Orc Harem Vol 1 Chapter 14

Chapter 14: The Woman That You Liked or Harem……That Was the Question

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Since I came to the elf village, I hadn’t found even a single woman who wanted to be pushed down by me.

Could it be, that my strength was still lacking!?

Even now I was still training every day, but it was impossible for me to drastically become strength from this point.

That was why, I exercised my cooking power(strength).

Because that might become the trigger that made woman wanted to be pushed down by me.

「I don’t understand what you mean.」

Tita who I told about my thinking tilted her head in puzzlement.

「Actually I’m also thinking that this idea might be a bit forced. But, it’s still better than not doing anything.」

Other than that, it was also because I was unable to endure the elf village’s poor eating habits.

I wanted to eat proper food.

「Hmmmm, but it sounds interesting. I’ll also help out. I’m your caretaker after all Ork.」

「What’s that, that’s the first time I heard about it.」

「I have been helping you out all this time haven’t I!?」

「……I guess.」

Now that she mentioned it, Tita was always staying at my side.

She always made an exasperated face each time I asked beautiful elf girls and women who I thought as the right fit whether they wanted to be pushed down by me or not.

「What’s with your doubtful reaction!? Uu, even though I had done my best with helping you out. ……But, the meal that Ork made was delicious. I’m looking forward to this. You will also let me eat some right? I want to eat that delicious rabbit again. Everyone will also be happy!」

「No, I can’t make the rabbit fuukiyaki. To be more accurate, I must not make that. There is a lot of limitations this time.」

「Eh, why?」

「The seasoning and spices that I used for the dish Tita ate couldn’t be procured in this village or in the forest around here. It will be the worst case if some elves go to the city to buy the ingredients.」

「What’s so bad about that?」

Tita tilted her head.

She was smart, but she was ignorant of the way the world worked.

「Nobody will be able to endure eating bad food once they taste delicious food. If the elves learn that they can obtain it from the city, they will try going to the city even if they have to risk danger for it. It will be a disaster if the elves get caught by humans because of that. That’s why the only dishes I can make here must use the ingredients that can be obtained from the forest around here and with a method that is possible to do in this village. Furthermore it also has to be a food that doesn’t need any difficult technique and can be reproduced as long as I teach them the recipe.」

Various adverse effects would appear when something was changed.

I wanted the elves to eat delicious foods, but I didn’t want them to meet misfortune because of that.

「You are really thinking a lot of things. Aren’t you tired like that?」

「That’s just my personality.」

「But, I like that side of yours. You are kind Ork.」

Kind huh.

I was happy to be told that, but rather than being thought as a good person, I wanted to be thought as a man that made you wanted to be pushed down instead.

「Is there anything that you want to eat?」

「Hmm, perhaps something sweet, filling to eat, but it also won’t lie heavy on stomach.I’m fine with oily food, but there are a lot of elves who aren’t good with that kind of food.」

「I see, so deep-fried food is no good. But just roasting the food won’t leave any impact. Then, I’ll make a stew. This village also have alcohol after all, I think I’ll be able to manage somehow.」

It was hard because there wasn’t any seasoning and spice here, but it was a salvation that this village had alcohol.

「Using alcohol for cooking? That’s strange. But, I’m getting excited.」

「Yeah, I’ll make a cooking of alcohol, potato, and meat.」

「Potato huh, yuck. I’m tired of that thing already. It has dry texture, and it’s also smell like soil.」

「That’s why I’ll use that. If I can make that thing delicious to eat, everyone will be happy right?」

There was also a mountain of potato served at my welcome party.

The village chief said that the harvest this year was so abundant that even with a portion of the potato stock set aside for the seeding next year, they still had so much stockpile that was more than they could eat.

The elves ate potato by roasting it and sprinkling salt on it with meat that they hunted as the side dish, they were eating it more to fill up their stomach rather than because it was delicious.

That was exactly why I’d use potato.

「Certainly it might be great if we can eat delicious potato……at winter we had nothing to except potato after all. But, it’s too bad. I won’t be able to eat Ork’s food that I tasted on the way to the village anymore. That stinging taste that warmed the body, I want to eat it again. Hey, if I become Ork’s wife, will I be able to eat that again?」

「Sure you can but, won’t you regret it if you marry because of such reason?」

「I, I’m just joking. I’m not going to be the wife of someone who want to have a lot of wives after all.」

Fumu, so that was the problem.

But, that was a line that I couldn’t cross.

I wanted to be happy with a lot of girls.

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I talked with the village chief and got her to give me some alcohols and potatoes.

