"Oh, oh, this grilled pork chop is delicious! The mashed potatoes are delicious too! The beef stew is also delicious... By the way, can beef tendons become this soft?"
Yanami said excitedly, her mouth full of food.
Being able to speak even with her cheeks stuffed full, in a sense, she could be considered extraordinarily gifted.
"It just needs to be stewed long enough, right? I'm more curious about what the beef tendons are like at Anna's house..."
Yuigahama Yui asked curiously.
"It's tough and a bit gamey, but if you chew it carefully, it's not inedible."
...In other words, is there anything Anna can't eat?
"Yes, Yuigahama Yui, there is!"
Anna Weasley, holding a chicken leg in each hand, looked as if she had recalled something unbearable, her eyes becoming hollow and distant: "At that time, I was still a very naive child—"
"It feels like a very long story is about to begin..."
Yuigahama Yui complained.
"At that time, I didn't know the wickedness of human hearts and believed what the TV said about humans having strong adaptability..."
Yanami recalled in an ethereal tone.
"Although not comparable to tardigrades and cockroaches, even including rats, human adaptability to environments is indeed quite strong among vertebrates."
Asakura, who had been listening to their interaction since just now, interjected.
"That's not it, Asakura..." Yanami shook her head and continued, "It's like, if you eat too many tangerines, your skin turns yellow; if you eat too many chili peppers, it turns red; if you eat too many oleanders, it turns green—"
"The last one turning green is for a different reason, right?"
Asakura retorted.
Yuigahama Yui, looking at the girl's emotional expression, couldn't help but ask, "So what did Anna eat?"
"At that time, a cooking-themed TV drama was very popular. The protagonist was a sashimi master who could make sea bream sashimi and then put the bones back in the fish tank, and the fish would continue to swim."
The girl said.
The other Yanami chimed in, "It's only natural to want to make sashimi yourself after watching that kind of TV show, right? But the problem was, at that time, the only ingredient I had was green beans..."
Asakura: "..."
Yanami A: "Green bean sashimi, although it was delicious, the feeling of poisoning was still a bit uncomfortable..."
Yanami B: "Crunchy texture, after eating it, my head felt dizzy, and I also felt nauseous..."
"It was actually delicious? No, you knew it was poisonous raw, and you still ate it?!"
Asakura was shocked.
"The person I respect most is the first person in the world to eat tomatoes when everyone else thought they were poisonous!"
The girl said seriously: "No, I should say I have equal respect for everyone who dares to try new ingredients: the first person to eat tomatoes, the first person to eat crabs... Ah, except for the first person to drink milk."
"Don't confuse past situations with present ones!"
"So please scoop me a full bowl of beef!"
The two Yanamis simultaneously handed their bowls to Asakura, who was closer to the Burgundy Beef Stew, their movements perfectly synchronized. "I also want to savor Gorbachev's communism~"
"Savor what? This isn't potato and beef stew."
Although he said that, Asakura still scooped a bowl of beef stew for Yanami. Yukinoshita Yukino, sitting across from him, also very thoughtfully served a portion for the other Yanami, making Yanami #2 feel a little overwhelmed by the unexpected kindness.
"Thank you~"
The girls took their bowls and began to eat noisily, showing no concern for their ladylike image whatsoever.
It felt like after encountering the supernatural phenomenon, this person had become somewhat... well, whether it was giving up or letting herself go, it was hard to say.
Asakura sighed, deciding to ignore them, and turned to strike up a conversation with Gokou Ruri, who was looking at the dishes on the table with an expression that said, 'Can these be packed up?'
"Ruri-chan, how's your Curse doing?"
"Still as it always was..." The girl said with a somewhat 'affected' tone, "That's not entirely true; there's a slight, indescribable change, but I still don't have that sense of mastery I used to have."
Someone unfamiliar with Gokou Ruri might have thought she was in the throes of chuunibyou, as she always presented herself with a chuunibyou persona. However, Asakura could sense that she was merely using this method to conceal her disappointment.
"I see..."
It seemed her Curse had not yet completed its transformation.
Asakura didn't have many solutions for this, so he could only ask the girl to come here more frequently. With him keeping an eye on things, he could somewhat control the amount of Curse in the girl's body, preventing her from going berserk due to too much accumulated Curse before her Curse had fully transformed.
Suddenly, the Yanami next to Asakura picked out the largest piece of beef from her bowl, speared it with her chopsticks, and stretched her arm across Asakura to place it in Gokou Ruri's bowl.
The other Yanami gave Gokou Ruri a chikuwa.
By the way, all the dishes today were Western-style, so where did this person get chikuwa from? Asakura complained wildly in his mind.
"When you're unhappy, eating something delicious can make you feel better!"
Yanami, clearly oblivious to Asakura's internal monologue, said cheerfully, her radiant smile seemingly capable of chasing away the dark clouds in the sky: "Next time, I'll let you try my secret white sauce!"
"Is that so? I suppose I'll look forward to it."
Gokou Ruri paused, then said haughtily with a slightly upturned tone, though the unconcealable faint smile on her face immediately showed that her mood had significantly improved.
Then she asked Yanami, "By the way, I returned the uniform you lent me earlier. You must have tried it on already, right? How does it feel? If anything's wrong, I can alter it again."
"Hmm, how should I put it? There's no problem with the other parts, in fact, it's even more comfortable to wear than before I lent it to you. Only the chest area is a bit tight, and I feel out of breath if I move around a little."
Yanami said sincerely, "But it's understandable, after all, this uniform has been altered to fit Ruri-chan's figure, right? It's not like I can't make do with wearing it."
Gokou Ruri: "..."
She couldn't say it. She had actually altered the chest area back, and even intentionally made it a bit larger or something. She absolutely couldn't say it!
Rather, why did this Muggle-senpai develop so quickly?!
Damn it, she really wanted to turn her into a cat!