Chapter 14: I'm The Headmaster
After sighing helplessly, Yukino Yukinoshita said as she prepared all the ingredients needed to make cookies: "I'll demonstrate first, and then you can follow."
"Add granulated sugar and a little salt to the softened butter, beat it into a paste, then add flour and stir into a batter; put the batter into the cookie mold to compress it into shape, put it in the oven, set the time and wait for it to come out of the pan."
The steps are simple, without any other complicated operations, which is very suitable for beginners. Even Hikigaya Hachiman who was watching from the side and Hikaru who was watching from the first person perspective learned it.
"How is it? Do you feel any difficulty or misunderstanding?" After Yukinoshita Yuki Sanno put the baked cookies on the plate, she turned her head and asked Yuigahama Yui.
"What a delicious smell!" The bun-haired girl looked at the cookies carefully arranged into a spiral pattern with shining eyes, and said confidently with both hands clenched fists, "I have completely understood it! No problem!"
"Add sugar and salt to the butter, right? Hey!" Yuigahama Yui acted happily.
"You should soften the butter first, Yuigahama-san." Yukinoshita Yukino reminded.
"Oh, I know!"
According to Yukinoshita, after slightly heating the butter to soften it, Yuigahama got a plate of butter, sugar and salt mixed paste. Although there were some mistakes in the steps and the details were not very good, it was still within the acceptable range for Yukinoshita Yukino so far.
"Sure enough, cookies taste better if they are sweeter, right?" Yuigahama turned to Hikigaya Hachiman and asked, "Takachan likes sweeter ones, right?"
"Well... indeed, life is already so bitter, so I hope to at least have more sweetness in my diet."
Hikigaya Hachiman said, and saw the bun-haired girl sprinkle a handful of fine sugar on the paste on the plate while chatting and laughing.
He twitched his eyes subconsciously.
Although I like sweet food, this is already a lethal dose!
'I advise you to stop her quickly.' Hikaru, who was watching this scene through Yukinoshita Yukino's eyes in the field, showed the same expression as Hikigaya Hachiman on her face.
Correcting Yuigahama's behavior after a failure will leave a deeper impression. Yukinoshita Yukino said with ease, looking very confident in her teaching methods.
'You will regret it, little-Yukino'
'I am the head of the service department, Parasite-kun.'
Fifteen minutes later, Yuigahama Yui excitedly took the baking tray out of the oven, poured the baked cookies onto the plate, and then the smile on her face slowly disappeared.
Looking at the plate of cookies that were burnt like charcoal, Yukinoshita Yukino suddenly regretted not listening to his advice just now. Perhaps she really shouldn't have let Yuigahama do whatever she wanted.
"Is this completely charcoal?" Hikigaya Hachiman carefully picked up a piece, "Is it poisonous?"
"Where is it poisonous!?" The exasperated Yuigahama Yui also picked up a cookie from the plate, intending to try it herself, but looking at the burnt color, she really couldn't eat it, "Hmm... Is it really poisonous?"
"Will it kill people?" Yukinoshita Yukino made a bitter face and called out to Hikaru in her heart.
'Try it.'
'Are you human?'
Hikaru decisively refused. If he didn't open his mouth, Yukinoshita Yukino couldn't force feed him, and this behavior was indeed a bit inhuman.
The girl with the bun-haired head looked depressed, and it seemed that there was a dark cloud floating above her head and it was raining continuously. Hikigaya Hachiman really couldn't bear it anymore. In the end, he took a piece and took a bite with a pretended resolute expression of "the warrior will never come back".
"It's so bitter..." His eyebrows wrinkled subconsciously, and the bitter and dry feeling echoed between his teeth. After pinching his nose and biting the whole cookie and swallowing it, Hikigaya Hachiman immediately moved away from the plate of cookies.
"Takachan..." Yuigahama looked at his appearance of avoiding her, and felt both funny and moved.
