Between World Restaurant - Dxhaseoxd

Amphi couldn't help being surprised since she didn't think that putting the soy sauce and the wasabi together would be good. After all, the taste that they had was just too different.

But before she could stop Finn, Finn put that piece of fish in his mouth.

Just one chew was all it took before he couldn't help swallowing.

After swallowing the fish, he couldn't help shaking.

Amphi looked at Finn with a worried look as she asked, "Finn, are you alright?"

Finn didn't say anything as he lowered his head while still trembling.

Seeing all of this just made Amphi more and more worried, so she raised her hand and gathered some magic energy as she prepared to cast healing magic on him.

However, before she could use her magic, Finn suddenly raised his head and shouted, "This is it! This is the taste that I wanted!"

Everyone couldn't help looking at Finn when he suddenly started shouting, but they also quickly revealed smiles on their faces as they saw someone walking over towards him.

Finn continued, "The stinging of the wasabi and the fullness of the soy sauce, this is what perfection is!"

Before he could say anything else, he suddenly received a slap to the back of the head that knocked him onto the counter in front of him.

Finn was surprised by the sudden slap to the back of the head. After a bit of a daze, he suddenly sat up again and looked around himself to find the one that slapped his head as he said, "Who did that! You dare slap the crown prince of the mermaid king"

Before he could finish, he suddenly saw Yami who was standing over him with a fist raised.

Just by standing there, he could feel the pressure that was coming from her and he immediately closed his mouth.

He could tell from this pressure that even if he went all out, he would still have no chances of winning.

On the side, Amphi also felt this pressure and covered her mouth as well.

Unlike Finn, she was actually able to sense the magic energy fluctuations coming from Yami. She could tell that even if the entire army's magic division were to be added together, it still wouldn't be able to match Yami's magic power.

This was a monster that was beyond monsters, one that could end the world by themself if they wanted to

Yami raised her fist to give them another warning before heading off to serve a customer.

Both Finn and Amphi sat there with awkward looks on their faces which was made even worse when they saw the way that everyone was looking at them. It was like they were looking at kids who were excitedly having their first meal in a restaurant.

Both of them apologized and bowed their heads to everyone else around them before turning back to their plate of sashimi.

Wasting no time at all, they quickly finished off the plates of sashimi with the wasabi and the soy sauce.

Each plate of sashimi had five different types of fish pieces, but there wasn't a single one that they didn't like. Each type had their own specialty, but one thing that they had in common was that they were all delicious.

However, just this plate wasn't enough for the two of them, so they immediately ordered another plate. Then after that, they ordered one more.

Only after they polished off these three plates of sashimi did they feel full.

After relaxing for a bit, Finn suddenly remembered something and turned to wave his hand to Yami.

Yami came over and without being able to say a thing, Finn immediately asked, "What kind of fish are these? I've never had anything that was as delicious as this." As he asked this, his eyes sparkled as if he had thought of something.

Yami was surprised by this question, but she said, "We use tuna, octopus, halibut, salmon, and yellowtail for our sashimi."

Finn revealed a confused look since he had never heard these names before, but he didn't give up as he asked, "Do you know what they look like?"

Yami was taken aback by how aggressive he was being, but she waved at another one of the waitresses and had her use her phone to look up some pictures of these fishes. She would have done it, but she didn't like having her phone in her pockets while she was working since it got in the way of hermore violent actionsnamely her kicks

The first reaction Finn had was shock as he said, "What are these square magic items? How can they show such clear images?"

Both the waitress and Yami revealed bitter smiles when they saw this.

This was what happened when they showed technology to people from worlds that had a lower level of technology than their own. It had been a while since it had happened, so they had forgotten about this.

Still, there was no time to explain this as Finn focused on the pictures of the fish.

As he looked carefully at them, he couldn't help revealing a confused look.

That was because these fish did indeed exist in their world, but he had already tried them before. When he had tried them, he had been certain that these fish tasted nothing like the fish that he had eaten at this restaurant.

