"How? What does it taste like? ”

Looking at Shirakawa Kiyoshi, who had already delivered the dish to his mouth, Mina Okino asked with a smile.

Her reaction was a little different from that of a normal person.

At this time, normal people will show some nervous or expectant reactions, but Mina Okino doesn't, she just keeps laughing.

But considering the very familiar relationship between the two, and the fact that Mina Okino herself is very good at acting, Shirakawa Kiyoshi feels that this is actually quite normal......

[No, it's not normal......]

I'm ashamed to say that although he himself didn't deliberately think in that direction, maybe it was because Mina Okino deliberately guided him to think in that direction tonight?

Somehow, although there was no evidence, he always unconsciously suspected that the other person who was still in the kitchen at the moment might be ......

This thought was firmly in his brain and had seriously interfered with his ability to think.

As a result, he can't even judge now, what is the deep meaning of this smile on Okino Mina's face......

[Forget it, don't think so much, let's do it step by step......]

Giving up thinking, Shirakawa Kiyoshi turned his attention back to the meal.

After tasting it carefully, he gave his most honest evaluation.

"You've put too much salt today."

He had eaten Mina Okino once when he was in London, and now as a mother who already has children and often cooks for herself, her cooking skills are really good.

It's such a person who is very good at making home-cooked food, but today he is a little abnormal, putting too much salt......

"Poof!"

I couldn't hold back for a while, and Mina Okino suddenly laughed.

In the kitchen, there was a sound like a spatula falling to the ground.

[Ah......h

In an instant, Bai Heqing understood.

The dish just now wasn't made by Mina Okino at all, she just wanted to hear his true evaluation, so she deliberately said it, and the person who really made this dish is probably still in the kitchen......

[Careless......]

Shirakawa Kiyoshi looked at her wordlessly, while Mina Okino completely ignored his gaze, and she instantly retracted her smile and pushed the next dish over.

"Come, Chief Shirakawa, let's change this dish next, let's try it, this dish is also ~ I made it seriously~"

Mina Okino smiled and deliberately accentuated her tone, this woman obviously didn't mean to hide.

And Bai Heqing, who had already given up thinking, decided to continue to follow her words and stretched out his chopsticks to the dish she pushed over.

Pick it up, put it in your mouth and taste it, and stop suddenly.

Suddenly, Bai He frowned.

"How? What does it taste like? Looking at his expression, Mina Okino, who had already guessed the answer, still asked with a smile.

"Hmm......" Bai Heqing didn't answer immediately.

He was caught in a dilemma.

To put it mildly, he didn't know if he should tell the truth......

"Chief Baihe, why don't you speak?"

However, the demon sitting opposite, knowing his predicament, was still persuading and tortured.

"Bell!"

At this moment, a loud metal crash suddenly sounded in the kitchen, as if someone had slammed a soup spoon the edge of the pot.

This is probably the protest of the lady in the kitchen to Mina Okino.

[Give up thinking, give up thinking ......]

"Yes...... Very high potential. ”

Bai Heqing, who was silent for a long time and didn't want to lie, used the most euphemistic statement he could think of right now.

Well, he's really good at the art of this language.

"Poof! Hahaha......"

Mina Okino was completely amused by his words, she covered her stomach, lay on the table, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said with a smile:

"Baihe, it seems that between you in the future, you really have to cook, hahahaha, although Sharon is very attentive, her skills are really ......"

"Miss Okino!"

couldn't bear it anymore, and the man who had been hiding in the kitchen for a long time finally rushed out.

Shirakawa Kiyoshi then shifted his gaze to look over, and suddenly, there was a roar in his mind, and Mina Okino's happy laughter disappeared, his pupils shrank sharply, and he looked at the person in front of him in disbelief.

The originally vague figure in his memory was quickly repaired at this moment, and after a short period of shock and stunned, Bai Heqing's gaze quickly condensed back to his senses.

The person in front of him is Kokarasuma.

I hadn't seen her for nearly ten years, and she had barely changed from his memory, except that she seemed to have become much more mature.

No, there are still some of them...... Compared with the enthusiastic and cheerful, lively and active little Karasuma in his memory, the little Karasuma in front of him seemed to feel much calmer, and there was a melancholy aura that could not be dissipated.

She must have experienced a lot of bad things over the years.

At this time, Sharon was wearing an apron and holding a soup spoon in her hand, she had just rushed out with some annoyance, and the whole person suddenly became a little helpless.

The shame and anger on her face dissipated instantly, she froze in place suddenly, turned her head to look at Bai Heqing, who was looking at her in a daze, and the whole person became a little cringe.

"Bai He, long time no see......" she whispered.

Of course, he knew where Sharon's cowering and scared look came from, Bai Heqing was stunned for a moment, he lowered his eyes, and then raised his head again, looking at her with a smile.

"Even though I had already guessed before, when I actually saw you, Kokarasuma, my first reaction was to wonder if I was hallucinating.

I thought I might never see each other again in our lifetimes......"

Her nose was suddenly a little sore, and Sharon's hand subconsciously grabbed the apron on her body, and she still stood still, her eyes wide open, holding back the tears in them.

Knowing that Ha Qing's tone was so calm, it was clear that he didn't say anything special, but her tears still flowed out uncontrollably.

"I sometimes wonder where you will be living in the past few years, will you have found someone to marry, and how are you doing......

I even seriously thought about whether I should also get married, after all, if one day in the future, you suddenly come back and see me still like this, you will definitely blame yourself again.

Even when I first saw you, I was thinking about this kind of thing for the first time......"

"White River ......"

"Of course, now that this is all in the past, if I guess wrong, I'll apologize first, but I think, Kokarasuma, you come back this time, you shouldn't leave again in the future, right?"

Looking at Sharon, who was already in tears, Bai Heqing said with a smile:

"If that's the case, let me start by saying that it's been a long time, little Karasuma...... Also, welcome home. ”

"Hmm!"

Finally mustered up enough courage under his last words, Sharon rushed forward, hugged Bai Heqing tightly, and cried loudly.

[Congratulations, congratulations......]

And Mina Okino, who was sitting opposite, watched this scene quietly, also smiling.

[Although there are still many problems, as long as it continues like this, it will definitely lead to a happy ending in the end......]

[Well, we have to create a little more opportunity for these two people, just right...... I can also give myself a vacation......]

(˙ー˙)

(End of chapter)