Published at 3rd of December 2022 8:48 am

Chapter 271: Lunch At The Beach

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After removing the sand on our bodies with seawater and lastly letting the water ball magic move past my body for a moment, I was finally able to lie down on the sheet.

Haa.......we were supposed just to clean our bodies from the sand but it became a ridiculous close fight.

I need to properly rest here, to make up for the time I moved around before.

Thanks to being shaded by sheets tied on the trees this place is really cool. In this summer heat, being in a place with or without something to protect you against the sunlight will make you feel the complete difference in temperature.

「Looking at you like this, you really don’t look like someone who had just used amazing magic before」

As I’m lying down lazily on the sheet, Natasha-san looked at me with a curious expression on her face.

If you only took her words at face value then you may think that it was a sarcastic remark, but I could feel genuine feelings from her tone. Maybe because she has this gentle atmosphere around her just like Sheila-san.

「This kid’s magic is certainly a sight to behold, but he wastes a lot of his magic power, and he can not predict what kind of result the magic he used will be like so he still has a long way to go」

I was confident in my magic, but I can't retort to her since I showed them such a shameful sight. But, I’m bothered about the ‘wastes a lot of magic power’ part.

「What do you mean by ‘wasting my magic power’? I have been paying attention to the control of my magic power, though?」

「You don’t waste your magic power when it comes to using common magic. However, the scale of the magic’s creation themselves has a lot of waste」

Ooh? Elna-kaasan is saying something very magician-like somehow. However, I don’t really understand what she’s saying.

「What do you mean?」

Elna-kaasan moves her finger and chantlessly created a water ball when I tilted my head to the side.

「Sure enough, Elna-sama also can use magic chantlessly as though it’s natural......」

If we paid attention to her then our conversion won’t advance so we ignore Natasha-san’s muttering.

「The water balls Al made were around this large, right?」

「Un」

「 In the current water-splashing game you should aim the water balls at the opponent’s face. And the moment the water balls hit the opponent’s face, you can even suffocate them so it’s a good choice」

「Un un」

「Please wait a minute. You are all talking about a game......right? You were aiming to do it to that extent......?」

I did. It’s a suffocating combo from using the water ball. I mean, there is no need for you to get close to your opponent if you do this and you can make the opponent give up in the most efficient manner. It’s a tactic anyone who uses Water magic will come up with.

However, if this was a good choice, then what’s wrong with this?

「But, a person’s face is much smaller than the water ball. So this size is enough to suffocate your opponent even if you don’t go out of your way to make large size water balls」

Explaining so, Elna-kaasan continues to make the water ball one size bigger than her own face.

I see, I think I understand what Elna-kaasan is trying to say.

「In other words, you have to finely adjust it according to the occasion. Without having an image of rough-shaped water balls」

「……something like that」

Even if it’s just water balls, that doesn’t mean I have to forgo the image, what size is needed this time, what kind of shape to make it easier, so it’s about thinking about it and how to use it, huh?

As expected from Elna-kaasan - who had experienced actual fights - her words are different. Oh well, I don’t plan on having an actual fight like Elna-kaasan anyway so I don’t take the meaning in her advice seriously, but I like magic and it doesn’t hurt to learn it since I can use them to have my slowlife from now on.

「What? Even though you complained about it when I taught you about swordsmanship, you understand kaasan’s slightly difficult and incomprehensible talk?」

Eleonora-neesan - who was listening beside me - finds fault with me as she says something like that.

「Err, that’s cause Eleonora-neesan only uses sounds like *zubaan* or *shuu* so it’s impossible for me to understand you know」

「……Eleonora is strong, but you’re not cut out for teaching other people」

「Is that so? Even though I only teach others the easy-to-understand trick for it」

Well, they say that the ability to teach people is different for each person. Especially Eleonora-neesan, she’s more of an intuitive type rather than a theory type.

While Nord-tousan and Elna-kaasan are the types who are also good a teaching others.

「Now then, let’s have lunch now. I will teach you about magic again later」

「Okay」

「Don’t just answer, get up now. Or you don’t want to have lunch?」

「I’m up. And I want to eat」

I immediately get up after Elna-kaasan warned me in a low voice.

I woke up so early this morning and then I had been made to train so I’m starving.

Even if I decide to lie down and rest here, it’s more comfortable to do that after stuffing my stomach.

At the center of where we sit in a circle, Mina and Largo put a large basket and distribute plates to everyone.

