1781 Episode 1781



"Yes, it looks good on you. You look good on Ray, but you look good on him."

 Elena is smiling happily when she looks at Ray.
 Ray was dressed appropriately for the party instead of wearing a dragon robe as usual.
 Originally, as an adventurer Ray, it's no surprise to go to a party in the Dragon Robe.
 As an adventurer, it's a formal dress.
 But today's party... it should be called a dinner party, but Elena wanted us to attend in full dress, if possible.
 Not wearing formal attire to attend a dinner party can cause extra trouble.
 No, I don't mind that at all, but today I'm also introducing Ray.
 Even though it was just a family gathering... no, that's why I wanted no one to say anything to Ray.
 Elena is reluctant to let Ray change for it.
 Still, it's not interesting for Elena that her beloved man should say something to her relatives.
 ...and I can't deny that Elena wanted to see Ray in full dress instead of wearing his dragon robe as usual.
 Ray, who understood that there was some instability in his position in this mansion, changed his clothes honestly, though he was a little dissatisfied with Elena's words.
 The complaint Ray felt was not that he didn't want to go out of his way to dress formally, but that he was not comfortable with the formal attire.

"Do I really need to wear this?"

 It's a bit like Ray's known suit, but in general there are quite a few different places.
 But it doesn't look like an unusual tie to tie around the neck with a clean cloth.
 So the cloth wasn't very good for Ray, who usually wears a dragon robe and doesn't feel tight around his neck.

"I had chosen a less formal dress."Can't you?"

 If Elena says so, Ray doesn't have the option to say no.
 Ray, who has been with Elena lately, is completely paralysed in her values, but it is impossible to refuse to let Elena, the Duchess of Kelebel and nicknamed the Princess General, choose what to wear.
 But in Ray's case that was not the pretense, but the only and greatest reason why he could not refuse it was because Elena was eager to recommend it.

"Ah... well, for the time being, I think I'll be able to put up with this painful outfit. And Georgima will serve you delicious food for dinner tonight, right? Then there's no option not to participate in it."
"I hear from Arla. You provoked Georgima, didn't you?"

 Relieving that Ray is not dissatisfied with his formal attire, Elena looks at him with a slight smile.
 Ray was looked at as if he were accusing a prankster, but he himself said he was disappointed.

"I'm not imitating provocation. I'm just saying that if I serve food that I think is delicious from the bottom of my heart, I'll teach you what I know. I don't know how to cook it or everything, so I'll teach you the outline, and Georgima will cook it myself."

 Nevertheless, Ray had expected Georgima to teach him cooking.
 He improved on the seafood okonomiyaki that Ray had spread in Emocion -- which may not have been the case since Ray had only taught one person -- and took it to the next level.
 I didn't expect such a cook to cut corners in a match against Ray, who seemed to know so much about it.
 It's almost certainly Georgima's best and most confident dish.

(In that case, I think you should think about something... well, if you remember how to make ramen, it would be pretty good.)

 Ray thinks, looking at his clothes.
 Ramen was originally a Chinese dish, but in Japan it has been completely arranged in the Japanese style and is one of the national dishes along with curry.
 Ray liked thick miso ramen, but I knew there were many other ramen besides soy sauce ramen, salt ramen, tonkotsu ramen, and danjimen.
 Ramen shops are popular, and there are many in the countryside like Ray lived in.
 It's also important that you can easily eat cup noodles, instant noodles, raw ramen, and so on.
 In that sense, if you teach him ramen, it will definitely be popular. I think... Ray didn't know enough about making ramen.
 No, of course, if you have rough knowledge, you have Ray as well.
 For example, ramen consists of three ingredients: soup, noodles, and noodles.
 There's nothing you can do about how to make soup, considering how to make a chilitampo pot.
 As for the ingredients, there are a lot of meat that is overwhelmingly more delicious than when I was in Japan because of its magical powers.
 Unfortunately, Ray's favorite menma is... bamboo shoots themselves, but I don't know how to make bamboo shoots into menma, so I think we need to make some trial and error.
 By the way, Rei liked bamboo shoots not only in menma, but also in Rei's hometown... to be exact, the bamboo shoots that can be caught around the house are called Nemagari-dake and Hime-dake, not in general Moso-take.
 That reminds Ray of a show he was doing on TV.
 On the show, the nemagari salmon didn't need to be skimmed, but for Ray, who actually harvests and eats nemagari salmon almost every year, the honest thing was, 'What are you talking about?'
 At least the nemagaridake growing in Ray's countryside needed to be defused.
 Ray, who was thinking about it, realized that he had lost his mind and returned to ramen.
 Soup and ingredients work out to some extent, but the biggest problem is noodles.
 As far as Ray knew, ramen noodles were made with flour, water, salt... in some cases eggs, but he would have needed more water.
 And for Ray, the name is the only name he knows.
 ...well, it's surprising that Ray knew of irrigation.
 At any rate, Ray knows that ramen noodles need water, but Ray doesn't know what it is.
 If they were to teach ramen, they had to teach the mysterious liquid, too.
 In addition, as long as Ray knows the elements of ramen are just amateur ideas, it is certain that there are many other things missing.

