Shiina Mahiru's Change of Heart / Commenting on the Girls' Rewards

However, if he were to use teleportation four or five hundred times at once, even with unlimited Mana, his mind would probably be unable to withstand it first.

Of course, he can't compare to Tohru, who can independently create magic circles that cross worlds. However, Tohru himself doesn't really like using teleportation magic and prefers to travel by flying in his physical form.

Listening to Miyauchi Hiyage's words, Tohru nodded. "The supernatural forces in your world are indeed a bit too chaotic."

"I've only lived here for less than a month, and sometimes I still find it quite outrageous."

Even a small country like Japan has gathered so many messy forces, and many of these extraordinary forces have been passed down from thousands of years ago.

Upon closer examination of the lineages of these forces, and even the texts they themselves have passed down, there seem to be many contradictions.

These records differ significantly from what Tohru learned when he occasionally visited Lucoa, who was then teaching people in the Americas, during a time when the two worlds were still connected thousands of years ago.

Miyauchi Hiyage's guess is that their world is like a garbage dump, constantly merging with parallel universes that appear out of nowhere, which may cause changes to the world's timeline.

To Tohru, Lucoa was the feathered serpent god, a deity of the American civilization, a fact she had witnessed firsthand.

However, for the Miyauchi Hiyage Hidekage, the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl in the Throne of Heroes should be based on the Type-Moon setting.

Neither of them could even say for sure who invaded whom, nor could they say what the world looked like in its earliest days.

However, this issue became irrelevant after Miyauchi Hiyage learned about the Deviluke Empire.

The Milky Way galaxy, and indeed the entire universe, has problems; Earth is merely the core region of these problems.

Even if a Trisolaran fleet were to suddenly appear one day, Miyauchi Hiyage wouldn't be surprised.

Miyauchi Hiyage also shared these matters with Tohru last night as information.

That's why Tohru's expression at this moment is so hard to describe.

"But let's not think about these things for now. Why don't you go and introduce Kanna to everyone first?"

Last night, Miyauchi Hiyage helped Kanna obtain her identity in this world. She just needs to retrieve the corresponding documents in a few days.

Unlike Tohru, whose adult dragon organs can more freely absorb Mana from the atmosphere, Kanna, who is still a child, has not yet adapted to the mana of this world and cannot fully convert the Mana in the atmosphere on her own.

Therefore, in order to maintain her shapeshifting magic, Kanna now needs to eat like a normal human, sleep is an essential part of her life, and she also needs to recharge to restore her energy.

So last night, during the great battle between Miyauchi Hiyage and Tohru, she couldn't last until the end.

Fortunately, the charging process is only used to assist and speed up the conversion of Mana. Not all of Kanna's energy needs to be restored by charging. The power consumption is about the level of normal household appliances and will not cause the electricity meter in Miyauchi Hiyage's house to jump at lightning speed.

Otherwise, if Kanna were allowed to eat to her heart's content, even building a nuclear power plant wouldn't be enough to feed Kanna.

Because when Miyauchi Hiyage went to pick up Tohru last night, he had already sent a text message to Shiina Mahiru to let her know that Tohru had returned.

Therefore, when Miyauchi Hiyage and Tohru came downstairs, Shiina Mahiru was already in the kitchen preparing breakfast for everyone, and it was a super-sized breakfast specially made for Tohru.

Unlike before, Kanna, who had been sleepy since arriving in this world last night, is now awake and staring longingly at the rice cooker that is still simmering soup, seemingly very interested in the taste of the food inside.

Unlike Tohru, who has lived in the human world for thousands of years.

Even though Tohru was surprised by the seasonings in those convenient dishes when she first arrived in this world, Tohru had seen all kinds of delicacies and was worldly-wise. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to become a perfect maid so quickly after meeting Kobayashi.

In terms of culinary skills, Tohru is actually better than Shiina Mahiru now; she's just more adept at handling the flesh and blood of magical beasts.

As a young dragon, Kanna had always grown up with her parents, including in terms of food. Her understanding of humans came almost entirely from Tohru's descriptions of her, and she had hardly ever eaten human food before.

In addition, Kanna's race is one that is naturally very curious and has strong desires. Since she is not yet an adult, these desires naturally manifest in her appetite.

After smelling the delicious aroma coming from the kitchen in the morning, she groggily ran to the kitchen and began waiting for breakfast.

