Omiotsuke
The next day, I helped with farm work in the morning, and in the afternoon, I practiced three-dinsional maneuver training on the mountain in front.
"Kyaaa!"
"Serai-san! Even if your strength has increased, your weight hasn't changed much, so if you don't dodge properly, you'll get hurt!"
What we're doing now is learning how to deal with attacks during three-dinsional maneuvering.
While they pass through a designated course using Vertical Maneuvering Gear, they are attacked by logs suspended with mucus ropes. Well, it's the training part, you see.
The ways to deal with it are either to twist your body and dodge or to deploy a mucus rope to change your trajectory.
What's not good is trying to block it head-on. When you're floating in the air, the heavier one wins, so if you try to block it, you'll inevitably be pushed down by the weight difference.
Also, since they're still in basic training, we don't let them do things like cutting through objects coming at them in mid-air and continuing straight ahead, like in the manga. Serai-san wanted to do that, though.
"Taaa!"
"Watch your movents carefully and also keep an eye on your surroundings, dodge properly! Good job, Nina-san!"
Hmm, mountains an training. Training ans mountains. That's why I'm so passionate about my guidance.
That said, I can't let them get hurt, so the height is moderate and the logs are wrapped in mucus so they don't hurt.
Even so, they still have so montum, so if you take a direct hit, you'll get enough damage to make you go "ugh" and lose your breath. But that's also to prevent more serious injuries. And to make them take the training seriously, this level of load is necessary.
…….
And so, we returned ho before sunset.
"Ah~, I'm tired~. And it hurts, I got a bruise~"
"Well, that's because you didn't dodge properly, Mami. You fell quite a bit."
"Ugh, it's hard to quickly deploy mucus and change my trajectory~. Oh, grandpa, I'm ho. I gathered firewood."
As we passed by the barn, grandpa seed to be taking care of the farm tools.
"Welco back, Mami. The bath is already hot, so you can go ahead and take a bath."
"Okay, thank you. Then I'll go ahead and take a bath. Let's go, Shizu."
"Well, I'll go first."
"Alright, warm yourself up."
The two passed through the entrance and disappeared behind the main house.
The bathhouse here is located across from the kitchen, and it's a very eco-friendly design where the kitchen stove and the bath stove are connected. In other words, if you cook, the bath gets hot, and if you heat the bath, you can cook.
"...Koichi. What are you guys doing in the mountains??"
"Ah~, we're preparing for mountain hiking. It's dangerous for amateurs to suddenly go into the mountains."
"I see. Well, don't get hurt."
"Yes. More importantly, grandpa, were there any troubleso monkeys today?"
"Hmm, I haven't seen any for a while now."
"Is that so? Well, that's good then."
Hmm... The mountain goblins that had been frequently seen until now have disappeared.
Does that an that the super giant boar had been dominating the area, making it hard for them to get food? But now that it's gone, their territory has disappeared, and they no longer need to co down the mountain.
From the situation, I guess that's probably the case.
"Koichi, sorry, but can you chop this firewood too?"
"Yes, I'll finish it before dinner."
"Then I'll prepare dinner."
"Please do."
Hmm, but this kind of work can be done in seconds.
Right. Since I'm at it, I'll go back to the mountain and gather a bit more. There's a thick fallen tree I had my eye on. Well, living in the countryside is really fun. With superhuman strength, even things that would normally be tough can be done easily.
After chopping a large amount of firewood, Nina-san ca to call , so I took a bath. The bathtub is an old-fashioned Goemon bath. Well, this also has its charm and is very good.
And today, we gathered around the hearth and had a fun dinner ti.
at skewers were fragrantly roasting on the hearth. But today's main dish was grandpa's special Omiotsuke (o-mi-o-tsuke), filled with fresh vegetables from the field and plenty of super giant boar at.
Yeah, the characters look impressive, but it's essentially a hearty miso soup.
Omi) ans miso, and otsuke ans soup, which are won's words.
In the old days, when they talked about one soup, three dishes, the one soup was the main dish, so I sohow distinguish between miso soup and Omiotsuke.
In modern terms, main dishes like curry or cream stew would be in the sa category as Omiotsuke, while corn soup or Chinese-style soup would be in the sa category as miso soup.
"Here, it's served. Eat up."
"""Let's eat!"""
Grandpa served everyone Omiotsuke from the hot iron pot hanging over the hearth.
It's really a scene like from an old tale, and it really whets your appetite. Well, the rice isn't piled up super high like that, but still. The rice is so delicious that you could eat any number of bowls.
Yeah. It's not like everyone reaches out with chopsticks into a pot, and it's like pork soup, but with even more ingredients. This is definitely Omiotsuke.
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