13-Twelfth Episode: Two people who are masochistic enough to pull



It's been a long time since I've had it, but I didn't realize how good bread could be.

Master Lalabelle, your first bread in three months.

Um what do you two usually eat?

You bet. The meat of a hunted sand scorpion!

'When you boil it in hot water, the meat in the leg is delicious. There's a hint of salt in the water, so you don't have to use that precious salt.

Don't you cook anything else?

I wasn't trained that way. I'm good with a sword.

'Me too. I'm good at water magic. I can also use fire magic if it's just to light a fire.

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 I arrived safely at the oasis and began to live with the princess and her attendant wizard girl who lived there, and I was surprised to find that they were very grateful when I served them bread at mealtime.
 I didn't bake this bread either, but I recovered it from the kitchen of the sand flow ship before it was destroyed by the sandworms, so I couldn't speak for others either.

 Thanks to the "Interdimensional Warehouse", the foodstuffs taken from the sandworm ship will not spoil, but there are no farms or ranches in this oasis.
 There is plenty of water, but the only food source is the Sand Scorpion.
 If you can get past the massive habitat of sand scorpions, you can get sandworms, but Lalabelle and the others agreed that they don't want to eat sandworms.
 It's not that they can't be eaten, but if possible, we don't want to be driven to the point where we have to eat them.

'It's boiled sand scorpion leg meat, sir. Go ahead.

Thank you.

 I tried it right away and it tasted exactly the same as crab meat.
 As a Japanese, I think it's good that we can eat practically all-you-can-eat crab meat.
 If you think there is only crab, you might get tired of it later.

The meal is like this, isn't it?

 But is the king a demon or something?
 The sister and the excellent wizard, who had been successful in defending the royal capital, were surrendered to the nobility and exiled to this island on the pretext of giving them the oasis as a territory.

 Moreover, this oasis was not at all well-equipped with a base for living.
 Fortunately, or rather, since this is an oasis, there is a large amount of water here.
 The water from the spring in the center of the oasis was very clean, and there was an abundance of water.
 We had no trouble with drinking water, and washing our clothes was no problem because of the spring.
 However, neither these two nor I had a good set of clothes with us....
 Would we be able to use the clothes we took from the ship?

 For the bath, you can take a dip in the spring.
 It's hot in the desert here, so it was no problem at all if you don't use hot water.
 However, it's unusually cold at night because of the desert.
 The ocean is narrow in the Great Desert, so the difference in temperature between morning and evening is even greater.
 If you bathe in the water at night, you'll probably freeze, so if you don't do that, it won't be a problem.

 And a place to sleep.........

'Am I going to be in the same tent as you two?

 Their home was a large tent.
 It wasn't a camping tent, but a sturdy tent like those used by nomadic tribes, so it wasn't that bad, but the problem was the reality that I would be sleeping in it too.

'I don't think it's right for me, as a man, to be in a tent with unmarried young ladies sleeping in it,'

'I like the fact that Lord Tallow is a gentleman, but you'll be cold sleeping outside.

'Some people freeze to death, you know. You'd better not lick the desert night.

 It was.
 It was unusually cold at night here because of the desert.
 The humidity is so low that the temperature could easily drop.
 I've heard the same thing about the deserts on Earth, but this Great Desert is much colder because the ocean is so small.
 Sleeping outside at night could leave me freezing to death.

There's a 'heater' in the tent, so you'll be warm.

'Huh, such a useful thing?'

 We didn't have that kind of convenient heating system in the barracks, did we? 
 That's why I remember it was quite cold at night.
 Why didn't the king provide it for us?
 I didn't expect that to happen either.

''When I hoard my magic power, it gradually converts it into heat and releases it out.

 It's like a hot water bottle that uses magic. 

'Besides, we're the two Dobbs who were said to be the twin peaks of Bart's Kingdom, so Mr. Tullow shouldn't be able to get a bite.

On the contrary, I'm worried that you're going to be sick in the same tent with Mister Taro.

'So my criteria for judging a woman are the opposite...'

 I explained to you earlier that it's hard to change the conventional wisdom about humans.

Rather, there's no guarantee that I won't attack the two of you out of lust.

 Are you in the midst of a withering male, in the midst of a rough patch?
 No, I don't think that's true of modern Japan's Alafore.
 I haven't had a relationship with a woman since Kana's death, but I'm also a normal guy and I can lust after a beautiful young woman.

'What! I was attacked by a man! My brother told me, 'If that happened, it would be a historic feat! That's what you said, me?

'Yeah! "Not even the nora-dog who put up with you would shake his back! My brothers told me that!

....

 I think, I think your family is too foul-mouthed.

'Geez! There may be room for improvement later on as far as housing is concerned. Wouldn't it be nice to be with you, now that it's an emergency?

'Yes. And if that happens, I'll be totally fine with it.

'Yes, Mew. When that happens, it's called fate.

Right? Lady Lalabelle.

That's right. So we'll be sleeping in the same tent.

''Well yes....''

So that's settled then.

'I'm looking forward to it, Master Lalabelle. I get to sleep in the same room as a man.

'Yes. My brother told me, 'A man who sleeps in the same room as you is as much of a pain in the ass as a man who is constantly subjected to torture that could kill him,' this me.

"I'm the one who was told by my brothers, 'If you show your face out of the blue in the morning, a man might die of shock.'

....

 There were no tents in the cargo we took out of the boat, and I had to sleep in their tents, as I didn't want to sleep outside and freeze to death.
 But still, these two.
 It's a bit of a self-defeating thing.