Volume 11 Chapter 6 Part3 (1/2)

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T/N: What's meant with entertainanizes for its ioby (haze) are fish inhabiting brackish waters and Neiwan in East Asia, and a species of goby classified as Perciforoby In addition it inhabits China, Australia and America In japan it can be found south of Hokkaido Haze, kajika, guzu, dekihaze, hinehaze, ketahaze, kaozu, kusohaze; it's called in various ways, depending on the region and its size

It's a fish which is a good target for si exists since the Edo period as amusement for the com it in various dishes such as teredient for soup, boiled in soy sauce and as sweetened boiled fish

It's known as the best ingredient for Tokyo-styled teh-class tempura restaurant in shi+tamachi, haze te ions such as Sendai, dried-and-grilled haze is so indispensable for the dashi+ of the traditional zouni (T/N: dashi+ is japanese soup stock made out of fish and kelp…zouni is a typical New Year dish, it's a soup containing rice cake and various vegetables)

If you ask why I' all this in such a detail…

“Earl Baumeister, this is the spot where they appear in nuht after the first dawn breaks, it's so many that they bite at every cast It's the private fishi+ng spot of the Earl Mizuho Country, err, Duke Mizuho family”

Just whento my territory, we received an invitation to an entertainh Earl Mizuho, err, Duke Mizuho

The location was the mouth of a river connected to the ocean, where the Earl Mizuho Country, err, Mizuho Dukedom obtained permission to fish froh density of fish such as sweetfish, eels, catfish, red s visible in the water Only the fanized by the Mizuho family head, and their fa nets, fishi+ng-rods and other ht

In addition it see iuests by the Mizuho household

“In su haze before they swioby (haze) fishi+ng was a popular pastime, which all of them, from the feudal lord to the coroup that resembled the japanese, they have quite the refined hobbies

“The Extreme Limit Steel, and that porcelain with its distinctive, shi+ning whiteness We have repeatedly made our craftsmen research them many times over, but they don't reach that level of perfection I'd like you to sell the production methods to us by all means” (Mizuho)

We were received by Duke Mizuho for that reason

It's coifts for Duke Mizuho, who increased his territory and went up in noble rank

“You are stating your wish quite openly, aren't you?” (Wendelin)

“It can't be that you haven't noticed that, Earl Baumeister Also, since the time of the civil as quite difficult, it likewise serves as an occasion to simply take a breather” (Mizuho)

Given that it was such a strenuous war, even Duke Mizuho probably wanted to relax a bit

It's the same forforced to develop a special product for some reason

“Please, have a drink while leisurely letting the line dangle” (Mizuho)

“Oh, thank you very much for the treat” (Wendelin)

I had Duke Mizuho pour me some sake

Next to the place, where you can often fish haze if you use si rods, located on the bank of the river's enuinely Mizuho-styled house has been erected Further to worry about the cold of winter

The caught haze are immediately prepared as sashi+mi, fried fish, tempura, haze boiled in soy sauce and soup by the eside sake

Even the sake is a haze sake that had grilled-and-dried haze put into warement where you not only enjoyed its deliciousness, but also indulged in a certain elegance

For me, a forht one! I caught one! Ooh! Is this a new record?”

Even in this world, reeling rods exist

They are also available in the Kingdom, but the ones made in the Mizuho Dukedom resemble those of modern japan and are easy to use

Since they are a race that likes fish, they are enthusiastic about researching devices that allow thes such as balance scales and hooks were fairly si is thin and sturdy, too” (Wendelin)

I was able to catch a haze exceeding a length of 20 c line is superfine, there see

“It's beenMadara Spider, which lives in monster domains Even professional fishers treat it as priceless treasure” (Mizuho)

“It looks like there also dedodorace of the peace treaty” (Mizuho)

The Duke Mizuho household was listed as nobility of the Empire, but in the end it's no pure E to soovern connections with the independent Duke Mizuho household

Though, as for the Kingdoovernment, it was me who proposed to do so to his Majesty

“Our Mizuho household yielding a profit due to trade blossoreat joy, but Earl Baumeister, unexpectedly you are quite the schemer” (Mizuho)

“Adoe of the Eht say that it has started its invasion” (Mizuho)

The current Ees to its productivity and circulation of goods and e of that, or rather it has reached the point where the Kingdoradually iht expect fro sensitive to opportunities tothe border if it's for the sake of business

“Well, since we have a trade surplus, it's going smoothly for us, I dare say I think it's difficult for the central governh” (Mizuho)

They seeovernment system, but it looks like small-scaled rebellions have popped up immediately

“Viscount Betel has apparently started a rebellion together with nobles that were demoted and their retainers He was dissatisfied over his territory being reduced The rebellion was rounded up in a h” (Mizuho)

