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Wait, isn’t that the same one from last time???
Who?
That one who was snuggled next to the Streamer Mom when the Gallery Master went to catch a Unicorn.
Who was it again?
Ahhh, I remember now!
But what was their name?
No idea!
It’s probably that the cognitive filter makes it hard for viewers to see Yane’s appearance clearly.
They might recognize the outline or silhouette of the face or body, but if the cognitive filter is working properly, viewers wouldn’t even know if Yane is an evolved Bladed Centipede.
“So, from now on, I might not be able to read the chat too much since I need to focus on Cooking?”
Nah, when have we cared? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Didn’t you stop reading chat when hunting Bladed Centipedes piled up?
‘Toilet Paper String Panty’ donated 55,000 won!
Are you really gonna make soup from Bladed Centipedes???
“Yep!”
Alright, let’s see here.
Roux is basically the most fundamental component in French Cooking. It’s not just limited to French cuisine, but it’s also a key foundation in all Western-style cooking. When you heat butter, it darkens, and adding an equal mass of flour and sautéing it is the basics.
Normally, the flame created with Divine Power is a strong point, but when making roux, you actually need to cook it on a very low fire.
If the heat is too high, the butter will burn to a crisp in an instant.
So, following the internet recipe, you generally use a 1:1 ratio of flour to butter on low heat, but…
‘My personal taste is to actually add a bit more flour.’
The internet calls for a 1:1 ratio, but in reality, using a bit more flour is better. Something closer to 2:1 is acceptable.
By simmering this over medium-low heat, and adding chicken stock and milk, it can be turned into something you could actually call soup.
Wait, why so much flour???
More flour makes it smoother. Can’t you feel it?
Not feeling it, but ugh…
That’s it!
Butter and flour should be 1:1, right?
The recipe for roux varies from person to person.
I’m a bit anxious, lol.
What I’m trying to make is an opaque cream soup with milk in it.
Of course, I’m not the one doing it; Yane has to.
“Got it? Stir it well without letting it burn.”
Ewwww……
“Oh come on, gentle words!”
Gahhh….. damn it..
“That’s right.”
Still nicer than your outburst, right?
Too much oppression and you can’t say anything.
If you keep suppressing someone, they’ll explode someday.
“You’re doing well. Keep stirring so it doesn’t burn.”
I’m gonna… die… from my arm…
“Keep stirring anyway. I’ll make you something delicious.”
What the heck, is this like a Streamer’s slave??
Hehe, I wanna be made a slave too…
Honestly, I don’t know how my cognitive filter is working, but that girl looks so weird and insect-like…
Are they really a Centipede Girl?
Shut up, stop joking around, lol.
If they’re a mutant Awakened One, it wouldn’t be impossible, right?
By the way, I’ve personally made soup several times.
When did you try it?
The first time might have been around 2020.
That was before I became the Mangja Seongnyeo.
Not even having joined the military or taken the college entrance exam. It was that bright school lunch era.
The reason I even attempted cooking at all was pretty trivial.
After finishing school and coming home, no one was around. And on TV, a celebrity was going crazy about making broccoli soup.
So I tried to cook something by myself, and ended up making a complete mess of the kitchen, resulting in my mom returning home to smack my back like crazy.
But that experience was valuable and could be used here. Back in the previous world, where I fought long wars against the Demon King’s forces, making soup and roux was fairly easy with just butter and flour, making them great for feeding large groups!
Soup is simple to make and has the advantage of being digested quickly, putting less burden on the stomach.
On the battlefield, to balance nutrition, I would bless them with Divine Power or make sure fresh game we hunted could fill the soldiers’ bellies.
After doing this so many times, maybe the best thing I can claim to be good at cooking would actually be soup.
As long as I pay attention to not burning it, it isn’t hard.
“Yane, is your hand visible?”
Eeek…
Of course, Yane’s the one stirring today.
It’s not difficult.
Just keep stirring it on low heat.
By the way, when making roux, one person usually needs around two tablespoons of flour… but will I eat just a little?
Even at the mess hall back in the previous world, there were times I devoured enough soup to feed an army.
And now, it’s not just me; Menelapie and Yane are here too!
While that’s one thing, Yane is a pretty big eater, and with the 29 Party Participants waiting for me, I just dumped an entire bag of flour in.
So, Yane is working hard stirring a massive pot where an entire bag of flour was dumped, so it must be tough.
Of course, I paid a lot of attention to the ingredients.
The flour was just normal flour transported by Drones, but the chicken stock came from the Crazy Red Chick I caught while being stalked.
The butter was organic butter gifted by the Elves, and the milk was also gifted by them.
I don’t know what kind of milk it is, but it’s definitely richer and has way more flavor than regular milk. When used in soup, it’ll surely result in something amazing.
