99 Episode 98 Soy Sauce and False Accusations (1/2)

As soon as I took a bite of the fruit, which is a local specialty, what I felt was not the sweetness or sourness I had imagined.

It was sour.

It was almost like the funny story about drinking soy sauce mistaken for Coke.

Or rather, soy sauce.

”Pfft, pfft.

An old man selling fruit laughed at me.

I knew he'd do it, but he reacted just as I expected!　It's what all first-timers do. It's not meant to be eaten on its own, you know.

”Squeeze ...... for seasoning?

I tossed the seyou into the item box, drank some water, and mumbled.

I throw the seyou into the item box, drink some water and mumble. I see what you mean.

Soy sauce.

I knew I could find it, but I didn't expect it to show up as a fruit.

I approached the fruit vendor without saying a word, with a subtle expression on my face.

”Oops. No claims, no returns, okay?

There seem to be two types of ...... séoules. What is the reason for this?

If you look closely at the shelves where the products are placed, you will see that there are two types of sauces: a slightly white saucer and a more reddish saucer.

I bought the red one, but the white one is priced at about a fifth of that.

”Oh, you mean that. It's a difference in origin.

Where?

Seuil is supposed to be a speciality of Dilmia, but the quality of Dilmia's is poor.

What's that? What's that? It's a special product, but it's inferior?

So maybe it's...

Imported?

That's right. You can tell where séouille comes from by its color. The red one is Soyl, the white one is Dillmia.

That's bullshit. ......

I wonder if they don't like the white fruit.

He seems to be too enthusiastic in his sales talk to sell the more expensive one.

How can you say so much about something you are selling yourself?

After the change of lords. He turned all the seuils in Dillmere into this because he thought it would increase the yield. And then they raised the taxes on that shitty territory ....... It's nothing, okay?　If you're going to buy a Seewool, make sure it's the red one.

...... Apparently, Dilmeer's used to be red, too.

Lords who go out of their way to make soy sauce bad. Yeah. I don't think we'll get along.

I don't think we'll get along. It's best to stay out of it, and I don't think we ever will.

In that case, I'll take ten more red ones.

”Oh, good. I'll give you one of Dilmyre's too, so you can experience how bad it is. ...... You have an item box!　No wonder the one you were about to eat disappeared so unnaturally!

Now that you mention it, I'm getting a little curious.

I decided to try it out in my room at a random inn.

I used a boat killer for the experiment. It is a fish similar in appearance to tuna, caught in Photoren. It was left over from the sashimi I had made earlier, but the soy sauce had run out and I was not satisfied with the result.

Using a magic sword disinfected with fire magic and water magic, slice it thinly.

Then, squeeze a little of the seiyu onto a suitable plate, dip the sashimi in it, and try it.

That's it!

This is exactly what tuna sashimi is supposed to be.

The quality of the soy sauce is not bad. The quality of the soy sauce was not bad either. It may have been corrected because I hadn't had it for a while, but it was definitely better than the cheap stuff in Japan.

I'll definitely have to keep the soyel and buy a lot of seiyuu to take home.

Now, ......

Next, the much-despised seuil from Dillmere.

I was thinking earlier that I wouldn't get along with the lord, but it's certainly not right to dislike something without even eating it.

If it's good, I'll have to apologize to the lord.

I reluctantly squeezed the seiyuu, dipped a little in the sashimi, and tried it.

”......?

As soon as you put it in your mouth, you can taste the faint flavor of soy sauce.

And then there's the overwhelming salty and sour taste that tries to drown it out with all its might.

You can't taste any umami at all. It's so bad that I feel like I'm going to get sick just by holding it in my mouth.

I thanked my lucky stars that the first seiyuu I bought was from Soyell.

If I had taken a bite of it, I would have fainted.

I hurriedly drank some water and cleaned my palate with sashimi dipped in a decent amount of soy sauce.

Now it was confirmed. I have nothing to apologize to the lord, and no reason to do so.

Or rather, the lord should apologize. Apologize to the soy sauce.

It was so bad that I even felt angry, but thanks to the palate cleanser, I quickly regained my composure.

At the same time, I noticed that there was some noise around me.

The noise is not outside the window, but rather around the first floor of the inn.

The air in this town is rather dry. If there were a fire, it would be a disaster.

I decided to stop tasting and go downstairs to see what was going on.