Bath, Cooking, and a Visitor

I dig a hole with a custom portable shovel. It’s just the metal part and handle part of the shovel. It’s a tool where you complete it using local branches or whatever. It’s not at all a clever contraption like something foldable. If you just stick in a stick and hammer in appropriate rivets, it becomes a handy shovel, so I find it useful.

A hole for one person to enter is quite big, and it was hard work digging with a small shovel. The number of scooping motions was more troublesome than the required … Read the rest

Solo Camping in the Winter Wilderness

The expansion construction on Legol’s outskirts is progressing smoothly.

The shovel-tipped spade invented by Lord Chaos is apparently proving useful. Well, it would be tough without tools like this. It was a relatively early invention to be released to the world.

People are surprisingly creatures who, once they’re convinced “this must be the best,” will fixate on even half-baked things. If they don’t know the optimal answer, they’ll continue using tools in incomplete, inefficient forms.

Japan also used flat hoe-like implements until proper shovels were introduced. If some stubborn site foreman says “we’ve always … Read the rest

The World’s Number One Man Living in the Neighborhood

Winter is approaching.

This year’s autumn felt quite short because of the war. Normally this would be the busiest season for monster hunting, but I feel like I haven’t hunted many seasonal creatures. The period before conscription in summer was busier than this.

However, once winter comes, all that busyness quiets down and a peaceful season arrives.

…Well, to welcome that peaceful season, we still need a massive amount of firewood. Can’t be peaceful if it’s cold.

So when this season comes, I start taking firewood splitting jobs that are available … Read the rest

Beast-like Moans Echoing Through the Inn

I’m cleaning up the inn room.

I usually keep things tidy by cleaning and organizing regularly so it’s okay if anyone comes in, but today I’m having a visitor to this room. I can’t have any items related to Lord Chaos be visible. I’m putting more effort into it than usual.

Besides, if the room has too much of a lived-in feel, guests won’t feel comfortable either.

As the minimum courtesy for taking money, I pay attention to such things.

“Mongrel-san, you have a visitor!”

“Whoa, Mongrel-san is bringing a woman to his room! … Read the rest

Getting to the Truth About Kvesna

This world has all sorts of… well, beings I’ve seen plenty of times in subculture from my previous life.

Dragons, duh. Goblins, duh. There are even elves, I guess. There’s magic and skills too, duh.

That’s exactly why, you know, I sometimes think of this world as some kind of game or fictional world.

Well, nowadays I’ve more than half accepted it as reality built on that kind of foundation.

But I still can’t figure out whether this world is a fantasy adventure story or a romance story.

I heard there’s an academy for … Read the rest

Choosing Clothes for the Festival

First, I cut the kelp into appropriate sizes.

The standard is, well, about 2cm squares.

I put that in a ceramic cup and add a pinch of salt… another pinch. Well, this is to taste. I prefer it with a stronger salty flavor.

Then, I just pour hot water over it and wait for a while. Then…

“Phew… No plum, but it’s basically plum kelp tea.”

The kelp tea is complete. It has a really calming taste.

This salty flavor is really good. It’s closer to soup than tea, but for me, this taste is … Read the rest

The Night Owl’s Visit

Count Willem-Blanc-Legol’s Perspective

With the war over, daily life had returned to the town of Legol.

Fortunately, the damage from enemy invasion was extremely minimal, and several preparations went unused. A pleasant miscalculation. Various recalculations would be necessary, but nothing is as easy as positive revision work.

Moreover, a delicious confectionery shop had recently opened on the outskirts of town.

The confectioners in the noble district are apparently in a panic, but the taste justifies it. According to what I heard before, the shop owner, a man named Ken, used to be a confectioner in the … Read the rest

The Fourth Aged Ham and Candy Lewd Talk Battle

The meat from the hind legs of a Crazy Boar combines melting fat with reasonably decent red meat, making it extremely delicious. The front legs are mediocre.

In Legol, Charge Deer materials are expensive and prized, but personally, I think the meat from boar is much better.

But since autumn is the season when game meat grows from the forest, you get tired of eating it.

I mean, it’s delicious. But when you eat too much of it, there’s inevitably a limit.

So I’m always seeking new ways to eat it.… Read the rest

Forest Success and Failure Stories

When autumn comes, beginner guild members of Iron Class come swarming to Baroa Forest to collect the bounty.

Since things grow abundantly even in relatively shallow areas, it’s a good season for those who want to avoid danger while earning small money.

However, beginners don’t really understand the shallow and deep parts of the forest, or they get greedy and aim for the rich deep areas, which often puts them in danger.

Autumn is the season of harvest, which means it’s also a rich season for monsters.

Wild creatures that have been munching on forest … Read the rest

New Product Discovery

I was visiting the Black Mist Market for the first time in a while.

It’s not like I was completely broke from the conscription or anything, but it felt pretty bland not having anything to sell.

As Lord Chaos, I’ve been steadily distributing items that improve quality of life, but those tools are carefully selected ones that I know will definitely sell or become trendy.

For quirky little things or humble inventions, that approach doesn’t really work. For stuff like that, I pretend that I’m the one who invented them.

Nobody gets jealous, and no one can … Read the rest