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Tondemo Skill - 368 - Returning Home (Bonus)

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Padded the chapter without it looking like extra padding. Spot the pads.

Before leaving Rosendal, I stopped by the Merchant’s Guild to return the mansion key and settled the rent. [9] Before I could leave though, I was stopped by the Guild Master from the Merchant's Guild and ended up selling quite a few Drops worth of Higher Species Dungeon Cow and Pig meat to them.

[9] Woah, those people were kind...

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Tondemo Skill - 367 - A Quick Retreat

That evening...

“Everyone, sorry for the wait,”

A stampede of footsteps and a garbled of voices sounded in my head.

“I’m sick of waiting! Hurry up! Hurry up! Great me wants my desserts! Sweetness and desserts!”

Hey, hey, hey, what’s the rush? Ninril-sama, you’re being way too excited.

“That’s right, calm down, Ninril-chan,”

“Yo, take it easy there,”

“...idiot…”

“Augh, I don’t want to end up like that,”

...

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Tondemo Skill - 366 - Donation for the Orphanage & Last Supper

"Phew, that should do it.”

There was a huge pile of sausages in front of me.

I had sort of promised Agni-sama and Ruka-sama that I would offer them hotdogs. Since I’m making for them, might as well make lots more for myself too.

I’ve made two types of sausages. Salt & pepper as well as black pepper & herb lemon.

Since I’m already mincing the meat for sausages, I took the opportunity to just grind more for later use. Minced meat could be used in stir-fri...

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Tondemo Skill - 365 - Request from the Gods

Noooo!!!! Why did I forget to post this chapter before 366 or 367!??!

Hmm, I wonder if I could pick up the bread at the orphanage tomorrow evening and leave the city early next day…

It was after dinner and I am currently pondering over various things over coffee and taking it easy for the moment.

As for Fer and the others…

“”Umu, this white one is really good,””

“”This is the one! Pudding is awesome!””

“”Swe...

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Tondemo Skill - 364 - After the Festival

By the way, there’s no discernible verbal distinction between Enzo and Maynard. So, if you see dialogues that don’t belong to Mukouda, it’s probably Enzo-Maynard. The only real difference was that Maynard tends to speak first and Enzo second. That’s it. It could be Blob 1 and Blob 2 for all the difference it made.

The Dungeon Meat Festival was over. It was time to talk about returning to Carelina.

Nevertheless, Fer, Sui and Dora-chan, Fer in particular, wa...

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Tondemo Skill - 363 - More Meat, Meat, Meat

Starting word count: 1,703

Dungeon Meat Festival, Day 3.

Today, just like the first two days, the street was filled with people visiting various food stalls. Clearly, the festival was a roaring success.

“”Alright, let’s devour the stalls again!!””

“”Ou!! [5] ””

“”Meat~! Meat~! [5]””

Looks like my carnivorous gluttons are eager to start the day.

Today was pretty much a repeat of yesterday [5].

[8]

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Tondemo Skill - 362 - Meat, Meat, Meat

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Dungeon Meat Festival, Day 2.

The streets were as full as before and filled with the aromas of delicious cooking meat.

““Today, I shall eat and eat and eat even more,””

“”Ossu!! Yeahhh!!!””

“”Sui will eat lots too~~!””

“… …” it’s nice to see you guys bringing your A-game to the festival, but, uh, I’m kind of... a little afraid…

Just what is your definition of ‘a lot’...

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Tondemo Skill - 361 - Dungeon Meat Festival

Otherwise known as big delete chapter: Starting count 2100

On the day of the Dungeon Meat Festival.

Stalls lined both sides of the main streets with plenty of people stopping by this or that booth for grilled skewers, stews and other meat related food. [6] The atmosphere was similar a festival day in Japan.

There were visitors from locals as well as visitors who came just for the festival.

“Thank you for your purchase~” [3] I waved off a pair of pa...

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Tondemo Skill - 360 - Handsome Guys Explode! All Normies Explode!

Fer, Sui and Dora-chan fell asleep after eating their fill.

As for me…

“Right, time to prepare some offerings for Demiurgos-sama. Let’s change things up a bit and include that as well.”

Although I had made offerings to Demiurgos-sama before, the snack offerings had all been premium canned goods.

Today’s dinner of Offal Hotpot or Motsunabe would match perfectly with alcohol. Therefore, I figured it would be a good idea to send Demiurgos-sama some hotpot to go ...

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Tondemo Skill - 359 - The Night Before the Dungeon Meat Festival

Chapter 359: The Night Before the Dungeon Meat Festival

Translated by Zzonkedd

Edited by Gumihou

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It was finally the day before the Dungeon Meat Festival.

After learning about the coming festival from Maynard and Enzo, I inquired about it at the Merchant’s Guild. It turned out that even though my Merchant Rank was only at Iron Level, I could apply for boo...

