Chapter 1800 – [Second Dimension Restaurant – Undead Lich Wizard and Spirit’s Tears Sorbet]

The new guest at Elysium was no ordinary person. No, common sense would not think of a walking skeleton as a person, but among the dimensional civilizations, there is the Death Lord Kingdom, a land of the dead where the Death Lord resides.

If you think about that, even a dead person can be treated as a human being. However, the undead there don’t go around saying ‘I’m an undead’ out loud, but they are relatively close to humans.

Now that you’ve arrived, let’s first decide whether you’re a guest or not. So, let’s start with introduction and guidance.

“Welcome, this is Elysium, a restaurant in another dimension. A place where hungry people from all dimensions go to eat.”

[Oh, even though the languages ​​are different, it is translated in real time and automatically. It doesn’t seem like magic… It’s closer to power. Is it the power of God or something like that?]

“It’s similar.”

[It’s very interesting that the place where such power was used was in a restaurant. Ah, it may be a little late to say this, but contrary to appearances, I have no intention of harming you. He’s just a good skeleton who is obsessed with magic.]

“Aren’t you Rich?”

[Do you know Richie? If so, the story will be quick. I’m running out of time while researching magic. So I became undead and wasted time studying magic. Of course, there is no such thing as hatred towards the living, so rest assured.]

I glanced towards the kitchen and saw Eden suffering from a double meaning.

First, he is undead. For an undead who has been around for quite a long time, he seems to have risen to the rank of a transcendent as he has good sense of reason and is able to discern between right and wrong. However, because he is ultimately an undead, he inevitably has a negative influence on those around him.

Absorbing life force, emitting cold, etc. That’s why the negative power given by Tiv is automatically turned on. There were no other guests, but thanks to that, his activities did not cause any other damage to the surrounding area.

And secondly, Eden’s blood as a psychic seemed to boil because the other person was an undead, and it felt like he was seeing a vengeful spirit or a ghost that was forced to stay in this world.

If there was a fight, Eden would win since it wasn’t about compatibility or fighting in a magician’s workshop, but that didn’t mean he could exorcise the opponent who came as a guest. So all I can do is suffer from holding it in.

[My name is Christoph Adelion. I came here out of curiosity after discovering this place where time and space are artificially distorted, but I never thought it would be a restaurant…]

“I’ll show you to your seat first. Let’s sit down and talk slowly.”

[… I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can order anything. As you can see, I am a skeleton and cannot taste anything.]

“Once you come, you are a guest. And we will take care of that.”

Although it’s just an undead, it doesn’t seem like it’s trying to cause trouble, and it’s just full of curiosity and exploration. When a living person becomes undead, their personality is likely to be distorted, but if they remain sane and show courtesy, they can be treated as guests.

Not being able to taste it is not a problem. After all, there is a method called English cooking. As spirit cooking is something that even spirit bodies can taste, it will definitely be able to awaken the sense of taste in even undead.

I guided him to his seat. And since he was a wizard, he also looked at Gray’s gift staff hanging on one side of the store.

I wonder if the expression “My eyes are wide…” Can be used for a skeleton that has no eyeballs, let alone facial muscles, but the blue naturalization in his eyeballs has become even more intense. Maybe it’s a sign of surprise?

[Hoo? Who is that staff?]

“This is a gift from a wizard I know. He told me to keep it for decoration.”

[Oooh… It’s definitely something worth it. It’s closer to a work of art than practical. Furthermore, it showed off how much magic can be given to a limited amount of capacity, and how complex and labor-intensive mana circuits can be carved to do so. If you use that as a staff, it will quickly become overloaded.]

Is it because he is a magician who is considered a transcendent? I was able to see and know much more than the wizard girl in the adventurer party. That’s why I learned how great a wizard Gray was who created it.

After sitting down, he looked around his store as if he was more interested. Only he knows what he sees and what he thinks. I especially don’t know what smart kids think.

The gap between me and the Lich Wizard in terms of transcendence is large, but in terms of smartness, that one is on top. No, but honestly, if you have super strength, there’s no need to be smart, right? If your body is bad, your head will suffer.

“Would you like to order first?”

[As I said before, I can’t taste because I’m a skeleton. Is that still okay?]

“It’s okay. We have our own way of serving you. However, you must tell us your preferences and such so that we can decide what to make for you.”

[Then, um…]

He was lost in thought, as if he was a little worried.

