In hindsight, Kamijou Touma should have seen this coming.

For someone who possesses the weapon to not only cancel out supernatural abilities but also prevent total good misfortune from happening, he was too foolish to think that he can keep this a secret from his classmates, especially from a certain blonde backstabber, who is grinning to him right now, as if wanting to hear an explanation from him. Currently, Connie, the Danish girl their age who was still on her apron, is busy cooking some Danish cuisine as the smell of cured beef and rye bread is emanating the whole area, causing Index's mouth to drool while Aogami was already thinking a lot of ways on how to take the blonde, elegant woman as his own girlfriend while Fukiyose seemed seething in irritation, seeing that their spiky haired classmate kept stealing glances to Connie, who caught it but she simply smiled and continued hovering the frying pan over the flames. Viggo can only stare amusedly at the Japanese students as Ayano only watched their silent antics.

"Fukiyose-san…" Himegami unexpectedly broke the silence, catching the attention of almost everyone, "According to this magazine that I saw when we entered Kamijou-kun dormitory, Connie-san's the first-ranked female badminton player in the whole of Denmark. She even got the nickname "Denmark's Unsinkable Battleship."

"What?!" Tsuchimikado was stunned to hear that.

"Seriously?! She's that good?!" Aogami felt like he'll be suffering from another heart attack.

"I'm glad to hear that from you and honestly, it humbles me very much," Connie replied from the kitchen while she waved at the group, "But to tell you, I feel like it's not very enough that you become the number one in Denmark. Living in Copenhagen, mama always tells me to give the best shot so I got the chance to do so when I went here to Japan and studied in Fredericia Girls."

"And she and Ayano ended up here in Academy City together with coach Viggo for some sightseeing when suddenly, they got surrounded by a group of perverted Skill-Outs," Kamijou exasperatedly connected the dots, "That is why in the end, I ended up in landing in the hospital."

"But that's the reason why Coach got interested in your potential," Ayano explained as she looks at her coach for some wanted clarifications. The coach sighed before he gave in, "Drengen havde unormal udholdenhed. Hans fysiske opbygning og vildtinstinkter er også naturlige. Det er som om han havde katteinstinkter (The boy possess abnormal stamina. His physical build and feral instincts are also natural. It's as if he had feline instincts.)"

The other Japanese students groaned. It's not like we can understand Danish! Fukiyose mentally complained.

"He says that Touma had a well-built body and had instincts compared to a wildcat," Connie translated it to them as she finalizes what she was cooking, "Actually, I'm the first one to notice it so we tried it out one time before. While it fell short of his expectations, that's because he didn't know how to even play badminton at all. Or at least, strange things kept happening to him."

"That was my bad luck, Connie…" Kamijou grimaced as he kept Othinus, who was strangely quiet all the time, in his pockets.

"Just keep practicing and you'll eventually get better…oh, I have prepared some of my favorite Danish dishes," Connie happily announced as she brought in several large bowls of Aebleflæsk, which consist of cured or salted pork belly which is fried with apples, sugar, and thyme, Stegt flæsk, a dish consisting of fried pork belly and generally served with potatoes and a white sauce with chopped parsley (persillesovs), and Medisterpølse, sliced sausages which is usually served with mashed potatoes, parsley, and pickles.

Tsuchimikado, Aogami, Himegami, and Fukiyose can only stare in both awe and admiration at her cooking.

N-No, Maika's still the best cook! The blonde was vehemently doing anything he can to stop himself from cheating with his sister-in-law.

Good looking…good at badminton…graceful legs…blonde hair…and now, a good cook…that's brutal! Aogami can't help but feel heated and his own stick beginning to harden and stand up as he wanted to take the girl for himself.

S-So Kamijou's types are someone like her? Fukiyose secretly wanted to cry although she didn't want to let everyone see it publicly.

I'm the exact opposite of Connie-san in every way. Himegami wanted to cry as well.

"Neh, neh, they're so tasty, Connie!" Index started to take a bite at the meat dish and at once, her eyes began to gleam in starry manner. Connie can only smile as Ayano began to eat rather quietly as the other slowly followed suit. As they all eventually settled and began to chew their food, Himegami was busy tasting every texture of the Danish meat that Connie brought in the dormitory of the spiky haired boy and she concluded that it must be made of high-quality cattle from Denmark.

"The beef I bought specifically came from the Danish Red cattle breed that is extensively grown in our country," Connie explained as she even gave a spoonful to Sphynx, the kitten, "I just thought that I should bring one to Touma since he hasn't tasted European meat."

"Mange tak, Connie," Kamijou thanked her using one of the very few Danish phrases he knows.

"Velkommen og vær så god! (Thanks and have a nice meal!)," Connie replied in her own native tongue.

We're all feeling left out of place with their foreign exchange. Tsuchimikado and Aogami groaned even more as they began to eat their meals to the fullest. The meal itself was very peaceful as Index and all of the Japanese present, save for Kamijou, were too busy in indulging Scandinavian cuisine for the first time as Himegami even tripled her own serving while Othinus was secretly being delivered with meat by the boy, who kept glancing back and forth from Ayano, who still hasn't said a thing since they started eating, to Fukiyose, who was curiously glancing to him for a reason that he didn't even know—or he wouldn't want to know.

As they all eventually finished their meals, Connie then brought out a bottle of Danish Wine and began to mix it with powdered ingredients that are unfamiliar even to Fukiyose, who is an expert in herbal medicine as part of her health routine. After she has done mixing the drink with the herbs, Connie then filled four glasses: one for her, one for Kamijou, one for her Danish mentor and one for Ayano.

"Do you want some?" Ayano asked Fukiyose, who seemed to be aghast at the sight of the distilled alcoholic drink suddenly being exposed freely in front of them.

"First of all, don't you think you're too young to drink?" the Forehead Deluxe demanded, her motherly instincts kicking in as she stood up and puts her hand on her hips, "Second, Kamijou, who told you that you can drink?!"

But before Kamijou can even reply, Connie cut in as she speaks to her in English, "Drinking age isn't really a problem for us Danes. In Denmark, minors can drink as long as they have the consent of their parents although buying a bottle of Akvavit or Glogg from a store by yourself would be a different story."

"Well…in Japan, that's different!" Fukiyose argued back in her own broken English, "I can't just let him—"

"Neh, Fukiyose, can't you just stop being uptight for once?" Tsuchimikado interrupted her, "Besides, Danish Wine didn't have a high ABV as Akvavit or Marsala. It's not like Kami-yan would drink recklessly."

"Yes, Fukiyose-san. Honestly, I wanted to try Danish wine as well." Now, Himegami spoke up and that's what surprised Fukiyose since the miko girl rarely spoke, much less object, in a lot of conversations. But since it was already her best friend who spoke, she rubbed her hand in her forehead before she let out a sigh of defeat, "Okay, fine! But not too many liquor and this would only be the last time!"

"Yay!" Tsuchimikado and Aogami then happily filled their glass mugs as Connie than asked to Ayano, "Having fun, big sister?"

The smaller girl stared at her for the moment before she nodded, "Yes…"