Gokou walked down the hallway. Although she had walked through it many times in her cat form before, walking here openly in human form was quite a novel experience for her.
"It should be here..." The girl looked up, confirmed that the classroom door had two signs, 'Service Club' and 'Magic Club', hanging on it, and was about to knock when the classroom door opened by itself.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time..." Asakura greeted her. "If you didn't come soon, Yanami would be so hungry she'd start gnawing on Yui."
"What does that have to do with Yuigahama?" Gokou asked, puzzled.
"Heaven knows. Maybe Yui's hairstyle looks a bit like mochi..." Asakura spread his hands.
Gokou turned her head to look at Yanami, who was sprawled on the table, drooling while staring at Yuigahama Yui.
Then she frowned and rubbed her eyes in confusion.
"What's wrong?" Asakura asked.
"Perhaps the effects of the Curse change haven't fully recovered yet..." Gokou said with an uncertain tone. "Anyway, there seems to be something wrong with my eyes; I'm seeing Yanami in double vision now."
"Oh, then that should be fine. She is in double vision right now."
Gokou Ruri: "?"
"Alright, you guys over there, dinner's about to start. Stop staring at Yuigahama Yui's mochi."
Asakura called out to the Yanamis, "Come over and hand out the chopsticks and bowls."
The two Yanamis gracefully took the tableware under Gokou Ruri's strange gaze and happily began distributing them to everyone.
For the sake of her sanity, Gokou Ruri decided not to look at those two Yanamis for now, so she shifted her gaze to the side.
In the corner of the club room, Asagumo Chihaya was on the phone.
Theoretically, at that distance and with the person speaking so softly, Gokou Ruri shouldn't have been able to hear what she was saying. But even though Curse had changed, just like how Asakura's Snake enhanced his reaction time and infrared vision, some of the passive abilities brought by the previous Curse, Cat, hadn't completely disappeared; they just weren't as stable as before.
At this moment, though not intentionally, the cat's stronger-than-average hearing allowed Gokou Ruri to fully hear what that senior, Asagumo Chihaya, was saying, and she could even hear the voice from the other end coming through the phone's microphone.
"No, you can't stay overnight."
A mature female voice came from the phone: "Mommy, I'm not mentally prepared to be called Grandma yet."
Gokou Ruri: "..."
Not good, it felt like she heard something she shouldn't have...
So the girl shifted her gaze to the side closer to the window.
Over there, a pink-haired girl was trying to strike up a conversation with Yukinoshita Yukino, who was coldly reading a book. But no matter how much the pink-haired girl initiated conversation, Yukinoshita Yukino always managed to kill the conversation with short replies, which made Yuigahama Yui on the side feel a bit awkward. She didn't know whether to advise the pink-haired girl to stop provoking Yukinoshita Yukino or to tell Yukinoshita Yukino to be more friendly.
Gokou Ruri observed with interest for a moment. The interaction between the long, straight pink-haired girl and Yukinoshita Yukino reminded her of a cute pet video she had seen on YouTube, where a friendly golden retriever tirelessly bothered a high-and-mighty ragdoll cat.
Once that thought entered her mind, the more she watched their interaction, the more that feeling intensified, making Gokou Ruri's mood relax a lot.
After a while, she finally withdrew her gaze with satisfaction and looked back at Asakura.
As the only male present, Asakura was responsible for pushing all the desks together to form a long table.
Originally, this should have been a very physically demanding job, but now that even Yanami had been exposed to the other side of the world, Asakura naturally no longer needed to pretend to be a Muggle.
"Snake."
He transformed the legs of the desks into the shape of Snakes, and those idle desks began to slither eerily across the floor like some strange, shadowy octopuses.
The unprepared Yanami screamed in fright, almost dropping the plates. Thankfully, Asakura, whose reaction time was seven times that of an ordinary person, quickly slid in and caught all the plates one by one with acrobatic moves.
"Oh, oh..."
Yuigahama Yui and Chihaya Anon both applauded admiringly. Asakura proudly bowed to everyone in a curtain call.
At this point, those desks with Snake legs finally slithered eerily to their designated positions. As the set Curse was dispelled, the desks reverted to their original forms, fitting together perfectly.
Immediately after, Asakura pulled out a long tablecloth from somewhere, spread it out over the assembled desks. Instantly, from the outside, it looked like a very cafeteria-style long table, with no indication that it was made from individual desks.
Then Asakura placed the plates on the table. He clapped his hands lightly, and suddenly, many things appeared on the previously empty long table.
Because the Magic Club rarely had such a banquet, Asakura had spent a lot of money this time, emptying a large portion of the ingredients from the elf kitchen.
In addition to the promised Burgundy Beef Stew, Ratatouille, Bouillabaisse, and Quiche Lorraine, there was also roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops, pea shoots, Yorkshire pudding, boiled potatoes, roasted potatoes, fried potato chips...
"Why are there so many potatoes?"
Gokou Ruri asked, puzzled.
'Because the head chef is a British house-elf,' Asakura thought to himself.
"Isn't it normal for a banquet to have a lot of potatoes?"
Chihaya Anon, who had subtly adapted to the British diet, asked back in confusion.
"The amount of meat and vegetables is too unbalanced."
Yukinoshita Yukino frowned; she always ate rather lightly.
"Potatoes are also considered vegetables..." Asakura said.
"That can also be considered a staple food in many places."
Yukinoshita Yukino casually retorted, unconcerned.
"Isn't there also pea shoots?"
Chihaya Anon said happily. Then she poked something in another plate with her chopsticks and asked Asakura, "By the way, what is this?"
"Peppermint hard candy."
Asakura replied.
"For what reason would you put a plate of peppermint hard candy on a banquet table?"
The girl asked, surprised yet curious.
The correct answer is I don't know.
After all, Asakura really didn't know much about British cuisine.
Furthermore, he didn't know much about the tastes of the house-elves.
"Probably to cleanse the palate when you get tired of eating?"
Asakura speculated, rubbing his chin. Then he looked at the others and found that they were all looking at him.
So Asakura scratched his head: "Never mind, let's eat first!"
The two Yanamis cheered together.