In the spring afternoon, soft sunshine shines in the room.

In silence, Johan, the lord of the room, was running a pen on the paperwork.

I put the pen down where I wrote up one I had at hand, I did my hand on my shoulder, and I snapped my neck.

I look into the door of the room, but there's no sign of anyone coming in.

A peek at the cup beside it as it was, it was empty.

Exhale one and stand up with the cup in one hand.

It's the kitchen that's been added to the lab over the past year.

"Dear Valdek, how are you?

"Can I get a cup of tea?

"Yes, sir."

The cook there speaks to Johann, who gave him a peek in the kitchen.

If Johann communicated the requirements, the cook would pick up the cup and walk back.

Johann, who had just waited, looked blurry at the back of the cook preparing his tea.

It wasn't until a little while after the kitchen was ready that hot water became available at all times, as it is now.

The cooks started to prepare tea for Sai, who often drinks tea during working hours.

Hot water is boiled by the side of preparing meals for day and night, so it doesn't seem to take that long.

Since the hot water became available, researchers as well as Sei have been drinking tea well.

Johan is one of them.

Tea is not the only thing.

The fellows' diet has improved once and for all since the kitchen was created with the hope of Sai.

Until then, because of the distance to the royal palace, some of the researchers rarely took a meal-like meal.

But even the researchers began to eat after the kitchen was ready and Sai began to cook.

The reduced distance travelled would be one reason, but above all the dishes made by Sei were delicious.

Even Johann, who wasn't so interested in eating, came to the point where when Sei stood in the kitchen, he came to pick it up in the name of taste.

In retrospect, the atmosphere has changed a lot.

I think the researchers had tea even before she came, but I can't remember how it was brewed in the lab where there wasn't a kitchen.

Speaking of which, some guy was using experimental instruments to brew...

That's how Johann was thinking about his former lab.

"Director?"

Looking back at the voice I heard from behind, like myself, I saw Jude with the cup.

"Did the director come to get tea, too?

"Oh, yeah. You, too?

"That's right. I used to make tea when Sai was around this time, so if I was dating, I'd get used to it."

"Were you?

"Aren't you the director, too? Sei always made tea with the director."

If you ask me, I felt that way.

Johan attaches his hand to his jaw and remembers.

Indeed, Jude is right, until now, Sei had carried the tea to the director's office.

So, "Oh well," Johan convinced me.

Earlier, I wondered if this was what I felt was missing from the director's office.

At some point Johann laughs unexpectedly when he seems to have been sensed as well.

Seeing Johann like that, Jude looked strange.

"What would he be up to by now?

"Hmm. I feel like you're always right"

"Right. Because the place you went is the place. Make potions over there, yes."

"Build it again in bulk, right?"

I turn my thoughts to Johann's inquiry about Sei, each of whom is in far away Klausner territory.

That's how I come up with the same look of Sai as when I was in the lab in the end, and the laughter spilled on each other.

Klausner territory is also known as the sanctuary of pharmacists.

I wonder if they make more potions alive than they do when they're in the lab.

I didn't put it to words, but Johann and Jude, they both thought the same thing.

"It's not just potions, it's even cooking."

"Uh, no, what do you say? For once, I'm telling you not to make it in public..."

"Oh, speaking of which, you did. But it's the Third Knights we're going with."

In Jude's words, Johann gave a funny expression (or face) that he noticed was not good.

Sei is basically serious and honestly follows Johan's instructions as well.

Johann's instructions not to make them in public are now also disciplined when he finds out that Sai's cooking has a significantly improved physical ability.

But in a place that's not public (...), you make it.

For example, in the laboratory kitchen.

The majority of Sai's handicrafts made that way fit in the researchers' bellies, but may also be handed out to the Third Knights.

Because Sai asked me to face the Third Knights, who knew how delicious the dish was to be made.

Since there were also third knights on the spot where the effects of the dish were discovered, Johann considered it pointless to hide them now and allowed Sei to distribute the dish.

Of course, the knights are strictly stopped from talking about the effects of cooking.

I made that a condition for handing out dishes.

I'm getting permission once.

Though the place has changed, if it is only a place where the Third Knights are human, Sei would cook if asked.

Johann knew that Sai was sweet to those close to him and had a personality that he could not say he did not like when asked.

Instead, I don't have to be asked to make my share. As I do, I'm going to even make a Third Knights meal.

In fact, so was the lab.

Johan looked up to heaven.

The royal palace has instructed me not to disclose Sai's abilities to the public except her abilities as [Virgin].

Some of the abilities Sei revealed over the past year were outrageous.

What the hell kind of noise will happen if they become public?

Imagine, it was also understandable that the Royal Palace had been instructed to hide the power of Sai, fearing what would be caused.

Hence Johan also performs his orders from the Royal Palace properly.

It's just that among Sei's abilities, he's relatively moderate when it comes to cooking.

It will have less impact around you than the potion effect and you won't have to worry so much about it.

Whatever, Sai is not the only one who has the effect of improving his physical abilities in the dishes he makes.

If you have culinary skills, you can cook dishes with effects, regardless of the degree to which they differ.

In the first place, there's nothing Johann in a remote land can do now.

With that in mind, I decided to leave the latter to my best friend who is with me on the ground.

He also said he stopped thinking.

"Something's hungry."

"Oh, that's what I was thinking right now."

In the middle of his thinking, Johann felt like he was hungry, either because he remembered the dishes Sai had made.

Apparently Jude next door was the same.

Here again they all laughed bitterly.

They say they've been poisoned by each other for a long time.

In good time, a cook with a tray walked in there.

"Thank you very much"

"Hmm? What's this?

"Both of you, I thought it was about time you were hungry"

On the tray held by the cook, a cup containing herbal tea was placed on a larger plate to be combined with the cup.

In addition to the cups on the plate, two different sandwiches are seated, one day made by Sei.

One soothes minced cucumbers and herbs with mayonnaise, the other with boiled eggs in the same way.

The cook remembered that Sai was making it at tea time, saying this was it for afternoon tea.

Someone's belly rattled as soon as I saw them, you must be adorable.

"Thank you. It was just fine"

"Thank you. Good day, Chief."

"Oh, good day"

If I cough up one more thing and Johann receives the plate from the tray, Jude goes on to receive it too.

As it was, Jude turned his heel back to the lab.

Johann drops his gaze on the dish he receives, having dropped Jude's hindsight.

Both cups and sandwiches are served on larger plates, which are not found in the manners of the Kingdom of Slantania, in order to make them easier to carry.

This is also the cook's idea that Sai used his snacks as one plate.

Johan laughed bitterly in his heart when he realized that they weren't the only ones affected by Sai.

She will undoubtedly soften even in Klausner territory, saying she wants to live normally, but is somehow influencing her surroundings.

It is not hard to imagine that it would be Alberto together who would be chased by that response.

Walking down the hallway, I smile secretly that you'll have a hard time.

While sending Yale to those two, Johann returned to the director's office with a plate in one hand.