Chapter 697 – #140_Anguish and Choice (3)
#697
One.
Linne’s request, which she suddenly visited, was an appropriate expression of ‘out of nowhere’.
But it didn’t take long for the free witch to buy the ingredients.
Gourmet is an indispensable pastime for a witch who leads a long life.
Even the witches gathered here in Hexsenacht were no different.
It is an open secret that hotel chefs and patissiers were the most important when kidnapping slaves to work in various fields.
Therefore, in Dignity Town, there were countless receptions that handled precious food ingredients, and the Witch of Freedom was able to purchase enough ingredients using only 1/20 of the gold bars that Linne gave her.
Even so, it was purely thanks to the free witch’s skill in cooking that she conceived her course in an hour or so and purchased the ingredients needed for it.
Those who are designated as apprentice witches by the prophecy agency are all geniuses with outstanding appearances and various talents.
Even if they hadn’t become witches, it was a set of talents that would have revealed their part in any field.
In the case of the free witch, ‘Zlata Justizia’, one of the shining talents was her talent for cooking.
It was just a hobby, but he graduated from all three of the world’s top culinary schools with excellent grades, and his skills were recognized even among the outcasts.
Although it was said that he had been pushed back halfway, it was an opportunity to show off his skills after a long time, so the steps back to the medicine shop were very light.
“I’m back!”
When I open the door, I see Rinne sitting in the same posture as an hour ago.
It was a static welcome that made the slightly excited Zlata calm down.
Among the proverbs praising beauty in Japan, there is a grandiose saying that standing is a peony, sitting is a peony, and walking is a lily.
Knees gathered together and waist straight.
Even the neat clothes without any flaws.
As far as Zlata knew, the woman who best matched the proverb was Linnaeus.
Of course, according to the rumors around her, she was more like a yaksha than an innocent and pitiful girl.
“I will prepare.”
Anyway, if a woman like that is a man who is crazy enough.
If you are a man who wants to take care of you by feeding him energy pills and healthy food.
It makes me wonder what kind of technique he is using.
The other day, although he looked smooth, he had a pretty innocent impression….
Doesn’t that mean it’s crazy at night?
Is daytime night like that?
The same words were folded in the closet in my heart.
To be honest, Zlata is still afraid of Rinne.
“Are you going to wait here?”
“No, I will see.”
“Can you send it to the mansion after it’s finished?”
“I will see.”
“Then follow me.”
Still, Rinne was far from the tyranny of rumors.
This floor is lined with bitches who clenched their fists and said, “Do you know how to do it?”
On the other hand, they gave me money in advance, and even if they said they would cut me or kill me, they wouldn’t go on a rampage.
Therefore, Zlata, rather lightheartedly, invites Linnaeus into her kitchen.
Compared to the exterior of the building, which reminds us of a shabby antique store, the kitchen and appliances are state-of-the-art.
Even a small brazier and smoking equipment duct were furnished, and the shelves were lined with luxury cooking utensils that would make any cook drool.
Zlata looked behind her, wanting Linnaeus to admire her heart, but she didn’t react much.
“Begin.”
Zlata smiled bitterly and poured out the ingredients he was holding in his arms.
Her course, which she conceived, was a fusion medicine course that added edible magic crops to kaiseki cuisine.
Early on, oriental medicine also accepted food and drink as part of treatment, so it was most natural to incorporate oriental cuisine in order to naturally dissolve oriental cuisine.
The ingredients so gathered are as follows.
An eel that wriggles vigorously while spraying sticky bodily fluids from its entire body.
A moray eel that cuts off human fingers.
Breton oysters with a delicate texture and hazelnut flavor.
In Chinese culture, bear paws are valued as an irreplaceable stamina food.
The thigh meat on a deer bone that is still fresh to the marrow.
Even the goats that had been playing on the hillside until the other day.
It was truly a gathering of delicacies.
If Zlata’s skill is displayed to the fullest here, an energetic course will be completed that will enable even a dying eighty-year-old to drive a three-headed carriage.
The power of magic is not simply to ‘blame’, but to bring out a meaningful effect even with a one-time meal.
-Bang!
Rinne asked Zlata, who had finished preparing to clean her eyes as the eel washed her mucus with an awl.
“What are you going to cook?”
“It would be very long to explain rather than just one.”
“Okay. Tell me.”
“The oysters are raw oysters, lightly blanched in baekju, and served with vinegar. Gomchi is boiled together with medicinal herbs….”
An eel of this size takes time, no matter how zlata.
But Zlata’s course was so long that she had to explain it all the time, so she thought Linnaeus would soon lose interest in her.
For non-experts, it can be a bit complex and difficult.
“… The last thing is to finish with the clear broth left from boiling earlier.”
Unexpectedly, however, Linnaeus showed an exemplary case of listening until her last moment.
He didn’t make a fuss by nodding his head or spouting exclamations, but he seemed to have it engraved in his heart like a disciple hearing the key rules before his master’s death.
The reason was simple.
For Linnaeus, this is a kind of bridal class.
Although she is currently doing it with the help of others, she plans to complete this table setting herself one day.
For such an ambitious subject, she is an outsider in cooking and has a penalty of not being able to taste the taste, so you must not miss a word of her words.
