Volume 4 Chapter 1 Part4 (1/2)
Translator Corner
Minasan oideyasu. This is Yukkuri demasu!
The keywords time: SAUCE! and REFUGEES.
Also, any similarity with European Refugee
Crisis is just a coincidence. I think.
Demon Lord’s Territory: 魔王領. All this time I translate it as魔王 + 領. But then, it hit me, why don’t I translate it as: 魔 + 王領 = Demon Lordom, Demon Kingdom, Demon
Lordland, Demondom (okay, this is silly), Demon Reich (I kinda like this, Reich
vs Alliance of Empire + United Kingdom). Got better idea? I like the Reich, though?
This chapter makes me hungry. Thanks for the donation fro the kind reader SM, your donation will be used to buy Takoyaki batter so my imouto can cook me some takoyaki with imitation-crab meat (she like to cook j.a.panese and Korean cuisine)... Just kidding.
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guarantee that my translation is 100% correct. Please correct me if I was
wrong.
Author:
Dozeumaru(どぜう丸)
Translator:
Yukkuri Oniisan
Editor:
So-Chintzy
Enlightenment Arc
Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Cities D
The next place that we went to
was the 『Kikkorou Brewery』, located nearby the training center (its logo was the
kanji for wolf – 狼 – in the middle of a hexagon)[1].
It was managed by Tomoe-chan’s kin, the Mythical Wolf Tribe, and mainly
produced shouyu, miso and sake. In this place, we met with someone who I know. When
we entered the premise, there was a fat person who wore short sleeved clothes
even though it would soon be the cold season.
「Hm? Poncho?」(Souma)
「Oh,
Your Majesty! I bid you good day, yes![2]」(Poncho)
When he noticed us, Poncho made a
bow and lowered his head. He only made one bow, so he might have gotten used to
this. Since in the past, he would bow numerous times.
「Poncho,
what are you doing in this place?」(Souma)
「That’s
right! Please hear it, Your Majesty!」(Poncho)
「Too
close, too close! What’s got into you?」(Souma)
「At
last… At last it has been completed! What Your Majesty had wished for, that
“sauce”!」(P)
When he said this, Poncho took
out a bottle filled with black liquid and showed it to me. The “sauce” that I
wished for? …… Ah!
「Is
it true? Has ‘that’ been completed!?」(Souma)
「Please
have a taste, yes.」(Poncho)
「Here
goes!」(Souma)
I dropped several drops of the black liquid into
the back of my hand and I tried to lick it. The flavor of vegetables and
fruits. The scent of spices that filled my nose. The unmistakable taste of that
sauce. And yet, unlike the usual Worcester sauce[3],
the sourness and sweetness were stronger, furthermore the taste was deeper. There
was no doubt. This sauce is no doubt, the “Fritter-Food Sauce”[4]
that is good for yakisoba and its kin.
「The
taste of the sauce…… is boyish.」[5](Souma)
「What
are you saying? It doesn’t make any sense.」(Liscia)
When the appalled Liscia told me
so, I came back to my senses.
「Err,
when I thought about the fact that the sauce had been completed after a long
period of trial and error, I was emotionally moved.」(Souma)
「I-is
it really that amazing?」(Liscia)
「If
we have this then we can make yakisoba, okonomiyaki, monjayaki, takoyaki, and sobames.h.i.+.[6]
Of course, this sauce is also good for deep-fried foods.」(Souma)
「I
don’t recognize most of the foods that you mentioned just now…..」(Liscia)
「I
will make it next time. Even if there are leftovers, Aisha will surely eat them
all.」(Souma)
But you know, the fritter-food
sauce had finally been completed. It had been so long. This world already had a
Worcester-like sauce, but there was no sauce like this that is good for
yakisoba. I thought that perhaps somehow I could make it and ened up going
through many trials and errors. Even so, since I didn’t have any knowledge
about sauce-making, I couldn’t reproduce the taste (in the end, rather than a
yakisoba-bread, I made a Napolitan-bread[7]).
I gave up half-way through the development, but it seems that Poncho had continued
the research……
「But,
you have reproduced it so well. Poncho, you should have never tasted it before, right?」(Souma)
「Your
Majesty’ words, 『Thicker than the common(Worcester) sauce, with a sweet and sour taste』 , and like yakisoba, there was a dish where the sauce is
mixed with the noodles, the Naporitan. This became the hint.」(Poncho)
「The
Naporitan?」(Souma)
「Yes,
it does, yes. That Naporitan uses the tomato sauce, “Ketchup”, that Your
Majesty had developed before. Since that tomato sauce is really good for the
noodles, perhaps it was also used as the sauce for the noodle dish called
yakisoba, or so I had thought, yes.」(P)
「……
AAH!」(Souma)
I see! So, the sourness and the sweetness
of that sauce is from tomato sauce! That means, the Fritter-food Sauce is a
thickened Worcester sauce with Ketchup added to it!
「Then,
to bring the taste out from the mixture of the sauce and the tomato sauce, I
added a small amount of shouyu and mirin that was produced in Kikkorou brewery.
So… how was it?」(Poncho)
While he hesitated in his words,
I put my hands on Poncho’s shoulders.
「Poncho……
Well done.」(Souma)
「Wh-!
Y-you honor me, Your Majesty, yes!」(Poncho)
「Then,
can you ma.s.s produce this sauce?」(Souma)
「Kikkorou