To Another World... with Land Mines! Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 11] by Itsuki Mizuho

Author:Itsuki Mizuho
Language: eng
Format: epub

Side Story—A New Year’s Eve Tradition

“I wanna eat some soba noodles.”

Touya muttered that desire one day when we were eating a late lunch. Oh, yeah, we haven’t done anything with the buckwheat we purchased a while back. But why did you have to bring it up now, Touya? We’re eating lunch with the people who made lunch for us, you know? Look, now Haruka’s glaring at you.

“Where did that come from all of a sudden?” Haruka asked. “Are you not satisfied with my cooking?”

She sounded like she was trying to imply that she might not let Touya eat anything depending on his answer, but he hastily shook his head.

“N-No, that’s not it! The food you cooked is delicious! What I mean is that it’s almost New Year’s Eve, so I kind of wanna have some soba noodles for the occasion. What do you think of that idea, Haruka? We have soy sauce, so...”

The soy sauce Touya had mentioned was actually just a version of inspiel sauce with a similar flavor, but we had started referring to it as soy sauce among ourselves. We probably wouldn’t refer to it as imitation soy sauce until we found or made some real soy sauce ourselves, and the same applied to the other inspiel sauce variation we’d made that had a similar taste to miso.

“Speaking of traditions, we need to do some year-end cleaning before New Year’s Eve as well, although cleaning doesn’t take long to do in this world,” said Haruka.

“Mm. Magic can take care of that problem for us,” said Natsuki. “I probably would have given up on the life of an adventurer by now if magic didn’t exist.”

“Yeah, keeping things clean would normally eat up a lot of time,” I said.

My heart would have probably been overcome with despair if I’d had to clean the house every time we returned from an adventure. Instead, Haruka and Natsuki constantly used the Purification spell to clean the house with ease, so there was really no need for any involved year-end cleaning.

“Soba noodles, huh? Hmm,” said Haruka. “We don’t have any bonito or kombu soup stock, but I don’t think that should be an issue.” She nodded to herself as she pondered that idea.

Mary had a slightly confused look on her face as she chimed in with a question. “Um, what are soba noodles?”

“Oh, right, I guess you wouldn’t know, Mary,” I said. “You see, soba noodles are made from buckwheat, and we bought some back in Kelg, but we were told it isn’t very popular. You haven’t heard of this either, have you, Metea?”

Metea nodded when I looked at her. The person who’d sold us buckwheat had told us that most merchants didn’t stock it, so it made sense that the sisters weren’t aware of it.

“I’ve never heard of soba noodles before,” said Metea. “Are they delicious?”

“Mm, I like soba noodles,” said Yuki. “Well, to get specific, it’s more like I enjoy the taste of mentsuyu sauce.”

“The quality of the noodles is important, but the sauce is just as important,” said Haruka.

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