“Can I try it myself?”
“Aha, can you do it yourself later?”
As soon as Zlata finished her words, she felt sorry for her.
Because it was such a boastful response, she let out a somewhat teasing tone that made her forget for a moment that she was the ‘Sword Witch’.
“Yes.”
However, Rinne calmly nodded her head as if she had no shame at all.
Zlata was naïve rather than cynical, so she didn’t think of Rinne as her ‘goofy girl playing with her concubine’.
She just said, ‘What a noble posture!’ She just admired.
“Have you ever cooked?”
“None.”
“Never?”
“None.”
“Hmm, then it must be a bit difficult….”
It’s not a lie.
What Zlata is trying to do is a dish of the highest level of difficulty, which even the average cook would be reluctant to do.
If you are a beginner, it will be a hindrance rather than help.
“Can I help you a little? How about doing something like this?”
However, Zlata was happy to make an offer to Linnaeus.
She calculated that if she owed the Great Witch of the 22nd Hierarchy, she would not lose even if she did not know about it.
“I’ll make one of the main dishes for you. Hmm, I like the eel dish I mentioned earlier. Because it is the easiest.”
Among eel masters, eel requires 3 years to thread, 5 years to cut, and a lifetime to grill.
However, the recipe for the rest of the ingredients that Zlata handles is more difficult than that, so she is trying to teach Rinne how to cook eel rice bowl, which is relatively easy.
“You mean hakarimedon with kimosui?
Hakarime-don is a bowl of rice topped with a whole kabayaki eel on a long skewer.
Kimosui is a clear soup made with eel liver that is clear and savory.
Zlata, who confirmed Rinne’s listening with an accurate answer, nodded.
“Yeah, shouldn’t you brag that you made it yourself? Because it seems like he’d rather do that than leave everything in my hands.”
“… Good night.”
It was a very plausible picture even to Linnaeus.
Today, learning recipes over my shoulder and serving great meals were my primary goals, but if there is a way to exceed it, there is no reason to refuse.
Rinne put on the apron Zlata had given her and took out one of her hedgehogs and held it.
The gripping bird is rather bloody.
Zlata, frightened at the appearance of stabbing someone to death, held out his palm and said.
“Just calm down and put it down. Now that I’ve finished trimming the eel, I don’t have to use a knife.”
“Is it?”
“I will teach you how to cook rice.”
Linne’s bridal training took its first step.
So after about 8 hours.
“Awesome.”
Zlata had no choice but to express an honest exclamation instead of flattery.
“I just did what I was told to do.”
Rinne calmly accepted the praise from the bridal class teacher.
With her sleeves rolled up and her apron on, Linnaeus was decorating her sweet, seasoned, chunky eel.
The delicacy of placing perilla picked with chopsticks next to pickled ginger blooming like a flower shows even the elegance of a craftsman who has worked hard on plating for a long time.
As you can see from this, the reason Zlata was surprised was not just because Rinne’s attitude in asking for her lessons was correct.
It was because her Linne’s ability to learn and perform far exceeded her imagination.
She didn’t lie
How to wash the rice while coming from an Asian country with white skin, and why you have to steam rice cooked in a pot.
She had to teach me even those basic things one by one.
She didn’t have high expectations in the first place.
It was even more so for Zlata, who had to endure the sticky flirtation of golden spoon sons who had never peeled an onion while attending culinary school with a disguised identity, and had to sample lousy trash under the pretext of group evaluation.
Even if she taught me, she wanted to take it seriously.
But Lynne was different.
Once she taught it, she followed it all.
She didn’t ask back, and she didn’t do anything that was convenient for her taste.
As a result, he made an eel rice bowl that was faithful to the recipe, no different from Zlata’s.
When I tasted it, it was perfect.
Kimosui, whose taste is messed up even with minor mistakes because of its original body, was also perfect itself.
At this point, Zlata, who was curious about her, tried to instruct her on this and that while making another menu.
Surprisingly, Linnaeus completed all tasks perfectly without a single mistake.
In particular, the skill with which she handled her sword made her look like a ‘sword spirit’ rather than the sword witch of Linnaeus.
After all the courses conceived were completed.
Rinne and Zlata had time to sample the finished food one by one.
“Wow, I was really surprised. Try this. You did it.”
Rinne looked at the eel rice bowl that Zlata had served on the plate in front of her and tasted it without saying a word.
“Is it delicious?”
“Right.”
“Come to me if you want to learn more. If you show a little sincerity, I will help you wholeheartedly like today.”
“I get it.”
After the first cooking class.
Linne packed up her finished food in a box and returned to Hyangwol Lu.
How will he really react?
In particular, Rinne, whose steps became light due to the unsure of what kind of evaluation he would give to this eel rice bowl, faced when he found Siu.
It was a message that Shin Si-woo went to Rosie Alu’s mansion.
I was so engrossed in thinking and cooking that I forgot about Shin Si-woo’s report yesterday.
“…….”
There was no particular problem.
The nest of boxes Zlata lent was an artifact that boasted superior performance than any other warm lunch box.
Linne sat quietly at her table and waited for the student to return.
