The next day, I slept until almost noon. Yesterday, I was taking Geese and the others to the Knights' headquarters and so on, and it was late for me to fall asleep. Let's spend today in town.

　For now, it's rice wine! I looked in my bag as I dressed and saw Shiroumaru chewing on a boa bone.

'Do you want some rice?'

　I asked him, and he swung his tail wide and barked lightly. Throwing in the rest of yesterday's boa, I headed for the diner... but...

'Temma, there's no breakfast left. You're a little late!

　With his words, we headed outside.

　While taking a bite of bread from a nearby stall, we aimed at the store. It is about 20 minutes from the inn, but the shop was said to have the best selection of goods in the town.
　I'm looking for sugar and milk and flour. After a long time, we wanted to eat something sweet. I'll stock up on some more while I'm at it.

　First of all, sugar... is a bit expensive. Well, I have a lot of money now, so it's OK, I'll buy 10kg of sugar, or 1500g.
　Next is milk. I need 20 liters of milk because I drink Shiromar. 600g.
　Lastly, I need flour. I'll buy more flour because it can be used for various things. 100kg. 1kg, 40g, for a total of 4000g.
　Total 6100G or something like that.

　After paying the bill, we put the items in the bag in order. A few people look at my bag enviously.

　Back at the inn, I got permission to use the kitchen from the old man. It seemed to be a busy time and he followed me.

'Temma, what are you going to cook?'

　The old man was very interested in the idea.

'I'm thinking of making three kinds of sweets,'

　I replied.

Candy! Do you have one for me?

　The landlady came over and said, "I've got enough ingredients.

'We've got enough ingredients to make it.

Please!

　His eyes were shining. I was thinking, I knew my wife was a woman, too.

'Temma. Are you thinking of something rude?

　He gave me a sharp look.

'It's nothing!'

　'You're an idiot,' replied the old man behind the lady, laughing at her as she straightened up.

'Okami-san! Your father wants to offer his share to his wife!

　I got back at him a bit. The old man shook his head, saying he hadn't said that, but the lady would take it from him by the way he looked.

　I started making sweets while my old man stared at me. I would make donuts, pancakes, and pudding.

　First, I decided to make the pudding.
　First, I put sugar in the milk and warm it up. Once the sugar is melted, I cooled it down with ice magic and mixed in the rockbird eggs (which I melted in a separate container because it was too much). Cut the eggshells in half (...) neatly in half lengthwise, and slowly add them to the eggshells, straining them through a colander. There are now 4 cups in all.
　Put them in a steamer, two at a time, and steam them slowly over low heat.
　Finally, put the sugar in the pot and put it on the heat. Once the sugar has dissolved, add a little water and the caramel is done.

　Next, get to work on the donuts and pancakes.
　First, fill a large pot with oil and heat it up. Next, sift the flour into a bowl, mix in a little baking soda and divide it in half. Halve the rockbird egg, milk, sugar and melted butter mixture and add it to one half of the flour mixture a little at a time.
　Knead the dough until it's about the consistency of an earlobe, about 5 cm in diameter and 1 cm thick, and poke a hole in the center of the dough.
　When the oil is hot, pour the doughnuts into the oil and fry them until they are golden brown. When the donuts are done, drain the oil well and sprinkle sugar on the surface. Makes about 50 in all.

　Add the milk and syrup to the flour and liquid that was divided in half when the donuts were made.
　When the mixture is thick, heat a frying pan and melt the butter in it. Add the dough, a ladleful at a time, and bake. When both sides are done, it's done. I could make 20 sheets of dough here.

　It took me about an hour and a half to make them all. I put the donuts and pancakes into the Magic Bag while they were hot, and the pudding and caramel were cooled with ice magic before I put them in.
　Incidentally, I offered the lady a pudding (half shell) with a generous amount of caramel, 10 doughnuts, and 5 pancakes with butter and honey. The lady's mood was so high that the meter seemed to shake out.　

