Inner Voice: All Heroines Hear My Inner Voice

Uptown Area.

This was one of the areas in Totsuki Academy that Erina was now using to run her shop.

Unlike the other student-owned shops, her shop was luxurious as it was set up inside a villa on top of a hill. Most of the visitors who came here were wealthy people who wanted to sample the cooking skills of the owner of the famous God's Tongue.

"Carry this carefully. If the position of the food on the plate is slightly shifted more than 10 seconds before eating, it will make it taste different. Can you do it?" Erina asked one of the waiters helping her serve the food to the customers.

"I-I can do it, Erina-sama!" The waitress agreed to her request with some nervousness.

Hearing this, Erina waved her hand as a gesture to tell her to leave.

The waitress carefully carried the tray containing Erina's food out of the kitchen.

"Erina-sama, for food like that. Why don't you ask for my help to carry it?" Hisako who was also helping in the kitchen asked.

Erina glanced at her secretary flatly before saying, "No need, Hisako. You should focus on being my assistant in the kitchen. I don't trust anyone other than you to help me with this."

"Understood, Erina-sama!"

Hisako was happy that Erina trusted her that much over anyone else. Still, considering she had lied to the girl about something, she felt guilty because up to this point she even still remembered that sensation.

Even though it was just an illusion created by the foodgasm.

The sensation was so real that at night she often played with herself while imagining Eiji's naked figure and his penis.

Hisako wondered if she had given Erina the green hat?

After all, she liked that boy, right?

Although Erina never said it because she was tsundere.

Erina did not know why Hisako's expression looked strange and the way she looked at her made her a little annoyed. But she did not ask and told the girl to get back to work. Meanwhile, she came out of the kitchen to check again the special table she had set up.

The location of the table was in the best position and was deliberately vacant and no customers were allowed to eat there except the person she was waiting for.

It certainly wasn't Eiji, okay?

It was her idol and the man she had admired since childhood. However, Erina Nakiri did not know that man was Soma's father. If she had known, she would have been shocked and couldn't believe how the boy she often scolded for his disgusting food was the son of her idol!

'Still, I don't know if he will come to my stand or even this school today...'

Speaking of Joichiro Yukihira, Erina had actually only met him once when she was 10 years old.

It had been almost 6 years since she had seen him.

She idolized Joichiro because the food he made fascinated her God's Tongue and she herself admired his cooking skills.

Her meeting with him was a turning point in her life to become a great chef after she was traumatized by her father's abuse.

Erina was a little depressed and suddenly thought.

'If he hadn't come... Hmph, it's not impossible for Eiji to use this table but will he come?!'

Erina gritted her teeth and took her cell phone out of her pocket only to see that the message she sent Eiji this morning had not been replied to.

The man either didn't see her message or he might have deliberately ignored it.

Erina was sure it was the latter because from his inner voice, Eiji seemed to be ignoring her because he was busy flirting with other women.

'How dare he ignore me after I took the initiative to message him first!'

Erina was annoyed and more depressed.

She vowed that if Eiji really didn't come to her school, she would ignore him and be cold to him from now on.

After all, their relationship wasn't that close either and she was sure she had returned the favor since he had helped her in the past.

That man was also a bastard...

He had multiple fiancés and girlfriends which was not normal at all.

She—Erina Nakiri must not like him!

'Wait, what if he already came to school but met Alice first instead of me?'

Still, women were inconsistent creatures as their feelings often changed quickly.

For example right now, Erina could not help but recall her conversation with Hisako earlier this morning. The girl said Alice might have invited Eiji first.

Now her cousin was probably making out with Eiji which made her even more angry and jealous.

'Alice...!'

Erina stomped her feet but before she wondered if she should call Alice and ask if Eiji was with her.

She suddenly heard the sound of a door opening not far behind and turned her head because she thought it was another customer coming to her shop.

That seemed to be true but when she saw the other party's appearance...

Erina froze and her body began to tremble with fear.

"This place is not bad. But my daughter, Erina. Aren't you going to welcome me?"

The person was a man who spoke calmly. He was wearing an all-black suit with some white details like his hair. Although he was handsome, his face looked very grim with empty black eyes that reflected his daughter whom he hadn't seen in over seven years.

His name was Azami Nakiri.

"....." Erina was still frozen and speechless. Her face even looked pale and sweat dripped down her forehead because that man was her father!

Why was he here?

She wanted to ask this but she didn't have the courage.

The things that man had done to her made her afraid of him.

"Erina, did you hear me? Forget it. After all, we're family and sometimes don't need such formalities." Azami walked over to his daughter and stood right in front of her while ignoring the surprised stares of the customers who heard his identity.

He glanced at his daughter's appearance from top to bottom before smiling faintly. "You are now as beautiful as your mother, Erina."

