Danjohi ga Bukkowareta Sekai no Hito to Jinsei wo Koukanshimashita - Chapter 27
27. Lunch at the pavilion
The girls were skillfully preparing lunch at the pavilion.
“……Hm?”
Tupperware boxes were stacked one after another on the sheet. Everything was taken out of their bags.
The Tupperware was translucent, so I could easily see the inside. Each one seems to be a different dish.
It’s a lot…
When I was thinking so, cutleries such as chopsticks, knives, forks, and spoons were lined up in front of me.
Knife and fork? Even though it’s outdoors?
Thinking like that, plates were taken out and the food in the Tupperware was put on each.
“Huh? What is that?”
“Tongs”
“Not that, I mean this… a ceramic plate?”
“I thought that it would make it easier to eat.”
I thought that it would be some rice balls and some side dishes, but my expectations were far off.
It was like the course meals at restaurants, various appetizer was prepared.
Everything that unfolded in front of me was colorful and had a pleasing design.
“Here you go. Please enjoy.”
“Y-yeah… but what about you all?”
“We, we will eat leftovers.”
There’s still plenty of food left in the Tupperware though?
“O-okay, then, itadakimasu.” [TN: Itadakimasu, an expression of gratitude before meals]
Since it was prepared just for me.
I gladly ate it.
The first plate I picked up had marinated salmon on it.
I brought salmon and onion slices to my mouth.
“Delicious. It has some lemon taste, but not so sour.”
“Glad that you like it. It was made by Yuuko.”
“I used the combination of vinegar and lemon to reduce the sourness as much as possible. Well, it’s slightly hard to get the right combination…”
“It’s really delicious.”
There were three kinds of appetizers arranged. Each of them must have prepared one.
None of them seems premade… the three must have gotten up early to make them…
Next was a parma ham salad.
Feeling the stare from Makoto, I could guess that this was made by Makoto.
“Delicious”
Makoto breathed a sigh of relief.
“This one, is mine.”
Rie pointed to the bacon and potato salad.
The black pepper went well with the diced bacon.
Next, I looked at the many unopened tupperwares.
“I’m sorry it’s cold.”
“Don’t worry, I don’t mind it at all.”
First of all, lunch is usually cold…
The next dish on the menu was eggs slow-boiled in soy sauce, kinpira gobo (braised burdock root), and ham and eggs.
It was brought by Makoto, Yuuko, and Rie in order.
It was amazing that they bought proper bowls instead of paper plates.
Seriously, I didn’t feel like I was eating outside.
If I cooked for myself, it would most likely be fried food, so compared to what was in front of me here, it was like day and night.
Truly, I felt that it would be a waste to eat them all.
Of course, while I was eating, the three prepared the next dish.
For some reason, I felt like I had suddenly become an aristocrat.
Is this a normal lunch outside?…. I don’t think so, but, what is it, somehow I feel like I’m losing.
Or rather, is it my fault?
The three met my request well. No, it was beyond my expectation.
“Now is the main dish.”
Boiled fish, hamburgers, beef steaks, and other meats were lined up.
Yup, I’m thankful for the plentiful food, but this body seems to be a small eater, I don’t know if I can eat it all…
There weren’t any of the standard fried chicken, omelet, and wiener sausages. Probably, they purposely removed them from the menu.
“Thank you, I’ll enjoy them slowly.”
I didn’t have time to have a conversation.
It wasn’t because I didn’t have time, but because I didn’t have a big room in my stomach. So I needed to take it all in at once, without wasting time.
“Huff… that was delicious.”
“Really? I’m glad that you think so… ah, wait, I’ll prepare the desert quick”
“…………”
The dessert was apple, pear, and muscat.
It seemed that fruits were sold in supermarkets all year round since they were cultivated inside a greenhouse. As expected, the greenhouses in this world had developed further than in the original world.
How much time, effort, and money did it take to make this all…?
Having the fruits, my stomach was too full, so I rest for a while.
In the meantime, the three of them were having a taste competition while eating each other’s food.
Surprisingly, all three of them seemed to have some cooking skills. Surely, they learned “just in case” an unexpected event happened in the future.
There was so much food, it was now all empty.
If I was in my original body, I would have eaten about half of it by myself, but I couldn’t do that with this body.
All three of them seemed to have prepared an amount of “a little too much”, and thus all of them were silent for a while.
A quiet time passed in the pavilion. It was a little strange scene since we all were unconsciously holding our stomachs.
“Speaking of which, how is high school?”
The three went to the same high school.
Yuuko, the smart one, could have aimed for a better high school, and Rie could choose a high school with good sports clubs, but the three of them decided to go to a girls’ school called Ichinomiya High School.
“Everyone, is in different classes. I’m in class 1-2, Makoto in class 1-3, and Yuuko in class 1-5.”
“I see… that’s too bad.”
“No. It’s better to be in a different class because with this, we all can gather more information.”
“Information?”
“For confirming that… it hurts!”
Under the table, Makoto seemed to have kicked Rie’s leg.
“It’s nothing…”
Makoto turned her face to the sky.
When I asked again, she reluctantly told me.
Since normal high school girl students had extremely few chances to come into contact with men, it seemed that information about places where men were likely to appear, was spreading around the school.
In particular, boys who attend co-ed high schools were often thought to be good-looking, so information about them was sometimes traded for a fee.
“The place where could you see a man on your day off, such information is traded for a fee?”
“It’s convincing since the seller has a photo. Also, I heard that it’s being bought and sold for a reasonable amount of money.”
“…………”
The three blended into the class and seemed to be secretly listening to information about the co-ed high school ―― especially they were confirming whether my name was being circulated or not.
Are you all actually learning how to be a spy?