　I took the sweets and headed to the guild. When I walked in, I didn't see Mr. Flute, so I asked another staff member and he told me that he was taking a break. I decided it was just the right time to ask him to come over.
　As soon as I asked him to come in.

Is there something I can do for you, Mr. Temma?

　Flute came out of the back room, "I'm sorry for the break.

'Sorry to be on break. I made some sweets and I'm here to share them with you.

　The moment I said that, candy! And Mr. Flute's eyes lit up. I offered him two caramelized shell pudding, thirty doughnuts, and ten pieces of butter and honey on pancakes.

'Please share yourselves, gentlemen,'

　A sweet smell spread as soon as the sweets were put out. At that moment, the gaze of the guild staff, especially the female staff, was focused on them. Some of them raised their hands and were happy.

''So much... thank you, Temma-san!

　And Mr. Flute thanked me, but his gaze wasn't on me, but on the sweets.
　When I told him about the rockbird's defeat fee, a nearby female staff member took charge of it. I gave her 20 of the defeat parts (beaks) and received 20,000 Gs.
　As I left the guild, I was approached by almost every female staff member (about 10 of them) as I left.

　When I returned to the inn, someone who claimed to be a messenger of the guild was waiting for me.

''I'm sorry, please accompany me to headquarters.''

　Since I didn't have any particular business to attend to, I decided to follow along. From what I've heard along the way, Duke Sanga's reply came to Primera about the jewels the other day and yesterday's incident with Geese and the others.

''It's quite quick, isn't it?''

　When I asked him about it, he apparently borrowed a magic tool from the guild and reported it to them. The magic tools were also in the guild in the city where the Duke lives, and they were given special permission to use them as an urgent matter.

　When I arrived at the headquarters, I was ushered into the room where Primera was.

''Temma-san, I'm sorry to take the trouble. I got a reply through the guild this morning, so I asked you to come.''

　I'm going to start talking to him.

'When I met Mr. Flute at the Guild earlier, he didn't say anything to me, did he?

'Huh? I've asked Mr. Flute to let Temma know....

　He nodded his head. 'You forgot it because of the candy, Mr. Flute...'

Well, that's fine, but what happened?

'Oh, yes. As for the jewels, my father contacted me and asked me to give them to him for a total of 22 million Gs. That's what he said.

　'Give it to me,' he says, but in reality it's more of a half-hearted, 'make a move on it' kind of thing.

'Okay. I'll talk to the other three guys first.

　He said, and took out a box of jewelry. When the Primera saw it, she called someone to check it out and then had him put it in the safe. Then he asked her to write a note to make sure.

'And here's Gies and the others, they want to give up ownership of this one too.

Under what conditions?

　I asked.

As for that one, he says he's going to have to deal with someone soon, and he wants you to negotiate with him.

　They didn't need those guys, so they didn't have to come all the way out to negotiate, they could have just bought them out at a lower price...

'All right. Let me know a couple of days before that negotiator arrives.

　I asked. 'And while you're at it,' he said, and offered me a donut and a pancake.

"Are you sure?

　He asks, but his eyes are already focused on me. 'Here you go,' I said, handing him the honey and butter.

'Thank you! I'll take it!

　And Primera carrying a donut to her mouth. I left the room as I watched.

　On my way back from the headquarters, I thought to myself, it's sweets for women, so I went to buy more sugar.
　When I got back to the inn, I ate all the sweets with Shiroumaru and his friends... but the next day when I went to talk to the three of them about the jewels, they sulked and told me that they didn't give me any sweets... Thanks to that, I had to devote two days in a row to making sweets.


　Two days after making the sweets for Lily and the others, just before noon, Primera contacted me and informed me that the negotiator would be coming in three days later at noon. I told Lily and the others, but I'm not very good at negotiating, so I'll leave it to Temma! I was told.

　Now that we know the date of their coming, we decided to take the request.

　'B-Rank Crocodile Shark'...There have been multiple sightings of multiple bodies in the river around 20km away from Gunjo City. Due to the high likelihood of them attacking people, we are requesting to take them out from the city at 30,000 G per crocodile shark.