"F-Father, I..." Erina finally opened her mouth but she stammered and dared not look her father in the eye.

Azami frowned because Erina did not look at his face when speaking but he put that aside and said his purpose. "I came here to taste your food and see how far your cooking skills have progressed."

"...!" Erina was startled, she looked around before venturing a nervous look at her father's face. "I'm sorry, but there are no empty tables."

Azami frowned and didn't think his daughter was trying to drive him away. He himself saw that none of the tables were empty except...

"There's an empty one over there."

He glanced at the empty table that was arranged more beautifully than the other tables behind Erina and naturally sat there.

"Father, that table..." Erina wanted to protest that it was a special table she set up for two certain people!

However, she was too cowardly to finish her words.

Fortunately at this time Hisako came from the kitchen and said to her father. "Sir, you haven't made a reservation yet. If you want to eat, you must make a reservation first."

She did not clearly hear Erina and her father's conversation from the kitchen so she did not know who this man who suddenly came and sat down immediately was.

But she knew the table was a special table prepared by Erina for someone and seeing the girl so frightened...

This was the first time Hisako had seen her like that and she was not happy.

"Reservation? Erina, is this a waitress from the Nakiri family?" Azami asked coldly.

"N-No, Hisako is my secretary..." Erina answered honestly but regretted that she was unable to say more than that to her father.

"I see. It is natural for your secretary not to know who your father is." Azami did not bother looking at Hisako anymore.

Hisako was surprised because this gloomy-looking man was Erina's father?!

Even so, not making a reservation and breaking through the queue of other customers was still the wrong thing for him to do.

Erina also seemed to dislike this man even though he was her father.

She still wanted to protest but—

"The wrong person is not me, but the other people who eat here. They are unfit to eat Erina's food." Azami suddenly insulted the customers in a loud voice.

He was looking for trouble!

Hisako was dumbfounded and wondered what was wrong with this man's brain?

The customers who heard Azami's words were naturally offended. Especially those who were well-known figures in the culinary world.

"Dude, who are you calling unfit to eat the food of the owner of God's Tongue? I'm Shingo Ando, one of the most famous food critics in the country!"

"You said you were Erina Nakiri's father? Ah, I remember... You must be Azami Nakiri, the man who a few years ago was expelled from Totsuki Academy and the Nakiri Family, right? You've come back and made trouble at your daughter's shop? Aren't you ashamed?"

"What is your problem with us, Azami? You think someone like you can offend all of us?!"

One by one, the customers in the dining room began to mock Azami.

Azami was not afraid and looked at the people with a contemptuous gaze. "What I said wasn't wrong. From the way you talk and how proud some of you are to be food critics. All of you are still unfit to taste the food of the owner of the God's Tongue."

"Or rather, only people with artistic taste, character qualities, and the right education can taste high-class foods. And I don't see any of you."

Not just the customers, Erina and Hisako were even surprised by Azami's view of people worthy of tasting high-class food.

It sounded absurd to them.

Many of them disagreed and continued to mock Azami.

Azami ignored those people and looked back at his daughter.

"Erina, make me some food now."

Hearing her father's order, Erina bit her lip and wanted to refuse. But she knew her current self was still a coward when dealing with her father and did not dare to refuse his orders because otherwise...

Erina could not help but remember how every time she went against his orders, he would lock her in a dark room and cut her off from the outside world.

Those painful memories made her body tremble even stronger and reacted to carry out the orders from her father.

Erina hated this feeling.

But before she walked into the kitchen—

"Sorry to keep you waiting, customer."

A voice that seemed to belong to a waiter was heard. However, Erina and Hisako felt the voice was familiar.

They turned their heads and sure enough, they saw the man they knew!

Or rather, it was a very handsome man with blond hair and a chef's uniform.

He was...

"Eiji? You, why are you here?!"

"Eiji-kun, how did you appear from the kitchen and that food... Don't tell me you cooked it yourself?"

Erina and Hisako were confused and surprised.

Eiji smiled so that the female customers who saw him blushed and couldn't resist taking out their cell phones to take pictures of him.

After all, this was their first time seeing such a handsome man. Especially his figure that seemed like a super male god!

"Erina, Hisako, what are you saying? I'm one of the cooks here so yes, I cooked this food myself."

[Do you two understand? Just follow my script so I can slap— Ahem! I meant to make a good impression on my future father-in-law.]

The heroines: "...."

They were sure Eiji had just said he would slap his future father-in-law.

But Erina blushed because she heard the way Eiji called her father.

'W-Who are you calling your future father-in-law?! Eiji, you, you...!'

Erina didn't realize it, but she stopped shaking and her fear was replaced by shame because Eiji was shameless.

Azami noticed how his daughter reacted after seeing the boy and frowned.

