Chapter 023 (1/2)

Volume 1

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 1 Chapter 22

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「Hofuhifu」

「……Talk after you swallow.」

「Delicious.」

「Is that so.」

What was in Shion and Nino’s hands were skewer grilled Sora Bird.

It was something simple that was seasoned with salt, but it was one of the staple menu choices for eating while walking.

Incidentally, the Sora Bird is a typical livestock in the Shutaia Continent, but they didn’t live in the Dark Continent.

To begin with, it isn’t just limited to Sora Birds, the animals treated as livestock in the Shutaia Continent don’t really exist in the Dark Continent.

Since the weakest animals are the thorn-horned deer and the charging wild boars which could kick Goblins about without hesitation, it could be said that it couldn’t be helped that the culture of animal husbandry didn’t grow.

「……I wonder if we can promote this sort of thing back home as well.」

「There might be merit in attempting to.」

When she ate up the skewer while saying that, Nino wandered over to a drink cart.

Speaking of drinks, it would normally be well water, but there were also a great number of carts that offered the juice of squeezed chilled fruits.

It is said that recently, a product that a fruit juice called Ole, which mixed fruit juice and cow milk and was introduced just a few years ago, was quite popular.

It seems that some company had started selling it, but since there were stocking and preserving problems, it wasn’t something that an ordinary merchant could sell, and it seems that it pretty much turned into a monopolized market.

However, since it didn’t circulate as far as the small street stall that Nino went to, she bought normal apple juice in the end.

「……Nn, that was delicious.」

When she returned the wooden bowl to the female owner of the cart, Nino returned to the waiting Shion.

「Sorry to keep you waiting.」

「Nn, what should we do today after this……」

Making the royal capital as the base for absorbing the culture was good, but the outcome wasn’t all that favorable.

Or rather, there was nothing to use as a base reference.

A big cause for that was the fact that there was too big of a difference between the foodstuffs and raw materials, and the climate and people.

For example, the reason why there weren’t any carriages in the Dark Continent is because there simply weren’t any animals that would submissively pull a wagon, and because Mazoku have a nature where they will almost always start a fist fight if they are placed together in a small place for a long time.

Culture is born under the pressure of necessity, and without that, there would be no change even if a century has passed……That’s just how it is.

And since there is something convenient like magic, that is all the more reason.

「……It doesn’t look like we’ll get many results.」