　Crocodile sharks are demons like crocodile sharks, or something like that. It is 5-6 meters long, and has the appearance of a shark with crocodile scales and limbs. Even though it is a shark, it can work on land for a short time. However, its limbs are not very well developed, and its hind legs are even smaller than its front legs, so its movements are very slow. As a result, when he is on land, his rank drops to C.

　When I took it to the receptionist and presented my card, the woman at the receptionist's desk had some difficulty with me accepting the request on my own as a C-ranked person. So, I stealthily handed her about five donuts, and she readily agreed.
　Then I felt his eyes on me and looked around, and I saw him and Mr. Flute. Mr. Flute was smiling and beckoning to the woman.
　When the woman reluctantly approached, she was hit in the head with a fist bone. On top of that, she seemed to have been robbed of about three donuts. The woman was crying and handing them over, but Mr. Flute was in a good mood. When she made eye contact with me, she put her hand over her mouth, laughed and left.
　The woman was quite depressed, so I decided to give her an extra donut.
　After that, I heard that more and more female staff wanted to be in charge of me, which caused a bit of a stir, but I heard later from a male staff member that Mr. Flute had invoked his power and was forcing me to take charge more often.

　Anyway, no problem? I was able to get the request, so I decided to get ready and head to the river where the sighting occurred.
　We arrived at the destination after about an hour of riding the Tanikaze. The place is said to be about 300m wide and about 30m deep in the river. Using the search, there are hundreds of responses. So we narrowed it down to something over 4 meters and when we used the search again, the response was down to 5. It was probably a crocodile shark reaction. I'll have to catch one of them to find out more.

　Anyway, I start preparing to take down the shark. The most common method is to use a net to catch them, but my strategy is to 'fish alone'!
　The trick is to use a chain of about 100m long and a huge needle of about 2cm thick with a size of nearly 30cm that was made by using alchemy.
　The chains are made of 5 cm long ovals, and they are seamless and strong. I thought it would be useful for something, so I connected a couple of chains that I had made before.
　I use the meat from the boa for bait. I cut the boa's liver and stick it in the needle together for better fish attraction.

'Ready!'

　I wrapped the chain on the other side of the needle around a stake I had driven into the ground.
　I held the bait and flew to the nearest reaction, 30 meters away, and dropped the bait. It floats in the air and moves up and down the chain with the bait on it to appeal to the fish.
　After about 10 minutes, it responded. I tugged on the chain (to match) to get the timing right, and it almost pulled me in with a strong force.
　I pass the magic power through the chain without panicking. When the magic power reaches the crocodile shark, I apply a strong stun on it. Since I imagined applying the stun to the inside of the crocodile shark, I don't think the other individuals will be able to escape. Just to be sure, I used a search, and the other individuals seemed a bit surprised to see it move, but it is now quiet.
　Then a green shark, about 5 or 6 meters long, floated up immediately. I flew to shore and pulled the crocodile shark up with the white marlin and Tanikaze.
　The huge shark, estimated to weigh three hundred kilograms and covered in lumpy green scales, was jerking and moving. I put a stop to it by destroying its brain with my original non-attribute magic technology (...) "Cross Shock".
　It's a technology that allows the non-attribute magic "shock wave" to hit the place you want to damage from multiple angles with the same intensity, and to deal a large amount of damage only there.

　This allowed me to kill him with minimal trauma. I'm going to use this guy to make a taxidermy one day.
　After I appraised it, I used the search to examine it and all the other reactions were crocodile sharks.
　After the second one, I started to get the hang of it somewhat. The method is the same as the first one, but the speed of catching them increased a little bit. After the second shark, I decided to kill it by draining it of its blood.

　When I had killed the fourth fish smoothly, an incident occurred. While the fourth one was being bled out, Shiroumaru was drinking water from the river when he felt a killing intent coming from 10 meters ahead of him in the river.

''Avoid it, Shiroumaru!''

