Zongman: Even if I am reborn, I still want to live my daily life

The girls nodded, then suddenly realized what was happening.

"Experiment? What kind of experiment?" Kaguya asked curiously.

"Do you remember I have a special ability that can amplify things? It's the ability I gained from my last breakthrough in makeup. I used it on the grilled fish just now, amplifying its flavor, which means amplifying the taste in the mouth. My cooking skills haven't improved, but I've found a different way to make the food taste better. That's the kind of experiment I did."

Gao Yumo explained to the girls, smiling broadly and in a good mood.

"It seems the experiment was very successful, but perhaps too successful. None of you were able to handle it. Try taking another bite and see if you fall into a daze again. If you do, this ability is not suitable for normal use, because if you lose focus after just one bite, the mealtime will be too long."

"When your cooking skills first improved, the illusionary double-skin milk you made was similar to what you're experiencing now, right? The first bite put you into an illusion, but after that, you only fell into an illusion after eating a whole bowl. This time should be similar, right?" Eriri guessed. The girls who had experienced the illusion nodded, and they thought so too.

"That's why I told you to give it a try, I'm not sure either." Gao Yumo gestured for them to continue eating the grilled fish, they'd know the result after eating it. "The grilled fish won't taste good if it gets cold, fish tastes best when it's hot."

But Gao Yumo felt that this time was quite different from the last time. The dazedness of being trapped in the illusion was completely different from the dazedness she was experiencing now. Of course, this was just Gao Yumo's guess, and the girls would have to continue to experience it for themselves to know for sure.

He hasn't even eaten it himself yet, but never mind, let's test the extent of this ability first.

The girls nodded, and Hui Naiguo took the lead again, picking up a new pair of chopsticks because her previous chopsticks had fallen to the ground. She picked up a piece of 853 and put it in her mouth, but then the chopsticks fell from her hand again, and she lost her focus once more.

The girls stopped trying to clamp their hands, as if there was no need to continue; the experiment results were in.

“An experiment can’t have only one subject; that kind of experiment is inaccurate. You all have to try it again,” Gao Yumo said, urging the girls to continue.

They nodded. Their pause was only subconscious; of course, they wanted to eat the grilled fish that Gao Yumo made even more, and they certainly wanted to taste that deliciousness again!

Then the girls all fell into a daze again, and none of them were able to resist. Whether it was Kaguya Houraisan, the ship girls, or even Kuriko, none of them could withstand it. Just as Gao Yumo thought, it was completely different from the illusion.

He also took a pair of chopsticks, picked up a bite and put it in his mouth. He really had to experience it for himself.

The moment the fish entered his mouth, its deliciousness, far surpassing any dish he had ever made, rushed straight to his brain. No wonder he was completely lost in thought. Even he felt that everything around him—the sounds he heard, the smells he could smell—disappeared. All that remained in his mind was the taste of the grilled fish in his mouth. He couldn't remember anything else.

When he came to his senses, he took out his phone and glanced at it. Several tens of seconds had passed. Fortunately, his mental strength was very high, and he was protected by the system, so his daze did not last long.

The girls' first lapses in concentration lasted an average of more than ten minutes, while his only lasted a few dozen seconds, which is much better. I just wonder how long their second lapse will last.

Gao Yumo had noted the time they were distracted just now, and she could compare it with this time.

When the girls woke up again, Gao Yumo calculated the time, and it hadn't changed at all? The time when they woke up the first time was the same as the time this time. If that was the case, Gao Yumo made some judgments.

It's completely linked to mental strength. The only way to wake up from this daze is to improve mental strength, and this daze itself doesn't improve mental strength; it doesn't have any training function.

If that's the case, Gao Yumo could totally use this as a control skill, and a strong one at that. One bite and she'd be stunned for over ten minutes. After all, even with Chestnut's high mental strength, she was stunned for almost ten minutes. So this is at least a basic control skill that lasts for a few minutes. And a few minutes isn't decisive in a battle; it's overwhelming. She could probably kill even enemies stronger than Gao Yumo.

The difficult part of this ability is actually how to feed the food to the enemy. Although it still needs further development, the prospects for this ability are very, very good!

The problem is that Gao Yumo doesn't really have any fighting opportunities...

"Looks like you're destined not to get to eat this grilled fish hot. You were so lost in thought after just one bite," Gao Yumo said helplessly to the girls.

"Mo Jun, do you have any ideas? I really want to eat this grilled fish, it's so delicious! But like you said, we can't possibly eat it like this." Hui Naiguo puffed out her cheeks and said somewhat discouragedly.

"I really can't do anything about it. If you want to eat grilled fish that tastes like this, my cooking skills can't do it. I have to use my amplification ability to amplify the flavor. But once the flavor is amplified, you're bound to lose your senses after eating for a while because that flavor will overwhelm your brain. I really can't do anything about it." Gao Yumo really couldn't think of a solution right away.

"Improving your mental strength can reduce the time you are distracted, but even I can't be immune to this distraction. It's completely impossible for you to reach the point where you can eat whatever you want without being distracted in a short period of time."

The girls were disappointed after hearing what Gao Yumo said. After all, if Gao Yumo said there was no way to solve it, then there really was no way to solve it.

"It seems I'll have to enjoy this fish all by myself." Seeing the girls' disappointed expressions, Kaguya Houraisan spoke up.

The girls all looked at her. They didn't know Kaguya Houraisan's abilities and couldn't understand why she was saying such things to her.

Kaguya Houraisan didn't explain her abilities, as it was difficult to articulate. She simply smiled at the girls and turned to walk over to the grilled fish.