A cute little girl like Kanna is indeed irresistible to many. In addition, Shiina Mashiro has never met Renge, but only knows that Miyauchi Hiyage seems to have a younger sister who is still in elementary school.

Therefore, when she saw Kanna, Shiina Mahiru subconsciously mistook her for Miyauchi Renge, the younger sister of Miyauchi Hiyage Miyauchi Renka.

Kanna also remembered the arrangement made for his Shiina Mahiru the night before. When Shiina Mahiru asked her questions, she kept nodding, while her mind was focused on the food. She was completely unaware that the other person had called her by the wrong name.

So much so that when Miyauchi Hiyage Himekage introduced Kanna to Shiina Mahiru, she realized she had mispronounced Renge's name so many times.

"She doesn't care about these things. If you really feel bad for her, then prepare a portion for her based on Tohru's appetite from now on."

Chapter 302: Shiina Mahiru's Thoughts

Originally Shiina Mahiru had some doubts about Kanna's appetite.

How can Kanna, with her petite frame, have the same appetite as Tohru, that glutton?

Isn't this a bit too exaggerated?

"If you don't believe me, Kanna, give her a demonstration. Use that pot of soup as your example." Miyauchi Hiyage gestured for the greedy Kanna to show off her skills.

Kanna winked gently at Miyauchi Hiyage, while Shiina Mahiru waved her hand at Miyauchi Hiyage: "That soup just finished cooking, even if you want to drink it, let's wait until it cools down a bit first..."

Then she discovered that the pot of soup she had just cooked had vanished in the short time it took her to turn around and say a few words to Miyauchi Hiyage. By the time she saw Miyauchi Hiyage gesturing towards the pot and then turning back to check, the pot of soup had disappeared.

Only a trace of soup remaining near Kanna's mouth indicated where the pot of soup had gone.

Heaven knows how the other person managed to drink such a huge pot of boiling hot broth in just a few seconds.

However, Shiina Mahiru's ability to accept things has been honed by her older sister.

For the first sixteen years of Shiina Mahiru's life, the world was still normal, and her biggest worry was not knowing how to gain her parents' approval.

She worked hard for sixteen years to mold herself into a seemingly perfect high school girl.

Everything changed when her cousin Shiina Mashiro was a few months older than her and had just held an international art exhibition in the UK at the beginning of this year, suddenly gave up her promising career as an artist and returned to Tokyo to become a manga artist.

Originally, the adults wanted to entrust Shiina Mashiro to another relative who was an art teacher at an affiliated high school of an art university. However, that relative seemed to have just failed a blind date and was drunk all day. So, her father suddenly thought of her, who lived away from home, and asked her to take care of Mashiro for the time being, until that relative got over his ordeal.

But things quickly spiraled out of control after that.

She asked her neighbor to accompany Shiina Mashiro to go shopping for the latest popular comics over the weekend, and then they ran into her neighbor's twin brother, Miyauchi Hiyage, on the way.

Then, for some reason, her cousin and her neighbor's brother hit it off as soon as they met. She even decided to transfer to Houtonji High School instead of going to the art university's affiliated high school.

So what was originally just temporary care for Shiina Mashiro has now become a formal "job".

Of course, given Shiina Mahiru's personality, she wouldn't care about these things.

Moreover, with the help of the Miyauchi Family siblings, she basically only needed to cook more meals and remind Shiina Mashiro to get up and go to bed at home; she didn't have to worry about anything else.

However, the strange Breathing Technique that Shiina Mashiro suddenly taught them completely changed Shiina Mahiru's worldview.

It was from that time that Shiina Mahiru realized that the world was not as simple as she had imagined.

Even the Miyauchi Family seems to still have records of how their village was almost wiped out a hundred years ago because of a "demon." It was a wandering swordsman who mastered Breathing Technique who killed the demon, allowing their village to continue to this day.

Shiina Mashiro obtained the lineage of Breathing Technique through some means, and besides her, many other girls in Japan have also obtained this lineage, which is why Shiina Mashiro chose to return to Japan ahead of schedule.

In short, she then followed her older cousin to learn Breathing Technique.

After all, she and Shiina Mashiro are cousins by blood. Shiina Mashiro has a considerable talent for Breathing Technique, and her talent is not bad either, so their progress is quite gratifying.

However, compared to the Miyauchi Hiyage, there's nothing to be proud of.