　I hurriedly gave the order, but Shiroumaru's reaction seemed to be delayed by the suddenness of the situation. The crocodile shark gained momentum and jumped out of the river, ready to bite Shiroumaru.
　He didn't make it in time! Thinking that, he was about to release his air-bullet, but at that moment, Shiroumaru seemed to raise his right front paw, and then a single large, sharp blade was released and attacked the Crocodile Shark, tearing its body vertically.
　Grinning, Shiroumaru seemed to laugh... but in the next moment, the crocodile shark, split in two vertically, was crashing into Shiroumaru.

''Cai~n,''

　Shiroumaru rolled backwards along with the crocodile shark, shouting like some comedian.
　The unexpected happened in quick succession for a moment, and I froze for a few seconds, looking like I was about to release my magic.

　When I came back to myself and ran over to Shiroumaru, he was covered in blood in return, but he stood up fine and uninjured.

'You don't seem to be hurt. I was worried about you, Shiroumaru!

　To me, Shiroumaru had his head and tail down. I used a search while stroking its head, but the crocodile shark's response was gone from this area. Just to be sure, I changed a few conditions to check, but still no response.

　Since the defeat is complete, I decided to ask Shiroumaru to show me the technique he had just used. When Shiroumaru focused his magic power on his front and back legs and waved them, the same blades as before were released. Not only that, he was able to increase the number to four. Looking at Shiroumaru's paws, there seemed to be two different ways to activate them.
　The first was to release magic power on the fingers (claws).
　The second method is to hold the fingers open and release the magic power from between the fingers.

　The method of releasing magic from between the fingers is easier than the method of releasing it from between the fingers, and it is easier to produce a sharp blade.
　On the other hand, the method of releasing from between your fingers is easier to create something larger than the method of releasing from your fingers, but it's more like smashing through it rather than cutting through it.

　Shiroumaru looked good at it, but when I tried it a few times and succeeded, he looked shocked and unfaithful.

　To get Shiroumaru in a good mood, I repeatedly petted and praised him, and finally succeeded in fixing his mood by cooking the crocodile shark that Shiroumaru had killed.
　By the way, the defeat proof part of the crocodile shark was the tail fin.

　As the sun was beginning to set, I decided to drive Tanikaze back to the city. I got to the city in less than 30 minutes, so I went straight to the guild. When I entered the guild, I met eyes with Flute.

''That was quick. What happened?

　I handed him four tail fins of the defeated parts and Mr. Flute's eyes widened when he asked me.

'You defeated so many of them! In less than half a day!

　I asked him to follow me to the dismantling yard, and I showed him a nearly intact crocodile shark.

'Kyaaaahhhh!

　I shouted loudly, and even the adventurers who rushed to the scene when they heard the voice, saw the crocodile shark head-on and couldn't help but raise their weapons.
　Before anyone could cut at the crocodile shark, he explained that it was already dead, and urged them to disperse, but some of the adventurers observed it as a good opportunity to see it up close.

'Mr Temma! Don't freak me out!

　Mr. Flute is angry with me for being half in tears. I apologized and offered him a donut, well, I forgive him, but..., he whispered while accepting the donut...........a little too much.

　After putting away the crocodile shark, he returned to the counter and branded the four tail fins.
　These branding stamps will be stamped if the part of the strike has a commercial value. This is to avoid duplicate submissions. Therefore, it is attached to the item I just submitted at the demolition place.

'Yes. This is the demolition fee for the five bodies this time, 150,000 G.''

　He handed me a bag with 150,000 g's in it. I put the contents in the bag and hand the bag back. Some of them look at me enviously from afar, but none of them invite me to the party.
　It's split between those who know I'm making money because I'm taking requests on my own, and those who don't want to rely on younger kids, and those who know I rarely team up with them.
　In the beginning, some of them tried to force me into the party, but the ones who were too persistent were pretty painful to deal with, and now they're almost non-existent.

''Temma-san is a C-rank, yet you're the top earner in this guild.

　Mr. Flute said with a smile, but jealous and murderous glances pierced me from behind. Every once in a while I turn around and see a few guys who have obviously looked away.

　I wondered if it was time for this place to go too, the thought crossed my mind.