124 Chapter 116 - Randomness Before a Big Arc.

That day (which day?), Yuna secretly registered a one-day baking class for Ai and herself...

"Heh? Baking class? But Yuna-chan, you know I can't cook anything except for instant noodles." said Ai.

"This is why we need to go for a baking class, they will teach us how to do it. Most importantly, it's a winter limited offer! They will teach us how to make macaron!" said Yuna.

"Macaron? That cute and colorful dessert?" Ai asked, a bit interested.

"Mmm! And after the class, we can bring back the macarons we made." said Yuna.

"Ah, I'm going!" said Ai, rather excited. At this moment, the girls' heads were filled with nothing but macarons...

However, during the day of the baking lesson, which is also the day when Sky and others did the live broadcast, something unexpected happened, Yuna was unable to attend the baking class due to some reason... Or probably on purpose. And so, as a replacement, Itsuki went for her stead. Below is what happened that day.

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"Uhm... Itsuki kun?" Ai is a bit confused yet surprise to see Itsuki.

"Yuna san told me to take over her place as she is unable to attend the class today." said Itsuki, a bit awkward, obviously he doesn't expect to see Ai here as well.

"She said she had promised her friend but I never thought it would be you." said Itsuki.

"Hmm? Hmm... Itsuki kun, do you ever make any dessert before?" Ai asked in an innocent tone.

"Huh?... Ah... Yes, I do. I used to make some cookies with Uncle Shuiichi." said Itsuki, which caused Ai to looks at him with sparkling eyes.

The class started with a brief introduction for the material used. Itsuki is writing down the note in a mini notebook.

"First, let us have a brief look at the recipe for the material needed. However, you don't need to weight out your own materials today as we have prepared all the materials needed for you." said the instructor.

Then Itsuki picks up the materials and feels the weight one by one, then he makes a record in his notebook.

"Hmm... So it is different after all." said Itsuki which makes Ai a bit confused.

"Let's start with separating egg white and yolks. There are several ways of separating egg white and yolk you can try." said the instructor while showing some rather troublesome but fancy method you can find on some life hacks videos.

"Ah... That looks hard. Should we go get an *empty bottle?" Ai ask.

*refer to some stupid life hacks.

"Not necessarily." said Itsuki. Then he picks up an egg and cracks it slightly on the top, opens up a small hole. Then he pours out the white from that hole without even breaking the yolk.

"No mess, no extra cleaning." said Itsuki, Ai response him with a 'wow'.

"Next step, let's beat up the egg whites to make the meringue, you can beat up the egg white easily with an electric mixer like this." said the instructor while demonstrating how to beat up the egg whites.

"You can also beat it up manually with an egg beater but it will take a much longer time than an electric mixer. Does anyone want to challenge it? We have a mysterious prize for whoever successfully did it in less than fifteen minutes." said the instructor.

"Itsuki kun, Itsuki kun, want to try?" Ai is a bit excited.

"Let's give it a try, I guess." said Itsuki. And so, they accepted the challenge.

"First, let's add some lemon juice to the egg white, so it's easier to beat up." said Itsuki before squeezing some lemon juice into the mixing bowl.

"Yes! Let's start beating!" said Ai, super excited with an egg beater in her hand.

"Do you know how to do this, or do you need my help?" Itsuki asked, rather concerned. "Don't worry! I have done this for so many times for eggs in my instant noodles." said Ai.

"Ah... Okay. But if you need my help..." Before Itsuki even finish his sentence, Ai had started beating the egg white in a really fast and efficient way.

"Hmm... I guess she is okay on her own." said Itsuki. Then he helps Ai to add powdered sugar to the egg white, which she totally forgot since she is too excited at beating up the egg white.

With the teamwork of the two, they successfully turned the liquid egg white to fluffy meringue in about ten minutes.

"Yes! We did it!" said Ai, really happy. Itsuki looks at the girl, he never thought he will see this side of her, she was quite introvert and antisocial most of the time, so this contrast is rather cute.

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After some complicated steps, they reached the final step of making the macarons. Itsuki carefully put on the raspberry cream filling onto the empty macaron shell with a piping bag and put the other piece of the shell onto it before drizzling some dark chocolate on top.

"Done." said Itsuki with a satisfied look. Actually, except for beating up the meringue, Itsuki did about ninety percent of the work, so you can consider this as his masterpiece.

"Have a bite." said Itsuki while handed that piece of macaron to Ai. In fact, he had made a whole dozen of it. Ai take a good bite on the macaron.

"It's delicious!" said Ai, with a blissed look.

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Later, on their way back home. Ai is happily looking at a small macaron decoration she won in the egg beating challenge, while Itsuki is having a small box of nicely decorated macarons in his hand.

Suddenly, a group of armored people comes out from a turning road.

"We are from the 'Smoking Coconut'." said a random guy from the group.

"Huh?" Itsuki is a bit confused, although he probably had expected what is happening but that stupid name is confusing.

"Killer organization again? Itsuki kun, you are so famous." said Ai. Itsuki nodded in agreement.

"Hmm... This place is away from the crowd huh?" said Ai.

"Mhmm."

"Well then." said Ai with an evil grin.

**Actually I wrote this for/on 520 which had long passed.

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*Something out of the story

Sky: "Dear readers."

Chris: "Hmm?"

Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."

Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."

Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."

Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."

Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."

Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.

Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."

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