Cooking Swordmaster [EN]: Chapter 189

“Let’s hear that story later. Elizabeth’s treatment comes first.”

Elizabeth’s eyes widened at that. She seemed quite surprised.

“What, you don’t want to hear about the Seven Deadly Sins War?”

“Of course I want to hear it! So much so that I was thinking of grabbing you by the collar. But doesn’t everything have its order?”

“Oh, really? Yeah, I guess so. Ahahaha…”

Elizabeth’s expression turned strange, and her face flushed red in an instant.

It was the kind of reaction you’d expect from a noble young lady receiving her first love confession.

‘I’m really curious, but I can’t help it. She looked like she was going to say everything and die satisfied.’

Keinchel didn’t dislike Elizabeth, who was honest with her desires and sometimes as innocent as a child.

No, he liked her. It felt like having an older sister with an age gap.

She still had so much to learn. He couldn’t let her die like this.

So, he decided to use everything he could right now.

Keinchel took off his cloak and laid Elizabeth’s bare body on it.

“If I use the Freshness Restoration skill, I can infuse divine power into my aura. I’ve never used it on a human before, but if I think of you as an ingredient, it should help you recover to some extent.”

“What, so the kid thinks of me as an ingredient? Like a dragon?”

“Ah. That’s not it, that’s not what I meant!”

Elizabeth had returned to her original self, as if she had never been embarrassed.

“I appreciate the thought, but divine power doesn’t work on me. I’m a demon.”

“A demon?!”

“Not just a case of generational expression like Loengreen, but half of me flows with the blood of a pure demon. To be precise, I’m a succubus, the lowest-ranking demon that feeds on human essence.”

Keinchel looked at Elizabeth with a surprised expression.

The reason why she still looked young and beautiful despite living for nearly fifty years had been revealed.

And even the reason why she sometimes exuded a suffocatingly strong sensuality.

However, that wasn’t why Keinchel was surprised.

“T-That’s amazing.”

“Are you making fun of me now? Dirty demon blood! And a succubus who sucks human essence…!”

Keinchel unknowingly grabbed Elizabeth’s hand.

She was born as the lowest-ranking demon, even despised among demons, and reached the pinnacle of the sword.

Moreover, she was a hybrid with a demon. She must have lived with discrimination and pain that couldn’t even be compared to Abel, a half-elf.

Keinchel felt like he knew why Elizabeth liked Abel.

Wasn’t it like looking in a mirror?

“That’s why it’s even more amazing. Elizabeth is different from those who fought the Seven Deadly Sins because they had no choice as humans. You took up the sword and stood against the Seven Deadly Sins of your own will. Besides, the King of Lust, Asmodeus, is definitely…”

“…That’s right. The Succubus Queen. The mother of all succubi. So, I’m a traitor who killed her mother.”

Elizabeth said those words with a smile. It was a smile tinged with loneliness.

“Anyway, if succubus blood flows in Elizabeth’s body, there’s a way to heal the wound.”

The succubus’s food is human essence.

If you supply it abundantly, they won’t die easily unless their heads are cut off.

“W-Wait a minute! I’m not ready yet…”

“After all, there’s nothing like stamina food to restore essence. Please wait a moment. I’ll make you the best health food: eel dishes.”

Elizabeth sighed with a strangely disappointed expression.

“Eel…? Ah, that’s what you meant. Ahaha! …The kid’s cooking is delicious, so. Yeah, because it’s delicious…”

Eel was a popular ingredient not only in Britannia but also in Deutschland [Germany] and Gallia [ancient France].

Smoked eel sandwiches, creamed soup, eel jelly. There were countless ways to cook it.

Keinchel took out a vampire eel from his two-dimensional pocket [a pocket with seemingly infinite space].

It was a type of monster that he had discovered in the Grand Duchy of Blood and caught a few of.

“After all, grilled eel with sweet sauce is the best. But for now, I’ll make salt-grilled eel first.”

Elizabeth replied in a strangely dry voice.

“I’m looking forward to it.”

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Keinchel began to prepare the eel, which was still fresh even though it had been killed and stored.

