Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored: Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 5] by rarutori

Author:rarutori
Language: eng
Format: epub

I finally made it home, arriving at our house surrounded by a number of trees. Regardless of myself, it was a bit small for someone of Airena’s standing, but it was our home. There was a forge and a workshop for my sculpting in separate buildings a small distance away. The elven caravan had insisted that we live in a proper mansion, but such a grandiose environment didn’t really suit either of us.

Honestly speaking, this place was already too big for just the two of us. We sometimes had friends come to stay with us, so we hired people to help maintain the house. If it weren’t for that, we could honestly do with something half this size.

Of course, the elven caravan maintained a proper office on the island, so official guests of the caravan never came here. However, if we lived in a large mansion, we wouldn’t be able to avoid having such official guests at our home, which would be quite a hassle.

I had made it back, but it seemed Airena wasn’t home yet. I could cook the fish once she was back, so I’d work on the other parts of the meal for now. Starting a fire for cooking would be an ordeal in and of itself for others, but all I needed was a spark to invite the fire spirits to make something bigger for me.

We had some bread we’d already bought lying around. It was a flat, hard bread rather than the fluffy white stuff, but I was quite fond of it. One of the challenges of living on this island was the difficulty in obtaining fresh vegetables, so most vegetables we ate had to be pickled or salted for long-term preservation. However, leaving those salted vegetables to soak in a small amount of weak salt water leeched some of the harsh saltiness out of them, making them easier to eat. Interestingly enough, if you used fresh water rather than salt water for the process, it would only draw salt from the outside of the vegetable. I then added some plants I had harvested from across the island, cleaning them up and adding a bit of cooking oil to make something of a salad.

I disposed of the fish’s head, scales, and guts, leaving me with a three-layered piece consisting of meat, bone, and meat again. Using a knife I made myself to be particularly sharp, I sliced the remaining fish. Apparently if you dusted the fish with salt, waited for it to draw some of the moisture out, then wiped it down, it would reduce the smell somewhat. I didn’t know how it worked, but if it made the food tastier, there was no reason not to do it. All that was left was to wait for Airena to get home and then start grilling it.

I’d called it cooking, but this was all it entailed. As I had said, if we were really interested in good food, we’d go out to eat or hire someone to come cook for us.

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