"A grand success!"
Seeing that Raiden Makoto's attention had finally turned to her new invention, Raiden Ei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. "A grand success, Sister. It was much easier than creating Scaramouche and the Shogun."
"I just don't know why it gets hot when electricity flows through it..." Raiden Ei was also a bit excited. If she could use the Electric Stove she invented, then she shouldn't have an Overloaded reaction when she cooks in the future, right? So a massive explosion wouldn't occur?
"Mhm."
At that moment, Xiangling and Lumine also walked in. Xiangling looked at the object on the ground, which resembled a cooking stove, with a face full of curiosity.
"Sister Ei's new mechanism... was it a success?" Xiangling was very curious. "It looks like a new cooking stove."
"It was a success. I'll test it for you all." Raiden Ei was eager to show everyone her success.
However, in the next second, Xiangling directly stopped Raiden Ei's eager behavior.
"Sister Ei... could you try it outside? That's the last kitchen in my house." Xiangling looked at Raiden Ei pleadingly.
Their house had three kitchens, and now two had already been collapsed by Raiden Ei's explosions. The place Raiden Ei had chosen now was the last kitchen in their house.
He didn't need Master and the others to pay for the damages, but what if the last kitchen blew up? Where would he hone his culinary skills in the future? After all, the Culinary King Competition was going to start in a few days.
"It won't explode... I promise!" Raiden Ei said emphatically. She believed that an explosion would absolutely not happen again. "Before, it was because of Electro-Pyro Overloaded that a massive explosion occurred... Now there won't be any Pyro element at all, so an explosion won't happen."
"But isn't it also okay to try it outside?" Xiangling blinked his eyes. He looked toward Raiden Makoto as if seeking help. For the last kitchen in their house, he really could only place his hopes on Master.
Better safe than sorry.
If a massive explosion really happened, where would he go to cry? That was the last kitchen in their house.
"Let's try it outside." Seeing Xiangling's pitiful look, Raiden Makoto nodded. "What Xiangling said is also right. What if another explosion occurs?"
"Sister, why don't even you believe me?"
She felt so pitiful; even her elder sister didn't believe her. But she really felt that an explosion wouldn't happen again.
"If it explodes again... I'll do hard labor for your house! I'll work hard and earn money! How about that?" Raiden Ei was still very confident. She really didn't believe an explosion would occur.
"Eh? What explosion... Raiden... will an explosion happen when Ei cooks?" Ganyu had a look of confusion on his face. He had originally wanted to call her Beelzebul, but realizing they were hiding their identities, he quickly changed his words. Seeing that they didn't react, Ganyu breathed a sigh of relief.
"Didn't Ganyu hear the sound of explosions yesterday? There was one this morning too... Sister Ei blew up and collapsed two kitchens while cooking."
"???" Ganyu was a bit dazed. The sister of Inazuma's Electro Archon actually blew up two kitchens while cooking?
"The ruins outside haven't even been cleared yet."
"No wonder..." Ganyu only then realized that the two ruins he had seen in the Wanmin Restaurant were actually the kitchens collapsed by Raiden Ei.
"It's not that I don't believe you, it's that you have a track record... How many kitchens have you already blown up? I don't need to list them for you, do I?" Raiden Makoto rolled her eyes. "Go try it outside."
"Alright."
When everyone went out of the kitchen, Raiden Ei placed the electric stove in the center of the courtyard. Since Xiangling, Lumine, and Paimon all knew the scene from that day, they also quickly took several steps back, staying far away from Raiden Ei.
Meanwhile, Guoba curiously approached Raiden Ei's side. He curiously sized up the electric stove in front of Raiden Ei.
"Jiligulu." Guoba seemed to be saying something to Raiden Ei, but Raiden Ei couldn't quite understand.
"Jiligulu..."
Raiden Ei glanced at everyone and found that they had all retreated several steps. She felt a bit helpless.
Why did no one believe her? She felt it was impossible for a massive explosion to happen. But then she saw Guoba beside her and patted Guoba's head.
"Only you believe in me."
As Raiden Ei began to inject Electro element into the Electric Stove, the electric stove also began to emit a red glow, and heat began to radiate from it.
"Success!" Raiden Ei was a bit excited. However, it was precisely because she was excited that she accidentally added quite a bit of Electro element while originally controlling it carefully. The surface of that electric stove began to Bloom with a dazzling light.