"Who are you? I only asked for the food Erina made. There's no way I'm eating food made by a low-level chef."

Eiji did not lose his smile, he stood between Erina and Hisako and shamelessly placed the plate in his hand onto the table.

Azami was furious at the boy's actions but before he scolded him—

Eiji opened the lid of the food on the plate and instantly a golden light illuminated the entire dining room.

Azami and the other people who were there naturally closed their eyes for a while before they opened their eyes wide due to the smell of food that made them swallow their saliva.

Many of them also started drooling.

Azami even tried hard not to drool from his mouth and stared at the food on the plate with shock in his eyes.

Everyone who had witnessed the miraculous phenomenon was naturally wondering how someone could make such food!

"My name is Eiji Seiya, I'm not sure what level of chef I am because I've never bothered to measure that kind of thing."

Eiji's words sounded humble but at the same time arrogant.

He was clearly confident in his food.

Erina was silent.

She glanced at the food served in front of her father and although she knew it looked like fried rice, but the golden yellow color and the pieces of meat on top exuded an aura that fascinated her.

It reminded her of the food Joichiro made when she was a child.

Her god's tongue even twitched as if urging her to taste it! Erina of course did not want to do that, not because she looked down on the food Eiji made but that would be embarrassing.

After all, the food was given to her father who now looked dazed.

"Eiji Seiya huh? I feel like I've heard your name... Are you one of the students at Totsuki Academy? I'm asking this just to be sure." Azami's tone became calmer than when he was insulting the customers earlier.

He looked at the boy who seemed to be the same age as his daughter seriously.

"I'm not a student of this school. I'm actually a student from another school who helps Erina in her shop." Eiiji answered his future father-in-law.

"....." Erina. When did she ask Eiji to help her in her shop?

"Since Erina asked for your help, you're probably a pretty good cook and this food... What's its name?" Azami asked curiously.

He seemed to believe what Eiji said?

Erina stifled a laugh as her father was fooled by Eiji.

Azami didn't know his daughter was laughing at him in her heart.

Eiji humbly and not arrogantly said, "Golden Fried Rice."

"....." Erina and Hisako.

"....." Azami.

"....." Customers.

[Host, why didn't you ask me first before deciding on your food name?]

Miss System asked in a helpless tone.

'What? What's wrong? Does Golden Fried Rice sound bad?'

Eiji was confused and felt that there was nothing wrong with the name of his food this time.

Miss System wanted to say that her host overused the word "Golden" in every food name he made.

Actually it wasn't bad but could he think of a better name?

[Forget it. It's too late to take back your words anyway.]

A while later.

Azami tasted Eiji's homemade food even though he had issues about the name of the food and its appearance.

Normally, he would insult the chef who made it but the aroma and aura that the Golden Fried Rice exuded made him think of tasting it first before insulting Eiji.

However, he was naive because after he ate one mouthful under the gaze of his daughter and the others.

*Clink!*

The sound of a spoon falling was heard.

And Azami? He was frozen but there were tears running down his cheeks.

He was crying which made everyone except Eiji surprised.

"Erina, I'm leaving now and will talk to you again later." Azami suddenly got up from his seat while rubbing his tear-filled eyes with his hands.

He looked pitiful which made the customers who were previously insulted by him burst out laughing.

Many of them praised Eiji because he had humiliated Azami.

"Father?" Still, the most surprised person was of course Erina because this was the first time she saw the man she feared cry!

He even left immediately after tasting a bit of Eiji's food and saying goodbye to her.

Instead of feeling sorry for her father, Erina glanced at Eiji and wondered if he intentionally made his food too spicy or something?

"Erina, I know what you're thinking but fortunately, I prepared another serving for you. You can taste it too."

Eiji took out another plate of Golden Fried Rice but people were confused as to where he got it from?

"Huh? No, Eiji. I..."

But before Erina wanted to refuse because she was tsundere, Eiji took a spoon and fed her.

"Hmm~! Aaahhh~!"

Erina widened her eyes and couldn't help letting out an obscene moan due to the deliciousness that enveloped her tongue.

She was experiencing a foodgasm that surpassed even Joichiro's homemade food that she had tasted in the past.

But unlike her father, she did not cry because what she saw inside the world of Golden Fried Rice was different.

It made her body heat up and her face turn red.

If not for Eiji who enveloped her clothes with his magic, her clothes would have been torn and she would be naked in front of everyone.

Eiji certainly didn't want to let his future wife's naked body be seen by other men. He did not even want to dirty Erina and Hisako's eyes with Azami's naked body so he did the same to him earlier.

Still, while Erina experienced more or less the same things as Hisako when she experienced a foodgasm.

What did Azami experience when he had a foodgasm that he cried?

...

A/N: This is just a small slap to Azami and more face slaps will come later.