I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

This left Fujimaru Tachibana and the others quite puzzled. However, Tokisaki Kurumi, who was standing nearby, said she would tell Zelus about it. After all, if Fou were to be used as a combatant, she would definitely be a powerful one. Moreover, the news of Fou's disappearance was also very important, since if something had happened to her, it would be a big problem.

Moreover, what could threaten Fou's existence is an even bigger question.

Kurumi Tokisaki looked at Tachibana Fujimaru and Mashu in front of her and said:

"Ms. Fujimaru and Ms. Mashu, it's getting late. Let me take you to the bathroom to take a bath and then get some rest."

After hearing Kurumi Tokisaki's words, Tachibana Fujimaru and Mashu did not refuse. After all, they were also a little tired, and now was the perfect time to rest and recover their strength.

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The next day, Kurumi Tokisaki introduced Tachibana Fujimaru and Mashu to everyone having breakfast. Tachibana's eyes lit up at the sight of so many beautiful girls. She suddenly felt incredibly lucky to have come to this place; indeed, Yuuyu was her lucky star!

Seeing that Fujimaru Tachibana was drooling, Mashu covered her face and dared not look at him, afraid that she would embarrass herself as well.

Volume 1 [Lazy to Divide into Chapters]: Chapter 1377 [The Cause of the Outbreak]

At a seaside location in the Tokyo area, a young man was fishing at a port. Judging from the empty box next to him, it was clear that he hadn't caught a single fish.

This is a typical day for a fisherman.

Seeing the float on the water move, the fisherman immediately perked up and pulled up his fishing rod. However, when he saw what he had caught, he immediately showed a look of disgust.

The reason was nothing special; I simply caught what is known as a pufferfish.

Pufferfish is arguably the most hated fish among anglers. Although pufferfish meat is delicious and nutritious, one major problem is that wild pufferfish are highly poisonous. Almost no one dares to eat wild pufferfish, and those who do usually die.

Besides the fact that they can't be eaten, anglers dislike pufferfish because their mouths can threaten fishing hooks and lines. Pufferfish can easily bite off hooks and lines without the angler noticing, and they'll just stand there fishing, dumbfounded, until they realize something is wrong and don't know how much time has passed.

"Damn pufferfish, screw you!"

The angry fisherman was also furious. He took the pufferfish off the hook, wiped his shoes with the pufferfish, and threw it back into the sea.

After replacing the nearly broken hook on his fishing line with a new hook and bait, the fisherman cast his line into the sea. He then sat back down in his chair and sighed. He had been fishing there since dawn, for quite some time now, without any success. His only catches were a few pufferfish and some trash that some heartless bastard had thrown into the sea.

Thinking about these things, the fisherman couldn't help but feel a little angry. At this moment, he felt a slight vibration from his fishing rod and became alert. Suddenly, a loud noise from the fishing rod caught him off guard, but he quickly recovered, gripped the rod tightly, and began to fight with his prey in the water.

"My God! What kind of fish is this with such strength?! Could it be that I caught too many pufferfish today and finally got lucky and caught a big fish?!"

Thinking about all this, the fisherman couldn't help but smile with excitement. After struggling with the fish for a long time, he finally managed to reel it in.

"Phew~ I finally caught it! It really is a big fish!"

The fisherman was very excited to see a fish about the size of his arm hanging on his fishing rod, but soon he looked at the big fish with a puzzled expression.

The fisherman couldn't even identify the species of the large fish he had caught. He had been fishing here for several years and knew exactly what kind of fish lived here, but this big fish in front of him didn't look like any of the fish that lived in this area.

After all, the fisherman had never seen a fish with eyes as red as a rabbit's, and the fish's body seemed to have features from multiple different fish, which made it look very strange.

The fisherman was puzzled by this, but decided it would be better to show the fish to the other members of the fishing association. After all, it would be embarrassing not to show off such a unique fish that he had caught for the first time.

Thinking this, the fisherman tried to remove the fish from the hook. Just as he was doing so, the large red-eyed fish suddenly broke free from his hand and bit him. The fisherman gasped in pain as he felt the pain in his hand, and he slapped the strange fish to the ground.

