The Coffee Shop in a Different World Station

"Good luck. This will be your return ticket, so please do not lose it until you board your return flight. Have a good trip."

Takumi, who had successfully completed the ticket for the passengers who arrived on the final train, took a breather. The ticket slot, which was queued earlier, is now restored to tranquility too.

Peaceful today, no abnormalities… With that in mind, Takumi headed to the station building for the final inspection, which will be her last job of the day as "acting station manager”.

The final train had already left the platform and headed for the garage.

Takumi proceeds with her usual inspection work as she drops off the hindsight of being sucked into the sunset on the home where the smell of smoke lingers. The station building was quiet as usual. There doesn't seem to be any particular problem with the tracks... Only one unusual sight popped into my eyes when I looked back to see if Takumi, who so decided, was going to take an inspection on the other side.

There, one customer sat on the bench in the far corner of the home holding a large trunk.

The little woman sitting on the bench leaned still with a large hunting hat with a checked pattern on her eyes.

Takumi follows her memories, but she was not the “regular” people she usually sees at this station. Then it will probably be the passengers of the train that just arrived.

Would the year be about 15-6 years old to tell from her atmosphere, which is still unusual? Then, in this world, it seemed appropriate to me whether or not I had received an adult.

Well, then... The possibility of a girl getting into some kind of trouble arose in the back of Takumi's brain, who has been 'acting station manager' in "This World”.

"Excuse me. Sir, what have you done?

Takumi calls out from the diagonal front while taking a moment not to surprise the girl who looks like she's on her way.

To that voice, the girl, who still remained obnoxious, turned this way with her eyes open, and answered this in a panic with tears in her eyes.

"Oh, I'm sorry! Wow, wow, me, passing the descending station and getting over it..."

A girl who talks all the time. The ticket shown to Takumi contained the station names of the two parking stations in front of this route - about an hour and a half by train from here.

According to the girl's story, in addition to being excited about the first-time long distance train ride and not sleeping well the day before, the tension and fatigue of the long journey, which lasted more than half a day, made me completely fall asleep along the way and I followed past it. He used to sit in the free seat of a third class car, and the conductor never spoke on the way, and it seems he's come this far.

"... that's why. I'm so sorry. This is going to be a rent-free ride...... right......?

"No, it's fine. To ask how you are, it does not seem to mean that you have deliberately overtaken it, and in such cases the rule is' not to treat it like a rent-free ride '. Rest assured that in this case you can return to the station where you were supposed to get off at no extra charge"

Takumi sits back and talks to the girl to make sure she meets her gaze height. The girl, who was frightened by the word and showing it was completely shrinking, also finally showed relief.

"However, today's final train has already left, so it will be tomorrow morning for the return flight to leave..."

"What, oh, really?

The look on the girl's face, who was finally starting to see calm, turns blue again and into something twilight along the way. The girl sighed one big sigh before telling Takumi what was going on with her.

"Shh, excuse me. If it's not inconvenient, can I, uh, wait here until tomorrow morning's flight? I have very little money..."

Takumi conceived of the words. To the best of Takumi's knowledge, 'walking' or 'boarding carriages' are common when it comes to travel, and long-distance trains like those leaving this station still fall into the expensive and desirable category.

Though a free seat on a third class car, it's not quite like being able to ride unless you're 'pretty excited' about 'special occasions'. I'm sure this girl had something special going on, too, and she took the train. I could imagine enough for Takumi that I couldn't afford the girl's nostalgia.

Nevertheless, as acting station manager, I could not leave this girl alone at this station. Although Takumi herself, who works in the dwelling, becomes a one-off "lookout", she doesn't know what kind of danger it is to let her live in an unpopular place.

In the first place, though it's getting a little springy and warmer, it's still time to cool down at night. Just thinking about her health didn't mean Takumi could accept her offer.

Well, then... Takumi's answer was narrowed to one.

"I'm sorry, this place has to be closed until tomorrow morning. Leaving one of your guests in a home with no one can't be allowed as the manager of the station building. Instead of that, what, if you don't mind staying at my house? You'll be tired of the long journey, and if you can soak it up in the bath and get a night's rest, you'll be safe with me."