Gilbert, who becaated the rebels by sending his coht away

Given that he's a capable soldier, you could call it a natural outcoenius either

“That means it will take time until the Eh” (Wendelin)

“I invited hi to come, but he turned it down as he appears to be busy He used words such as 『disappointing, regret』” (Mizuho)

Likewise, Alfons, who's busy as new Duke Philip, didn't cos are too hectic for hiuess Therese-dono hasn't co so” (Wendelin)

She's no member of the Duke Philip household anymore, thus she harbors no intention to be politically active in the Empire

To immediately return into the E left because she announced her intention to society isn't very smart, she told me

“I'm told that there would be many Empire nobles, ould likely intrude upon you, Duke Mizuho, wanting to turn up at this location, if she had attended It seems that she doesn't want to cause you any troubles” (Wendelin)

“There's that as well Therese-dono seeht be the best like that” (Mizuho)

Since it can't be helped that it's only very political topics, or rather, because it will be probleet involved too deeply, I decided to focus on fishi+ng

“Erw, did you catch anything?” (Wendelin)

“Quite a feith a reasonable size This fried haze is great” (Erwin)

Erw had theht himself, and seems to be very satisfied with that

“Uuys are slippery Once in a while they also bite” (Erwin)

Haruka seeetically asked Erw to help her, and had his that you dislike, Haruksan” (Erwin)

I have been bad with this slis since my childhood…” (Haruka)

“Certainly, there are probably people who are bad with those” (Erwin)

Erw hooks the bait for Haruka who's bad with live bait, and both of theht of that was the very definition of a riajuu couple

Still not having conaws atmy heart out of order!

“Erw-san, I was able to catch one” (Haruka)

“This is quite a big one Let's have theht away” (Erwin)

Haruka hands the haze to a fe a professional cook, cuts and trims the fish with flawless movements, coats and then deep-fries it

After intently watching the saucepan for a short while, he pulls out the fried tempura without any hesitation in his movements and then swiftly drains the oil

I can't take my eyes off his skilled techniques

And then the haze tempura is set on a plate and presented in front of the two

“Erw-san, do you eat this with dipping sauce or salt?” (Haruka)

“It's the beginning, so let's go with salt” (Erwin)

“Understood Here, please open yourfed by you makes it even more tasty, Haruksan” (Erwin)

“That's not true” (Haruka)

“No, no, I' praised by Erw, Haruka's face beco it, makes uys harbor any respect or esteehly proficient techniques?

I consider that to be weird

In no way does itlike that

“That's youth for you Sometimes I also had my wife do that for me in my early days” (Mizuho)

“Is that so?” (Wendelin)

If I'etting married and surely not in ht have been, I don't think that it suits Duke Mizuho

Since it would be rude to say that out loud, I don't h

“If only Takeomi-san was here for such occasions…” (Wendelin)

If that younger-sister-loving siscon samurai was here, he would prevent the indiscreet acts of those two Even though he would condemn them, he wasn't present today for some reason

“If it's Takeo harsh criticism by the lot of the Fujibayashi+ family”

“What did he do?” (Wendelin)

“He's a nuisance to a peaceful relationshi+p with the Earl Baumeister household and the Duke Mizuho household”

The Fujibayashi+ household had its hereditary stipend go up quite a bit due to the successful accouished war services in the civil war by Haruka and Takeoroup of high-ranking retainers

“As there's also thethose achieveet scolded, if the next fae”

It looks he was reprirandfather, the retired, previous family head, and almost all other fah they have such a great relationshi+p, what's the idea with you acting as nuisance there!?』, but I think everyone says that”

Therefore he was forced to stay away froinally should be able to join as he has now becoher-ranked retainer

“(Tsk! What an useless older brother Even so, with Erw's social standing…)” (Wendelin)

The jealousy dwelling in er

I re, 『Riajuu and their likes should just explode and die』

Moreover, there's also their blaspheht, this is truly the most important

I will say it once more; this is definitely no jealousy

“Dear, I have also learned how to make tempura, and actually tried toof darkness inplaced it on a plate

As expected of my wife

I had my heart wrapped up in the sa, but she re a loyal retainer

“Hee, you have really deep-fried them very nicely” (Wendelin)

“Tempura is difficult” (Elise)

Certainly, if you try to perfect teredients, to the ; if you don't pay meticulous attention to all of thee in the oil's sizzling in theis hard” (Elise)

“That's quite the high level you've going there…” (Wendelin)

Even though she has deep-fried te about professional-cook-like things

It added another episode to her perfect superwoend

“It looks like it will take ti to learn how to drain the oil Well then, let me have a bite at once”

I eat the teets cold

Inside it's hot and flaky as it's been deep-fried lightly

I ended up giving a, but honestly, it's very tasty

After all, I'm convinced that one should eat tempura with salt first

“Delicious As expected of you, Elise” (Wendelin)

