Sogo Doma believed that Erina Nakiri deserved a great deal of credit for raising his Imouto into such a gluttonous, lazy girl! Being able to eat as much as she wanted and still get paid—what kind of heavenly life was that? If Sogo Doma hadn't come to his senses in time and made that dumpling understand that eating to her heart's content wasn't necessarily a good thing—
She might well have been sweet-talked away by Erina. Incidentally, under someone's tutelage, although that dumpling still couldn't compare to the God's Tongue when it came to judging food, ordinary gourmets were nowhere near her level. Yet she used that ability to taste potato chips, Bamboo Shoot Mountains, chocolate sticks, and the like.
Forget everyone else—even Erina Nakiri mourned the way that dumpling squandered her talent...
Yet that dried-fish dumpling had a perfectly justified answer: "Umaru has Onii-chan, so why does Umaru need to learn cooking? Wouldn't that be wasting Onii-chan's culinary skills?"
The moment she heard that reasoning, Erina Nakiri was instantly defeated. It couldn't be helped—back then, that person's cooking had been the height Erina longed for and aspired to reach. Her grandfather, Senzaemon Nakiri, had even specifically reached a cooperative agreement with the Doma Family because of it. After all, while the Nakiri Family's overall strength might have fallen short of the Doma Family's, when it came to their standing in the culinary world...
The Doma Family—or rather, even the Four Great Zaibatsu—could never catch up to the Nakiri Family, no matter how hard they tried. Of course, that was partly because the Nakiri Family had always remained neutral. They made their living through their craft; as long as they possessed their culinary skills, the Nakiri Family would never fall. The Four Great Zaibatsu were naturally unwilling to provoke such