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As Amelia said, I got away from the wolf and returned to the room.

Actually, I wasn’t too worried. As Amelia said, I haven’t confirmed the extent of my abilities, but if I think about it, I haven’t had any problems so far.

Several months have passed since I gained my abilities. It has been a long enough time for a baby to be born to Snow and Gray.

It is impossible for a wolf with a cub to not be sensitive. Not only for wolves, but for any other animal, a pregnant individual becomes sensitive to its surroundings. This is even more so after giving birth to a cub.

However, Snow was friendly enough to tease me casually.

There is no mention of not only Snow, but also other wolves kept outside the lord’s castle biting people. Rather, it is said that they do not pay much attention even if small children approach them without permission. Although they are not as friendly as when they are around me, they just look at rocks. It seems like they look at each other with the same eyes.

Therefore, rather than controlling living creatures within a specific range, my ability would be closer to eliminating the hostility that certain living things have toward humans.

Originally, it would have been the power of a giant, but… … Well, considering that they had relationships with humans and gave birth to children, and that their sexual function was normal in later life, it seems that humans and giants are not completely different species, but rather the same species as dogs and wolves, but they were perceived differently because of their appearance.

“Would you like to visit other places?”

Amelia thought about my words for a moment and then nodded.

Adult conversations don’t end this early, so even if you stay in your room, you’ll have to wait for a while.

After thinking for a moment, I decided to show him my favorite place in this castle.

“Then this way.”

“Wait a minute.”

But before I could guide Amelia, Amelia first put the brakes on my steps.

“… … Is there a wolf on the side you are trying to guide me to?”

It seems like he doesn’t have any confidence in my abilities at all.

Well, I think it’s reasonable because in the original work, there was never a being called Elsidel Kish, and there were no people with the profession called Druid.

“No. Rather, it is a place where most animals cannot come.”

If you ask me, you can go in, but you can’t go in alive. However, it would be strange to say that ‘animals can go in anyway’.

“Okay, then I’ll leave it to you.”

At my answer, Amelia seemed a little relieved and exhaled softly and said that.

*

My favorite place in the castle is the kitchen.

To be precise, I liked the kitchen material storage room the most.

Although it is an extremely cold area, there is no place like a refrigerator that maintains the same temperature 365 days a year, so most of the food stored in the warehouse is preserved food. Most of the raw meat you can eat here is freshly caught, and the rest are sausages. It was processed meat like smoked meat.

Of course, it’s not that I don’t like those foods. They’re delicious. Although they’re much saltier and more flavorful than the ones I ate in my past life.

However, even in a warehouse full of emergency preserved foods, there were some unprocessed foods.

It was a potato straight from the mountains.

In Delki City, where snow is piled up all year round, there are not that many trees with flesh that people can eat. It’s not that there aren’t any, but most of them are wild, so they’re not big enough to fill you up and not sweet enough to be considered delicious. Even in this era, there are still plenty of them. Breeding of fruits was not as advanced as it is in modern times.

So, the northern diet consisted almost entirely of meat, with some edible herbs thrown in between.

One of the things that can be considered a ‘vegetarian diet’ in the North is live potatoes.

Wild potatoes, which grow randomly like weeds here and there on the mountain without the need to grow them, are an essential food for the people of Delki City. They usually save the sprouted ones, cultivate the field, plant them in the ground, and grow them separately.

Both the taste and texture were the same as the potatoes I knew, and the fact that they grow well in barren and cold regions is the same, so they are grown here and there in the Barony of Delquish. They are not cultivated on a large scale and are grown at the level of each home, so it is not enough to be called a specialty product, but it is stored in warehouses. Even if I took out one or two, it wasn’t so small that anyone would say anything.

“Potato… … ?”

When I brought out a bunch of potatoes from the warehouse, Amelia gave me a puzzled look.

“Delki City potatoes are famous for being delicious.”

“I’ve never heard of it… … .”

