“Since when?” A voice suddenly appears from the back of a withering tree and Yin Yu who heard it didn’t get surprised at all and replied.

“Since the moment I’m going down from the mountain.” Yin Yu casually replied

“Why do you let me follow you then, Aren’t you afraid that I’ll steal your prey?” the voice once again asked.

“Afraid? What should I be afraid of? A hungry little girl like you?” Yin Yu replied teasingly.

“Aren’t you the same? you’re a little girl too!” A little girl immediately appears from the withering tree while Yin Yu who saw her only smirk and say “Little girl, you’re wrong, as I’m a boy and not a girl…”.

“Aren’t you a girl!?”

“It’s just the illusion used by the school to conceal my radiant, it messes with your perception as I’m just a cute handsome boy in reality.” Yin Yu said that words full of pride while the little girl only scoffed at him when she heard his shamelessness while Yin Yu continue his words.

“As for why do I let you follow me…”

“it’s a bet…”

“A bet?” The little girl looks at Yin Yu confusedly while Yin Yu continue his words. “It’s a bet whether you’re able to cook or not!”

“Cook…?" Hearing the word Yin Yu says, the little girl becomes confused for a while before she figured out what Yin Yu trying to say and replied "Why should I cook for you!” The little girl starts raging after she heard that words while Yin Yu who saw her reaction can only say “Calm down, calm down, I’m the one who gets the prey and I’m willing to share it with you, so shouldn’t you cook for me to say your thanks?”

“Why don’t you go and cook the dishes by yourself and cook for me in the meantime too? You should feel honored that you can serve me one of your dishes!” Yin Yu who heard her words only sigh helplessly and replied “Do you think that I’ll stay here, talk to you, and share my food with you if I can cook? In truth, I suck at cooking and every dish I cook always ended up as disgusting food, which was why I'm trying to get you to cook me a food in exchanges with some of my foods.”

“Even if you say that...” The little girl starts to show a little despair when she heard Yin Yu words and tried to say something but before she can say it Yin Yu has already said it for her. “You don’t know how to cook, right?”

The little girl got choked when she heard Yin Yu words while Yin Yu continue to say “Are you curious, how I know you can’t cook? Well, first things first, why do you follow me in the first place? it may be because you don't know how to hunt in the wild which was why you try to follow me since I'm so confident about it, but why do you choose to follow me? the answer is that you saw me as a girl and think that I must have some skill in cooking which is totally wrong as I suck at it no matter how many times I try to do it."

"Second, You can go and kill the wolf I encountered and say that you're the one who kills that wolf and get free meat to cook after following me, but you didn't do that as you think I'll hate that kind of conduct and I may not share the meat I cook or try to help you to cook your meat.”

“And third, what will you do if I didn’t discover you? My best guess is that you’ll come and steal the meat I cook after I finish cooking it, but I discover your existence which led you with no more alternative other than revealing yourself to get something to eat.”

“Are you satisfied with my answer little girl?”

The little girl who heard Yin Yu answer only let out a hmph and say “There’s some part which is wrong but it’s acceptable, but you haven’t explained why do I need to cook even though you know that I didn’t know how to cook!”

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Yin Yu who heard her words only smile at her and say “Didn’t I say it before? It’s a bet whether you’re able to cook or not…”

“But I don’t know how to…” the little girl protest but Yin Yu who heard her words didn’t even blink his eyes and replied, “I can teach you…”

“Eh..? Didn’t you say you’re not able to cook! ” the little girl protest once again but Yin Yu who heard her words only laugh and say “Don’t underestimate me, little girl! Although I may fail to create the ultimate food, even so, I’ve memorized the way to create the ultimate food from my parents! Little girl, rejoice that I have time to teach you the ultimate way to cook food!”

“Be aware that the same situation may happen in the future, but if you learn how to cook today, at least you'll be able to live independently, well, how about it? Are you going to cook or not?”

'Independently...' The little girl who heard Yin Yu words clench her fist when she heard his words and say.

“Hmph, I’ll cook for you this once, you better feel honored by it!”

***

Yin Yu who heard her words summoned out his cooking utensil and few books about cooking out of storage ring and handed all of it to the little girl and start to guide how to cook the dishes similar to how his parents guide him.

The little girl who starts to cook for the first time failed a lot of time while cooking and Yin Yu who saw it didn’t care about it at all and keep giving her wolves meat to cook.

Failed dish after failed dish appear and it’s finished until she has finally able to cook some decent meal, Yin Yu who can’t wait anymore without reservation took a piece of the meat while he tastes it.

“Hmm, it’s decent.” After he says that word, Yin Yu start to take a piece and put it into his mouth again.

The little girl who has lost the energy to complain also start to take a piece of meat for herself and eat it. The moment the food entered her mouth, she can feel the disgusting taste of the dishes she cook and want to puke it out, even so, looking at Yin Yu who eat it without a sense of disgust, the little girl feels that she can’t lose to him and start to chew the disgusting food and gulp it down in one go.

Both of them didn’t say anything when they eat and eat at their own pace, it didn’t take long for them to finish the food which makes the little girl surprised that she can eat a lot of that disgusting meat while Yin Yu only feels normal about it.

“Little girl, how’s the taste of the first food you cook?” The little girl who heard Yin Yu question can only hmph while she turned around and say “It’s disgusting…and don’t call me little girl anymore! As I have a name too!” the little girl annoyingly said.

“How should I call you anything other than little girl when I didn’t even know your name?”

“Yiyan…” The little girl said in a low voice.

“Hm?” Yin Yu who didn’t hear her words clearly turned his heads to look at her while the little continue her words.

“Lan Yiyan…! that’s my name! you… better not call me little girl anymore!”

“Good name…, since you have introduced yourself to me, it’ll not be polite to not introduce myself to you…” after the word’s said, Yin Yu look at the night sky while acting like an old expert who has experienced the harshness of the world and introduces himself to her.

“I’m one who has come from the depths of hell to this world, finish a lot of challenge in this life and shall be an aloof king who stands alone and fight bravely even without anyone supporting me! Remember my names for it shall stay with you for all eternity! For I’m Yin Yu the King of Catastrophe!”