Isekai Nonbiri Nouka

Chapter 820: Mini School Festival, Morning

A mini festival was held at the school.

Students and teachers from all over the school participated in the festival, which was the same size or even bigger than the festivals we held in the village. For me, I don’t think this can be called mini at all but since they say it’s mini, it must be mini.

Well, considering the parade we just had a while ago, I guess this can only be qualified as mini.

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I continued to cook ramen without thinking much.

The ramen I will be serving at my stall this time is the traditional pork bone and soy sauce ramen.

Thick, straight noodles, topped with char siu, spinach, and a little corn.

Usually, my food stall would only offer a new experimental ramen but this time, the preparation time was short and the number of servings is big so we can only do this.

Since it was pork bone and soy sauce ramen, I would have liked to have topped it with bamboo shoots and nori.

But I couldn’t secure a lot.

Too bad.

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Tables and chairs are provided near the stalls so customers had no trouble finding a place to eat.

The only problem was that many customers didn’t know how to use chopsticks so we ran out of fork.

We had to ask them to lend us the forks they use in the school cafeteria.

The students of the school ran around and made all kinds of arrangements for us.

Thanks.

I had heard that this school was mainly attended by noble children so I had thought that many of the students would be more difficult to deal with but it seems like it’s only my own prejudice.

Thinking about it, since noble children attend this school, they must be very strict with regards to etiquette.

Frau and the civil servant girls, who went to this school, as well as E3, who is currently enrolled at this school, all have good manners.

Well, some of them were warned by Alfred and the others about using noble language toward me……

I don’t really mind so I don’t think you need to be that strict with them.

Though I didn’t say it because I know that students have their own rules.

I’ll just have to concentrate on making ramen.

By making full use of the three stalls, keeping the menu to only one type of ramen to avoid the hassle of ordering, and making ramen in a streamlined process, we were able to serve eight bowls of ramen in five minutes.

Eight bows in five minutes so 16 bowls in ten minutes or 96 bowls in an hour.

My stall only prepared 200 servings so we were sold out in the morning.

Even if I wanted to continue, we won’t be able to do so given that some items require a long preparation time.

In other words, my ramen stall is done for.

Me and my staff were tired too.

Tiselle has given priority to those she wanted to entertain and we have also managed to properly serve some to those who we must like the demon king, Beezel, Glatts, Randan, Yuri, and the school principal.

I can say that I have done what I came here to do.

After taking down the stalls, I now have free time to look around.

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The other stalls were also selling well.

The employees at Marla’s stall did an excellent job of handling the lines.

The person in charge of Marla’s stall this time is Pote.

Pote is one of Marla’s pioneer employees and she’s been working at Marla since it was founded. She was even sometimes asked to represent Marcos and Paula.

Paula says she would like Pote to manage a Marla branch but she insisted on working for Paula.

Paula wasn’t able to do anything after that but try to make her a little more independent…..

Though I would say that I understand her stance of wanting to work at a stable place.

Well, it won’t work out well if we force her to open a branch so we can only wait until she’s ready.

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There is no problem with Kuro and Yuki and Korin’s Sweet Temple.

They mainly brought things that don’t require cooking.

And if the price is paid in one lump sum by the kingdom, it won’t take much time to pay the bill.

All they have to do is pass the items on to the customers.

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The stall serving alcohol is located at…..

A banquet hall…..

It’s still morning, right?

Well, there are no children in sight, so I guess it’s, okay?

Ah, I found Hou.

She’s happily doing some kind of sake tasting.

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However, not all of them, I suppose, are quite gluttonous, eating ramen, curry, and sweets.

Alfred told me that almost all of them have been adjusting their stomachs since a few days ago.

Sounds like they’re quite enthusiastic.

Though I’m glad that they seem to be pleased.

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Of course, the food stalls we brought with us were not enough so the Goroun Company and the Dalfon Company set up stalls to make up for the shortage.

In short, no one’s going to get hungry.

There will likely be a shortage of alcohol but there will be enough to drink.

I found a stall of the café run by Earth.

Maids are the servers.

They offer only two kinds of items, which are drinks, coffee and tea.

They didn’t bring sweets because Kuro and Yuki and Korin’s Sweet Temple already covered that.

「The person Tiselle-sama wanted to entertain wanted our coffee.」

I see.

By the way, the coffee served by Earth’s café is a blended type of coffee.

I used the AFT thinking of coffee beans without considering what kind of coffee it is so I thought I would be getting only one type of coffee. However, what grew after were different kinds of coffee.

They were harvested together and processed as the same type so they naturally became blended.

It was good but when Loo and Flora learned there were several kinds of coffee trees, the coffee beans were collected by type.

It’s good to have different types of coffee even though there may be some that are too sour or too bitter for some people’s taste.

It is good that there are different types of coffee beans to meet people’s different tastes.

If we can change the roasting method, a deep coffee journey will begin.