If it was just for me, I wouldn’t need to be this precise, but among the civilians, including the party members and Menelapie, there’s no reason not to try hard.
“So keep up the work, Yane.”
Goooi…
Hahaha, right?
That doesn’t seem like it’s Yane’s job to be motivated, lol.
What’s the Streamer doing?
“Me? I’m like a director.”
Come on, stop joking around! Seriously lol.
For real!
“Ah, you too? Control your speech, students? You might get overwhelmed?”
Creepy!
By the way, are the party participants still in the Streamer’s room?
Seems likely?
Actually, I’m not sure at all..
Alright, while Yane is diligently stirring the roux, I can’t just sit by and do nothing.
“Let’s see… where to start?”
I looked at all the Bladed Centipedes piled up like a small hill and remembered when I dismantled the Centipede Dragon last time.
To say dismantling is a bit of a stretch; 90% of the Centipede Dragon’s flesh was eaten by my tentacles.
What was left were just the few remaining segments fried, that was it.
While I did use the miracle blessing, calling that cooking would be a stretch.
So, let’s think about it here.
Today’s dish is Bladed Centipede Soup.
Bladed Centipedes fundamentally have poison covering their whole body and prefer damp and narrow places. Their outer skin is indeed crawling with mold.
However, I have my miracle purification beam!
“In the names of the Father, the Son, the Fiend, the Starlight, and Gluttony, I pray….”
“Purification Beam!”
Purification Beam!
What the heck is that technique;;;
Oh, this is purification…
High-output Divine Power enveloped the ingredient named Bladed Centipede.
Sheeeeek…!
What the—; what was that sound?
It sounds like pouring something into a drum of hydrochloric acid lmao!
There was probably quite a lot of stagnant poison contained due to the sheer pile of Bladed Centipedes.
As soon as it touched the miracle, it made a sizzling sound, like trying to vacuum in a room filled with dust.
Good. Purification is done…
While it’s been purified, the edible portions from the Bladed Centipede are quite limited.
They can grow anywhere from 1 meter to over 10 meters like Yane, but the actual flesh you can consume lies in the insides, not the legs.
While the Centipede Dragon had plenty of edible parts due to its massive size, these much smaller Bladed Centipedes require us to strip the meat as a basic rule.
Crunch!
Creeeak!
So let’s pull out the tentacles and start the process of cracking the hard shell of the Bladed Centipedes.
The method to smash it is simple.
I wrap my tentacles around the Bladed Centipede’s entire body and squeeze hard to crush all at once, separating the inner flesh.
They were already dead, and thanks to the absence of the poisonous fluids due to the purification miracle, breaking the shell is no ordeal.
At my level of power, hardness doesn’t really matter.
“Chomp, Chomp… Mmm, tastes like a snack!”
Are you really eating that…?
Ewww…
No, there’s the inner flesh! Eat that instead…
I’d rather have the inner flesh…
Geez…
Yane might want to put that in her mouth…
As I pulled out the inner flesh and chewed the tough shell and leg that looked like blades, I thought I could eat them, but others might have trouble.
No, not just trouble; some might not even be able to take a bite.
The Bladed Centipede was so large, breaking it down really felt like preparing a massive King Crab shell.
Anyway, using a 4-meter Bladed Centipede as a reference, smashing the tough and dark outer layer and pulling out the soft inner part.
I just had to ensure to eliminate any residual poison with one more purification miracle—then it’s all done!
Once you smash the shell, the soft inside gives off a fragrant shrimp-like smell that made me salivate.
The appearance may be ghastly at first, but the inner flesh looked way whiter than regular shrimp or crab meat.
Hehe, this looks delicious…
Menelapie will definitely love it.
No, the party participants will love it too!
They like me, and I like these devils!
Unexpectedly good news popped up, too; among the heap of Bladed Centipedes, there were 10-meter giant Bladed Centipedes!
Since they’re large, they yielded even more inner flesh.
“But doesn’t this kind of resemble Yane’s lucky Bladed Centipede days?”
…Kiiiii…..
“Oh, Yane thinks so too!”
No way… damn it…..
Yane is really a brilliant child.
Of course, it’s natural, but Yane had no qualms about eating a fellow of her kind.
It’s just that Bladed Centipedes aren’t those voracious monsters. When starving with nothing to eat, they’d eat their own kind without hesitation.
In fact, it’s highly likely they don’t even think of them as their kin.
In Yane’s case, sticking around with me makes her pretty much a new kind, directly blessed by my Divine Power.
Getting my Divine Power directly and mimicking my body, her appetite exploded compared to when she was just a Bladed Centipede.
For more than 30 minutes, Yane stirred the roux diligently, and thankfully, it turned out perfectly!
“Alright, all done. Great job Yane. So…”
Ki… Aww!?
