"Here, this is yours."
Fu Hua coated the grilled fish with sauce and handed it to Minamoto Mitsuyori. He did not know how to grill fish... so Fu Hua could only do it herself.
"Thank you..."
Minamoto Mitsuyori accepted the grilled fish somewhat shyly. It clearly had nothing to do with him, yet Fu Hua had taken such good care of him. He felt a little moved. Then he thought of the older brother who wanted to kill him, and his favorable impression of her deepened further.
Once they returned to the city, he would properly thank her.
When Minamoto Mitsuyori took a bite of the grilled fish, his beautiful eyes lit up. Even as the young master of the Minamoto Clan, he had never tasted anything so delicious. He even forgot his manners and hurriedly began eating.
As he ate, Minamoto Mitsuyori watched Fu Hua grilling fish before him, and his thoughts changed once again. Earlier, he had merely wanted to properly thank Fu Hua, and he liked her voice as well.
But now... he had been won over by Fu Hua's cooking!
He suddenly recalled that his father had mentioned that he was of an age to start a family, and had said he would look around for a suitable girl for him.
Minamoto Mitsuyori looked at Fu Hua. A man who worked seriously was handsome, and Fu Hua, seriously grilling fish, was beautiful too. He had never considered marriage before, but now... perhaps after returning to the city, he could...
His father had said that with his status as the young master of the Minamoto Clan, no one would refuse a marriage proposal from him.
Well, the woman before him did seem somewhat older than he was, but given how much his father doted on him,