Chapter 2134 – [I, Who Was Common on Earth, Am a Super Rare Species in Space?!]

What I’m betting on is a legitimate complaint as a human being. It’s not the truth.

With that in mind, I stormed into the kitchen. As it was the space age, there were cooking utensils with various functions, as seen on the spaceship Arpone we boarded, but on the other hand, there was a taskmaster in the kitchen who cooked the food himself.

“Human guest? Did we do something wrong? Did you not like the meal?”

“No, the taste was good. It was a delicious dish that came out flawlessly and exactly as I ordered.”

“Then why…?”

“It’s not because I didn’t like the taste, but because I didn’t like the look. You know that humans excrete, right? Honestly, it looked like excrement.”

“It was inevitable. It is the most efficient form of cooking to preserve not only the taste but also the nutrients.”

“Cooking is not efficient!!!! You can get your energy from the sun in the first place, but it’s inefficient when you’re trying to eat, so why not be a little more efficient!!!!!”

“Uh…”

I tried to say it nicely, but it came out harshly. Honestly, there’s nothing we can do.

I also believe that taste is important when it comes to cooking, but there is still a basic iron rule that food must have an appearance that people can eat. No matter how delicious a dish is, if it’s a dish you don’t even want to eat, will people really be able to taste it? On the contrary, people will not like it because they are stereotyped because of their appearance.

Me and Lulu eat everything we eat, and we eat pretty much everything, and it smells good, so we decided to give it a try. But would other task forces, who consider eating to be inefficient, be equipped with taste and digestive parts to intentionally eat dishes with such visuals?

“You eat with your eyes. I’ll show you, so come out for a moment.”

“Yes?”

After that, I was forced to rent a kitchen and cook. The ingredients were less unique than those of Beon Castle, where biotechnology was developed, but there was a food plant supplied separately, so the ingredients were well-stocked.

If you’re talking about the efficiency of the article below, but you’re only going to extract ingredients such as proteins and fats and then add only the flavor ingredients to cook, then you have to cook it. It’s not cooking, it’s just a chemistry experiment.

Anyway, I seasoned the meat, which was reasonably good, and made the sauce while it was marinating for a while. I’m going to make a mushroom cream sauce by adding cream based on mushrooms.

Afterward, when the flavor has sufficiently penetrated the meat, grill the meat. There are other cooking utensils available to cook meat, but I intentionally cooked it in a frying pan heated on induction.

It’s a bit disappointing that it’s not like a gas range that produces direct fire, but the heat conductivity and heat power are good and can be adjusted delicately, so it’s pretty good. The meat was quickly grilled and turned into a delicious grilled steak.

Vegetables to be used as garnish are cut into small pieces and stir-fried. Then, plating is done.

Place the meat in the center to highlight it as the main dish and place the garnish next to it. Then, the sauce was spread widely like a fan around the meat and garnish.

“Okay, this completes it.”

“Is there any meaning to decorating and making it this way?”

“I’m sure this is inefficient and wasteful compared to the dish you made, but it has its own value. What do you think you’ll do to eat this?”

“I think I will first cut the meat with a blade and dip it in the sauce with the accompanying vegetables.”

“Yes, if you make it this way, you can choose how to use the meat, what vegetables to eat with it, and how much sauce to use. Isn’t being able to adjust it to your own tastes another fun part of cooking? “

“…!!!!!!”

The task chef seemed to have come to some great realization. I hope that becomes an opportunity to realize humanity.

If that goes well, we will later have a soul and become better as a species… Of course, it will take a very long time and there will be many hardships.

“By the way, this is the first time I’ve seen a human cook by himself. This is how they cook there.”

“No, you say you cook, but you don’t have any materials? I’ve never even seen it?”

“I don’t know about the Tasks living in the Melnos system, but in Aion Castle, data is also a resource. In particular, communication between systems is not easy even with technological advancements, so the data that can be used is also limited. It is used for things that only a very few people enjoy, such as cooking. It’s difficult to use limited resources.”

“Are you rejecting cooking?”

“That’s not true. If you want to get it, you can also get data on cooking methods and techniques, not the recipe for the finished product, but it’s expensive.”

