[??? : If this doesn’t taste good, then there’s definitely something wrong with the person who cooked it, right?]
[Yeah, there’s a problem~]
[For real, lol]
[LOL!!!]
[How could that look so good and taste bad? LOL]
[But it definitely looked delicious on the outside!]
[‘Godly Value Enthusiast’ donated 3,000 won!]
If you think about it as roasting a stone instead of meat, you’ll feel better.
“Fuck! Don’t talk nonsense!”
[Is it okay for the saint to swear??]
[Is she swearing right now??]
[Wow, the saint swears!]
[LOL!!!]
[At this rate, she might hit someone!]
“No, just… haah… sigh, haah, sigh, haah…. Let’s calm down…”
No way.
If I keep going like this, I won’t be able to cook properly because I’ll get wrapped up in what the viewers say.
I need to regain my composure.
I am the Mangja Seongnyeo Isia.
I vow not to waste even a single piece of meat before me; oh starlight, please oversee the cooking of this unicorn meat.
[‘Fried Leaf Seller’ donated 24,000 won!]
Isia, while praying, does look really holy, but it feels a bit off in front of ruined unicorn meat…
“…..Olga, you really must come by sometime.”
Though it might not seem like much to others, losing meat that is worth 50 servings is a big deal and a serious matter for Shia.
I must have been mentally overwhelmed more than usual. Normally, I’d be wearing a benevolent smile like a passive ability, but I’d thrown that away long ago.
Right now, Shia looked less like a saint and more like a little kid who caused a huge accident in the kitchen and doesn’t know what to do.
[LOL!!!]
[It’s funnier that the streamer is angrier than eating food! LOL]
[Noona, please always be angry…!]
[I came to clarify why you postponed the D-rank promotion, but what is this about? LOL]
[‘KawaiiHorned’ donated 10,000 won!]
If you eat all that, I’ll throw 500,000 won.
[‘Fried Leaf Seller’ donated 5,000 won!]
Huh, how can you eat that? LOL
[‘Creamy Potato Cheese Flavor’ donated 30,000 won!]
LOL, a back slap incoming!
But since I’ve already ruined the unicorn meat worth 50 servings, this is definitely no small matter.
In general, unicorn meat isn’t distributed in Hunter Markets or shops.
Hunting unicorns is quite tricky. A normal hunter wouldn’t even consider butchering a unicorn for meat.
Most hunters use the unicorn’s horn, bones, or other high-concentration mana by-products to make equipment. If not, they make elixirs and potions. The thought of grilling it like orc ribs is probably something only Shia would think.
Thus, since there are no techniques for cooking unicorn meat, Shia had to rack her brain to find some way to utilize this meat desperately.
‘What to do… what to do…?’
The quantity of meat placed on the large grill exceeded 50 servings.
If I say I ruined all this meat, Yoonjeong might seriously get angry.
Like all mothers, if you mess with food or waste it, then of course there would be a back slap coming from the person who just donated.
No, after coming this far with the confidence to be dutiful to Yoonjeong, how could Shia present this horrible food?
“Wow, what kind of taste does that Yane have? It looks good… Oh! Did you roast all of it?”
“Ah….”
At that moment, Yoonjeong, who had returned from the lakeside with Yane, spotted the well-done unicorn meat that Shia had prepared.
Yane grabbed the raw unicorn meat that Yoonjeong had washed for her and started to munch away, while Yoonjeong showed interest in the enormous grill that Shia had cooked on.
“Wow, the smell is killing me. Did Shia do all this herself?”
Before Shia could even stop Yoonjeong, she approached the meat and picked up a piece with tongs.
On the outside, it smelled wonderful, and just looking at the melting fat sizzling made it look like it was good food, not something disastrous.
[?]
[Oh no, she’s going to eat it]
[Stop!]
[Can she eat that??]
“Eh… Mom, wait a minute…!”
“It’s alright. It’s meat; usually, it’s good. Is it really going to make me sick? Then I well have to eat it…”
Crunch!
