A month before Régiment de Cuisine is obviously filled with sweaty chef jackets, sliced fingers, stuffy kitchen, also restless body and mind. Her rebel peers such as Megumi, Takumi, and Sōma would go hunting for local food around Rebun Island on their breaks. Though they do ask her to come along, she mostly refuses the offer since she's been here a few times and choses to use her free time to rest.
The introverted side of her is just craving for hot chocolate and a good shoujo manga in this chilly Hokkaido weather. She wonders why her rebel peers-- no, her friends-- seem to have so much energy in them. Though most of the time, it's what uplift her.
As she's mesmerized by a well-crafted snowflake sticking on her window, she's silently thankful for all the bliss that's keeping her chin up during these darker times. Too many blissful moments and people around her that she's probably look back to this, and instead of shivering in fear, she'd smile.
With Sōma, Megumi, and Takumi by her side, she will fight against her father.