He is an undead who would have lived for hundreds of years. After becoming a lich, he must have lost many things, including his appetite, sexual desire, and desire to sleep, and the concept of taste must have been a topic he brought up for the first time in hundreds of years.

If you want to talk about what flavors you like, you’ll have to search through old memories. On the other hand, like Chairman Naomoto, he seems to be a person who feels mental hunger, so let’s wait patiently.

[Ah, I remembered. Then give me something sweet.]

“You mean sweets?”

[When researching magic, there are times when you are tempted by something sweet. Should I say that I need a brain? So, during my lifetime, I lived with sweet things in my mouth. That was hundreds of years ago…]

“Is there anything else?”

[Please wait a moment. It’s quite a long time ago, so remembering it is hard work. Well, even though I don’t have the brain to remember.]

Are you a musician for the Straw Hat Pirates? You keep making skull jokes. Personally, I like that one, but I think the comedy of hitting the ‘goal’ would also work well. Thump thud!!

He fell into thought again and soon remembered something. Even if he didn’t know what he ate, he could at least remember what it was like.

[Give me ice cookies and frozen desserts. Now that I think about it, he ate a lot of ice cream among sweets. It was sweet and cold, so it was a good snack to cool off.]

“Um, okay. I’ve received your order.”

[You can’t taste it anyway, so it’s okay to make it in moderation. Of course, I’ll pay the price, so don’t worry.]

For a chef, it is impossible to neglect the guests. Moreover, isn’t this his first visit?

For the chef who runs the store, he may be one of many customers, but for the customer, it is the first time he comes to the restaurant. It is your duty as a chef to create a good image and do your best to ensure that they come back again.

I took my order and went into the kitchen. Eden, who had already heard the story, was preparing food.

Unlike the cooking I’ve done so far, today I have to cook English cuisine. However, this will be quite a burden for Eden…

“Putting aside the awkwardness of being undead, it’s tough to cook English food in a two-dimensional restaurant with the power of Tiv’s mother added to it.”

“It seems like it. Can you do it?”

“Even if you don’t do it roughly, you have to use some shortcuts. Rather, if you make it from scratch in its current state, you won’t be able to get a proper English dish.”

Normally, when running Elysium, we would serve English cuisine when taking orders, but the reason we didn’t do that when running an 2D restaurant was because of Eden’s burden.

It’s already difficult to maintain power, which requires a lot of will, but making English food that requires concentration? Rather, it is fortunate if it does not fail while making it. Knowing that, Eden also avoided cooking Youngja’s food for a while… But now, he had to say that he was the only customer who could eat Youngja’s food.

However, since I received the order, I do my best to make it. I was wondering what kind of dish to make, but Eden took out the spirit tears stored in the cherub.

“Use that? Of course, spirit tears are also spiritually aged liquor, and it would be delicious to make sherbet with it. Wine can also be made into sherbet.”

“Yes, and sorbet is not soft like ice cream, but has ice particles in it, right? You can feel the texture when you eat it, separate from the taste.”

No matter how undead they are, they are not without all senses. Since you can see normally, your sense of sight will be alive, and I’m not sure about your sense of smell, but I think you’ll also have a sense of touch to some extent. No nerves, but maybe spiritual circuits? Roughly that feeling.

Aregish, a spirit being, is impervious to physical attacks, but doesn’t that mean it doesn’t have a sense of touch? If so, you can enjoy various senses through the sense of touch.

“I saw a movie a long time ago, and even though the entire human race had lost their sense of taste and smell, they opened a restaurant and made dishes that placed importance on texture. That’s what came to mind when I saw that skeleton man.”

“Oh, Dad saw that movie too. That helps here.”

The feeling of ice particles crunching on one’s teeth… It must be quite a pleasant feeling for him who hasn’t eaten something in hundreds of years.

Anyway, Eden started cooking right away. She pours the spirit tears from the bottle and uses her ice powers to freeze them.

Originally, some additives had to be added, but since spirit tears are based on fairy tears, there is no need for them. It is a sufficiently sweet and flavorful liquor, so if sweeteners such as other fruits or honey are added, the balance is ruined.

Then, grind the resulting spirit tear ice blocks with a fork to make sorbet. Actually, you can just blend it in a blender… But since you are the other person, you shouldn’t think of it as an ordinary dish.

“No matter how much the texture remains, it won’t be sensitive. If the sorbet particles are fine, you won’t be able to feel the texture, so it would be better if the particles were as coarse as possible. It’s almost like shaved ice made by grinding ice with a manual machine.”