After fixing the head, which had been half-cut in advance, on the cutting board, he used a mithril knife [a fictional metal known for its sharpness and lightness] to cut it in half.

The internal organs were collected separately.

Sprinkling pepper on them and grilling them over charcoal makes them incredibly flavorful.

Removing the bones of an eel in one go is difficult even for a skilled chef.

However, the knife skills using the 13-star beginner swordsmanship were almost divine.

In an instant, he removed even the smallest thorns without leaving any behind, and gathered them together.

The bones were to be used when extracting the sauce.

“When preparing eel, you have to remove all the fins. They have thorns and get caught in your mouth.”

He cuts the neatly remaining flesh of the eel into bite-sized pieces. He spreads them out on the cutting board and skewers them.

It was a surprisingly difficult task, but thinking about Elizabeth, who would enjoy it, made the corners of his mouth rise.

He sprinkles salt and white wine on the long, cut eel.

Half of it was to be grilled with salt, and the other half was to be grilled with sauce.

“Flambe!”

Then, the charcoal that had been put in the brazier in advance caught fire. The firepower is sufficient.

Keinchel held skewers in both hands and began grilling the eel directly over the fire.

Grilling directly over the fire without a grill is a particularly difficult method among the many eel cooking methods.

However, Keinchel did not hesitate at all.

He controls the flames reaching the eel with Fallen Star and grills it with the sensation of his fingertips.

Chijijijijik-!

The oil flowing from the eel touched the charcoal, and smoke rose. The scent permeated the eel and began to emit an indescribably good smell.

“Gulp…. What is this? You just sprinkled salt on the eel and grilled it? But it’s like the eel is sticking to my whole body and shouting for me to eat it!”

In particular, vampire eels are known to be good for stamina. If Elizabeth eats this, the wound on her chest will heal in an instant.

“Then, please eat this first. I’ll make you sauce-grilled eel right away.”

“Wow, I’ll enjoy it!”

Elizabeth, who had run out of patience, raised her fork.

“But even if you’re a half-demon, isn’t it difficult to move your arm with that kind of injury? Shall I feed you?”

Then, Elizabeth turned her head to the side with a flushed face.

“N-N-No, I don’t need it! I can eat it myself!”

The light brown salt-grilled eel, neatly placed, looks so appetizing that even the slightly burnt parts make your mouth water.

As soon as she brought it to her mouth, she felt the savory taste of the moderately scorched skin.

The moist and soft flesh melts and disappears in your mouth without even having to chew.

The harmony of savory skin and oily flesh was so delicious that she could faint.

The only downside was that there were only two pieces.

Elizabeth whispered to Keinchel with pitiful eyes.

“G-Give me more…. This isn’t enough…”

“How’s the wound?”

“…I think it’s healed a little.”

As Keinchel expected.

If she were a pure demon, she wouldn’t be able to gain essence from food. But Elizabeth’s body has human blood flowing through it.

Like Abel, a half-elf, she possesses the characteristics of both humans and demons.

“Then, I’ll go a little stronger this time.”

Keinchel amplified the effect on the remaining eel. Now, the amount of essence it restores will increase several times.

The sauce to be used for the sauce grill was to be made based on soy sauce.

The sweet and rich taste will make the grilled eel taste even better.

First, he put green onions, garlic, ginger, and chili peppers on a pan heated over high heat and started grilling them until golden brown.

“If you grill the vegetables first like this, you can make a more savory sauce.”

Then, put the grilled vegetables, soy sauce, sake, sugar, and eel bones in a pot and simmer until thick.

As the broth from the bones was added, a sauce with tremendous flavor was created.

“Then, Bishop! Let’s go with jelly!”

― I’ve been waiting for this moment!

The jelly that popped out of Keinchel’s shoulder transformed with a handle.

He used it to carefully filter out the sauce. Grilled eel is a dish that tastes better depending on the effort put into it.

When the sauce was finished, he began grilling the eel in earnest.

“This time, unlike the salt grill, I’m going to grill it three times while applying the sauce. Then, the sauce will simmer on the surface of the eel, and the oil will be added, making it taste even better.”

