I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

"Ready~"

As she spoke, Yuhaka placed the ingredients that Meru and the others had prepared on the table. Ji Lin looked at the ingredients and nodded in satisfaction, saying:

"Hmm, they all look quite good."

Upon hearing Ji Lin's words, Yuhaka proudly raised his flat chest, and his large tail swayed rapidly behind him.

Little Bronya looked at the ingredients laid out on the table and asked Ji Lin with a puzzled expression:

"Ji Lin's mother, what kind of dish is this?"

Little Bronya is also looking forward to the dishes made by Yuhaka and Jilin. Just yesterday, Little Bronya officially moved from the stage of being held by a bottle and eating cooked food.

The first dish she ever ate was spaghetti made by Yuhaka, and that was the first time Bronya tasted the deliciousness of food!

Hearing Bronya's words, Ji Lin thought for a moment and looked at Yuhaka, saying:

"Chef Youyou, what dishes are you planning to make tonight?"

Upon hearing Ji Lin's question, Yuhaka paused for a moment, then closed his eyes to think before replying to Ji Lin:

"Gourd meat?"

Sweet and sour pork?

Ji Lin tilted his little head and looked at Yuhaka, saying:

"I see there's pineapple in it. Chef Youyou, are you planning to add pineapple to the sweet and sour pork?"

Yuhaka nodded in agreement. Seeing Yuhaka's nod, Ji Lin stroked his chin and said:

"But just sweet and sour pork isn't enough for dinner tonight..."

Hearing Ji Lin's words, Yuhaka nodded in agreement. Sweet and sour pork alone wouldn't be enough for dinner tonight.

Chapter 414 [Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple]

Nighttime, in Merlin's kitchen...

Yuhaka was placing the ingredients he needed on the table in the middle of the kitchen, while Ji Lin was also taking the ingredients that needed to be processed to prepare.

"Hey~"

After Ji Lin removed the skin from the tropical pineapple, he began to cut it into chunks. Meanwhile, Yuhaka was processing the armored saury tenderloin. Yuhaka cut the tenderloin in half horizontally and then made shallow cross-shaped cuts on it. This was done to allow the tenderloin to absorb the flavors better and to make the meat more tender.

After making incisions on both sides of the sirloin tenderloin, Yuhaka cut it into small pieces. While Yuhaka was processing the sirloin tenderloin, Ji Lin finished processing the tropical pineapple and then removed the seeds from the red and bell peppers and cut them into small pieces.

After cutting the sirloin tenderloin into pieces, Yuhaka placed them in an iron bowl to marinate. He added salt, pepper, and cooking wine to the pieces of sirloin tenderloin and then mixed them well.

Next, Ji Lin placed the prepared tropical pineapple, red bell pepper, and bell pepper into individual bowls. Seeing that Yuhaka was marinating the meat, Ji Lin prepared the sauce. Ji Lin put a small amount of salt, sugar, white vinegar, Melu Cat's special tomato sauce, and water into the same bowl and stirred it well. After preparing these, Ji Lin prepared the thin paste.

In a large bowl, Ji Lin cracked an egg into it, added some cornstarch, and stirred the two together into a thin paste. After Yuhaka had marinated the Ankylosaurus tenderloin pieces, Yuhaka put the marinated Ankylosaurus tenderloin pieces into the large bowl and stirred them evenly. The reason for adding the thin paste was to make the meat more easily and evenly coated with cornstarch.

Then, Yuhaka used chopsticks to coat the pieces of Ankylosaurus tenderloin evenly with cornstarch. While Yuhaka was coating the pieces of Ankylosaurus tenderloin with cornstarch, Ji Lin heated up the oil in the pan. After Yuhaka had finished processing all the pieces of Ankylosaurus tenderloin, Yuhaka and Ji Lin began to fry them.

After each piece of Scalyosaurus tenderloin coated in cornstarch was placed into the oil, a sizzling sound filled the air. Xilin and the others, who were secretly watching from the side using the void space, immediately swallowed hard.

After frying the pork tenderloin pieces, Yuhaka added a little oil to another pot and then poured in the sauce that Ji Lin had prepared earlier, stirring to dissolve the undissolved sugar. Next, Yuhaka added the chopped bell peppers and red bell peppers. She then added cornstarch slurry to thicken the sauce, and after adding a little more slurry, she added the fried pork tenderloin pieces and chopped tropical pineapple to the pot, stir-fried until evenly mixed, and it was ready to serve.

