I Favor the Villainess

"Ball... Hey..."

The next morning, the teacher told me about a ball hosted by the Imperial College.

Anything, he said it would go hand in hand with Philine's revelations, so he's going to do it grandiose.

I have no objection to that in itself.

Congratulations, and I think that's pretty good.

Problem is, I have to attend the ball.

"You sound unhappy, Ray"

Lady Claire said that when she was having lunch in the classroom during lunch break.

There are also Filine, Lana and Frieda around.

"I'm dissatisfied. You know that, don't you, Master Claire? I don't like dancing."

"Oh, that's surprising. I had this image of Ray doing everything."

"What an easy day to dance! All you have to do is move your body while you're in a hot passion, Dace."

"No, social dance is a form of polar."

I'll just stick it in Frieda saying something unsolicited.

Well, there's room for self-expression in social dance, but that would be an advanced story.

"It wouldn't be an even better opportunity if you weren't good at it. I'll give you a special training after the service dance."

"Huh. Are you training Gibbs again?

"Is there a problem?

I'm glad Master Claire can take care of it, but that Gibbs is so tiresome.

I remember when I was at the service dance, and I was a little upset.

Today's lunch is a proper lunch I brought from home.

I punished him yesterday in the dining room.

Today's menu is...

White rice.

Deep-fried flavor.

Grilled eggs with onions.

Pepper namuru.

a simple one.

I don't have that much of a menu, but it's pretty confident.

Philine's gaze is piercing Master Claire's lunchbox from earlier.

"Dear Claire, how about lunch today?

I asked for subtle thoughts.

Lady Claire grinned,

"It's delicious. Thanks for everything, Ray."

He told me.

With this smile alone, I can have three glasses of rice.

Let's eat, too.

Let's start with fried chicken.

I don't have a lot of trouble spending food because I get subsidies from Bauer for this study abroad.

So this fried chicken is thigh, not breast.

Place enough of my specialty flavored paste on a thigh filled with cooking liquor and salt.

After that, the single chestnut flour was covered and fried and grilled in a small amount of oil.

When I wore it, the various spices in the flavor paste fluttered.

Since it is cold, the gravy is not good enough, but it is still good enough.

Next, roasted eggs.

This won't require much explanation.

Simply cook the egg liquid mixed with the leeks cut into small pieces, normally.

What I'm working on is adding mayonnaise and sugar to the hidden flavor?

I don't really like to grill sweet eggs so I have more mayonnaise and a very small amount of sugar.

This is also Claire's favorite menu, so I try to include it in my lunch box every time.

At the end of the day Namur.

This is the easiest menu to make in Japan in the twenty-first century, but this is the most laborious in this world.

In Japan, you can just chop the peppers into fine pieces, mix together the salt, sesame oil and chicken gala powder and chin them in the range, then shake the sesame seeds.

But there's nothing pivotal about this world.

Range...... not.

It is chicken gala powder.

Taste in consomme vegetables, chicken gall powder, and dashi vegetables… These amino acid-based seasonings are the cutting edge technology in cooking.

I came to this world and deplored how great these beings were.

If you want to make an alternative, it's going to take a while.

They all have to be made by boiling animal meat, fish, bones, vegetables, etc for a long time.

Of course, I need to take it again and again during that time.

Consomme soup and other Dashi descendants are the secrets of their respective stores in this world.

So I thought, what an ingredient of consomme.

Here's how to make it:

Slice carrots, onions, celery, mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms into extremely thin slices.

Line them up and dry them in the sky.

Dry the onions in a frying pan.

Rinse all ingredients in a rinse bowl.

Add a small amount of salt to this and it will be complete.

I don't use meat so I'm a little short on richness, but still much better than making it from scratch every time.

I'm even thinking about mass-producing it in the near future and selling it out of Blume, but I also feel like I'm going to get fierce protests from some restaurants once this is distributed.

gossip.

Well, that's why consomme vegetables are so used in this namul.

It tastes pretty good when I try it.

If you don't hate peppers, I think you can eat as much as you want, and even if you don't like them, this can be okay.

