"I say, Satou, your jacket is missing again?" Seeing Satou only wearing a shirt, Erina Nakiri couldn't help but ask amusedly.
She had also heard about Satou frequently losing clothes recently, and even joked whether it had been carried off by a nearby cat.
"Hmm, it wasn't stolen today, but I gave it to someone else to wash." Satou couldn't help but rub his head and smile.
"Gave it to someone else to wash?" Hearing this, Erina Nakiri immediately became displeased and pouted. "Are you saying I don't wash them clean enough?"
Feeling the strong jealousy in her words, Satou was a bit exasperated and said, "It's not like that. Ryoko accidentally knocked over a sauce bottle, and to apologize, she took the clothes to wash."
Fearing the Tsundere would get jealous, he casually made up an excuse.
"That's more like it." Erina Nakiri nodded, then looked at the Cotton Candy Pumpkin in Satou's hand. "What kind of pumpkin is this? It's so small. Is it a new ingredient?"
"Yes." Satou nodded and asked, "Want to try it together?"
"Sure." Erina Nakiri nodded with a smile.
Satou cut the pumpkin in half with a kitchen knife, then cut it into small pieces, picked one up, and brought it to Erina's lips.
"Eat it raw?" She paused, but still opened her small, cherry-like mouth and took a bite. Immediately, the sweet pumpkin flavor filled her tongue.
"It's really delicious. Is pumpkin this tasty even when eaten raw?" She exclaimed. The flesh was soft and fluffy, exceptionally sweet, comparable to meticulously crafted desserts.
Satou also took a bite and secretly praised it. Whether it was the texture or the sweetness, it was incomparably better than ordinary pumpkins. When made into a dish, it would surely be even more delicious.
This was the third vegetable-type fantasy ingredient he had obtained, after Almond Cabbage and Cream Matsutake, not counting Black Rice, of course.
In a short while, the two of them had finished an entire pumpkin. Erina Nakiri licked her cherry lips, clearly still wanting more.
"By the way, Erina, why did you come back so early today?" Satou asked.
"Oh, I took the afternoon off today. I've been at the mansion all along," Erina Nakiri said.
"Are you sick?"
Satou couldn't help but touch her smooth, snow-white forehead.
Feeling the faint concern in his tone, Erina Nakiri's face flushed slightly, and she smiled mysteriously, saying, "It's not that."
"Then what are you doing?"
Satou looked at her strangely, wondering what the Tsundere had been secretly tinkering with in the mansion all afternoon.
"Oh, I was doing laundry."
Erina Nakiri stuck out her tongue.
"Laundry?"
Satou was taken aback.
"Yes, by the way, come with me."
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