After pouring the prepared sweet and sour pork with tropical pineapple onto a plate, Ji Lin watched as the pieces of armored dragon tenderloin, which had been fried to a golden yellow, turned a glossy red, looking just like little rubies.

After seeing that the sweet and sour pork with tropical pineapple was ready, Ji Lin turned to Yuhaka and said:

"Then let's start making the other dishes!"

"Okay, let's begin!"

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In the living room of Yohaka's home...

After Yuhaka and the others brought the dishes to the table, they began to eat. Bronya looked at the pineapple sweet and sour pork, salt and pepper chicken wings, mapo tofu, and vegetable soup on the table, which was quite a feast.

After everyone started eating, they all chose their favorite dishes to eat. However, apart from Yuhaka and Hei, who dared to eat Mapo Tofu, everyone else looked at it with fear. When Yuhaka made Mapo Tofu earlier, the spiciness had made Sirin and the others choke, and Sirin immediately shut down the Imaginary Space.

Now, Xilin and the others looked at the bright red Mapo Tofu with fear on their faces. Even now, they could still smell an extremely spicy aroma.

Bronya skillfully picked up a piece of sweet and sour pork with her chopsticks and put it in her mouth. The moment she put it in her mouth, she felt a balanced sweet and sour taste spreading across her taste buds. After she bit into the sweet and sour pork, she felt a slightly crispy texture travel through her teeth to her brain.

Moreover, when she bit into the crispy outer skin of the sweet and sour pork, the meat juice inside flowed onto her taste buds with a "pop," and Bronya showed a surprised expression as she savored the rich flavor. Although Yuhaka had also made meat dishes before, this was the first time Bronya had tasted such a dish.

On Hei's side, Hei scooped a spoonful of Mapo Tofu. Seeing Hei's action, Xilin looked frightened. After all, she had eaten Mapo Tofu before, and the spiciness made her drink several glasses of water...

During the meal, Kanna seemed to remember something and said to those present:

"By the way, Youyou, Jilin, the school is holding a sports meet in a few days. Do you want to come and watch?"

Hearing Kanna's words, Ji Lin was also taken aback for a moment, then, as if remembering something, Ji Lin looked at Kanna and said:

"Sports meet...which one are you referring to?"

Ji Lin was referring to the sports meet, the kind of sports events you see on TV. Hearing Ji Lin's words, Kanna tilted her head and nodded.

For Kanna, there was no difference between the sports meet held at school and the sports meet she saw on TV. After all, what difference was there between human sports meets for a young dragon? ... Maybe it was just that the people were different?

Hmm...maybe...

"Sports meet? What's that? Is it tasty?"

Hearing the conversation between Kanna and Ji Lin, Yuhaka tilted her head and asked the same question. Hearing Yuhaka's words, Ji Lin, with a bead of sweat on her forehead and a helpless expression, looked at the utterly bewildered Yuhaka and said:

"Um... Master Youyou, the sports meet doesn't offer any delicious food..."

When Ji Lin said that food couldn't be eaten at the sports meet, Yuhaka immediately lost interest. However, when he heard that Kanna was also participating in the sports meet, Yuhaka became interested.

Chapter 415 [Sports Meet and Reserve Meat Lion's Head Meatballs]

Yuhaka and Jilin's group came to the school where Kanna studied. Because of the sports meet, the students' families also came, making the school very lively.

"Wow, so many people!"

Ji Lin looked quite surprised to see such a large crowd at the school gate. Although she had taken Kanna to this school before, there weren't nearly this many people there.

However, Yuhaka's group was quite eye-catching, especially since Yuhaka's group consisted entirely of children, and Kuro was dressed in a maid outfit. Most of the other people were students' parents or other family members, which inevitably made Yuhaka's group stand out.

"How should I put it... do we feel like we're being too conspicuous here?"

As Sirin looked at the crowd around her, she said, "I feel a bit awkward, even though the people there don't seem to mean any harm. It's like being a pufferfish in an aquarium surrounded by onlookers."

Black, who was standing to the side, raised his hand and looked at Yuhaka and the others, speaking to them using telepathy:

"Should we cast an invisibility spell?"

Hearing Hei's words, Ji Lin, who was standing to the side, also looked embarrassed and said:

"No, no need, Sister Black. Using invisibility magic now would probably cause panic..."

