NIKKE, When the Milky Way Blossoms

As soon as she said that, Anise felt as if a thousand ants were crawling on her face, the kind that's covered in Sichuan peppercorn oil.

"Alliance!"

"From now on, it's just the two of us dividing it up ourselves!!"

What do you think?!

……

……

The next morning,

Anxious and hungry, a devoted man, after enduring five or six hours of insomnia, finally decided to quietly open the door and go to the refrigerator to get some food.

He had already peeked at it using the mind map.

Mihara didn't leave, Anis didn't leave, and they still had their wings—it was practically perfect...

"Ah~~ Commander~~"

"!!!"

Just as Phoenix was groping around like a thief, he suddenly heard Anise's enthusiastic voice in his ear.

"Did you sleep well last night? Are you coming out for breakfast? Shall we cook together, or go downstairs to eat?"

Listening to the girl's sunny yet somewhat eerie words, and feeling the soft warmth from her arm, the man did not feel the happiness he should have felt. Instead, he turned around in horror, staring at the girl hanging on his right arm as if he had seen a ghost.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation!

"Ha...haha...hahahaha..."

After an awkward few laughs, Phoenix answered with a chill running down his spine:

"Well, you know..."

"hungry."

……

Sizzle sizzle sizzle—

Boiling hot oil was frying artificially synthesized beef patties, and in the suite, the range hood, which hadn't been used in ages, finally started its first operation.

Amidst the astonished gazes of Mihara, Anis, and Yuni, Phoenix, feeling guilty, tossed and turned the rice over a high flame while simultaneously frying a beef burger.

The cooking skills I used to appease my mother in my past life, I never thought I could use them to appease my wives in this life.

It seems that his father's purpose in forcing him to learn to cook was not simply to make him lazy, but also demonstrated a very long-term strategic vision.

"Please prepare one egg white and one egg yolk for me."

Phoenix skillfully used a blowtorch to caramelize the cheese slices on the beef patties, then with a flick of his wrist, he placed the top half of the toasted bread over the cheese.

"Anis, your cheese, bacon, and beef burger is ready."

……

Another twenty minutes passed.

At the dining table, Anise, who was already on high alert, looked at the eclectic dishes and then glanced at the Commander who was still preparing the last hot dish in the kitchen. A genuine smile of satisfaction finally appeared on her lips.

"There seems to be a lot of food. If we can't finish it, we can ask those two guys in the bathroom to come out and take care of the leftovers later."

After all, we can't mistreat prisoners.

Aren't you going to eat first?

On the other side of the table, Mihara looked at the hamburger in front of Anis, which was twice the size of the fast food restaurant's hamburger, and casually asked, "Hamburgers probably don't taste good when they're cold, right?"

"Shall we eat first?"

Sensing the doubt in Mihara's voice, Anisley blinked and answered matter-of-factly:

"Since we're all cooking at home, we should eat together! If we're each eating separately, we might as well order takeout separately."

"You mean, cooking at home?"

Having forgotten what home felt like, Mihara turned to look at the busy figure in the kitchen after hearing Anis's words, and then blushed inexplicably.

"Okay, I understand. If we cook at home, we should eat together."

……

……

"I'm talking to you two."

As Anise said, after finishing the meal, the cook, who still maintained a humanitarian heart, kindly opened the bathroom door.

However, the unexpected scene behind the door left him both amused and exasperated.

On the tiled floor, K, with his disheveled hair, stared at him menacingly like a frightened puppy. D, on the other hand, remained as still as a cat, his eyes closed.

A cat and a dog, they actually make a pretty good match.

"Dinner's ready, want to come out and eat?" the man asked casually, even though he knew the other person probably wouldn't eat, but he still had to go through the motions.

"What! Changing your mind? Planning to poison us?" K said, baring his teeth as he warily stared at the dangerous individual before him.

"Don't even think about it! I'd rather die than eat a single bite of what you make!!!"

But no sooner had she finished speaking than the rich aroma of food wafting from the hall made her nose wrinkle involuntarily.

But... damn it!

This is a conspiracy! To lure them into eating the poison, this guy actually added so many flavoring ingredients!

She's a professional assassin in the courtroom; she would never make such a mistake out of mere verbal gratification!

"Go eat, K."

However, while the dog was still struggling to resist her appetite, the cat next to her suddenly started to persuade her.

"The Ark hasn't developed a drug that can kill Niki yet. If he wanted to kill us, he wouldn't have waited until now. You can eat it without worry."

"...I, I have no interest in eating food prepared by the enemy!"

“He is just a suspect. His hostility toward the court does not mean he will pose a threat to Fang Zhou.”

After a night of philosophical reflection, D calmly said, "Among those politicians, there are quite a few who are hostile to the court. We cannot treat them as enemies for that reason."

"..."

With D's help in setting up the steps, K, whose brain was constantly urging him to eat, couldn't help but sniff his nose again.

……

"Little puppy, ah~~~"

"Hey! You brat! I'm warning you, don't go too far!!!"

Sitting on the sofa, the dog, with its hands cuffed, turned its head away, trying to avoid Yuni's spoon full of fried rice.

"Haven't you learned your lesson?"

Seeing that the other party dared to dodge her feeding, the little girl smiled and her voice carried a hint of threat.

"You don't like to eat, could it be that you like to eat Yuni's whip?"

"..."

silence……

"..."

Silence again...

"what……"

As the saying goes, "When you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head," K comforted himself as he opened his mouth.

However, the moment the fried rice was put into her mouth, her molars instinctively ground it into small pieces...

The rich aroma of the egg yolk, the crisp sweetness of the shrimp, and the intertwining of distinct grains of rice and strands of egg white create a perfect blend of textures and flavors, all enveloped in the oil.

Is this the food that man made?

K, who had just said she would never eat a single bite, immediately contorted her face and swallowed hard after taking her first bite of fried rice.

How can this food taste so delicious?

hateful,

She...she really wanted to have another bite.

Chapter Seventy: Meeting Shuen Again (Part 1)

Cooking is a time-consuming and laborious task.

Phoenix prepared the meal around 6 a.m., ate it around 7 a.m., and then cleaned up the dishes with Mihara and Anis. By then it was already past 8 a.m.

Unexpectedly, this was supposed to be the wake-up time for office workers, but instead, they received a long, rambling letter from Shu En.