Boukensha Sakaba no Ryourinin - Vol. 1 Ch. 5

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Everyone saying he should have just given her the living rabbit, isn't thinking about this in the long-term living with your monster-adjacent family member way. Like your vampire child can be perfectly healthy if you bring over a rootless drifter to be drained once a week, but the bodies and suspicions will pile up pretty quickly; instead the long-term solution is to setup a blood bank, where no one would notice a bit going missing from time to time.

Doing it this way gets him a new revenue stream, dish, and socially acceptable way for his daughter to get her needed nutrition. It even helps the adventurers with a new type of gathering quest.
Nobody is saying he shouldn't find way to make monster meat taste good, just that he should prioritize getting her better first. There are plenty of ways to do that. For example, let her eat raw meat and get healed, but then she could say she got accustomized to his cooking and the raw food taste bad - not only that explains why she have been hidden the fact that she need monster meat, but also gives motivation for him to cook tasty food out of it.
 
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Maybe it has to do with nutritional content? She was pretty rough in Chapter 3, and those wounds didn't look fresh. It could be that it would've taken a while to recover by eating raw meat. There's also the fact that harder to catch monsters might be more nutritionally dense than the rabbits they're catching, so it could make sense to lose a dozen to experimentation to make the most of the meat.

Edit: I don't quite agree with this anymore. I left a comment below explaining my current thoughts.
 
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Nobody is saying he shouldn't find way to make monster meat taste good, just that he should prioritize getting her better first. There are plenty of ways to do that. For example, let her eat raw meat and get healed, but then she could say she got accustomized to his cooking and the raw food taste bad - not only that explains why she have been hidden the fact that she need monster meat, but also gives motivation for him to cook tasty food out of it.
I think I got it. Look at how fast the rabbit starts dissolving after it dies on page 32. Ukano would only be able to take one or two bites from each rabbit before they disappear. Since cooking the meat prevents it from decomposing, Yugudora and Sefi don't need to catch as many rabbits. If Yoishi wasn't cooking them, they'd need to catch maybe five or more times as many to yield an equivalent amount of meat. That's probably not feasible for them. It's a logistics issue rather than a culinary issue, the food tasting good is just a side effect of processing the meat.
 
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So she's some sorta escaped boss monster and not a young dragon, huh.
 
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This is just so contrived and artificial. The entire thing could have been avoided if the author didn't force the setting to work like a video game. Complete turn-off. I don't read manga to clap when characters jump through stupid hoops.
 
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Holy shit. This is the kind of crap that gets mythologized. The man cooked literally untouchable meat. Like, if this was shinto folklore, he'd be know the chef of morning mist.

FOr how he saved his daughter's life, grasping drifting spirit as if mourning mist with the wisp of a good homecooked meal.

Also.
I really hope some academics stop by this restaurant and realize that he's casually cooking and serving MONSTER MEAT. In an impressive display of academic experimentation and know how.

Like. I know it's going to stay comfy style, but i have this hilarious image of the Dungeon Chef closing the restaurant for a month, taking his dragon daughter on work-vacation in a far off elven academy where he gives a series of lectures on how he discovered and invented methods of preparing food.

like the freeze dryer alone from the last chapter is revolutionary. he and dogdog would be copilots.

imagine being a student a hundred years from now and this random chef keeps on popping up everywhere. culinary magazines, agricultural studies, citations on the magizoology of dungeon animals, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, what do you mean his creation of rations helped stave off disease!? what do you mean he founded nutritional studies!? what doesn't this man do?

of course, that's just me being dramatic, but he's done a lot.

sorry. i'm an academic. i like imagining things and debates on world-building.

food really is important when you think about it. they say a country collapses if the people starve for 3 days. arcs in one piece are often centered around food.

i really enjoy japanese cooking manga. cooking shows in america are often aggressive, loud-and-fast, in your face. but japanese cooking manga, even the whacky ones like shokugeki no soma and yakitate no japan, have a deep respect for food underneath all the gags.

where in american and western shows, the kitchen is the backdrop for the drama, japanese cooking manga center the drama around the food. that's fucking beautiful. imagine food as a metaphor for love, grief, care, and forgiveness.

there's such a deep appreciation for life in how food is prepared, how we see the struggle to understand, and the joy in the success of a smiling face after a good meal.

whelp. i'm done. night folks.
 
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oh that's how he got the scar


glad it's a doting father dynamic and not 'romantic loli'

if this has an isekai tag , shame he didn't get cooking related powers but not that he needs it at this point but i can totally imagine some "OP" mcs using their fire magic specifically to cook

interesting lore for the meat to 'go bad' that quickly you'd think it'd be something common to eat in this world
 

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