ONE COULD BE THE KING OF ANOTHER WORLD
Volume 1 (Ch 3 Creating Broadcast Programs) Part 8

Huh huh? We eat that? Or, more accurately, can we eat it?

Then I noticed Aisha it seemed

tilting his head to the side with

bewildered.

"hold. Is the gelin dead?

"Yes. This gelin is over, "said Poncho.

"That's impossible. I've never heard of gelin corpses before.

"Oh that's right. Now that you mentioned it, it was strange,"Liscia agreed, seeming to have noticed something.

Instead, I don't understand. "Liscia, can you tell me what's going on?"

"What's with that tone ...? Weak gelin. They have a thin membrane, and if you cut them off a little bit, spurt out all their body fluids. It's the same if you splash them with the club. All that remains is a bluish-green puddle.

"Is that so ?"

Aisha nodded, too. "Yes. That's why a well-preserved corpse seems impossible."

I-i understand... Aisha as a warrior and Liscia as a warrior had experience fighting gelin, so they noticed something strange here.

"So, what do you have to do to get mucus like this?" My toot.

"Well, look, there's a little trick to it. This is a technique I learned from a tribe living far in the west, in the Empire. They use thin pole-like objects to attack the core without damaging the membrane. If you do, gelin will retain its shape in death. In the area, they call it 'ike-jime for gelin."

The ike-jime? Come on, it's not like draining blood from a fish... But, still, it makes sense now. I don't seem to think of them as single-celled organisms.

"Gelin waters gradually lose liquidity and harden after the core is destroyed" Poncho added.

"Like rigor mortis, I guess," I said.

"Yes. If you leave it on for longer, the liquid will evaporate and will turn into a dry husk, but about two hours after death, while it is somewhat hardened but the meat is still chewy, it is possible to cook it. It's gonna be this country, yeah."

Hm... You can cook it, but isn't it a separate matter of whether you

could use? As I was thinking that, Poncho took out a knife and started making vertical cuts on the gelin.

"When gelin is in this condition, you can insert the blade vertically and cut it into pieces without the body collapsing. The body fibers of gelin run vertically, so doing it this way gives it the best texture, yes."

Ponchos skillfully cut gelin into long thin pieces, such as making ika somen. It turns into noodles with a thickness like udon. Poncho picked it up and put it in a pot of boiling water.

"Now, if we boil it in a pot of water with a little salt, the meat will harden more."

Now it's starting to seriously turn into something like buckwheat or udon. As they boiled, the vibrant bluish-green color had darkened, starting to look like buckwheat green tea as well. Then Poncho added things like dried mushrooms and seaweed into the pot with boiling gelin.

Did he boil them to get the broth from them?

Lastly, after adding more salt to match the flavor, he served it to each of us in a bowl of soup.

"Here we go. This is Gelin Udon.

"He even called it udon!" Excruciate.

"W-Is there a problem, sir?" Ask Poncho.

"Oh, no, no."

I hear the language of this country as Japanese. "Udon" is probably another word translated into that word. Very disconcerting. Although, well, putting that aside, what was put in front of us looked exactly like a Kansai-style green udon in a clear broth.

Red Foxes and Green Gelin, right? My

think. Yep... Now is not the time to escape reality by remembering old commercial jingles for instant udon. Huh huh? Wait, I seriously have to eat this?

When I looked around, everyone looked at me as if to say, "Please, go forward."

I haven't raised my hand and said,

“OK, I'll eat it,” however, you

Well, I guess I've made Liscia eat things she's not used to. It's not fair for me to be the only one running away! Time to dig!

Slurp...

"?!"

"W-Well, how, David?" Liscia asked with a worried expression.

"... It's very good," I responded.

Yep. I wonder what it is. It's so different than I imagined.

I had imagined something like ika somen, with a slimy texture and a fishy taste, but this was smooth and chewy, no fishy taste at all. Instead of udon, it's like e kuzu-kiri that you cook in a pot, or Malony noodles. However, when you bite it, there is a unique shrill texture. Is that fiber, maybe?

If I describe it in

overall, I would say, "It looks like udon, it tastes like kuzu-left, with the texture of the regional dishes from Kyushu."

Yeah, it's not bad. Not bad at all.

"You're right... Surprisingly good," said

Liscia's.

"It's just a way they absorb the flavor of the broth," Juna agreed.

“Is this really gelin? I'm shocked, though,

"said Tomoe.

"SL URRRR."

It was Aisha.

It seems that everyone who ate after me had a good impression of it, too. Well, of course they do, because it's delicious. If you ask me which tastes better, this or normal udon, I would say that question is nonsense. It would be like asking a more palatable, soba or udon: it's just a matter of personal preference.

"By the way, what kind of nutrients are in this thing?" My toot.

"Nutrition ... I don't know what it is, but I suspect it's similar to gelatin that can be extracted from bone" Poncho said.

"Colagen, yes."

So they have proteins that you find in animal bones with fibers like the ones you find in plants. It is very difficult to decide whether gelin is a plant or an animal.

"By the way, it looks like it's good nutrition, by the way" I said. "Gelin is everywhere. If people eat it, it should just alleviate the food crisis, right?"

"Yes, I guess so. Keeping gelin is easy. If you just give them raw garbage as food, they will grow and multiply on their own" Poncho said.

Uh, no, I don't want to give weird things to something I'm going to eat" I said. "I don't want to eat gelin that absorbs toxic chemicals and lets it make me food poisoning."

"I-I don't think so."

"By the way, let's

try to make them an experiment. Hunting them in nature is also okay, but I don't want to reduce their numbers and impact the local ecosystem ..."

"I thought it would be for the best" Poncho agreed.

We really enjoyed the rest of the udon

geline.

"Are they really edible?" Someone asked.

"Well, the king and the others seemed to enjoy it," replied another person.

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Seriate...