Surprisingly, the little, creepy girl's eyes get even more rounded.

"Oh, but no... It's annoying..."

"No, it's fine. Some rooms are available, and don't hesitate to take a rest. I'd like to ask you for a ticket."

Takumi said so, taking the large leather trunkback that was placed beside the girl and walking out to the ticket mouth.

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Takumi is a telegraph equipped beside the ticket slot to contact the station where the girl was supposed to get off. Apparently there was also an inquiry over there that the girl would not arrive and that she would inform me that she would be on the first flight tomorrow morning.

"Okay, this way, please."

"Ah, yes. Sorry to disturb you......"

After contacting him, Takumi confirmed the final inspection of the ticket opening and the closing of the station building, and took the girl to the door just to the left of the ticket opening. When you open a door made of a heavy sheet plate, it sounds like a cowbell karan color. You heard the noise, and you were greeted by cheerful voices at the same time as the takumi entered the room.

"Welcome home! Good luck today!

"Oh, good luck. Did you clean it properly?

"Yes! I just did it!

"Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah."

Saying so, Takumi strokes the head of the girl approaching with a rag on her pom pom. The slightly red-haired, short-haired girl smiled joyfully as she shook the cat ear on her head with a tingle.

"So can I sleep today already?! Nice!?

"Here, eat properly before you do."

When Takumi grabs her back, the cat ear daughter quietly circles her back with no strength.

"... erm?

Takumi was concerned that she had left the girl behind to interact with her cat-eared daughter at her usual rate. Explain to the girl in a hurry.

"Oh, and I'm sorry. Seems to have surprised me a little...... Um, this is going to be the waiting room and coffee shop at the station. So, this noise is the staff and cohabitant Nyarch of the coffee shop. See, say hello."

Encourage me to say hello as I bring Nyarch down to the floor about the cat ear daughter who was cat-grabbing her back. Nyarch raised his energetic voice as he bowed, pinching the hem of a cafe apron with embroidered cat paintings wrapped around his black leggings pants.

"I guess Nyarch is Nyarch! Good evening! What kind of name are you?

"Wow, I say Natl Grat. Today, uh, the station manager bothered me..."

"I always was. I didn't introduce myself yet either, did I? I live and work at Takumi Kurogane, acting station manager and coffee shop cook at this station."

"Oh, why are they living here?

"Yeah, me and Nyarch are letting us live here. Please take your time this evening, as we have small but also rooms. Dinner will be served later."

"No... Really from what to what...... I'm sorry."

"No, because when we're in trouble, we're each other. And it's a pleasure to welcome you."

Takumi keeps the trunk in Nyarch while gently speaking to Natl, who is shunned, to calm him down.

"Bye, Nyarch. May I have Mr. Natl escorted to your room? I think it's fine next to our own room. Oh, and boil him a bath, too."

"Aye, aye! Well, Natl, it's nice to meet you!

"Oh, yes, thank you for your help."

Nyarch received the large trunk of Natl that Takumi had in his hand, and then went upstairs to try to take Natl's hand and pull it as well.

The second floor of this station building was a little dormitory, with four private rooms for one or two people and one large room, in addition to the one used by Takumi and Nyarch as a residence.

I don't operate as an accommodation because I can't get around to it right now, but I haven't usually neglected to clean and make beds so it's okay to have sudden visitors.

Dropping off Nyarch and Natl going upstairs, Takumi headed to the pantry next to the kitchen.

It's not loose on ingredients because it's sudden, but if we combine the ingredients we have left today well, we're going to figure it out.

Nyarch and I had planned to make it easy, but because of the arrival of the "guest of the night", let's make it a little elaborate… Takumi picked out the ingredients as she thought of today's menu.

Takumi checked the steps while arranging the selected ingredients on the kitchen table and proceeded to cooking.

First, chop the lettuce leaves, a vegetable very similar to lettuce, by hand, wash them thoroughly in a water bucket that has been sucked away, sprinkle them on a monkey, and drain them.

Next, wash the bright red, round tomato fruit well and slice it into a thickness of about 5 mm with a knife. Likewise, peppinos very similar to tai-eye cucumbers, yellow paprika, which is pepper-sized but meaty and firm, and red paprika were washed with water and sliced thinly, and placed in monkeys.

