@Pika

Considering the previous owner is a skeleton...

@guildwriter Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the insight.

@spurgleburgle The catch is the energy requirement to distill the water. It would require a significant amount of fuel to generate enough heat to do what they did here. Scale that out to 100 people and there's no way you could supply enough drinking water when out in the middle of the ocean. There just wouldn't be enough to burn.

It's a little different when you consider the original location where this pot was conceived. The lower boiling point makes the fuel issue less onerous.

Huh, interesting. Wouldn't this just solve the problem of shipwrecked sailors not having enough fresh water that you usually see in media? There must be some sort of catch, because you'd think that every ship would just bring one of these.

cant stand mao's scream tho.. "kyaaaa"

I just had dinner but reading this made my mouth water and now Im hungry again damn it

Yeah, I remembered it differently in the anime, but this is a really nice surprise!
Anime spoilers:
Spoiler

Watched the show almost two decades ago, but I don't remember this chapter getting included in the anime. The cooking device was there though, as part of Spoiler. However, that Captain not!BrightNoa tho. 🤣