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Tondemo Skill - 358 - Trippa alla Romana

Translated by Gumihou

(Zzonkedd gave up because it was too full of food technicalities, lol)

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“Master, thank you for having us!”

“Master, please teach us how to cook offal as promised!”

“Goodness, you two sure are early. As for calling me master, hmm, I think it’s best to stop it. We just met yesterday after all.”

“No, Master is Master!”

“Tha...

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Tondemo Skill - 357 - Temporary Babysitter

I had breakfast early and [6] spent the rest of the time making a mental list of what I would have the children do once they arrive…

“Brother, we’re here~”

“Ou, welcome-? Hey, aren’t there a lot more of you today?” [5]

“Well, the thing is… when I brought those two hunks of meat home, the kids saw them and were all super excited…” [5]

[6] “… I supposed you also told them about your food and the job offer?” I sighed.

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Tondemo Skill - 356 - Offal Processing

“Hey, why did your hands stop? You have to keep rubbing and squeezing. [6] Make sure to turn the intestines inside out too!”

“Ahh, but I’m tired~~”

“Enough with the complaining. You’ve eaten all that meat so you should have plenty of energy to work.”

“Boo…”

I was currently instructing the children on the fine art of offal cleaning. [8] We’re working in the garden by the well with Sui around to provide extra fresh water when needed.

[8] The...

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Tondemo Skill - 355 - Obtaining Personnel

“Hello there, can I help you?”

“Ah, it’s the old man, I mean… Hi, big brother!”

The one speaking was the leader boy, I think his name was Lewis, of the orphanage party. [5]

[8] “Well, what is it?” I said. A little curt since I do not appreciate being called ‘old man’ accidentally or not.

“See, we have a request.”

“A request?”

“Yeah, you see [4] when we got back to the orphanage yesterday with the wooden ‘bats’ you made for ...

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Tondemo Skill - 354 - Grilled Offal

The next day.

I took the Offal Drop from the [Item Box] and opened up the leaf package.

“Hmm, there’s the heart, liver, large white intestines, tongue, tripe, small intestines…”

Through [Appraisal] I found that I have offal from both Dungeon Cows and Dungeon Pigs in a single packet.

“Since we have all kinds of different parts, they could be made into different dishes. But first, I must have a [9] Horumonyaki or Grilled Offal!”

To properly gorge oursel...

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Tondemo Skill - 353 - Those Guys Just Won't Listen

The 11th floor.

Higher species Dungeon Cows dotted the serene plains. Their black glossy bodies make them look like regular Japanese cows but their sizes were at least twice as large as a normal ranch cow.

They were bigger than the Dungeon Cows we encountered earlier but not by much. However, their horns were twice as long.

“I thought the Dungeon Pigs at 10th floor were huge but these cows are humungous,” to be fair, regular Dungeon Cows were already quite big.

“...

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Tondemo Skill - 352 - Limitations Exist, You Know?!

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The 10th floor.

As per the information collected, there were no other Adventurers on this floor.

The higher species Dungeon Pigs, all of which looked huge even from a distance, were peacefully lying on the ground or chewing on grass.

“Everyone, there’s no need to hold back here,”

“Umu, it’s a field of high-class meat,” [3] Fer was staring at the Dungeon Pigs with glittering eyes.

“”Hu...

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Tondemo Skill - 351 - Offal Drops

Level 2 of the dungeon also consisted of a vast grassland.

This was the level where Wild Chickens and Horned Rabbit were the main prey. A lot of youngsters who aimed to be Adventurers would hunt on this level.

For us, however, our target was the Dungeon Pigs and Cows on the lower floors therefore we ignored level 2 and moved on to the teleporting circles.

By the way, there were 4 magic circles here too. As before, the closest one was crowded so we headed for the one furthest...

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Tondemo Skill - 350 - Youths Doing Their Best

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Meat Dungeon, Level 1.

“Wow, this place looks pretty peaceful.”

Indeed.

[8] Rosandel’s dungeon turned out to be one of those field type dungeons. We clearly stepped out to the lower 1st level, but was greeted by a vast grassland spreading out before our eyes.

From the information that I had collected, the geography of the rest of the dungeon was pretty much the same only with different typ...

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Tondemo Skill - 349 - The Quest for Delicious Meat

Umu, master’s grilled meat is still the best,”

“”Yup, yup, yesterday’s grilled meat weren’t bad but yours is better. The sauce makes the difference!”

““Master’s food is always yummy~~ Yummy meat~~””

I had no intention of competing with the stalls and restaurants we visited yesterday but today’s rice bowl menu was Yakiniku Don or Grilled Meat Bowl mostly because it was easy to make.

All I had to do was grill up some Bloody Horn Bull...

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Tondemo Skill - 348 - Rosendal the Meat Dungeon City

"Well, it’s… a really busy place,”

Busy was an excellent word to describe the City of Rosendal.

