Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi

Synopsis

Aoi remembers her childhood Ayakashi was intrigued she was not scared of him and took care of her when she was alone. Rain leaks through the roof and Aoi almost drowns. Odanna appears and rescues her. She awakens at Tenjin-ya where it transpires the kidnappers were the still jealous assistants of Tenjin-ya's Chief Chef. The Chef offers to resign but Aoi refuses to let him. As punishment Odanna orders the Chef and his assistants to work at Tenjin-ya for many years to come. The Chef laughs as he realises Aoi is exactly like Shiro. With the dinner only 4 hours away Aoi rushes to cook a pork belly dish instead of western beef stew. She returns to Moonflower where Oryo and Kasuga prepared a meal for her. The royal anniversary is extremely successful but Aoi collapses afterwards. Because of the high level magic used to kidnap Aoi Odanna suspects the assistant chefs were put up to the kidnapping by Orio-ya, another inn Odanna is in competition with who also possibly hired the assassin who tried to kill Aoi. Aoi recalls the Ayakashi who helped kidnap her was a blond Zashiki-warashi similar to the one who gave her the prosperity blessing.

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