And then came the sound from Yoonjeong’s mouth as she chewed on unicorn meat, a sound that shouldn’t have been heard.
At that moment, both Shia and Yoonjeong realized something was seriously wrong with this food.
[Wow, what sound is that?!]
[Fuck, that sound is intense.]
[Isn’t that a broken bone sound?]
[Streamer, use Healing Magic!]
“Uh, umm…?”
Shia cautiously called out to Yoonjeong, wondering if she had misheard, but Yoonjeong remained still without any response.
Moments later, the sound from Yoonjeong’s mouth began to resemble the crunching of rocks or iron.
Crunch, crunch
Chomp, crunch!*
“…Ugh, yummy….”
There was no way she meant it sincerely.
Her eyes trembled, and her expression revealed that she was desperately holding something back.
The reason why Yoonjeong was saying it was delicious despite chewing on something harder than a stone was probably that she couldn’t bring herself to thoughtlessly discard what Shia had made.
Crunch, crunch….
“Uh, Mom, stop. Stop… you don’t have to force it…”
CRACK!
“Ugh, huh….”
“Eh?”
[Something just popped out of her mouth?]
[?]
[What? Did her tooth break??]
“Ugh, cough….!”
“Kyyaah!? Mom!!”
[Ahh, crazy!]
[Just watching makes it painful!]
[The first victim of this cursed saint’s broadcast is her mom…!]
[I’ve never seen someone get hurt eating! LOL]
[In the meantime, the streamer seems okay eating that… LOL]
And so, Shia had to use Healing Magic on Yoonjeong.
She wasn’t attacked by a unicorn or a monster.
She had eaten Shia’s cooking and had her body injured.
After a while, Yoonjeong, who barely regained her composure, spat out everything that was in her mouth and quietly stared at Shia.
“……”
“……Huh…”
“Hey.”
“Hyiiiiii.”
“Hey, what the hell did you do to make the meat this tough?! I really thought I was going to die!”
SMACK!
Smack!
No matter how much you hit me with those slender, soft hands, how much pain could it possibly bring…?
“Ugh, I said to stop!”
“No way, even if you mixed cyanide into the meat, it wouldn’t be this life-threatening. If you ruin meat, you need to take it off the grill immediately, don’t you?! Did I do something wrong to you? Are you deliberately trying to make me eat this?!”
“Ah, no. That’s not it at all… but unexpected…”
Meanwhile, Yane, who had been happily munching on the raw unicorn leg, stared at Shia and Yoonjeong with a look that said, ‘What are they doing?’
“What now? We have to throw away all this meat!”
“But… the tentacles can still be eaten…”
“What? Tentacles?”
At those words, Yoonjeong turned to look at the writhing tentacles around Shia’s waist.
Well, since there are mouths on those tentacles, it seems like they could be eaten.
Eh, whatever.
If we can’t eat it, at least those tentacles can take over…
Yoonjeong picked up a well-done piece of unicorn meat and offered it to the tentacle.
[Spit!]
“Huh?”
“Eh….”
[What the?! LOL, the tentacle won’t eat it?]
[HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA]
[It’s not just refusing, it’s spitting it out!]
[Didn’t that tentacle chew on the Centipede Dragon raw??]
[Exactly, that unicorn meat is worse than munching on a Centipede Dragon…!]
[The tentacle rejects the streamer’s unicorn meat…!]
Wondering if it was just a fluke, Yoonjeong again offered a piece of meat to Shia’s tentacle.
[Spit!]
[Eh, SPIT!]
[Breaking News: The tentacle also decides this is unacceptable…!]
[That tentacle definitely has a mind of its own! LOL]
[For real, how can it spit like that?]
“………”
“……….”
“Let’s just throw this away….”
“Yeah…”
In the end, even the tentacle completely rejected the unicorn meat, and Yoonjeong and Shia quietly began to clean up the grill, looking despondent.
[‘Shishiro Botang’ donated 100,000 won!]
Today was truly a record-breaking failure. LOL
“Om nom nom.”
