The Cooking Princess - Chapter 95

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Chloe opened her mouth and described in detail the appearance of what she presumed to be an octopus to the sailor who was asking about her business.

“You mentioned before that there was an unusual creature that spits black liquid.”

When she added the specific details, the person in charge of catching sea monsters seemed to understand.

“It appears occasionally. It’s very large in size and very fast too.”

‘Were octopuses really that big?’

Chloe had such doubts, but soon dismissed them.

It wasn’t uncommon for creatures she knew from Earth to have different sizes or shapes in this world.

Just like the chickens, octopuses could be much larger too.

“It doesn’t come out that often. When it does appear, it interferes with fishing, so it’s fortunate that it doesn’t… but.”

Could an octopus really cause enough trouble to interfere with fishing?

Chloe barely suppressed the questions that kept arising and listened carefully to what the supervisor was saying.

“When it will appear, ah. The timing is incredibly good. That’s it right there!”

And at the tip of the man’s pointing finger was an undeniably huge octopus.

“Huh?”

It really was a ‘huge’ octopus.

Chloe couldn’t adapt to the reality that the octopus was almost as big as a ship and rubbed her eyes several times.

“How terrible.”

Even Shuel, who rarely used negative expressions, frowned and looked disgusted at the giant octopus attacking ships with its massive tentacles.

Realizing that it wasn’t an octopus but a real Kraken that had appeared, Chloe forgot her dignity and gaped with her mouth wide open.

‘Of course the chickens were big too. They were big… but still!’

Perhaps because the octopus had grown so large, it felt somewhat like a tentacle monster.

She could very well understand why the sailors called the octopus a monster!

‘No, that’s not something you can just dismiss as merely large, is it?’

It’s not shooting ink but something like black lasers?

‘So this is what a real monster looks like.’

Chloe stared blankly with a dumbfounded expression.

She was at a loss as to how to catch that thing, how to transport it, and how to cook it.

Seeing Chloe’s blank expression, Shuel, who could easily guess that this was her ‘cooking ingredient,’ let out a groan.

“Hmm.”

It seemed like even Shuel would hesitate to serve food made from such a monster to his family’s enemy.

‘No, someone like the Empress might be fine eating such food.’

Anyway.

He had seen various cooking ingredients that Chloe used, but that thing was seriously abnormal.

Thinking that Chloe, who considered that thing as cooking ingredient, was quite extraordinary, Shuel looked at Chloe.

As soon as he finished his thoughts and looked at Chloe, she asked as if she had been waiting.

“How does it look as a cooking ingredient?”

Shuel pondered for a moment and decided to answer honestly.

“Of course I support Chloe’s challenge. Chloe has always found delicious ingredients and made excellent dishes with them. I think it’s a cooking ingredient that perfectly matches the Merchant Prince’s request to make something that looks grotesque but tastes good. However…”

I understand what you mean. Use it just this once and never serve it at your table again.

Even when Chloe looked at him with a surprised expression, seeing Shuel refuse so firmly for the first time, his opinion didn’t change.

“Sorry. No matter how delicious that might be, I don’t really want to eat it.”

Seeing Shuel, who usually ate whatever Chloe gave him eagerly, genuinely frown and show dislike for the first time, Chloe’s face became proud with the conviction that she had made the right choice.

“Now the problem is catching that thing.”

When Chloe spoke with an enthusiastic voice, Shuel asked back with slight disgust.

“Really… you’re going to cook with that?”

“Yes? Yes. Of course.”

Shuel remained silent, looking at the octopus writhing its tentacles to completely destroy the ship, then finally closed his eyes tightly.

“First of all, Chloe, it seems like ordinary force won’t be enough to catch that thing.”

It looked like only someone like the Merchant Prince or Claude could catch that monster in a one-on-one fight.

But Shuel and Chloe had ships.

Chloe asked while gauging Shuel’s reaction.

“Couldn’t you do something about it?”

Of course it wasn’t impossible.

He had already finished calculating how to efficiently sink a giant ship from the brief naval battle he had experienced recently.

No matter how smart the monster was, it probably wasn’t smarter than an enemy commander, so there shouldn’t be any problem defeating it.

Even while thinking this, Shuel made a disgusted face as he looked at the Kraken rampaging with its tremendous tentacle strength.

“It’s possible, but we’ll have to accept damage on our side too.”

At Shuel’s words that they would have to risk their lives since there was no information about how strong that grotesque monster was, Chloe thought reluctantly.

‘These kinds of monsters will side with Claude later.’

Chloe looked at the Kraken once more and couldn’t hide her uneasiness as she watched it mercilessly destroy other ships in real time.

‘Considering how many ships have been destroyed, there haven’t been any casualties yet.’

But the fact that there had been no casualties so far was just luck.

‘Unlike other ingredients, octopus will have supply problems.’

If there was nothing else to eat, it might be different, but when there was food everywhere, she couldn’t consume other people’s lives unnecessarily.

Chloe had been lucky to only encounter small or weak monsters so far, making her think lightly of monsters.

The status of ‘monsters’ was much higher than she had thought.

No matter how many ships Chloe had and how much she poured into war, if thirty such Krakens appeared, she honestly had no confidence in winning.

The basic weight class was different.

She understood why Claude in the ‘original story’ had rebelled with such a confident attitude.

If the Temple, which could easily defeat monsters, hadn’t sided with Shuel, Shuel would have surely been defeated.

‘But now, Shurya is being accused of being a fake Saint.’

Although Shurya said it was intentional for some reason. What if things went wrong and Shuel couldn’t receive help from Shurya?

With anxious thoughts, Chloe felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.

But she couldn’t personally increase her private soldiers.

Because it was obvious she would be checked by the Emperor again.

What should she do if, like in the original story, Claude successfully joined hands with the northern barbarians he had managed to bring down and rebelled against the Luzhiere Empire?

‘Of course, with Eshir’s support, somehow… But the Magic Tower has its own interests too.’

Shuel, who misinterpreted Chloe’s complex feelings, asked.

“The monster was much bigger than Chloe expected, I see. It’s rare for you to be flustered.”

“It’s not that, it’s just that the monster seems more powerful than I thought.”

“Huh? Yes, monsters are powerful.”

At Shuel’s agreement, Chloe casually added.

“What if monsters unite and become hostile to the Empire? There’s no good solution.”

In fact, even Shuel, who was smart and skilled in strategy, didn’t know that Claude would join hands with monsters, so without Shurya’s help, he was helplessly defeated.

But this time would be different.

At Chloe’s words, Shuel was about to reply that it was nonsense, but then added this.

“Just in case, it wouldn’t be bad to think of a plan.”

‘Success!’

Thinking it would be better to be attacked while having some expectation rather than being caught off guard without any thought, Chloe now began to think about how to hunt the Kraken.

“So how should we catch that thing?”

“First we’ll have to try shooting cannons… but since Chloe said she’d use that as a cooking ingredient.”

We’d have to catch it with minimal damage, but honestly, Shuel said he couldn’t see a way.

“Even if there’s damage, I’ll aim to catch it first.”

Since it was a monster he was seeing for the first time, he might even have to use magic with magic stones depending on the situation, and Shuel’s face looked truly reluctant.

Shuel ordered Chloe’s subordinates to fire cannons at the Kraken that was trying to swallow an entire ship whole.

The octopus’s huge eyes turned toward them.

‘Wow, a giant monster.’

Since Chloe and Shuel were still on the ship, Chloe made direct eye contact with the monster Kraken.

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