The large fish that had been hit on the ground thrashed around a few times. Because it had exhausted too much energy fighting the fisherman, it didn't have the strength to jump back into the sea.

The fisherman frowned as he looked at the wound on his hand caused by the big red-eyed fish. Although it was bleeding, the wound wasn't very deep, and he could wipe it with some tissues.

After treating his wounds, the fisherman threw the large red-eyed fish into his box and left the dock with it. Of course, he had no idea that he had brought a disaster to the Tokyo area.

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Located somewhere in the ocean, several hundred meters above sea level, a giant, red and white monster, over 50 meters long, roams about, its terrifying howls creating a chilling atmosphere around it.

Soon, the giant sea serpent-like monster seemed to sense something and looked up at the surface of the sea. Then, the giant sea serpent saw a small figure swimming towards it. Upon seeing this, the giant sea serpent monster let out a terrifying howl and quickly swam towards the other side. Then, when the giant sea serpent-like monster saw a light flash, the next second, the giant sea serpent-like monster was pierced through the body by a beam of light.

Then, the giant sea serpent-like monster showed signs of becoming digitized and gradually disappeared.

After the small figure finished doing all this, she swam towards the sea. At the same time, four World War II-era destroyers were anchored on the sea. These four destroyers belonged to Laffey, Z23, Ayanami, and Javelin. The four of them were also squatting on Laffey's ship, waiting for someone.

After a few bubbles rose to the surface of the sea, Yhaka emerged. He flew to Laffey's ship, shook off the seawater, and began to evaporate it. Seeing Yhaka return, Javelin and the others gathered around and asked him:

"YuYu-chan, has that giant monster in the sea been dealt with?"

Upon hearing Javelin's question, Yuhaka gave Javelin and the others a thumbs-up and said:

"Hmm, Youyou finished off that big eel, too bad... I can't eat it... QwQ"

The thought of that giant eel-like biological data disappearing corpse immediately brought a look of utter despair to Yuhaka's face. After all, for Yuhaka, discovering new ingredients that she couldn't eat was like having new food placed in front of her but not being allowed to eat it.

Seeing Yuhaka on the verge of tears, Laffey comforted her, patting her head and telling her not to be sad. Meanwhile, Ayanami, with a nostalgic expression, said:

"Speaking of eel, Ayanami misses the eel rice at Sakura Empire a bit."

Hearing Ayanami's words, Yuhaka also seemed to snap out of his daze and looked at Ayanami, saying:

"How about this time when we go back, Youyou makes eel rice bowls?"

Upon hearing Yuhaka's words, Z23 couldn't help but show a curious expression and said:

"Eel rice bowl? Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever had eel before."

Lafite, who was standing to the side, also raised his little hand and said to the others:

"I've never eaten Lafite either."

Javelin nodded, indicating that she, like the others, had never eaten it. Seeing everyone's reaction, Yuhaka led Javelin and the others back. After Yuhaka and the others returned, a drone arrived at the location, but after finding nothing, it flew back as if unwilling to give up.

Of course, when Yuhaka and the others returned, they had no idea that someone was looking for them.

Volume 1 [Lazy Chapters]: Chapter 1378 [The Art of Killing the Stained Eel]

In the imaginary space where Yhaka was, Yhaka brought Raffi and her group back.

After Laffey and her ship landed on the Mediterranean island where Yuhaka was located, Yuhaka led them to a village-like area on the island. There, a bunch of cats greeted Yuhaka and her group when they saw them arrive.

This island, which resembles a village, is where Yuhaka farms seafood that she likes to eat, and the cats and their friends manage it, since Yuhaka can't possibly come here often to manage the seafood.

"Boss Youyou! What kind of seafood do you want to get today, meow?"

"Eel~ Youyou wants to eat eel today OwO~"

Upon hearing the Palico in charge of managing the area, Yuhaka told it that she wanted to eat eel. The Palico nodded in understanding and then led Yuhaka and the others to the eel breeding tank.

