Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: Volume 16 by Ren Eguchi

Author:Ren Eguchi [EGUCHI, REN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6: Leviathan Meat at Last!

“Phew! And with that, we’ve finished harvesting the last of its organs!” Elrand said, dabbing at the sweat on his brow with a rag he kept hung on his belt and dyeing the cloth blue with the leviathan blood his hands were still covered in.

Elrand had a perfectly satisfied smile on his face. He might have been a sorry excuse of an elf, but he was still an elf all the same, and between those classically handsome elven features and the smile on his face, he was practically aglow. I had to admit that it was sort of incredible—in every sense of the word—that someone could be that happy about having had to do such a gory, brutal job.

The man’s unbelievably consistent when it comes to his interests, that’s for sure. In a certain sense, I had to respect that. It was a job that I never would have been able to handle. In fact, one glance at the Leviathan’s intestines getting yanked out of its body had made me nearly lose my lunch—or, well, my breakfast, really. I felt a lot more tired than Elrand looked as he moved along to the next stage of the butchering process.

“I’ll be removing the head next! Ordinarily, I would proceed to butcher the head itself afterward, but in this instance...” Elrand lowered his voice to explain the situation to me. “A leviathan’s skull is full of tremendously valuable components—its eyes, fangs, brain, and the like—which means that it’s the most likely part of the monster to be targeted by thieves. Bram has requested that I instead butcher the head indoors at the guild.”

Oh, that makes sense. We know the guild’s storehouse is big enough for the head to fit, so there’s no reason not to do it there.

“Now then, I will begin the removal forthwith!” Elrand said before raising the sword he’d borrowed from me aloft, then slicing the Leviathan’s head clean off. “Oh, I wish I could process it right now! What a terrible shame!” he muttered as he stroked the monster’s severed head.

Mental note: Make a point of not listening to Elrand when he talks to himself from now on. It basically always ends up being something super freaky.

“I’ll go ahead and put this away for now,” I said. I stepped up to the leviathan’s head and stowed it in my Item Box for safekeeping.

“Ahh...” Elrand quietly moaned, reaching a longing hand out toward the head as it vanished away.

It was decided that I’d keep hold of both the monster’s head as well as the portion of its neck that Gon had bitten into in my Item Box for the time being, then drop them off at the Adventurer’s guild on my way home.

“Just don’t go thinking you can take it easy for the rest of the day,” I said. “I know Moira isn’t around right now, but if you slack off and don’t get any work done, she’ll chew you out again the next time you see her.

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