(Wn) Chapter 110 (1/2)
110 The Shadows of Conspiracy
「Hey! Ya recognize this?」
「W-Well…」
「It’s the stupid God daave me!」
We’d approached the orphanage in order to scout out one of our coreeted by a series of furious shouts upon arrival
The yells that came from within were excessively loud We could easily hear the Our curiosity got the better of us, and we peeped in fro on
「I’ot no recollection of this God damn recipe」
「Y-Yeah, I get it I do reive you You said you’d leave us alone if I handed it over」
「Are you fucken retarded? I told you to hand over the soup recipe you use for the Goddamn contest every Goddamn year」
「I-I did already」
It looked like the orphanage was being harassed by a typical, a loan shark-esque grunt They mentioned a recipe a few ti related to the contest
The grunt that’d been shouting at the top of his lungs looked like like your usual everyday hoodlum
A single wo the latter She looked ure
「Did ya think you could get by just handing me off this incomplete piece of shi+t? There aint even any precise auessritten down here」
「But that’s just how I normally prepare it…」
「Hah? Shut the hell up You and I both know that there ain't no way in hell you can get past the prelims like that This shi+t basically just says that you throw a bunch of rando pot The fuck you think you’re trying to fool, bitch?」
「That really is how I prepare it! I don’t nor device at all I just approximate!」
It looked like the the piece of paper the hoodlue’s signature soup I’et his hands on it, but either way, he was co that it lacked coht The recipe really didn’t have much written on it
However, the wo him the truth from the very start
She siredient she used, but she et fourth place overall last year in spite of that I had to say that the sense of dissonance going on there really got me curious, and so, I appraised her, only to find that she, Io, was just about as a went She had cooking level nine, a skill that enhanced her sense of taste, and most importantly, divine protection from the God of Cuisine In other words, she had been chosen by none other than the God that governed the realm of food himself
To her, the act of approxi was probably akin to other people iven point in time, except that it was done on the fly In other words, she probably just ith her gut feeling while occasionally sah the aforeredients the best possible taste she could, regardless of their quality It was a brilliant concept, but not one that the hoodlum before us could come to understand
「I told you to cut the shi+t already!」
Annnnd yup Figured as much
（Master Going to help）
『Don’t hit hiht?』
（Nn Got it）
Fran used ic to silence the area, leapt over the fence, and snuck behind the hoodlu him
「Listen here, bit-charhgh!」
She drilled her foot into the back of his head and caused his eyes to roll backwards The hoodlum had been instantly deprived of his consciousness
Wait, didn’t she say that she knew she was supposed like, not be too violent? I swear I told her that and that she agreed I swear…
『Hey u him too hard?』
（Nn? Didn’t kill Didn’t cut either）
Er, I guess it’d be better for me to define “too hard” next time Oh well, whatever What’s done is done
「I-I-I’m not sure as to who you are, but thank you very much for your assistance!」
Io thanked us repeatedly before finally cal down, at which point in time we asked her exactly what had happened
「We’re not really all that sure either…」
Io seemed to not understand much about the precise events that transpired, but, she still tried her best to tell us everything she did know Fortunately, her words were enough to give a rough idea as to the general circumstances
It all started a few years ago Barbra’s lord had suddenly stopped funding the orphanage for reasons unknown, and since then, they’d been suffering financially due to their lack of sustainable income They were in such dire straits that they found it difficult to even scrape up enough money to allow the children to eat everyday
They requested the lord to change his reed to reinstate their funding The orphanage was later approached by ato lend the out either
「The e on the repayment date, and said that it was set in stone, but it ay too unrealistic There was no e could possibly make three hundred thousand Golde in just half a year… We wanted to ask him to extend deadline, but ere never able to find his whereabouts」
「Nn? Unable to find whereabouts?」
「The director did his very best to try and locate the ure out where he went It turned out that he wasn’t actually registered with Barbra’s Merchant’s Guild」
Okay yeah, if that isn’t suspicious, then I don’t knohat is In fact, it was pretty obvious that they were just being used and exploited from the very start I mean, they were offered a decently sized loan with low interest rate loan right when they needed it Moreover, they were asked to repay it within an impossibly quick ti other thanthat they didn’t get the money even if they had been paid
Honestly, it was a pretty cliche situation The only difference was that they were des like the orphanage’s land or children
「That hoodlu?」
「I think so He told us to hand hi them back in half a year」
Okay, yeah, looks like this probably does have so contest But wouldn’t setting this whole thing up need a lot of prep work? They basically just thren three hundred thousand Golde for no reason too Though, I guess most chefs wouldn’t find three hundred thousand to be all that
I mean, fine, that can be justified, but why only the recipe? Couldn’t they have just forced the orphanage not to participate instead?
Yeahhhh, I don’t get it I kind of want to interrogate the hoodlum we have over here, but, that probably wasn’t exactly the best idea Using violence would ultie as well, sooooo yeah, let’s not
Doing it after dragging hietting targeted by soanisation
（Master What to do with hoodlum?）
『H, so let’s uess』
（Nn!）
The fact that he didn’t see Fran sneak up on hi we needed to deal with this situation however we pleased
『Alright, make sure you stick to the plan』