After returning home, Mochizuki Yo planned to start cooking. Although he said he was cooking, Mochizuki Yo didn't have much experience. It was just a whim to try it out, after all, eating instant noodles every day felt like he was malnourished. "Let's cook the rice first."
Mochizuki estimated the amount, poured the rice into the pot, washed it carefully several times, added the right amount of water, and finally put it into the rice cooker.
Then he washed the vegetables and meat he bought and prepared to start chopping.
It must be said that Mochizuki really had no experience in chopping vegetables, and the vegetables and meat were cut into strange shapes.
However, he himself didn't seem to feel anything.
After chopping the vegetables, Mochizuki was about to put them in the pot to cook.
At this moment, the phone rang.
Mochizuki first washed his hands, took out his phone, and it was a video call from Yamada Elf.
"Hey, you answered so slowly! Well, whatever, I'm used to it."
As soon as the call connected, the complaining voice from the other side came.
"Elf, Yamada, what's up."
Mochizuki hesitated for a moment, not knowing what to call her, after all, he was used to calling her Elf in the game.
Now he knew her real name in reality, but calling her by her first name directly was still a bit offensive.
After all, in this country, only very close friends call each other by their first names.
However, Elf didn't let Mochizuki dwell on it.
"Hey, hey, just call me Elf, calling me Miss Yamada sounds super weird!"
"Oh, what do you want? If you want to play games, maybe later."
"Are you saying I only look for you to play games?"
"Isn't that rarely the case?"
"You, hateful! What are you doing if you're not playing games!"
"I'm cooking! Do you think I'm like you, loafing around!"
Because she was surprised that Mochizuki said he was cooking, Elf ignored Mochizuki calling her loafing around, after all, there might not be many boys Mochizuki's age who can cook.
"Cooking? You?"
"What, you don't believe me?"
"Can a mere Mochizuki cook? Let me see."
Mochizuki moved the phone's view to the kitchen counter and showed Yamada Elf the vegetables he had cut.
Then, continuous laughter came from the phone.
Mochizuki saw Yamada Elf laughing heartily.
"Hahahahahahaha, what did you cut, it's so ugly!"
"Where is it ugly, it's perfectly normal, alright."
Mochizuki Yo said stubbornly.
"Looking at you, I knew you wouldn't be able to cook.
Heh heh."
"Do you want this young lady to teach you!"
Feeling Elf's mockery, Mochizuki Yo was unhappy, I'm not going to show you a thing or two.
"You just watch from the side!"
Then he propped the phone up on the side.
Elf observed Mochizuki's kitchen through her phone with both eyes.
"Hmm, the kitchen utensils are quite complete."
Mochizuki first simply cleaned the frying pan.
The frying pan was brand new and had not been used, so it inevitably accumulated some dust.
Then he put the frying pan on the gas stove and picked up the cooking oil and slowly poured it in.
"Hey, light the fire first, there's still accumulated water in the pot!"
Mochizuki had already poured the cooking oil before lighting the fire.
Then he slowly poured the vegetables and fresh meat into the pot.
"Are you just going to stir-fry them all together? Idiot!"
....
"Turn up the heat, are you going to stir-fry until tomorrow with such a small flame!"
"You haven't even turned on the range hood!"
"Flip it with a spatula! Don't just stand there in a daze."
"If you don't flip it soon, it's going to burn."
"Pop."
It turned out that the constant noise from Elf caused the phone to not stand steadily and it fell over.
"Why is it black, I can't see, idiot, prop the phone up for me."
Mochizuki repositioned the phone, and Elf's little face reappeared on the screen.
"Add some seasoning...."
"Put the lid on."
Yamada Elf's voice, filled with disappointment, kept coming.
Mochizuki was also busily fumbling around.
"So annoying, nagging..."
Mochizuki complained softly, but still did as told.
"Huh? After getting guidance from this young lady, not only are you not grateful enough to prostrate yourself, you actually dare to find this young lady annoying!"
Yamada Elf in the video was also very dissatisfied, her hands and feet flailing in anger.
"Ding dong."
"Ding dong."
The doorbell rang, Mochizuki Yo looked at the pot, felt it was almost done, and turned off the heat.
He said to Elf, "There's a guest, I'm hanging up first."
With a beep, Mochizuki hung up the phone.
Elf on the other side, "Bastard, I haven't even seen how it turned out!"
Mochizuki opened the door, and it turned out to be Shiina again.
If Yamada Elf knew that Mochizuki had hung up her video call because another girl had arrived, who knows what she would think.
Shiina was still holding a bento box in her arms, but this one was slightly different in color and shape from yesterday's, although it had the same little bear pattern.
Mochizuki understood that Shiina had come to bring him food again.
"No need, Shiina, did you forget that I cooked myself today, I didn't eat instant noodles."
"Mm-hmm, I made too much, I can't finish it, I'll trouble you to have it as a late-night snack."
Then, she forcibly shoved it into Mochizuki's arms again.
Mochizuki Yo thought to himself, your bento box is so rich, it doesn't look like you made too much and can't finish it at all! And you specifically made it...
"How did you do?"
"I just finished stir-frying, do you want to try it?"
"Okay."
Shiina Mahiru was also quite curious about how Mochizuki had stir-fried, but to be honest, she didn't have much confidence.
She also had the thought that Mochizuki wouldn't be able to stir-fry, and decided to come and take a look.