Chapter 570 – [My Admissions Expedition]

Everything is hard once, once you do it, it’s easy twice.

Until now, because of his position as a prince, he had been able to cook only by giving instructions or recipes, let alone kitchen utensils, but once he got hold of cooking utensils at the house of the confectionery witch, he could not control his desire.

Actually, saying that I will plan Asterope’s diet is an excuse… The truth is, I just want to cook.

“This is the tofu hamburger steak I mentioned before. First, tofu and meat are finely chopped, and vegetables such as onions are also finely chopped, and the batter is baked and the sauce is topped with it. I topped with asparagus and carrots as a garnish.”

“Wow!”

Asterope was natural in a different sense from Luminus.

Perhaps she was a reaction she hadn’t eaten before, but her personality was clearly revealed in front of her food. Perhaps the two of them get along well together, or on the contrary, they are fiercely hostile, or one of the two.

Originally, people with similar personalities react to extremes. Either you’re friendly or you’re racist.

Hard to understand? Even if you suck at Idol Master, there are people who suck on originals, people who suck on Syndemas, and people who suck on Millimas.

What? What are you talking about? It’s okay if you don’t know!!!!

“But why, Archione-sama…?”

“Did you excuse me?”

“Anyway, I made plenty of dishes, so it didn’t really matter.”

Archione found me every time I cooked Asterope’s rice. It wasn’t particularly difficult to dress up, but it’s a matter of mood.

Unlike Artelope, she could eat meat even if she didn’t like or dislike it, but her taste was unavoidable.

“Oh, that’s delicious!”

“The proportion of meat is low. By increasing the proportion of tofu and vegetables… Hmm, did you add a lot of starch?”

“If you want to increase the stickiness enough to make dough, you have to do that.”

“But it’s delicious. I like the taste in my mouth.”

The response was good. Come to think of it, I unwillingly won the favor of two of the most important people in the Great Forest, but I don’t feel particularly good about it.

Power doesn’t mean anything to me in the first place… Anyway.

“It’s almost time to enter school. 【Dragon Paradise】 will probably arrive sometime next week.”

“Finally it’s about time”

The time I’ve been waiting for has finally come.

Wow, how long have I been waiting for this. The time has finally come to enter the academy.

Luminous will come in the near future… Anyway, the hard work will be worth it.

“Are you going to the village near the sea?”

“Uh…Wouldn’t that be necessary to enter the school?”

“Because the inland and coastal cultures are a bit different. I can’t even eat seafood, so it’s a bit like that.”

Asterope can’t even eat seafood. I can’t eat anything that resembles meat, so I prefer to mess around with cooking.

Well, if I help them, they’ll be able to eat this and that, but… What if I don’t have them, I had to feed them what they could eat.

“Ah, when it comes to cooking in a seaside town, there’s that. Sea pudding.”

“Sea pudding?”

“Yes, something like jelly made by brewing seaweed is tasteless, but I have often eaten it because it has a good texture.”

“Isn’t that agar?!?!?!”

No, fuck agar here?!?!

I immediately felt the need to go to the coastal elf village. That too is very extreme.

I’m a man who thinks of entering the demon realm just because I have coffee. There is agar, which is one of the important ingredients for making yanggaeng, but what the fuck is that a problem now!!!!!

Afterwards, Ah moved to the coastal elven village to get admission and agar. The scale itself is small, but the sea is close, so I could feel the salty wind.

The agar obtained by talking to them was the same as the original agar-agar. However, the yield is not very high.

“It’s seaweed that we only eat intermittently, so we didn’t produce enough to export, so we just kept it… I didn’t know it would be of any help to Your Highness.”

“Give me everything you have”

“Yes?”

“Give me everything you have”

I decided to make yanggaeng using what I had.

This is because making yokan using agar is more effective as a snack than using something like red bean paste.