Gao Yumo asked curiously, "Can you use your abilities when you're distracted?"

“Of course not, but I can use it in advance, and then use my ability to shorten the time of lapse in concentration, to the point that it’s gone. What do you say?” Kaguya Houraisan shook her head first, then smiled and said to Gao Yumo.

"That makes sense." Gao Yumo nodded; it really was true.

Although the girls didn't know Kaguya Houraisan's specific abilities, they had a general understanding from what she had just said. It seemed that only she could finish the grilled fish. Although they were envious, there was nothing they could do because they couldn't do it.

Kaguya Houraisan began to eat under everyone's watchful eyes. In their eyes, Kaguya Houraisan was just eating normally, but that was the most amazing thing. She did not lose herself in thought!

This must be her ability, it seems to be a time-related ability, it's really monstrous!

Kaguya Houraisan quickly devoured the grilled fish, leaving the girls truly envious!

"Alright, you guys start your second round of the competition. We've already wasted time. I really didn't expect it to turn out like this, the results will be so good," Gao Yumo said to the girls.

The girls' feelings were complicated. They were happy and excited to eat what was probably the world's best grilled fish, but they were also a little sad to see others finish it. What made them even sadder was that they could only watch others eat it because they really couldn't eat any themselves, since each bite took more than ten minutes.

The girls could only try to ignore what was happening over there. The second round that Gao Yumo mentioned was just right, so let's begin.

The first group and the referee girls waited on the sidelines, and the second group was left. There were only two groups in total. The winner of the second group would have to compete with Umaru again, and the winner would be the first place winner. As for the reward? The girls hadn't discussed it themselves, so there probably wouldn't be one. First place itself was the reward, an honor.

The girls in this group started grilling. Gao Yumo watched them from his grill while he started grilling again, and he grilled two more fish. Of course, this time they were just ordinary grilled fish, and the girls didn't even get a proper taste of his grilled fish.

The girls who weren't participating gathered around him. Gao Yumo grilled the food and they started eating. But they weren't full yet. They hadn't eaten much grilled fish or barbecue. They were still far from full!

"Ai, aren't you going to participate?" Gao Yumo asked Haibara Ai curiously, only to be met with a glare from Haibara Ai.

"How can I keep up? You can't expect me to stand on a stool and grill fish, can you? Forget it," Ai Haibara said. Actually, Ai Haibara's cooking skills are quite good. If she were to participate, she would have a good chance of winning first place, but she didn't want to participate, so she didn't.

Yukino and Haruno, who were in the second group, had only been grilling for a short time when they were caught cheating by the judges and were disqualified from the competition.

“Your cooking skills must be excellent. I didn’t even realize it just now.” Eriri said to them, “I remember Mo said that you are all good at housework and must be good at cooking. Since you were allowed to get into the competition, you should just be good judges.”

"I just wanted to see if you could figure it out, since you don't know enough about us," Yang Nai said with a smile. "But if you're found out, there's nothing we can do."

"I'm just too lazy to talk about it," Yukino said, then ignored them and went to play with the snowball next to her.

The girls were helpless, but what Haruno said was true. They knew too little about Haruno and Yukino in this regard, even though they had lived together for so long.

There are quite a few people with cooking skills in this second group: Nanami, Raphiel, Yuki, Akari, Nami, and Ai. If these people were in the first group, it's uncertain whether Umaru could win. But now that they're in the second group, it's safe to say that the second group is much more interesting than the first.

"Mo Jun, who do you think will win?" Yi Hua asked Gao Yu Mo with a smile.

“Not sure.” Gao Yumo shook her head. “If we’re talking about the best cook, it should be Qi Hai. She learned some cooking from me, but she’s only considered good among them. Overall, we’re about the same. It depends on our understanding of grilled fish, since it’s our first time grilling fish.”

“I think it might be Raphiel,” Gabriel said. “After all, she’s a young lady from the Celestial Realm; she must have learned about this from a young age, right?”

“But she didn’t learn how to barbecue.” Gao Yumo retorted. “Besides, according to you, Youxi was also a well-educated young lady before she came to our family, and her cooking skills were not bad either. Raphiel is about the same as her in this respect.”

"Really? Then I don't know." Gabriel was taken aback, then shook her head. She was just saying it casually. She didn't care who won. She was too lazy to participate in the competition. Anyway, she couldn't possibly win. She could just wait to eat.

"Why is Satania, who can't cook at all, getting involved in this?" Gabriel looked at Satania, feeling a little strange about her presence, but then realized it was her and it wasn't so surprising.

“I have a feeling that the grilled fish Satania will make in the end will taste really weird,” Shiyu said. They knew very well what Satania’s usual sense of taste was like; she always tasted very strange when eating anything other than dishes made by Gao Yumo.

The girls who knew her nodded in agreement when they heard this, and some even didn't want to try what she was doing.

For those who didn't know, the girls around them explained it to them, and then the way they looked at Satania's grilled fish changed, as if they were looking at a bomb. Could it really be eaten?

Time passed quickly, and the second group's grilled fish was ready soon. This time, because the first group had paved the way, they all had some experience of their own.

Gao Yumo watched the whole thing from the sidelines and still had no idea who would win; it seemed like they were evenly matched.

The girls on Gao Yumo's side all went over and looked at the grilled fish, deciding whose to eat first. Satania's fish would definitely be eaten last. They would eat hers last if they could, otherwise they might not have the appetite to eat the others.

(This is a headache to write. I will correct any typos later. Please bear with it for now. It's almost 5 a.m. when I finished writing this, and my mind is completely foggy.)