Soon, led by the Palico, Eyjafjalla and the others arrived at the location of the marine breeding tank built at sea. Here, they kept many marine creatures that Eyjafjalla had brought from the outside world. Most of these were unique seafood specialties from all over the world or from other events.

Of course, due to environmental limitations, the number of creatures that can be raised in the aquaculture farms established on these islands is very limited. Some of the most ferocious seafood and seafood that prefer unique environments are not suitable for raising here.

The Palico took out a net and scooped out a few eels from the eel enclosure. Although they were called eels, they were not native to Earth, but a special type of eel from the Monster Hunter world.

Ayanami, standing to the side, looked at the eel that the Palico had caught with a puzzled expression. The reason for her puzzlement was simple: the eel that the Palico had caught was completely different from the eels she had ever seen. Compared to eels on Earth, the eel that the Palico had caught was more like the wavy eel from the Coral Highlands. However, compared to the wavy eel, the body tissues that looked like gills or fins on the sides of these eels were smaller, while the dorsal fin was larger and had a shape like ocean waves.

For this reason, this type of eel is called the sea-patterned eel, which is one of the high-grade ingredients in the Monster Hunter world. It can only be caught in the waters near a certain island nation. Of course, the sea-patterned eel is not easy to catch. In addition to the fact that the sea-patterned eel itself is not easy to catch, there are also many large monsters in the area where the sea-patterned eel lives, which makes the sea-patterned eel even more difficult to catch.

But this is not difficult for Yuhaka.

"Um...is this...eel?"

Looking at the sea-patterned eel, Ayanami asked Yuhka and the Palico with a puzzled expression. Hearing Ayanami's question, Yuhka nodded and said:

"That's right~ Delicious sea eel~ OwO~"

Watching Yuhaka sway her body like a wriggling eel, Javelin and the others couldn't help but look at the unique patterned eel with curiosity. Yuhaka reached out and grabbed a patterned eel, then checked its growth. After checking the eel's growth, Yuhaka nodded in satisfaction.

With no natural predators and no shortage of food, these striped eels are growing very well, much better than the striped eels caught in the market.

After Yhaka confirmed that the sea eel was safe to eat, she had the Palicoes scoop up some of it. After Yhaka selected some, she and the others left.

Back home, Yuhaka and his group went to the kitchen and began to butcher the sea eels. Although sea eels are quite different from eels on Earth, the butchering method was the same.

After cleaning the eels with water, Yuhaka used ice to reduce their activity, preventing them from swaying like wriggling eels when being slaughtered, which would be bad if the wrong parts were cut.

Of course, this is basically no difficulty for Yuhaka, but the key is that there are other people on Yuhaka's side who need to learn how to kill the sea eel. If it were just Yuhaka alone, he could finish it off in a few quick moves, but the others couldn't.

On Yuhaka's side, Elodie, Elena, and Javelin put on aprons and took out knives to butcher the sea eels. As for why Javelin and the others came to butcher the eels with Yuhaka, it was to help him. Of course, they didn't know that even if they didn't come to help, Yuhaka could easily take care of all the sea eels.

"Are you ready? OwO~"

Wearing an apron, Yuhaka looked at everyone with an "OwO~" expression and asked them this question. Hearing Yuhaka's question, Elodie, Elena, and Javelin nodded to indicate that they were ready. After everyone indicated that they were ready, Yuhaka began to demonstrate how to butcher the sea eel.

After taking one of the sea eels out of the ice water, Yuhaka placed it on the cutting board. Then, using Ester, which had transformed into a knife, he made a cut behind the sea eel's head, severing its spine to prevent it from struggling. Of course, he couldn't separate the sea eel's head from its body, as that would make further processing difficult.

After severing the spine at the neck of the sea eel, Yuhaka took out a steel needle and fixed the sea eel to the cutting board.

Yuhaka sliced ​​the eel's body along its spine, like unzipping a zipper, leaving it in pieces. Elodie and Elena, who were watching from the side, were amazed, as Yuhaka's movements were incredibly smooth, cutting the eel as fluidly as drawing.

After Yuhaka cut open the sea eel, he cleaned out its internal organs and then removed the entire bone along the spine. After that, Yuhaka cut off the sea eel's head, and now the steel needles for fixing it were no longer needed.