Due to the nature of the Great Forest of Urca, most non-meat vegetables, grains, and vegetables are imported, so red beans are also imported from one kingdom. I used the red beans and added a lot of sugar to make yanggaeng.

“Umm…..!!! Protein bar! No, when I say it this way, it feels like something made with bugs or something, but it’s sweet and good anyway.”

“I didn’t know red beans could be so sweet. I didn’t know when I made porridge and ate it!”

“Because it takes more sugar than when making sweet red bean porridge. Uh, it might be because we don’t grow sugar cane here, so we put less sugar in it.”

Great forests are not farmed compared to rich terrain. This is because there are not too many of them and you can harvest enough food to survive the winter without farming.

What is obtained here is mainly ancient methods such as hunting and gathering. That’s enough, so there’s no room for a tackle, but then in the end, you can’t escape the hunting society.

At least, if you awaken your desire, it will be the driving force to gain something more… But that’s something you only know after time passes.

“Anyway, I got agar! A genre of cooking has increased with this!!!!”

“I don’t know what it is, but let me congratulate you first.”

“Next, I just need to get cacao!”

“What is cacao used for?”

“Dessert”

“I hope you get it as soon as possible!!!!!”

“Isn’t that too much of a personal desire?”

And after a few days

A huge island visible in the distance began to come into view.

Wooooo!!!

The size of the island was comparable to that of a fairly small country, and it was not fast, but compared to its size, it was getting closer enough that I could clearly see it moving.

“Academy is docking! Prepare to enter port!”

If an elf lived near the sea, he would have no choice but to be proficient in boating. Even the elves here live on fish and shellfish.

After some time passed, [Dragon’s Paradise] Was anchored close enough to be reached if I went out for a light walk.

It feels like an island-shaped boat rather than an island. What is it, Thriller Bark? Is there a devil fruit skill that can handle shadows?

Putting that aside, the huge drawbridge in 【Dragon Paradise】…… No, since only one side is lifted, should it be called a deployment bridge? A huge bridge that goes down from the island side spans over the port side.

You might ignore it as a bridge, but its size is wide enough for three or four 4-headed wagons to pass through easily. If you set the time to stay for a few days, it can cost quite a lot even if you transport food or something like that.

“Ah, that’s Rurikies-sama over there.”

“Yes”

[Dragon Paradise] A huge dragon flying above catches your eye.

It flutters its wings covered in skin, looks around the island, and then directs its gaze in this direction. Her golden scales glisten in the sunlight, attracting attention.

In addition to us, there were elves who wanted to enter the academy, so the number to enter the academy itself was almost 100, but she knew for sure that it was me, not them, that she was looking for.

I gently raised my hand and shook it. Then Yongruri, a dragon flying far away, waved back in response.

“Ah! You must have seen this way!”

“Iknow, right”

Luminous has not come yet, but [Dragon’s Paradise] Does not last a day or two. He docks once, stays for a few days, and then leaves for the next port.

No, to be honest, if an island of that size docks once and leaves in one day, the damage is not insignificant.

I heard that in addition to self-sufficiency, there is also a trading business that earns profits by transporting purchased goods while anchoring in various places. I feel like I’m wearing my hair.

Anyway, it’s enough to go into the academy and wait until Luminous comes.

First of all, since I am an imperial family and I am an Asterope equivalent to him, I get on a carriage (although it is a camel bird) and enter the academy after being guided.

The academy built inside the outer wall of the island catches the eye in earnest. From multi-story high-rise buildings to steeple towers and even things like wide playgrounds. It was a place that felt like a school.

In such an underdeveloped world, having an infrastructure like this is a testament to its potential.

“Look over there! The department head is flying over here!!!”

At someone’s cry, I stuck my head out of the carriage and looked at the sky. A large golden dragon flew in and landed next to our carriage.

It didn’t just land, but the appearance was reduced. The dragon’s form took on the appearance of a blonde girl and landed on the ground.

The owner of this academy and the strongest (officially) of the ten continents, she waved her hand at me and shouted.

