There was a kind of cooking that might not have been delicious. It might even have left people feeling numb. Yet as time passed, people would come to miss it, because it was a flavor that existed only in their memories—a flavor that belonged exclusively to Mom...
Okay, that might have sounded a little too mystical. But for Sogo Doma, whose culinary skill had reached LV6, it was not difficult to use cooking to stir up the flavors buried deep within someone's heart. He could use delicious food to evoke the flavors in their memories, then make them think that the deliciousness had been created by their own efforts, labor, and so on—
It couldn't be helped. Sogo Doma did not want people to develop anorexia just because he cooked for them once in a while!
Only those who ate his food regularly knew that his cooking was not something born of effort or struggle. Although it resembled the flavors in their memories, his food...
Of course, even knowing that would not make them develop anorexia. It could be said that everyone who had tasted Sogo Doma's cooking had to admit that his culinary skills had surpassed humanity itself. But if they were forced to say exactly how good his food was, they could not put it into words!
Otherwise, Yukino Yukinoshita could not have avoided it for so long. Although she felt that compared to a certain someone's food, what she made did not even qualify as pig feed, her taste buds would not deceive her. As a genius, while her cooking could not compare to the freakish students at Totsuki, when it came to tasting good...
Yukino Yukinoshita could proudly say that, among ordinary people, her cooking was quite good.
That was indeed true. Though she had always