575 Should I pretend that I saw nothing? (1/2)

Delicious.

Although the food had a subtle sensation of being cooked by a beginner, it was still at the level of ”delicious.” This was Seiji's objective assessment.

If he gave her extra points for the fact that this was her first time cooking, he'd give Natsuya 120… no, 300 points!

This was food that the student council president had personally cooked for him. Plus, they were eating each other's food together. Only giving her 200 would be far too conservative.

”How is it?” Natsuya asked.

”Really good.” Seiji smiled sincerely.

Upon seeing this smile, Natsuya felt that her waking up super early this morning and working hard at cooking under her maid's tutelage was all worth it.

A warm feeling arose in her chest. She now felt even more fortunate to be with him.

”What do you think of my food?” Seiji asked the same question.

”It's quite good… it has your taste to it.” Natsuya smiled in response.

”My taste?”

”I can feel that you made it… a taste like that.”

'There's such a taste?' Seiji's head was covered with question marks.

Still, Natsuya looked quite cute as she said that with a shy expression. He decided not to pursue the matter.

The two of them chatted and laughed together as they ate.

Halfway through their lunch, Natsuya moved over to sit next to Seiji instead. She picked up an egg roll with her chopsticks and blushed as she brought it to his mouth with a ”Say ahhh~~~”

Seiji cooperatively ate the eggroll. He also fed her some food as well. ”Ahh~~~”

Natsuya's face became even redder as she ate the food. Her feeling of bliss increased even further!

Seiji was quite moved by her beautiful smile… no, shaken!

As they ate and chatted together, they were indeed accumulating deeper feelings for each other.

After lunch.

Natsuya poured some tea that she prepared and handed Seiji a teacup.

”I'd like to learn more about the soul and better understand soul attacks and defense… Could you teach me?” Seiji asked after sipping some tea.

”Of course. However, I'm not skilled at soul magic. I can only teach you the basics,” Natsuya told him.

”That'll be enough.”

Seiji felt it would be likely that battles in the soul realm would occur during the Bloodwine Ritual tournament. And with his previous experience, he felt that soul magic would be even more important in the future, so he needed to start cultivating it now.

Actually, he knew someone even more skilled in soul magic than Natsuya—his bonded female spirit, Yomi. But, she always remained asleep. And even if he asked her on one of the rare occasions that she wasn't sleeping, he felt she would likely refuse with her lazy personality.

The rest of lunch break passed by with the student council president teaching Seiji knowledge about the soul.

Later that night.

They were currently fighting fiercely against each other with wooden swords.

Seiji caught one of his adopted younger sister's mistakes and swiftly took advantage of the opportunity to suppress her. It looked like he was about to win.

However, Shika didn't retreat as expected. Instead, she counterattacked at the last moment, forcefully knocked away his wooden sword, rushed into his arms, hugged him, and bit his neck!

”Er…” Seiji was shoved backward several steps by the collision and almost fell over.

'Biting is against the rules!'

He really wanted to say that. But, he did lose after all.

Shika hugged him tightly and used a small amount of force as she bit and sucked on his skin.

”Shika-chan, don't be like this…”

”Awoo!”

She responded with a guttural sound that indicated she was going to do what she wanted!