.」

Kururu was watching with an impressed look.

Right now Tita and Rurine were having a mock battle.

Tita wasn’t using bow that she was good with, but a sword. Although I said sword, it was something that should be called a short sword.

Total length of 90 cm with the blade’s length around 70 cm was the mainstream in this country. Rurine was also using that type of sword, but Tita’s sword was around 60 cm in total length and the length of its blade was only around 40 cm.

Tita’s main weapon was bow and the short sword was only there as support weapon in the end. That was the way elf fought. Normal sword was too heavy and bulky to be used as support weapon. It would only get in the way and tire the user.

「They are mostly even.」

「That’s surprising. Even though it should be disadvantageous when there is that much difference in reach.」

The difference of 30 cm was big in close quarter combat. The weapon with longer reach could arrive at the target first and could control the battle one-sidedly.

「Tita’s kinetic vision and reflexes are prodigious.」

That was what made up for Tita’s disadvantage. Kinetic vision and reflexes could be trained to a certain degree, but a large part of them was made up from talent from birth.

「She is also fast and strong.」

The other factor was physical ability.

Her physical ability couldn’t be compared from when she still lived in the elf village.

「The match is decided.」

「So Rurine-san won.」

「It’s not only because of the difference in weapon. The difference in skill between the two is also wide. Tita isn’t an amateur, but in the end her sword is just a sub-weapon for her bow that is only used for self-protection. Now, let’s go.」

「Yes-」

We headed to where the two of them were at.

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It seemed the training today was over with that mock battle.

The two of them stretched their body at the end before the instructor announced the end of the training.

……I felt a bit interested with the instructor. Their bearing was really beautiful. They were an extremely strong fighter.

As expected from the knight who instructed Kaa-san.

「Ork, you came.」

「It’s a rare chance, so how about we have the sweets outside like this?」

「Ah, that will be great.」

Today was warm. Such temperature was rare for this region. Jelly and gelato were also cold sweets. It would be better to eat them outside.

When I looked at the other participant of the mock battle, Rurine was making a grave expression while deep in thought.

「You seems like in a bad mood?」

「Bad mood? Me? ……Perhaps so. I’m feeling a bit, frustrated.」

「No way, Rurine-chan, you won against me just now.」

「Yes, but I was unable to overwhelm Tita-san. I’m not being conceited, but I’m overwhelmingly superior to Tita-san in skill……but, I won only barely. Perhaps I’ll lose next time if Tita-san simply improves your skill somewhat. My technique is still immature in some places. But, I won’t be able to expect any explosive growth from here. One day I’ll definitely become unable to win against Tita-san.」

There was a limit in relying on technique.

It wouldn’t take that much time to become a first-class. Effort to a mind-numbing degree was needed to aim to become super first-class. But the path ahead from there was a thorny path. It would become harder and harder to grow the further you progressed.

Overwhelming the opponent with technique only worked against opponent within a certain degree.

Yes, there was upper limit on how strong one could be based on the specs they were born with.

「Yeah, I also think that Rurine’s swordsmanship is already in the realm of completion. You are an excellent swordsman even throughout the whole Forland Kingdom. Well, you must look like a genius from the perspective of the mediocre people.」

「Right. I myself believed that I’m a genius. I’m jealous. If only I have physical ability and magic power capacity likes Tita-san and Ork-niisama. Are all elves like Tita-san?」

Rurine turned a gaze that was filled with jealousy at Tita.

「Err, you see, I descended from the lineage of priestess and my existence is special even among the elves. But, it wasn’t to this degree in the past. Since I became a couple with Ork, my magic power, my ki, and even my physical ability grew by a looot」

「Me too. Since I became a couple with Ork-san, I became stronger and it became easier to do blacksmith work. In the end stamina and physical strength and magic power capacity means everything. There are a lot of things that I can’t do without enough of those things.」

Rurine’s eyes widened hearing what the two said.

「How did that happen!? Please teach me. It’s not normal that not only your physical ability, but even your magic power and ki can increase like that!」

Physical ability could be trained.

But, it was said that magic power and ki couldn’t be increased.

Tita and Kururu looked troubled seeing Rurine so fixated with this topic like that. They were at a loss of how to answer her.

「Umm, err, I think it will be better if Ork is the one who answer that question.」

「Right, it’s a bit embarrassing to say the answer from our mouth.」

Guess so.

The two of them weren’t good with that kind of thing.

「Ork-niisama!」

「Well, it’s that. Do you know that my race is Evol Orc?」

「Of course. I have investigated everything about Ork-niisama.」

「And, we Evol Orc create children who inherited all the strong points of both their parents. Try to imagine it normally. Do you think that the mother’s body will be alright if she is pregnant with a child that have abnormal strength like me?」

「Now that Ork-niisama mention it, that’s true……」

「Right? That’s why, we Evol Orc has a certain ability. When we have sex, the female will be strengthened so she becomes able to endure giving birth to our child. They won’t get pregnant until they are strong enough.」

It was one of Evol Orc’s seven abilities. Strengthening of mother’s body.

Without this ability, Evol Orc might have gone extinct sometime in the past without being able to leave behind any descendant.

……Well, though even with this ability our race ended up being unable to endure the strength of our blood in the end and we were just one step short from ruin.

「That’s amazing-. So that’s why today my body feel strangely light and I can swing my sword faster. Ork-niisama, please sleep with Rurine every day!」

Her eyes were blazing.

