When I Saved a Girl Who Was About to Be Kidnapped and It Turned Out to Be a Princess Who Had Come to Visit in Secret
“–That’s a lot of attention.”
After returning to my apartment after shopping, I cowered my shoulders and smiled at Luna.
Unlike the last time I went shopping for lingerie, this time Luna went shopping without a disguise and without any clothes.
Her clothes were also classy and stylish, which enhanced Luna’s attractiveness.
Thanks to this, everyone on the road and at the supermarket was gawking at Luna.
“I’m sorry, that was annoying, wasn’t it ……?”
Luna looked at me anxiously, as if she thought I was being negative.
I didn’t mean to be bitter, I just wanted to share the hardship with you like it was hard work. ……
“It’s not Luna’s fault that she gets all the attention, so please don’t apologize for that. Besides, I think people are paying attention to Luna because she’s attractive, and I think she should be proud of it. See, like, aren’t you beautiful?”
Luna had a gloomy expression on her face, so I said it jokingly.
But aside from the last part, that’s what I actually think about everything up to that point.
It’s not like you’re attracting attention in a bad way, so you should be able to keep your chest out.
[Beautiful …… ehehe …..]
Huh…..?
She turned her head down……?
“Luna……?”
I thought she was going to give me a smile and say something like, [I never said that] but she just looked down.
Maybe she thought it was creepy…?
Luna’s reaction was different from what I expected, so I immediately became worried.
But–
“N-no, it’s nothing. ……?”
— Luna raised her face and smiled smugly.
Or rather, I think her mouth is slightly loose.
It seems like I was overthinking it.
“Good… then, shall I prepare dinner?”
I was relieved to see Luna’s smile and took out the ingredients I had bought from my bag.
Then, after washing my hands in the kitchen, I returned my gaze to Luna.
“I’m sure it’s enough for the both of us, right?”
“Yes, Ayla will be sharing a meal with me tomorrow, but today it’s just the two of us♪.”
Ayla chan seems to be living in the next room with Luna.
So I thought we would eat together – but Luna told me while we were shopping that she didn’t need to today.
Maybe she eats lunch with her classmates – but why do they have separate dinners as well?
Since they are going to eat together tomorrow, does that mean she has something to do today?
-and well, I’m curious, but I don’t want to ask too much about Ayla chan and have Luna get the wrong idea.
More than that, I have to make sure that she doesn’t get hurt, as she is cooking for the first time.
“Have you ever held a knife before?”
“No, this will be my first time.”
If that is the case, it would be better to teach her how to hold a kitchen knife.
To be honest, I’m afraid to let her hold it if she never handled it before. ……
“Do you want to stop working with knives?”
“No, I’d like to try it. ……”
After all, if I’m going to cook, I’d like to use a knife too. ……
I have to be really careful.
“Let’s try making the standard tamagoyaki first.”
“Suddenly, it’s very difficult. ……”
“Eh, is it?”
I think tamagoyaki is a relatively easy dish to make, just beat an egg and fry it in a frying pan. ……
Well, it may be that rolling an egg is difficult until you get used to it.
“Can I crack an egg well ……?”
Luna looks up at me with a worried look on her face.
Oh, I see, that’s it.
If you’ve never cooked before, it’s understandable that you’ve never cracked an egg.
And eggs are difficult to crack cleanly until you get used to it.
If you do it badly, the shells will get mixed up.
“Watch.”
Figuring it was better to show rather than tell, I gently bumped the egg against the flat surface of the kitchen table.
Then I cracked the egg, spreading it from side to side while pressing both thumbs a little into the center of the crack, and dropped the contents into the bowl.
“There is not a …… bit of shell in it. ……”
Luna looked into the bowl and muttered admiringly
“Don’t worry, I’m sure Luna can do it too.”
I’ve been doing this since I was little, so I don’t make mistakes that would put me in a shell, but I thought it would put pressure on Luna if I said something like that.
So instead of saying that, I try to encourage her.
“If I do, it’s going to be a shell that goes in. ……”
“If it goes in, it’s going to go in. If you don’t do it, you won’t get better. Try it.”
I smile and hand Luna a new egg.
In fact, if the shell goes in, just remove the shell from the bowl.
It’s a bit of a hassle, but I’ll take care of that, so it’s no problem.
“Just put it gently on the flat part, right?”
Luna looked at me curiously as I said that.
“Seito-sama did that earlier, but why the flat part and not the corner?”
Luna seems to wonder and asks me.
It is not that I have a repulsive intention or that I don’t agree with her.
If you’re going to make a crack, you might as well just hit it on the corner.
“Hmmm~, that would make it easier for the shell to get in. It’s harder for the shell to get in if you crack it on the flat part, so that’s what I do.”
I’m not a student of cooking, so I don’t know the logic, but that’s what my experience of actually cooking and experimenting so far says.
- but rather, this was something that Rion taught me.
I tried to break it with a corner at first, too, and Rion warned me about it.
So I can’t say anything great to Luna.
“I see… I apologize for asking such an impolite question. ……”
Luna straightened her posture and bowed deeply.
I knew she was polite, and I could see that she was well brought up.
I can’t wait to find out more about her – when in is she going to tell me ……?
I think it’s time for her to tell me though. ……
I smile as I think about this.
“No, when you learn something like this, you should ask anything as soon as you have a question. In fact, it is better to ask even if you don’t understand something. There is a Japanese proverb that says, [Asking is a temporary shame, but not asking is a lifelong shame]. It means that if you ask, you may feel embarrassed at the time, but if you don’t ask, you’ll spend your whole life not knowing and feeling ashamed. It’s better for you to listen carefully than to pretend to know, so please feel free to ask.”
I’m sure Luna didn’t think it was embarrassing to ask questions, but it would be a problem if she stopped asking questions because she thought it would cause trouble for me, so I tried to explain using a proverb.
In fact, I think it’s better to listen when you’re asking for advice like this.
If you get the wrong knowledge, you often fail to realize it until someone points it out to you.
Well, it seems that there are many people who say, “Think for yourself and come up with the answer rather than asking someone else,” so I guess it depends on the case.
I understand that it may be a problem if you can’t answer the question without someone else, and you can’t learn to think.
But for now, it’s definitely better to be heard.
At least, I don’t find it annoying to be asked, and I’m more than happy to be asked.
“Thank you …… Seito-sama is kind and I feel at ease ……”
“Haha, if I get angry at something like this, I’m not the right person to teach you. Try it”
I encourage Luna to break the egg.
With that, Luna looks determined – and gently, she hits the egg on the kitchen table.
“It won’t …… crack. ……”
But when Luna sees the part of the egg that hit her, her expression clouds over with sadness.
“Not even a crack. It’s okay, that’s all right. Just add a little more force and hit it one more time. You can do that as many times as you want until you get a crack.”
As I said this, Luna gently hit the egg again and again against the kitchen table.
When the cracks appeared, Luna looked at me happily.
So I smile back and urge her on.
Luna, perhaps remembering what happened when I did it, meditates, opens her eyes for a few seconds, and then slowly begins to unfold the egg.
“–It’s done ……!”
I looked into the bowl where only the yolk and white had fallen cleanly, and Luna looked at me with a flushed expression on her face.
That title got me on the first half, not gonna lie