I woke up the next day with Kuroka and Kunou still holding me. With the agility of a trained ninja, I slipped out of their grasps and substituted myself with a pillow. Good grief. I've done it so much that I was pretty sure I mastered it. Hey, maybe I could graduate from The Ninja Academy?

I washed my face and prepared the utensils in the kitchen to make today's breakfast. Hmm, if I recall correctly, today was Dohnaseek-san's turn. What should I make? I looked at the ingredients left in the fridge. There was some fish fillet left, and other vegetables. Maybe I'll make fish soup, yes.

I took out the fish fillet, carrots, potatoes, and radishes. First, I peeled the carrots, potatoes, and radishes until the outer skin is all gone. Then I cut them into small cubical shape. After that, I boiled them for twenty minutes on medium heat. While I was waiting for the vegetables, I cut the fish fillet into a small thin strip.

I looked around the kitchen for spices, the essential thing in making a good meal. Seriously whoever our ancestor who found spices, I thanked you from the bottom of my heart. I took out salt, pepper, some coriander seed powder, garlic, shallots, leeks, and placed them near me. Now it was time to concoct the spices. First, I cut down the garlic into small pieces and the shallots and leeks into thin slices. Then I heated a pan and poured oil to heat the garlic and shallots. Once the white and red turned into brown, I took the pan off and put on a pot filled with water. After that, I boiled the water and add salt, pepper, coriander powder, and the leeks into the pot.

I turned my attention to the other stove. All the boiled vegetables had turned soft, meaning that it was done. I changed the water and boiled the fish fillet. I chose to boil the fish because frying it would make the texture clash with the soup. Then I turned back in the pot and put the garlic and shallots inside. I stirred it several times to mix the taste together. After several stirs, I took a spoonful of the broth and tasted it.

Once the fish was done, I took it and put it in the pot. After stirring it again, I turned off the stove. Now the fish soup was complete! The second important thing to cook was, of course, the rice, the best staple food ever been discovered by human.

First, I washed the rice to clean it from small bugs that might be undiscovered. And then since I used an automatic rice cooker (thank you so much Mom) I only need to fill the uncooked rice with water, and then I just waited for it to finish.

In the meantime, I woke the rest of Hyoudou household's residents. Since today was Saturday, Kunou didn't set her alarm so I need to wake her and Kuroka up. As for Ophis, she always had already woke up before me, it was just that she loved the silence inside the closet so much she didn't come out until I told her to, or she smelled the food.

And I was proven right once again when Ophis had already sat on the dining room.

"Good Morning, Ophis. Has Kunou and Kuroka woke up?"

"Morning," Ophis replied while shaking her head. Yup, I needed to wake them up.

"I've finished cooking breakfast. I'll wake Kuroka and Kunou first."

Ophis nodded as I left the dining room and into the bedroom.

"Oi, Kuroka, Kunou, wake up. Breakfast is ready."

Both of them yawned, probably still wandering in the land of dreams. There was no helping it. I shook their bodies quite fast to wake them up. "Oiii, wake uuuppp!"

"Ise-chin?"

"Ise-niisan."

Go wash your face. Breakfast is ready."

Both of them mumbled 'okay' as I sighed in relief. Now, for today's guest, after Shitori-kaichou, it was going to be... Dohnaseek-san. Yup, if I remember correctly it was Dohnaseek-san.

So I exit the room, passing a sitting Ophis who was closing her eyes and smelling the food. I left my apartment room and went to room 302. I knocked without any further thought.

"Good Morning, Is Dohnaseek-san here? Today is his turn eating at my place."

The door was opened by Raynare-san who surprisingly had woken up and ready to work. "What is it? Oh, if it isn't Hyoudou-san."

"Is Dohnaseek-san here? Today is his turn eating at my place."

Raynare-san blinked before she registered what I said. "Oh right. He's preparing himself for work. I'll send him to you later."

With a nod, I went back to my apartment room.

Five minutes later, everyone including Dohnaseek-san was sitting on my dining table. We ate our breakfast silently as usual. Though I watched Dohnaseek-san reaction to each bite. He took a spoonful of rice, and was surprised at it. I had to wonder what exactly he was surprised about the normal white rice.

"Soft..." he muttered.

Well, yes, of course. What do you think a normal steamed white rice should like? Dohnaseek-san then tasted the fish soup. And then again. Again. And again until there was nothing left.

Fast! My eyes almost couldn't catch up with his pace. What a formidable opponent if I ever did a big eating challenge.

"Is it to your liking?" I asked him. Dohnaseek-san nodded.

"I'm sorry, but it is too delicious for my own good. Usually, I eat breakfast in my workplace and it wasn't as good as this. Man, I look forward for the next time."

"That does bring up the question. Do you work in the same place as Raynare-san?"

"Yes. Wagnaria Family Restaurant. Crazy workplace, but the pay is good."

Ah, I know that place. I had eaten in that place before, but not frequently. And besides, chain restaurant like that always have different management so getting close with the people there were hard, unlike personal-owned eatery like HamburGeneral.

