But this was tiring.
Then Kanna decided to just fly up.
However, she suddenly felt herself being lifted up. Looking back.
Wasn't this her favorite Hayashi-kun?
Hayashi directly carried Kanna to his "Little Rabbit Be Good" dish and said dotingly:
"Kanna, it's your turn to comment. How many points do you think my dish's appearance deserves?"
Kanna tilted her cute little head, pointing at her pouted little face with her finger, constantly thinking.
Then she saw her best friend Takanashi Rikka giving her a pleading look, and her heart immediately softened, already having an answer.
Usually adorable Kanna gave Takanashi Rikka a reassuring look this time and said firmly:
"Sister Touka gets full marks, three points."
"Hayashi-kun gets two and a half points!"
As soon as these words came out, Takanashi Rikka immediately jumped up happily.
As if her sister had already won, she cheered joyfully:
"Yay~! Yay~! Yay~!"
Seeing Rikka's happy appearance, Hayashi also felt happy.
However, this was good - it seemed his originally assumed certain victory was ultimately defeated by these two little capitalists.
Facing these two little capitalists acting so willfully, what could Hayashi do? He could only tearfully accept it.
Tohru looked at the deflated Hayashi and said with a smile:
"For appearance competition, Touka gets three points, Hayashi-kun only gets two and a half points."
Hearing this, Hayashi was directly stunned:
"Shouldn't we take the average of the three scores?"
Tohru just smiled and shook her head repeatedly, putting on an inscrutable expression, smiling mischievously:
"Hayashi-kun, we are the judges, we make the rules."
"If I say you get two and a half points, then it's two and a half points."
"Do you have any objections?"
Faced with Tohru's aggressive, matter-of-fact appearance, Hayashi was immediately speechless:
"No objections, not a single objection."
What else could he say?
He was ultimately defeated by these little cuties joining forces.
But it was fine. This round, Takanashi Touka and Takanashi Rikka were sisters, so favoritism was normal.
Hayashi accepted this result.
But if, when he competed with the other two girls, these three little ones dared to score like this again, causing him to lose the competition and miss the system reward.
Then he would have to have a good talk with them.
Seeing the deflated Hayashi, the girls secretly rejoiced, laughing so hard they couldn't close their mouths.
Being able to take advantage of Hayashi was not common.
Seeing herself currently leading Hayashi by half a point, Takanashi Touka gradually gained some confidence.
This meant that in the next round of taste competition, even if she scored half a point lower than Hayashi, it would still be a tie.
At least it was much better than having no chance at all.
The second round of taste judging began.
Tohru looked at Hayashi's "Little Rabbit Be Good" dish, and just looking at it made her taste buds dance and her mouth water.
There was no help for it - Hayashi's food always tasted excellent, and this was a dish she had never tried before. How could it not make one anticipate?
But if Hayashi's dish was too delicious, wouldn't eating Takanashi Touka's afterward completely fail to bring out the taste of Touka's dish?
Or make people think Takanashi Touka's dish was terrible?
Tohru found herself in a dilemma, hesitating.
This wasn't her exaggerating.
Because every time she ate Hayashi's food first, then ate snacks she used to love, they would taste bland.
It was like having a hundred beauties standing in front of you, choosing the top ten.
And the first place's beauty completely crushed everyone else.
When you gained the favor of first place, then looked at the eighth and ninth place beauties.
Even though they each had their characteristics and were equally beautiful in others' eyes.
In your eyes, they could no longer stir any waves.
Even no different from those girls who couldn't make the top ten - all seemed ordinary.
Only because first place's brilliance was too dazzling.
So Tohru immediately decided to taste Takanashi Touka's dish first, see how many points it could get, then taste Hayashi's.
This way she wouldn't worry about scoring Takanashi Touka too low and making her unhappy.
Tohru felt that if she made Takanashi Touka sad, she would definitely be very upset and full of guilt.
Anyway, this wasn't some official competition. She didn't care about that - not making her good sister sad was most important.
"That big bad Hayashi, if he's unhappy later, at worst I'll apologize to him under the covers."
Thinking of this, Tohru's little face turned slightly red, and the corner of her mouth unconsciously curved upward.
She secretly glanced up at the fresh and handsome Hayashi in front of her, her face became even redder, and she quickly looked away, pretending to casually stand in front of Takanashi Touka's dish.
Seeing Tohru's strange behavior, Hayashi was full of confusion, muttering in his heart:
"Just judge the food properly. Why does Tohru seem so strange?"
"This girl isn't thinking about something weird, is she? Otherwise why is her little face so red?"
At this time, the judging began.
Tohru didn't notice Hayashi's gaze but looked very seriously at Takanashi Touka's dish, carefully examining where to start eating.
Finally, she fixed her gaze on the most mischievously cute little bottom of the little rabbit.
Tohru picked up the spoon and without thinking, scraped off half of it.
The "Little Rabbit Be Good" dish missing half its meat still looked cute, but inevitably made people feel somewhat strange, even a bit sorry for it.
Then, under everyone's gaze, Tohru swallowed this piece of food in one big bite.
Immediately, her eyes lit up, and she looked at Takanashi Touka with shock in her eyes.
"Tohru, what's wrong? Does it not taste good?"
Takanashi Touka asked worriedly.
Tohru quickly shook her head and said excitedly:
"Touka, your cooking skills are so good! Worthy of being a high-level chef, the taste is really great!"
As soon as these words came out, Takanashi Rikka and Kanna, who had been surrounding Tohru and were already impatient, immediately got excited and wanted to come forward to taste.
"Let me try a bite too!"
Takanashi Rikka excitedly picked up the spoon and directly scooped out the other half of the little rabbit's meat.
Now, having lost its bottom, the "Little Rabbit Be Good" dish looked extremely pitiful.
However, its mischievous tongue gave people a different kind of interesting feeling.
After eating a bite of her sister's cooking, Takanashi Rikka only felt this deliciousness melt in her mouth, and the taste was very unique, even much more delicious than many dishes she had eaten.
"Worthy of being Erina's secret technique."
Takanashi Rikka secretly praised in her heart.
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