Professionals (Food Wars X Male Reader) 2.0

Consolation Prize

I cooked the steaks on both sides and I had to lightly seasoned it again. The reason for that? The seasoning is already inside the meat while the seasoning is on the outside, just to make the meat taste fresh while coming off the pan.

Erina used salt, pepper, and garlic powder on the eggs while I was making sure I cook the steak to perfect10n because she's the God's Tongue and not some ordinary food critic.

I then worked on the potatoes by shredding them to almost a bunch of shredded potatoes. What I was making was hash browns.

For them, I added salt, pepper, and garlic powder to them while I put in some olive oil to a pan. I put the potatoes in the pan they were cooking like crazy. They were browning and that told me they were being cooked.

Once they were done, Erina and I added the steaks, hash browns, and two eggs on two plates. Reason was simple, I didn't eat yet so this was a good idea to cook breakfast alongside Erina.

Erina: This is my breakfast?

Y/N: And mine. Ribeye steak, hash browns, and eggs.

I added some basil to the plates and Erina was in awe at the plate I made for her.

Y/N: Enjoy it.

Erina: In order for me to enjoy it, you have to try it with me as well.

Y/N: Sounds fair.

Erina: Okay.

She took a piece of the meat, along with a piece of an egg and took a bite. When she did, almost immediately she lost her balance due to the flavors we worked on together!

Erina: It so delicious! The meat is cooked perfectly, there is pink in the middle, and the eggs perfectly cooked and seasoned with the salt, pepper, and garlic powder give extra flavor. The seasoning of rims of the steak was a nice touch as well. I would love to have this again.

Y/N: That's good because I wanted to make sure it satisfied your palate.

Erina: And why is the meat so tender? I know it not just the olive oil. What did you put in oil?

Y/N: I put unsalted butter in the oil to give the steak a good caramelization while making the meat tender as well.

Erina: Why would you put butter in this dish?

Y/N: Have you ever heard the quote from Julia Child: "With enough butter, anything is good"?

Erina: I think so?

Y/N: That's some advice I take to heart. Anytime I'm cooking dishes like this, I always use butter to make sure the dish looks and tastes good.

Erina: Nice. Well, let's go to the table so we can finish our breakfast.

Y/N: Sounds good.

Once she and I brought our breakfast and coffee to the table, I sat next to her and took her picture.

Erina: Really Y/N?

Y/N: Hey, you're the cutest person I've ever met and you having a dish I made for you is cute.

Erina: You really think I cute?

Y/N: Why wouldn't I?

I noticed what I was doing and I had to take it easy. I didn't mean to make Erina uncomfortable so I had to apologize.

Y/N: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable.

Erina: No. It okay, I know you did not mean to.

It got a bit quiet before she spoke up again, just to break the silence.

Erina: Y/N?

Y/N: Yeah?

Erina: Why would you spend time with me after what happened yesterday?

I had to look down with my arms on the table with frustration, but Erina calmed me down by putting her hand in mine. I felt goosebumps when she did that and I guess there's no way of keeping it from her.

Y/N: Erina, I wanted to make sure that you're okay. I wanted to be some sort of consolation prize for you.

She seemed to understand because what I'm saying is true. I wanted to make sure that she tries to forget about what happened yesterday.

Erina: Arigato, Y/N.

Y/N: Of course, Erina.

After eating our breakfast, we watched some anime that seemed right for the both of us. It was basically a comedy kind of anime, which I'm alright with.

Some of the humor was confusing, but I went along with it. While we watched some episodes, we conversed in Japanese, just so I can keep improving and possibly contend for Japanese citizenship.

For lunch, we had a small salad with some water that almost tasted like Aquafina, but it was still really good water.

Today was such a good day with Erina and I can't be more happy to spend time with her after the incident from yesterday.