Among all this, Yane still seemed to be enjoying the unicorn hind leg that Yoonjeong had cleaned by the lake.
“…Uh, rather him eating looks more delicious, doesn’t it?”
“Is that so…?”
Looking back, there’s no need to cook meat all the time.
There are dishes like sashimi and raw meat, and generally, the freshness of the meat is critical for those types of raw dishes, but in the case of unicorn meat, since it’s infused with mana and is freshly caught, it could be considered optimal for sashimi.
“Well, I saw on my smartwatch that normally, meat should be eaten as sashimi…”
“But… I don’t think unicorn meat and ordinary horse meat are the same… Just because it’s on the internet doesn’t mean it’s reliable…”
“In that case, where did you see it that said to roast unicorn meat until it’s a rock?!”
“………”
Having already turned 50 servings of unicorn meat into solid stones, Shia had no excuses left.
Reluctantly, Yoonjeong approached Yane, who was happily munching on the unicorn leg with both hands.
“Uh, hey… that thing… Yane, is it okay if we eat it together?”
“………..”
Yane briefly exchanged glances between Shia and Yoonjeong.
She wasn’t completely full yet, but seeing that Shia and Yoonjeong hadn’t eaten anything at all, it wasn’t too hard for her to share the hind leg.
Regardless, Shia was Yane’s owner, and she was the one who hunted the unicorn meat.
Yane just watched them for a moment before grabbing the unicorn hind leg to eat it by herself.
“Kyee!” (Yeah!)
[What’s this?]
[By the way, who is she? She’s been on the broadcast since earlier.]
[Is the streamer not paying attention to the broadcast?]
[Who is she?]
[She seems the type who is really into her character LOL.]
[Isn’t she a transformation-type hunter?]
[Being a transformation type or mutation type would make sense LOL.]
[She’s cute though.]
As Yane willingly offered up the hind leg of meat, the faces of Yoonjeong and Shia brightened a bit.
“Phew, this is good fortune. Shia, Mom will show off her cooking skills.”
“But Mom… do you know how to eat raw meat?”
“……”
Of course she didn’t know.
She didn’t know how to butcher.
How to handle this massive hunk of meat was completely beyond her.
Shia had never had unicorn meat before, nor had Yoonjeong.
“Well, how hard could it be? Let’s just grab it and tear it apart like that Yane.”
Although she didn’t know how to handle raw meat, Yoonjeong had spent decades in the kitchen.
Although Yoonjeong was by no means a hotel chef or Michelin star chef, she still had the skills of a mother who had cooked in the kitchen for so long.
“Okay, let’s just slice it like sashimi.”
“Sashimi… Oh, right, Dad used to go fishing often.”
“Ugh! Thinking about that guy annoys me again. Your dad would take off to fishing without telling me and bring back all sorts of strange fish, asking me to prepare sashimi. After over 20 years of that, I’ve practically become a sea person; I’m better at slicing than a sashimi restaurant owner!”
“…Is that so?”
Shia couldn’t quite remember it, but she did have a strange memory of an unusual amount of sashimi and fish at home as a child.
So that was all thanks to her Dad going on fishing trips…
But speaking of her mother, what about her father… Where is he? What does he look like? Can I find him…?
“Well! I’m done, you brat!”
“Huh? Already?”
[Wait a minute, how did it happen this quick?]
[When did you finish?]
[Whoa, mom…!!]
[That knife skill is insane!]
“It’s nothing special. Just cut the meat thinly and beautifully along the grain.”
Though only a D-grade hunter, Yoonjeong had certainly an inhuman spec even by normal standards.
Thanks to her, the freshly cut raw meat had a translucent reflection like glistening red glass.
But…
Twitch!
[What the heck is that?!]
[Holy! It’s moving!]
[Whoa, what?!]
[Is that rigor mortis?]
[Does unicorn meat also experience rigor mortis?]
[That looks like a worm!]
“Hiii…”
“Ah, that’s probably rigor mortis.”
