"Welcome again next time!"
However, when they left the Gourmet Merchants Guild, Seiya and Minezaki still gritted their teeth and spent two million yen on two jin of Mammoth Bear Meat. They also spent another million yen on a map and a Rare Ingredient Compendium.
They bought the Mammoth Bear Meat because Minezaki was practically drooling as she stared at it, and Seiya himself wanted to find out what was so special about these so-called rare ingredients.
"I can understand buying meat, but why did you also buy a map and an ingredient compendium?
We're chefs, not those so-called Gourmet Hunters.
Don't tell me... you thought that purchasing more would boost that pretty shopping agent's sales performance..."
Before Minezaki could finish, Seiya flicked her forehead hard.
"What else can that head of yours hold besides food and all sorts of nonsense?
If a chef doesn't even recognize the ingredients themselves, how is that any different from a doctor who doesn't recognize medicinal herbs?
And the next time we come here, are you planning to let them treat us like fat sheep to be slaughtered again?"
Seiya's explanation convinced Minezaki, but she soon picked up the map and asked, "I won't say anything about the Rare Ingredient Compendium, but what's with this map of the Gourmet World?!"
Seiya and Minezaki had only just learned from the saleswoman that the world they lived in actually had other regions.
Why had this camp been built here? Because farther north of it was the entrance to the Gourmet World.
The region they currently lived in was known as the Human World.
It was also because they lived in different regions that ordinary people had never seen those strange flowers, exotic plants, and dangerous creatures.
The map Seiya had bought from the Gourmet Merchants Guild