“Hi…”

In short, information that is not essential for task workers, such as cooking, is extremely expensive, like Internet usage fees in the olden days of feature phones. If you go online by mistake, you end up paying a lot of data charges.

It seems like these negative effects occur because we only focus on efficiency. If you want to be human, you have to find more value in inefficiencies, but you’re only looking for efficiency…

“You appear to be a chef. If you don’t mind, could you teach me some cooking techniques? If you want to pay, I’ll pay you in money or parts, please.”

“Well… That would be good. Just provide the ingredients first. However, give the meal you made to my wife.”

“I understand.”

It would be nice to be able to fill Lulu’s stomach by cooking with free ingredients.

And for a while, we went to work at the restaurant ‘Junk Metal Pile’ and taught cooking to the desk chef. Lulu seemed to enjoy it even though she didn’t have to go sightseeing because the food was delicious.

He only taught for a few days, but perhaps because he was a machine race, he learned very quickly. When he teaches one thing, he doesn’t just know ten, but he also learns a hundred by applying them on his own, so I had some fun teaching him.

“Now I’ve taught you everything I need to teach you. Come down.”

“Huh? Going down the mountain, what do you mean?”

“Oh, you don’t understand these idioms. Anyway, I’ve taught you everything, so the rest is for you to research and develop on your own.”

“No, I think I still have more to learn.”

“If you teach me more here, you will become imbued with my methods. Since the place where you cook is Aion Castle and the customers are task workers, you must cook dishes that suit them. You are a task chef, not a human chef, right?”

“That’s… That’s right.”

“From now on, I will be very busy and have a hard time. I will have to research and create dishes that will attract customers at the desk.”

The race itself is different, and it is a race that considers eating to be inefficient and wasteful. There is also the inconvenience of having to be equipped with taste buds and digestive system parts to eat the food.

Therefore, in the future, he must create dishes that other task forces will come to the store thinking they want to try, overcoming the hassle and inefficiency. And such development will teach humanity to many taskmasters along with the joy of eating.

“Thank you so much, Worst. I owe you a lot.”

“Thank you. I’m also glad that Lulu’s food prices have been solidified for a while.”

“The food was delicious!!!! I don’t know if I’ll be able to come again next time, but then I want to eat the unique cuisine here!!!”

There was a hidden meaning in Lulu’s words. What it meant was that if I judged this civilization, the Tasks would also be destroyed, so I wouldn’t be able to come.

Since he is a chef that I personally taught, I would like him to survive if possible… But even so, I can’t involve the housemaster in the affairs of the Great Demon King. Because that’s the way it is.

If the Great Demon King judges with a house judge, he will make a misjudgment, and then all the decisions he has made so far will be questioned. Will the police, who only listened to the woman’s statement and tried to punish the man as a sex offender, gain trust if the fact is revealed? Rather, they will reveal all the police’s past investigation records and investigate to see if anything else has been done.

What I did here and what I did as the Great Demon Lord are separate things. At least I think so. No, you have to think like that.

… Well, let’s talk about that later. There’s no need to judge right now. I haven’t even visited this human district yet, let alone Noidera.

“But even for a restaurant, considering the number of customers, it would have needed more ingredients than usual, so you ended up ordering ingredients for Lulu to eat? A sudden increase in orders didn’t cause any problems?”

“Food ingredients are supplied from a separate cultivation and cultivation plant. Since this is a facility that supplies food ingredients to the human earth, there is no need to worry about quantity issues as long as you place an order.”

“Oh, it looks like they serve food there too. Do you know how the meals are served there?”

“We previously asked our store to share its cooking recipes. Even if not all of them come out that way, I think there will be some of our store’s dishes and applications of them as well.”

“… What a mess.”

The people of Beon Castle Human Earth have also satisfied themselves with material things, so they don’t care about eating. But they’re serving a dish that tastes like curry and shit? What kind of dystopia is that?

Even before you go, you are already likely to have preconceptions. Still, I had to make a decision after I went, so I was thinking of applying for a visit separately.

Actually, even if that’s not the case, you should go. Rather than anything else, I had to make a decision about the Tesque race after listening to the story and information of Mr. Hus’s collaborator whom I met at Beon Castle.

