A mid-level (middle-aged) office worker's laid-back industrial revolution in another world - Chapter 194

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“Oh… my God!”

My wife gulped as she finished her lasagna and pudding.

“Hey, isn’t Takeo great?”

The chief chef smirks.

“Not great! Kitamizato-sama is an undeniable genius!”

“Takeo-sama is amazing, isn’t he?”

Hilda was also smirking.

“Takeo makes this kind of food and calls it ‘home cooking’?”

“I could see the chef crying.

Even I’m about to cry with emotion.”

“Takeo says he wants to push food to the level of culture.

He said, ‘What I’m looking for is what the cooks perceive when they see what I cook and how I cook it, and what they create next.'”

“… I don’t know if I can keep up.”

My wife sighs.

“He said he would call us ‘good cooks’ if we only imitated him.”

Hilda gives a follow-up shot.

“…Kitamizato-sama is a demon.

Could it be… that Kitamizato-sama has even more new recipes in his head?”

“I wonder… he did say, ‘Make it before I make it, will you?’.”

The chef said with a chuckle.

My wife was even more shocked when she heard those words.

“Huh… So, why was he so happy to see Hilda?”

“‘Hmm… he said he liked her idea.

I imagined Hilda’s prototype to be unpalatable, but Takeo was asking what she had in mind rather than how good it was.”

“Really. Hilda, what did you have in mind?”

“I thought it would be fun if the pasta was layered.”

“…. It’s not so much an idea as it is something we all think of at one time or another, and then fail at and give up on.”

“You know? Takeo doesn’t create food from cooking, he thinks of cooking from food.”

“A genius… he has such soft ideas.

Normally people decide what to cook by looking at the ingredients, but he decides what to cook then looks at the ingredients.”

“That’s right. Hilda, if you want to be a chef, you’re going to have to learn a lot of different cooking methods to keep up.”

“Yes, I know.”

“That’s not all.

You’ll have to eat all kinds of food, learn how to taste it, try to make it taste the same… there’s no end to what you can do.”

“Really?”

Hilda giggled.

“I need to practice eating all kinds of food and thinking constantly.

It’s just that… Hilda is still a child… Do you think she’s ready for that much cooking?”

“I guess so. Takeo seems to have high expectations for Hilda, but he doesn’t want to force her.”[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

“Is that so? You know, there are kids who enter the kitchen at my age, right?”

Hilda said curiously.

“─ If he was greedy, he would keep the ones he liked and raise them under his care, but…

I don’t think Takeo would think that way.

He’ll just do whatever he wants.”

“You know, if you start working, your thoughts may become fixed.

Kitamizato-sama’s method of education is to leave things alone.

If you want to do something, do it; if you don’t want to do something, you don’t have to do it.

That’s harsh coming from a cook.”

“Is that so? I’m free to do what I want, aren’t I?”

“…This method of education has extreme consequences.

It’s a system where you have to be terribly self-disciplined to make it big.

However, if you do it right, it will produce top-notch students.”

“Hmm… I don’t know…”

Hilda was troubled but seemed unable to come up with an answer.

“Well, you can take your time.

There’s no need to rush yet.

We’ll teach you everything you need to know.”

“Yes! Okay.”

Hilda replied with a big smile on her face.

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In the woods, a little far from the city where Elvis’ mansion is located, two men in deep robes are sitting around a fire.

“Another complete defeat…”

“…”

“I didn’t think… there would be so little damage.”

“…

“… Did you get scolded?”

“No… Instead, he was impressed.”

“Well, as long as he’s not pissed…”

“We’ll… stay out of Elvis’ house for now.”

“I wonder… will there be a rematch?”

“Not…. on our watch.”

“So… next time you’ll be aiming for Count Godwin’s estate?”

“New orders.”

“Hmm?”

“The three Count’s Houses adjacent to the Demon Kingdom will not be touched.”

“…”

“The next target is the county adjacent to the Willip Confederacy.

“From the most guarded to the least guarded… it would be interesting to set up in the Willip Confederacy.”

“We just… obey.”

“Yes. But we could also plant seeds in the Willip Confederacy, just to stir up their hatred.”

“….. I’ll tell them.”

“Sigh….. guess I’m going to take a vacation.”

“Eat… something good.”

“Yeah. I’ve got some prep work to do… so I’ll just relax.”

They put out the bonfire and disappeared into the darkness.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]