I Want Dashi
I’m one year old. My meals are still completely different from the adults’.
Soft stuff, everything chopped up super fine, and the flavor is really, really mild. Just the faintest hint of salt, that’s it! Every single dish is salt-only!
Being born and raised in Japan, a land overflowing with delicious food, and then suddenly not being able to eat any of it… the suffering is unreal.
Food definitely needs improvement around here. In my previous life, miso, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, they were all just normal. Taking dashi was a given! Absolute basics.
That’s it!!! Dashi! Dashi is what I need!
Umami components are essential~
This is so important I’m gonna say it twice, okay!
Umami components are essential～
Why am I suddenly ranting like this?
Because a one-year-old has way too much free time, duh.
Fine then. Guess I’ll practice walking or something.
Lately I can do pull-ups to stand.
It’s pretty wobbly, though. My head is still so heavy.
Right now I suddenly feel like seeing Ariana.
“Ma~e, Awyu, go?”
“Yes, Young Master Kaito? What is it?”
Marle crouches down with a big smile, always bringing herself to my eye level.
“Mawle! Awi, go!”
“Young Master Kaito really loves Young Lady Ariana, don’t you? I’ll go check with Young Lad’s nanny right now. Please be a good boy and wait just a moment, okay?”
“Yulie.”
So this person’s name is Yulie.
“Yes! Lady Marle.”
“You heard what we just said, right? Young Master Kaito would like to see Young Lady Ariana. First go get permission from Milady, then speak to Eiji.”
Eiji is the other nanny who was recently assigned to Ariana, right?
Come to think of it… Eiji has really big ones. Just once, I mean, I want her to hold me… no, wait, I want her to hug me.
“Yes, I’ll go get Milady’s permission right away.”
And with that she quietly disappeared.
… Huh? Wait, that was way too quiet. Did I just not hear any footsteps?
“Now then, Young Master Kaito, shall we get you a little dressed up?”
Marle puts me in a white silk shirt, blue short pants, black socks, and the black shoes I’ve only recently started wearing.
“I’ll fix your hair too.”
Marle smoothly ran a comb through my hair.
“Young Master Kaito’s hair really is beautiful. Just like Master, that light purple is pure Marsh family. And those green eyes are exactly like Milady’s. Your face is outrageously cute too. When you grow up you’re going to be a stunningly handsome young man. Master was called the ‘light-purple prince’ and he’s very masculine, but you, Young Master Kaito… you lean more toward androgynous beauty, don’t you?”
Ohhh, so my looks are pretty top-tier?
“Look at these chubby cheeks, this little pink mouth. Those big sparkling eyes… haaah… so precious. There’s an actual angel right here.”
… Uh, Marle? Where’d you go? Come back~ did you just mentally teleport somewhere?
Her eyes… am I imagining it, or are there literal heart marks in them? Hey? You okay? Come back~!
Pat, pat!
My little hands lightly smack Marle’s cheeks.
Marle’s hands gently wrap around mine.
“Young Master… Young Master Kaito, you are far too adorable. You really are an angel. That’s why you absolutely must be careful. Kidnapping… it’s not impossible. I will protect you, Young Master Kaito.”
Marle, your breathing is getting really intense.
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