Wait... "Crazy?" I tried to remember the last time I ate at that restaurant. If I recall correctly, there was no craziness there, it was a quiet place. Oh, that was six years ago. The place probably had a change of management.

"Yup. Would be long if I say everything, so to sum it up, there are all kinds of crazy people working there."

"Hear that, Kuroka. You definitely should work there," I grinned playfully at Kuroka who looked annoyed.

"Why do I have to work? I have you nya~" Kuroka replied shortly.

"You didn't deny you were crazy." It was Dohnaseek-san who pointed that out. I laughed at that, while Kuroka just moaned in annoyance.

"Well, it's nice talking with you, but I've gotta go. The others are already there," he stood up from his seat.

"Sure, it's also nice talking with you, Dohnaseek-san." With that, he left my apartment room. Asia-san also excused herself (still in Italian, but I understood her from her gesture).

After we finished eating, I placed the dirty bowls and plates into the sink. and washed it all.

"So, what do you want to do in this weekend?" Kuroka asked me.

"I'll probably help Motohama and Matsuda moving in here." For some reason, Kuroka's ears deflated when she heard about this. "But well, I probably will only help them in the morning. I have free time in the afternoon."

I don't understand why Kuroka felt disappointed when I mentioned Motohama and Matsuda, but I guessed that she had something to ask me. After all, why would she ask me first? After I corrected my statement, Kuroka's eyes became lively once more.

"Can I have you in the afternoon? I want to bring you somewhere," Kuroka asked me seriously, her eyes losing all its playfulness. Kuroka was serious, huh? Where would she bring me? I hope it was nowhere dangerous.

"Suuuree. What for?"

"Just follow me later."

That kind of vague answer was something that I never liked, Kuroka. Probably influenced by Ophis' bluntness. You knew that. Yet you still did it anyway. It must be something that you really didn't want me to know, huh?

"Fine then," I also had to shop for the Kobe Beef I promised Ophis. I'll make Hamburg Steak for dinner. So after Kuroka brought me to whatever place she wanted, I could go to the supermarket to buy the ingredients.

When I finished washing the dirty bowls, I took the trash bag filled with junk and brought it to the trash area behind the apartment.

"Good Morning, Senpai." Oh, there was Koneko-chan here. She also had just taken out her trash.

"Good Morning, Koneko-chan. It's quite rare to see you wake up in the morning for weekends."

She pouted cutely, "It's not like I dislike morning. We Devils had our assignment every night. It's natural for me to wake up late."

"Right, right." Speaking of which, Koneko-chan was wearing her cute pajamas decorated with diagonal floral patterns which made it quite beautiful.

"Senpai, you perv. Looking at my body like that."

"No, no. I'm not a lolicon. But your pajama pattern..." I half-heartedly replied because I knew Koneko-chan made that remark in jest.

However, Koneko-chan looked a little mad. Was it because she felt offended? But I didn't say any insult to her. I was just stating what my preferences were while specifically covered the chance that she would take the opposite of what I was saying.

"Your pajama pattern, Koneko-chan. I feel like I should've known about it, but I can't recall it."

"Oh? This? It's a gift from Nee-sama."

Ah. So that was it. It felt familiar to me because it was originally Kuroka's and handed down to Koneko-chan. I completely remembered it now! It was first given from my mother to Kuroka. Why did she have a small pajama was a mystery to me. One day she wanted to throw it out, but Kuroka asked for it instead. My mother had no qualms to gave the pajama to her.

Did Kuroka think about Koneko-chan that time? She surprisingly was a good big sister figure. That time was when Kuroka and Koneko-chan still hadn't made up. If the circumstances leading to Koneko-chan discovering this apartment did not happen, what would she do with the piece of cloths?

In the end, I put my hand on her shoulder and smiled. "Take care of it, will you?"

Koneko-chan made a confused expression.

"I don't understand."

"That pajama, your sister treasured it so much."

Understanding dawned on Koneko-chan's face. With a determination, she nodded. "By the way, Senpai. Are you free this afternoon?"

"I should be the one asking you that question. Talking leisurely with me like this, Gremory-senpai's club doesn't have any activity today?"

Koneko shook her head, "Rias-senpai gave us a break. We will resume our normal club activity tomorrow."

By normal club activity, she meant Devils activities, which was taking contract works or something like that Koneko-chan had once explained to me.

"Good for you, Koneko-chan. I can see you need a break. And Gremory-senpai too, I think. She looked like she hasn't gotten any good sleep. Is it about that matter?"

Koneko-chan frowned, "Yes, it is about that matter."

"I hope the situation turns out for the better," I said sincerely. The matter that I mentioned was her engagement with Raiser Phenex, a high-class Devil.

"I hope so too."

We ended the conversation there as we went back to our respective apartment room. But I feel like I forgot something important in that conversation.

Oh, I hadn't answered Koneko-chan's question.