Mea-san, please show me your face - Chapter 6.2: Mea-san, By Any Chance…(Part 2)
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Mea-san, By Any Chance…(Part 2)
And so they began cooking.
“I’ll make stewed hamburger steak for lunch today~~! I’m making it because it’s a dish that’s hard to mess up~”
As she put on the apron she brought with her, Renjuyou-san, with a bright smile, exclaimed to me.
“Oh, is that so? It sounds kind of difficult just by its name…”
“There are only a few steps to making a hamburger steak. All you have to do is simmer it with the sauce, so you don’t have to worry about it being raw or overcooked. Those are the two main reasons why many fail to make hamburgers steak.”
“I-I see… Makes sense…!”
“If you learn how to cook it, you can change and use the recipe in many ways. You can cook the hamburger steak without stewing it, and the stewing sauce can be made into curry or stew by changing the seasoning at the end.”
“Ohhh, that’s so convenient! It will increase my repertoire in one swoop!”
Like this, she was also very generous in showing us samples and giving us some tips to help us with our meal in the future.
I am very thankful. She was exactly like an angel helping from heaven.
“And also… Ehehe~, Ku-kun likes hamburger steak, right?”
“Yeah, well… Is there any guy who doesn’t like hamburger steak?”
I answered while scratching my bangs up. In fact, my dad likes hamburgers too, so it should be no surprise that a grown man like me likes them too. It’s a meat dish if I am not wrong.
“~~~Ku-kun, you’re so cute and adorable…♪♪”
“What?”
“Nothing, it’s nothing. Then, let’s start with chopping the onion…”
*ChopChopChopChopChopChopChop* She used the knife so quickly that it seemed like a mirage, and in no time at all, the onions were cut into slices.
“So Cooool!! But it’s totally impossible for me to do it like you!!”
“Nowadays, there are machines that can chop vegetables and they also come at a reasonable price, so I think it’s a good idea to use them for the first time. But if you can chop onions in various ways, you will be able to chop other vegetables quite easily, so I personally recommend you to practice~~”
“I-I see……! Renjuyou-san, you’re so amazing…! So, what’s next? What’s next?”
I was so engrossed in her skill that I couldn’t stop looking at her.
“Heh heh heh~, next is…”
Furthermore, Renjuyou-san seems to be happy to see me like that.
The smile on her face is simply just adorable, and I couldn’t help but smile along with her──
“Wait a minute, please.”
And then a calm voice came from the side. Ofcourse it was Mea-san’s.
“I think I’m pretty good at chopping onions too.”
She brushed her hair off her shoulders and declared with a serious face.
“Ehh, is that so? But Me-chan, you were in charge of making curry at the camp in elementary school, and you know at that time…”
“At that time I wasn’t in charge of cutting onions. But now—”
*CHOPCHOPCHOPCHOPCHOPCHOPCHOPCHOP!!!*
“Ohh Myy Lord!!!?”
“Hwaa──!?!”
Both My and Renjuyou-san’s voices skyrocketed.
No, well because… The way Mea-san cuts is so different from the way Renjuyou-san showed us earlier.
As if cutting the sky with a knife at the ready – let’s say, like she opened the 5th gate – she repeatedly sliced through it, and all at once, the onion was chopped into pieces.
This is no ordinary technique, no normal person can master it! Not in the same sense of what I said to Renjuyou-san, but this is DEFINITELY impossible for me to do! This technique!
“Wha-Wh-wh-wh-What was that?! Me-chan!? How did you cut the onions like that?”
“Cause I’m a Ni… It’s a secret.”
──I see, I didn’t know because I hadn’t seen her using a knife until now… Mea-san seems to be good at handling knives because she’s a ninja princess.
She has been throwing shurikens for years… And that seems to be a secret even from her best friend, Renjuyou-san.“How- How was it? Do you like it, Kuuya-san?”
And then Mea-san asked me that while clenching her fist (a little scary because she was holding a knife in one hand).
“No, well, that was really amazing… That’s how amazing Mea-san really is.”
“Yes, yes~! Fufufufufu~~ Fufufufufuf~~~, I did it, Kuuya-san praised me…♪
I did my best to keep my composure and praise her, but she turned red and broke into a smile.
…Damn, Mea-san is really cute and adorable after all! Renjuyou-san’s cuteness is straightforward and juvenile, but Mea-san’s cuteness comes from the gap between her normal mature personality and this present cuteness!
Is Mea-san one step ahead with this? No, is this a game in the first place?
“H-Hmm, but the actual cooking is about to begin! Next, I’ll knead the meat!”
“Wow, that’s how I like it.”
It is true that chopping onions does not make a stewed hamburger, and they are still far from making a stewed hamburger.
The next step for both of them is to knead the meat, mix in the bread flour and other ingredients, and form it into a hamburger…
“Yes, like this! The key is to make a hole in the middle!”
Renjuyou-san finished cooking first and placed the hamburger steak on the tray.
“Wow, beautiful!”
I said it unintentionally. The hamburger steak looked very delicious and had a beautiful shape.
“Ehehehehe~~~, beautiful? Am I beautiful? Oh my god, Ku-kun~, you flatter me~♪”
“Wa-wait! The hamburger steak! I meant the hamburger steak!”
AHH! The way she happily smiles and shakes her body like that!! AHH so cute! That gesture!
I felt a sense of guilt when I thought about it, and I turned my head towards Mea-san.
“Ahh… like… Like this… Ahhh nope. Nononono… Oooh again… ahhh… hmm…”
Apparently, she was trying to flatten the meat by throwing them back and forth between her left and right palms, imitating the procedure of her opponent, Renjuyou-san… Perhaps the force was too strong, but Instead of flattening out, the meat was scattered and sent flying. Every time she did this, she had to re-gather the scattered meat, so to tell the truth, I don’t feel like she’ll be able to finish it at all…!
“…Ku-Kuuya-san.”
And even more so when she noticed my gaze and froze.
“I’m sorry, but Mea is embarrassed to present it…!”
“Wait, wait, wait! It’s not good to cover your face with your hands when you are cooking!”
“Then what should I do?”
“First, I think you should be a little more gentle with the meat, Mea-san…”
“…Kuuya-san, you’re so kind.”
“Don’t say something like that, it’s embarrassing!”
“I’ll try my best! Watch me, Kuuya-san!”
So, it appeared that she was on the verge of giving up… Well, her tone of voice also sounds panicked…