They had been as bland as the rest of the fish that they had eaten raw and certainly not full of flavour like the slices of fish on his plate.

So he couldn't help asking, "Are you sure that this was what you served me earlier?"

Yami said with a nod, "These are the only types of fish that we serve during this season since that is all that we can get right now."

Finn deeply knitted his brows when he heard this and he couldn't help asking, "But when we eat these fishes back home, they taste nothing like the fish that I had here!"

Yami thought about it before suddenly saying, "Ah, that's probably because we dry age our fish here."

"Dry age?"

Finn couldn't help repeating these words that sounded like a magic spell.

Fourth Meal — Sashimi (4)

Yami just said with another nod, "That's right, we dry age our fish here before serving it."

Finn couldn't help asking in a very confused voice, "What is this dry age that you speak of?"

Yami looked at Finn and thought about it before saying, "Dry age means letting the fish sit for a bit so that it loses a bit of its water."

Finn couldn't help being surprised as he asked, "But doesn't that make the fish rot? Also, that would make the fish very hard, wouldn't it?"

Yami shook her head and explained, "Dry aging allows the fish flavour to mature because the fish flavour comes from the oils of the fishes. By letting some of the water of the fish evaporate, it helps concentrate the taste of the fish since there's less water to dilute the taste." Then after a pause, she added, "Of course, there's the risk of it rotting if it's not stored properly, but we store it at a low temperature that prevents bacteria from forming, so there's no problem with it rotting."

Finn revealed a look that was completely confused by the words that Yami said.

He couldn't understand many of the things that Yami had said because it used terminology that he had never heard before.

What was this bacteria that she mentioned and how was it related to food rotting?

Yami could see that confused look that he had, but she didn't bother explaining since she knew that it would take just too long for her to explain everything to him.

She just simplified it all by saying, "In short, we pat down the fish with towels to remove some of the water and then we store it in a place that is cooled so that it doesn't spoil. We do that for several days before eating it. Sometimes we also use things like sugar and salt to help us drain the water."

Finn still didn't fully understand what she meant, but he could get the gist of it from this simplified explanation.

After thinking for a bit, he turned to Amphi and asked, "Could we reproduce a similar effect with our magic?"

Amphi was surprised to hear this from Finn, but she still thought about it before giving a nod and saying, "We can use magic to isolate the fish from the water and dry out the fish meat. We can also use a bit of ice magic to cool it so that it is frozen like she said."

Finn nodded before saying, "What about the sugar and salt that she mentioned, do we have anything like that?"

Amphi thought about it before saying, "Sugar and salt, those should be those things that we received from the humans. However, they dissolve right away under the water, so we have to be careful with how we use them and any supply that we have is rare since they need a special storage method. I don't think that we'll be able to get them in the hands of the citizens with this."

Finn gave a sigh before saying, "I would say it's the same with the wasabi and the soy sauce as well. They seem to dissolve in water, so we won't be able to use them either" Then after a pause, he suddenly looked up at Yami and asked, "Where does the wasabi and soy sauce even come from?"

Yami had the other waitress come back and look up the wasabi root and soy beans for her before explaining, "Wasabi is this root here. We grind it up until it becomes a paste and that's what's used for our sushi. As for soy sauce" She paused before giving a simple explanation, "We steam these beans after washing them and then ferment them with some bacteria. After leaving it for some time, we crush it into paste and the liquid that's squeezed out of that paste is soy sauce."

This was a very simplified explanation of what soy sauce was, but Yami really didn't know what else to say.

At the same time, she couldn't help cursing a certain someone in the kitchen.

If it wasn't for this person, then she wouldn't have had to put herself in this awkward situation of having to explain how soy sauce was made.

Finn nodded before saying, "It seems like soy sauce is out of the question, but this wasabi root" He looked carefully at this root for some time before suddenly turning to Amphi to ask, "Wasn't this the root that was presented as goodwill from the humans last time? The one that everyone said was disgusting?"

