There is no Drug in my Cooking! Chapter 23

It was nighttime, in the kitchen of a pastry shop.

Kumoko was trying to help out in the kitchen, and after helping her cheap master to chop off a giant frog's leg, she noticed the intense look of concentration on his face as he kneaded the giant frog's thigh. This display of piety scared Kumoko so much that her whole body was covered in goosebumps.

"What are you doing?" Kumoko asked, her voice trembling with fear.

She couldn't shake the feeling that her cheap master was like a pervert, and she wondered if he had a fetish for monsters. Kumoko's mind raced with the possibility that he might do something to her, a small spider!

Danger! Spider Danger!

Ichiyo continued to vigorously knead the giant frog leg that he had placed on the chopping board, his actions taking on a rhythmic quality. As he worked, more and more purple-black, foul-smelling liquid was squeezed out of the cut and fell onto the floor.

Ichiyo frowned and grabbed the skin on the toes of the giant frog's foot, pulling it back with force. In an instant, the skin and flesh of the giant frog's hind leg separated, revealing the white muscle tissue.

Holding a large frog hind leg in his hand, Ichiyo turned his head and looked at Kumoko's face, which had turned paler and paler. "Processing ingredients, can't you see it?"

After discarding the frog's skin, he used the "kneading" technique to extract as many toxins as possible from the frog's body, but he couldn't do anything with the skin. It was not only unattractive but also completely useless as it had no food value.

Ichiyo was drenched in sweat, feeling as if he had just digested his dinner a short while ago. The vast amount of physical energy he had expended left him feeling empty and uncomfortable in his stomach.

The ability "The Way of the Kneading" proved to be highly useful, and its value was further enhanced by the fact that it improved with use. Ichiyo had just practiced on a giant frog, and his proficiency in the skill had significantly increased. As his proficiency grew, so did the efficiency and power of "The Way of the Kneading".

He believed that by consistently making progress at this rate he would be able to develop a bone-crushing palm strike within two months.

So, in this day and age, a top-level skill is not necessarily more attractive than a growth-type skill that can be developed from scratch. After all, there is joy in what you call cultivation!

Clapping his hands, Ichiyo put the giant frog's hind legs in the fridge as reserve food and took out his slightly serrated kitchen knife. He gestured with it a few times toward the defeated giant frog's corpse.

"Kumoko, have you finished washing the bowls?"

"Finished?" Kumoko hesitated upon hearing this.

As expected, when Ichiyo heard Kumoko's words, he calculated how much time was left. He estimated that she had around seven or eight minutes left in this world for the day, so he needed to make the most of it!

Ichiyo was a professional at human resource scheduling and labor exploitation. He especially enjoyed using unpaid working spider!

"Now help me disassemble this big guy and tidy up the floor. I'll summon you again at midnight to do it again, and I'll treat you to something delicious then."

Upon hearing this, the Kumoko's mouth twitched as its eight legs began to tremble uncontrollably.

This is too cruel!

Is this guy a demon king?

That's so cruel, he's definitely not human!

"Ichiyo, to be honest, I'm not very tired now and I don't need moderate exercise to buffer myself anymore." Kumoko felt that this guy was really too much, he was a perfect example of an evil capitalist!

Escape! She must escape!

She had to do so much work without even getting enough to eat. It was too much!

As they talked, Ichiyo raised his kitchen knife and brought it down with force, only to have the blade stopped by the giant frog's muscular tissue. He turned to look at the spider and said, "Well, I'm tired. If you're not tired, you can finish cutting up this big guy on your own."

"No no no no no, during times like these, we must rely on the strength of our master-slave relationship and work together to cultivate mutual understanding and trust!"

As tears streamed down her face, Kumoko crawled up to Ichiyo's side. She finally realized that he was a big villain, an evil capitalist. She should have known this from the moment she heard his summoning phrase!

In any case, Kumoko knew she wasn't as bad as this guy, she couldn't fight or win an argument with him!

This world is so unfair!

Late at night, in the back kitchen of the snack shop, the sound of a man panting and a girl whimpering, along with the occasional sound of physical collisions, echoed through the room.

In the last second before Kumoko's summoning time ended, Ichiyo finally finished disassembling the giant frog's corpse. He only kept the four legs, two of which he planned to store and the other two of which he would use for dinner for himself and Kumoko.

A violet-red magic circle flashed and Kumoko, along with the body of the giant frog, left this dimension and returned to the world from which she came.

Ichiyo continued to search for ways to remove the toxins in the giant frog meat tissue. The evolution of "The Way of the Kneading" requires frequent contact with a variety of high-quality ingredients. Once the technique has been used on a particular ingredient, subsequent uses will not enhance its ability, but rather improve efficiency and proficiency.

The area of each floor of his shop is about 300 square meters, with the kitchen taking up about 60 square meters. While this size is suitable for the usual small and fine dishes, it can be a bit inconvenient to handle larger ingredients.

Additionally, the refrigerator in the kitchen is also somewhat small and seems insufficient. It looks like he'll need to contact the construction team, buy the building behind the shop, renovate it, and expand it into a large food processing workshop. He should also build a refrigerated warehouse on the ground floor at the same time.

After all, the walls of the shop have large panels of tempered glass, and the semi-open kitchen can sometimes be a bit restrictive when doing things that are not convenient to show in front of ordinary people. These improvements cannot be made all at once, they need to be arranged and implemented step by step. Ichiyo processed the hind legs of the giant frog as he was lost in thought.

At midnight, as the night deepened, he summoned Kumoko, the spider girl, and pointed to the thick, purple-black, stinky liquid on the ground. Calmly, he began cooking as Kumoko gritted her teeth in resentment and knocked the floor with her small claws. Reluctantly, she put on a mask and began cleaning with a mop and cloth. If it weren't for the sake of food, she would never be so obedient!

Some things are just meant to be wrong.

One mistake is all it takes to create a web of problems.

This man is just a dog and he's too bad!