Orc Harem Vol 5 Chapter 8

Chapter 8: The Greatest Treasure of Forland Kingdom Once More

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We arrived at Forland Kingdom.

Unlike before, we are allowed to enter the capital without any question.

It seemed that at the very least my face is recognized among the common soldiers.

……Or rather, this must be the work of Rurine and the wise king.

The soldiers will escort us until inside the palace, so I just leave  it to them. This must be because I have contacted Rurine beforehand.

As I walked through the passage inside the castle, a painting that is hanging on the wall entered my sight.

「That’s Ork isn’t it?」

「The picture is cooler than the real thing, but there is no mistake.」(Kururu)

「……This is absolutely the work of the wise king.」

Over there is the picture of me that has been glorified to the extreme.

By the way, anyone who is invited to the palace will definitely pass through this passage.

This kind of shameful thing is getting spread out without my  knowledge. People will definitely get disappointed now when they saw the  actual thing.

We are getting shown into the palace while looking on in blank  amazement and before we realized it we arrived at a reception room.

「Welcome Ork-niisama!」

The one who welcomed us is a lovely princess, the greatest treasure  of Forland Kingdom. My cousin who is also my woman, Rurine Forland. She  came running in excitement and short breath with her gorgeous dress  trailing behind her.

……By the way her short breathing is an acting.

She is also a prominent magic knight even in this country. She won’t  get a short breath just from jogging of this distance. She won’t even  let out a single drop of sweat.

She is doing something like this because it is making her look devoted and adorable.

Sly.

But, I like this side of her. Besides, it’s just the best how she is doing her best to make me happy.

「My cute little sister-!」

「Ork-niisama!」

I hugged her tightly with a dramatic acting.

Her body build is dainty as usual. There is also the milk like scent that is unique of her.

「Ork-niisama’s thing, it’s poking down there.」

「Yeah, it’s poking.」

「My」

Rurine blushed.

「Hey, how long you two are going to continue that cheap play?」(Tita)

「It’s horrible to call this cheap.」(Rurine)

「Something like this is also our own particular way of communication.」

Both of us knew of the acting and enjoyed it even then.

This is my relationship with Rurine.

「It’s a bit hard for me to imitate that.」(Kururu)

「Yeah.」

Tita and Kururu might be a bit too serious.

「I’m happy that Ork-niisama come to meet me.」

「Half of it is for work though.」

「Half of it is for my sake then.」

「Of course.」

It feels like my IQ is getting halved when talking with Rurine.

Both Tita and Kururu’s nature is to be the straight man, but Rurine  is the funny man while I’m also the funny man. If we are alone with each  other then both us will continue playing the funny man and our talk  will fly off to another dimension.

「So, who is this girl? Is she Ork-niisama’s new harem member……that’s not the case. She is outside of Ork-niisama’s strike zone.」

As expected from Rurine. It looks like she has investigated me thoroughly.

By the way, the informant in my employ had sold me the information  that he had sold my information to the kingdom’s intelligence agency.

I should consider that it’s Rurine who used the kingdom’s intelligence agency.

For her to go as far as investigating my fetish because she loved Onii-chan too much, what a sweet girl.

「Yaaa, Marle is Otou-san’s daughter.」

Rurine’s perfect smiling face that is called as the greatest treasure of Forland Kingdom cracked.

「Umm, who is your mother?」

Her gaze moved to Tita and Kururu.

「Neither of us is her mother.」

「She is a daughter from somewhere else.」(Kururu)

Rurine’s gaze turned toward me.

Scary.

……I should have known. Nothing is scarier than someone who is usually all smile getting angry.

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After that, I explained to Rurine about what the great sage did to calm her down.

「I see, so this girl is necessary in order to heal Ork-niisama.」

「Yeah.」

「But, it’s just as Ork-niisama said, it’s curious why she is taking  this kind of personality and look……is it alright if I have our  researchers to investigate it?」

「Don’t do that.」

If it’s researchers of this kingdom, then they might be able to  notice what I have overlooked, but I can’t bring myself to treat her  like a guinea pig.

「I understand. Then, is it alright if I consider it individually and consult my acquaintance?」

「Yeah, please do.」

There is no problem if it’s like that.

If it’s Rurine, she absolutely won’t do anything that will anger me.  ……As long as it doesn’t affect Forland Kingdom’s national interest.

「Otou-san, Marle is hungry.」

「You can get hungry even though you’re a slime?」

The creature called slime can absorb energy from almost anything.  From grass, rock, soil, mana that is drifting in the air, etc, etc.

「Marle want to be the same like Otou-san.」

By that she meant that she wanted to be fixated in absorbing energy like human.

「Then, I’ll make some snacks. It’s nice timing, I also have to give a treat to Rurine after all.」

「Oh, so I’m just an afterthought?」

「That’s not it. I’m going to cook for my women and Marle.」

「Ork, you are separating your women and Marle huh.」

「Tita-san is surprisingly bothered by the small details huh.」

「As expected from the first wife.」(Rurine)

Since when Tita became the first wife I wondered?

Certainly she is my first woman but……it’s strang that Kururu and Rurine are so accepting.

「That’s not it though. Ork, what you’re going to make is the sweets that you are going to sell at the festival right?」

「Yeah, it’s my prided work. A sweets that will satisfy even the major merchants with refined palate. Look forward to it.」

「My, is that the sweets that I’ll have to praise and brag about in the high society? I can’t wait.」

Rurine-san, please stop pressuring me with a smile like that.

I have enough ingredients.

I’ll make a sweets that the four of them will praise highly.

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I asked the girls to keep Marle company as I borrowed the kitchen to make the sweets.