She's still practicing maintaining her breathing rhythm while sleeping, while Miyauchi Hiyage is already able to freely change the rhythm of her Breathing Technique to find the most suitable rhythm for herself.

Afterwards, Miyauchi Hiyage began practicing a sword technique that seemed to be able to be combined with her Breathing Technique. However, her Ripple were still very weak, and she was unable to adjust her breathing rhythm to perform this sword technique.

She doesn't care about these things, she has already gained a lot from this Breathing Technique, and doesn't care so much about other things.

After that, she would occasionally see Miyauchi Hiyage taking Shiina Mashiro out late at night.

At first, she thought the two of them were doing something ambiguous outside, and she even wondered if she should help cover for them if her family asked.

But upon closer reflection, neither Miyauchi Hiyage nor Shiina Mashiro seem like the type of people who would do such things in secret.

Later she learned that Miyauchi Hiyage had taken Shiina Mashiro out to eliminate the Vengeful Spirit wandering around Beika Town.

Miyauchi Hiyage even asked her if she had any such thoughts, but since she was naturally somewhat afraid of ghost stories, she naturally wouldn't have such thoughts.

Moreover, after Golden Week, Miyauchi Hiyage brought her a recipe left by a master chef from over a hundred years ago, and she is now focused on this recipe.

According to Miyauchi Hiyage, if one can fully master this recipe, one can easily reach or even surpass the level of the Elite Ten in cooking.

Shiina Mahiru hadn't taken Miyauchi Hiyage's words seriously at first. After all, the Totsuki Ten Masters were already considered the top chefs in Japan. If a recipe book could achieve that level, wouldn't it be a complete waste for an amateur cooking enthusiast like her?

It wasn't until she saw the cookbook's serious description of glowing dishes and the instructions on how to cook them to that level that she realized this thing was indeed not something an ordinary person could write.

However, up to this point, Shiina Mahiru still only had a superficial understanding of the existence of the Reverse Side World.

Even with Tohru's arrival, she only had some doubts and did not fully confirm her identity, assuming that she was also a girl who had received the "inheritance" along with Shiina Mashiro.

It was also during this Katsura Kotonoha to become an apprentice that Miyauchi Hiyage, in order to put her and Miyauchi Kouka at ease, told her about the situation in the Reverse Side World and the Jujutsu High.

Upon hearing about various extraordinary forces and their enemies, Shiina Mahiru realized that Miyauchi Hiyage seemed to have already traveled far into that world without her or Miyauchi Kouka's knowledge.

He even seems to have awakened the power to manipulate the fate of others. Not only does it sound quite mysterious, but this ability also seems quite formidable. Having suffered from this power before, Miyauchi Kouka feels somewhat apprehensive whenever he sees Miyauchi Hiyage these days.

Finally, just a few days ago, she received a kitchen knife with a phoenix pattern engraved on its blade from her cousin, who said it was a legendary kitchen utensil with the power to purify food.

Anyway, she didn't understand the specific principles, and she wouldn't usually buy rotten meat to process, but the meat processed with this cleaver did taste much better.

Now, looking back on the changes in her mindset over the past month, Shiina Mahiru sometimes marvels at how adaptable people are.

Just over a month ago, she was an ordinary person thinking about how to perform better and gain her mother's approval.

Now, her Breathing Technique can run automatically all day long. Not only are those strong, heavyweight athletes no match for her in terms of physical strength, but her mind also seems to be much more active than before.

She possesses recipes and knives that countless chefs dream of, and occasionally she can obtain cooking tutorials from Totsuki Culinary Academy through her sister.

With these resources and Miyauchi Hiyage's operational capabilities, or rather, her power to manipulate fate, she built a video account with hundreds of thousands of followers in just over twenty days, and it is estimated that she will reach a million followers by the beginning of next month.

Her goal also changed from thinking all day about how to maintain her perfect image in front of others to thinking all day about what dishes to practice according to the recipe for today's video and how much to prepare so that Miss Tohru would be full.

Even now, seeing Kanna's exaggerated appetite, her first reaction wasn't to consider where Kanna and Tohru came from, nor was it to consider whether drinking such hot soup in one gulp would harm her health.

Instead, he was thinking that the Miyauchi Family's food expenses would likely double again.

