"These are my rice balls. Well, they weren't as hard as I thought," Nakano Nino said with her arms crossed, looking very confident.
"My… my rice balls," Nakano Miku said, her face flushed, head bowed, and nervously presenting her rice balls. Her body was trembling from tension.
The rice balls on the plate trembled along with her, and a large chunk of rice fell off, revealing the dark filling inside.
"Then let's eat!" Nakano Yotsuba was the first to take a rice ball from Nakano Nino's plate and took a bite.
"Wow, it's so delicious!" she immediately exclaimed.
"Really?" Nakano Ichika also smiled, took a piece, and bit into it, her eyes lighting up. "Hmm, it's very delicious."
"See? I told you. It's nothing special," Nakano Nino said, very pleased and smugly, "I'll learn it very quickly."
Kasumigaoka Utaha also took a bite, but quickly put it down, saying blandly, "It's so-so. Barely edible."
"Huh? You shut-in who needs her boyfriend to wash her panties, what right do you have to say that? Are you deliberately favoring your boyfriend?" Nakano Nino immediately raised an eyebrow, her spoiled young lady temper flaring up.
"Shut-in...?" Kasumigaoka Utaha's expression stiffened. She wanted to retort, but after thinking about it, it seemed she really had no face to refute.
"Then you tell me, compared to the rice balls this guy made a few days ago, whose are better?" Nakano Nino asked the others, arms crossed, very confidently.
"Hmm, if you really put it that way, I feel there's still a big difference compared to the rice balls Satou made before," Nakano Ichika thought for a moment and said.
"Hmm, exactly," Nakano Yotsuba nodded in agreement.
Even Nakano Itsuki expressed her agreement.
Although that guy always liked to eye her stomach, she had to admit that the food he made tasted exceptionally good.
"See?" Kasumigaoka Utaha glanced at her, a bit smug.
"What?! Ichika, why are you all favoring this guy?" Nakano Nino was very unconvinced, gritting her teeth and questioning them.
"Let me try," Satou took one and took a bite.
"Hmm, the rice balls aren't packed tightly enough, the pork wasn't marinated long enough, there's too much honey so the taste is too sweet... those are just the top thirty flaws," Satou said with a smile.
At first, Nakano Nino was full of disdain, but later, she became more and more nervous, knowing that Satou was not wrong.
"If you want to learn cooking properly, I suggest you scrape off your nail polish," Satou looked at her hands, which were covered in bright nail polish, and said with a smile, "Having a clean pair of hands is a prerequisite for becoming an excellent chef."
"Hmph! I won't listen to you and scrape off my nail polish!" Although Nakano Nino knew he was right, she still made a face at him and stuck out her tongue.
"Then... that, mine doesn't need to be tasted, right?"
Nakano Miku said, a little uneasy.
Satou glanced at the dish she made; he could tell the taste just from its appearance, but he still decided to try it.
The rice balls Miku made were loose and fell apart when picked up; rather than rice balls, they were more like rice carelessly kneaded into a lump.
He took a bite, and an extremely terrible taste immediately assaulted his tongue.
Looking at Nakano Miku, who had her head lowered and an uneasy expression, Satou decided to offer some comfort to this introverted and sensitive girl.
"Hmm, it's not as bad as I imagined, it still has its merits, for example, the rice is indeed cooked. Of course, it would be even better if you could press the rice balls more firmly first."
Satou thought for a long time but couldn't come up with any real merits, so he could only offer this comfort.
Nakano Miku looked at him in surprise, then suddenly clasped her hands in front of her face, revealing an exceptionally gentle smile, her entire face seeming to glow.
Kasumigaoka Utaha glanced at Nakano Miku, as if she saw the "Harem Member" tag appearing above her head, shook her head, and tsk-tsked twice, "What a fated entanglement."
At the same time, a faint feeling of displeasure arose in her heart.
"What the hell are you muttering about again?"
Satou looked at her speechlessly.
"Hmph."
Kasumigaoka Utaha lightly snorted and began to taste the orange chiffon cake and cream pudding Satou made.
Both desserts were extremely delicious, making one wish they could swallow their tongue.
The other girls were also eating with great delight.
Although Nino was very reluctant to admit it, this guy's cooking skills were indeed far superior to her own.
After a while, the afternoon tea snacks Satou made were completely eaten, with Nakano Itsuki and a certain lazy Senior eating the most.
Kasumigaoka Utaha licked her slender, green onion-like fingers with her delicate pink tongue, stroked her perfectly lean stomach, and let out a satisfied sigh, a hint of contentment flashing in her wine-red pupils.
"Sure enough, after eating sweets, I forget all the troubles of the day."
"But that still doesn't change the fact that you're a lazy salted fish."
Satou looked at the lazy Senior lying on the sofa like a salted fish and added.
"It's a beautiful and pure Senior, not a lazy salted fish."
Kasumigaoka Utaha raised a hand and used her long, fair fingers to touch Satou's lips, correcting him.
"Alright, then it's a beautiful and pure salted fish."
Satou nodded, then subconsciously licked his lips; there was a taste of orange chiffon cake. (He remembered well)
Hmm, it seems the Senior licked her fingers earlier...
The Nakano Quintuplets stayed here for a while longer, then prepared to leave.
"We'll come again next time!"
Nakano Yotsuba happily bid farewell to Satou.
"Yes, goodbye."
Satou watched them leave.
"You, don't get too smug! One day, I'll definitely surpass you!"
Halfway there, Nino suddenly turned around, pointed at Satou, and said in her unique spoiled tone.
Kasumigaoka Utaha seemed to see another harem tag rising above her head in the near future.
"Ah, another ignorant young girl throwing herself into the net."
She sighed and shook her head, "Younger brother-kun is truly deeply sinful."
"What are you muttering about again?"
Satou rolled his eyes at her.
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