Chapter 358 (2/2)

Saki has not eaten anything since last night. And she cannot cook. Moreover, she’s all alone in her house now.

“… Where is the kitchen?”

Since it would take Reinhart some time to go back to his house and make preparations for lunch, Jin wanted to know if there was anything that could be prepared quickly.

To Saki, hearing such a question from Jin was as if some god of salvation had spoken to her.

“Oh! The kitchen! It’s right this way!”

Having said that, she rushed out of the laboratory while dragging Jin along.

Reinhart soon followed them while laughing. It seemed that he was not seriously mad at Saki, after all.

“Hmm, wheat flour and eggs, and this… is this milk?”

There were no vegetables. No barley, either. He later found cooking oil and something that looked like butter.

“For now, let me try to prepare something with these.”

Jin had Reiko fetch both the stove he had made and the maple syrup that they had prepared earlier. Meanwhile, he started to get some dough ready by mixing the flour, eggs, and milk together.

“Here you are, Father.”

Saki stared at Reiko with her eyes wide open as the latter brought back the heavy pot containing the maple syrup easily with one hand.

“I didn’t notice back when I didn’t have these eyeglasses, but this girl, Reiko-chan was it? What a wonderfully made automata!”

It would appear that without the eyeglasses, Reiko must have simply looked like a female-styled golem to Saki.

As Jin continued to work with the dough, Jin told Saki that he would talk about Reiko’s story later.

Heating up a frypan that was covered in oil, he poured down the dough he had prepared earlier. Soon enough, it started to make a crackling sound, and a sweet scent began to drift about.

What Jin was preparing was something similar to hotcakes. Since he had no baking powder or baking soda, there were some of them that did not expand as nicely and ended up looking more like crepes.

He then placed them on a plate and cut them into four servings. Jin and Reinhart would be taking one serving each, while the last two servings were for Saki.

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Coating them with the butter-like spread, Jin added the finishing touches by pouring the previously prepared maple syrup on top of them.

“Okay, let’s eat!”

As for those crepe-looking hotcakes, Saki’s reaction when eating was akin to something amazing happening.

“W… What’s this? This is tasty! So tasty!”

While lost in thought about asking Jin to come to cook for her every day from now on, Saki had not only wiped her plate clean but also been staring at both Jin and Reinhart’s own servings with greedy eyes. Seeing this, Jin went ahead and once again prepared some smaller crepe-like hotcakes.