“I can’t do it!!!!”

“Is that line common to Ruri?”

“If you’ve met this much, isn’t it time you got used to it?”

It’s a first look, but it’s not a first look. I and she both know a little bit about each other, but if you look closely, they are strangers.

Ruri, no, the name here was Rurikies. Anyway, Yongruri sneakily looked at the other party in the carriage and grasped the situation.

“It’s better to talk later. Come to the dean’s office later.”

“I don’t even know where to go”

“Can you send someone else?”

“Then good”

After finishing the conversation properly, Ruri flew back into the academy. She is meeting Ruri here for the first time, but she is not in a good place to continue the story.

“Did you know the head of the department?”

“Well, it’s okay. I know a little about it because it’s a relationship like this.”

I roughly skipped Asterope’s question. It was a relationship that was a bit difficult to explain anyway.

After that, we were able to arrive at the academy’s dormitory. It’s not just a dormitory, it’s a dormitory that serves only distinguished guests, and at the same time serves as a social gathering place for such people.

Although it is said to be a dormitory, the actual size is close to that of a detached house complex. Personally, I think a two-story house is enough to live in, but I don’t like it very much if it’s a royal family or aristocrats.

“It’s small compared to the mansion in [The Bountiful Forest], But is that okay?”

“It doesn’t matter. As long as the rice tastes good, what?”

“Surely a gluttonous elf…!!!!!”

I had already decided on the location when designating a separate dormitory in advance, so I knew where it was and how many dormitories it was. After unpacking there, I lightly inspected the inside of the dormitory.

Although the house was large enough for a couple of households to stay, it was cramped considering the royal family’s attendants and other servants. I don’t need it, but other guys seem to have some complaints.

“Corma”

“Yes, Your Highness”

“Perhaps I’ll come after talking with the department head, so I’m doing some cleaning. If someone asks, I’ll pretend that I’m a servant.”

“I understand, Your Highness”

I wonder if I’m making the kid work for no reason, but I’m going to talk about Korma’s stay as well as going to see Ruri.

Korma, who is a demon and came over without going through formal procedures, will be in trouble if caught. Even if the demons don’t invade like before, since the atrocities of the past are recorded in history, we have to pay that much attention.

It solves such a problem, but cleaning is an easy task. Soon after, someone sent a message to my dormitory.

“Excuse me, Your Highness, Third Prince”

A boy in an academy uniform came out to meet him.

Are you roughly three or four years older than me? He looked like a middle school student, but he was quite a handsome boy.

Above all, he is talented. Seeing that he’s already a daydreamer at that age, he’s probably the youngest daydreamer besides an oddball like me.

“My name is Zeon Hark. I came after receiving an order from the department head to guide Her Highness.”

“Okay, I’ll be leaving soon”

What should I say… I feel like I’m a little worried about something? What is self-fantasy? Are you a psychic?

It was the first time we met, but I couldn’t ask openly, so I decided to leave it for now. However, the feeling that strangely opposes my senses is not a very good feeling.

Anyway, I followed his guide and entered the academy.

Then I climbed the spiral staircase, the highest spire in the middle of the academy, and reached the department head’s room at the top of the spire.

“Sir, I don’t care about people going up. It’s very difficult.”

“Oh, that’s the same.”

I walked up to the height of dozens of stories day by day. No, if you have the technology, at least make an elevator!

“I’ll be waiting outside”

Xeon decides to wait outside and I enter the department head’s room.

When I opened the door, what I saw was a desk full of paperwork. And a beautiful blonde girl sitting at the desk said with a relaxed expression.

“Welcome to the academy, stranger, I am an enlightened dragon who watches over the students. Rurikies.”

“What is it, Be beware of violence?”

“Ah, the only one who accepts like this is Mr. Man! Do you want some corn?”

It’s nice to meet someone who drips dog after a long time, but it’s a bit different because that person is Ruri.

Hmmm…… Let’s talk slowly for now.