Chapter 13: Tasting the Aqua Hound Meat
The battle ended and Hiiro reverted the length of his sword by writing “original” on it. At any rate, the sharpness of the piercing could only be called first-rate. It easily went through the opponent like a hot knife through butter.
(Nothing less from a sword specializing in piercing)
“Y- You… what did you do?”
“Shouldn’t you be worrying about the shorty instead?”
He had no intention to explain it, so he quickly changed the topic. Then Arnold quickly shouted Muir’s name. She slowly appeared from a behind a rock, where she had been hiding.
“A- Are you hurt?”
“N- No.”
“G- Good~”
As he was relieved from the bottom of his heart, he sunk down on the ground. After a glance at him, Hiiro sheathed his sword. At that moment, his stomach growled and he headed towards Arnold.
“Hey, old man. Keep your promise.”
“……What are you talking about?”
“Oho…”
Hiiro drew his sword from the sheath a bit with a clink.
“J- Just kidding! Put that away!”
The man shouted in a panic. Hiiro sighed in a bad mood.
“Just give me that addicting meat. My stomach is totally empty.”
“……..Hah. Sorry, Muir. I never imagined we would eat it here…”
He dropped his shoulders with a boo-hoo-hoo, but Muir shook her head shortly.
“N- No. He helped us after all. B- Besides, food tastes better with more people.”
“Uohhh! What a good child you are, Muir!”
He embraced Muir while shouting emotionally. Normally this would be a heart-warming scene, but Hiiro said while pressing onto his stomach.
“Just get on with it. I’m starving here.”
A vein stood out on Arnold’s forehead due to his attitude, but he realized that it was no use saying anything to Hiiro, so he lead the two with a sigh.
“Come here. I’ll prepare it.”
The two of them followed after Arnold to the earlier fireplace.
“Ehm~ I think it was… Ah, here it is.”
He rummaged about behind some rock and got out some large bag. Opening that bag, he took out yet another bag. Something thick and heavy seemed to be inside that bag.
“Is that it?”
“Yeah, inside is…. this!”
What he pulled out was meat tied up with a string so that it wouldn’t fall apart.
“This is ≪Aqua Hound Meat≫. Moreover, it’s the shanks, the most delicious part!”
He thrust it before him as if to ask for his opinion.
“Whatever, let me eat already.”
“You sure are a self-important brat. Eat some fruits until it’s done. But leave some for me.”
“…I’ll try my best.”
“No, no. Leave some for me!”
Hiiro ate two out of the six red fruits with the size of a fist, which Arnold took out of the bag. It was a ≪Gorin Fruit≫ that he had often eaten before.
“More.”
“Already! I gotta prepare the meat too, so show some patience.”
Saying so, the man took out a big stone from the fire place. By the looks of it, the bright red stone was insanely hot.
The meat was placed on top of it. Then it sizzled appetizing and gradually changed colour brilliantly, releasing meat juice and an aromatic smell.
All three couldn’t help but gulp down their saliva. The young Muir was unable to take her eyes off the meat too.
“Hey, isn’t it good already?”
At the end of his patience, Hiiro asked, but Arnold shook his head.
“No, not yet. A certain procedure is needed to bring out the best taste of this meat.”
“Certain procedure?”
The juice temporarily stopped oozing out of the meat, so the string holding it together was cut. By doing so, the meat gradually swelled up.
“O- Oh, what’s this!?”
“That’s meat swelling, unique to ≪Aqua Hound Meat≫! Letting out the excess fat from the meat, it swells up. It approximately becomes thrice as big.”
Amazing. Its original size was already around the size of a volleyball. Three times of that was rather big.
When the swelling hit its peak, it was similar to jelly, not like meat at all. He questioned if it was really meat, but the smell answered it for him. Before he knew it, his drool overflowed.
“Okay, Muir, get the containers!”
Arnold was pretty excited too. Muir took out three containers from the bag while nodding happily.
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