We arrived at the bakery.
The aroma of wheat smells good.
Nell and Mac-kun are about to enter the bakery, but I wait in front of the bakery.
“I always wondered, why don’t you come inside, Neko-san?”
Nell invited me to join her, but I knew animals weren’t allowed in a shop that sells food.
[Buy me 20 loaves of rye bread.]
“Okaay.”
They enter the shop.
I was relaxing before the shop when Siam-chan, a red-haired girl, came.
She is the bakery owner’s daughter. Her age is about 13 years old.
“What are you doing here, Neko-san?”
“Nyaa— (I’m waiting).”
“Really? You came to shop with Nell-chan, didn’t you?”
Huh? Did she understand what I said?
“Nyaa— (Do you understand what I’m saying?)”
“Huh? Do you want some food? Wait here a minute.”
It seemed I was imagining things. Siam-chan gave me some dried meat.
No, I don’t want it.
I shake my head.
“No? Do you want to play?”
“Here, I have some grass for you to play.”
She pulls the grass and plays with it in front of my eyes.
There’s no choice, but to play with it.
I played with Siam-chan until Nell and Mac-kun finished shopping.
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Once we were done shopping at the bakery, we headed to the market.
This is where farmers and hunters display their goods.
I bought wheat and salt at the market.
Unfortunately, the eggs I wanted were sold out.
I would make fried chicken for Aurene and the others, but it would only be possible with eggs.
The sugar I wanted was expensive. The cost to buy one bag of sugar is enough to live in an inn for a year.
Why don’t I try making it using alchemy?
When we arrived at Mac-kun’s room at the inn, I took out a large amount of wood from my [Four Dimensional Space].
I extract cellulose using [Separation Alchemy].
I took out another thing from the dimensional space.
Cellulose is glucose bonded to β-1,4.
The water is splashed on the woods.
Then, it is hydrolyzed using [Transformative Alchemy] and turned into glucose.
Lastly, dry it with [Accelerated Alchemy].
We now have a large amount of glucose.
All that remained was to combine it with fructose and the sugar was ready.
“Neko-san, what is this powder?”
“Sweet! It tastes sweet!”
It wasn’t sweeter than sugar since it’s not finished yet but that’s okay.
I share the glucose with Nell and Mac-kun.