It’s time for a treat!
As a reward for her hard work, I gathered the remaining Bladed Centipede legs and stuffed them into Yane’s mouth.
Eww, ugh sht;*
The Streamer’s committing human terrorism!
Are you feeding that? lol!
Even if you’ve purified it with a miracle, I feel like I’ll throw up!
No, the problem’s not throwing up; it’s about those legs torturing her mouth and gums!
But she seems to be okay…?
Terrorism: Delicious!
Whoever you are, just cling to the Gallery Master, endure with your will!
Why endure at all?
Ugh, ugh…
Gulp…
Yane wanted to spit it out at first, but for some reason, she ended up chewing on the numerous legs in her mouth.
Good. The roux that Yane stirred for so long turned out to be quite alright.
‘I dumped a whole bag of flour, and with the organic butter from the Great Forest, I added half of that too…
Then we should use four packs of the milk given by the Elves.
Usually when making cream without heavy cream, milk is required, so we should just add the heavy cream transported by drones for good measure too!
So we made roux, now we need to introduce the chicken stock, but…
Just how much should I add…?
Hmmm, that’s the main problem.
Moderate, appropriate, you know…
It’s hard to know exactly how much to put in while cooking.
For small pots, it was about two pieces of chicken stock, so… in this large pot, shouldn’t I be able to throw in a whole pack?
“Oh, that seems fine?”
……Wow…..
“See? Doesn’t it look delicious, Yane?”
*Normally, for champignon soup, you would chop up m…
…ushrooms and onions to add in. Carrots would be finely grated, but that’s not the case for me.
This is Bladed Centipede Soup.
Delicious Bladed Centipede inner flesh soup!
Fortunately, the inner flesh of the Bladed Centipede tastes like a mix between shrimp and crab meat.
To enhance the smooth texture and deep flavor of the ingredients, chicken broth is usually crucial, and since it’s made from the Crazy Red Chick, the flavor should be excellent.
“Now, let’s add the prepared inner flesh of the Bladed Centipede after removing its moisture…”
Whoa, it already looks appetizing.
This is definitely going to taste good.
The bubbling, milky-colored soup with the rising Bladed Centipede’s white inner flesh resembles a perfect specimen of Western cuisine!
Maybe because I made the roux myself?
This time, the colors started beautifully, and adding Bladed Centipede made the flavor thrive even more.
Now, let’s chop a bit of green onion to add and to maintain texture, I also ripped some enoki mushrooms to toss in.
“Yane? Want to taste it?”
[………….]
It looked good, but since she didn’t seem fond of being a test subject, Yane stared at me with sharp eyes.
Damn, I really don’t want to be on her bad side…
What can I do when she’s glaring at me?
“Come on, eat.”
[….sht!]*
Oh, don’t just say that!
Despite it, Yane had no other choice but to accept the soup I offered her.
Gulp…
[………]
How is it?
Yane’s expression quickly stiffened, making it awkward to even ask…
[Ptoo!]
What’s the problem? This was a perfect plan…?
[…It’s not salty… not salty enough…]
“Not salty? Ah, you mean it’s bland?”
[…….]
Guess the chicken stock isn’t enough.
At least that’s a relief.
It’s much easier to fix blandness than saltiness.
With the roux done, it’s time to bring the soup to a boil, so I inserted Divine Power into the low fire to raise the heat and then added a bit more of the chicken stock made from the Crazy Red Chick.
One, two, three… let’s put in just two more pieces.
Checking the bubbling pot, it felt like it was going great this time compared to earlier.
The pot was simmering nicely, and I kept a close eye so the Bladed Centipede inner flesh wouldn’t get overly cooked or tough.
If the heat was too strong, it could overcook and get overly salty, so managing the heat was crucial.
Now I mixed in some added chicken stock, as well as balancing the inner flesh and milk too.
Great, now it’s perfect!
“Yane~”
Ah damn…
Let’s get Yane to taste a bit more.
Thanks to her sampling, I could know in real-time how strong or weak the seasoning was.
Also, let’s add in some decoration.
Since it’s Bladed Centipede soup, it should undoubtedly stand out that it’s made from Bladed Centipedes!
Right now, it looks more like a simple crab meat soup than anything else.
Good.
First, I’ll put the head of the Bladed Centipede that got blasted with the purification beam right in the center of the soup for a symbolic touch.
Then, I’ll stuff its teeth and steel leg joints densely around the bowl so that it’ll unmistakably show up as Bladed Centipede Soup!
“Yane~?”
[………..]
“Come on, do it~!”
[………..]
“Do it already.”
[…..sht…]*
Hahaha, look at her face!
She’s giving off that sad cat expression, but at the moment, the soup is in the process of being completed, so that doesn’t matter!