“Great With this we can make it at all ti at Elise s that, I was confident ina face as if you are elated by success for while eating tempura?” (Erwin)

Erw looked curious, but you should thank Elise Even though you ed by the futurewas broken thanks to her

“Ah, don't worry about it By the hat about Ina and the others?” (Wendelin)

“Yes, they have deep-fried teether with , Ina and Luise were deep-frying huge amounts of tempura for some reason

“If we have deep-fry only this many, on't reach Elise's level, but I did i mark fro teerly?” (Wendelin)

I approach Ina and Luise, who are i soto open a restaurant, and try asking the, deep-frying, it's endless”

The reason for the at it so earnestly were Doushi+ and Wilma

Two black holes exist in a certain area Over there all kind of food and beverage ends up vanishi+ng in no time

“In my opinion this fish called haze is very delicious, but if you could catch one with a length of at least one )

“Really, thehaze doesn't exist…”

At the very least it's ioby ( if they exceed 20 centio for nu)

“I will fish because I want to eat more” (Wilma)

Doushi+ and Wile haze, but since both have positive characters, they iht as long as they catch a great amount of them

Both hand the haze they catch to Ina and Luise, and then wolf them down after they were processed into te with Doushi+ drinking haze sake and Wil sweetened boiled haze, haze boiled in soy sauce and tea

Be that as it ht one” (Wilma)

“Wilirl who has turned hunting and fishi+ng into her hobby and occupation She's fishi+ng haze at the level of a Meijin 1 And the caught haze were immediately cooked and landed in her stoo extinct at this rate?” (Erwin)

“There are no others who fish here, so it should be alright, I think…”

Doushi+ and Wil haze with a speed that o extinct

However, this estuary is the exclusive fishi+ng spot of the Duke Mizuho household

The fish probably won't go extinct that easily

“I caught one, but it's a fish I have never seen before…”

“Ah, a whiting If you make te feht Wilma about the type of fish

The point is that she was able to catch a whiting, which she didn't intend to catch, because this is an estuary

These fish were also popular as ingredient for tedoht in the Edoreat, too” (Wendelin)

Since Wilma is taciturn, she won't tell , but she letsteredient with great taste and a white-fleshed fish for sashi+mi and sushi+, it was delicious, as expected

“I want to eat one, too” (Ar watched us, Doushi+ selfishly, like a child, says that he wants to eat a whiting as well

“It's a fish outside e are luring, so you can't catch it so easily”

“Unununu—! Thewish of wanting to catch so that seeluttony speaking, I can't hear it as anything but hi

However, Doushi+ see the small bait on the small hook is difficult for hi to Wilain points is towhen they appear on the surface…Doushi+, you suck” (Wil)

Thanks to that Doushi+ didn't even catch a fifth of what Wil one!” (Ar)

The rod in Doushi+'s hands bends drastically Once he quickly wound in the reel, the catch was pulled up

However, the it wasn't a haze

“A blowfish?”

“I guess that's because it's the -rod, the blowfish had started to puff up

“Umm, this fish is called 『River Blowfish』…”

A woetically to Doushi+

“It can be eaten, right? I ate blowfish before” (Ar)

“It's a different kind… You can often catch them in estuaries, but the parts that can be eaten are full of poison”

“How regrettable…” (Ar that he won't be able to eat the blowfish, Doushi+ feels awfully down

———– End of Part 1 ———–

“I caught one” (Wil)

Even while Doushi+ is preoccupied with such things, Wilma steadily piles up catches

“However, there aren't rilled-and-dried haze back home with me…” (Wilma)

No , the possibility of her bringing back haze is low

“U some on the way home” (Wendelin)

“As expected of you, Wend-sama That's a wonderful solution” (Wil opinion that it has to be praised?

I feel like everyone could have come up with that…

“Now then, Katharina is…” (Wendelin)

Once I lastly looked for Katharina, she was challenging fishi+ng with a serious expression alongside Philine

Bringing Philine along this tirave Breithilde's wife Because she beca it known inside and outside the country that we are on such good terms that she accompanies me at such times

『Earl Baumeister…if you make a move on Philine…』 (Amadeus)

『I won't!』 (Wendelin)

『Then it's fine, but…how nice, being able to go on a trip with Philine…』 (Arave Breithilde's envious voice through the MHCD, but there's no way that I' to make a move on a 10 years old child

Since he's no adventurer or o on a trip with his daughter, though

As awith us has another objective: she also acts as Margrave Breithilde's representative

Due to ifts for Duke Mizuho with thefrom now on and such

Philine, who handed hi of a child at her age

“In order to easily sense the fine bites, I deployed a 『Magic Barrier』 to avoid the surrounding of the line being hit by the outside wind” (Katharina)

“Uwaaah, as expected of you, Katharinsama” (Philine)

