Kato Megumi wants to learn magic

After nearly three days of repeated treatment, she finally erased everyone's memory of the time in the Goblin's Lair.

Of course, not all of them did. There were a small number of sober people who did not want their memories to be erased, and she did not force it.

"Well……"

Awakened by a slight movement on her body, Kato Megumi rubbed her eyes and propped herself up from the desk.

"Clina? It's you..."

As she stood up, the blanket on her body slowly slipped off, and Kato Hui understood that this was probably covered by Krina...

"Your Majesty... breakfast is ready. You were busy all day yesterday and didn't eat. You consumed so much energy. You sorted so many documents last night. You should have a good rest. Eat first."

"This is the rice soup made by the new chef. It tastes very good. Please try it..."

Putting the plate of rice in her hand on the desk, Krina brought the bowl to Kato Megumi.

The steaming soup exudes a fragrant aroma, and the surface of the soup is garnished with vegetable grains, which whets your appetite at the sight of it.

"sorry to bother you……"

Kato Megumi scooped a spoonful with a spoon and put it into her mouth. She didn't know if it was because she was hungry for a day, but the simple rice soup was particularly delicious. The soup was sweet but not greasy, and the rice was soft and delicious. Kato Megumi drank the soup up in one gulp unknowingly. Seeing the rice soup being drunk up, Kato Megumi couldn't help but lick the corner of her lips with the tip of her tongue.

But she soon felt a gaze, it turned out that Klina was still standing there looking at her and did not leave.

Kato Megumi paused. Perhaps Clina had seen what she was doing while eating just now?

"Ahem, ahem, I didn't expect rice soup to be so delicious... I don't know where Aina and the others hired the cook from... The food is so good, much better than the past few days."

With a smile, Krina looked at Kato Megumi, who looked embarrassed and looked away, wanting to explain, and she just thought that the saint was a little cute.

"Your Majesty, you also know the cook who cooked for you... It's Carissa whom you saved before..."

"Carissa?"

Kato Megumi was surprised.

"Why is she a cook? Didn't I ask Aina to find a cook outside? She still needs care now..."

"This is her own request...Lois also agreed." Klina explained, "You know, even if the girls' memories are erased, their bodies are still tainted, they age over time, the environment changes drastically, and the cruel reality will inevitably impact the girls' fragile hearts. They can't accept it, and they need to adapt well."

"Plus, the temple is currently short of funds, so any reduction in consumption is a good thing. That's why Carissa volunteered to be a chef to relieve some of the burden on those around her. At the same time, she can also use delicious food to comfort those girls so that they don't fall into anxiety even when enjoying delicious food."

Didn't expect the funds to be so tight? Kato Hui looked at the information about the temple's assets sent by Aina on the table and sighed helplessly.

Yesterday, Kato Megumi counted the temple's expenditures and existing assets, but the situation was not optimistic.

These assets are nothing more than a few shops, a few stretches of land, and some small hills with only trees. They are not even as valuable as those of a nouveau riche. No wonder the temple is in such a deficit situation now, not to mention the fact that it now has to feed more than 600 people, which makes the burden even heavier.

Thinking of Carissa's cooking skills, Kato Megumi joked, "If Carissa could open a restaurant, she might be able to make a lot of money with her cooking skills, and she would have money around her."

"Your Majesty, it's not that simple," Klina shook her head. "The most important thing about cooking is that it is unique, delicious, and inexpensive. Otherwise, homogeneous food will only make people feel bored."

"Although Carissa's cooking skills are good, they are not good enough to make people's taste buds savour. You think Carissa's cooking skills are good only because Your Majesty eats refined rice... This kind of rice is expensive and ordinary people can't afford it for three meals a day. They only buy it occasionally for celebrations."

"Is rice so expensive?" Kato Megumi was a little surprised. You know, although the rice tasted delicious, the most important thing was the cooking skills, and the ingredients were nothing special.

No! Kato Megumi was suddenly stunned. She felt that rice was not special because she was used to it. But for ordinary people, rice was a precious commodity. Why was it precious? It was because the production was small. Scarcity makes things valuable.

With a clang, the spoon gently hit the wall of the bowl, making a crisp sound.

Kato Megumi suddenly stood up, she knew how to make money!

Original Goblin Slayer: Chapter 151 Chapter Kato Megumi Wants to Open a Shop

"Your Highness, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing Kato Megumi suddenly stand up, Krina asked softly.

Is there something wrong with the rice? This shouldn't be the case... I bought this from the Koro Chamber of Commerce.

"No, I've thought of how to make money?" Kato Megumi smiled and narrowed her eyes, "I seem to have forgotten the advantages I was born with..."

What is the advantage? Naturally, it comes from another world and carries many things that are not available here.

Although most of them cannot be copied and are gone after use, some can be reused continuously, such as seeds...

Rice, wheat, potatoes, these grain seeds are naturally available in Kato Megumi's space, and they are all high-yield varieties; after all, to travel to different worlds, one must also consider the issue of food supply, so Kato Megumi naturally also prepared some grain seeds.

