To Another World... with Land Mines! Volume 10 [Complete] by Itsuki Mizuho

Author:Itsuki Mizuho
Language: eng
Format: epub

After the girls deep fried-the giant salamander, it actually tasted decent enough. I wouldn’t have minded eating some now and then. We ate it with bread to finish off lunch, but after just a few hours, I found myself really looking forward to the hot pot dinner to come.

When the time came, the girls plopped a bucket down in front of us. Inside was a softshell turtle, apparently still energetic despite the lack of water; I heard it scratching the walls of the bucket. We’d already cleaned it, so all that was left was to cook it, but...

“Nobody here has cooked a turtle before, right?” Haruka asked.

“Nope,” Yuki replied. “And Natsuki’s the only one who’s eaten turtle.”

I, of course, had no idea how to cook turtle. Softshell turtles didn’t look very tasty at all, so I was impressed by the courage of the Japanese people who were willing to try eating them.

“I only have some vague memories, but I’ll do my best,” said Natsuki.

“Be careful, big sis Natsuki!” Metea exclaimed.

“Don’t worry, Metea-chan. Softshell turtles can’t bite you as long as you pay attention to where you grab them.”

Natsuki smiled as she swiftly removed the softshell turtle from the bucket and placed it on a cutting board. It was massive—its shell was easily over forty centimeters wide—but that wasn’t an issue; our cutting boards were quite big as well due to the fact that the girls had to use them in a big kitchen. Unnecessarily large kitchen tools and utensils would normally have been too unwieldy to clean, but the girls were all quite strong, besides which they had Purification spell, so they’d placed custom orders for oversized cutting boards.

“It still looks really big to me,” I said. “Wouldn’t a smaller turtle be easier to handle?”

“Not exactly. We’ll have to sort through its internal organs, and larger ones are better in that regard,” said Natsuki.

“Oh, good point,” I said.

According to Natsuki, most parts of a softshell turtle were edible. However, they weren’t mammals, so it wasn’t easy to identify their different organs. If a larger one was easier to separate into parts and cook, that, in turn, would make it easier to decide whether it was worth catching more.

“Okay, let’s prepare the turtle,” said Natsuki. “Nao-kun, could you please pin it down for me?”

“Sure.”

I pressed down on the turtle’s shell so it couldn’t escape the cutting board. It stuck its head out in an attempt to intimidate us, but Natsuki firmly grasped its neck and stretched it out.

“Here goes!”

Natsuki’s voice sounded just as cute as Yuki’s voice had earlier, when she was preparing the eels, but she sliced off the head without the slightest hesitation, and the sight of blood spurting from the stump of its neck was far from cute.

The rest of us regarded the dead turtle in silence. I mean, sure, we’ve killed a lot of animals and monsters for food, but somehow it’s still upsetting to kill something you’ve never killed before...

“We don’t need turtle blood, so let’s dispose of it,” said Natsuki.

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