The next thing I took out after processing under the vegetables was the oil pickling of the fish that was stored in the pantry. Fish fillets, characterised by a dark lean called bonito, are immersed in plenty of oil that can be removed from the seed of a plant called Corza along with various herbs, carefully simmered over very low heat, and then transferred to a container together with the corsa oil to marinate.

It was engineered by Takumi so that fresh fish could be obtained and fish could be stored in this world without a refrigerator.

Takumi cut the oil and then put it in a bowl to loosen it up when she removed a block of Bonito's oil pickled about the size of her palm from the vessel.

There, add about two tablespoons of the oil that was marinating the bonito with a small spoon and squeeze the Naranja, a bright orange citrus. I pinched these together well to check the taste and seasoned them with salt pepper.

Then serve the vegetables you drained earlier in a slightly deeper wooden vessel. At the bottom, arrange the lettuga chiseled leaves, where the tomatoes, peppinos, red and yellow paprika are arranged in colour.

In the center, Bonito's loose body was placed with soothing oil and fruit juice, and the remaining juice in the bowl was also sprinkled on the vegetables. Once the one-item vegetable salad had been completed, it was moved to the pantry so that no extra temperature could be applied.

This is followed by the preparation of the main dishes. The prepared ingredients are pork end meats that were set aside in the daytime business.

Takumi finely beats this end meat with a knife into a mince. Add the chopped seboria (onion) and homemade tofu made with salt pepper, vanilla, eggs, powdered cheese, and even beans that resemble the soybeans of "This World” and mix well while beating with a knife. Where the whole thing fit well, it was divided into three equal parts, shaped as it drained air, and the hamburger species were completed.

I'm ready for the rest of the underneath, and I'm finally getting into finishing work.

Instead of gas stoves, firewood stoves were commonly used in this world, and the station kitchen was equipped with stove-shaped rocket stoves and one oven stove at a time that deformed the firewood stove.

Takumi put a small pot with a brown stew that she had left for bribery on top of the stove top when she got the match and set it on fire in the familiar handheld oven stove.

The oven stove ceiling is made of a cast iron plate so that the heat in the furnace is transmitted. Takumi had learned from experience that warming the oven's ceiling with heat was easier than rocket stoves, which were difficult to adjust to low heat when warming soups and sauces. The pan was warmed up with a little stirring, where the hot air had risen, and now the pan was moved towards the edge of the stove top, where the temperature was lower than in the center, so as not to overcook.

Next, also place a fire in the rocket stove and place a slightly larger frying pan on it. When the frying pan was made to sound chilli and sufficiently hot, when I saw the fit and added the beef fat, the greasy aroma rose to one side along with the sound of juwer.

There, all three of the earlier hamburger seeds are on board, and once baked on both sides, one on each of the three iron dishes that were prepared separately.

This iron dish was made to remember what was commonly used in Takumi's hometown coffee shop and was made to order, making it an essential part of this restaurant.

Place a skewered patter - potato-like potatoes - next to a baked hamburger and place in the oven for each iron dish. Now, if you look forward to the baking season, you can complete a special hamburger. Takumi finished cleaning up around the kitchen table while waiting to be baked, and prepared a round loaf of baked bread using the powder of the mace, cornflower (corn flour), which is the staple food.

Takumi anticipated the match from the small window in the oven when the hamburger burned up, and spoke to Nyarch, who was in the upstairs room through a voice tube provided in the kitchen.

"I think it's time you took Natl down for dinner."

"Aye, aye! Then Natl, come with me!

Apparently Nyarch took good care of Mr. Natl...... and relieved. Not so much, I heard patties and energetic footsteps from the stairs.

"Ouch! What's for dinner today?

"Yes, yes, take this and set it up for now. Ah, Mr. Natl, come over there, too."

When Takumi hands Nyarch a knife, fork, or dish for sorting, he returns to the kitchen to see how the hamburger finishes. When I put the skewer through a hamburger warmed enough in the oven, it flooded with clear gravy.

Confirming evidence that enough fire was passing through the hamburger, Takumi took the iron dish out of the oven and placed it on a wooden plate, transporting it to the table with vegetable salad, corn bread and a moderately boiled brown stew in a saucepot.