"Next, follow me and do it again." Yukinoshita Yukino sighed helplessly and prepared two more ingredients.
Seeing that Yukinoshita was about to start making cookies again, Hikaru suggested: 'You'd better direct Yuigahama to do it step by step, instead of demonstrating by yourself and letting her follow you, otherwise she won't be able to control her hands.'
He finally understood that Yuigahama Yui, this little girl, was a green skinner who didn't have the power of thinking when it came to cooking. She was very creative, but she didn't consider the taste of the food at all, and just added ingredients and seasonings randomly based on her feelings.
(She got the idea from her ancestor)
If she didn't curb it a little, Yukinoshita Yukino's teaching might fail again.
'No... Okay, I'll listen to you once.' Yukinoshita Yukino, who originally planned to refuse, finally changed her mind after hesitating for a moment and chose to teach Yuigahama according to Hikaru's method.
Although the girl thought that this method, directing Yuigahama Yui to make cookies, might lead to the latter mechanically following instructions without thinking, and could not achieve a good learning effect, but considering the steps and wonderful ideas when Yuigahama made cookies for the first time, Yukinoshita Yukino felt that what Hikaru said was not unreasonable.
After all, there is a saying called teaching students in accordance with their aptitude.
Seeing Yukinoshita Yukino suddenly stunned for a moment and put down the tools in her hand, Yuigahama Yui tilted her head in confusion: "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, I just thought about it, rather than me demonstrating and letting you follow me, maybe it's better for me to direct you, Yuigahama-san." Yukinoshita Yukino said.
"Oh, I'm fine with it." Yuigahama Yui touched the dango on the side of her head and said a little embarrassedly.
She knew that she had no talent in cooking and her hands and feet were clumsy. It was good enough that Yukinoshita Yukino didn't dislike her, not to mention teaching her so enthusiastically.
'It was probably Mr.Hikaru who asked Yukinoshita to do this.'
Hikigaya Hachiman watched the two of them calmly from the side, and soon thought of the reason why Yukinoshita Yukino changed her mind.
'I hope it will work this time.'
He didn't want to taste that bitter and astringent taste again.
So, under the command of Yukinoshita Yukino, Yuigahama began to make cookies step by step, her hair fell inadvertently, and her cheeks were rubbed with some flour.
Hikigaya Hachiman unconsciously raised the corners of his mouth, looking at the serious Yuigahama, and inexplicably felt touched that the silly child finally got it.
"Enough, don't add sugar anymore." Yukinoshita Yukino stopped Yuigahama Yui's action in time.
"But, doesn't Takachan like sweeter ones?" Yuigahama glanced at the dead fish-eyed boy who was pounding his shoulders with a rolling pin, and the latter's heart skipped a beat.
"It's sweet enough now."
"Okay."
The girl with the bun-haired hair put down the spoon in frustration.
Gulp.
With a crisp sound, Yuigahama Yui swallowed her saliva, opened the oven solemnly, and took out the baked cookies.
Hikigaya Hachiman came over curiously and said, "It looks ordinary."
Then, under Yuigahama's nervous and expectant eyes, he picked up a cookie and threw it into his mouth to chew.
"What, how is it?"
After a moment of silence, Hikigaya Hachiman slowly said, "Ordinary ones are delicious."
At the moment of his silence, Yuigahama Yui thought she had failed again. Before she had time to feel disappointed, her emotions were like a roller coaster that quickly dived to the lowest point and then climbed up quickly, and a bright smile bloomed on her face.
"Great!"
Yukinoshita Yukino breathed a sigh of relief quietly in a place where the two could not see.
Fortunately, she listened to Hikaru's advice, otherwise she might have overturned again this time.
'Heh, now you know i was right?'
In her mind, Hikaru transformed into a boy who wanted to take credit, and his tone was full of pride.
This time, Yukino also put away her venomous tongue
'You've did a good thing, Parasite-kun'