My daily life of exorcising demons and falling in love with a witch.

Why can't there be sea bream sushi?

Because, without any prefixes indicating that it is cooked fish, sea bream sushi is assumed to be sashimi sushi.

After several hours of being sealed at room temperature, raw fish may have already spoiled.

Therefore, it's impossible to put it in a bento box. This includes foods like fresh tofu and soft-boiled eggs.

In addition, since Japanese people are used to eating bento boxes cold, the dishes in the bento boxes must be of the kind that taste delicious even when cold.

Since most people's lunchboxes are made by their mothers, elementary schools even provide lunchbox making manuals.

It includes bento box making tips such as how to choose vegetables that don't spoil easily, how to remove moisture from vegetable leaves, and some nutritional information.

Most people would show this manual to their mothers.

Erina's situation is rather special.

When the elementary school homeroom teacher handed out this handbook, he didn't even give one to Erina. Instead, he only gave one to Yoshiyuki, telling him to study it himself and ask Erina's mother if he didn't understand anything.

Even now, when Yixing thinks about it, he still doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.

But what made him both amused and exasperated was that Erina had completely given up on thinking.

At the same time, she also cheated, saying that even if she didn't guess any of them, she would still have to do it when she was supposed to feed them.

"Yes, yes, young lady."

Yi Xing had no choice but to compromise.

Of course, this helplessness was only due to Erina's cheating.

Actually, there's nothing to be resentful about.

After all, feeding the young lady was something he enjoyed very much.

Even Yixing would expect the young lady to suddenly complain that holding chopsticks was tiring and that he should feed her during every meal.

"Oh...!" Erina took a bite of the stewed beef in her bento box, her expression turning quite surprised. "The stewed beef tastes a bit special today! What did you put in it, you scoundrel?"

"Yogurt," Yoshiyuki replied. "I added yogurt."

"No wonder. I was wondering why it tasted sour; I thought it had gone bad." Erina's tone was somewhat disappointed. "I thought Yoshiyuki had deliberately put some strange drug that someone sent in it."

"That's ridiculous!"

Yoshiyuki shouted this in a panic, and the image of Maekawa Kazuhiro immediately flashed into his mind.

He suddenly wondered if his master had sneezed back in his hometown.

The young lady's reaction was not unexpected for Yixing.

She knew exactly what was inside the medicine gourd.

This made Yixing feel increasingly ashamed, and at the same time, he was once again grateful to his master for protecting his self-esteem.

Erina has been selectively playing dumb all along.

This avoided many overly awkward situations.

I might have to hide that medicine gourd somewhere the young lady can't find it... Yixing felt uneasy thinking about this: otherwise it would be terrible if she secretly poisoned it.

You can only take one pill of that medicine at a time. If you take too much, it's not impossible that you might accidentally flush it down the toilet and die.

If this were to actually happen, he would leave a significant mark on the history of the Yoda family—the most foolish death in history for Maekawa.

Today's bento box is as plentiful as ever.

The rice was sprinkled with seaweed and shredded dried plums.

The main course was a French dish that Yi Xing was trying for the first time—beef stewed in yogurt.

The side dishes, besides the lettuce and perilla leaves used to separate the bento boxes, include a hard-boiled egg cut in half, a piece of grilled eel, a fried meatball, two large chopsticks of cold bean curd skin salad, a piece of tomato, two pieces of stewed pumpkin, and a clump of kelp strips.

Among them, white rice, beef stew with yogurt, grilled eel, boiled eggs, and stewed pumpkin were made fresh this morning.

Everything else was prepared in advance, placed in airtight containers, and refrigerated.

Japanese housewives do it this way; otherwise, it would be too late to make it fresh every morning.

This includes the stewed pumpkin that Yixing made this morning; he made a whole pot and then saved the extra.

He was initially a little worried about whether the new dishes would suit their tastes.

But seeing that the mother and daughter were enjoying their meal so much, Yoshiyuki felt relieved and started eating his own food. He then gave the best dishes from his own box to the young lady, who had a big appetite, and to Hime, who was silently and quickly using her "lunchbox disappearing technique."

It was obvious what Erina liked to eat. She really liked the yogurt stewed beef, which she had never tried before, so Yoshiyuki gave her most of the beef from his lunchbox.

"You don't need to give me so much. I already have plenty."

"It's alright, Miss. Eat as much as you like."

In the past, he only needed to take care of the young lady, but now that he has a daughter, he naturally has to care about her as well.

Since Xiao Ji didn't speak, it was impossible to tell what she liked, so after Yi Xing got up and came to her, he could only do what he could.

When she realized that her father seemed to want to give her more food, Xiao Ji shook her head, placed the lunchbox on her lap, and held up her two small hands to shield herself.

Then, she picked up her notebook, quickly wrote "Thank you, Dad, you don't need to give it to me," and then held it up to show Yixing.

In that instant, she hiccuped.

The tiny, incredibly faint hiccups became utterly adorable because of her cute, clear, childlike voice.

"Oh my gosh~ Hime is so cute!" Erina's heart skipped a beat, and she grabbed her chopsticks and hugged Hime tightly, almost knocking over her bento box. "I want to eat the little demon sword too!"

Xiao Ji was caught off guard when her mother suddenly hugged her.

Then, he burped again.

Yi Xing watched this scene with great satisfaction, feeling extremely happy.

Of course, he didn't stop working either; he immediately took out a thermos and handed it over.

"Eat slowly, don't choke. Drink some tea to help you digest, it's all cold."

"Oh! What a thoughtful servant! Let me pour tea for Hime!"

"Young Miss, letting her go will be a huge help! Look how badly the child is choking!"

Of course, the three of them wouldn't remain silent during the meal. They quickly drifted back to the topic of Satomi's parents, and then talked about Saga, where they were going to open a guesthouse.

Of course, in reality, only the two of them were talking. However, they would occasionally ask Xiaoji what she thought, so as not to neglect their daughter.

To make it easier for her to participate in the interaction and to maintain the flow of the conversation, the two of them mostly asked questions that could be expressed by nodding or shaking their heads.

However, the more they talked, the clearer it became...

Body language, after all, has its limits.

For example, when the three of them talked about the question, "What comes to mind first when you think of Saga?", Hime had to write down her answer.

Saga Prefecture is located in the northwestern part of Kyushu Island, Japan.

It is an agricultural prefecture and one of the most rural places in Japan.

Its lack of presence is almost on par with Miyazaki Prefecture. Residents of these two prefectures share a sense of camaraderie, yet they also frequently argue about whose hometown is the most boring and awful in Japan.

Outsiders often find it hard to understand why they are so persistent in striving to be second to last.