Chapter 225: The Last Stock Up

Translated by Zzonkedd

Edited by Gumihou

Today, I’ll be stocking up on more seafood.

[6] This time, I have a system. That’s right, instead of just blindly going to the morning market and buying up whatever caught my eye, I have a list.

I plan to buy more of the standard favourites, of course. Such as the Vermilion Shrimps, Bronze King Crabs, Saban Fish, Big Hard Clams, Small Hard Clams and Yellow Scallops. We all like them, so it would be a good idea to stock up.

The Tyrant Fish might be the face of this city, being Verulean’s speciality catch, but I believe the true speciality of this city is their shellfish. Any and all types of shellfish here are delicious. The huge oyster-like Kaaki, which I had already stocked up earlier was one of my top favourites.

In the meantime, I also found a couple of stalls selling Dako. These were boiled octopus. Their bright red tentacles curled neatly towards their heads with white suckers pointing outwards. I suppose since people here are wary of the Kraken, things like octopi would not be popular either.

When I spoke to the stall uncle about it, he told me that he had only started eating these creatures recently. Apparently, prejudice against tentacled seafood was prevalent only among locals. However, this was gradually easing when more and more people from outside the city moved in and began eating these ‘Dako’.

“Give it a try, it’s pretty good,” said the uncle.

Old sir, I know about the deliciousness of octopi already. After all, I am Japanese.

Since they have already boiled the octopus, all I had to do was cut and cook it later. [6] I bought up loads without hesitation.

[5] This was going to be our last day at the market place, so I bought more stuff than usual. [1] However, since our consumption rate is extremely high, I estimate that my stock would probably only last us for three months if we only have seafood once a week.

After getting what I wanted from the market, we headed over to the food stalls for our breakfast. [2] After I emphasised how today would be our last day here, Fer, Dora-chan and Sui went all out.

Naturally, I ate and ate as much as I could too