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"Wow...... I've never seen anything like this before..."

Natl raises his voice with a grumpy sound. Each seat was lined with iron hamburgers, and in the center of the table were salads and saucepots, plus corn bread.

"Oh, do you want a sauce? Or do you want it to stay that way?

"Er... you're lost. What will Mr. Nyarch do?

"Here's what I'm gonna do. Whoa!

Nyarch took the saucepot and sprinkled the brown stew sauce on only half of the hamburger. From the iron plate the sound of juwaroo was echoed, as well as the aroma of the burning fragrance of the sauce spread on one side of the perimeter.

"Oh, and then I'll let you do the same! It's a corner, and I want to have fun with both."

"You got it. Then I'll call you!

Nyarch puts only half the sauce on Natl's hamburger, just like his plate. Takumi, who was flattered to see how it was, also received the sauce from Nyarch and still spent only half the sauce, just like the other two.

"Now, hand in hand... please"

"I'll have it. Nah!

Natl, although slightly bewildered by his pre-meal prayers in very short words, which he was unfamiliar with hearing, prayed in his hands before his chest as well.

(God. Thank you for getting today's food, and for meeting you two lovely people.

"Sa, go ahead before it gets cold. But be careful, it's hot."

"Ha, thank you so much"

Natl decided to get it from Hamburg, who was unsure from which to eat but still had a very appetizing scent.

Stabbing a hamburger with a fork I took in my hand will stab me sooooooooooo without any resistance. It's softer than I imagined.

Then I cut in with a knife, and now plenty of gravy came out of it, and the iron plate played a delicious sound of juice.

(Fluffy! This is amazing!!

Natl mouthed the unsourced side as his first bite. The first thing that surprised me was its softness. Even my parents sometimes fed me hamburgers, but the sole that just rounded the meat was hard as dough and had a bossy texture.

But this hamburger gets gravy all over his mouth every time he chews. It was also juicy like a delicious soup stained, not greasy. Natl unexpectedly goes on eating two or three bites in obsession.

"This one tastes good, too. Why don't you try it?

Natl was too obsessed with hamburgers to realize that Nyarch was taking up vegetable salads.

On a plate received in her voice, on a retuga laid like a pale green carpet, were colorful vegetables and something like a fish flake.

"Yeah, what's on top of this?

"Oh, that's not cuttlefish... it's a confit of a fish called Bonito. I made it because I wanted to recreate a" tuna salad "that was often eaten where I used to live."

"Heh, is that a tuna salad? That sounds delicious. Okay, I'll take this, too."

Did Mr. Takumi come from somewhere far away...? Natl stretched his fork to a tuna salad, thinking.

One or two bites and proceeding, the shaky retuga texture is complemented by the hollow texture of the fish flakes, filling the mouth with what a pleasant taste. The sweet and sour flavour of the refreshing citrus had wiped away the oil nicely, while the oil, which brings together the scent of vanilla, roughly wrapped the vegetables, which often had an egg flavour.

The mountain-grown nattle was surprised in itself that it would match the fish to the salad in this way, but the salad with such a delicious sauce was the first experience in the first place.

That's when a tickling pain ran in Natl's heart. Such an amazing treat is, of course, my first experience in my life. I'm sure I wouldn't be able to speak of such great food if it weren't for all the mansions I'd serve next time. Maybe it made Takumi so sweet that she put an awesome burden on him......

Once I felt that way, the magnitude of my failures was so heavy in my mind that I couldn't move forward with the fork even though it was a delicious meal because of it.

"Ni? What's wrong?

Nyarch looks worried about Natl as the fork stops and leans over. When Nyarch peeked in, Natl's expression was still about to cry out.

"Hmm, didn't it suit your mouth very well?

Words are spoken by the two of them, and Natl looks up all the time.

"Oh, that's not at all true! Conversely, such great food, I've never really been born before...... So, when I think Takumi made me do it, I'm really sorry..."

Takumi opens her mouth, but before that, Nyachi is fuzzy? He raised his voice like a question mark sounded all the time and spoke to Natl.

"Hmm? This is the usual night meal that Takumi makes me. But there's Natl, so it sounds like he's just making hamburgers and stuff a little polite? Oh, my husband, is that so?

