Chapter 43 (2/2)

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First I’ll buy stuff that I’ve nearly run out of from the Net Super . Soy sauce and sake, and since it’s a pain to grate ginger and garlic I’ll buy some grated paste in tubes, and wheat flour and potato starch and vegetable oil as well . I’ve got a frying pan and a cooker but I’ll need to buy a pot for deep-frying .

Right, let’s get started cooking .

Cut the Black Serpent’s meat up into bite-sized pieces and stab them with a fork so that the sauce seeps in . Put soy sauce, sake, grated garlic and ginger in a plastic bag and give it a really good shake . Add the Black Serpent’s meat and squeeze it over and over to infuse it with the sauce . Poking the meat with a fork helps but I give it a good ten minutes anyway . Meanwhile I put kitchen paper on a dish .

I get the oil warmed up properly . Right, it’s about time .

I covered the Black Serpent’s meat with a mixture of flour and starch,

shook off the excess powder and fried it . Yep, it looks like it’s nice and crispy, just like fried chicken . Whether it tastes like it . . .

I try not to think of it as snake, I think to myself, “it’s chicken” and try a bite .

*Crunch, chew chew chew . . . * . . . . . . . . . . It tastes delicious, nothing weird .

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“Don’t hold out . Feed me some of it too . ”

Fer had been standing motionless, eyes fixed on the food but his patience was exhausted . I scooped out more freshly-fried chick- uh, Black Serpent meat for him .

“Wa-, wait a minute . ” I said .

“Nnnn, this is delicious . Not enough, give me more . ”

Hang on, I just started frying .

“Sui wants to eat it too . ”

Yes yes, just wait a moment . “Give me some time to fry more . ”

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I fried and fried continuously . As I finished each batch Fer and Sui gobbled them down . I fried until I was ready to drop, it seemed endless .

Fer and Sui ate nearly everything, would they leave any for me?

“Hey, leave a little for me will you?”

Eventually after frying and frying, Fel and Sui seemed satisfied .

“Umu, it was delicious . I want to eat this dish again . ” said Fer .

“Yeah, it was delicious . Sui likes this too . I want to eat it again . ”

It looked like fried food will be a popular item on the menu from here on .

However, there were only three pieces of fried chick- uh, Black Serpent meat left . I put them between two slices of bread but it was not as nice to eat it that way . Damn it .