A Sweet Romance That Starts With One Bottle of Juice, Between a Heiress Who Must Marry Her First Kiss and a Lonesome Guy With a Menacing Look - Chapter 17 - The Young Lady and Cooking - Part 4

Chapter 17 – The Young Lady and Cooking – Part 4

Once the roux dissolved and the curry was ready.

While letting the curry simmer and resting for a bit, I made a salad and also thawed the rice that I cooked and froze this morning in the microwave.

“Thanks to Tadakuni, we were able to make it very smoothly.”

“Can I continue to cook with you?”

“Of course.”

The curry and salad were brought to the table and placed on the table.

The aroma of spices whetted my appetite.

“Itadakimasu.”

The vegetables are simmered well and the curry has just the right amount of spiciness, so you can enjoy the taste while eating it.

“It’s delicious! Can I have another one?”

“Y-Yeah.”

“Yay!”

I was worried because it was an ordinary family curry, but I’m glad it seemed to suit Yasunomihara-san’s palate.

“Another round~”

Yasunomihara-san’s cooking is only exceptionally delicious for tamagoyaki. The miso soup for breakfast was also delicious, and this curry is also delicious, so she has options for lunch boxes, but…today’s lunch was also tamagoyaki.

“Another round~”

I am becoming so traumatized by eggs that I don’t even want to look at a boiled egg in my salad.

…She didn’t put anything weird in her tamagoyaki, did she?

I’ll ask her how to make it later.

“Thank you for the food.”

I finished my curry and salad and took the dishes to the sink.

I wonder if I should put the leftover curry in a storage container.

“Yasunomihara-san, where are the…storage…containers?”

When I looked into the pot to see how much curry was left, there was nothing left in it.

“…It’s empty!? There was still a bit left!”

“Yuuka-sama eats a lot.”

“Whoa! Don’t startle me, Natsume-san!”

Dressed in a suit and sunglasses, Natsume-san raised her index finger in front of my face and said ‘Shh’.

“Please look over there.”

At Natsume-san’s request, I looked at Yasunomihara-san, who was eating curry at the dining table.

“I must say, Yuuka-sama has inherited her mother’s strong stomach and can eat more than twice the amount of an average person. And all the nutrition goes straight to her chest.”

“…I-I see.”

“Did you just think to yourself, ‘Oh, is Natsume-san’s chest like a cutting board because she doesn’t have the Yasunomihara family bloodline’?”

“I didn’t think that! You’re being paranoid!”

“Then why did you look at my chest for a moment?”

…I didn’t intend to think of anything guilty, but it was just the flow of the conversation…

“I haven’t seen Natsume-san recently, but I didn’t know that she was in this house.”

“Yes. The president has ordered me to serve Yuuka-sama  without disturbing the two of you. Oh, please don’t worry. If you two do it, I will cover my eyes and ears.”

“We won’t! What are you talking about!”

When I denied it, Natsume-san clicked her tongue and pushed something into my hand.

“Setting aside the matter of your actions, Yuuka-sama is not aware that I am monitoring this household, and if it is discovered, I will be dismissed. If you need to contact me, please call this number.”

“H-Huh…”

“Now then, I will take my leave.”

The moment I blinked, Natsume-san was gone before my eyes.

Is she a ninja?

After Natsume-san was gone, I put the dishes in the dishwasher and went back to the dining table.

I waited for Yasunomihara-san to finish her curry, staring at her, who was eating it with relish.

“Hey Tadakuni.”

“What’s wrong? If you want seconds, there’s no more left though.”

“It’s not that, it’s just that since we’re living together, we should set some sort of rules.”

“Rules, it might be better to have them.”

It could be stressful if we don’t have rules for each other, and this is a good suggestion.

“First of all, Tadakuni must always be close to me in case I need to blow my nose.”

“Eh?”

“Also, I cannot sleep alone, so from now on we must sleep together.”

“Huh?”

“And don’t forget to practice basketball every morning.”

“…There were some seriously crazy rules that made basketball practice seem better by comparison. Wait a sec, Yasunomihara-san!”

“What’s wrong?”

I interjected with an off-topic comment to the young lady who was trying to evade the question.

“There were a lot of absurd rules. I’ll still blow your nose for you, but sleeping together is definitely out of the question.”

“…We can’t sleep together?”

“Even if you say it with upturned eyes, we still can’t!”

“I-I can’t sleep alone!”

“You’re not a child.”

“Muu… In that case, is it okay if I call Mother to this house instead!?”

“……”

“What’s with that face? N-No way, could it be Tadakuni is lusting after my mother?”

“No, of course not!”

“Anyway! Please sleep with me!”

Even if you plead with me like that, it still seems too early for that.

“If Tadakuni doesn’t want to, I’ll break down the wall of Tadakuni’s room and connect it to mine.”

“What do you mean by ‘room’?”

“Now, what will you do?”

“Um, so by ‘sleeping together,’ do you mean creating a separate bedroom to sleep in, not in one of our current bedrooms?”

“Yes, that’s right. There are still two rooms on the second floor.”

Now that I think about it, this house has four rooms on the second floor, so there are still two rooms left.

“Okay, I got it. But the bed will be separate, okay?”

Reluctantly, I agreed.

“Yay!”

“By the way, Yasunomihara-saan, you don’t mind sleeping with me?”

“It’s okay because it’s Tadakuni.”

When she said that, my face became hot.

“…! Y-You’re always doing that, it’s not fair, Yasunomihara-san.”

“What’s not fair?”

“Forget it…”

This dense main character is hopeless.

“The rules I demand are only this much. Is there anything you want to add, Tadakuni?”

“L-Let’s see… I’ll take care of cleaning the bath since it’s dangerous if you slip. And maybe we should do our laundry separately. I can’t wash yours, Yasunomihara-san.”

“You suddenly proposed some realistic rules.”

“Yours were just too unrealistic!”

We then decided on who would take care of house chores and on what days we would clean. We’ve become less like a couple and more like newlyweds.

“Mou! Is there nothing Tadakuni is embarrassed about!? Why was I the only one being exposed and embarrassed!?”

“I won’t tell you even if you ask me.”

“Then I’ll call Tadakuni’s mother and ask her about his embarrassing parts! Give me your phone.”

“No way!”

“Lend it to me, lend it to me, lend it to me!”

“Are you a child!?”

After Yasunomihara-san’s embarrassing parts were revealed, she was angry for a while.

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