It makes me feel excited wondering what’s inside the basket while receiving the plate.

Then, Mina and Largo simultaneously opened the lid of the basket after they finished distributing the plates.

「「Oooohh」」

At that moment, voices of astonishment involuntarily escape us.

Inside the big basket was the classic food, sandwich, the kind of food you eat outside.

However, the ingredients used are completely different from the sandwich I had so far. It’s a sandwich based on fish.

Grilled horse mackerel seasoned with salt and pepper with slices of lemon and stuffed with vegetables. Large shrimp and vegetables between the bread with a thick sauce on top of them. Chopped tuna-like meat mixed with sauce, and seafood-based sandwiches.

(horse mackerel sandwich)

A repertoire of sandwiches that can only be made when you are living near the sea. Since Koryatt village doesn’t have the sea near, so we can only have vegetables and meat-based sandwiches.

「Uwaa, amazing! There are fish between the bread!」

Sylvio-niisan - someone who likes fish - shouted in excitement.

Next to him, Nord-tousan - though he didn’t shout like him - he also stares at the sandwiches with blazing eyes.

「Does the taste of a sandwich and fish from the sea go well together?」

「Of course, Nord-dono. Fish also goes well with bread. Sandwiches with rich flavor that uses meat are good, but I prefer sandwiches with grilled fish and vegetables since they feel refreshing to me. Especially this horse mackerel sandwich, I recommend this you know?」

「Then, I will have that first」

「Me too!」

Recommended by Egar-san, Nord-tousan stares at the horse mackerel sandwich.

It’s strange for Nord-tousan - who doesn’t show much interest in food unlike the other family members - to stare at the sandwich with an intense gaze.

He’s probably interested in the taste of fish sandwiches that can be eaten easily. It seems like he’s thinking about whether or not he can eat it even back in the mansion.

It’s not impossible if we refrigerate the fish with Ice magic and brought them back.

We even have a magic stove even back in the mansion, so it wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a fish sandwich back home.

As I’m thinking about that kind of thing, Eleonora-neesan - who is beside me - asks Luna-san.

「Luna, do you have ‘that’?」

「……of course, we have them. Here」

「Ah, it’s true!」

What is ‘that’? I was curious about the conversation beside me, so when I look in the direction Luna-san’s finger pointed to, there were sandwiches stuffed full of meat and cheese over there.

(MEATT! Secret for Eleonora's strength!)

So the ‘that’ Eleonora-neesan and Luna-san refer to is meat?

「Ufufufu, as expected even if it’s rare to have seafood dishes, you still want to eat meat, right? Especially after training, Luna wants to eat meat so not only have we prepared sandwiches, we have also prepared bacon and the like」

Natasha-san takes out bacon and a knife from the small basket while smiling.

The eyes of the carnivorous girl, Eleonora-neesan also sparkle at that.

「I will cut them up to suitable sizes」

「Thank you very much!」

Guess she will cut them up for her, Eleonora-neesan meekly thanked her.

It was not the kind of smile where she grins back in the mansion and also a different type of smile like she’s going to have fun doing practice.

It was a courteous smile where she was conscious of her outward appearance somewhat.

The Eleonora-neesan is ill-mannered and has not even a fragment of femininity in the mansion, but to think she can conduct herself with courtesy....... Just what the heck is going on?

「Dear, would you like me to cut your sandwich?」

Natasha-san - who was cutting the bacon - says when I was surprised at Eleonora-neesan’s good facade.

「No, we are outside anyway, so it would not be fun if you cut the sandwich for me. Everyone, pick what you like and eat!」

「「Yeeーss」」

Everyone raises their voices in agreement, guess they all agree with Egar-san’s view.

Egar-san is a knowing person, huh. Despite the picnic-at-the-beach feeling, the feeling of leisure will disappear if Largo and Mina were to distribute the food.

And there are this many types of sandwiches. The best thing to enjoy them is to take what you personally like while still being intrigued by them.

This moderate leniency that doesn’t make you think of him being a noble is nice.

After Egar-san takes his sandwich, Nord-tousan and Sylvio-niisan look at him looking very interested.

Even Nord-tousan - who always never gets tempted by food - looks worried in front of the unknown sandwich.

「We also have more over here」

As the other side is packed full of people, Natasha-san comes to us while passing us another large basket.

Me, Eleonora-neesan, and Elna-kaasan happily peer into the large basket in front of us.

