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Chapter 136: After the Griffon’s Defeat

Tauro retrieved the dead griffon and began to remove the rope from the forest.

"You didn't need the rope, did you?"

Aeris said to Tauro, teasing him.

“Yes, it would have been the end of it if I had killed it with that first strike, but this was a last ditch effort to buy time. Thanks to you, I was able to save the day. The only time this would have worked was when our lives were at stake."

As Tauro was answering, the hunter, who had been watching from a distance, came over.

“Is everything alright?”

He looked at me from the shadows of the trees and checked and then looked up in the sky several times to make sure It was okay.

“Oh, It’s fine now. If you can, will you help me remove the ropes?”

"Oh! Okay!”

The hunter was a seasoned tree climber and he easily climbed up and removed the rope.

In the griffon's nest, there was a dead griffon that had been shot by Tauro's arrow and the carcass of a half-eaten gray six-legged bear.

“Wow. A gray hexapod bear, which even monsters fear is food for a griffon!?”

The hunter realized once again how fierce and dangerous the griffon was.

Tauro collected the griffon into the “magic storage” and looked around.

I thought there might be eggs in here since the griffons were mated, but it seems they hadn't laid yet.

There was one more thing Tauro was curious about as far as griffon knowledge was concerned.

It was that griffons liked shiny things like gold.

So he thought that there might be something in the nest.

I collected branches from the nest with my “magic storage” and found... nothing.

"Not satisfying..."

Tauro was disappointed, but Aeris didn't seem to be expecting anything.

"That information is probably not true. If it were true, how could any adventurer not want to take on a griffon? Maybe it's just something the guild put out there to get people to do the quest."

And with that, she slapped away Tauro's faint hopes.

It's true... I found out about it from the guild's archives. I'll have to remember the author next time...

Tauro had learned another lesson about reality.

By the time Tauro and his friends returned to the mountain village, it was almost evening.

Shin and Rumeya were still wielding their hammers and repairing the houses. The sound of their work echoed throughout the village.

"Oh? Tauro, Aeris, you're back! So, where have you been?"

Shin asked from the roof, looking down at Tauro and the others.

"I caught something, I'll cook it."

Tauro replied to Shin.

"Seriously? Then I’m counting on you!”

Rumeya came out from behind the house across the street, responding to Tauro's words.

Tauro immediately took the griffon out of the “magic storage” in the village chief's yard to prepare it, the villagers groaned, but regardless, he drained the blood, picked back the wings and began to handle it.

It took several people to do this, it would have taken a long time for one person.

The hunters joined him, so it took surprisingly little time. The upper half of the meat was cut into small pieces, seasoned with salt and pepper and beaten egg, then covered with rice flour and fried in oil.

Finally the fried griffon was ready.

The bottom half of the meat is sliced thinly, seasoned with salt and pepper, cooked in a frying pan, and placed on top of cooked rice with the gravy to make a griffon meat bowl.

The reason for such different meat dishes is that the upper and lower halves of the griffon are made of separate eagles and lions.

Tauro wanted to make more dishes, but it would take too much time to cook for all the villagers, so he decided to compromise with these two dishes.

Seeing Tauro's skill, the housewives of the village immediately copied him and got to work.

The children were hungry, drooling at the smell and sound of the cooking, while the men brought out the liquor they had left in the cellar and drank it, eagerly awaiting the completion of the cooking.

By the time there was enough food for everyone, the sun had set and the garden of the village chief's house was illuminated by Tauro's spirit of light magic.

Tauro led the way on behalf of everyone who wanted to eat and taught everyone the "Itadakimasu"(Let’s eat), a culture not found in this world and asked everyone to chant it with their hands together.

The food was a big hit.

The meat was the best part of the meal, but the fried meat was a shock to the villagers who had just learned to eat fried food with French fries.

The dinner party in the garden of the village chief's house continued until midnight amidst great acclaim.

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