“Ugh, damn it…. I just heard the explanation and my mouth is watering…”

Elizabeth wiped her wet mouth with her sleeve and waited for the grilled eel to be finished.

As he carefully applied the sauce and grilled it, a smell that couldn’t be compared to the one before spread out.

It was enough to reach even the Fhi who were waiting in a place far away.

While the eel was cooking, Keinchel cooked rice. White rice goes well with the rich taste of grilled eel.

It’s incredibly delicious when eaten with finely chopped ginger.

The rice was cooked and became rice, and the eel, which had been grilled three times, began to give off a satisfactory color.

It was complete.

“Thank you for waiting. This is grilled eel with sauce and white rice. Eating it with ginger will help get rid of the greasiness.”

“Wow…”

Elizabeth exclaimed as she looked at the food on the plate.

The time had finally come to eat grilled eel with sauce.

It was a dish that looked so appetizing that it was almost artistic.

“…Eel with rice, that’s a unique combination.”

“It will definitely be delicious.”

She carefully scoops up the fluffy cooked rice and brings it to her mouth. And, she was shocked.

The rice had a subtly sweet taste. Moreover, the more she chewed, the stronger the taste became.

Keinchel smiled at Elizabeth’s easy-to-understand reaction.

The secret is to mix the grilled eel sauce slightly into the rice.

Then, the taste of the rice changes to match the grilled eel as if it were tailored.

“I could just eat rice with this. Then, where’s the eel…”

The rich scent that only well-cooked eel can have pierced her nose.

Elizabeth took a big bite of it.

Then, she felt the chewy and soft texture and the taste of the eel soaked in the rich sauce.

It was so delicious that tears came out.

The moderately scorched skin had a sweet and savory flavor.

The skin with the taste of the sauce was soft, and the harmony with the moist flesh was fantastic.

She wondered how she had to grill it to get this taste.

Eat rice, eat grilled eel.

As Keinchel said, the taste was also special when she added a little ginger.

To make such delicious food for a succubus….

Keinchel was a mysterious man. Even after hearing her identity, his attitude didn’t change at all. No, he even said it was amazing.

He purely admired the fact that someone from the lowest-ranking demon became a Sword Master.

The emotion she felt at that time was so great that it was as if she was born for that moment.

“…It’s delicious, kid. Really, delicious.”

[6-star dish ‘Grilled Eel That Even Made a Succubus Cry’ has been completed.]

[The guest has completely fallen for you.]

‘Good, 6 stars!’

Perhaps because it was grilled eel with near-divine skill, it had a high rating.

Keinchel looked at Elizabeth, who was eating grilled eel with a satisfied expression.

For some reason, he thought he could see something sparkling in her eyes.

In the end, Elizabeth ate two large vampire eels.

And then she got up from her seat with a satisfied face.

“As expected, when I ate the food the kid made for me, all the wounds healed in an instant. Ugh, but isn’t this effect too good? My stamina is overflowing to the point of exploding?”

“…Because it’s health food.”

Elizabeth was sending a strangely sticky look.

It seemed like he should refrain from making health food in the future.

Elizabeth, who had finished recovering from her injuries, began to tell the rest of the story.

“The Seven Deadly Sins War is not over yet. It is impossible for humans to completely destroy them.”

“Then…”

“The best they could do at that time was to seal their avatars in human bodies. And they will be released again in a few years.”

“…”

So, after all those sacrifices, they were only sealed for a while?

He felt like he knew why the Seven Virtues had kept this a secret.

If this fact were known, the entire continent would be dyed with despair.

“The Oracle Princess Guinevere said that an 8-star dish is needed to eliminate the Seven Deadly Sins. At the time, I thought it was nonsense, but now I think I can understand it.”

“Princess Guinevere said that?!”

She is the only daughter of Emperor Aslan.

However, her identity was shrouded in mystery. The number of people who have actually met her could be counted on one hand.

“And finally, she added these words.”

Elizabeth pointed at Keinchel with her slender finger and continued.

“In order to make an 8-star dish, you need the power of a Sword Master who cooks.”