Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 28 (eBook)

EDA (Autor)

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2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-3454-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The rainy season has ended, bringing the forest's edge into a new season of romance! Many have confessed their love-some confessions ending in melancholy, others ending in joy, and a few yet to be resolved. It was a time filled with celebration and sadness. While others were pursuing romance, Asuta managed to open up some intriguing new cooking possibilities by introducing stone ovens to the forest's edge!
However, there's still more yet to come! Asuta finally goes to a meeting between the inn owners of the post town. Afterward, he attends two separate weddings, one being of great importance. And finally, he plans something interesting to make Rimee Ruu's birthday extra special.
See all this and more in the exciting twenty-eighth volume of Cooking with Wild Game!

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Chapter 1: A Big Job at the Start of the Month

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The yellow month had finally arrived.

This was a big deal because the previous yellow month was when I had appeared at the forest’s edge and first met Ai Fa. In other words, nearly a year had passed since my arrival, and what a chaotic year it had been!

I had been sent to this world at the end of the yellow month, where I had met Ai Fa out in the forest and she had taken me into the Fa clan. I had met Rimee Ruu a few days after that, which had led to me making hamburger steak for Granny Jiba.

In the green month, I had prepared food for Gazraan and Ama Min Rutim’s wedding, and after that, I had opened my first stall and started doing business in the post town.

The clan head meeting had been held during the blue month, which had been followed by that whole incident with Tei and Zattsu Suun, and then I had said farewell to Shumiral and Balan. That was also around when we had welcomed the totos Gilulu into our clan.

The white month was when we had settled matters with Cyclaeus and put an end to his villainous actions against the people of the forest’s edge.

In the gray month, Ai Fa and I had enjoyed our first break period together. We had also started building new bridges with the nobles of Genos, and our lives became peaceful, with business in the post town really taking off.

During the black month, I had met Myme, Varkas, and Arishuna. We had then invited Myme to the forest’s edge, along with Mikel, and they had shown off their skills for us and taught us about smoking techniques, so their visit had been good for both building our friendship and boosting our productivity.

In the indigo month, we had taken our trip to the neighboring town of Daleim, opened the outdoor restaurant, helped the Sauti clan bring down the lord of the forest, and spent a lot of time getting ready for what would be happening next.

After all, the violet month was when the sun god’s revival festival was held. That had been another really hectic period for us, and we had met lots of interesting people, like the members of the Gamley Troupe.

Then, the new year had rolled around with the silver month. That was when Dora and his family had been invited to the Ruu settlement for a friendship banquet. We had also gone to another banquet so we could make peace with the house of Saturas.

In the golden month, we had held a combined festival of the hunt with the clans that lived around us, and during the break period that followed, we had forged ties with a few clans that we hadn’t interacted with before.

The rainy season had then arrived with the brown month. Not long after, I had been infected by the illness called Amusehorn’s Breath, which very nearly killed me.

The rains had continued through the red month, which had also featured Ai Fa’s birthday. Also, down in the south, work on the path through the forest’s edge had been completed.

Finally, in the vermilion month, Sufira Zaza and Morun Rutim’s problematic romantic feelings had been revealed. Granny Jiba’s birthday party had been at the end of the month, during which Darmu and Sheera Ruu had decided to get married. That brought us all the way to the present month, the yellow one. The last year had been incredibly busy, filled with major changes for us and the town outside of the forest.

Of course, since this was a year with an extra month, which occurred every three years, I had already been in this world for more than twelve months, amounting to around 370 days in total. But I personally felt that I couldn’t say I had been here for a full year until I reached the anniversary of my arrival at the forest’s edge—the twenty-fourth of the yellow month.

Naturally, since we were still only at the beginning of the yellow month, it was a little early to be getting so emotional about it. However, there was a lot for us to look forward to in the next month. Just off the top of my head, there was Rimee Ruu’s birthday, the innkeeper meeting I was supposed to participate in, and two marriages, one between the Fou and the Sudra, and the other between Darmu and Sheera Ruu, both of which I would be attending. Every single one of those events was going to take place before the twenty-fourth of the yellow month, so I had a lot of things I needed to pour my energy into first.

