Rino returned to the farmhouse and saw his magic teacher huddled over the small kitchen countertop with a little clay cup and some linen cloth.
"What are you doing?"
There was a sharp smell in the air that Rino was unfamiliar with.
"Your food was insipid. Apart from the natural forest herbs, there wasn't anything else. I'm just experimenting with some flavour enhancing ingredients. At the same time, I thought you might appreciate some ink to accompany the paper production house you're making."
The flavour enhancing ingredient turned out to be vinegar. From his knowledge, it takes a long time to create vinegar because vinegar was the end product of the long fermentation process. Most people only made vinegar out of wine in his previous world only when the wine or beer was left out for too long.
He spent a day away putting his newly learned dark magic to use, but Kragami already fitted right in with the crowd.
