Reiju's Visit

After Dong Hema finished bandaging Li Ziming, he sat down beside him, lit himself a cigarette, and offered him one.

"Sorry, I'm not interested in those..." Li Ziming shook his head and declined the cigarette. He touched the wound on his face, hissing at the pain.

"Kid, what did you do? Disobeying Big Mom here is practically asking to die..." Dong Hema said helplessly.

"I didn't disobey Big Mom..." Li Ziming shook his head. "I only wanted to look at someone else's recipes, then come back and try a few things. He looked like he was still asleep, so I decided not to wake him and just came back to experiment on my own. But you saw how that turned out..."

"You should've woken him up..." Dong Hema said.

"If I had, can you honestly say things would've turned out any differently?" Li Ziming shook his head. "They're important people. They could have me killed with a single word. This time, they probably just wanted to teach me a lesson, or take out their frustration on someone..."

"Ah, that's what happens when we're just cooks..." Dong Hema said with a sigh. "And we're lucky to be Big Mom's cooks. You know the Vinsmoke Royal Family's head chef? I think her name's Cosette. Apparently, she offended someone in the family and got beaten beyond recognition... Though I heard the prince who's marrying into Big Mom's family is a decent person. He even spoke up for the head chef once. But the others? Tsk, tsk."

"Hmm?" Li Ziming knew the prince Dong Hema meant had to be Sanji. But of the others, he had only met Reiju and Yonji. Reiju was deeply calculating, while Yonji was just a brat trailing behind her, so Li Ziming wasn't too worried. He knew little about