"'A life without a single failure' is a flawed idea in itself. If someone uses it as a basis to lament that they have no worthy opponents... don't you think that's boring?" Sogo Doma said with a shrug as Erina Nakiri once again sank into an existential crisis.
"B-boring?" Despite all the buildup, Erina still felt insulted. After all, at heart, this guy was still a young, tsundere kid.
"Senpai, I think you're changing the subject..." To clarify, she was a child who had once been brainwashed by her father. Getting around that brainwashing and leading her astray might not be so easy.
"Erina, weren't we talking about life?"
"But cooking..."
"Um, have you ever considered this? If you hadn't been born into the Nakiri Family, but still had the talent of God's Tongue, would you still value your culinary skills so much?"
Erina Nakiri: "..."
C-could something like that even happen?
"To be more specific, what if you'd been born into a family of musicians, and alongside the talent of God's Tongue, you'd also had the musical gift known as Absolute Pitch?"
Erina Nakiri: "..."
How could she possibly know?
"The reason people feel lonely or bored is really just that they define some activity as the meaning of life, then achieve a level of success in it that others can't. They inflate their own worth and place themselves above everyone else. If you ask me, rather than doing that, they should come down and try another path, see a different view...
"What's more, everyone in this world has their own unique talents. Some are gifted at painting, some at programming, some at math, and of course, some at cooking...
"That's what people mean when they say there are differences between us. And it's precisely because of those differences