It was delicious.
Although the taste of the dish had a subtle feeling of being a novice chef, it could still be considered delicious. This was Seiji's objective evaluation.
If he added in the bonus from the fact that it was his first time cooking, he would give it 120 … no, 300 points!
This was food that the Grand Mistress personally cooked. Not only that, he was eating it right in front of her. Giving it a bonus of only 200 points was already quite conservative.
"How is it?" Summer Night asked.
"It's delicious." Seiji smiled sincerely.
Upon seeing his smile, Grand Mistress felt that it was now meaningful to wake up early in the morning and work hard at cooking under the maid's guidance.
She felt a warm feeling in her chest, and felt even more happiness from him.
"What do you think of my cooking?" Seiji asked as well.
"It's delicious … it has your taste." Summer Night smiled in response.
"My taste?"
"I can sense that you made it … this taste."
'There's such a feeling? ' Seiji's mind was filled with question marks.
The shy expression on Eldest Miss's face when she said this was very cute, so I won't bother about it.
The two of them chatted and laughed as they ate.
Halfway through their lunch, Summer Night sat down next to Seiji and picked up an egg roll with her chopsticks. She blushed and handed it to him. "Ah ~ ~"
Seiji cooperated and ate as well. He also picked up some food to feed her. "Ah ~ ~"
Summer Night's face became even redder as she opened her mouth and ate the egg roll. Seiji felt his happiness meter increase yet again!
Seeing her beautiful smile, Seiji felt his heart … no, it should be called rippling!
Eating together, chatting, and spending time together had indeed accumulated feelings for each other.
After lunch.
Summer Night poured some freshly brewed tea and handed a cup to Seiji.
"I want to learn about the soul, such as how to attack and defend against the soul … can you teach me?" Seiji asked after taking a sip of his tea.
"Of course. However, I'm not an expert in soul magic, so I can only teach you the basics, "Summer Night told him.
"That's enough."
Seiji predicted that there would be a battle of souls during the Bloodwine Ritual. Coupled with his experience so far, he believed that soul-related spells would be very important in the future, so he had to start learning them now.
Actually, there was someone who was even more skilled than Summer Night in this type of magic, and that was Yomi. Yet, this female spirit was always sleeping. Even if he asked her to teach him when she was awake, with her personality, it was highly likely that she would find it troublesome and refuse to teach him.
The rest of the lunch break was spent listening to President Grand Mistress's lecture on the soul.
…
At night.
Seiji and Little Shi were cultivating in the president's residence.
The two of them used wooden sabers as weapons for combat practice, and the fight was quite intense.
Seiji managed to grab hold of his sworn sister's weak point and quickly slashed out repeatedly to suppress her. It looked like he was about to overwhelm her.
However, Shika Kagura did not retreat at the last moment. Instead, he pushed away his sworn brother's wooden sword, rushed into his arms, and bit his neck!
"Ugh …" Seiji was knocked back and almost fell.
'Biting someone is against the rules!'
He really wanted to say that, but he felt like he had lost.
Shika Kagura hugged him tightly and began biting and sucking on his neck.
"Little Shi, don't be like this …"
"Ahh!"
Shika used her voice to express, 'That's exactly what I'm going to do!'
Seiji felt helpless.
He didn't dislike his adopted younger sister's actions, but if he wanted to say that he liked it … at any rate, he felt that this was a rather subtle act of intimacy.
At this moment, he heard footsteps approaching.
Seiji immediately knew that this was Summer Night's voice! He indicated to Little Shi to hurry and let go, but Little Shi still refused to let go or bite him.
"What are you two doing?"
Summer Night widened her eyes in surprise when she saw how Shika Kagura was hugging and biting Seiji's neck.
"We're practicing for combat," Seiji answered awkwardly.
"… What type of technique is this?"
"Er … it's Little Shi's original technique. It hasn't been named yet."
"Ahh ~" Shika Kagura made a cute sound.
Summer Night and Seiji were both rendered speechless.
The awkward atmosphere continued for quite a while.
Shika Kagura finally let go and licked the bite mark on Seiji's neck before letting go. She glanced at Summer Night before silently walking away.
Summer Night watched her leave before looking back at Seiji Mukai.
Seiji had an awkward expression as he touched the area where he was bitten.
"… Should I pretend that I didn't see anything?" Summer Night asked expressionlessly.
Seiji didn't know how to respond, so he could only smile wryly.
"Let's have some tea in the living room and rest for a while. I have something to tell you."
The Grand Mistress took that as a tacit agreement and ignored what she just saw.
Seiji and Natsuya left the practice field and returned to the living room.
"I've received a report … The cursed item that you obtained from helping Ooike-san dispel the curse only revealed one important detail," Summer Night said after pouring some tea for herself and Seiji.
"What is it?"
"That item is highly likely to have been created from living humans."
Seiji furrowed his eyebrows upon hearing this.
Just a while ago, there was Akira Mitarai who used humans as materials for his creation, and now there was another one …
"Although it's impossible to be 100% certain, judging from the report, there's more than a 90% chance that it's true," Summer Night continued.
"If it's as you suspect, that this cursed item is a product of the Messengers, a 'new product' that they're preparing to sell just like Ecstasy, then when it's mass-produced, many people will die because of it.
However, your suspicions are just suspicions. Right now, we still don't know the specific origin of this item or how it will be used.
I feel that it's highly unlikely that this item will be mass-produced … Let's not talk about whether or not it's possible for now. Mass production of items using living humans as materials will only result in death. "
Nobody would seek their own death.
Logically speaking, that was true.
However, there would always be madmen and madmen in the world. In order to fulfill their desires and goals, they would do anything to achieve their goals! Until they died.
Akira Mitarai was such an example.
Ooike-san recalled that the man who gave him this item once said, "I am indeed a madman."
If this man was even more insane than Akira Mitarai, then …
'No … I shouldn't continue thinking about this.' Seiji stopped his thoughts from slipping into darkness.
"What we know now is that a man who claims to be a madman said that this cursed item is a new product that's currently being tested," Seiji stated calmly. "Who this man is, what faction he belongs to, and what he intends to do, we have no idea at all. The only clues we have are the item itself and Ooike-san. "
"Up until now, not a single Spiritual Ability user has approached Ooike-kun. He's living a normal life — that's what the personnel I arranged for him reported," Summer Night told him.
"That man said that it's a 'trial.' Logically speaking, he should be able to confirm the effect." Seiji looked directly at her. "If the personnel you arranged for him didn't make any mistakes, either that person will be able to confirm the effect by observing Ooike-san from afar, or he hasn't arrived yet."
"I believe that those two people wouldn't make any mistakes."
"In that case, I'll have to trouble them to keep an eye on him for a while longer. If we manage to catch that self-proclaimed madman, we won't need to think too much about it. "
"And if we can't catch him?"
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