Obviously, she did not take even a second before taking the silver card with tears in her eyes. Then she immediately asked Elena what she needed to do now and if she could get away from here or not.

Elena had already done a little bit of investigation on this lady, so she was aware of of her circumstances. So without wasting any time, she snapped her fingers and the lady disappeared from her spot.

The life of this lady was quite privileged but also very restrictive at the same time. She was the daughter of the owner of this luxurious shop and as her family was rich, she had a very good life growing up.

As her family was well known as cooks, this lady named Sagiri had also fallen in love with cooking since a very young age. And she was also quite good at this profession.

But there was a big obstacle in her way. According to the ancient rules of the family, only the male members were allowed to cook for the population. It was fine for the females to cook for themselves or their family but they were not allowed to cook in a restaurant or something similar.

With this rule in place, no matter how good of a cook Sagiri ended up becoming, there would be no chance for her to cook food for a restaurant and make many people happy with her cooking.

So Sagiri actually started to make a plan in order to run away from home. But before she was able to execute her plans, somehow her father found that out and stopped her.

But after that, to make sure that his daughter would never be able to cook anymore, he made Sagiri an waitress in his restaurant and made her to do the work of five.

So every single day, Sagiri worked from morning till night non stop and as soon as she was back to her room, she would immediately fall asleep because of his insanely tired she was. This way, she was unable to cook anything for almost two years.

But in this time period, she had not been neglecting her heart of cooking. Even without actually cooking, she was keenly observing the cooks working for her father’s restaurant and also the customers who came to dine here.

From that, she had gained a lot of knowledge about what kind of food people likes and also about many cooking techniques that the chefs used. So even as her skills as a cook was stagnating, her knowledge as a cook was skyrocketing instead.

As this situation was continuing, about an year ago, Sagiri collapsed because of overwork and she was actually on the verge of death. When the doctors had came to check on her, they were actually surprised about how she was even alive with her current condition.

This matter had became a very big deal and her father had gotten a lot of critisism from many people for making his daughter to work so much as for being a cruel bastard.

In this situation, her father had no other way but to take some load of her. But instead of using that extra free time to rest, Sagiri had used that time to cook various things after so long. And after that day, whenever she had some free time because of her lowered workload, she had continued to practice her cooking.

And the result of all that hardship was her current situation. With Elena’s assistance, she had finally managed to run away from her home. And now, finally she would be able to work on her dream without anyone getting in her way.

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Sagiri was teleportated to a small house located in a mountain side. This was the exact kind of location that was Sagiri’s favourite. Elena had found that out and she had made Sagiri’s new home in such a way that it perfectly matched her taste. This was a little extra reward from Elena to Sagiri for working this hard.

After Sagiri, Elena and the other ladies also appeared in this place. Seeing them and knowing that all of these esteemed individuals were here to eat her cooking, Sagiri happily to went to the kitchen and started making food.

Sagiri’s food was different from Tuji’s. His food was not very well refined but still his hard work and determination could be felt from the food that he had made.

There was a similar kind of determination mixed with Sagiri’s food too. But at the same time, her food was made with well practiced style and was very refined. Obviously it was amazing.

So, on paper it looked as if Sagiri’s cooking was better Tuji’s, but that was actually not the case. For some reason that was unknown to the ladies, even to their regular, non expert tongues, Tuji’s food felt just a little bit better than Sagiri’s. So it looked like Elena was correct in judging that she had not managed to reach the threshold for getting unlimited support of the Guild of Eternal Feast.

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Just like that, Elena took the ladies to visit to several more cooks who had managed to impressed Elena and they got taste the cooking of these truly amazing chefs. Even though 99 percent of them could not make food that could benifit a powerhouse, in terms of taste, what they were cooking were definitely top tier.

Azusa was actually a little surprise and quite happy to know that her Otrefiona Empire had so many talented chefs. This kind of response was actually a surprise for Elena too as she had expected a lot less top tier cooks to be in this high level Empire. And she was very happy about this miscalculation.

As for the main guest of this outing, Alexandriana, she was also very satisfied with this food tasting trip with Elena. She wanted to mainly relax her mind and this trip had done exactly that for her.

Through these foods, she had managed to witness the life story of many chefs. She was also just like them once upon a time.

Both of the sides had different dreams and the power level difference between them was vast. But still, the desire to fulfill their dream was exactly the same for both of the sides.

So even someone as high level as Alexandriana had gotten impressed with them and in turn had managed to rediscover her own passion and determination from her younger years. The benifit of this discovery was immense for Alexandriana.

This was actually exactly what Elena was planning. As she had experienced something similar just some time ago, she was trying to see if Alexandriana could also grow from a similar experience or not ? And the answer to that question was very clear.

As Elena had gotten to experience some of Alexandriana’s memories, she was aware of what kind of things were troubling her and then Elena had made her plans based on that knowledge. So she was very happy to see that her planning was a great success.

And just like that, the fun eating trip with Alexandriana came to an end.