Is that so? Well, since we don’t export it, it makes sense.

“You will know for sure when you try it.”

Because I was baking and eating it even before welcoming the Archduke today.

I assured that and put the potatoes on the pan.

I wanted to make a bonfire and roast potatoes on skewers over a fire, but it was too much to do indoors. But I couldn’t take the Grand Duchess outside the castle in the dead of winter.

I put a lid on the pan. After putting it in the brazier where the fire was always burning, I turned around and saw Amelia still with a dazed look on her face.

“So… … Are potatoes eaten like snacks here?”

“It is also served as a side to the main menu.”

“Is that so… … ?”

After all, they are nobles, so what do they not know?

No, if you’re a Korean, haven’t you ever eaten steamed or baked potatoes as a snack? Or eating grilled butter at a rest stop.

There were the same foods here. Butter and cheese were made with deer milk, and potatoes were fried in deer fat.

But, there was still a reason why I baked potatoes.

“Anyway, give it a try. I promise it’s delicious.”

I spoke confidently to Amelia.

*

One side of the potato was slightly burnt, but it was cooked well. There will be no problem eating it.

Amelia stared at the potatoes in the wooden bowl in front of her.

Hmm, the response was worse than I expected.

I wondered if I should have grilled it with butter, but I denied that thought.

There was a big difference between picking up a few potatoes and eating dairy products. Even though it’s an item that can be made in our territory, it doesn’t always remain that way. If you touch it, the cook will be angry.

I placed a plate of potatoes in front of Amelia and another small plate next to it.

And then he took out the secret ingredient from his pocket.

“Oh!”

Amelia looked a little surprised when she saw me pouring it out onto a small plate.

Hehe.

That’s right. What I took out was—

“Sugar?”

It was sugar.

Of course, it is not pure white sugar like in the world I lived in. It is brown sugar that has not been completely refined.

It was a very precious spice.

It is so valuable that three deer had to be slaughtered alive to obtain about 1 kg of sugar. If there was a lot of demand for cows, one deer would be enough, but unfortunately, that was not the case for deer. On the other hand, since it is a rare deer in the south, it can be bought a little more expensively. I thought it might work, but there is only one merchant who comes and goes from here. If you think about the transportation fee… … Besides, catching a deer by my standards wasn’t that difficult.

It was sugar that I personally obtained and kept. Since I traded it myself, it was completely mine, and no one would say anything if I could eat it however I wanted.

“How delicious it is to eat freshly baked potatoes dipped in sugar.”

Let me say that with a smile,

“Potato, sugar… … Take a dip… … ?”

Amelia looked up at me with a blank expression and muttered.

What is the reaction of the water inhabitants of this world?

If you’re someone who hates potatoes and doesn’t even touch them, you probably have dipped them in sugar when you steam or bake them, right? If you’re Korean, that is. Other than that, I’m not sure how other countries eat them.

Or maybe you’re the type of person who takes it with a grain of salt?

When I tilted my head and looked at Amelia, she blinked a little late and said.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I received such precious treatment.”

Amelia quickly picked up a fork, cut the steaming potato into small pieces, and blew on it.

The rising steam followed Amelia’s breathing.

As if he thought it had cooled down enough, he dipped the potato in sugar and put it in his mouth.

“Ha.”

However, freshly baked potatoes do not get cold no matter how many times you blow them.

Steam was blowing out of her mouth and she was a bit disoriented, but after chewing and swallowing it a few times, Amelia looked up at me, smiled slightly, and said.

“It’s delicious.”

Right? It’s the taste of home, right?

Of course, potatoes are said to have originated in the New World, but since they have been eaten for hundreds of years, it would be safe to say that they are a hometown food.

Of course, I couldn’t say that I was from Korea.

“Do you not eat Lady Elsie?”

“Ah, yes, I was planning on eating from now on.”

Amelia asked, looking at my plate questioningly, so I walked over to my seat.