Celitia's hands were steady with appropriate force, quickly beating the eggs evenly and adding a little water.
She picked up a stear from the corner, filled it with water, and placed the glass bowl containing the egg mixture inside.
That's right, what she wanted to show these primitive people was advanced cuisine from greater China—stead egg custard.
These were the correct steps, right? They should be correct, right?
Holding the stear, Celitia struggled to search through sowhat fuzzy mories in her mind, feeling it should be more or less right.
"But... but..." Benita was very conflicted.
Shanie also curiously widened her eyes: "This is completely different from the teacher's thod, isn't it?"
"When it cos to cooking, you need to have your own ideas. Innovation is the most important thing."
Celitia didn't even blink as she spouted convincing nonsense, fooling Shanie and Benita into believing her.
Sophia's ominous premonition grew stronger.
Celitia usually looked confident, and this ti was no exception.
If Sophia hadn't eaten her fried eggs before, she would have believed her now too.
And now she was going to innovate... was this really okay?
Under the gaze of three pairs of eyes, Celitia picked up seasoning jars one by one, carefully slling them.
Maybe adding so seasoning would make it taste better?
Without much thought, Celitia poured a little bit of each one in.
Of course, this ti she absolutely didn't mistake sugar for salt.
Placing the stear on the fire and covering it with a lid, Celitia thought for a mont and increased the heat.
High heat takes less ti, so the result should be more tender and delicious, right?
While they waited for the stead egg custard to finish, Teacher Jessie made a round and walked over to Celitia's group.
"Teacher, teacher!"
Shanie quickly waved her hand, excitedly presenting her finished product to Jessie. "I'm already done, try mine!"
"Mm, not bad. Student Shanie made it very successfully."
Jessie ate a piece, praised Shanie, then her gaze fell on the large stear on the stove, and she was imdiately stunned.
"What are you making?"
Celitia cleared her throat: "It's an egg preparation you've never seen before. I call it 'stead egg custard'—"
Before she could finish speaking, the stear on the fire suddenly made a loud explosive sound, and the entire pot shook violently.
"Wah?! What's happening??" Benita scread in fright.
Celitia leaned forward in confusion to see what was wrong with the stear, when she suddenly felt her arm tighten and was pulled back by a strong force.
A strand of golden hair blocked her vision, and Celitia realized that Sophia had already positioned herself in front of her, firmly protecting her with her body.
"S-sothing seems to have exploded. Don't go over there yet."
Sophia's voice was also very tense, but in that instant just now, she had instinctively protected Celitia behind her.
She herself hadn't noticed, but Celitia was clearly aware of it.
Looking at the girl's back, Celitia's eyes gradually took on a complex light.
"What did you all do?!"
Jessie hurriedly extinguished the fire and opened the stear lid.
The mont she saw what was inside, she frowned deeply, her expression becoming extrely colorful.
The glass bowl had shattered into pieces, and the egg mixture had expanded into honeycomb-like chunks scattered in every corner of the stear.
More importantly, these "honeycombs" weren't the normal color of eggs but had been dyed a strange brownish-yellow by the seasonings.
That explosion had attracted the attention of the entire class, and almost all the students had gathered around, craning their necks to watch the spectacle.
"What happened? Did sothing explode?"
"Uh... what's that stuff in the pot? Is that really eggs?"
"It looks like honeycomb? Or maybe mushrooms that have blood?"
"It must have been processed with so kind of magic. Can magic be used like this?"
"Better not—look at that color... it's kind of disgusting..."
Amid the many discussions, Celitia shrugged, looking completely innocent.
"Well, I forgot that the glass here isn't heat-resistant and explodes easily," she muttered. "It doesn't look good, but the taste should be fine."
Celitia scooped up a spoonful of "stead egg custard" with a spoon. After hesitating for a mont, thinking that she couldn't taste anything anyway, she offered it toward the surrounding students.
"Try so—uh."
The student closest to the spoon quickly retreated two steps, shaking their head like a rattle drum, looking at Celitia with complete terror.
Celitia held the spoon with an increasingly innocent expression:
"Although the bowl exploded, the stuff inside is really fine. Just think of it as trying sothing new."
The student's head still shook like a rattle drum:
"If I've done sothing bad, please let the goddess punish with divine retribution, rather than eating this thing that makes feel like I'll ascend to heaven in the next second."
Celitia: "..."
Was it really that exaggerated?
They were all just ignorant fools!!
She puffed up her cheeks in anger, and her usually thin face beca round and plump, adding three parts cuteness.
The next mont, Celitia felt her hand lighten as soone took the spoon from her.
She turned her head and said in surprise: "Sophia?"
Sophia didn't know how she had inexplicably taken the spoon containing the terrifying food.
Compared to her usual cool indifference, Celitia's pouty expression was so vivid and charming.
She wasn't an aloof, proud deity who seed to have mistakenly entered the human world, but a living person with strengths and weaknesses, things she was good at and things she wasn't.
She wanted to see more sides of her.
Whether cold, gentle, angry, or frustrated...
She wanted to know much, much more about her.
eting Celitia's gaze, Sophia faintly smiled.
"Since you say there's no problem... then I'll give it a try."
As if heroically sacrificing herself, Sophia took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and poured the stead egg custard from the spoon into her mouth.
It was soft with many bubbles, but quite smooth and tender. The taste was a bit strange, with the flavors of spices mixed in and so fishy egg sll...
Sophia swallowed it in one gulp and blinked her eyes.
It didn't seem that terrible. If the pot hadn't exploded and the seasonings had been more normal, it might have been even more delicious?
The students were in an uproar:
"As expected of Her Highness the Princess, she actually dared to eat that!"
"Well, it was for Miss Celitia after all..."
"Co to think of it, did I miss so opportunity?!"
Celitia was slightly stunned.
She saw bright light dancing in the girl's eyes, like a ray of light penetrating through thin fog in the morning twilight.
Was it just... that she didn't want to disappoint her?
Celitia irritably snatched the spoon back from Sophia's hands.
"You actually dared to eat that. Should I say your courage is big enough?"
"As a princess, of course I need to be bold. Don't think I'll be easily scared."
Speaking of this, Sophia beca proud instead, holding her head high with full montum, only the slight redness on her ears betraying her.
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