I also thought about opening a restaurant, but this elf village didn’t even have any currency. I was going to treat the elves my cooking in the dinner today, in exchange they provided me the ingredients for free.

There were around 200 elves in Tirtania.

It would be hard work cooking for all of them. But I guess it would be manageable enough if I cooked a stew.

The chief offered to prepare several people to help out, but I politely refused.

Just Tita alone was enough.

The ingredients wouldn’t be enough with just potato and alcohol, so as usual I entered the mountain and hunted a boar.

Boar was nice. It was big and had a lot of consumable parts. They lived in most mountains. I was also picking up some mushrooms while I was at it.

I would feel bad for the elves if I took the mushrooms that they had planned to harvest, so I went until outside the barrier to gather the mushrooms. I also made sure that the mushrooms I collected existed inside the barrier.

Now then, let’s begin cooking.

I needed to cook for the portion of 200 people all at once. That would be impossible to do with normal cooking utensil.

I borrowed the power of earth spirits to dig up a lot of clay from underground and formed it into the shape of a big kettle. Then I hardened it with the power of fire spirits.

In addition I also made two large cauldrons in the same way.

「……You’re using the power of spirits nonchalantly like usual.」

「It’s convenient after all.」

It was my principle to use everything that could be used.

「So, what should I do to help?」

「Go gather a lot of firewood for me.」

「Understood. I’ll do that! I can’t do anything except that anyway.」

It looked like she understood about her own capability very well.

Let’s do my own job too.

Peeling the potatoes that were piled up high.

I pressed the knife on the potato and smoothly turned the potato. It was completely peeled in five seconds.

I liked cooking from the start. I became even more skilful in handling a knife after training in swordsmanship.

I tossed more than a hundred potatoes into water and then lifted them up with a draining basket.

And then I threw the potatoes in the air and drew out my sword.

Before they fell to the ground, I rounded the edges of all of them. I cut the small potatoes into two and the big ones into four.

「Yep, my sword skill also hasn’t withered.」

During that time, I cut the boar’s boned rib and sirloin to be bite sized. I didn’t forget to lightly scored them so that the flavor could seep into them easily.

I also prepared the mushroom to make them easier to eat.

「The ingredients are prepared. What’s left is only Tita’s firewood.」

「I brought a lot for you here.」

「Good timing.」

Tita came with firewood in her arms.

I could start cooking with this.

First I boiled the alcohol that was made from potato to remove its alcoholic content.

By doing this, it became a seasoning that had mellow sweetness.

Then I added water and honey into it, and then my homemade pseudo-shoyu……or that was what I originally planned, but something like that couldn’t be created in this elf village, so I adjusted the taste using salt.

The seasoning broth was done with this.

In another pot, I fried the boar meat after removing the fat.

Elves didn’t like greasy thing, so I threw away almost half of the fat that came out from the boned rib and lightly fried it.

I put in the potatoes as the meat began to turn brown and fried them even more.

Here I put in a lot of water and mushroom.

I wanted to put in seaweed soup stock here, but I used mushroom as its replacement here. The mushrooms would become a delicious ingredient, in addition it also produced good soup stock.

I removed the scum from the broth while waiting for the water to boil. And then I added the boiled alcohol from the other pot as seasoning to adjust the flavor before boiling the stew again. What was left was to be patient.

I sampled the taste and adjusted it with salt.

「The smell is really gentle and making me feel hungry.」

「This dish is called nikujaga(meat and potato stew). This time I’m making it simple by only using meat and potato and mushroom, but it will also be delicious if you ad other vegetables.」

I made it simple because I prioritized making potato tasty to eat.

After a while, the potatoes finished cooking.

「I’ll leave it to you for the tasting.」

「Yep, leave it to me! I’m good at tasting.」

Tita brought the potato that was placed on a small plate to her mouth.

「Delicious! The flavor is really gentle. It’s not dry at all even though it’s a potato.」

「That’s because it’s boiled. Does it feel greasy to you? I have reduced the fat a lot for this dish.」

I was uneasy even though I had thrown away about half of the fat that came out from the meat at first and adjusted the taste.

If it still felt greasy even after that, I’d have to dilute it with water and added the seasoning to keep the balance.

「I think this is fine. Nobody will dislike this degree of fat.」

「That’s good.」

I received Tita’s seal of approval.

I would be able to look forward to the night today like this.

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At night, my nikujaga made its debut.

As expected it was impossible for just two people to set the table for 200 people, so several other elves were also helping out.

After the food had been distributed to everyone, the elves began eating my nikujaga.

