An Incompetent Explorer Who Failed to Make His High School Debut but Mastered Being a Human Being

Episode 332: Ultimate and Supreme

 We conduct a school tour under the guidance of Aki.

"Hee ~."

 However, there are many things I don't know, and there are things that impress me.

"This is our school's purchasing department."

 And finally, we arrive at the Purchasing Department. I've never used it before, but it exists.

 It's like a newly built convenience store doubled in size. It's so beautiful inside.

"Hee ~, what are they selling, desu?"

 Hearing Aki's words, Noelle looks inside with interest.

"It's basically like a convenience store, but there's one specialty."

"That is?"

 Is it really a convenience store. Having a convenience store on campus is like a university.

 But, what's the specialty. I'm curious as well.

"It's the Ultimate Fried Chicken Sword."(TN: '究極唐揚げソード' Kyuukyoku tou-age soodo)

"Ultimate Fried Chicken Sword?"

 Noelle tilts her head at Aki's answer.

 Just by hearing the name, it seems that it's dangerous, but is it okay, that fried chicken.

"That's right. Do you know the food, fried chicken on a skewer?"

"Yes, desu. I've seen it in anime, desu."

 Aki asked again for the reply that was returned like a parrot. Noelle nods her head in response to the question.

"In that case, it's quick to talk about it. The point is that it's the Ultimate version of that. As a result of carefully selecting the meat used for fried chicken, the president of this school decided to raise the best chickens themself. Then, the chicken is deep-fried with a unique combination of batter and seasoning, and the chicken is taste-tested hundreds of times. Now they sell about 1,000 of them a day."

"Ohh ~ !! I want to eat that, desu!!"

 As usual, Aki explains the Ultimate Fried Chicken Sword in an exaggerated manner like a stage actor.

 W, well, what is it ... Aki's explanation kind of made me want to eat it.

 I mean, why are you fixated on that!?

 This is High School!?

 I think the things we're particular about is different.

"FuuFuuFu. That's right, that's right. Let's all go eat together now."

 Aki is very proud even though he didn't make it himself.

 That face is a little annoying.

 But, it's also true that it sounds delicious.

 We enter the Purchasing Department and decide to each purchase it.

"One Ultimate Fried Chicken Sword."

"I want one too, desu."

"I'll have four."

"Ten."

""Eh!?""

 Each of us make an order to the clerk, but only Shia has a different order. We unintentionally look at Shia's face. Come to think of it, Shia is a girl who eats well.

 I bought a little more because I thought I'd bring it back to Luck. I didn't know about it until now. I want Luck to eat it too.

"Twenty?"

"Why did it increase!?"

 For some reason, the number increases when we tilt our heads.

"Too few?"

"It's because there are so many!?"

 Shia doesn't get upset by my tsukkomi, and speaks like it's natural.

"How many will you have?"

"Nn ~, twenty."

"Understood."

 Shia is asked by the store clerk because she changes the number, and after thinking for a while, she decides on the number after changing it.

 The clerk takes our order and starts cooking fried chicken in the kitchen behind them. As expected of a pro. They didn't react at all even after hearing Shia's number.

"Isn't it amazing? You can eat it freshly fried on the spot. Of course, they also put a lot of emphasis on making it delicious even when it's cold, so it's realyl delicious even when it's cold, but no matter what you say, it's still better when it's freshly fried."

 A few minutes after that, we each receive our fried chicken skewers. Shia is the only one who can't hold it as it is, so she is handed over a large paper bag packed like yakitori.

"Well then, shall we eat."

"Yes, desu."

 With Aki's lead, we bit into the freshly fried chicken skewers.

"" ~~ !? ""

 Our eyes widen in shock.

"Ha fu ha fu."

"Ho~ot!"

"Mogu mogu."

 Meat juice overflows from the inside. The batter is neither too thin nor too thick, with just the right amount of seasoning.

 And above all, the taste.

 The unique seasoning that is firmly applied spreads in the mouth along with the meat juice, and it is a delicious taste.

 Certainly Ultimate. It is a delicious fried chicken that you can feel the two characters.(TN: '究極' the two characters, literal translation of the characters is '極' utmost and '究' after all.)

"Delicious as always."

"it's delicious, desu. After all, Japan is great, desu!!"

"Delicious."

"This is delicious."

 We, for a while, smack our lips over the karaage.(TN:Karaage = fried chicken)

"Speaking of which, where does Noelle live?"

"OH!! Cohabitation invitation, desu?"

 It's a good time, so I ask, but Noelle answers with an air of delusion that seems to be taking a life of its own.

"No, it's not. Besides, I'm in the boys' dormitory."

"Fufufuu. It's a joke, desu. I'm also going to enter the dormitory, desu."

 When I reply in amazement, Noelle replies with a strange laugh.

 However, Noelle's words raise a question in my mind.

"Huh? I thought all the rooms were filled this year."

"Since the upperclassman's room is vacant, it was decided to let me in specially, desu."

 Noelle presents the answer to my question.

 I see, it wouldn't be strange if a room for upperclassmen was vacant.

"Is that so. Got it. Then, let's go together to the front of the girls' dormitory."

"As expected of Yuusha-sama. Gentle, desu."

"No, isn't it on the way?"

 We make our way back home in a friendly atmosphere.