This girl, she was greedy in various senses.

……And then seeing her clinging on this topic so doggedly like this made me reflexively had a thinking. If I used this ability to appeal to a type of girl who wanted to become strong, wouldn’t I be able to make them fall for me in the blink of eye?

No, that’s no good. I had decided that it would be pointless unless we loved each other from the bottom of our heart.

「I’ll do my best while I’m staying here. Though as expected, I can’t do it every day. I also want to love Tita and Kururu.」

For me, I could do something like making love to the three of them at the same time, but Tita and Kururu didn’t really like orgy play.

The desert festival before this was just a special service in the end.

「That can’t be helped. Also, my reason for making love with Ork-niisama isn’t just because I want strength okay? I want to be loved by Ork-niisama because I love you too.」

So sly, but, it was an adorable slyness.

「Onii-chan will work hard! ……But putting that aside, I bring the sweets that I promised. Let’s eat it together.」

「Ah, so it’s finished.」

「They look really tasty.」(Kururu)

「That’s great. I want to eat sweet thing right now.」(Rurine)

I had confidence with this creation. Surely they would be happy with them.

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There were high class tables and chairs prepared in the training ground for the high class knight because big shots often came to watch the training here.

I quickly arranged the sweets I created.

「This fruit has a really nice smell. What’s more it’s pretty like flower.」

「Ah, isn’t this mango? I’m amazed Ork-niisama can obtain this. This is my first time seeing this kind of cut, but it looks pretty and easy to eat. Please teach me the way to make it later.」

「Something like mango isn’t that unusual for a royalty right?」

「No, even royalty cannot eat mango that often. The national treasury will be emptied if the whole royal family eat something like this every day.」

I guessed that was only natural. The number of the royal family members was unexpectedly a lot.

「This isn’t all you know?」

「Why are you looking smug like that Kururu?」

She was there with me in the kitchen, but it wasn’t like she was helping with anything. She was just watching me.

I also served the remaining menu, mango jelly and mango gelato.

「These also look delicious.」(Tita)

「I want to eat them quickly.」(Rurine)

It seemed that Rurine didn’t know about gelato, though she knew about jelly.

If even Rurine didn’t know about it, then perhaps gelato wasn’t something common in this world.

I could smell money from this too.

「Then, let’s eat.」

As the creator I was also looking forward to taste them.

After all, most of the fruits in this world weren’t that delicious.

The fruits that could be eaten in Japan had gone through hundreds of years of selective breeding to make them delicious to eat. Fruits that were closer to their natural state lacked sweetness, had strong bitterness, and the taste was thin……a lot of fruits were like that.

But, there was always exception in everything. Delicious fruits existed even among fruits that were close to its natural state. Yes, just like this mango.

I quickly scooped the mango with a spoon and brought it to my mouth.

Aa, delicious.

It had natural sweetness that was unique to fruit, and yet the flavor was rich.

It was understandable why it received a special treatment as a high class fruit.

「So tasty-, this fruit is amazing-, I thought that the fruits in human city taste dicey, but this one taste really tasty.」

「Uuu, so this is the taste of 400,000 gil. My tears, my tears are coming out~」

The vegetables and fruits in elf village were especially delicious due to the blessing of the world tree.

This mango’s taste must be considerable because someone like Tita who was raised eating such things was giving her praise.

「It has been a long time since I eat one, but mango is delicious as expected……also, these sweets……. Let’s start from the transparent and pretty jelly. Ah, this is good. The sourness is refreshing and the food texture is interesting. It’s lovely that the mango’s flesh is put into it as it is.」

「The cold sweets is also great. Yep, it’s soft and melts smoothly in my mouth. The flavor is really rich and sweet, and yet it doesn’t taste cloying.」(Tita)

「Yes, it has different sweetness from fruit. I like this.」(Kururu)

It’s great that the jelly and gelato were also received favorably.

I tried eating them myself. Yeah, it was well done.

In mango’s case, its taste would be damaged if it was processed too much. I managed to finish the sweets while still leaving behind the mango’s goodness properly.

「Fuu, it was deliciousss」

「Yes, I’m totally content.」(Kururu)

「If it’s Ork-niisama, than you can even become the palace’s exclusive patissiere.」

「Well yeah.」

I wasn’t humble.

I had genuinely put in effort to become popular among girls through making sweets.

「Can I ask you all one thing? Eating it raw, jelly, or gelato, which one taste the best?」

「Err, the jelly is this jiggling thing, and gelato is the cold one isn’t it?」(Tita)

「Yeah, that’s right.」

The three each fell into thought.

They then gave their answer quite quickly.

「Err, I like this one.」

「I choose this for me.」(Kururu)

「……I’m sorry, I like this one.」(Rurine)

Astonishingly, all of them had the same opinion. Their choice was exactly the same.

What they chose was the raw mango.

「Guh, so I can’t win just as I thought.」

Yeah, I know. Eating it raw was the tastiest. Even though I turned it into sweets, at best it could only act as variation so that the eater wouldn’t get tired of eating mango.

It wasn’t just for show that mango’s other name was patissier killer.

「Ah, but the sweets were also really delicious.」(Tita)

「There is no doubt about that.」(Kururu)

Their follow-up was painful.

「Next time I get my hand on this fruit again, I’ll seriously aim to make sweets that taste better than eating it raw.」

It wasn’t impossible, it shouldn’t be.

Let’s try thinking about it seriously.

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