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First on the docket was the inn meeting. It occurred on the first day of the yellow month, two days after the Ruu festival of the hunt where Granny Jiba’s birthday had also been celebrated.

We headed over to The Great Southern Tree, where the event was being held after finishing up work with the stalls. The meeting was scheduled to begin in the evening, and was going to last for a couple hours.

In this country, there were organizations called firms that businesses of the same type were members of. They held meetings regularly in order to maintain their connections, discuss any edicts the nobles might have handed down, and look into any problems that had arisen.

This time around, we had been permitted to participate as concerned parties related to The Kimyuus’s Tail. Most snack stalls were associated with one inn or another, so it had been agreed that we had reason to join them for this meeting.

To be honest, I had probably put this off longer than I should have. This firm had done a lot of the work when it came to distributing the new ingredients that had become available around the post town—the ones that Cyclaeus had been hoarding until we had stopped him. Now these precious foodstuffs were readily available even to the common folk of the post town. The firm had also been involved in spreading information about how poitan could be used in place of fuwano. Those were two huge changes that they had been involved in all the way back in the white and gray months, which was over nine months ago at this point.

Of course, I had been heavily involved in both of those changes as well. After all, I was the person who had invented the new technique for cooking poitan. Of course, Polarth and a few of his people were the ones who had come up with the plan to apply economic pressure to the house of Turan by spreading my method, so it had officially been an initiative directed by a noble. The fact that I had been the original source had been kept quiet, so that the people of the forest’s edge wouldn’t face blowback for the disruption it had caused. The firm’s network of contacts had been instrumental in circulating the information, and it had all started at a meeting like the one I was about to attend. Groundwork for the sale of karon milk and torso meat from the castle town had been handled in a similar manner.

Even when it came to spreading knowledge on how to effectively use the new ingredients that were becoming available, the nobles had asked me to be discreet in how I went about it. Apparently, Yang had been dispatched to inn meetings in the past to explain such methods to them personally. All I had done was keep on quietly doing business like I always had in order to show people what the ingredients could be used for in the most direct way possible.

As things stood, we people of the forest’s edge who did business in the post town were still outsiders in a lot of ways. When we had a complicated business issue to deal with, rather than going to the firm, we went directly to the nobles instead. Up until now, even though we had a big presence in town, our dealings with inns were limited to just selling giba meat to a small handful of them.

Of course, it wasn’t as if that was some sort of issue for us. Even if we didn’t belong to the firm, we still followed their established way of doing things. Our management system differed, but we were subject to the same rules, so that much was only natural. The merchants who visited from Sym, Jagar, and other towns in Selva all practiced business in more or less the same manner as well.

Still, I felt it was high time for me to take this step. The settlement at the forest’s edge was officially considered Genos territory, so it seemed sensible for us to operate similarly to the locals, and in order to continue building a healthy relationship with the people of the post town, it was a necessary step to take. Besides, I wanted to have a good rapport with the other inn owners too, just like we had with Milano Mas, Naudis, Nail, and Sams. And if it meant we’d be selling more giba meat, that was yet another reason to be looking forward to it.

At this point, many of the people of the forest’s edge were financially better off than they had ever been before. At the very least, the clans selling fresh meat to the post town through the Fa and the Ruu were undoubtedly earning far more money than they had in the past.

However, we were still far from satisfied with what we had accomplished. At present, fewer than half of the clans of the forest’s edge were getting any of that new wealth. And what was more, we had recently learned how incredibly helpful it was to have hunting dogs, but unfortunately, the Fa and Ruu were the only clans currently capable of purchasing dogs on their own. We were going to need more money if we wanted to buy enough dogs for all the clans to have as many as they needed. In order to reach that goal, we would have to work together with the clans who currently didn’t approve of the Fa’s actions, and expand our business even further.

By forging proper bonds with others, both in the post town and at the...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.5.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Cooking with Wild Game
• Illustrationen: EDA
• Übersetzer: EDA
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: business • cooking • Hunting • Isekai • Light Novel • Romance • Slice of Life
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-3454-0 / 1718334540
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-3454-0 / 9781718334540