“But can I visit this time too?”

“Well… I think it would work if the procedures are very strict and the defenses are well-prepared.”

When we submitted a request to visit Aion Castle’s human district, we received separate electronic consent forms. Since I am a human like myself, the consent form was not that long, but for Lulu, who was disguised as a bionic, it was an incredibly long consent form.

It’s long, but it’s better to read things like this gradually, so I looked at it slowly and found some funny clauses.

“It is said that anyone who threatens or secures a new resident human and escapes will be killed immediately.”

“That was roughly expected.”

“Oh, of course, you must also agree to not protest even if you kill him on the spot as soon as he threatens you.”

“What on earth are you doing, these bastards?…”

How did you handle electronic documents? Of course, it may become a problem if you agree later, but it is okay because in the worst case, it can be destroyed.

But the important thing is that this time, I was able to visit the Human Earth with Lulu. I don’t know if it’s because the base race here is Tasks and not Bionics, or because I’m that confident.

And we were able to enter the human district of Aion Castle in earnest. And if I were to talk about my first impression… It’s clean.

“Uh, hospitals and other places use white backgrounds with hygiene in mind, but isn’t it still too white? If it’s at this level, I’d be mentally ill.”

“That’s right.”

As we entered the human district, the hallway we saw was itself white. The walls, handles to hold on to, and all other facilities are pure white, so it hurts my eyes.

And the task force in charge of the manager came out to welcome us as we visited. He bows politely and introduces the human district of Aion Castle.

“Welcome, Worst, and Lulu. Welcome to the Human District of Aion Castle. My name is Gedaz, the guide and general manager of this place. Please take a look at this place and leave with a good impression while you’re there.”

“Ah, yes. Thank you for guiding me.”

“First, let me tell you where the other humans are. They will all be in the restaurant at this time.”

Everyone is in a place called a ‘restaurant’ at ‘this time’?

Of course, since it is lunchtime, it is not strange if we come here to eat. However, not everyone in one facility eats in the same place.

Even at school, if the food isn’t good, there are people who buy triangle gimbap from a cafeteria, or even a convenience store beyond the wall, and eat it to get their fill. It’s so sad. In particular, their remarks struck me as even more strange because the Human District of Beon Castle, which I had previously visited, did not have any restrictions on eating.

And then we arrived at the restaurant… Where, as he said, close to 10,000 humans were gathered together and eating. Normally, in a restaurant like this, we would set it a little smaller than the number of people to consider circulation, but we just made it a facility where 10,000 people can eat.

No, what are we doing with this?

“Oh, look over there.”

“Why?”

“They eat strange things. No, it’s better than what they ate at the store before…”

As Lulu spoke, I paid attention and noticed the meal they were eating. What should I say about the meals eaten by the Human Earth humans of Aion Castle… It was like space food.

At least it is not military-style combat rations. At worst, wouldn’t that be like pouring hot water on it? At least it tastes good even if it hurts your teeth if you undercook it. However, it is distributed on the tray in a block-like manner, as if it was made at a factory.

Carbohydrates… Like a block of starchy grains, and protein? Likewise, it is a protein block made only from lean meat. When it comes to fat, you can mix it in or not.

There is also a little dessert, though. However, it is made like jelly and the amount is small, so it disappears after eating it a few times.

“A culinary revolution is about to begin…!!!!!!”

“Oh, I was the one who made a fuss before, but are you trying to make a fuss this time?”

“It’s our honeymoon, so I don’t want to ruin it, so I’m barely holding it in. If you let me, I can burst out now.”

“It doesn’t matter to me, but if you want to do a linked quest, don’t you need to see the faces of your collaborators here? Don’t forget that.”

“… Ah, I understand. Thanks for reminding me.”

I was wondering how to supplement the vitamins, but it seems they are included in the drink provided separately. Because it was yellow, unlike ordinary water.

Putting aside my boiling feelings… After slowly examining the environment of the human earth in Aion Castle, I was able to make a very objective and subjective evaluation.

People who have served in the military would probably rather serve for 30 years than live here for the rest of their lives.