𝔅𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔡𝔶 || Minamoto T. || JSHK

0.7 cooking skills taught by Kou

Kou should have seen it coming. He really should have. Okay so maybe because she couldn't taste food didn't mean she would be terrible at it? Maybe she had a secret talent or something where she could make delicious meals or something...

Or maybe Kou had set the bar too high. He looked at the disastrous kitchen in front of him. At least Yumeko wasn't blowing up the kitchen like Teru.

Kou sighed and looked at the vampire who had found the floor to be much more interesting. "Nee-chan?" The vampire whined as she was addressed by the younger boy. Okay so she wanted to surprise him for all he did and for helping her bond with Teru a little more and she had overheard some classmates mention how food was always a safe choice for gifting.

Though she couldn't taste human food and could really only drink blood. But those were little details.

Back to the current issue. Yumeko had decided to prepare Kou a bento for the next school day. And though it took some time to gather some simple ingredients and even more time to find some recipes that looked relatively easy, she had still messed up.

Turning the flame too high, not adding enough oil, adding too much oil that when she dropped anything in the pan, the oil jumped. Cue Yumeko initiating a fighting stance.. well, you know. Common mistakes anyone could make.

After hearing her reasoning, Kou couldn't really stay mad. "Nee-chan, you owe me a clean kitchen."

Like that, the vampire ended up cleaning the entire kitchen, not just the mess she had made; Kou ended up helping midway as well because he couldn't let her clean up alone.

"Kou, I'm sorry." She was sitting in front of the blue eyed teen, sulking at her failure on cooking. Kou scratched his cheek while thinking of what to tell the vampire to comfort her. "Um, at least it wasn't as bad as Teru-nii." The two laughed at that statement because it was true. Teru had unfortunately blown up the kitchen multiple times in his quest to "cook".

"Yeah, I guess that's true. But I still feel a little bad about not being able to help you much. I'm the older one, I should be doing things that would burden you. But well, you're great Kou, really." The teen who had just been complimented, bashfully grinned while telling her to stop. He was a humble child, after all.

Though it might be a long shot, a thought occurred to Kou just then. She might not be able to completely taste the difference between something but she could probably learn well!

Or so she and Kou thought.

She could break the eggs well and mix it well with some salt and dashi that Kou added but when it came to actually putting the mixture into the pan; that was something she couldn't handle very well. Even though Kou was instructing the vampire well, she was far too cautious to continue cooking everything in a timely manner. Well, at least she wasn't blowing up the kitchen like his older brother, Kou thought.

"But what if I put in something else than what you taught me? You know I can't exactly taste human food..." The vampire sulked at the thought of further messing up what seemed like a simple thing. But Kou, bless his heart, couldn't let the vampire stay pouting and instead sat next to her whilst poking at the burnt piece of food that was left on a plate.

"Well, even I wasn't perfect when I first began, ya know? I'm not sure if you remember too well but when I first started to learn how to do things, I messed up a lot too! And well, though Nii-chan might look perfect he totally sucks at housework." He laughed at this bit as even when they were younger, it became clear that Teru just would not be a good recommendation for cooking or housework in general.

"Yeah, that's true. He's cute but not the house type." Yumeko giggled. Least she wasn't that bad. Grinning at Kou's encouragement, she stood up with newfound energy.