Volume 1 Chapter 10 Anger Limit Oil Onion Rice And Onigashima Hamburger
When the sausages were done boiling, I rescued them from the pot and moved them to a bowl.
The large, realistic sausages were glistening and jiggling in the bowl.
I added onion skins, chopped onions, and a bundle of herbs tied together with string into the pot of water I boiled the sausages in, and let it simmer on low heat.
Meanwhile, I placed a frying pan on another burner and started frying small pieces of leftover pork fat, along with finely chopped green onions, shiitake mushrooms, and carrots.
A lot of oil was coming out of the pork, making a sizzling sound in the pan.
I added some sake, soy sauce, and sugar, and let it simmer sweetly on low heat.
"That makes 3 dishes. Now, let's make the hamburger."
I added chopped onions to the leftover minced pork.
Then, I crumbled some dried bread into it, added an egg, seasonings, and spices like nutmeg, and started kneading it by hand.
"While I'm kneading the hamburger, Sir Stefan and Francois are probably flirting... so sad..."
I kneaded the minced meat in the bowl.
In my hands, the meat was getting squishy and sticky as I mixed it.
"Curse him... Sir Stefan is just a bit good-looking, and maybe a little kind, but he once said he liked me... he's a woman's enemy. He should perish, perish..."
"In other words, you want to tear him apart like that minced meat."
"No, no, it's not that! Sir Ciel is ruining my refreshing lunch with blood!"
Sniffling and crying, I'm hitting the rolled hamburger mixture in my hand like a game of catch, trying to get the air out.
I arrange the shaped hamburger mixture on a plate.
My hands are sticky with meat oil, so I can't wipe away the tears that are blurring my vision.
This is a problem.
I know I shouldn't cry, but my emotions have been unstable for the past 6 months, so there's nothing I can do about it.
"Ugh... I can't see because of the tears... Sir Ciel says scary things...!"
"I thought, like this meat, you wanted to blow up the insides of His Highness and Lady Francois."
"Yikes... that's scary, Sir Ciel, that's not something you should say while making hamburgers..."
"I'm sorry. I thought I could help as a thank you for the meal."
"What kind of thank you is that...! Don't say something like you'll destroy the world as a thank you for a meal...!"
With both hands covered in goo, Sir Ciel wipes the corners of my eyes with a handkerchief while I sob.
I was accepting it with my eyes closed, but when I opened them slightly, I was startled by Sir Ciel's incredibly beautiful face and widened my eyes in surprise.
"Sir Ciel, please step back... um, I, um, can't do this, I won't be fooled by men anymore...!"
"I don't intend to fool you."
Panicking, I move away from Sir Ciel and transfer the sizzling pork fat, green onions, and shiitake mushrooms from the frying pan into a new bowl.
After washing the frying pan and my hands thoroughly, I put the cleaned frying pan back on the heat, added some oil, and placed the hamburger patty in it.
I only need to cook one, right?
I moved the rest to a deep dish with a lid and put it in the fridge.
As the hamburger sizzled and got a nice sear, I flipped it over, covered it, and let it steam-cook.
"Ms. Lydia, you're really good at this. I can't cook, but the way you change the ingredients is like magic. ...Why does the daughter of the Rest priest family cook?"
While I was watching the rice cook, Sir Ciel spoke to me.
I hesitated for a moment.
It's not a topic I want to discuss.
After all, it feels like I'm exposing my shame.
But, well, maybe it's fine. I don't have any pride left to protect anyway.
"...When I was in the Rest priest family, I wasn't allowed to cook."
"...What do you mean?"
"I'm a failure who can't use magic, so my father gave up on me early on. Francois was blessed by the goddess Alexandria, the wife of God Ancestor Theobart, and was cherished by my father, mother, and the servants... I was treated like I didn't exist in that place."
Yes. It seems like no one could see me.
I was like a fairy lurking in the priest family, wandering around the house every day without anyone paying attention to me.
Even though I wasn't acknowledged, I wasn't subjected to violence or bullying either.
I was just like air──nonexistent and invisible. That was all.
"I wasn't really uncomfortable, but not being able to eat is a problem. It wasn't that I couldn't eat, but eating cold leftovers is sad, and biting into carrots or onions is also sad. By the way, raw onions are spicy. I learned that the hard way."
"I see..."
"Yes. Onions are spicy, so please be careful, Sir Ciel."
"Right, I'll be careful."
"...So, I thought I would cook for myself, and whenever I had free time, I would sit in a corner of the kitchen and watch the cooks. Then, when the cooks were gone, I started making my own meals. At first, I made fried eggs. They were delicious."
I moved the cooked hamburger to a plate.
I poured a sauce made from simmered tomatoes over the hamburger. It was really red.
I placed a realistic sausage next to the hamburger. The hamburger was round, and the sausage was long.
When I arranged them together, it looked a bit cute.
Then, I mixed the freshly cooked rice with the pork fat stew I had made earlier and served it in a bowl.
I also transferred the seasoned soup to a plate.
"It's done! Anger Limit Oil Onion Rice, Onigashima Hamburger, with Mr. Lucian's realistic sausage on the side, and regular vegetable soup."
Yeah. It looks really delicious today.
It's more than I can eat by myself, but it looks really good.
Sir Ciel looked closely at the arranged dishes and smiled happily.
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