Chapter 1791 – [Second Dimension Restaurant – Cyberpunk Giant Company Chairman and Negitoro-Dong]

The first customer of Elysium, a two-dimensional restaurant, looked around and explored the store as soon as he entered the store. Eyes that show age, not age. No matter how much it seems like he had a separate procedure, he is older, but seeing him walk around without using a cane seems like a huge improvement.

The android woman walked up to him and bowed her head politely as she attended to him. Is it like a bodyguard and secretary? There must be a lot of work to do.

“Is this place, Kana?”

“Yes, Chairman Naomoto.”

“They said it was a two-dimensional restaurant, so I thought it was some kind of scammer or something… But it’s nothing special.”

What, dude, are you criticizing our Eden store?

The heat rises, but I hold it in. This isn’t my store, it’s Eden’s store, and the other person is a customer who hasn’t caused any major problems yet, even if they criticize him harshly. Eden, not me, had the right to regard them as uninvited guests and kick them out.

If you didn’t cross the line, you were still a customer and had to cross it. Of course, there will be no mercy if you cross the line.

“Welcome. This is Elysium, the other-dimensional restaurant. If you two are there, I will show you to your seats right away.”

“Korean? They say it’s a two-dimensional restaurant, but they use Korean? Even though they say it’s from another world, it’s a familiar language, so I feel like they’re a fraud.”

“Even if it’s a different dimension, there are many worlds, so it’s not strange that there are similar worlds. I also didn’t expect the first customer to speak Japanese.”

“First, since it’s a restaurant, we should order. Please show us to our seats.”

“I understand.”

I guided a female android called Kana and a man named Chairman Naomoto to their seats. Normally, a menu would be provided, but there is no separate menu for customers at the Ichon Restaurant.

Since they are hungry guests, there must be something they want to eat. Eden’s idea was that it would be better to take personal orders and cook for them as much as possible. Well, on the other hand, I also sympathize with it.

So, first, I brought out water and dishes and set them up. Afterward, the sales policy is explained separately and orders are taken.

“Our restaurant does not have a separate menu. If there is something you would like to eat, please let us know as we have pretty much everything.”

“You can do almost anything?”

“Yes, I am.”

As a result, Chairman Naomoto’s suspicious gaze became stronger. Looking at the article below, it seems that even though technology has developed, it has not yet developed into dimensional civilization or anything like that. It would be worth it if I unexpectedly visited a place and found a restaurant that spoke a different but familiar language.

But apart from that, I’m not saying it crookedly. Since he was called the chairman, it seems like he was arrogant due to his position.

Soon, he pondered over the menu and placed his order with a stern expression on his face. I thought they were going to order something strange, but it turned out to be nothing special. It may seem like a lot of food for two people, though.

“Then give me bluefin tuna. I don’t even eat bio-cooked bluefin tuna, so definitely raw bluefin tuna. As long as the ingredient is bluefin tuna, you can cook whatever you want.”

“It will be a lot for the two of you. Do you mind?”

“Do you really think that Chairman Naomoto of the world would just spend money on food at a restaurant? If only the food is satisfactory, I will pay the price. If he does, I will say it.”

Looking at the bio and talking about the biological bluefin tuna, it seems like a cyberpunk world where technology is advanced but the environment is so bad that there is no proper cooking and there is only synthetic food.

I know this well because I was reincarnated in such a world. It was a very terrible place for me as a chef because it was a world where there were only low-quality synthetic foods or alternative meats. I wonder if I, who was just adapting to life, would even think about committing suicide.

In the end, I didn’t do it, but I still had a hard time because life was hard. Considering that he comes from that world, what he ordered must be a dream ingredient, like dragon meat.

Oh, of course, Elysium is a restaurant registered in the dimensional civilization, so it cannot serve dragon meat due to the Dragon Protection Act. At best, it’s polyp meat.

“If you want, can we do a tuna dismemberment show?”

“Ha!!!! That would be nice too!!! I can see you after decades!!!!”

However, the inability to obtain fresh natural ingredients is a situation over there, not a situation here. Moreover, Cherubim’s plant facility is much better because it builds a single ecosystem and virtually has all the advantages of farmed and natural food ingredients.

Anyway, since I received the order, I should let you know. Eden may have already heard the story from the kitchen, but something formal is necessary.

“You can cook tuna with a bluefin tuna dismemberment show, right?”

“I’ve been practicing seafood, and I’ve bought tuna and cooked it before, so it’s okay. I need to show my skills!!!!”

“What should I do for cooking?”

“First, let’s go to the corridor sushi. Other than that, I plan to take orders separately. But, putting that aside, are you okay, Dad?”

“What?”