It seemed the three of them can’t win against the adorableness of a  little girl. They took a liking to Marle. Well, rather than daughter,  it’s more like they are doting on a little sister.

「Now then, I guess I’ll start cooking.」

There are several conditions for making the sweets this time.

I told the great sage that I’ll prepare the best sweets in the world that can’t be eaten anywhere else.

Furthermore it has to promote coffee and sugar for the purpose of making a joint stall with Zacharic.

In other words, it has three requirements.

1. A sweets that nobody has ever seen before
2. Having the greatest taste
3. Making use of cheap sugar and coffee to the most

I only knew of one sweets that can fulfill all those requirements.

The name of that sweets is…….

「Tiramisu.」

Tiramisu. It’s a sweets that was created at north Italia in 1960.

However, it was nothing more than a local sweets that was only loved at that region. It only spread at 1980.

The technology of refrigeration is indispensable in order to spread tiramisu far and wide.

The reason for that is…….

「Mascarpone cheese that is the deciding factor of the taste.」

Yes, cold climate is the absolute requirement for mascarpone cheese.

That’s exactly why it was a taste that could only be eaten at the northern region.

However with the development of refrigeration technology, mascarpone  cheese became available for the whole Italia. Tiramisu that was nothing  more than a local sweets became famous for its deliciousness.

It spread through the whole Italia in the blink of eye and in  addition it even crossed to USA where it became a hit. It finally came  to Japan at 1990 and caused a big boom too there.

Even after the boom was over, the sweets continued to hold its position as a staple sweets until now.

「……Yep, it’s nicely done.」

I tasted the homemade mascarpone cheese.

It’s not a solid thing like the cheese in people’s imagination, but more like a somewhat harder cream.

And then, the characteristic of its taste is its almost complete lack of sourness despite being a cheese.

You can enjoy thick umami and natural sweetness of condensed milk to the most from this.

「The deliciousness of tiramisu come from the miraculous marriage  between coffee’s bitterness and the umami of thick mascarpone cheese.」

Dough that has been permeated with coffee is used in tiramisu.  Furthermore it’s not just a plain coffee, but espresso, coffee bean that  has been dark roasted to take out its bitterness until the limit.

Normal cream is lacking in strength to be able to match that  espresso’s bitterness. However normal cheese’s sourness is unnecessary  for the cake and its texture in the mouth is also bad.

That’s why, mascarpone cheese that has no sourness while possessing the richness of cheese and fluffy texture is necessary.

Using a certain method, I boiled the coffee with time and effort that are multiple times more than usual.

「Yep, it’s a nice smell.」

The quality of coffee bean that Zacharic Company procured is the best.

That’s exactly why, an alluring aroma is spreading from making the espresso.

The room is filled with the aroma of coffee. It won’t become a delicious tiramisu if the coffee isn’t at least like this.

I took out the sponge cake from the oven and cut it.

「First is syrup.」

I quickly added sugar and a bit of spices to the espresso.

These spices caused chemical reaction to the coffee’s aroma. It added  just a little bit of sharp taste to the bittersweet tiramisu that  became a nice accent.

This isn’t from the original recipe of tiramisu, but my own arrangement.

「Next is cream.」

I added sugar to mascarpone cheese while turning it into the shape of smooth cream.

And then there is one more type of cream.

I stirred the freshly milked cow milk until it foamed and made a fresh cream. It even looked pointy like ice cream cone.

In my previous life you couldn’t make fresh cream this pretty without  hand mixer, but I don’t need any machine right now with my physical  strength!

And then I mixed the cheese cream and milk cream.

The mixture rate is based on my instinct.

I considered the climate of the day, the coffee’s bitterness, the  sugar’s sweetness, and the cheese’s quality while making a cream that  has the ideal tastiness.

This is already the domain of an artisan. Not only the thickness of  the taste, even the texture of the cream also transformed. I also took  that into consideration and created the ideal mix with improvisation.

Something like this can’t be turned into recipe. After all the  optimum method will change depending on the condition at the time.

「Yosh, something like this.」

Sponge cake, coffee syrup, cheese cream.

The tiramisu will be done after these are mixed together.

I cut the sponge cake, then first I laid it at the bottom of the mold.

There I used a brush to smear it with astonishing amount of coffee syrup.

It’s important to do this with astonishing amount to a degree that made it looked vulgar even.

Then cheese cream is put on top of that. This one too is done with  excessive amount before another sponge cake cut is put on top as cover.  Then on top of it brush is used to slather coffee syrup again before I  waited until the coffee syrup soaked sufficiently into the sponge cake.

「And the finishing touches.」

After the coffee syrup has soaked in sufficiently, the last thing to do is to slather the cheese cream.

After that I put the cake together with the mold into refrigerator and waited until the taste united.

……Although I called it a refrigerator, it’s only an iron box that I used with magic and filled with ice.

Well, to make tiramisu, this kind of cooler is better than a normal  refrigerator instead. The humidity is high thanks to the ice and the  dough won’t get dry.

I once heard that some pastry shop is still keeping this kind of cooler that use actual ice instead of electric refrigerator.

「Now then, I guess I’ll also do rehabilitation while waiting.」

I sat on a chair and began making doll.

The result from this rehabilitation has showed up considerably. Right  now the deviation between my imagination and actual result has been  reduced until around 5 to 10 mm.

Although deviation that is more than 1 mm for magic at this level  meant that my capability is still not reliable, it’s a great progress  compared to the beginning when the deviation reached dozens of  centimeter.

I finished one doll.

The most important thing is to do nothing but waiting in that much time.

「Now then, I guess it’s about time for the syrup to finish permeating into the cake.」

It should be about time for my women……no, even more than that, for Marle to start feeling impatient.

Let’s quickly bring this tiramisu to them.

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