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That’s right, I have to make rice.
Once, I made all the side dishes but didn’t make any rice.
Actually, there were times where we ran out of rice, so I had to substitute it with bread or pasta. Once, I was planning to make curry rice but didn’t have any rice

I was still a beginner at cooking then. I panicked and didn’t know what to do.
「It’s fine. We’ll just eating something else today. We can have curry tomorrow. Curry that is set aside for a night tastes better.」
My husband had said, and then he took us out for dinner.
No, but we haven’t gotten married then. We were only engaged at the time.
There aren’t any places around here to eat out at, so since I forgot to make rice, I could substitute it with bread or potatoes
 Okay. We have food to eat, so that’s more than enough. I won’t ask for more.
While I set up the heat to cook rice, I washed the vegetables and meat I was using today and cut them. Since I didn’t have a peeler, removing the skin off of the vegetables took a bit of time.
I threw the vegetable skin into the chicken soup. Was it okay if I threw it in halfway through cooking though? Well, whatever. It’s a waste to throw them out. Throw them in, throw them in.
The rice is cooked. Good.
I went outside to look for Kirika-chan. There she is. She was sorting a large amount of potions.
「Kirika-chan, can you help me cook?」
I asked, and she turned around with a happy look.
「Okay. Kirika will do her best!」
I wanted to see if other people can produce the same buff effects if they made the food.
「Okay, first, press the rice like this.」
I made one myself to show her. We are making the yaki-onigiri I made before!
Kirika-chan should be able to make this herself, and it should be easy to compare the effects of the ones I make versus the ones she makes, right? I think it should be fine as long as nothing goes wrong with the taste, like we burn them by accident or add in too much soy sauce.
Kirika-chan’s small hands made ten deformed onigiri. I made five triangular ones.
「Kirika can’t make them as well as you can, Yuuri-oneechan.」
「That’s not true, you did such a good job for your first time! Also, our hands are a different size. You’ll get better over time. Also, the ones you made look really good, I want to eat them.」
「Really?」
「Mhm. Did you know that food that is made for you by somebody else tastes a lot better?」
Suddenly, I remembered my mother’s cooking.

I want to eat her food again, I thought. But, I can no longer eat it. Why didn’t I get her to teach me how to cook when she was still alive?
No matter how many times I made curry, it didn’t taste like the ones that mama made

Curry, huh. There’s no curry powder in this world, probably. I can’t mix the spices to make curry myself either, so I probably won’t get to eat curry ever again.
「Um, um, Kirika wants Yuuri-oneechan to eat the best one Kirika made! This one, this!」
Kirika-chan pointed at the onigiri in the middle of the plate.
「Thank you.」
That made me happy. Normally, one would want to eat their own cooking, and yet she was telling me that she wants me to eat her best dish.
「Okay, this is the next step. Spread the soy sauce
 I mean, the black losing potion over them.」
We didn’t have a brush, so we poured the soy sauce onto a spoon, then poured it onto the onigiri. Using the back of the spoon, we quickly spread the soy sauce.
We poured a bit too much here and there, but that’s what makes this fun.
Kirika-chan was trying her best using the soy sauce. How cute.
I felt Kirika-chan’s hair that stuck out like ears on the side of her head. Hm? It felt kind of hard to the touch.
Did she use something to harden her hair so that it sticks out like this?
Is it considered stylish in this world?
「Kirika’s done! We bake them next, right?」
「That’s right. Let’s put them into the oven.」
I wasn’t sure how far I can help her. If I do too much, it’s possible that the food will no longer be considered to be made by Kirika-chan only.
That’s why I had Kirika-chan bring the heavy iron plate and put it into the oven. I verbally taught her how to adjust the heat, and she did it herself.
Okay. Kirika-chan stood in front of the oven and stared at the inside.
I understood how she felt. When I first tried baking cookies, I stared into the inside watching them bake.
While Kirika-chan was focused on the oven, I went and finished up the chicken soup, and the bird meat and lotus root dish.
Ah, I have to note down which seasoning I used.
Okay, done!
I went to get Kurtz-kun and Bryce-kun.
The two of them were sorting potions. In order to increase the supply of losing potions, they spent the afternoon setting up onion traps and smashing the roach slimes with the plank.
「Food’s ready!」
「I’ve been waiting!!」
Kurtz-kun stood up with a bright smile.
「Okay, I’ll head to the dining room once we bring these potions inside. Kurtz, you’re helping me first.」
「Oh, okay!」
Bryce-kun then held out five winning potions from the pile of potions.