Roast Basilisk (Chapter 3)
A basilisk attacking two defenseless adventurers provides the Touden Party a golden opportunity to try out a basilisk dish.
Omelet (Chapter 4)
Marcille starts to worry that she's becoming a burden to her group with her constant complaining and inability to help with catching potential food. So when the group decides to hunt for mandrakes, the elf girl gets the big idea to use a traditional method using a giant bat
Kakiage (Chapter 5).
Chilchuck ends up butting heads with Senshi as the dwarf's carefree demeanor makes him a walking hazard who interferes with his trap disarming job.
"Roast Basilisk" contains the following tropes:
Roast basilisk
- Acquaintance Denial: Chilchuck suggests that he and Marcille, if asked, claim that they have no relation to Laios after he makes himself look like a blockhead while distracting the basilisk.
- Basilisk and Cockatrice: The party encounters a basilisk which resembles a giant snake with a chicken body for a butt. It also has the ability to stab venom into its prey using its talons, which it does to a random adventurer.
- Berserk Button: Something that really grinds Senshi's gears is how most adventurers have lousy eating habits and don't incorporate more veggies and healthier meats into their meals.
- Book Ends: The episode starts with Senshi complaining about adventurers not eating right and ends with him instructing the passing adventure duo that eating healthy and getting a good amount of sleep will help them get stronger.
- Catapult Nightmare: The episode starts with Marcille dreaming of being back at home with her mother as a child. Then her mother presents her with cooking made out of monsters. Naturally, Marcille wakes up screaming.
- Deadpan Snarker: Chilchuck has this to say over their new basilisk hunting mission.Chilchuck: Oh right, a basilisk. Isn't that great Marcille? You'll get to eat chicken meat.
- Hypocrisy Nod: After going on a rant on how kids these days don't eat proper meals while adventuring, Senshi admits that he's one to talk since he and his friends haven't had a well-balanced meal recently.
- Logical Weakness: Having two heads on one body, the Basilisk is unable to process sensory input coming from both ends simultaneously, leaving it vulnerable when attacked from both sides.
- Off with His Head!: Both Laios and Senshi do this to the two heads of the Basilisk.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: After Senshi mentions that the group will need to look out for eggs and monsters rich in fat, Laios asks if his new friend was thinking about hunting a basilisk.
- Tastes Like Chicken: To the party's surprise, the basilisk tastes exactly like chicken. Which makes sense given what half of it is made of.
- We Need a Distraction: Laios keeps the Basilisk away from the Adventurers by intimidating it. Of course, Laios makes himself look like a fool while doing so, much to Marcille and Chilchuck's embarrassment.
"Omelet" contains the following tropes:
Mandrake and basilisk omelette
- Armor-Piercing Question: Chilchuck asks Marcille if she ever used dogs to pull out Mandrakes like the manual says. Marcille admits she hasn't because she feels bad for the dogs.
- Brown Note: A mandrake's scream can cause someone to lose their lucidity; in the worst case, it'll flat out kill them.
- But I Read a Book About It: Contrasting with Senshi's Taught by Experience, Marcille's solution to mandrakes comes straight from the textbooks, even though she never tried that method herself. When she tries it, using a big bat as a substitute for a dog, it goes awry and she gets subjected to the mandrake's scream for her efforts. However, it turns out her method resulted in a better-tasting and more nutritious omelet, as a mandrake's scream removes the monster of its toxins.
- Didn't Think This Through:
- Marcille eagerly suggests her book's example of removing mandrakes using a dog. Chilchuck openly questions the ethics of sacrificing a dog to the mandrake's scream, how they'll need multiple dogs to pick out the cursed plants, and how they'll even get a dog to begin with.
- She also realizes that using a wild Big Bat to pick out a mandrake is a stupid idea. Especially as the bat crashes into her.
- Friendship Moment: After Marcille confesses that she was worried about being a burden, Laios assures her that she's still valuable to the group with her own abilities and that he'll be counting on her spells to help them during tough times.
- Kick the Dog: The manual's method of collecting Mandrakes is to have dogs tied to them and let them drag them out. This results in the dogs' deaths, much to everyone's horror and disgust.
- The Load: Marcille fears she is becoming this after Chilchuck makes an off-hand remark.
- Mundane Solution: Instead of using Marcille's convoluted method, Senshi simply decapitates the Mandrake before it is able to scream.
- Race Against the Clock: Laios explains that dragons sleep once a month before they go about hunting and eating the innocent. So by that logic, he has less than a month to find the Red Dragon that ate his sister Falin before she's digested.
- Speech Impediment: Marcille suffers this briefly after the Big Bat she used crashes at her with the screaming mandrake tied. She is still understood by her friends despite being disoriented and slurring her words.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Even though she was affected by the mandrake's scream and could only pick out one, Marcille is complimented by Senshi since her mandrake turned out to be more delicious in flavor compared to his decapitated mandrakes which became bitter.
"Kakiage" contains the following tropes:
Mandrake kakiage and big bat tempura
- Breaking the Fellowship: Discussed. Senshi mentions near the end that there will come a day where they'll be forced to part ways. And when that day comes, he'll be crushed to leave behind the wonderful and talented friends he made.
- Dumb Muscle: Downplayed with Senshi. Despite being repeatedly warned about following Chilchuck's instructions to avoid setting off traps, the dwarf doesn't bother to follow along and does his own thing. He doesn't even mind all the traps he's setting off which can endanger his party.
- Exact Words: Chilchuck demands that Senshi follow his orders by saying that Senshi knows about cooking and he in turn knows about traps. Senshi uses this logic against him by making him prepare the ingredients using the traps as cooking tools, since he knows all about traps afterall.
- Immune to Fire: To Chilchuck's surprise, Senshi has no trouble with handling oil at 180 degrees.
- Jerkass Ball: Justified. Chilchuck needs to concentrate on disarming the traps and his group, mainly Senshi, keep interrupting him, causing him to lash out.
- MacGyvering: Senshi has Chilchuck convert the traps into cooking tools.
- Rule of Funny: Senshi is the main party member who collects the boiling oil from the treasure room. But somehow a single drop gets inside Laios' armor which causes him to react in comical pain.
- Skewed Priorities: After setting off a fire trap, Senshi takes more interest in harvesting the trap's oil reserve rather than the fact that he's at risk of being burned alive.
Meat cannot replace bread and bread cannot replace meat. But combine them and they can be quite delicious. So it is with meals and people. Delicious in dungeon.