……

Well, everyone in the village has settled on blended coffee.

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I got sidetracked.

Blended coffee is good.

After I finished talking down the stalls, I got a cup of blended coffee from Earth’s stall and approached a big event hall.

There was a diorama about 10 meters square on display.

I don’t know what’s the scale but at a quick glance……it should be part of the Demon King’s Kingdom.

You can clearly see where the mountains, rivers, and oceans are.

The cities are……quite small?

No, it may be better to call it the ruins of a city, right?

Glatts, who was standing next to the diorama, explained that it was the diorama of the new country that Tiselle is building.

「Based on the information from the sky that the wyverns got, Torain and Maa built it.」

Heh.

Actually, it was Torain who led the project, Maa prepared the materials, and the students helped them make it.

It is very well done.

「I know right. Everything’s obvious with just a glance. It will be useful for the army’s march.」

I hope that the military won’t use things made by children.

「Hahaha, of course. The military should make their own.」

So be it.

So, where is the new country(city) that Tiselle is building going to be?

From the looks of it, there are few high mountains and the landscape is all wilderness and not even completely flat.

「There」

Glatts magically shows me where it is.

It’s a ruin in the middle of the wilderness.

There used to be a city there so there won’t be a problem with water.

However, it looks very difficult to go to.

「Well, it’s probably because we’ve destroyed most of it.」

I see.

The diorama in front of us is a buffer zone between the Demon King’s Kingdom and the human kingdoms.

In the past, the Demon King’s Kingdom made a major invasion and pulled back after.

Normally, human kingdoms would have been counterattacked but when the Demon King’s Kingdom pushed its frontline, all it did was destroy cities, bridges, and other structures.

Therefore, the human kingdoms weren’t able to push back.

Their army had no place to rest.

Furthermore, the actions of the army became harder to hide and the Demon King’s Kingdom would have more than enough time to prepare once they saw their offensive.

It would be difficult to move in the wilderness while waiting for the Demon King’s Kingdom’s forces.

No, they have not given up and tried to push the eroded front line.

However, they gave up on recapturing the new buffer zone.

While they were doing that, the Demon King’s Kingdom built a big fortress as a defense base for its territory.

Since they can’t invade, does that mean that the Demon King’s Kingdom has the advantage?

……..

Why didn’t the Demon King’s Kingdom invade further that time?

「There wasn’t enough food. We were so short of food that we couldn’t take care of the residents of the areas we occupied.」

I see.

So, even if you could forcibly invade and occupy a vast area of land, it would only lead to a rebellion.

However, though I’m only hearing about it, I find it amazing that the front line was pushed so much.

I guess only a leader with the demon king’s caliber can execute a plan that seems to have abandoned the fruit of their labor.

Glatts is perfectly fine with it because it was him who came up with the idea of making the front lines like this.

Though I know about that.

Because I’ve heard about it many times in the past.

Yes, over drinks.

It is also mentioned by Ronana.

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In any case, the ruins are in the middle of the wilderness.

That’s where Tiselle is planning to build her city.

I heard that wyverns are nesting there now.

………

「Do you have something in mind?」

Ah, no, that place is where experts agreed upon, right?

「It was decided by the military’s top brass, mainly by Tiselle. At is at a moderate distance so as not to stimulate the human countries too much……well, if you thought of anything, I’d like to hear it for reference.」

Reference? I’m but an amateur.

「An amateur’s point of view is important too.」

I see.

Then, let me tell you……

That’s a place that’s difficult to go to, right?

「? Didn’t I explain why a while ago……」

No, that’s not what I mean. Tiselle is making a country that will become a negotiating zone for the Demon King’s Kingdom, right?

「That’s what I heard.」

Then, why is it not convenient for both the human kingdoms and the Demon King’s Kingdom to go there? 「……」

On the Demon King’s Kingdom’s side, you have Beezel so there won’t be much problem……

On the human countries’ side, it is a place not easy to reach unless you are on good terms with two major powers making the place as if it is walled by the two.

From my point of view, I think it would be more convenient to build cities on either the north or the south coast.

As long as there are ships, people can come from various places and escape to the sea in case of emergency.

Hearing my opinion, Glatts nodded deeply and……

Called Tiselle and told her to change the location of the city.

Eh?

Is that okay?

You’re just going to use my idea just like that?

Tiselle and Glatts replied in unison that there was no problem.

I-if you say so.

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Village Chief: I need a lot of nori and menma……

Oni Maid: Sorry, we used a lot of nori at yesterday’s lunch.

Village Chief: Darn, come to think of it, it was nori maki.

Oni Maid: Menma was used as a snack by the dwarves the other day……

Village Chief: Argh, I can’t believe we forgot to restock.

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Village Chief: In order to increase the number of drinks served, how about we reduce the amount of sake per serving? Like, by half.

Alfred: T-there will be a riot then.