She set her sights on fried meat, which tested her skills the most.

"Huh? This smell..."

Izumi Mio looked stunned after eating a small piece of fried meat.

Why does this smell seem familiar?

But it is undeniable that it is delicious.

This is probably the most delicious bento I have ever eaten, even better than the bento made by my father.

Izumi Mio's mother wasn't a very good cook either, so the bento boxes she grew up with were either bought or made by her father.

As for Izumi Mio's father, who is very busy at work and has limited time to cook in the morning, he doesn't make a bento with 100% of his heart like Asai. He usually makes it the night before and puts it in the refrigerator, and then heats it up in the morning.

Put it in her schoolbag.

Although it saves time, it is definitely not as good as getting up at 4 a.m. to cook delicious food after waiting overnight.

"Is this smell the smell of father?" Izumi Mio frowned slightly.

It tastes familiar because I remember the taste of the bento made by Asai as the bento I grew up eating?

No, that's not right.

It tastes like I just tasted it recently.

Why...

Izumi Mio suddenly realized.

She remembered!

This taste is really the same as what her father made for her, but it's not a bento, but something from the past two days.

That day, Izumi Mio woke up early as usual on a day off in order to make Natsume Naoki his favorite food at the school festival.

After she woke up, she put on her pajamas and went to the kitchen, started preparing ingredients, and learned to cook by following videos on YouTube.

Cooking is a very enjoyable thing, but preparing the ingredients and cleaning up the dishes and pots are the most frustrating.

Fortunately, Izumi Mio had the motivation in her heart to keep going.

Her dear Natsume-kun.

Being able to hear Natsume-kun smile and say "it's delicious" at the school festival, Izumi Mio felt that her busy work and the band-aids on her hands were all worth it.

That morning, Izumi Mio's father couldn't bear it anymore and got up early to help his daughter.

When asked by her father, Izumi Mio just blushed and said that she wanted to cook for a boy and let him try her cooking skills, but she did not say who it was.

After a brief period of anger, loss, melancholy and relief, Izumi Mio's father finally accepted the fact that his daughter was in love.

Then he joined.

Mio Izumi showed her father the YouTuber's video. His father was thoughtful, and then started to copy the video with her.

They cooked a lot of food that morning, including hot dry noodles and Japanese fried pork.

The taste of what my father made is almost the same as the Japanese fried pork in this lunch box!

Izumi Mio figured out why she felt the familiar taste of fried meat, but then another question came up.

Why?

She looked at Asai who was sitting by the flower bed and reading a book. As if he had a sense of aura, Asai put down his book and looked at her.

"Is the bento not to your liking, Izumi-senpai?" Asai asked calmly.

The universal maid has extreme self-confidence and ensures that her craftsmanship will never taste bad.

So if you have a problem, there must be something wrong with your taste.

Izumi Mio shook her head: "The bento is delicious, but I want to ask Asai-san, from whom did you learn to cook, so that you can make such a delicious bento."

In front of Asai's eyes, there was a picture of a little boy who was not taller than the stove standing on the bench teaching him how to make various Chinese dishes. He said that hot dry noodles are the most delicious thing in the world. He taught Mao-chan, really

Oo-chan can cook for him from now on.

At such a young age, he learned to lie with his glib tongue, saying that there is a Chinese tradition that a man will become husband and wife after eating the hot dry noodles made by a woman, and they will get married when they grow up.

The naive Asai actually believed it, and for a long time she had quarrels with other children over who would be Natsume Naoki's wife, so she would bring up the matter of hot dry noodles.

In addition to Natsume Naoki when she was a child, two other women also appear in the memories.

Brother Naoki only knows how to cook Chinese food, so those Japanese dishes were taught by others.

Those are the two women.

They laughed with each other in the kitchen, and these three people together constituted her short but very happy childhood.

"If you ask me who taught me how to make fried pork, I can only tell you that it was a woman who taught me how to make fried pork." Asai didn't want to say more about his childhood.

After that, Asai continued to read.

Izumi Mio was thoughtful, and it seemed that Asai also watched that YouTuber's video, and the food he made tasted exactly the same.

After figuring this out, Izumi Mio was very happy.

She is going in the right direction. Since Asai and she learned from the same person's videos, and Natsume-kun likes the food Asai makes, then the food she makes shouldn't be too unpalatable, right?

After eating all the bento in his hand, Izumi Mio cheered up again.

"Thank you for the bento, Asai-san."

"Nothing, I just want to thank you for taking care of Natsume."

Izumi Mio returned the lunch box to Asai, said a few words of thanks, and continued to work.

She has to make sure that the stove used in the school festival is perfect so that she can make delicious food for Natsume-kun.

Natsume Naoki also finished his lunch. He looked at Asai and said, "I can't tell whether you are acting or real."

"What are you talking about?" Asai asked.

"As for the fact that we are childhood sweethearts, I always feel that either you are too involved in the drama, or..." Natsume Naoki thought for a moment, looked up at her, and said very seriously: "What you said is actually true."

Asai was silent for a moment and shook his head.

"Did you know me when you were a child?" Natsume Naoki frowned: "I can't remember what happened when I was a child."

Asai was stunned for a moment, then quickly returned to normal.

He has become so smart.

Just because his mind value is enough, he is already so alert. If the fragments are completely recovered...can he still remember the past?
Chapter completed!