“Uncle Phantom has set the standard so that only people with good hearts can visit, but apart from that, he seems to be a grumpy old man.”

“Well, it’s not the truth at all, so it’s bearable. And I think it would be fun to see live tuna when you show live tuna to people who come from a world where it is difficult to find natural food ingredients due to environmental pollution.”

If it’s just something, the effect may not be very big. He’s not just an ordinary person, he looks like he’s the chairman of a mega-corporation, but at least he’s eating much better food than the lower class.

But what if you offer natural raw tuna? Even modern Earthlings, who encounter it relatively easily, would be surprised to see a large tuna out of nowhere.

After receiving the order, Eden immediately prepared the ingredients. If you give a separate order from the plant facility, the ingredients will be airlifted automatically, and only the most basic blood removal process will be performed, and the ingredients will be airlifted whole without any preparation.

There are many types of bluefin tuna, but we prepared the largest and most sought-after northern bluefin tuna, or Honmaguro. Just looking at a bluefin tuna weighing hundreds of kilos, which is larger than an adult male, can feel intimidating.

“Should I take it out slowly?”

“Okay, Dad, I’m ready too.”

It’s time to humiliate that arrogant customer. If you’re a store owner, it’s not a good idea to fight with customers, but if it’s a fight like this, wouldn’t the person involved probably like it? Ah, in the first place, this store is not for me, but for Eden. It would be okay if I just did it to myself.

Just in case, I put the bluefin tuna on a large tray and drag it away. Even though the tray has wheels to move it around, it was still heavy due to its weight, but neither I nor Eden had this much trouble.

Chairman Naomoto, who was sitting without any expectations, jumped up from his seat as soon as he saw the huge bluefin tuna coming out of the kitchen. They say he’s corrected, but even though it’s probably not enough to cause him to act violently, he gets up from his seat and heads towards me with trembling legs.

“Now, wait!!!! That’s it!!!! That’s it!!!!!”

“This is the bluefin tuna you ordered. To be exact, northern bluefin tuna… Oh, I should say Honmaguro. Just the weight…”

“It would be roughly 500 kilos. No, about 550? Isn’t it around that?”

“Oh, yes. That’s right.”

The bluefin tuna we brought was so huge that it weighed a few kilos more than 550 kilos. But even so, it’s not something that a complete stranger can figure out just by looking at it.

It’s hard to guess the weight of meat unless you’ve seen it often, such as a butcher, and the bigger it is, the more likely it is… Hmm, do you have that experience after seeing tuna often?

“How long has it been since I’ve seen something like this? The bluefin tuna I saw about 50 years ago was even frozen, but this is a bluefin tuna that was alive not too long ago. I’ve never even seen it this fresh!! !!!”

“We have a separate plant where we grow food ingredients. By building an ecosystem, we produce delicious bluefin tuna that is in the natural environment as much as possible, but preserves the goodness of the natural product. We caught it right away and airlifted it, minus the blood, so we caught it by boat. It will be much fresher than before.”

“Ohhh!!!! Ohhhhh!!!!!!!!!!”

“Chairman Naomoto!!!! My blood pressure is skyrocketing!!!! Please calm down!!!!!!”

“But Kana!!! How can you calm down after seeing this!!!!! This is a real natural food ingredient that we encountered after the environment was polluted, and the ocean was damaged. How could you tolerate this?!!!!!”

“If you collapse from excitement due to high blood pressure, you won’t be able to eat!!!!!”

“… I can’t help it. Hmm.”

The person who was excited as if he had seen something he had been waiting for his whole life took a deep breath and calmed down because he couldn’t just see it and die. However, he only calmed down a little and was still excited, so he looked at the bluefin tuna with eyes so intense that blood appeared in his eyes.

In some ways, Phantom’s standards seem to fit well. Although he may be picky, his eyes are burning with pure passion as he looks at the bluefin tuna, so I don’t feel like he has a bad disposition at all.

What’s worse, even though Eden, who came out with me, is next to me, I wonder if he’s just looking at the tuna and not paying attention to her. To him, this means that the bluefin tuna is higher than the same beauty as Eden.

“My name is Eden Choi, and I am in charge of dismantling and cooking the bluefin tuna today. I will begin dismantling the tuna right away. Do you mind?”

“Ah, yes!!!! Disband it!!!!! Slowly… No, quickly!!!! No, slowly… Hmm.”

“I’ll take care of it, so leave it to me. Then, let’s get started.”

Edenah has started dismantling bluefin tuna.

First, cut the fins. Usually, in the same case, other tools are used because it is hard, but since Eden can use a purple resonator, she can very easily just use a kitchen knife!!! And she cut it off.

“A fin that simple?”

“She could if she had enough strength, skill, and ability.”

