Tondemo Skill – 024 – Eat the Giant Deer

Chapter 024: Eat the Giant Deer

Re-Translated by Gumihou

Edited by Onionpi

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“Ooii, Fer. It’s getting dark, let’s make camp here.”

Fer’s steps slowed and eventually stopped. [3] “Umu, time to eat. I’m hungry.”

[4] “Yes, yes, you’ve worked hard,” I praised him as I slithered off his back.

To reward him, I should serve Fer’s favourite. Meat!

The only question is, what kind of meat should I serve?

[8] I rifled through my [Item Box] and picked out a large piece of Giant Deer. [5] I’m not completely unfamiliar with deer meat.

[8] [2] A senior co-worker once received fresh deer meat from his relatives, who was part of a hunting circle and treated us juniors to a deer meat steak dinner at his house. Until then, I had the impression that deer meat was rather tough and gamy.

[8] However, the deer steak I had at senpai’s house was not tough at all. It was a little gamy and chewy, but was otherwise perfectly delicious.

[8] The deer meat I have now looked similar to the one I had seen at senpai’s house, which he showed off to us before cooking it. It’s basically red meat with very little fat. I had always been interested in cooking and paid close attention to what he did. [5]

[8] First, cut this chunk of meat into steak size before making small cuts around the tendon area and then pounding the steak with the back of my knife. [1] Deer meat tends to be a little fibrous, so these extra steps will help tenderise it.

Next, I sprinkled salt and pepper over the Giant Deer Steaks and set it aside.

[8] The next step was pretty standard, cooking the steak over very hot butter on a frying pan. [1] When both sides were fried to a certain colour, it was ready to be eaten.

“Here you go, Fer.” [5]

After serving a few steaks to Fer, I cut a small piece off and chewed thoughtfully. [5]

It was slightly chewy and there wasn’t any weird gamy smell either. In fact, for game meat, it was quite tender. [5]

“Oi, seconds,” [5]

“Sure, sure,” I fried up a few more Giant Deer Steaks for Fer. This time, serving with some special Japanese style steak sauce.

[8] [4] [2] “Tada!” I quickly whipped different plates of steaks. “The classic Soy Sauce Steak, Fer’s favourite Garlic Sauce Steak, followed by Grated Daikon Steak, Onion Steak, Butter Flavoured Steak…”

“Nuu! Such luxury!” Fer began chomping up the steaks, starting with the Garlic Flavoured Deer Steak. “Umu, umu, delicious!”

I made myself an Onion Flavoured Deer Steak. Humm, the deer steak was pretty lean and was not too filling. So, I had another.

“Puhah! Steaks are delicious when eaten this way,” Fer licked his chops happily.

I smiled, “We must thank the Japanese food companies,” still, commercially produced sauces aside, the steaks themselves were pretty good.

Burp.

It was so great that I think I overate a little. [5]

Ah, well, let’s work off a few calories by clearing away my cooking stuff and setting up camp.

[8] When I said setting up camp, I mean laying down cardboard boxes on the ground before placing my futon over it. [2] The last time I put my futon directly on the ground, it had gotten damp.

[6] Ugh, my precious futon! [5]

Cardboard boxes do get damp too, but I have loads of them. [1] They’re basically trash I’ve been keeping in my [Item Box] until now. So, I’m pretty happy to find a use for them. [5]

“Oi, make my bed too,”

[4] “Yes, yes,”

The last time Fer saw me tucked up inside my futon, he’d said ‘That looks cosy, make me one too.’

[8] Well, considering how Fer is my big money maker, I complied. I had to get three sets of futon to fit his much larger body. It was no trouble setting out the cardboard boxes and laying the three futons over them.

[6] Fer didn’t snuggle into the futons, but nested comfortably on top.

“Yawn…”

Ah, I’ve just witnessed a legendary beast yawn. Fer must be tired from all that running today, but first, “Please put up a barrier around us before you go to sleep.”

“Hm, it’s up. I’m going to sleep now. Zzzzzzz…”

“Wait, isn’t that a little quick?”

[Gumihou: This is so obviously a filler chapter, lol. Less than 800 words.]

[Fer: You deleted a lot of the futon scene.]

[Gumihou: Because no one wants to hear about how Mukouda had studied his hard and damp futon, had a sudden cardboard box epiphany followed by claims of being eco-friendly.]

[Fer: Muu, what about the deer eating scene?]

[Gumihou: I deleted parts where the various steaks are all wow! delish, not gamy or stinky at all, I could eat loads… yada, yada, yada.]

[Fer: Still…]

[Gumihou: Stop trying to make this chapter longer through these pointless dialogues!]

[Fer: Muu…]

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[2] Structural Change: Combine 3 paragraphs

[3] Structural Change: Combine paragraph & dialogue

[4] Structural Change: Change passive sentence to dialogue 

[5] Delete Repetitive or Pointless Information

[6] Additional Information for Aesthetic Purpose

[7] Add Dialogue Tag

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