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Chapter 14: The Food Evangelist

　

The store right next to the Adventurer’s Guild is run by the Adventurer’s Guild as a diner and tavern.

It was usually a hangout place for adventurers and other related people.

There, they began to serve a certain amount of white bread, but when they added sandwiches with meat and vegetables using white bread to the menu, within a week the sandwiches became a specialty, and the number of customers other than adventurers increased. Of course, the idea came from Tauro, but on the condition that he would receive a margin. The Adventurer’s Guild Saïsi branch made it their exclusive patent.

Leo, the head of the branch, would have loved to give him credit, but Tauro didn’t want to stand out and be noticed.

Leo understood that, too.

It was a win-win situation for both of them. They got to eat good food and benefit from it.

Tauro liked bread as much as he liked rice, but in this world, people don’t eat rice!

The rice, which was mainly rice plant, was used to feed livestock.

“Please tell me that’s not true…”

Tauro felt like crying.

The basic cooking methods in this world are baking, boiling, and simmering.

There is almost no cooking, steaming, frying, or deep-frying.

Therefore, rice was perceived as a weed eaten by livestock.

As a former Japanese, he had a duty to promote rice.

There was no such obligation, but Tauro wanted to eat it himself, so he started to cook rice.

“Rice? I’ve never heard of it.”

He talked to Leo about it, but he didn’t look too happy to hear that it was livestock food.

So Tauro made some rice flour and tried to feed him some bread made with it, which he loved.

“It’s different from white bread made of wheat, but the chewy texture is delicious!”

It was an instant hit.

In addition to the rice flour bread, Tauro tried to come up with a bowl of rice that was easy to eat.

Since there was no culture of chopsticks, he cut the monster meat into small dice so that it could be eaten with a spoon, placed it on top of the cooked rice, and poured the sauce made from the meat juice over it.

It’s easy to make, easy to eat, easy on the stomach, and above all, inexpensive.

Those who didn’t have much money jumped at the chance to try it and word soon spread.

Thus, another popular dish was added to the menu of the adventurer’s guild restaurant.

One day, as Tauro was eating a “meat bowl” with soup in it in the style of tea, the voice of the world echoed in his mind.

“One of the conditions for unlocking special skill confirmed <Food Evangelism> Special skill acquired [Knowledge of Plants].”

“This might be a subtle ability…”

Actually, there is a reading room in the guild, and there are books related to plants there.

He thought that if he read and learned them, then the skill would be meaningless.

“Hm? I’ve got more abilities, but nothing seems to have changed in my head…”

When the memories of his previous life came back, he experienced a severe headache, but nothing changed since then.

“For now, let’s look at the plants and see if there are any changes.”

He looked at the weeds in the courtyard.

…Nothing happened, nothing came to mind.

“This might really be a useless ability…”　

It suddenly occurred to Tauro to use his true eye, which can appraise things.

Then, a weed showed up!

“Zaso grass: A common grass, a weed that grows everywhere.”

“It’s a weed, so it’s just a weed…”

While making a comment…

He found out that plant identification had been added to the true eye.

“I take back what I said before, this is useful.”

Tauro felt the response.

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As usual, he completed his errand quest and returned to the guild to collect the reward.

“Congratulations, Tauro, you’ve been promoted to F-rank.”

Nei congratulated him.

“You’ll be able to do F-rank quests from now on. This is your F-rank tag.”

Nei handed him an iron tag to prove his new rank.

At last, Tauro had been given a rank that would allow him to defeat monsters.

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