Reborn in Japan as a Chef God
Chapter 96: Eriina and the Slime (Added for ’LieTie’)

Chapter 96: Chapter 96: Eriina and the Slime (Added for ’LieTie’)

"This is my dish..." Tiqie Helinai walked over with a tray. But the others were all immersed in a food fantasy world, unable to extricate themselves.

Of course, Xia Yu was sober, smiling at her as he watched.

"Your dish?" Xia Yu glanced over, seeing small chicken eggs wrapped in foil on the wooden tray, and immediately had a guess about her cooking.

"Try my dish first, it’s getting cold." Xia Yu also handed over a pair of chopsticks.

"No!"

Tiqie Helinai turned her head away.

"You won’t be disappointed—" Xia Yu quickly switched to a spoon, scooped up a big spoonful of rice from the clay pot, mixed with scrambled eggs and diced aspic, and brought it to her, suddenly becoming forceful.

Her nostrils flared. Extremely careful, she sniffed the strong fragrance that wafted to her nose, and the defenses Helinai had built up in her heart crumbled.

The ’Divine Tongue’ started secreting saliva faster, and even her stomach began to tremble.

"No! I don’t want to eat!" She said this and shook her head, but unable to resist, Xia Yu saw this and chuckled to himself. With experience from the last time he had overwhelmed this proud girl with his ’Magical Mapo Tofu,’ he said no more, and the white ceramic spoon broke through her clenched teeth and into her mouth.

This time she actually cooperated, slightly tilting her neck back and parting her cherry-colored lips, or else Xia Yu couldn’t have stolen his way so easily.

Mmm!

With her hands braced on the table, Tiqie Helinai’s legs went weak.

The grains of rice danced like flames in her mouth.

A piece of aspic melted away, the thick soup pouring into her throat, the ’Divine Tongue’ exhaling a breath of hot, enticing steam.

"...Where is this?"

Opening her dazed eyes, Tiqie Helinai looked around blankly. She was standing in a golden wheat field that stretched endlessly, with the vast wind howling, causing the wheat to surge like waves.

Huh?!

Helinai started to walk but felt as if something was dragging her feet. She looked down and her face instantly showed disgust and nausea.

"What is this thing!"

There was jelly-like substance on the ground wrapping around her foot. Tiqie Helinai tried to kick it off, but she soon screamed when it slowly crawled up her leg, which was covered by a black knee-high sock!

Moreover, this thing gave off a shameful sensation of both heat and cold on the skin.

She ran through the wheat field, but after just a few steps, she stumbled and fell to the ground.

Plip, plop, plip.

More and more jelly-like substances started to bounce towards her.

"Ah!" Helinai screamed again, as suddenly several fire tentacles burst forth from the ground, first binding her legs and then her arms.

She struggled, but the tentacles became tighter and tighter. Tiqie Helinai felt no pain; on the contrary, there was a pleasure she couldn’t even believe herself.

What exactly was this intensely lively flame?

The jelly monsters quickly submerged her.

Tiqie Helinai steeled her heart, and as a jelly creature bounced towards her face, she bit into it. Pfff! Juice spurted out, covering her face. Helinai was stunned; her mouth seemed to be filled with fireballs, and what hit her was not the imagined stench and disgust, but a soul-soothing strong fragrance!

Chicken broth!

This was a monster made of chicken broth aspic!

Suddenly, the ground began to shake. Tiqie Helinai’s gaze went blank, and at the other end of the wheat field, a mound-like giant aspic monster slowly moved towards her, making a comically grotesque voice, "Welcome to the Aspic... Slime Kingdom!"

"Get away—"

Tiqie Helinai screamed, still struggling, but the small aspics crawled all over her body, and the large aspic monster boss moved quickly in front of her, while the other small aspics automatically retreated.

"Hehe!"

She seemed to hear a string of meaningful laughter. Whoosh! The giant aspic monster pressed her entire body beneath it.

"Ugh!" Eriina Tiqie struggled within the body of the jellied meat monster, surrounded by thick soup. The moment she opened her mouth, the soup surged in, and flames poured down her throat, moving through her body. Her face turned red, her limbs went limp, and her struggles grew weak, showing a coy shyness of rejecting and welcoming at the same time.

"Eriina, hey, Eriina, Eriina... wake up!"

Her shoulders were shaken. It took a while for Eriina Tiqie to groggily open her eyes, almost nose to nose with a delicate face right before her.

Wow!

Upon a closer look, like encountering a monster, Eriina Tiqie recoiled, pressing her body tightly against the table behind her, "Don’t—don’t come any closer!"

Xia Yu raised his hands in innocence, "I didn’t do anything!"

"You did!"

"I didn’t!"

"You did..."

"Can’t we not be so dirty..."

Eriina Tiqie fixated her wide eyes on him, the violet pupils shimmering with a faint wetness.

It was a sign of an impending breakdown, but she managed to hold it back.

Seeing this, Xia Yu felt a surge of amusement. He’d been worried the dose wasn’t enough to properly handle this tsundere.

In contrast, the others didn’t react so dramatically when tasting.

That was a drawback of having a ’Divine Tongue,’ being too sensitive to flavors, easily immersing oneself in the world carefully crafted by the chef. In other words, if he really wanted to tame Eriina, he didn’t need to play any games of secret rooms and bondage, just feeding her every day would suffice.

Xianzuowen Tiqie was the first to regain his composure, silently pulling his clothes back into place.

"Heart of Cooking!"

He didn’t look at the confrontational pair next to him but stared intensely at the dish on the table, his brows furrowed, "Is this the fire aspect of the Heart of Cooking? No, just the fire Heart of Cooking couldn’t construct such a colorful world of cuisine..."

Makoto Morioka, Fuyuka Niho, and Eriina all gradually woke up.

"Miss Eriina!"

With a gasp, Fuyuka Niho rushed in front of Eriina Tiqie, spreading her arms like a mother protecting her chick, shielding the ’Divine Tongue’ with her body, glaring at Xia Yu without giving an inch.

"What are you doing?!" she demanded.

No wonder Fuyuka Niho misunderstood.

Eriina Tiqie’s state was indeed bad, her cheeks were flushed, and her skin had a suggestively tender redness.

Her forehead, temples, and nape were damp with sweat, causing her blonde hair to stick to her skin.

Even worse, her uniform seemed disheveled.

With his objective achieved, Xia Yu chuckled lightly, hands in his pockets, approaching Makoto Morioka under the watchful eyes of the mistress and servant, "Makki, let’s go home."

It was time to leave.

Makoto Morioka had received the approval of the Far Moon Commander; passing the exam wasn’t an issue.

"Wait a moment—"

Eriina Tiqie bit her lip and called out from behind: "You haven’t tasted my cooking yet!"

So Xia Yu stopped, "Alright, I’ll give it a try."

He went back to the table and picked up an egg tightly wrapped in aluminum foil, still hot to the touch.

Upon unwrapping the foil, a rich aroma wafted up, and with a light inhale, Xia Yu smiled, "So it’s a glutinous rice egg..."

Eriina’s glutinous rice egg looked quite appealing.

A small egg, with a little shell chipped off, revealing the translucent glutinous rice occupying the space, mixed with diced mushrooms, diced ham, and corn kernels, vibrant in color.

Furthermore, the egg white and egg yolk were beaten into strands and flakes.

"Does Neon also have this traditional snack, the glutinous rice egg?" Xia Yu was curious.

"No," Eriina Tiqie replied with a bitten lip, "I had this traditional Chinese snack at a restaurant when I was very young, so it left a deep impression on me..."