Greatest Alchemist? Chapter 98

Chapter 98: A brief time of peace

Some time had passed since the large flood of monsters at Wedgefort, and we’re back in Volton.
Actually, we were relieved from duty the day after the flood, but Marnie, whose level had suddenly risen, was eager to go out and Kaede, who had evolved from an Archenie to an Arachne, wanted to check her body’s rhythm, so we went looking for monsters around Wedgefort.

Having turned into an Arachne, Kaede’s spider lower half had gotten one size larger, and the appearance of her top half changed from that of a small child to one of a female high school student. Furthermore, she acquired Dark attribute magic, so she seems to be having fun with magic training.

Since returning to Volton, we haven’t attended Barack-san’s training at the Adventurers Guild. Currently, we train just by ourselves at the garden at home.

「It’s been a while since we’ve had nothing to do.」
「Since we’ve been so busy as of late, let’s rest our bodies.」
「Everyone, we have tea.」

Marnie and Maria had brewed some tea and brought it here.

「We baked cookies today.」
「Let me see, ……yup, the smell of butter is nice.」
「Cookies are tasty!」

Kaede evolved, but her mental age hasn’t changed that much. Well, it can’t be helped since it’s only been 5 or 6 years since she was born.[1]
「Really though, making butter and cheese had turned out well. Our menu has increased thanks to that.」

Previously, we enthusiastically bought large quantities of things at Quilbas. And from the milk we stored in the Item Box, we had success in the production of heavy cream, butter, and cheese. To coagulate cheese, we would have to use rennet that comes from the abomasum of calves and lambs, but if I remember correctly, I heard that there was rennet that comes from mold[2] used in modern times. For now, we used rennet retrieved from calves to make our first cheese.

「Kaede likes pizza!」
「Then how about we make some with everyone again?」

I made a pizza oven[3] in the backyard to bake pizzas. We use a magic gas burner in the kitchen at the house, but I purposefully made a pizza stove that burns firewood. The smoke would give it a smoky flavor, wouldn’t it?

「Still, these cookies are delicious. I wasn’t able to eat sweet things back then. I want my brother to taste this, too.」
「Laeva, cookies keep for a long time so wouldn’t it be alright to send some? If you like, why not even cast a State Preservation enchantment on the box?」
「That’s right, if that’s the case then how about sending a variety of other foodstuff too?」
「Eh!? Is that alright?」

When Sophia and I said that it’s alright to send cookies made with plenty of expensive sugar and butter, Laeva was shocked as well as delighted.

「The cookies can be made by Maria and Marnie, and if the box is enchanted with State Preservation, even you can do it now, right Laeva?」
「Yes! Thank you very much!」

Leava replied cheerfully, immediately running to the workshop to make a box with State Preservation.

「What would you like for dinner tonight?」
「Let’s see, how about macaroni gratin?」
「Gratin! Kaede likes too!」

Various kinds of dried pasta are now sold by the Papeck Company. The unit price is cheap so the royalties obviously don’t amount to much this time, but we can buy various kinds of pasta so there’s no problem.

「Then I’ll help too.」
「Well then, I’ll make the salad.」
「Kaede will help too!」

Everyone aside from Sophia who was bad at cooking and Laeva who secluded herself in the workshop prepared dinner.

Dinner that day was Maria’s baked bread and macaroni gratin with white sauce, and the potato salad Marnie made.

「Taaasty!」
「H-hot! But it’s delicious.」

Kaede and Laeva became ecstatic from eating gratin.
Everyone in the house except for Sophia, Kaede and me had a hard time eating. Laeva’s community was still poor, and Maria was from Moulin-san’s slavery company so I believe it wasn’t terrible, but she didn’t have extravagant meals. Maybe because they have those reactions that I love eating with everyone.

Puhaa, it’s more delicious having ale cold.」
「Drinking chilled white wine is also delicious.」
「How luxurious. It’s like a dream.」

The ale I’m drinking and the white wine Sophia and Marnie are having were chilled with magic.

We began making our own ale and wine. Of course, it was made in a short time with 『Fermentation』 and 『Aging』 magic. But I made, failed, and remade it until I was satisfied with the taste.

「But Takumi is talented even when making alcohol.」
「No, ale is fermented on the surface so it’s easy to make the machinery, and as for the wine, the taste still isn’t there.」
「That’s not the case. It is not the best wine, but I think it has a flavor between first and second class.」

Techniques for making alcohol is kept secret even in Mildgard. It is monopolized by a small amount of nobles and the church. Cheap alcohol like ale seem to be made everywhere, but I can’t bring myself to drink lukewarm ale.

After dinner, I filled the bath with hot water using magic. This is pretty much my job. I made it so that the bath in this mansion is big enough that 5-6 people can enter at one time and still be spacious, and I’m in charge of filling it since I have plenty of magic power, and have both the fire and water attribute.

「Next, please raise your right hand.」
「…… yeah.」
「Okay, I will wash the left hand.」
「I will wash the back.」

Yep, lately I’ve been taking baths together with Sophia, Maria, and Marnie. Originally it was either Sophia or Maria that entered, but before I knew it, it had been decided that we’d enter together since Marnie arrived.