Tohru can eat tens of thousands of yen worth of rice in one meal. The rice cost for the two of them in a month exceeds one million yen. If you include other ingredients such as vegetables and meat, the food expenses alone are enough for a family of three to earn for a whole year.

In other words, Miyauchi Hiyage could become a millionaire just by standing still and picking up money; otherwise, ordinary people really couldn't afford to support these two big eaters.

Seeing Shiina Mahiru taking out other ingredients from the refrigerator to prepare other dishes, without even asking Kanna's background, Miyauchi Hiyage, feeling that Kanna was really working hard, went up to help with the ingredients while telling Kanna the identity she had made up.

"Kanna is Tohru's relative. I think you should be able to sense Tohru's special qualities by now. In short, her identity is still a bit complicated. Just think of her as a princess who came from a place full of extraordinary beings."

"As for Kanna, she's living with Tohru now because of some family issues. Her public identity is my sister. Last night, I was dealing with her identity issues with Tohru, so I didn't get much rest. I'll take a nap after breakfast." After telling Shiina Mahiru about the Reverse Side World, Miyauchi Hiyage immediately used her supernatural powers to prepare the ingredients.

What might take a normal person ten or twenty minutes to prepare, he can do in less than a minute.

Now he can totally learn from that God of Cookery and fry eggs with his palm, including using Ripple Flame to speed up those dishes that take a long time to complete, and the taste is definitely above standard.

After all, cooking skills depend on two things: the selection and preparation of ingredients before cooking, and the control of heat and seasoning after cooking. Miyauchi Hiyage can easily control these things with her current physical condition.

This was after he had just fought Tohru all night, and his mental state was visibly poor.

If he were at his peak, he could basically elevate the taste of food to the limit under the current conditions.

However, that is only the limit that ordinary people can reach.

In this idealistic and extraordinary world, once culinary skills reach their limit in terms of technique, one must put their heart into it to continue improving, which is also the foundation for creating luminous dishes.

Miyauchi Hiyage has no "chef's heart" at all. He is not picky about the taste of food, nor does he have any idea of putting any emotion into the food he makes.

After reading that recipe book, Miyauchi Hiyage knew that she was not destined for the "highest level" of culinary skills; that was a level for those who truly loved cooking to pursue.

He has Shiina Mahiru by his side, and among the girls who received the Diary is Tadokoro Megumi from the Food Wars! series. I wonder how far the two of them will go in this regard.

Miyauchi Hiyage thought casually to himself that after helping Shiina Mahiru with the kitchen work, he realized that the family's demand for food was increasing, and it wasn't good for Shiina Mahiru to be busy in such a large kitchen all by herself.

Should we find an assistant for Shiina Mahiru next?

Of course, it wouldn't work for a normal person, since his family has too many secrets, which is why he hasn't hired a butler or maid yet.

Even Itou Kaiji and Sakakibara Kouichi only scratched the surface of Miyauchi Hiyage's secrets.

These days, he has been entrusting the cleaning of the mansion to Yellow Temperance.

Anyway, this thing has a large enough surface area when it's spread out, and ordinary people can't see it in its Stand form. Even if the dust isn't organic and the Yellow Temperance can't digest it, it can just roll around like this, wrap all the dust inside its body, and then concentrate it in one place to spit out the undigested stuff and get rid of it.

Now, if we're talking about maids, Miyauchi Hiyage's first thought is Katsura Kotonoha. She's currently an apprentice under him, and she could fill in as a maid to help Tohru prepare the ingredients. This would be a good opportunity to get close to Tohru, Katsura Kotonoha shouldn't have any problems.

Besides, Shadow Yuuko, who is currently struggling to pay off her debts, is also a good option.

Under the suppression of the Wonder of U and the Calamity Torrent, this half-step special-grade Vengeful Spirit has become much more obedient. She knows her current situation and that if she wants to gain freedom, she needs to pay off the debt she owes to that damned Diary first.

If Shadow Yuuko is willing to cooperate, then as long as she goes to Beika Town and finds a few Spiritual Body she likes to take as her underlings, it seems that he will no longer need to worry about the daily maintenance of the mansion and helping Shiina Mahiru in the kitchen.

Chapter 303: Commenting on the Rewards for the Girls

I had already washed away all the bad luck I had accumulated in the past few days, and the rewards I received from writing in my diary in Morioh were also quite good. So I should have some ability to resist these fate-related abilities next time.