“Fu~unfufu~un”
I am currently humming while preparing breakfast.
For the sake of not repeating yesterday’s tragedy, breakfast duty was switched from Tré and now I am in charge of cooking.
“G-good morning.”
“Hm?”
When I turned around because of the beautiful, clear voice I heard, it appeared that the saint had awakened and she was standing there.
“Ah, good morning Saint-sama.”
Although I was surprised at the sudden appearance of the saint, properly returning her greeting was good etiquette.
“Um, I’ve been thinking for a while, but you stopped using honorifics in order to conceal that I’m the saint, didn’t you…?”
“Eh, well, I guess so……?
“Then, wouldn’t calling me [Saint-sama] defeat that purpose?”
“……Ah.”
Now that you mention it, that’s certainly true. Or rather, what was it that I wanted to do?
“Er.. Well then, Luna……?”
I frantically tried to recall the saint’s real name, that she had supposedly told me yesterday, from the depths of my memory.
“Yes, please use that.”
On that note, I realise that I haven’t introduced myself yet and so I do so in a rush.
“M-my name is Arnest. Those who I’m close to, or rather, recently nearly everyone has been calling me Nest.”
“Understood. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Nest-san.”
“Ah, yeah, nice to meet you……”
She seemed to have said my name cheerfully but as expected, her beauty could compete for the first or second position among the people I’ve met until now, so I unintentionally averted my eyes when replying.
“Um.. And so, what are you doing now, Nest-san?”
Since we were able to verify the manner of calling each other’s names, I thought she would leave just like that. But the person in question, Luna, looked at my cooking figure with a very curious look on her face.
“……..you ask what, but I’m just cooking though.”
I replied as such, with the implication of ‘to think you really didn’t know?’
“……I-I do know that much, and even I can do it!”
Maybe because she noticed me slyly implying such a meaning in my words, Luna did a complete change from the cheerful mood she had until just now and scowled at me.
“Heh, then do you want to try?”
By all means, I’d like to try the cooking made by the saint, Luna.
After I promptly cleaned up what I was making just now, I turn the kitchen over to Luna.
“……”
And then she started cooking in silence.
……I wonder what she’s going to make here.
I watched from behind as Luna was cooking, but I couldn’t understand what she wanted to make at all.
It wasn’t something that that could be seen from its appearance, and yet it wasn’t something that could be grasped from its aroma either.
Thinking that I might not be able to taste it when she’s finished cooking if I look any more than this, I quietly sat on a chair and laid my head on the table.
“…… t-san…… st-san.. Nest-san.”
“……hm………?”
When I opened my eyes, a dazzling light entered my vision.
It seems that I had fallen asleep while waiting for the cooking to be finished.
“I-it’s done.”
Saying that, Luna put the plate, on which she probably served the cooking, on the table.
……I wonder what it is.
I couldn’t grasp what it was during its creation, but even now I am unable to guess what she has made.
“Th-then I’ll have a bite.”
Though I felt nervous, I slowly ate a mouthful of Luna’s cooking.
“H-how is it……?”
Luna requested my impressions but, this is……terrible……
And what’s worse is that unlike Tré, it’s not at a level that can’t be eaten.
“……Luna, the things you’ve cooked until now are……?”
“I-I’m sorry. This is.. my first time…”
From the looks of that cooking, whether it be fact or whatever, it could be immediately understood that this was a beginner’s level of cooking.
“Sigh, then it would have been fine to just say that from the start.”
“B-but..”
While feeling despondent, Luna timidly takes a bite of her own cooking.
“Uu, this tastes really bad……”