「I will take this, this, and this!」

The first one to reach out for the sandwiches was Eleonora-neesan.

Eleonora-neesan took two sandwiches with meat and cheese, one horse mackerel sandwich, and quickly put them on her plate.

It’s her favorite meat and the sandwich that was recommended by Egar-san.

It seems like Eleonora-neesan, with very simple evaluation criteria.

「Which one should I take, I wonder? There are so many of them I am at a loss」

It’s not unreasonable for Elna-kaasan to say that.

Even if they are the same grilled fish, they even have different types of fish inside, or the ingredients used for the sandwich are slightly different, and it was prepared so that we will not get tired of the food.

Each and every sandwich looks delicious it makes people at a loss to choose.

「I will take Egar-san’s recommended sandwich for now」

「Right」

First I take the sandwich filled with grilled horse mackerel with lemon and put on on the plate.

Then, I’m troubled about what to choose again and my hand stopped.

Eeii, I’ll go by feeling then! I’ll just take what I see.

As I took a meat sandwich I happened to see, and shrimp and salad sandwich.

Then, perhaps Elna-kaasan has also made up her mind, she took the tuna-like sandwich and the fish and cheese sandwich.

After Elna-kaasan and I finish choosing our sandwiches, Luna-san - who hadn’t chosen her sandwiches - casually took the meat and cheese sandwiches and put them on her plate.

She’s really similar to Eleonora-neesan.

As I think about such a thing, Eric reaches out for his portion last.

「Eric, you eat this」

However, Natasha-san quickly handed over a plate, preventing him from choosing sandwiches by himself.

The sandwiches placed on that plate, are mostly only vegetable-based sandwiches.

「……hahaue1, there are only sandwiches with vegetables that I don’t like here though?」

「Right」

Natasha-san smiles without caring about Eric’s gaze, full of protest.

She looks like she knows that Eric dislikes vegetables, and gives those as if it was a matter of course.

After Eric took the plate handed over to him with a sullen face, he continue to take out the vegetables between the bread with his hands.

「Hey, Eric! Don’t take out the vegetables from the sandwiches!」

「Then why did you treat me like this despite knowing that I don’t like vegetables!」

「That’s because Eric will not eat the vegetables if I don’t do this. Vegetables are good for your body, so properly eat them」

Apparently, Eric usually doesn’t eat his vegetables at all. So it’s inevitable that Natasha-san - as his parent - is worried about him because he doesn’t want to eat vegetables since he was a kid.

「That is so nostalgic. Eleonora and Sylvio also used to hate vegetables, Sylvio will secretly put them aside and Eleonora hated them and she did not want to eat them」

「Is that so?」

Setting Sylvio-niisan aside, it’s surprising for Eleonora-neesan - who has the image of eating anything in front of her - would do such a thing.

「Yes, Bartolo and I had a hard time mix――I mean, we were finally able to make them eat their vegetables without them being picky」

Elna-kaasan, you just say ‘mix’.....Well, whatever. I got a feeling that it wouldn’t be a good thing for me to retort to that so I’ll just leave it alone.

「I was a long time ago so I don’t remember it that much but I hated something, huh」

That comes from Eleonora-neesan who always decides things with her intuition.

Probably, it must have been very difficult to feed Eleonora-neesan who disliked something. I mean, only her perception is really good.

「At that time, I wonder if the bitter taste of the vegetables felt too strong? Though of course, it’s fine now」

Maybe she’s a bit embarrassed as Sylvio-niisan gives a general answer about it while having an embarrassed smile on his face.

They said that he had a strong sense of taste when he was a child. Sylvio-niisan is more sensitive, unlike Eleonora-neesan so I’m sure that he could also strongly feel the bitter taste of the vegetables.

「Just how did you fix your children's dislikes for vegetables? Please teach me the tips if you have any. At this rate, I feel that our Eric will never be able to eat vegetables」

「Sure. I will teach you the technique of how to cleverly mix vegetables into your dishes」

「……please」

Elna-kaasan stands up and moves next to Natasha-san.

Then, the two of them started to huddle together and privately have their strategy meeting.

「Eric, it’s best if you let the servants taste the dish for you from now on, y’know?」

「Aah, yeah. I can’t eat a hot meal for a while, it can’t be helped」

Eric nod with an overly serious expression when I talk to him in a joking manner.

No, I was half-joking when I said that, are you serious? Just how much do you hate vegetables anyway?

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