Amphi was surprised to hear this, but after taking a close look at the picture, she gave a nod of agreement as she said, "That's right! This was the one that my dad said had a very stinging taste to it."

Finn revealed a wide smile as he said, "If we have this, then we can solve our food problem!"

Amphi was very much confused about everything that Finn had done and said, so she couldn't help asking, "Finn, what do you mean? How can this solve our food problems?"

Finn grabbed Amphi by the shoulder which made her face blush a bit before saying, "Amphi, think carefully. Haven't you seen those fish before?"

Amphi knitted her brows to think and after a while, she said with a nod, "That's right! We've seen those fish swimming around the capital before, haven't we? But if they're so delicious why haven't we eaten them before?"

Finn revealed a bitter smile as he said, "We have actually eaten them before?"

Amphi said with a surprised voice, "We have? When have we eaten them?"

Finn explained, "Not 'we', but me and the guards. We caught them before and tried them to see if they would taste good raw, but they didn't taste good at all. That's also the reason why no one eats them since everyone thinks that these fish are disgusting and have no nutritious value."

Amphi revealed a shocked look, "But they really were delicious weren't they?"

Finn nodded before saying, "They are, but that's only after they've been 'dry aged'." As he said this, he couldn't help saying dry aged in a strange way. After a pause, he continued, "As long as we bring this method of preparing the fish back with us, we will be able to prepare these fish for everyone to eat."

Then as if he was realizing something, he turned to ask Yami, "Uh, do these fish have nutritional value?"

Yami gave a soft snort and said, "Everything we serve here has nutritional value."

Finn revealed an apologetic look before turning to Amphi and saying, "As long as we can bring back this new method of preparing fish, we'll be able to create a new source of food for our people! That will solve our food problem!"

Amphi wasn't as excited as Finn, but she could see the potential in his idea.

If everything that he said was true, then it was indeed possible to solve their food crisis like this. But the problem was that they needed to research and develop all the magic that was needed to process and store the fish, as well as finding people to catch these fishes.

All of it would take a lot of manpower and time before they could use it to solve their problems.

So after thinking about it, Amphi gave a nod and said, "We should hurry back then."

Finn nodded before taking her hand and heading to the door, but before he could take more than two steps, there was someone that grabbed him by the back of his collar.

Finn already knew the power of the ones in this restaurant, so he didn't dare speak in an angry voice. Instead, he said in an anxious pleading voice, "What are you doing? Please let me go, this concerns the fate of my entire kingdom!"

Yami, who held him by the collar, just calmly said, "This customer, I have to remind you that this is a restaurant."

Finn, who had been struggling at first, suddenly stopped struggling as his chin fell down and his face was covered in a blush.

That was right, this was a restaurant that he had just eaten in

So what he was doing now was called dining and dashing!

He had completely forgotten about paying the bill in his excitement and he had tried to run off without paying it.

So Finn stopped struggling and looked back to ask, "Uh, how much is the bill?"

Yami was about to say something, but then realized something else that made her stop. She waved her hand to have Finn follow her to the register and then tapped a few buttons on the register that made a number and a strange symbol appear.

When Finn and Amphi saw this, they couldn't help saying at the same time, "It's this cheap?"

The currency that the mermaid kingdom used were coral coins, coins that were crafted from coral.

The conversion rate was 1:1 with silver.

"Only 10 coral coins? Isn't this too cheap?" Both Finn and Amphi couldn't help saying this when they saw the price on the register.

Yami just reached her hand out and waited for them to pay.

Finn waved his hand and a big piece of coral appeared. This was a large coral coin, it had a value of ten coral coins.

After putting the large coral coin in, Yami gave a nod and said, "Alright, you're all rung up. You're free to go now."

Finn and Amphi wasted no time to head out through the door, but only after it closed behind them did they remember that they were trapped in this cave because of the tsunamis.

They should have gotten some more food before leaving the restaurant just in case