If it was a place full of deserts where no crops could be grown, that would be fine; but this alien world was a normal world, and it even possessed abnormal powers like magic. Promoting seed growth seemed like child's play, and producing high-yield refined rice per mu was naturally child's play as well.

As for why refined rice is so expensive despite the existence of magic, low yield is one reason, and the scarcity of magicians is another reason. Of course, more importantly, the number of magicians in this world are limited, and it is impossible for them to use the time they spend practicing magic to plant crops. Naturally, the yield of rice cannot be increased.

Unlike Kato Megumi, as long as her mental strength is restored enough, she can continue to use magic without being restricted by the rules of this world.

"Sir, are you saying that you have high-yield seeds per acre? But even if the yield is high, I can't make much money..."

When Klina heard the saint say that she had high-yield high-quality seeds, she was surprised at first, then frowned and began to ponder.

"Although rice is precious, a family of three can only eat a few meals a month. Even if the yield is high and we can make money, we don't have much land, and the rice we grow can't feed hundreds of people..."

In response, Kato Megumi smiled and shook her head gently.

"If the yield is just normal, it certainly can't feed hundreds of people, but the yield of the grain I have is not ordinary..."

Seeing Klina's puzzled expression, it was obvious that she didn't know how high the yield could be. Kato Megumi asked her softly about the per-acre yield of grain in this world, and then gave her a number.

"At least ten times. My seed yield is at least ten times more than theirs."

"Ten times! Your Majesty, you are kidding!"

Krina exclaimed.

"Of course not..." Kato Hui shook her head, "Do you think I would joke about this..."

"Then... the temple can barely make ends meet! Ten times the yield per mu, slightly lower than the market price, and if we sell it, we can at least make enough to feed hundreds of people."

Krina spoke excitedly, but Kato Megumi shook her head.

“No, we don’t sell food…”

"Eh? Not selling food? So what you mean is..."

Kato Megumi tilted her head.

"No matter how expensive grain and rice are, they are still grains, raw materials before processing. Their value is not cheap, but at least they are not that expensive. Moreover, grain and rice are greatly affected by production. The more production, the cheaper the price. We are short of money right now. If we want to make more money, we need to sell more grain and rice. Not only will the price be low, but the production must also increase. This will cause the price of grain and rice to become lower and lower, and eventually it will be no different from ordinary food."

Klina suddenly realized what His Majesty meant.

"So we don't sell rice, we sell processed products, that is, food." Kato Hui took out seeds from the space, "Not only rice, I also have many crops with extremely high yields, such as peppers, cocoa beans, potatoes, soybeans... These are all food, most of them have high yields, and a small number of them have low yields, but they also exist as seasonings and food raw materials."

Seeing the rows of seeds on the desk deepens my awe of the saint. If the yield of so many food seeds is really as the saint said, there will be no hungry people in the world, right?

but……

"Food needs to be particularly delicious to be sold. What delicious food can be made from these crops?"

Klina raised a question. She had never seen these crops before. Apart from their high yields, could they produce any useful food?

Kato Megumi smiled gently and took out the prepared chocolate.

She tore open the packaging and handed it to Krina.

"You can try it. This thing is made of cocoa beans..."

Klina took the black food handed over by the saint, held it in her hand and looked at it left and right. This black thing must be made of that rough big thing. The color is the same. Is such a black thing really made of that thing? Is it really delicious?

Looking at the saint's urging eyes, Klina put the rectangular chocolate in her mouth and took a light bite.

"So sweet! It's actually sugar!" Klina's eyes widened. "No, this taste is very strange, like sugar, but also has a silky feeling. It tastes very strange, but it is unexpectedly sweet."

"It looks black and ugly, but I didn't expect it to taste so sweet. Is it made from this thing called cocoa beans?"

"Of course... Although other ingredients are needed, the main ingredient is this kind of cocoa beans..."

After hearing Kato Megumi's explanation, Krina relaxed.

"Children will surely love this kind of food, and many people will come to buy it."

Seeing that Krina liked it, Kato Megumi took out some French fries for her to taste. Not surprisingly, this sweet and crispy food immediately captured her taste buds.

"It's delicious! They will definitely like it."

Krina commented.

In response, Kato Megumi smiled gently. She also thought so. How could anyone not like such delicious chocolate? Even if someone didn't like it, there were other things, such as spicy chili sauce and delicious tofu. These ingredients would undoubtedly make the food they made more delicious.

Food is the most important thing for people! Food is the easiest way to make people happy and it is also a relatively profitable way. When the time comes to open a restaurant, it will not only allow those women to have a stable job and allow them to communicate with diners at the same time, but also help them better adapt to the society after returning home.

This way, you can kill two birds with one stone. It is a very cost-effective deal.

However... making money from the common people is far from enough, and this cannot quickly attract a large amount of funds; after all, the richest people are not the common people, but the nobles and businessmen. Kato Megumi needs to come up with a product to attract the attention of these upper-class people and get investment, so that he can use the money to buy shops and fields.

So...what else can I use in my own space...

Kato Megumi searched in the space... Soon, she found what she was looking for in the space.