In the next moment, the area centered on the electric stove directly exploded outward. Guoba was directly blown away by the flames from the explosion, and a hole was even blasted into the ground.
"Guoba!" Xiangling cried out as he watched Guoba being blown away. He was too shocked to react and rushed over toward Guoba.
As for Raiden Ei, she just stood there blankly, staring at the large hole in front of her.
How did it explode again?
"..." Ganyu finally understood what Lumine, Paimon, and Xiangling were worried about. A massive explosion really did occur; he hadn't quite believed it just now.
"It really exploded again?" Paimon and Lumine looked at each other. They were both a bit incredulous. "Is Sister Ei really not destined to cook?"
"Guoba... Guoba seems to be hurt." Lumine and Paimon knew that Raiden Ei was the Electro Archon of Inazuma, so that small explosion would definitely not hurt her. But they didn't know what Guoba was.
Guoba had just been sent flying backward in the explosion.
"Guoba..."
Xiangling rushed toward Guoba with a face full of worry. But when he got there, Guoba directly scrambled up from the ground.
Then he jumped up as if he were a bit excited. Guoba's face also had an excited expression.
"Jiligulu..."
"Jiligulu!" Guoba seemed to be a bit happy, which left Xiangling a bit speechless.
He had been worried that something happened to Guoba... but looking at Guoba's appearance, Guoba should be a bit happy because of the explosion.
"Guoba!"
"How can you be so bad?" He and Guoba had known each other since childhood and were inseparable. He couldn't help but roll his eyes at Guoba. "I'm not going to bother with you anymore."
"Jiligulu!" Guoba didn't understand what Xiangling was saying, but he was still jumping around with some excitement.
"Guoba is fine, don't mind him," Xiangling said, feeling a bit speechless. "He actually looks quite excited."
"Master, Sister Ei, Sister Ei won't be okay, will she?" Xiangling then reacted. Just now, Raiden Ei also seemed to be at the center of the explosion, which had even blasted a large hole in the ground.
"Her... what could happen to her?" Raiden Makoto actually knew why the explosion occurred. It was because her younger sister was too poor at fine control of elemental power, causing the Electro element to gather in the electric stove and then explode.
"Sister... am I really unable to do anything well..." Raiden Ei had a look of depression. How could an explosion happen? Why did another explosion happen? She even still found it hard to believe.
She had clearly been working very hard.
"If you could be a bit more meticulous, there shouldn't be any problems. You were too excited just now..." Raiden Makoto smiled. She then rubbed Raiden Ei's head and said gently, "One or two failures aren't anything."
"The important thing is to recognize your mistakes and know how to make improvements." Raiden Makoto's gentle tone made Raiden Ei directly hug Raiden Makoto. "Sister... I thought you would blame me."
"If you do something wrong, I won't blame you for anything. But if you don't know how to correct yourself, then of course I will blame you!" Raiden Makoto looked seriously at Raiden Ei.
"Mhm..."
"Sister Makoto is really so gentle. If only you, Lumine, could be that gentle with me, it would be great." Paimon sighed with some emotion as he watched Raiden Makoto seriously comforting Raiden Ei.
"..."
"Paimon, am I not gentle enough to you?" Lumine was a bit speechless. He felt like he had never been mean to Paimon, right? He had even always gone along with whatever Paimon wanted.
"..."
"Did the kitchen blow up again?" Master Mao's voice came from nearby, and his tone was also full of helplessness.
"Dad... it wasn't the kitchen that exploded..." Xiangling quickly explained after he saw Master Mao come out. "It's that Sister Ei developed a new mechanism... the new mechanism should still be in the testing phase, so..."
"Look over there, isn't that the kitchen?"
Master Mao followed Xiangling's finger and looked at the kitchen over there. Seeing that the last kitchen in their house was still perfectly intact, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"As long as it wasn't the kitchen... it's fine..." Master Mao took two deep breaths and said somewhat earnestly, "You all should be careful too... that explosion was too loud..."
"It must be very dangerous."
Master Mao looked at Raiden Ei in Raiden Makoto's arms again. He was truly a bit helpless. How could that girl from Inazuma have such terrifying power when she cooked?
