Lilia decided to teach herself how to cook. Even though it was her own idea, Shirou felt a little strange when it actually started.
After all, this was, in a way, the first time someone else was showing him how to cook.
In the past, his father, Emiya Kiritsugu, was totally useless when it came to daily life. He basically ate junk food every day, like burgers, fried chicken, and convenience store meals. This forced Shirou to learn how to cook from a young age.
Later, when Emiya Kiritsugu adopted the godchild Miyu, Shirou, as Miyu's older brother, naturally had to take on the responsibility of taking care of his younger sister.
Not to mention cooking, he was good at all kinds of housework.
So, Shirou was very confident when it came to cooking. The only problem was that because of the difference in time periods and environments, he wasn't very good at European-style food, and he didn't know how to cook with anything other than modern gas stoves.
However, this problem wasn't impossible to solve, or rather, it had already been solved.
The reason was that he had gained the memories of Servant Emiya.
As a parallel world Emiya Shirou, Servant Emiya's living environment and experiences were very different from Shirou's. The biggest difference was that after graduating high school, Servant Emiya went abroad to Clock Tower to study magic, and then, because of his sense of justice, he actively participated in the chaos in the Middle East.
In order to survive in various countries, Servant Emiya had studied different countries' food. Not only European food, but also the special dishes of various ethnic groups in the Middle East. He had even studied how to make delicious food without modern electricity because of the difficult living conditions in some areas of the Middle East.
With the memories of Servant Emiya, Shirou could cook even if he went back to the Stone Age.
Now that he had been in this world for half a year, he had been in the Greyrat family's kitchen countless times, and he was naturally very familiar with the cooking methods of this world.
"Let me make dinner tonight."
Following Lilia into the kitchen, Shirou calmly walked to the front of the kitchen and admired the Greyrat family's kitchenware, especially the knives.
As the saying goes, a knife is a cook's soul. Whether as Swordsman or as a cook, Shirou couldn't help but value knives.
In fact, because Paul was a knight lord, the Greyrat family's knives were of a high standard, and they could even be called sharp enough to be used as weapons.
Shirou gently picked up a knife, and couldn't help but show the movements of fighting and killing with two swords that he used to do.
"Swish—"
As a cold flash, like the sound of metal hitting the earth countless times, cut through the air, the space in the kitchen became strangely still.
Rudeus, who was lying on the ground, originally wanted to play around, at least to test the personality of his older brother Shirou, but after seeing the terrifying cut that Shirou casually made, the Greyrat family's younger brother immediately lost his courage, and even his crotch was vaguely wet.
From that cut just now, he could even feel the chill of death approaching up close.
On the other side, Lilia's expression was also very uneasy.
Originally, Rudeus's strange behavior since birth had already made her quite uneasy. She had finally met Shirou, this obedient, intelligent, mature, and stable child, and she thought she could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but she didn't expect Shirou to be trouble too...
The cut that Shirou casually made just now even reminded Lilia of the movements that only senior knights of the royal knight order could make. It was the aura that only knights who had come out of a sea of corpses and blood could emit.
But that was clearly impossible.
Shirou looked like a boy who was only about five years old. How could he have the aura of a warrior who had fought on the battlefield for so long?
But her feelings wouldn't lie. Although it was a bit of a self-praise, Lilia believed that she was very good at recognizing people.
That was why she had seen through the extraordinary talent that Paul possessed at a glance back then...
There's a problem.
Both children in this family have big problems!
Not to mention Rudeus, this obscene child possessed by Slaanesh. Could Shirou, this child who looked normal and gentle on the outside, also be some kind of Khorne demon with soaring murderous desires?
What kind of demonic family is this?
When these two children grow up, what awaits me won't be a terrifying hell full of sex and killing, will it?
Ah... Too impulsive, I was really too impulsive. I knew I shouldn't have come to work in this place.
One day, I will definitely be attacked.
Lilia's heart was filled with regret and fear.
At the same time, Shirou noticed the change in Lilia's attitude. Only then did he realize how terrifying his killing intent was to ordinary people.
There was nothing he could do about it. After experiencing that snowy night, Shirou had tried his best to save his younger sister Miyu. His spirit and will had been extremely sublimated in the battle where he single-handedly defeated seven Servants in one night. Afterwards, he merged with the soul of Servant Emiya. Now, even if he wanted to act more normal, it was impossible. He would occasionally emit uncontrollable killing intent, enough to freeze the souls of ordinary people.
But that was clearly not going to work.
In the future, I must control my killing intent, at least not expose it to ordinary people's sight casually, causing unnecessary panic.
"Cough cough, well, Lilia, why don't you teach me how to cook?"
In order to make up for his mistake just now, Shirou faced the panicked maid with the most kind attitude possible, showing his signature business smile.
"O-okay."
Seeing Shirou's gentle smile that was enough to make a girl's heart flutter, Lilia, although she wasn't the kind of young girl who would easily be teased, the fear she had just felt disappeared.
It's so strange.
Why did I think this child was scary before?
Under Shirou's deception, Lilia no longer harbored any guard against him and gradually recalled her original purpose, starting to teach Shirou how to cook little by little.
Shirou listened very carefully and tried every piece of cookware in the kitchen. After basically learning the medieval lifestyle and cooking methods, he tried to make his first meal in this world.
...
At dinner time, Shirou brought the dish he had carefully prepared to the living room.
"Although it's just the simplest fried rice with egg, it also contains my heart. Everyone, please try it."
Although he called it fried rice with egg, Shirou's fried rice with egg was clearly completely different from ordinary fried rice with egg. Just the color and aroma were already extremely tempting, not to mention that every grain of the fried rice was golden in color, coupled with a little minced meat, which was extremely precious in this era, directly adding some brightness to the Greyrat family's dining table.
"This is actually fried rice with egg..." Paul took a bite in disbelief, then was so shocked that he almost knocked over his chair, "This is the first time in my life I've eaten such delicious fried rice with egg! It even reminds me of my first love!"
Unexpectedly, the head of the family, Paul, gave such a high evaluation. The others at the table didn't dare to be negligent. Even Rudeus, whose teeth hadn't fully grown, and Lilia, who was a maid, were invited by Shirou to eat this dish, and then they directly fell for it on the spot.