Leveling Up through Eating
chapter-12-1

Translator: ChubbyCheeks

The last skill, Bardy Swordsmanship, was like having a very capable buff while the remaining skills which were the Vital Strike and the Two Consecutive Quick Assault did not sound too bad.

If someone else were to learn this, they wouldn’t know how long it would take for them to grasp it.

In fact, the Bardy Swordsmanship that Minhyuk learned could be grasped in about a week. However, Minhyuk only needed 3 days to learn it.

“It’s not that bad!”

After saying those words, Minhyuk swung his sword again at Roina.

At night.

During the Bardy Swordsmanship training, Minhyuk suggested to Roina that they should make a round trip to Isbin Village.

However, he couldn’t just personally go and buy the ingredients in the village plus he has to finish the quest to eat the most delicious chicken too.

Besides, Roina was clearly very nice to him so he thought of repaying her goodness to him.

Of course.

‘We’ll eat chicken too. Huhuhu.’

Minhyuk and Roina went to her house together. Her house was a lot nicer compared to Valen’s house.

Furthermore, there were plenty of NPCs and users in the village so it didn’t look that lonely.

“Well, let’s start.”

Craaaack—

“Why does your eyes look more serious than when you’re training?”

Roina saw the determination in his eyes.

Minhyuk grinned at her.

He was already buying the groceries with Roina when she asked him.

‘He’s crazy… Is he going to do business in a chicken restaurant?! Why is he buying so much!’

But Minhyuk just bought his food in silence.

When he caught chickens he could get a very tiny amount of gold drops, plus he got 80,000 gold when he caught the golden chicken. Because of that, he had enough money to buy food and ingredients.

He also has his food storage inventory……

‘It’s so nice when I think about it!’

And he also has his secret weapon.

Well, let’s get started now.

Chicken.

It’s a food that men and women of all ages like. Young people nowadays have often called this chicken ‘chineunim [1]’. You would even be able to see comments all over SNS like ‘Are you going to eat chicken today?!’.

That’s how popular chicken was these days.

One would only need to order it and hot, savory chicken would be delivered straight to their doorsteps.

Sometimes people would get intoxicated with the smell when they get in an elevator with a delivery uncle who was holding a bag of chicken.

Minhyuk first went to the bathroom. Roina watched him blankly. This was because he had a large basin in his hands as he went to the bathroom.

He poured the milk he brought with a glug glug in the basin. Then he started to drop the well-cleaned chicken.

This is an excellent way to remove the fishy smell in the meat.

He didn’t have much time but he had a lot to make so he pulled them out after 30 minutes.

He then cut the chicken into pieces and scored it well, that way the soft and tender meat inside will be fried well.

He added ½ spoon salt, ½ spoon pepper and 1 spoon of ginger juice per chicken.

If ginger juice is not available, then you can add a bit of cooking wine, rice wine or soju.

He mixed it with his hands, then he left it for another 30 minutes.

He then added 1 cup of basic starch and 2 eggs produced by the golden chicken to his well-seasoned chicken.

Finally, he added a spoonful of curry powder to further remove the fishy smell and add the savory flavor of curry.

He mixed the batter carefully.

Now, everything was based on only one chicken however Minhyuk almost used half a barrel of salt. He also used the same amount of pepper.

He then used chopsticks to pick up the chicken and dropped it to the heated oil one by one.

Sizzleeeee—

Ah, it’s very aggressive.

This sound is very strong!

The sound of chicken going into oil.

Even if Minhyuk wasn’t sure if he would be able to eat chicken today, the aggressive sound can confirm it for him!

The chicken danced in the oil.

Minhyuk gulped as he watched it move.

Gulp—

“He….”

He smiled as he saw the chicken being fried into golden brown. Then, he took them out of the oil and tapped them on the kitchen towel.

Minhyuk repeated the process and finally made fried chicken as he chewed on his hard bread!

“I’m going out for a bit.”

“Yes, Instructor.”

Then Roina disappeared for about 2 hours. She appeared with her hands full of things.

“I bought some soft bread for you.”

When she entered the kitchen, she was shocked still.

“Are… Are you in a cooking class……? What’s this 150 servings for, did you prepare a squadron’s meal?!”

She saw that the kitchen was full of chicken.

“Oh, Instructor Valen had the same reaction. As expected of people in love, they think alike.”

Roina’s cheeks turned red as she heard his words.

“I, is that so?”

‘Huhuhuhu. I definitely have the gift of gab.’

Minhyuk carefully covered what he did with his flattering words.

[1] 치느님 : combination of 치킨 (chicken) and 하느님 (god). Lit. Chicken that we respect and love so much.

TL’s corner!!!

When you say score the meat it means you cut slits on the surface of the meat.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m TLing a vmmorpg, a mukbang or a cooking tutorial….