After hearing Ji Lin's words, Hei nodded to indicate that he understood. Then, Yuhaka and his group entered the learning area and found a spot where they could see Kanna and the others' competition.

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"Ow~"

At noon, during the break of the sports meet, Kanna picked up a large meatball, stuffed it into her mouth, and started chewing it noisily. Then, with her eyes shining, she said:

"Oh, it's delicious!"

Hearing Kanna's words, Ji Lin, who was standing to the side, clapped his hands and looked at Kanna with a smile, saying:

"Is that so? I'm glad Kanna likes it."

Yuhaka, sitting to the side, looked a little curious about the large meatball in his own bowl. After all, this dish wasn't made by Yuhaka, and Yuhaka also noticed that the large meatball looked familiar, but he didn't know what it was called.

"Ji Lin, what kind of dish is this?"

Upon hearing Yuhaka's words, Ji Lin explained to Yuhaka:

"Hmm... I think it was called [Reserve Meat Lion's Head]."

"Reserve meat lion's head meatballs?"

Upon hearing Ji Lin's words, several question marks appeared on Yuhaka's little head. Yuhaka looked at the reserve meat lion head in the bento box with some confusion. Yuhaka knew very well what a lion's head looked like, but this so-called reserve meat lion head didn't look like a lion's head at all.

Kanna, who was standing to the side, looked completely bewildered when she heard Ji Lin's words. She hadn't expected that the big meatball on her fork was actually made from a lion's head.

Seeing the expressions on Yuhaka and Kanna's faces, Ji Lin knew they had misunderstood, so she explained to them:

"Um... Master Youyou, Kanna-chan, the reserve meat lion's head isn't made with any lion's head meat, you know."

As she spoke, Ji Lin told Yuhaka and the others about how she and Xilin had encountered the mobile cat food stall in the town of Scylla. Upon hearing Ji Lin's words, Yuhaka's eyes lit up, revealing a very interested expression. Although Yuhaka could cook, she rarely ate at other people's places.

After hearing Ji Lin's words, Yuhaka realized that there was a mobile cat food stall in the town of Scylla, and Yuhaka wanted to go there to see what good food was available.

However, Yuhaka is now more curious about how Ji Lin made the reserve meat lion's head.

According to Ji Lin, the recipe for the "Reserve Meat Lion's Head" was a combination of recipes she found online and her own experience with the ingredients from her own "Reserve Meat Lion's Head" recipe. After all, it's not appropriate to ask such a question.

So Ji Lin relied on his sense of taste to taste some of the seasonings and then supplemented them with some information he found online.

Ji Lin discovered that the meat in the reserve lion's head meat he had eaten in Kusla Town was made from the meat of a herbivorous dragon and a hardened dragon. If Yuhaka hadn't brought back the hardened dragon ingredients last time, Ji Lin probably wouldn't have known what the other meat was.

At the same time, Ji Lin also tasted the flavors of local specialty mushrooms and water chestnuts. The other ingredients and seasonings were made by referring to the recipe and ingredients for braised lion's head meatballs online. So far, it seems that Yuhaka and the others are satisfied with the taste of this reserve meat lion's head meatball.

“Speaking of which…”

Ji Lin looked at Bronya, who was eating beside him, and said:

"Speaking of which, is Bronya going to school with Kanna?"

"Hmm OxO?!"

Bronya, who was eating a croquette, was stunned for a moment after hearing Ji Lin's words, then pointed to herself and said:

Bronya?

Ji Lin nodded and said:

"Yes, that's right. After all, Bronya looks pretty much the same as Kanna and the others now."

Hearing Ji Lin's words, Kanna, who was munching on a lion's head meatball, looked expectant. Clearly, Kanna was somewhat interested in Bronya going to school with her. Although Kanna and Bronya had only known each other for less than two weeks, they generally got along well, and Bronya still called Kanna "older sister." (Although it felt a little...unconventional...)

Bronya, looking a little embarrassed, scratched her cheek and said:

"Uh... I'm afraid there's no way around it, Mama Ji Lin. According to Grandma Zelus, my growth rate might be a bit fast, which might not be suitable for studying at Sister Kanna's school..."

Upon hearing Bronya's words, Ji Lin nodded with an "I understand" expression. Well... after all, if someone only took a few days to go from a baby to a late-stage toddler, it would be terrifying to hear, right?

Kanna, who was standing nearby, also showed a slightly regretful expression after hearing Bronya's words, since Kanna also wanted to go to school with Bronya.