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　A chicken coop is to be built in the castle town of Ashtaroth.

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　Chicken coops are more difficult to build than cowsheds or pig farms. The reason is that I am building what is called a broiler-type chicken coop.

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　I wanted to build a facility where I could keep many chickens at the same time and keep feeding them to fatten them up.

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　Jeanne describes it as "like foie gras," but the idea is similar.

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　My strategy was to feed them large quantities of highly nutritious food, fatten them up, and ship them off. I wanted to keep the males and females separate, and I wanted the females to lay a lot of eggs.

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　When the female lays eggs, I wanted to add a mechanism that would automatically collect the eggs by rolling them around. This would reduce the labor cost and make the price of chicken and eggs cheaper.

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　My absurd request was not too difficult for the dwarven master craftsman, and he assured me that he could add a shock-absorbing material to the eggs if I provided it. This is a very encouraging sign. He immediately took out the shock-absorbing material from Klein's jar and gave it to Godreve.

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　All that was left was for him to draw the blueprints and wait for his apprentices to build it, which took less than a month. The site had already been purchased and the ground work had been done.

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　Wooden frames and bricks had already been procured, so all that was left was to build. Moreover, since there were no conflicts with other countries, the army could be mobilized. After all, giants and trolls with time on their hands were the best resources for heavy machinery.

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　In this way, the chicken coops were built, but after the coops were built, the necessary preparations had to be made quickly.

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　The first step is to prepare the chickens to be kept in the coop and to prepare food for them to eat. Since chickens are kept in a coop, we wanted to select disease-resistant breeds and feed them nutritious food as much as possible.

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　The breed is a cross between the , the most popular breed in the other world, and the , a breed that lives in the southern mountains. The is prolific and resistant to disease, while the is firm and produces large eggs. The goal is to achieve both productivity and taste.

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　The problem is the feed, for which I will ask for help from Mr. Kongming Zhu-ge. Mr. Kongming, who also knows a lot about chickens, suggests mixing mandragora into the feed.

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"If you mix mandragora, the chickens will be more resistant to diseases and the hens will lay eggs every day.

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　At the end of his letter, he added, "but the eggshells will turn red," but it did not matter. In fact, if the eggs from Ashtaroth were bright red, they would be easily recognizable and might even have a brand value.

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　For the time being, we would like to provide a source of nutrition for the people of the city, but eventually we would like to be able to export our eggs to other cities as well.

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　Now that the preparations for chicken production had begun, there was one more thing that needed to be done. That was what to do with the chicken meat we had produced. More precisely, what to do with the hens that were no longer laying eggs.

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　Hens that are no longer laying eggs are usually broken up and made into meat, but the older ones are not so tasty. After all, the younger the better for any living creature.

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　While discussing with the executives how to overcome this drawback, a maid appears knocking on the conference room door. She is pulling a wagon with a lot of chicken on it.

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　A very savory smell fills the conference room.

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"What is this?"

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　Saint Jeanne, who was in the conference room, asks with a twinkle in her eyes.

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"This is called fried chicken.

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"Fried chicken. ......"

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　The saint drools all over her body and stares at her.

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"This is battered and fried chicken. The master invented the recipe."

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"Seriously!　It's amazing!　The Witch King!

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It's not amazing, it's just deep-fried.

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But the steaming process before frying and the spices in the batter are Master's original.

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"Why do you steam them first?"

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　Jeanne asks.

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Jeanne asks. "To ensure an even heat.

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What about the spices?

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"Spices?" she asks. And now that we have a large supply of spices from Bernese, we have to make use of them.

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"The Demon Lord is a genius. ...... munch."

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　Jeanne reaches for the fried chicken before anyone else and pops it into her mouth.

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　She almost eats the whole thing by herself, so she shares one piece with everyone present before it's all gone.

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　Jeanne looks at me with resentment, but I ignore her and continue.

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"If you make fried chicken, even old chickens can enjoy the taste.

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"I guess so.

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　Eve nods her head.

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"I'm thinking of naming the restaurant that serves this dish after the hero who gave me this recipe, to show my gratitude.

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"Well, this dish was not the master's idea, was it?"

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"Yes, I found it in some otherworldly literature."

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I see that other worlds are full of delicacies.

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"Yes, but the literature is so worm-eaten that the names of the important heroes are missing.

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How is it missing?

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"It seems his name is Ner-San-Us. The creator of this dish...

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...... Ner Sans?

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"Oh, he invented such a delicious dish, but he doesn't even have a name. It's a shame."

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　But we can't just sit here and lament," he continued.

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"I'm thinking of calling the restaurant Nerthus, after the letters that I can read."

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"That sounds great. It has a nice ring to it.

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"Yes, it does."

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　Jeanne agrees, sucking on his bones.

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"And according to the literature, there is always a doll of an old man dressed in white standing in front of Nerthus.

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"What's that, it's creepy ......"

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　Jeanne says.

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"I agree, but that seems to be the real Nerthus. Maybe we should make a wax figure of the old man too.

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　When I proposed the idea, a young Dwarf technician immediately started working on the doll.

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　The doll was made with white vestments, a wizard's beard, and a friendly face, as if children would like it, but there was something different about it.

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　I twist my head for a while and notice that his face is lonely, so I put glasses on the wax figure.

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　The wax figure emits a kind of indescribable personality.

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"This is going to catch on!"

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　Convinced of this, I had several wax figures made and set up five "Nelson's Fried Chicken" restaurants in the castle of Ashtaroth.

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　Some people said that five stores were too fast, but once the chicken coops were completed and the Nerthas were built, Nerthas became a specialty of the castle of Ashtaroth.

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　It became the social center of the city and was highly praised by merchants who came from far away to do business.

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　Thus the specialty of the city of Ashtaroth became chicken, and the nutritional situation of the citizens was greatly improved.

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