“Hmm, that’s great, my daughter.”

Eden’s thoughts are correct. If the customer was an ordinary customer, she could have served sherbet with relatively fine grains, but if the customer was an undead with a dull feel, it would have been much better to have something coarse.

To put it bluntly, that customer would feel that a hard biscuit like the ones served for military use is much more delicious than soft food, no matter how delicious it is. That’s why texture is an important stimulus in cooking.

In addition, variations are added as English cuisine. The current Eden cannot afford to make the English cuisine from scratch for the two-dimensional restaurant Yuji, but at least he had the power to transform the English cuisine he made.

“Thanks to my dad’s The Worst, I was able to think about myself. ‘Wouldn’t it be possible to add a double effect to already-complete Youngja dishes like spirit tears?’ And The Worst is made by mixing different types of aged alcohol, right?”

“Even different images can be intertwined and variations can be added… That’s a good idea.”

Ah, you can’t make English cuisine from scratch. Eden, who has a hard time maintaining a two-dimensional restaurant, will fail if he tries to cook English dishes, which he has to focus on.

So, let’s cook the previously prepared spirit tears, a traditional English dish, again. Since there was already enough spirit there, I refined it and added flavor.

When drinking spirit tears, a spirit-aged liquor, the public feels the ‘taste of fairy tears’ + ‘the image of spirit-aged liquor.’ However, even if an undead customer tries to eat it, the only thing he can feel is the latter.

If you want to feel various tastes that can be considered real tastes, you must capture the original taste of fairy tears in the latter image, not the former.

If you think it’s complicated, just think of it as combining the taste of fairy tears + the image of spirit tears with the limited resources of a spirit-aged liquor called spirit tears. Since I didn’t make it from scratch, I just cooked what I had originally made a little more, so like you said, it’s probably close to being expedient.

Still, it’s delicious enough. It contains the sweetness of fairy tears and images of the Garden of Eden… What about the feelings of the undead who truly feel the taste for the first time in hundreds of years?

“To finish, a decorative ice cup.”

“Thank you for your hard work, Eden. When the store is over, Dad will cook you food.”

“I need to eat a lot to replenish my energy!!!!!!”

Eden used his ice abilities to create an ice cup to hold the sherbet. It is an old-fashioned object with some stylish decorations, so it would have had significant artistic value if it had been made of metal rather than ice.

Well, in the end, it was just a tool to neatly pack the sorbet and keep it cool. Put a large cup of servo in it and add the final decoration.

“If I put it on its own, it would be a bit empty, so I took some ice cubes shaped like snow crystals. Oh, this is made with sugar water, so it will be delicious even if you just eat it.”

“If it’s not English cooking, you can make it with plain water instead of sugar water… Well, that’s not how cooking is judged.”

The shape of a snow crystal that must be seen under a microscope. Make an imitation of that with sugar water and place it diagonally on top of the sorbet to decorate. You can crush it and eat it with sorbet, or leave it as is and enjoy the texture on its own.

Anyway, the spirit tears sherbet that would be delicious even for an ordinary person to eat was completed. Complete with setting and decoration, it is handed out to the customer.

“You’ve waited a long time. It’s spirit tear sorbet.”

[Ah, thank you. I’ll have to eat first… So I’ll eat well.]

If the spirit tears were drunk, the smell would have spread. And since it was an English cuisine, you could probably feel its unique synesthetic scent.

But this is sherbet. Just because it’s frozen doesn’t mean it doesn’t smell, but eventually it has to melt and spread out its flavor to create the scent, but since it’s always frozen in an ice cup, there’s no scent. However, if you think about it differently, you can think of the flavor that will melt and spread as being compressed into each individual ice particle.

What would the taste of sorbet that compresses the powerful scent of spirit tears be like? You just have to wait a moment to get that impression.

[Then first, a spoonful… Hmm? Hmm?! Ughhhhh?!?!?!]

The lich wizard reacted violently to the taste he felt for the first time in hundreds of years. The blue naturalization in the eye area spread so violently that it seemed as if beams were shooting out of the eye.

And soon, he continues to scoop up the spirit tear sorbet. Even though it wasn’t a small amount, I ate it haphazardly with a small dessert spoon.

[Ha, one bowl!!! Give me one more bowl!!!!!]

No, I think my ‘bones’ would get cold if I ate like that.

Thump thud!!!!!