After processing these parts, Yuhaka also removes the abdominal bone, wave-shaped dorsal fin, and caudal fin of the sea eel. After processing, a complete sea eel is cut up.

After witnessing this scene, Javelin and the others couldn't help but clap their hands in surprise. Clearly, they felt a sense of "amazing! amazing!" from Yuhaka's technique.

After Yuhaka finished demonstrating the procedure, everyone was eager to try it out. After all, they felt that Yuhaka's technique was very simple, and they wanted to give it a shot.

However, it's just like the saying goes, "Brain: I understand! Hand: I don't understand!"

Soon, Elodie and her companions also made a mistake. For example, when the javelin caught the sea eel, because the sea eel was too slippery, it flew out of the javelin's hand like an eel. The flying sea eel also landed in Elaina's clothes not far away with a whoosh. Because of the cold and sticky feeling, Elaina immediately let out a scream of "Eek!?" Startled, Elaina dropped her knife. Elodie, who was standing nearby, was startled by Elaina's sudden scream and with a forceful movement chopped off the head of the sea eel on her cutting board, cutting the cutting board in two in the process.

Startled, Elena frantically tried to remove the eel from her clothes, but accidentally bumped into Z23. Z23, in turn, accidentally threw the eel at Laffey's face. Laffey, smeared with the eel, fell backward, but in doing so, she accidentally grabbed Ayanami's skirt, which was ripped off with a whoosh.

Ayanami, whose skirt was suddenly ripped off by Laffey, frantically tried to pull it back, but accidentally stepped on a sea eel thrown by Z23 and fell to the ground along with Laffey.

Seeing this, Yuhaka looked at Javelin with a blank expression, who had an embarrassed look on his face.

Volume 1 [Lazy Chapters]: Chapter 1379 [Grilled Eel Rice Bowl]

After a very arduous process of slaughtering the sea eels, the sea eels brought by Yuhaka were finally all processed.

Javelin and the others slumped into chairs nearby. Clearly, they found it very difficult to kill the sea eels. Of course, apart from Elodie and Ayanami, one of them learned very quickly and knew how to kill them after trying once, while the other had helped out in the Sakura Empire's kitchen and had a foundation in swordsmanship, making it easier for her to handle the sea eels.

"Ugh... This is the first time I've ever handled seafood like this. To be honest, even fish isn't this difficult to prepare..."

Elena leaned back in her chair and sighed. To be honest, this was the first time Elena had ever killed a seafood like an eel. Although she had experience handling fish, the way Yuhaka handled it was different from how they handled it there. They would remove the fish bones.

In addition, the slime on the surface of the sea eel makes it difficult to grab, and it is also difficult to hold it down if the sea eel struggles.

Hearing Elena's words, Javelin, who was standing to the side, nodded and said:

"Indeed, eels are slippery and hard to catch..."

Moreover, Javelin immediately showed an embarrassed expression when she thought about what had happened to her today. After all, the fact that she had wiped out the entire eel-slaughtering team all by herself made Javelin feel very awkward, although Laffey and the others didn't seem to care about such things.

After cleaning the prepared sea eels, Yuhaka skewered them with skewers. Seeing this, Raffi and the others came over to help. Although skewering sea eel meat seems simple, it actually requires some patience and skill. After all, there's a saying: "Killing eels takes three years, skewering eels takes eight years, and grilling eels requires a lifetime of dedication." This shows how difficult these jobs are.

Fortunately, this task was relatively simple for Raffi and her team, at least they didn't have to deal with the swaying sea eels.

After skewering the sea eel, Yuhaka began preparing the charcoal grill. This time, the charcoal was not ordinary charcoal, but Yuhaka's special charcoal for grilling and smoking. Food grilled and smoked with this charcoal will have a unique smoky flavor, which will be very fragrant and not pungent.

After preparing the charcoal grill, Yuhaka placed the bones, tail, and head of the eel that had been removed earlier on a piece of aluminum foil and grilled them. Of course, the purpose of doing this was not to eat these things, but to use them to make the sauce for the grilled eel.