For them who only knew whole roast as a method of cooking, they devoured the nikujaga with great relish.

After they finished eating, they came to me one after another and thanked me.

I felt a bit embarrassed and told them that they were welcome while scratching my cheek.

I asked the woman who I were targeting whether they wanted to be pushed down by me now.

……The result was another defeat.

Was hoping to be popular from being a skilled cook was just an illusion after all?

Tita had vanished when I realized it.

I wondered where she was going.

I didn’t even have any time to go searching for her before the housewives surrounded me.

They asked me how to cook nikujaga, so I explained it to them carefully and thoroughly.

Even so they seemed to be still confused, so I wrote the recipe on the paper I had. I even drew some illustrations to illustrate the process. Even so it was still no good, so I opened a cooking class.

I used the leftover ingredients to cook together with the housewives. Seeing that other elves also crowded around us.

When the cooking was finished, everyone ate again even though they had just finished eating not long ago and rejoiced together.

The housewives said that the nikujaga I made by myself tasted better, but they had fun cooking and laughed.

……I believed this was happiness.

I suddenly felt a gaze on me and turned around. There a young male elf was glaring at me. His eyes were filled with hostility and his expression looked annoyed. I didn’t remember ever invoking his displeasure though…….

When I tried to talk to him, he left as though to run away.

「Ork-san, about this part of the recipe」

One of the housewives asked me a question, so I turned my focus to her.

I answered the question cheerfully. Housewife was outside my strike zone, but there were also girls of my age around us. I got to make an impression as the kind Ork-san and earned point from them!

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When I thought that it was about time to close the cooking class, the crowd split and the village chief came.

「Ork. I felt a bit uneasy when you mentioned about delicious food but I’m glad that I left it to you.」

「Yes, I also had fun.」

Even though I was unable to secure the women who I targeted, I was still able to spend a fun time so it wasn’t pointless.

「Not only you saved my daughter’s life, you also healed the people who had been sick or wounded for a long time. You even cooked a delicious dish like this and taught us the way to make it. I can’t thank you enough.」

「It makes me scared if you praise me so much like that.」

「Fumu, you have good instinct. ……The matter this time has made me thought deeply. This village is lacking in too many things. We are too isolated. Many lives that can be saved if only there is a doctor here are gone every day, there is also no decent entertainment here. If you don’t mind Ork, how about living in this village? I wish to obtain the vast knowledge and skills that you possess.」

I was happy that I was recognized, but I shook my head.

「I’m thankful for your kind offer, but I come here to find good woman. Seeing that I’m unable to find anyone who wants to become my wife here, I plan to leave this village after I’m finished doing the treatments.」

The village chief muttered 「This man really has one track mind」 with a small voice.

「Then, what if there is someone here willing to be your wife? ……Tita said that she want to take you to be her husband. And it’s not to save her mother like at the beginning, but because she has fun being together with you during these several days and she want to stay together with you from here on too.」

Tita who disappeared to somewhere appeared.

She wasn’t wearing her usual outfit, but a curious native dress of this elf village with jade green color.

Her cheeks were blushing.

「Ork, um, it’s just as Obaa-chan said, I thought that I will be really happy if I can stay together with you. Right now, I want to be pushed down by you Ork.」

「Let me make sure, you aren’t saying that just to make me stay in this village aren’t you? Reconsider it if you are saying that with self-sacrificing attitude for your village, nobody will happy with something like that.」

「That’s not it! This is really my genuine feeling.」

Tita, she wanted to be pushed down by me.

Gulp, I swallowed my saliva.

Tita was cute. She was also erotic. She was a first-rate female.

I wanted her.

Tita continued talking while I was still unable to reply.

「But you see, I have just one request. If you’re going to embrace me, then I want you to only look at me. I really don’t like it when Ork talk about harem.」

「I see……」

A huge conflict was born inside me.

Should I choose Tita, or choose my dream.

I pondered, pondered, pondered it thoroughly, and reached a conclusion.

「I like you Tita. I want to have you. But, I don’t want to give up on my dream. This dream isn’t just my dream alone. I can’t betray the people who believed on my strength.」

I had put on every effort without giving up to chase after my dream of making the best harem.

My teachers believed on my dream and trained me.

I couldn’t betray myself and my teachers.

Even now I thought that Tita was charming.

Even now I wanted to be with her forever.

But, this was the only thing I couldn’t give up on.

「I see, so it’s like that, sorry-!」

「Tita!」

Tita ran away while crying.

I couldn’t chase after her. I could only clench my fist.

I had been rejected many times by females until now, but this was the most painful that my chest had ever felt.

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