Night.
A black car drove silently on the road.
Under the illumination of the lights on both sides, the car paint gleamed, reflecting a deep black, like a ghost in the night.
Sitting inside the car, Erina felt the scenery outside the car window continuously flash past her eyes.
This flowing visual experience sparked her thoughts, causing her to gradually immerse herself in her own musings!
"Young Lady!"
"It seems you really like Zhang Fan's cooking!"
At this moment, Hisako, who was beside her.
Seeing Erina's preoccupied look, and knowing it might be due to Zhang Fan's cooking, she couldn't help but chuckle softly.
"Hmm?"
"I don't like his cooking at all!"
Hearing this, Erina snapped back to reality and continued grumpily, "Hisako, cancel all my work for tomorrow."
"Then go buy toast, Tofu, and rice bran. Remember to buy a lot, I need them!"
"Oh!"
"Could it be..."
"Oh, oh, oh, I understand."
"Young Lady Erina, I will definitely follow through tomorrow."
Before she could finish what she wanted to say, Erina shot her a fierce glare, which startled Hisako Arato into quickly changing her words and nodding repeatedly in agreement!
...
Women's thoughts.
Sometimes, they are quite strange.
Even if they say they don't like something, the next second they become concerned about it!
But even so, it still couldn't change one terrifying aspect of Erina: she constantly claimed to hate commoner cuisine, but this didn't mean she knew nothing about it!
Born into nobility.
It was certainly not her fault!
After all, one cannot choose their birth.
Her achievements, while certainly due to her extraordinary God Tongue ability, also benefited from the entire vast Nakiri family behind her!
It's just that.
Standing at the pinnacle of the pyramid.
She was the most typical representative figure among the elite in society!
Compared to that other Young Lady from the Nakiri family who lived in the Nordic region for a long time and didn't even know what a "seaweed bento" was, Erina, of course, seemed to have more class!
"Zhang Fan."
"Your cooking."
"No matter what kind of mysterious veil it has, I will use the power of the God Tongue to uncover it, one by one!"
Finally, Nakiri Erina's eyes flickered a few times as she murmured to herself.
...
The moonlight was like silver.
The stars in the night sky were like pieces on a chessboard, making the entire night peaceful and harmonious!
At this moment, Kobayashi Rindo in the Izakaya looked at her empty wine glass and couldn't help but be stunned.
She quickly and eagerly picked up the wine bottle next to her, and with a "pop," opened the cork again, wanting to pour wine into the glass.
However, no matter how hard she tried, only a single drop of wine slowly dripped into the glass from the bottle's mouth.
"It's gone?"
"I drank it all?"
Seeing this, Kobayashi Rindo was like a deflated balloon, her face filled with disappointment!
But she also felt that she couldn't waste that last drop of wine, so she picked up the glass and tilted it forcefully towards her mouth, hoping that the drop of wine would finally reach her mouth.
"Phew~"
"That was satisfying!"
Putting down the wine glass, Kobayashi Rindo blinked her bright eyes and looked at Zhang Fan pitifully, "Shopkeeper Zhang, another bottle..."
"No!"
"If I let you drink any more, you'll probably have to spend the night here again!"
Zhang Fan directly interrupted her and refused.
"Oh, come on!"
"Just a little bit more, please."
"I promise I'll control myself and won't get drunk like last time, causing you so much trouble."
Seeing Zhang Fan's resolute attitude, Kobayashi Rindo could only say in an almost pleading tone.
"No means no!"
"You might have forgotten the rules of my Izakaya."
"After 12 o'clock, all customers must leave the Izakaya, even if they are drunk, they have to be carried out."
"Last time."
"The reason I let you stay."
"Was because I couldn't bear to see a young woman like you stranded on the street!"
Zhang Fan frowned slightly and continued.
"How boring!"
"Isn't an Izakaya just a place to drink?"
"Why do you have this unwritten rule here? Erina was right after all, you're just stubborn and don't know how to make money!"
Kobayashi Rindo sighed helplessly upon hearing this.
Afterward, she rubbed her stomach and found that she seemed to be hungry again, and there was still over half an hour until the Izakaya closed.
Therefore, her eyes darted around, and she couldn't help but say, "If I can't drink, then... can I at least order more food?"
"That's fine."
"But you've already eaten so much, can you still eat?"
Hearing this, Zhang Fan almost didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
In some situations, this Kobayashi Rindo was truly a character who loved food and had a special fondness for various rare ingredients!
But then again, this image of a food lover wasn't something that made people feel disgusted; in fact, it was even somewhat endearing.
"I can eat!"
"I'm probably only about 70% full right now, right?"
"Hmm!"
"Let me think, what should I eat?"
"How about this, Shopkeeper Zhang, give me three more grilled chicken skewers, one fried Tofu, one plate of bacon asparagus, a small dish of salted squid, one soup egg roll, one bowl of..."
Perhaps intentionally retaliating against Zhang Fan, making him busy until after 12 o'clock so he couldn't close.
The foodie Kobayashi Rindo ended up ordering over a dozen small dishes!
"Eating so much."
"Be careful, you'll get fat like a pig and no one will want you!"
Zhang Fan remembered all the dish names one by one, then smiled and teased.
"Hmph!"
"No way!"
"I'm not prone to gaining weight. Even if I eat ten portions of food every day, I won't easily get fat!"
Kobayashi Rindo replied grumpily.
It seems that everyone's digestive and absorption functions are different.
People with better digestion and absorption functions tend to gain weight easily when eating the same food!
And clearly, Kobayashi Rindo might have poorer digestive and absorption functions, leading to less energy intake, which is why she doesn't gain weight no matter how much she eats!
"Is that so?"
"You do have one place that's fatter than a lot of people!"
Hearing this, Kobayashi Rindo actually thought she had gained weight recently and her face turned a little panicked!
But a moment later, she finally understood what Zhang Fan meant, and a blush immediately flew across her pretty face. She said shyly, "Shopkeeper! I didn't expect you to be a bad, perverted hooligan too!"
"Cough cough!"
"I'm going to make your food now."
Zhang Fan pretended to cough twice, then turned and returned to the cooking counter, ready to get busy again!