Originally this recipe was a subspecies of infinite peppers popular in previous life.

An infinite pepper is a recipe for infinitely eating peppers, but here is a discount.

Anyway, it's a recipe for Claire and Alea, who hate peppers.

Looking at Master Claire's lunchbox, Namul is also down properly.

Looks like a successful operation today.

We did it.

"Dear Claire, uh, please do"

"You must have just followed this time!?

"Then when should I do it? Look, uh."

"Hey, what an envy... it's not. is disgraceful..."

"I want eagles, eagles, dace!

……

"Hey, Lana! Don't shut up. Have Ray arn with you, Sho!

"... Huh? And Atashi?"

"Oh, already. Trouble again!

Dear Claire, I'm trying to make you some fried chicken.

"Wait. Claire! Why don't you give Ray a pre-practice with me before, uh... That's a good idea. Let's do that!

"Dear Philine!?

"Hey, what do you say when you get confused?"

"If you won't, I'll pre-practice with Mr. Ray first!? Is that good?!?

"What is that threat!?

and so on. The meal goes on busily.

"Hmm.... Speaking of which, does Master Filine like dancing?

Lady Claire asked Philine as she cut the egg rolls apart.

"Honestly, not really...... No, I'm used to being taught dancing at an early age, but I don't really like dancing with my lords."

Filine looked soggy.

She has a little bit of a masculine phobia problem.

I'm a boxed princess, so I might not have a choice.

"What about Claire?

"I like it for what it takes. I think dancing is communication. Sometimes, even if you're a lousy talker, you feel the same way if you dance with me. We often get along with each other because of dancing."

Now is the time to be an ordinary person, but Master Claire was originally a member of the social community.

Even men would have danced a lot.

That's what I've been doing since I was young.

So I realized something serious.

I've never danced with Master Claire.

At the time of the service dance, we practiced dancing, but in the end, we never danced together.

No, it's precisely at the time of the whole exercise, but the word "together" in the service dance means something different to that in the social dance.

Never before have I taken my hand in my hand and danced with my body together.

"Dear Claire, can you teach me how to socialize?

"Oh, what's wrong with you all of a sudden? It's a good thing I'm motivated."

"No, it's a corner, and I'd like to take this opportunity to dance with Master Claire."

"Ray, social dance is usually about men and women dancing, right?

I got a scratch from Master Claire.

Well, that would be.

Normally.

"OH? In the Kingdom of Bauer, same-sex dance Masenka? Dance normally in the Empire, Mars!

"Really?

"Yeah, we've talked about this before, because the Empire also allows same-sex marriages"

Filine replied to the words of Lady Claire, who questioned Frieda's words.

"Look, it's not a problem. So please dance with me at the ball, Master Claire."

"Heh heh, okay? Instead, can Ray come and dress properly?

"Er..."

"Uh, it's not. I haven't even looked like your proper dress yet, have I? He was a pair of pant dresses when I saw him with the late Majesty Roseille."

'Cause I don't really like skirts.

I put up with the college uniform but don't like it and want to wear it.

That's the dress you wear at the social dance, right?

Evening dress, right?

Ugh.

"Don't look so nasty, show me the adorable look you've worn every once in a while. I'd love to see Ray's evening dress."

"Ugh...... Well, if Claire says so, I'll think about it."

"Hehe, I'm looking forward to it."

and so on. At that time,

"Ray-Taylor. Hey."

There was a voice thrown at me by the lid.

I don't know, when I look at the voices, a familiar figure is inviting me to the entrance to the classroom.

"Oh, that's Hilda. I don't know what's going on."

Filine was right, the shadow was Hildegart-Iherote.

He is an excellent official of the Empire and was in a cooperative relationship during the Pope's fortune.

He is then also the target of Levolili's attack.

The monocle is still gleaming today.

"You're going for a minute"

I almost finished my lunchbox, and I left Master Claire's.

"Can I help you?

"Sorry for the sudden call. I need you to fold in."

Mm, a bad feeling.

"Can you help us with the dishes we serve to the ball?