At the end of today's class, we were ushered into the accommodations provided by the Imperial side.
　Apparently, we were allowed to use any available room in the school building.

I'm sure you'll be able to find a nice room. Hohoho, it's a pretty nice room.

　I wondered what kind of horrible place it was but it's pretty big and looks like a good place to sleep.
　They have a bed and a table ready for me.

　I sat on the bed and relaxed for a while.


　Thump.


　As I was doing so, I heard a knock on the door of my room.

'What?'

　I opened the door and there was Lara.

'Kurt, it's time for dinner. Hurry up and head to the dining room.
Is it that time already?

　We both headed to the dining room.
　I had heard that dinner was being prepared there.

'Huh?　Where's the food?

　As soon as they arrived at the cafeteria, Lara scurried around.

　The students of Rosan Lira Magic Academy, thirty of them, had gathered in the cafeteria, but strangely enough, there didn't seem to be any dinner prepared for them.

''What do you mean?''
''I'll ask the teacher in Disualia. Maybe I'm in the wrong place...

　'I was just about to leave the dining room,' said Marise.


'Your food is not prepared, sir.


　Eryk was waiting at the exit of the cafeteria, and he told Marise so.

　If you look closely, you can see that there are several students from the Disualia side behind Eryk as well.
　They just smiled wickedly at each other.

　Oh........is that what it is?

I don't know what you mean!　The booklet for the exchange camp certainly says...
That's a bookmark you guys made up for yourselves, isn't it?　I don't know about that. Besides, people don't die if they don't eat for a day or so.
Insolent...
Oops, the main gate of this school building is closed. If you try to force your way through here to go out to eat, you'll face a severe punishment. You can use the kitchen in the cafeteria for free. We have a few ingredients, so why don't we just use it to make our own food?

　There was an atmosphere from Eryk that didn't let me say anything with or without.

　
　They are people with no learning ability. It's too late for that.

Well, good day to you then. We've called in a top-notch chef, so let's have a good meal. Ha-ha-ha!

　Eryk smiled high and walked out of the cafeteria with his students.

''It was all set up from the beginning...?''

　Cynthia rolled her eyes and looked up at me.

'I don't know,'

　Whether this was something that was set up to include the teacher as well, or whether it was something that Eryk's group was doing on their own.......I couldn't decide.

　Still, even though it's a silly harassment, it's a little unbearable not to be able to fill your stomach.

　You can't leave the school building, but there are ways to do it.
　You can use transference magic to fool their eyes.
　I'm sure you'll be able to find some nostalgic items in the cafeteria, so you can use them.


I'll cook for you!


　Just as I was thinking this, Lara's brightest voice echoed in the dining room.

'Lara?'
Yes, Marise, let's make this for Cynthia, too. I've been working hard on my cooking skills lately.

　Seeing Lara's cheerful demeanor even in the midst of such adversity, the other girls said one after another, "I too..." "I can't be cowed by such things" and "I'm actually better at cooking than at magic.

"Kurt, you want to eat my food, don't you?
Yeah. Of course.
I'll make you a quick fix then!

　

''Hmm. It's good to do this kind of thing once in a while.''

　Lara is offering to cook for you.
　It would be wrong to insulate that thought.

　I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make the most out of the situation.
　I remembered that the only flaw in my life is that I try to solve the problem with magic right away, which is what was said a thousand years ago.

　I could hear Lara and her friends boiling something with the sound of knives thumping and gurgling.
　You can't go to the kitchen right now. I couldn't resist the urge to go into the kitchen right now and see what they were cooking.

""Hey there!"

　The girls took their plates and laid out the food in the cafeteria.

I made an omelette.
'I'm something called Imperial Pudding. Lara and I discovered it during our lunchtime stroll through the streets of the Empire.
'Cynthia is........a gratin. This is the only thing I could make myself if I liked it since I was a little girl.......

　All of the girls' food was so good looking that what they did with me was almost drooling out of my mouth.

''I'll take it!''

　After everyone clasped their hands together, they all started working on their food at once.

'Ugh, it's so good!　I didn't know the girls at my school were so good at cooking!
'Lara's omelette is seriously the best. The eggs are so fluffy.
'Marise's little imperial pudding is great, too.　It looks like whipped cream is kneaded into it, and my tongue is going to melt.
'Hot d*mn!　Oops, I got burned eating Cynthia's gratin. But it's delicious, muggy.

　Everyone moves their mouths around as they rave about the girls' food.

'Kurt, how do you like it?'
Imperial Pudding, I've never made it before, how do you like it?
Kurt's not good at gratin...?

　I was sipping my food with the others when Lara and the others came up to me and asked me such a question.

It's all good. I'm sure the top chefs the empire has prepared for you are no match for you.

　When I said that, the three of them had big smiles on their faces.

　This is the truth.
　It's a good thing that food is sometimes better than top-notch, high-class restaurants when it's prepared by someone close to you.
　Those guys in the disarray........I thought I was succeeding in harassing you, but it's a pity, because you're not very good at it.
　Because because because you guys did such a poor job of it, you can get pretty girls like Lara, Marlies and Cynthia to cook for you.

　The plates on the table were being emptied, one after another, and the momentum was unstoppable.

'Hey, Kurt. Where are you going?

　Meanwhile, I get up to leave the cafeteria.

Hey, I'm going to the bathroom.
'Oh, yeah. I'm sorry to hear that.
Don't worry about it.

　Well.
　Now that we've had our fill, it's time for me to serve them some food.

　I'm not going to...

Hey, hey, I hear they're from King's Landing. I hear they're happy to have the girls cooking for them!
That's not an envy, that's a pity, that's a pity!
Yes, we do. We'll be able to eat the food of the best chefs. Let us pity the inferior wizards of King's Landing and savor their delicious cuisine.

　Another dining room in the Empire.
　The guys from Disualia took their seats there and waited patiently for their food.

"Oh, sorry to keep you waiting.

　In the midst of all this, I enter, magically levitating the multiple plates with food on them.

''Ah, you are...!　How did you get here!

　Erik was surprised and got up.

"Hey, the top chef had to leave in a hurry. So I thought I'd give him some food for you.
You don't know what a stupid...!

　The students on the Disorderly side were confused, but I didn't care and put down the plate with the food on it.

"Now, eat up,
Holy shit!
Juice with demon water and zubucket mushroom soup. Maybe you'll gain some magic power.
'Demon water and Zubuki mushrooms!　There's no way you can eat that........that's not even possible!

　You're not making any sense.
　A thousand years ago, wizards who wanted to be strong often ate these things.
　By the way, both Demon Water and Zubuck Mushroom were tasteless and were originally used in combination with other ingredients to make medicine and other items.
　However, if you try to eat it many times, you'll be surprised at how much of a habit it becomes.

　But it looks like these guys have never eaten it before.
　If that's the case, you'll feel so bad that your tongue will be numb, and you'll also feel sick and have a stomachache for a while.

It's a treat for you. Eat as much as you want. I'm going to tell you one thing, leaving something out is a bad manners.......you don't think you're going to do it in front of me, do you?

　When I intimidated them, the students on the Disualia side turned blue in the face.