Food stalls lined the streets of the City of Rosendal. [5] [6] Each of them exuded their own unique smells and sounds as stallkeepers did their best to entice people to come and try their food.

That’s right, we have just arrived at Rosendal, [1] after taking a detour on the way. The detour was ‘Stress Relief Hunting’ where Fer, Sui and Dora-chan [6] rushed into a dense...

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Tondemo Skill - 347.1 - Idle Talk: Three Heroes at the Royal Capital of Malbert

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Just in case anyone has forgotten who the original ‘Heroes’ were, here’s a reminder of their names and characteristics.

Kato – Typical teenage boy hero, slightly oblivious

Kanon – cheerful, yet slightly clumsy girl, lovable, operate on instinct

Rio – introverted but dependable, has a more elegant feel (character whose left arm was severed at ...

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Tondemo Skill - 347 - Depart for Rosendal

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I had been quite busy ever since I informed my household that my party will be leaving for the Rosendal dungeon soon.

[6] 'Soon' and not right away as Fer had wanted because there were just too many things to take care of if I were to go on an extended trip.

First, there was the installation of the magic tool to strengthen the mansion's security. [1] The magic tool creates a fairly simple Barrier that also acted as an...

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Tondemo Skill - 346 - Let's go to the Meat Dungeon

“Let’s just go to a dungeon!”

It was the day after our barbecue party. Fer finally lost his temper and barked his demand at me, as usual.

What was not so usual was having Dora-chan and dear Sui ganging up with Fer against me.

[6] “”Dungeon! Let’s go to a dungeon!!”

[6] “”Dungeon~~ Dungeon~~!””

How unfair, 3 vs 1 with three dungeon fanatics against a peace lover like me.

[8] Haahhh… I guess for them, it’s like going to a theme park ...

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Tondemo Skill - 345 - BBQ with Freshly Harvested Vegetables

The ladies and I split up to prepare for the barbecue.

I had Aiya, Teresa and Celia-chan on vegetable cutting duties.

Lettuces, cucumbers and tomatoes were best eaten raw when fresh so they will be made into a mixed salad.

The eggplants would be grilled with their skin on to make grilled eggplants. The unhusked corn could be grilled as is too.

The pumpkin was rather large with tough skin, so I should carve it up into fairly thin slices for grilling. Thanks to my higher...

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Tondemo Skill - 344 - Harvest Day

After breakfast, I headed for the ‘field’ in the back.

“Good morning, everyone.”

The commoner families, as well as the guards, were already in the field, busily harvesting the large muskmelons, watermelons and cucumbers.

“Good morning, Mukouda-san,”

“Good morning everyone!”

“Brother Mukouda!” [3] Lotte-chan hopped up with a tomato so large that she had to hold it with both hands. “Look, look, these are so big!”

“Oh my, it’s quite...

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Tondemo Skill - 343 - Quality Brew - Bonus Chapter

That day, once my familiars fell asleep, I found myself alone in the living room.

“Alright, time for the final job of the day. Demiurgos-sama’s offerings.”

I took out the cardboard box with the Creator God's name written on the side from my [Item Box] and set it on the table.

[8] The reason why I decided to send Demiurgos’ offerings on a different day was that it felt weird to give the higher-ranking god offering on the same day as the rest of the noisy pantheon. It ...

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Tondemo Skill - 342 - Tasting Chimera

“Right, which direction should we go?”

“”I’m aiming for big game today! Big game!””

“”Sui will pew pew lots and bring lots for Master~~””

[8] “Oho? I look forward to it,” I said, after getting off Fer and preparing to set up my stove at an open space within the forest.

[8] “Make sure you prepare that thing,”

[8] “Yes, yes, I’ll do my thing while you do yours.”

Finally, Fer nodded at me and leapt off into the forest with D...

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Tondemo Skill - 341 - The Guild Master is Motivated

As soon as I entered the Adventurer’s Guild, the Guild Master appeared in front of us. I think he had his staff keep an eye out for our party.

“Ou, you’re here. Come on upstairs.”

“Wait, that’s…”

“Oi, we’re going hunting after this. You had better make it quick!”

““Yeah!””

“”Hunting~ hunting~~””

“Well, as you can see…” I gestured towards my impatient familiars.

[8] Willem-san can’t hear what my smaller fam...

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Tondemo Skill - 340 - Delivering the Divine Medicine - Bonus Chapter

When I arrived at Lambert’s, there were very few customers as it was still quite early.

I asked an employee to call Lambert-san to meet with me.

“Good morning, Mukouda-san.”

“Good morning. I’m here to deliver the goods.”

“Ooh, that’s wonderful! This way, please.”

Lambert-san led me to the backroom as usual.

[8] When the door closed, I took out the wooden crates of shampoo and Divine Medicine – Hair Power tonic from the [Item Box].

...

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