(Well, let Georgima think about it herself. ... I don't care how it's different from udon depending on the situation.)

 udon and ramen
 If it were Ray... No, Japanese would normally understand the difference, but if someone who only knows udon or who doesn't know both asked me exactly what the difference was, I don't think Ray would be able to answer.

"Ray, what's wrong with you? All of a sudden, I was thinking about it. Was there something wrong with that dress?"
"No, it's nothing. I was just thinking about what kind of food I should teach Georgima."

 At Ray's words, Elena opens her mouth with a small smile.

"What? Is it a prerequisite to teach cooking from the beginning?"
"After eating seafood okonomiyaki. I have to admit that cooking skills are definitely first-class... no, I'm more than that. And I said I'd teach them how to cook, because I'd like to thank you for making that seafood okonomiyaki."
"Huh, Ray can't beat good food, can he?"
"Well, and I want Georgima to cook my world food. I'm going to teach you ramen, a noodle dish that's close to udon, but you need water for drinking. Do you think Georgima can understand that?"
"Sprinkle? I don't know...Considering Georgima's passion for cooking, I think she can do it that easily. But... the world food Ray used to cook. I'm looking forward to it."

 Elena knows that Ray has come from another world, because he is also the one to whom Ray has spoken.
 That's probably why they're curious about what kind of food Ray has in the world he used to have.
 In fact, the udon noodles, meat buns and pizza Ray spread out in guillem were all superb.
 ...however, Ray only taught us this kind of food in general, and the chefs who heard the explanation improved it and it became what it is now.
 In fact, the soup stock of udon is different from that of Ray's, and the details of meat buns and pizza, including ingredients, are different.
 Even so, it is probably the result of the chef's ingenuity that it can be described as delicious.
 In that sense, it would have been quite promising to teach Georgima ramen.

(Ramen have become so popular in Japan that if Georgima taught him how to make ramen, he wouldn't have a lot of ramen shops next time he came to Anesis. Well, I'm happy about that. Do you need to tell him the concept of kaedama?)

 Another bowl of noodles is a little surprising to those who don't know ramen.
 Ray, who knows ramen, was surprised when he first learned of the act of kaedama.

"Huhhhuh.

 Elena smiles from her mouth when she sees Ray in agony.
 It was a really happy smile, not a princess general, but a woman named Elena Kerebel, who put a lovely man in front of her.

"What's the matter?""No, it's nothing. But... it's about time, is it all right?"
"Oh, as you can see, I don't mind if Elena doesn't get ready?"

 Ray was forced to change into a suit, but Elena, who is talking to Ray, doesn't seem particularly dressed up.

"Huh? Oh, I think I'm going to go back and change."
"... in time?"

 Ray's impression was that it took more time for women to dress than men.
 It would be all the more so, especially if it were a party dress.
 If she's wearing a party dress like Marina, she's a little used to it, so she can change clothes quickly... but Elena doesn't usually wear it.
 ...or rather, marina, who usually wears revealing and hard-to-move clothes like party dresses, is special.

"Oh, no problem. And today is just a family gathering. You don't have to wear such a grand party dress. There's a maid, and you can change it right away."
"Why, then, did you bother me to wear this?"

 Needless to say, the maid is also helping them change clothes.
 But if it was just a family gathering, I think that's why you didn't have to go out of your way to change clothes.
 At Ray's words, Elena shakes her head with a serious expression.

"No, we're all relatives, so we'd better keep our heads together. Especially today, my mother is here. If I show a strange figure here, I'm afraid I'll be in trouble."
"Mother? Come to think of it, I've never heard of her from Elena."

 Elena's father, as Duke of Kelebel, is the greatest nobleman in the kingdom of Milliana.
 That's exactly what Ray knows.
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 At Ray's gaze, Elena opens her mouth with a serious look on her eyes.

"My mother... has a special personality. I'm sure Ray will like it, too."

 Without further comment, Elena muddles her words.
 Ray was slightly concerned about Elena's appearance, but Elena quickly returned to the room after changing her clothes.