Two of their kitchens had already been blown up, and now another massive explosion had occurred. Looking at the large hole on the ground, he felt a bit terrified.
"Dad, don't worry, there won't be any problems. Go to sleep!" Xiangling said with a smile. "Isn't Sister Ei also working hard to practice?"
"Mhm, you all be careful."
As Master Mao went back into the house, several figures then rushed in from outside. Those figures were precisely the Millelith patrolling the streets of Liyue.
They all had looks of vigilance on their faces.
"What happened? Why was there another explosion?" The leading Millelith was the same one who had rushed over the first time. He had a look of confusion on his face.
"Although the Moonchase Festival is coming up soon, you can't blow up the kitchen every day while cooking, right?" That Millelith was also a bit helpless. That was already the third explosion; their patrols on the streets of Liyue were no longer peaceful.
"You may all withdraw; there won't be any trouble." When Ganyu spoke up and those Millelith saw Ganyu, they quickly saluted.
"Lord Ganyu!"
"Withdraw. I have been here the whole time, and nothing has happened." Ganyu had a gentle smile on his face.
"Yes!" When those Millelith saw that Ganyu was here, the vigilant look on their faces disappeared. With Lord Ganyu present, there shouldn't be any major issues.
After those Millelith withdrew, Ganyu then looked toward Raiden Ei. "I originally thought you were just joking, but an explosion really did happen..."
"Can Ei really participate in the Culinary King Competition?" Ganyu looked at Ei with some disbelief; he didn't quite believe that Ei could participate in the Culinary King Competition.
Forget about winning the championship; he might not even make it out of the preliminaries, right? It's even possible that during the preliminaries... if Ei blew up and collapsed the building while cooking during the preliminaries, wouldn't that be a disaster? You should know that the preliminaries are held indoors.
There would definitely be casualties then.
He didn't know why someone like Rex Lapis, the other Electro Archon of Inazuma, Beelzebul, was actually unable to cook.
In Ganyu's heart, Rex Lapis was omnipotent. As the Electro Archon of Inazuma with a status equal to Rex Lapis, how could Beelzebul not even know how to cook? Even he could cook.
"I can... why wouldn't I be able to!" Raiden Ei's conviction was now completely firm. "I not only want to participate in the Culinary King Competition, I even want to win the championship."
"Defeat... defeat Xiangling!" In Raiden Ei's goals, her only opponent was Xiangling. She felt that Xiangling was probably the best cook in Liyue.
"Ah?"
"Ganyu... are the preliminaries held together indoors?" Xiangling looked at Ganyu with some confusion. He was a bit afraid now.
"Mhm." Ganyu nodded. He wasn't hosting the Culinary King Competition, but most of the work was handled by him. He wasn't a judge, but he knew the process of the Culinary King Competition and might even be present.
"..."
"All the chefs will be competing together indoors?" Xiangling asked carefully once more to confirm his suspicion.
"Yes."
"Then... then... that's too terrifying... Sister Ei, how about you just don't participate in the Culinary King Competition?" Xiangling was a bit afraid; he was truly frightened now.
What if Raiden Ei blew up and collapsed the building then? There definitely wouldn't be a small number of chefs competing in Liyue, and he would also be present then.
That's too dangerous.
"Believe me... nothing will happen..." Raiden Ei thought for a moment and then had another idea. "Ganyu, I can bring a Slime to the competition, right?"
"A Slime?"
"It should be fine, right?" Ganyu was a bit uncertain. "It should be okay, since some contestants use Slimes as ingredients."
Although Ganyu really couldn't imagine why a Slime could be used as an ingredient, wasn't that a bit too disgusting?
"That's good then." Raiden Ei already had a plan in mind. Since she couldn't control the amount of Electro element meticulously, what if she directly caught two Electro Slimes? Wouldn't positive and negative Slimes together be just right to generate electricity?
With the electrical capacity of Slimes, it shouldn't lead to an explosion, right? She didn't believe it anymore.
"Sister... will you go to the wild with me tomorrow morning?" Raiden Ei then looked toward Raiden Makoto. "Is that okay?"
"Alright."
"As long as there's nothing else to do tomorrow, it's not impossible to accompany you to the wild." Raiden Makoto nodded. She didn't know what her younger sister had in mind now.
"Mhm, mhm."
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