If you were to ask Togami Byakuya to evaluate Erina, he would definitely give this answer: Nakiri Erina is a woman of exceptional skill and ability, who is also arrogant to the core!
During the time he has known Erina, she has never retreated even once!
Even when she was worried about Jaden, she would only ask others-but if you asked her, she would only say that she believed in Jaden.
She always faces problems head-on.
After directly encountering a problem, she always finds a way to solve it.
She is completely different from the heads of other families or merchants Togami Byakuya has dealt with.
If other merchants and leaders of major families sought to take an easy path and travel far on it, it seems Nakiri Erina wasn't interested in which path was easy, but how to traverse the path beneath her feet and go far on it!
Encounter an obstacle? Overcome it!
Reach the end? Keep pioneering the road!
She sounds like a brute, but in reality, someone who adheres to this trajectory and has made it this far... such a 'brute' might ultimately be given this evaluation: The King's Way!
That's right.
Togami Byakuya felt that Erina was someone who lived by the King's Way to the very end!
He couldn't do it, and his father couldn't do it either, so he actually admired Erina somewhat.
However, having this impression of Erina, he would never have imagined that Erina, at this very moment, was wearing an apron, standing in the kitchen's warm-toned light, holding a chef's knife, and wearing a gentle smile while preparing dinner for Jaden.
You couldn't see even a trace of the King's Way in her; she looked instead like a gentle, pure, untouched white lily.
When you saw her, you probably wouldn't think she was contemplating overcoming obstacles or pioneering roads... you would probably only think she was considering what to cook for dinner tonight.
And Erina was indeed preparing dinner.
As for what to cook for dinner, Erina no longer needed to ask Jaden.
Generally, after Jaden finished a major task or had been eating hastily for several consecutive days-when he returned, he would definitely want to eat seafood paella.
Erina didn't know why, and Jaden had only vaguely mentioned that seafood paella gave him a sense of home.
"Jaden, dinner's ready."
Erina placed the prepared seafood paella, miso soup, and a few side dishes on the table. She then tidied up the kitchen, untied her apron, and picked up two sets of chopsticks, preparing to eat with Jaden.
"Got it."
Jaden replied, and having just finished his shower, he walked to the dining table and took the chopsticks from Erina's hand.
"Is the Ikusaba Mukuro situation handled?"
"Yes."
Erina nodded.
"There wasn't much to handle. In fact, since the intelligence she wants to investigate about you can all be given to her, it's actually simpler than guarding against a typical spy."
Thinking of this, Erina seemed to remember something and suddenly laughed.
"...And doing this seems to have a bit of an unexpected positive effect too~"
"I see."
Jaden only asked briefly about Ikusaba Mukuro's situation, then stopped asking and began to eat.
Jaden started eating, while Erina rested her chin on her hands, her eyes curved into crescent moons, smiling as she watched Jaden swallow the first bite. Then, she asked a question.
"How is it? The flavor of my new modification isn't bad, is it?"
"It's much better compared to last time... Last time was already very delicious, but I didn't expect you could still make a breakthrough this time... Indeed, those people who called you 'God's Tongue' before were all short-sighted fools with no vision. They don't need their eyes. They should have told me earlier; I could have helped them harden their hearts and donate their eyes to those who need them!"
Jaden smiled.
"It's not that 'God's Tongue' made you; rather, you made the name of 'God's Tongue' more brilliant-even if you still used that 'God's Tongue' that only infinitely magnifies flaws, you would surely surpass your 'God's Tongue' with your own culinary skill."
Jaden saw Erina's effort in the culinary arts.
The God's Tongue was certainly Erina's talent, but only a talent.
Erina's achievements were not entirely given by the God's Tongue; the God's Tongue was only a part, even a small part, while the greater part was inseparable from her own hard work.
Precisely because of this, Erina was not the God's Tongue-she was Nakiri Erina.
Lately, more and more people, when mentioning Erina, didn't call her God's Tongue but started calling her Nakiri Erina.
Jaden also noticed this.
He was happy for Erina.
"Of course-but I didn't expect you, Jaden, to say such things! If your opponents who fought you in the Kengan Tournament knew, they would probably be so surprised their eyes would fall out~"
Erina's face was slightly flushed, but she immediately started teasing Jaden.
Jaden, in turn, raised an eyebrow.
"You're the same! If your Totsuki staff saw you cooking like this, even your little secretary would probably think you were sick!"
Just like their first meeting, Jaden and Erina started bickering in a casual, back-and-forth manner.
However, compared to their first meeting, when Erina was quite irritated, this time, they were both smiling.
They bickered, then stopped simultaneously, made eye contact, and smiled at each other.
If Wakatsuki Takeshi and the others saw Jaden like this, they would probably suspect they had left their brains at home and everything they saw was an illusion!
If Togami Byakuya and the others saw Erina like this, they would also think Erina had suddenly become ill and was mentally unbalanced!
But this was the reality.
When Jaden understood his own heart, his actions towards the outside world became increasingly resolute and more like a Baki-style strongman.
Erina, towards the outside world, might be even more resolute than Jaden in certain areas!
But despite being this way to the outside world, the two of them, when dealing with each other, would tacitly show the side they would never reveal to others...
This was their tacit understanding and also their possessiveness.
As for the reason...
-Because that self belongs only to the other.
It was that simple, and no other reason was needed.
Just that much~
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