Riley had always liked rain.
He liked rain in his past life, and he still liked it even in the new life.
He loved listening to the sounds of raindrops. With his head resting on his hand, he loved to watch the scenery of the sky with dark clouds while being intoxicated by the mood of the atmosphere.
Also…
“Your order is ready.”
“Oh!”
Like this, he loved drinking and eating onion pancakes on a rainy day. He loved it very much.
“It’s here. It’s here!”
When Riley came to a city called Rainfield for the first time before, on the first day of the visit, he discovered what appeared to be onion pancake on a menu just like what he used to enjoy in his past life. When he found it, he couldn’t shake himself off from the shock for a while.
There was a time when he ate onion pancakes for all three meals of the day.
“I get to finally eat it!”
Until now, Riley always came here with Sera. So, he didn’t get to eat Rainfield’s rice liquor, a specialty drink that was similar to Riley’s past life’s rice liquor. Now, that was not a problem.
[TL: The author is mentioning onion pancake and rice liquor, which are something unique to Korea. These suggest Riley was Korean in his past life.]
“What is this?”
With the food brought to the table, Nainiae just stared at flat shaped food. She asked Riley what it was.
“It’s a flat fried dough.”
“Flat fried dough?”
“It’s also called onion pancake. Well, this world doesn’t have such a name for this. The name is good enough.”
In fact, the menu had it listed as ‘Flat fried dough.’ The food was made of flattened flour dough that was fried with various vegetables and seafood.
“Now, shall we eat?”
Riley gave a piece to Nainiae and also recommended a black sauce that was on the table.
“You could dip on it. You can eat it without the sauce too.”
It was only right that a world had a type of food that was becoming of rainy weather.
This food at Rainfield was exactly that, and it was a famous specialty food from the city.
“In that case, thank you for the food.”
Nainiae carefully picked up a piece with a fork and brought it toward her mouth. The piece had steam rising from it. She started to chew.
“Ah…”
CRUNCH!
Along with the sound, Nainiae’s eyes opened wide.
Not able to wait any longer, Riley asked,
“How is it?”
“Um! Um!”
She was not able to speak because she had food in her mouth, but she nodded multiple times with her face slightly turning red from excitement.
“You are saying it is delicious, right?”
“…!”
Although Nainiae blew it before eating it to cool it down, it seemed the piece was still too hot. She was still not able to speak. Instead, she just nodded once again.
“By how it looks like, I thought someone threw up on the table… Unlike how it looks like, it is pretty tasty.”
Nainiae shallowed what she just chewed, and explained her impression about the food that she just ate.
“Threw up? That’s harsh.”
Riley peeked a smile.
Certainly, the food didn’t look exactly like how it was in Riley’s past life. The version in this world looked rather crude, so he could see how it could look like that to Nainiae.
“It’s really delicious! Especially the crunchy part toward the edges!”
“Hey, don’t go eating just those parts.”
Those edges were Riley’s favorite parts as well.
“The insides are tastier. Eat the insides. They are soft and moist.”
“Ah, yes…”
Nainiae wanted to taste more of the crunchiness of the edges, but she had to give in to Riley. So, instead of the edges, Nainiae started to focus on the insides.
“Excuse me. The rice liquor is here.”
“Ah, it’s here.”
It was around the time when Riley and Nainiae ate about half of the food. A waiter with a friendly smile brought the drink that Riley ordered with the flat fried dough.