Natl unwittingly pokanned by Nyarch's words, but Takumi nodded silently to show her willingness to affirm.

As for takumi, although I use unusual ingredients such as Bonito's oil pickles and tofu because it's more of an opportunity to watch out for appearance colors than usual, the basics were in the usual range of "unusual rice with extra stuff”.

Takumi went on like this to reassure Natl.

"Look, we talked about running coffee shops here during the day, right? In doing so, I really get extra ingredients, so I usually make extra dinner by reusing it well. The hamburger sauce you put on there, actually, is just boiled brown stew served on the lunch menu."

"Huh? Why is this a stew?

How many surprises would it have been today? Natl cut the hamburger on the sauced side, which he hadn't eaten yet, and carried it to his mouth.

Unlike the part without a delicious sauce where the taste of straight and powerful meat was delicious, this one blended with the rich flavour of a well-simmered brown stew with a fluffy, soft texture but also a gravy-filled hamburger flavour, and this one tasted stuffy enough.

"I can't believe you tried it this way...... Are you really, really an extra stew of things?

Seeing Natl finally feeling better, Takumi replied with a laugh.

"Yeah, I am. It's authentic, it's extra stuff. I'm not too proud of you."

"But I wish it tasted good! I wish Natl would laugh if it was delicious too!

I stare at Natl as Nyarch tingles his cat ears.

Natl began to laugh with Couscous, unable to stand Nyarch's clear, crushed cat-eye gaze.

"Right. You're having such a delicious meal because of it, you have to enjoy it. Thank you so much."

"If you say so, I'll run out of cook profits. There's still plenty to eat."

"That's right, this bread tastes good even this way!

That being said quickly, Nyarch stuffed the remaining sauce in the iron plate with bread and threw it into his mouth.

I look at the gnatch eating mogi with a happy smile, and I wonder if Natl is a bit too......, I eat sauce on bread in the same way. Yeah, I knew it was delicious! Natl reached for the bread, the salad and, of course, the hamburger, obsessed.

Natl, who finished dinner so beautifully that he didn't leave a drop of sauce, couldn't believe it was "rice with extra stuff" as one of them.

But that's because I'm sure Takumi is a first-rate cook. I'll try to be a cook like Takumi one day too......

Natl was so vowed to his heart as he helped wash things as a thank you at least.

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The next morning, Natl boarded the first train in the morning and was on his way to his original destination station.

As yesterday, there was a single box of paper in Natl's hand sitting in the free seat of a third class car. Takumi gave it to me to eat on the train instead of breakfast.

When Natl gently opened that box of paper, there were two types of rolls inside that were cut into large bites for ease of eating.

One is a combination of lettuga chopped and thinly sliced seboria, and baked bacon on tomatoes and crisps wrapped in tortillas. I was in my hometown. It was a combination I was used to eating as much as I had made it myself, but it had a great balance of texture and flavoring and was delicious enough to make me smile naturally.

Natl, who took the other roll, stares at its contents with a shiver. This roll was wrapped with ingredients that Natl had never seen at all.

The vegetables in it are probably chopped Leporillo leaves. Although Leporillo, very similar to Retuga but thick in leaves, is commonly used as an ingredient in stewed dishes and soups, he never had the experience of chopping them up and eating them raw in this way.

Plus, it contains the fish flakes that were also used in yesterday's salad. This is the first time I've seen white sauce soothed throughout those ingredients.

Natl tries licking Pelo with only the sauce on his fingertips first. Then, along with the mellow flavor of the fluffy egg, a good acidity spread in his mouth.

That's all the sauce tastes good, I'm sure this would... Natl sets his expectations and now chews the whole bite-sized roll into his mouth.

Shaky repolo's pleasant teething, and fish flakes and earlier sauces became an exquisite harmony in his mouth, enveloping the nattle in a very happy mood.

Another day, we'll save some money and go see Mr. Takumi and Mr. Nyarch. At that time, as a proper "coffee shop guest," let's have a delicious cup of rice. Besides, if you get a chance, then my cooking too......

Natl renewed his determination to work hard as a cook apprentice at the Mansion, which begins today.