Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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On the first day of the bread sale at the Adventurer’s Guild, we successfully sold out all 94 loaves of bread we had brought with us, making a profit of 47,000 yen. Afterwards, I discussed our plans with Maon-san and we decided to go shopping first and have a slightly late breakfast, but…
“Brother… please. This is it! If I can’t eat this, I’ll never be able to die in peace!”
Looking at the egg sandwiches and fruit sandwiches we were about to eat, Najina-san rubbed his hands together and begged me to let him have some too.
Even in another world, when you ask someone for a favor, you rub your hands together… I never thought it would be common not just in all countries, but in another world… Rubbing your hands together… it’s something that is common on a grand scale.
“Genta, I want to try some too. I’d be happy if you let me taste some of that fruit.”
Femi-san, who came next to me, also begged me in a cute voice. I looked and saw that Manny-san and it looks like Sylphy-san also wanted to eat it.
“Hey, hey. You guys want to eat it too, right? Please, big brother. Just a little is fine, just a little is fine! P-please let me have a taste!!”
Najina, who was using Femi as an excuse to beg for a sandwich, no longer had the dignity of a skilled adventurer with the nickname “Great Sword Master.” It’s strange, my first impression of Najina was that he was like a boss character from “Fist of the North Star”[1] who had no regrets about his life…
It can’t be helped, there were only two sandwiches in one pack.
Maybe I should make a move with one of them… I’m going to have Najina and the others accompany me on a shopping trip soon… Is it a small price to pay if I consider that I’ll be escorted by a skilled swordsman?
“I understand. I’ll give you one each, so you can share it amongst yourself.”
“Oh…” Najina-san blurted out in an unconscious voice. The three receptionists also looked pleased with themselves. I unwrapped the wrapping paper I had used to hand out the bread, and I put down the two sandwiches that were meant to be my share. Everyone’s eyes were fixed on the sandwiches. I didn’t know who it was, but I even heard a gulp.
“Was this ‘Fruit Sand’…? It’s colorful and looks sweet…I can already smell the sweet scent.”
“You’re right, it’s like red and sunset-colored things are wrapped in a white foam-like thing…”
Najina and Manny share their impressions.
“It has a very sweet smell. We elves are very sensitive to the smell of fruit. It contains ripe and sweet fruit. This red fruit… it’s probably the jam in Jam Bread. It’s “Tochiotome”… No, it’s not. It’s similar, but…”
I was honestly surprised. The packaging of the fruit sandwich said it was made with strawberries from Saga Prefecture, so it’s probably a different variety than “Tochiotome.” The elves must have an extraordinary sense for plants, so they probably realized it was a different brand of strawberry just from the scent.
“That’s amazing… Sylphy. These are certainly red, but they’re a different kind of strawberry from the ‘Tochiotome’ used in the jam.”
As expected… Sylphy-san listened to my explanation with this feeling.
“Even so, it’s amazing. I’ve travelled to many places, but the only strawberry I’ve heard of is the ‘Snake Strawberry’. And it’s not something you’d eat.”
Wozma said he’s never heard of it being eaten.
“And to think that it could be used to make the vibrant red jam filling of that Jam Bread… To think that something so sweet and delicious could exist… The world is a big place.”
Wozma spoke with a sense of admiration, saying, “Those strawberries are actually not from this world, but from another world… I’m honored.”
“But even so, big brother… you’re so mean. You still had something so delicious hidden away… But why didn’t you sell it? I’d probably buy that elf’s for whatever price he asked.”
I can’t say. The unit price was so high that I couldn’t buy much.
“N-no… I don’t have enough of this yet…”
“That’s true… Leaving aside the idea of making jam that can be preserved, it would be impossible to prepare such fresh fruit unless you live in a nobleman’s mansion with an orchard.”
“Hmm. I guess even someone as skilled as Big Brother wouldn’t be able to get hold of them that easily… No, perhaps it’s precisely because Big Brother was able to prepare a small number…”
Sylphy-san spoke about how rare fruits that could be eaten raw were, and Najina-san was touched with deep emotion as she spoke. When Najina-san had such a serious expression on his face, he suddenly appeared dignified and powerful. However, when food is involved, that disappears in an instant, and Najina-san’s demeanor becomes hectic in many ways.
“Excuse me. Please take the delivery.”
At that moment, someone called out from the reception desk. They must have done so because there was no one there. Everyone turned around and saw a man with a heavy load on his back.
What’s more, it was a girl I recognized.
….
“Mia Alice!”
“Huh? Genta-san…Maon-san.”
She looked at me with a small look of surprise on her face as she carried the basket on her back. I got up from the wooden chair and headed over to where she was.
“Thanks to Mia Alice-san’s help, I was able to start selling bread at the Adventurer’s Guild. Thanks to her, it’s all sold out. Thank you very much.”
“That’s great! That bread was the sweetest and most delicious I’ve ever eaten, so I was sure it would sell.”
I invited her to join us at the table. We talked about what had happened since we’d parted ways. About visiting the Adventurer’s Guild, getting some samples, meeting Najina and the others, that morning’s sales were a great success, how I’d registered as an adventurer and officially become a member of the Adventurer’s Guild, and now this situation…
“So without you, we wouldn’t have been able to eat your bread.”
“Yes, she helped us out when we were kicked out of the merchant guild, and since she also had deliveries to the adventurer’s guild, she told us if we could use that method to sell bread.”
“Then we owe you a great debt of gratitude, young lady. We wouldn’t be able to eat bread like this unless a miracle happened.”
“Well then, Mia Alice, please try it too! It’s new bread! Wozma, can you cut it into pieces again?”
“Yeah, leave it to me, Genta.”
That being said, we shared one triangular piece among six people.
The one I got is too small… Maybe I’ll get one and a half…
I took out the other sandwich I had left, I had it cut in half and then cut that in half again.
We decided that one quarter of one would be one portion for tasting.
Wozma’s knife skills are very sharp, and although I’ve heard that it’s difficult to cut soft foods, he cuts them beautifully. I pour the green tea that was being offered free of charge to the customer who purchased the anpan earlier into a paper cup.
“Oh no, there won’t be any left for Genta. Let’s eat what I got.”
I ended up with half of the sandwich. I took him up on his offer and decided to share it with Maon.
“Okay, everyone, let’s start with a taste test. First, please try half of the egg sandwich. I want you to try the other half the way I like to eat it.”
I told everyone and the tasting session began, and for Maon and I, breakfast began.
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[1] Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) is a classic post-apocalyptic manga/anime about Kenshiro, the stoic successor of the deadly martial art Hokuto Shinken, who wanders a nuclear wasteland fighting tyrannical warlords and protecting the weak, seeking his lost love while battling rivals and restoring justice with his pressure-point-based death techniques.