Original Goblin Slayer: Chapter 152 Chapter A Different Tea

There were some tea seedlings and a few cans of tea.

Kato Megumi thinks that it is perfect for tea to be used as a luxury product; in the absence of many beverages at that time, green tea and black tea brewed from pure natural tea leaves were the exclusive preserve of aristocrats and wealthy businessmen for quite some time.

Tea is very expensive, not just ordinary expensive. In his world at that time, it was a must-have drink for the upper class. How could Kato Megumi not do business in it?

Then Kato Megumi used magic to boil water, and used the tea art she had learned before to make a cup of tea for Krina, and asked her to taste it to see if her tea was suitable for the taste here.

And Klina has become accustomed to the fact that the Saint seems to have everything in her hands; you know, the Magic Leaf was discovered and monopolized by the Kroman family, and even this kind of thing is in the hands of the Saint, she has become a little surprised and accustomed to it.

Although she didn't know what the magic leaf saplings looked like, she knew what the tea leaves looked like. Obviously, the magic leaf in the Saint's hand was another kind of magic leaf. Although it was different from the magic leaf found by the Kloman family, it was very similar in appearance and shape.

After appreciating the saint's smooth tea art, Klina took the teacup handed to her. The water in the cup rippled, the aroma of tea wafted in the air, and a rich fragrance filled her nose.

After sniffing, Klina took a sip. Different from the sweetness and crispness of the food just now, the tea in front of her was fragrant, nourishing the heart and lungs, and replenishing one's mental strength. One sip dispelled the fog in the mind, making the whole person's mind exceptionally clear.

"It smells good and tastes great...even better than the existing magic leaves!"

The opinions given by Krina seemed reasonable to Kato Megumi. After all, after thousands of years of improvement and various grafting by humans, the optimized tea was more in line with human taste and was more pleasing to the eye.

But is this thing called a magic leaf? Just as Kato Hui was thinking, Krina spoke.

"It's a pity... Your Majesty's magic leaf can't increase the magic power in the body. What a pity..." Klina sighed, "If it can increase the magic power, such a magic leaf would be more popular than the Kroman family's magic leaf."

"This tea can enhance magic power?"

"Yes, Saint, don't you know? The magic leaf was originally discovered by the Claman family in a forbidden area. The tree that produces the magic leaf is called the magic tree. Its roots can absorb the magic power in the soil, filter it, purify it, and transfer it to the leaves. The magic leaf prepared by this leaf can not only enhance the sensitivity to magic power, but also improve people's mental strength if consumed for a long time."

"It's a pity that this magic tree has always been monopolized and controlled by the Kroman family. There are very few magic leaves circulating in the market. Even if there are, they are expensive and ordinary people can hardly afford it." Klina sighed softly, and then looked at Kato Megumi, "So this thing in the Saint's hand is called tea? The name does sound good. After all, it doesn't have the effect of magic leaves, but it's also easy to call it tea. Its appearance and taste are much better than magic leaves. I believe it should be able to attract many people who can't afford magic leaves. Come and taste it..."

Can I absorb magic power?

Listening to Krina's words, Kato Megumi thought secretly... I wonder if my tea seedlings can...

If possible, the profits would definitely be very rich. Not only could it support the temple, but it could also be used as one's own private property to add necessary things to oneself and prepare for the next world.

After all, it would be a waste to leave such a large space there.

At this time, Kato Megumi was like a little hamster, trying every means to fill up her own space; it was necessary to prepare for a rainy day, like the prop scrolls and various magic crystal equipment here, which she needed extremely.

But the most important thing now is to make enough money...

After that, Kato Megumi never took out anything else because she felt that these things were enough.

Instructing Klina to call Ina Lois, Carissa and the others, Kato Megumi told them her ideas and introduced the crop yields and specific benefits in front of them; and the expressions of Ina and the others were exactly the same as Klina's before, all of them were a little bit unbelievable and surprised.

Then Kato Megumi skillfully handed them chocolate and French chips. This convenient and delicious snack instantly captured their taste buds.

"You'll know the specific yields once the crops are grown. It's not just these. I have other delicious recipes, such as tofu and chili sauce. Don't worry that the food you make won't be attractive enough. I'll write them down and hand them to you later so that they won't be idle and depressed."

After all, most of the women who were captured by the goblins were civilians, not the kind of noble ladies who were too delicate and weak to work. The sense of accomplishment from work could divert their attention to a large extent, leaving them no time for sentimentality...

"Thank you very much, Your Majesty!"

Aina seemed very excited. Regardless of whether the output the saint said was true or not, the deliciousness was indeed real. Such delicious food was enough to make everyone savor it.

With this delicious recipe, the temple finally had a stable source of funds.

Kato Hui turned to look at Carissa: "Carissa, you are a good cook, there should be no problem making these!"

"Of course, no problem. Carissa has always been the best cook in the village. I often go to her house for meals."

Before Carissa could answer, Royce beside her spoke up and agreed on behalf of her friend, causing Carissa to shake her head speechlessly.

"Lady Saint, I have no problem with this, but it's not enough for me alone. There are countless people who like this delicious food, and the restaurant will be packed when it opens..."