“However, if you use implants related to that, there may be problems with bluefin tuna due to the heat generated there and other problems…”

“Of course, if you do that, problems may arise. But you don’t have to worry because the method we use is completely different. This is a two-dimensional restaurant.”

“Hmm.”

Chairman Naomoto began to continue to appreciate it.

Even in the disassembly process, which originally required a much longer sashimi knife, Eden solved it with just one of her kitchen knives. Chairman Naomoto, who probably used to see tuna dismantling somewhere, also paid attention to the tools used, but at least he said nothing about the dismantling itself.

For Eden, who had practice as well as sense, dismembering a tuna was not that difficult. The tuna meat disassembled like that is just piled up in chunks on the side.

But… Among all the tuna meat, what President Naomoto paid attention to was nothing else but the tuna bones. To be precise, they are the small ribs attached to the tuna bones.

“Negitoro…”

“It’s a delicious part. Don’t they say that the meat on the bone is delicious? It’s just difficult to eat, but the taste is second to none.”

“Yes, that’s the part. Ah, did you know that? Negitoro is called negitoro because green onions (ネギ) are added to the flesh of bluefin tuna, but in reality, it is not. It comes from the act of scraping off the flesh from the bone with a spoon I came and called it Negiri Toru, and later I just added green onions to it.”

“But honestly, isn’t minced bluefin tuna meat with green onions delicious?”

“Yes!!!!! That’s right!!!! That’s why…”

“Would you like to give me the negitoro part first?”

“If possible, serve it as a rice bowl. Add soy sauce and a lot of wasabi.”

He was no longer the grumpy chairman of a huge corporation. Now I was like a child at an amusement park whose eyes were just shining with curiosity and interest.

Eden smiled at the positive response from the customers and prepared the ingredients. The thick bones of tuna and the meat stuck between them are cumbersome to eat, but they still come out if you scrape them with a spoon. Then, scrape it all together, put it on top of rice, add radish sprouts as decoration, and serve with wasabi and soy sauce.

A rice bowl topped with minced bluefin tuna meat… Chairman Naomoto was so moved that he almost cried when he saw it. That emotion was enough to even shake off the opinion of an android named Cana, who was trying to test poison because she was also a bodyguard.

“Chairman Naomoto, check for poison first…”

“No, that’s enough.”

“Chairman?”

“Even if this is poisonous, if it’s real, I don’t mind eating it and dying. I already wrote a will anyway.”

“But…!!!”

“Don’t say more. I’m eating.”

Finally, he started eating.

He mixes soy sauce with wasabi and sprinkles the soy sauce evenly over the rice bowl. He uses chopsticks to scoop up the tuna meat along with the rice and eats it in one bite. As he tasted the rice, the fatty tuna meat, the salty taste of soy sauce, and the spicy taste of wasabi, he soon began to shed tears little by little.

“Ah, it’s sweet…”

“Chairman?”

“It’s so good…”

I don’t know what the circumstances were, but that was the reaction of a person eating a memorable meal for the first time in decades.

No matter how much money you have, the impossible is impossible. In a cyberpunk world where eating natural ingredients is difficult, what would the taste of bluefin tuna taste like for the first time in a while?

Moreover, it is not expensive. Of course, since it is tuna, it is likely to be somewhat expensive, but since it is not belly fat or anything like that, the taste must have been special. Memories correction is stronger and deeper than anything else…

“It’s a much more delicious bluefin tuna than I remember, but it still tastes like it did back then. There’s bound to be a difference in the first place. What I ate was either unsold or leftover, but now it’s the best quality bluefin tuna.”

“Thank you for saying that. If you don’t mind, would you like to serve the next dish? How about bluefin tuna belly sushi?”

“Ah!!! Yes!!! That’s good!!!! Bring it to me right away!!! For a long time, eating bluefin tuna is something I’ve wanted to try!!!!!”

Then, Eden cut off the separately separated belly fat into thick pieces and held out the sushi. Just looking at the delicious and thick tuna sushi, the red meat and oily marbling stimulated the appetite, and Chairman Naomoto, unable to resist the temptation, immediately stretched out his hand.

Eating was the same, but perhaps because he wanted to try it, he picked up two pieces of sushi topped with the most expensive part of tuna, the large belly and odoro, and ate them in one bite.

“It’s less tasty than I thought. It’s better to eat one piece at a time.”

“Excess of anything is just as bad as too little.”

“Oh, keep serving me the food!!! Until I tell you to stop!!!!”

“Yes, I understand!!!!!”

There was a bit of a problem… But I think it’s a bit better because the customer I thought was real turned out to be a good customer.

Putting first impressions aside, seeing people eat delicious food and feel good made me realize that I, too, am a natural chef.