"Cake shop..."
Sogo Doma stared at Chika Fujiwara, who had already tossed Kaguya Shinomiya to the back of her mind. "..."
This was probably the legendary plastic best-friendship, wasn't it? All because of a single bite of food...
Wait!
The Earth's Cancer before him had apparently defeated the Ramen Four Heavenly Kings before. She was a bona fide gourmet, so, um...
Then it made sense. Gourmets were crazy in their pursuit of delicious food. Setting everyone else aside, if Erina Nakiri had been here, she would definitely have acted even more outrageously than Chika Fujiwara. Though the God's Tongue could detect flaws in Cooking, when savoring fine food, it also magnified deliciousness a hundredfold!
Of course, Chika Fujiwara did not have the God's Tongue, but her sense of taste was probably sharper than an ordinary person's, right?
Sogo Doma barely managed to come up with an excuse for her, but then—
"Fujiwara-san, you should really thank Shinomiya for being able to live peacefully until now..."
"Huh?" Before he could finish, Chika Fujiwara froze. "Why should I thank Kaguya... Wait, are you trying to fool me? That cake shop..."
"There is no cake shop!"
"Don't try to lie to me, I saw it! And the taste is still there..." As she spoke, Chika Fujiwara's nose twitched slightly. "It's close, it's so close..."
Mr. Lu had once said, "When a woman is immersed in food, it's best not to talk to her. She simply can't hear you!"
Incidentally, Mr. Lu was not Lu Xun, much less Zhou Shuren. He really had not said that...
Sogo Doma and the others understood this principle well. Thus, only after Chika Fujiwara had finished enjoying herself did he speak again. "Fujiwara-san, can we talk about Shinomiya now?"
"Oh, right..." After being satisfied, Miss Earth's Cancer returned