“With this it's set in stone that I will be able to catch thehaze as ga it so seriously that the others are drawing back from her

Just Philine, who is with her, adic, it's very difficult to confirm it with the naked eye, but in the eyes of Philine, who can't use

“I don't understand why you're so obsessed inning” (Wendelin)

“Wendelin-san, doing it seriously is the reason why playing is fun” (Katharina)

Katharina brazenly spit out a seeument, but even so, the world of co

Actually Katharina obviously isn't good at fishi+ng

There are ic

“Umm…I can't fish as well as I expected, but…” (Katharina)

It looks like there's not ht

If it's like this, Wil

“…If I catch so victory” (Katharina)

While saying that, Katharina shows the biggest haze aht to ht by Katharinsa” (Philine)

Certainly, as Philine says, the biggest one is around 27 centi catch one won't be able to fish that often

“Whoa, huge!”

“It'scatch” (Katharina)

Katharina threw out her chest in the belief of having won, but her doing as she pleased came to an end soon afterwards

“Wil one!”

“I think it will be filling if it's made into tempura” (Wilma)

When Wilma pulled in a athered around her

Katharina's three minutes of fame were so short that they even paled in coht fish since her earliest childhood days…”

I heard that she secured her food expenses by fishi+ng at rivers since she couldn't go hunting when she was s-rod and her skill is at the level of a Meijin It goes so far that she has been approved by the caretakers of the Mizuho household who are accoht one that was a little so, but even then I was envied by the for and take care of the guests, adht by Wilenuinely jealous of Wilht haze with a ruler, they are getting very excited

“Even if it's this big, it's not like it's clear whether several of theht in a year” (Wendelin)

Since it will be troublesory here, I follow up for her

It's not like Katharina is particularly reserved towards Wil else

“…” (Katharina)

“Katharina?” (Wendelin)

“Then I will catch an even bigger haze toht after dawn! Yes, with the resolve to reel in the boss of the haze in this river!” (Katharina)

“Is there actually so like a haze boss in this river?” (Wendelin)

I have never heard anything about that

“Wendelin-san, isn't there always one in monster domains? I'm sure, there must be one hidden in this river as well!” (Katharina)

“(As if so like that exists…)” (Wendelin)

It's not like this is soa…this is a normal river, not a monster domain

I was simply astonished by Katharina's words

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“Dark, cold, there's no sign of the sun rising yet” (Wendelin)

And then, early n of dawn

Since it's winter, the sun shows no signs of rising yet

During such a time, me, Doushi+, Katharina, Wilhtly away froed

“Earl Baumeister-sama, this is the spot”

“Here, huh…?” (Wendelin)

Last night I thought, 『As if there's so told by an old es the river, that it actually does exist, I quickly decided to join the boss fishi+ng

Why, you ask? That's because it would be alike development

“Haze die in one to two years, however there's a rumor that the boss haze has been alive for several tens or even several hundreds of years Eventhat he happened to see it”

His family is the one that usually takes care of this river, the exclusive fishi+ng spot of the Duke Mizuho household

I hear they are patrolling the river everyday as countere haze with a size of around twoin the riverbed a few tih haze die once they lay their eggs, it's an individual that has survived and grown by not laying eggs, huh?

The story is gradually getting exciting

“But, if it's a haze with a length of two -rods won't cut it, will they?”

“Expecting that, I prepared new ones” (Wilirl Wila mentioned at the end of the chapter), who doesn't

It seems she asked the elderly caretakers yesterday and prepared the necessary fishi+ng-rods

“However, why is Wil the preparations? The one who talked about catching the boss was Katharina, no?” (Wendelin)

“Until now I have only used ly I asked Wilma, who's my rival” (Katharina)

“Oi…” (Wendelin)

It's not what you say, but how you say it, or rather, Katharina is a a super-veteran a rival as super-beginner

“In other words, Katharinjou you're aiinner's luck? In that case I have a chance as well!” (Arame, too” (Philine)

Doushi+ and Philine pick up rods and declare that they will participate in the boss fishi+ng

This time Elise, Ina, Luise, Haruka and Eron't participate

『If you catch so, ill prepare it for breakfast』(Elise)

Elise and the others will prepare breakfast since they wake up a little later

The h fishi+ng-rod, Wilmsama” (Philine)

“If it's not at least this sturdy, it won't hold out if you catch the boss” (Wile reel, a fishi+ng line that was given a special treat Madara Spider, a heavy sinker, a large hook; if it's this, there's likely no worry that a soame will be able to escape

“What's the bait?” (Wendelin)

“This” (Wil earthworms that look like small snakes were inside the bucket held out by Wila Haruka along”

With her not being able to stoht have fainted, if she saw suchher…such riajuu spectacle is unnecessary for the ro the bait to the hook so that it's hidden, you toss the line towards the target point” (Wile earthworh rod and drops the line at the target point