Senzaemon Nakiri was deeply troubled.
How could his dear granddaughter be so easily talked into things? Could it be because he had spoiled her too much, leaving her far too innocent?
No! This wasn't his fault. The real culprit was that damned Azami Nakiri. If Erina had received the Nakiri family's proper guidance from birth, she would never have been so easily fooled by that little brat from the Doma Family...
"Ha..." Watching Erina still insist that she had been undergoing "special culinary training" and prepare to show him the results of her intensive practice, Senzaemon Nakiri sighed inwardly.
Special culinary training?
Only his sweet, utterly innocent granddaughter—whom he had spoiled rotten—would believe something like that!
After all, sleeping in, playing games, reading manga, reading novels, listening to music... What did any of that have to do with cooking!? Could she be an idio—cough, cough. Senzaemon Nakiri did not want to admit that his dear granddaughter was foolish, so innocent was the better description.
Inside Nakiri Villa, in the kitchen.
To prove that she really had been training in cooking, and to verify the results of that training, Erina Nakiri finally began cooking once more after an entire month.
Senzaemon Nakiri was not particularly optimistic about it.
"Arato, if you feel that Erina's cooking has declined later, don't be in a hurry to say so. For now, she only needs to understand that this kind of intensive training is completely useless..."
"How could that be? Lady Erina, she—"
Before Arato Hisako could finish, Senzaemon Nakiri shook his head. "A chef is a profession that requires hands-on practice. Cooking is like rowing upstream: if you do not advance, you fall back. Erina has been idle for a month, so a decline in her cooking is inevitable. I only hope this won't