「Fuu~, baths definitely feel good.」
「It’s very luxurious, isn’t it?」
「That’s true, except for nobles, there isn’t a habit of taking baths.」
「In my village, the best we could do is bathe in the river.」

Baths aren’t common in this world. There doesn’t seem to be anyone like me that would use magic to fill a bath. There’s probably a magic device that would fill and warm the water, but I was told that it would be too expensive that only high ranking nobles could have it.

「Then how about we make a magic device?」
「Let’s see, if that were the case, then the bath can be filled with water even if it isn’t Takumi-sama who does it.」

In the bathtub that had room to fit four people comfortably, I slowly warmed myself up surrounded by beautiful women and a pretty girl.

「Please excuse me.」

Today, the one who entered my room was Sophia.
Adding Marnie to the rotation, I had one day off. Thanks to the exceedingly superior body made specially by Goddess Norn, I overdid it today too.

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Footnotes:

  1. Author mistake again. She was 5 when Takumi first got her, and 2 years have passed since then so she should be around 7 years old… but I wonder if I should just follow what is written on the raws because the errors typically persist.[↩]
  2. General rennet information and the 4 types can be found here [↩].
  3. An example of a pizza oven here[↩].
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crismofern

Great as always 🙂

I made a pizza oven should be footnote 3, not 1

TAMA-MII

Wow kaede has grown, i need to see the illustration of her new form o.o

Thanks for the chapter.

Miserys_End

Cheers for the chapter, and all your hard work!

O.o it’s been atleast over a year for most of the girls other then Marnie, yet they are still affected by habits picked up at slaves… even then, other then the elf, they have only been slaves for a short period of time. LoL so this line of thought just feels weird xD would make more sense to blame it on being commoners then slaverslavery.

Philip

Um, nope, really no. Maria, the human slave, was captured by bandits as a kid when her village was destroyed, and lived probably 10 years as a slave, although most of it was training. Laeva, the foxkin, not only was poor, she lost a hand before selling herself as a slave in order to give her family extra funds. Even Marnie lived pretty poorly in a pioneer village (might be named differently in the story) for some time. All of those girls have sad backstories, common trope in JP novels. Not sure about Kaede and Tsubaki, but considering Takumi met… Read more »

sfcipher

Thanks for the treat.

Zeus

Thanks for the chapter. ?

Philip

This line felt a bit weird: [to have with magic training]
-> {to have gone for magic training} ~ maybe?

The title, makes me think something big will happen soon, although it should be some time before the hero summoning. Maybe they will make another fort in the savage lands, or they go dungeon diving, or evil dragon slaying? Might have something to do with that thing, the soon to become an evil entity that is worshiped by those lunatics.
Thanks for the chapter! Awesome translation! God bless you!

Blythe

Woops, it’s missing the word “fun”. I’ll fix it when i get home xD thanks~

Philip

Oh, so ‘fun’ was missing. Forgot Kaede likes to have fun 😀

Tanskandoggi

Thanks for the chapter!

junkzi

I read almost all the novel in a row o.o
It was awesome, thanks for the chapter! May i ask for the schedule of the release? Since I read it so fast I don’t know u.u, but anyways, thanks for the chapter!

Blythe

Glad you like it~ I typically upload every 3 days though I may have some delays at times, and i take short breaks when a volume is finished. ^^

zeru

Ha i was right kaede did become busty waifu girl tho prob has a ways to go til gets in on night time fun with master.

Also i feel like that age thing is takumi not being sure exactly how old she is but could be wrong.

Blythe

The age thing seems to be an author mistake because it’s also in Kaede’s status in CCS2. ><

Scathe

Uhmm I hope she doesn’t become a waifu…Spiders eat their mates……

ReEternity Zero

Thx for the chap!

J Death

Thanks for the Chapter!!! Looking forward to the next update. ?

gumtreeblossom

Here: since the large flood monsters
This: flood monsters
Probably should be: flood of monsters

caudyr

Thanks for another chapter~ The link to the next chapter isn’t working…it’s linking to what I’m guessing is the bot prevention chapter. ^^

foofoo3344

I made it so that the bath in this mansion is big enough that 5-6 people can enter at one time and still be spacious”
I see he’s a man of culture <wink> <wink>

Scathe

Note to those who didn’t Know Ale and wine making are effectively the same process just with one extra step in the case of ale/beer as well as of course the ingredients.
As far as hard alcohol Moonshine ,whiskey etc to be honest they are just distilled wines.
Peach brandy is just peach wine that has been distilled.
As a hint and just informational purpose a pressure cooke a coil of copper tube and an ice bath could be used for Distilling essential oils *and other things) from flowers…..

Coolman

Damn MC is living the night life.

kadog

Could’ve sworn there were already magic tools in the house used to fill the bath… Something about it just needing the mana crystals to power it? Or did he fill the tub then and leave them to it? Can’t remember. Still weird that it seems like Laeva has virtually no interest Takumi, but I guess it isn’t a huge deal.

CountryMage

Yeah the house was equipped with a lot of outdated magic tools and all the magic stones were removed, so he had to repair or replace everything including the water faucet tool for the bathroom.