The freshly cut meat was twitching as if it were a separate creature.
Watching the quivering surface of the meat triggered a sense of revulsion, but humans are strange; instead of being disgusted, a feeling of hunger aroused at the sight of the twitching meat.
Especially since they had just had to throw away over 50 servings of unicorn meat, it was all the more so.
Later it would be found out that for beef, after slaughtering, it’s kept frozen for a day to observe the quality of the fat to judge its marbling quality, but for raw meat like this, there’s no need for grading; it can be brought to market immediately.
The same applies to this unicorn meat.
In fact, the raw unicorn meat that has undergone rigor mortis is a sign that it is extremely fresh, not even an hour since slaughtering, which speaks to its wonderful flavor.
Shia, Yoonjeong, and Yane began to exchange glances at the thinly sliced meat Yoonjeong had prepared.
“Yane.”
“Kyee…?”
“Give it a try.”
Shia, being somewhat nervous, offered Yane the first chance to eat.
Since it was just a smaller version of the meat Yane had been munching on earlier, she had no hesitation in taking the piece of raw meat into her mouth.
“Ah—Yum, om nom nom… gulp.”
Despite the meat still twitching due to rigor mortis, Yane showed no hesitation in chewing the meat.
Her expression didn’t change much, but as she finished chewing, Yane reached for another piece of sashimi, bringing brighter expressions to Shia and Yoonjeong.
Ah, so it seems edible after all?
“Looks like it’s okay for her, doesn’t it?”
“Yeah, I guess so?”
“Well then, let’s eat, Shia.”
“Yes! I’ll eat well, Mom.”
Although the twitching raw meat was a bit unsettling, it’s bound to be delicious.
Besides, after everything they had eaten up to this point that was far more disgusting than this raw meat, why do they feel this cowardice now?
In fact, it was probably more about the trauma from offal meat that had turned into a rock than any disgust toward food.
“Ah.”
Nom.
Kyum.
Kyee…….
And at the same moment, the three of them began to eat the meat without saying a word.
Chomp, chomp
Gum, gum…
“……”
“…….”
Shia and Yoonjeong exchanged sly looks.
Delicious?
Isn’t it good?
Yeah!
“It’s delicious!”
[Look at their expressions brightening, LOL]
[They look like kids.]
[Noona, your smile makes me feel something… heh…!]
[Crazy, LOL.]
[But the streamer smiling is quite alluring.]
[It does seem you have a strong stomach for eating twitching meat! I’m not eating that… The streamer better have a strong stomach.]
[That streamer likes bug snacks… LOL.]
[For real, LOL.]
[‘KawaiiHorned’ donated 50,000 won!]
Finally, success! Cheers, cheers, cheers!
[‘Manager’s Bald Head Lick’ donated 65,000 won!]
Raw sashimi is definitely the bomb!
It was genuinely delicious.
Shia, who usually isn’t a fan of raw meat or sashimi, found that unicorn sashimi was on a whole new level.
With it being prepared by her mom, Yoonjeong, the sliced unicorn meat tasted even more flavorful than typical beef.
At the moment it entered her mouth, it melted smoothly, with the light mana and fat layers harmonizing, making Shia sure that it was far better than any monster-related dish she had eaten thus far.
For the record, the runner-up is braised wyvern egg.
“Ah, still, don’t you think this is a bit early to finish?”
“…No way, I’m full…”
The amount of unicorn sashimi consumed by the three of them was no small fraction.
Even by normal standards, it had to be the equivalent of 20-30 servings.
“No way! I’m not finished until I say so. I shall continue snacking slowly.”
“Are you kidding? How can you eat like a pig?”
“I’m not a pig. Call me Mangja Seongnyeo instead.”
[LOL, I’m going to dream of that expression!]
[The pig is now synonymous with Mangja Seongnyeo!]
[Pig = Mangja Seongnyeo!]
As it was starting to aim for a Mukbang broadcast, Shia couldn’t let her pride diminish after failing at her own cooking.
