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Itogami City, Nangong Nayue's home...
The table in the living room was filled with delicate pastries. Plates of delicious food sat there like carefully sculpted porcelain, exquisite and pleasing to the eye. Steam and fragrance constantly drifted from the snacks, enough to make anyone's mouth water with a single glance.
Wu Yan sat on one sofa. Across from him, Akatsuki Kojo and Himesaki Yukina sat ramrod straight, their faces full of hesitation, uncertainty, and restraint. Yet their eyes kept drifting toward the pastries on the table, and every now and then, they could be seen swallowing. Clearly, the temptation of the food was affecting them every moment...
But neither of them reached for anything. After all, they were in someone else's home, brought here by this mysterious teacher who possessed the ability to disperse a Primogenitor's Familiar with one blow. In such an inexplicable situation, it was only natural to be somewhat reserved and wary.
As for Akatsuki Nagisa, she sat happily on the sofa to the side, enthusiastically biting into the pastries on the table and washing them down with black tea, her face full of bliss. Kotori sat beside her, eating along with Nagisa. However, having grown accustomed to Wu Yan's cooking, she was not nearly as eager and appeared quite composed.
The two of them ignored the strange standoff between Wu Yan, Akatsuki Kojo, and Himesaki Yukina. They ate without a care while chatting away nonstop. Of course, Nagisa was usually the one talking, while Kotori listened. It seemed that their relationship had developed quite well in a very short time.
Kotori did not mind Nagisa's talkative nature in the slightest. In her words, compared to those boring meetings in Ratatoskr that could bore